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[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 91 points 4 months ago

Yeah, no human would ever have "balls" in their name. That'd be ridiculous!

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 months ago

Hey look, kids, it's /u/rimjob-steve!

[-] mac@infosec.pub 19 points 4 months ago

Just like no one would be called dick

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 20 points 4 months ago

That would be silly to use as even a nickname.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

One could even say it's tricky

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 months ago
[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Lol I'll have to start telling people the J is for Jangle.

[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 80 points 4 months ago

Wait, we can't give people names based on their anatomy? Then what about Edward "Blackbeard" Teach? Or Jack "Legs" Diamond?

[-] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

Dick is/was a relatively common nickname

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

And this is my sister, Vulva

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago
[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Or you were a dick to people.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 20 points 4 months ago

Or Edward Scissorhands. Or my one handed friend who goes by "Knub"

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Shoeless Joe Jackson. Satchmo. Any number of Blind blues musicians.

[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

I can't believe I forgot Cotton Eye Joe until now.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

what ever happened to him?

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago

Edward longshanks. Erik the red.

[-] stefenauris@pawb.social 74 points 4 months ago

I'd pay to read a novel adventure written from the perspective of a dragon lol

[-] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 months ago

Here you go: Raksura by Martha Wells, of Murderbot fame.

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Murderbot was pretty good. Idk how many books there are but I remember being disappointed there wernt more audio books.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago

I remember being disappointed they charge for a full price audiobook for novellas, and my library not having the full series

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 5 points 4 months ago

Looks interesting! I loved Murderbot, will give this a shot.

[-] mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 months ago

Eragon has some chapters written from the dragon's perspective

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 13 points 4 months ago

I want to hear more lore about the Great Wizard Dangle-Balls

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

The centaurs call him Front Nuts

[-] Turun@feddit.de 9 points 4 months ago

The children's book "Drachenreiter" is written often from the perspective of the protagonist Dragon. Not sure if there is an English translation though.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drachenreiter

[-] Kayana@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean, it's literally the second sentence in that article: Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke

[-] Turun@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago

Whoops, didn't even read what I linked (after making sure it's what the book I meant) XD

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Tooth and Claw, by Jo Walton, although it's kind of a Jane Austen novel written from the perspective of a dragon.

[-] frog@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

"Dragon of Ash and Stars" by H. Leighton Dickson is definitely worth a read.

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago

That's it. My next character is going to be a Barbarian named Thumbhands Dangleballs.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 months ago
[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Is that from Monster Factory?

[-] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago
[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Right, I meant the polygon series Monster Factory where they make freaks in different character Creation systems.

[-] Turious@leaf.dance 34 points 4 months ago

I'm naming my kid Dangle-balls.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Either he's going to have a tough time in social situations, or she's going to have an extremely tough time.

[-] Turious@leaf.dance -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He's? I don't know if it'll be a boy yet.

I'm being downvoted for what I thought was a funny joke. Just like the old days~

[-] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

You and Jerry Seinfeld. Really being persecuted by the woke mob.

[-] Turious@leaf.dance 3 points 4 months ago

It wasn't even meant to be like that. I just thought it would be funny to choose the name Dangle-balls before knowing if the child would even have balls.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

If my name was either exceptionally hard to say by another species, or if by them uttering my name it could bind me into their service or kill me or whatever, I'd probably go with whatever stupid name they came up with for me too.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can’t expect a Lizard Attack Helicopter to know how to write literature from the perspective of the shitheads who are always trying to break into their home and kill them for some shiny metal or leftovers in the fridge.

Humans on the other hand have no excuse for not completely understanding what it is like to be a dragon, in reality we are pretty much exactly the dragons of the real world….

…which is also exactly why dragons aren’t that interested in getting to know us well enough to write us realistically, they already know the same exact story in their own language and their language has way more fun stuff like fireballs and singed sheep and mmmmm a whole pasture of cows and WHOOOOOSSHHH.

…then again there all these stories about innocent princesses being abducted by cruel dragons right before the idyllic wedding happens and I can’t help but think about all the times historians dismiss close relationships between two men or two women in history as definitely just a really great bro-sesh friendship no queerness nope, no giant billboards saying THEY WERE PROBABLY GAY AND BEAUTIFUL.

So maybe dragons are just pulling a solid for women and periodically “brutally abduct them” (bust them out of their suffocating shit wedding on a flying motorcycle except they are the motorcycle (think Hagrid and motorcycle - Hagrid) AND they can spit fire out of both their front and back) and then when the man comes to rescue the princess the dragon gets a free meal and the woman gets to relax the whole time at the Dragon’s place and vent about how awful overbearing toxic hetero men are who seem to get to run everything in society.

If this is the case we have much to be worried about because it means Dragons are not only terrifyingly smart and powerful, they are also woke as fuck.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I like the name two-legs

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