Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Halloween Special: Werewolves" video.

I'm generally fine to be like "people got all sorts of wierd kinks, I'm fine to let them be"...it's when it moves to romanticizing f'ed up stuff that I start quickly having very strong objections.
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@mfield942 yeah, with the rarest of exceptions, they cannot tolerate vampires in that setting. With how the vampires (especially the older ones) tend constantly towards ever greater depravity and inability to survive without causing ever greater harm while growing increasingly powerful (especially with how terrifyingly powerful the eldest ones are), the fact that (dispite typically being a kill-on-sight enemy) they might not even place on a list of their top 5 priorities is really telling of why it's the World of Darkness.
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Terry Pratchett had a just wonderful mind!
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@parkerhynson3581 *and bred to never grow out of being pups in mind, if not always size.
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@Naoise012 I hear you. Another way to put the distinction I draw is between a short little thing that can be read as something someone into kink might use for fantasy material (for solo or non-solo play), which can include straight-up deliberate and explicit non-con stuff and things which are intended to be more than just fuel for fantasy and seek represent something someone might use to think about a relationship with. Kink can transmute all kinds of toxic stuff into a non-harmful form through fantasy (especially in the bedroom), but it's once you're portraying something that someone might mistake as a desirable relationship that you need to be a lot more careful. Tdl;dr, if you're just writing masturbation material for an erotica site, you've got a lot more room to focus on just "is it hot?" before it starts becoming a problem than if you're writing something that could be put into even an 18+ only romance section. That said, as with other art, knowing the "rules" before you try to break them is going to consistently better results, so there's never an excuse to not do research on what you're trying to portray, even if you're not going for realism.
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@mfield942 the eldest ones are very powerful, but also very rare. Most of them, though, yes, medium to low power with the youngest barely more capible than humans and with an average vampire v werewolf fight being almost guarenteed to go to the werewolf. What I understand of what happened when the founder of clan Ravnos awoke is...intense, requiring mages to get involved and resulting in collateral damage reaching beyond the physical world before it was put down, though this is, of course, an outlier to the more general power ranking.
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@Bluecho4 yeah, if anything, the biggest problem with religion is how easy it is for people to cloak evil in the reputation of saints. A genuinely good person, left to their own devices, will largely shape their religious beliefs to their morals, but the potental for the absolute worst people to use the assosiation between religion and morality as a tool (unintentionally strengthened by its assosiation with the aforementioned good and moral believers) to justify attrocities to themselves and others is so incredibly dangerous repeatedly through history, unfortunately.
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@downsidebrian nah, speaking for myself, it was more of a "ah, yeah...that makes total sense, actually" moment, followed by a depressing reminder of how little has changed in certain circles.
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Basically every European mythology/legend that endured through the middle ages has some kind of connection to Christianity somewhere. Outside of Greco-Roman stuff, almost everything we know of European supernatural beliefs has been preserved through being either interwoven with Christian beliefs or as an account of what Christians were saying about "pegans" and their beliefs with almost every account of beliefs not making it to us by a Christian-held pen writing from a decidedly Christian perspective being erased from the historical record. The loss of knowledge is sad, but it does mean that it's not really "if" but instead "where" any supernatural tellings from Medieval Europe have ties to Christianity. Pick a subject and dig, and you will find them.
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Adorable art, fascinating information, funny jokes, and that amazing shade at 13:22 all with some nice singing at the end. Red's doing awesome, as usual (and maybe a little above average, though with how high that standard is, that's always hard to judge)
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I had to pause the video to fully appriciate that one! I'm glad Red's powers are used for good because, damn, I do not want that wit aimed at me!
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@typacsk that or they ride them as far as they'll go, which is often even worse.
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@dithaingampanmei "Gott MIT UNS" What do you want me to tell you? You've fallen for rediculous and ahistorical scaremongering pushed by bigots. Atheists make up only a fraction of a percent of prison populations and are less likely to approve of torture. Likewise, religiosity correlates fairly strongly with higher levels of violent crime (and many other negative social metrics), whether we're talking countries or states in the US.
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Side note: can we acknowledge that masterful shade at about 13:22 cause, wow, Red, well done!
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@setsunanoroi4971 not really familiar with this omegaverse thing, but, tbf, it's also pretty well agreed here that Zeus is usually in the wrong and the cause of so many problems.
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Better ear then me, I guess, as it's always been good enough that I can't tell the difference.
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If you want to feed the first wolf I listened to a free audiobook (I ❤ libravox volunteers for what they do) of The Book of Werewolves which is a fascinating compelation of a massively wide range of werewolf legends put together in 1865. If anyone's interested in starting a deep dive, I highly recommend it.
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