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I was making a hamburger with strawberries in it.
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The Tiffany Problem: people can't use the name in medieval or historical fiction because it sounds like a modern name, despite the fact that it was used as early as the twelfth century.
Usually, this paradox is specific to names; however, it's also worth noting that at that time, we also essentially had the technology and extant ingredients to make hamburgers or pizza. (Ketchup isn't exactly an ESSENTIAL component of burgers, but otherwise, yeah.)
as someone with a character named Tiffany in a medieval style setting, i feel this personally
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The real reason your sapient dragon character needs a "rider":
- Dragons on the wing are vulnerable to being mobbed by smaller, more agile flyers, particularly in your large rear blind spot, like a bird of prey being mobbed by crows. Having a human armed with a long spear perched on your back helps to dissuade anyone from getting any funny ideas.
- Breath weapons are impressive enough on the ground, but in flight they're really only good for strafing stationary targets; trying to use your breath weapon in an aerial dogfight is a good way to get fire up your nose. A real fight calls for sterner measures – and, concomitantly, a crew to aim and reload the cannons.
- In today's competitive world, it's not enough to devour a flock of sheep and call it a day if you want to keep your edge. You're accompanied at all times by a qualified personal alchemist tasked with carefully regulating your internal furnace to ensure peak performance, and sometimes you even listen to them.
- No dragon of any quality would be caught dead without their valet. It's not as though you can announce your numerous long-winded titles yourself when introductions are called for, can you? You suppose next you'll be expected to pick up the spoils of your conquests yourself, like a common brigand. Perish the thought!
Dragon pirate who acts as both captain and ship with a full crew of kobolds running over its back manning cannons
I mean, on leafcutter ants a little tiny one will ride on the leaf carried by a soldier just so she can fend off parasitoids
Btwww if anyone wants to read Master and Commander style dragons with canons check out Naomi Novak's Temerere books.
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I know the anime trope where there’s a big, cylindrical chunk of meat on a femur-like bone only initially represented dinosaur meat, and its appearance in other contexts is basically just a meme, but I choose to believe that any comic or show in which it appears does in fact take place in a setting where living dinosaurs are used as a food animal, and it just never comes up because, well, you don’t discuss the history and sociopolitical implications of cows every time you eat a hamburger, do you?
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This was after the feather in the hat incident mind you, he knew better by now what macaroni really was.