Ok. Hi. How many of u guys learned how to curtsy as a kid. And/or bow formally. I know I was raised weird but surely the larger population knows how to curtsy. Surely?
I really think Netflix fucked Scott pilgrim with the marketing because my first reaction was similar to a lot of people's re: what?? They kill him off??? But once I saw more about what they're doing with the source material I was like, "Oh okay nevermind I'm super down for this." I think if the marketing hadn't been acting like it's a straight adaptation then more people would have seen ahead of time what the show actually IS and been getting excited about THAT rather than getting excited about something different and having the rug pulled out from under them by a random reductive tweet about the first episode twist.
we are different creatures my friend!
i was obviously down to watch a handsomely animated ""true to the comics'" adaptation too or i wouldn't have checked it out so soon- but i was significantly more excited when it became obvious at the end of the first ep that they were going to be diverging a lot. personally i didn't feel like the rug was pulled out from under me, i enjoyed the surprise.
the uk also is such a bullshit country. you're telling me the parliament can just pass a law telling the courts that they legally can't rule against them ? because there's ONE precedent case of this happening in 1531 ?? you're taking legal precedent from 500 years ago?
does the term wyvern ever show up outside if heraldry? Got in a silly argument about whether wyverns are dragons and the other person is adamant that wyverns are mundane animals while term dragon exclusively denotes demonic creatures which is a version of the Wyverns Are Not Dragons argument I've never hear before and really doesn't sound right to me, but you always have some really cool information I never knew so I figured Id ask
The thing with wyvern is that it's not directly connected to any mythological concepts. The word and its many relatives and derivatives - including the Welsh gwiber and the French vouivre - literally means "viper".
So you can find references using similar words... but they refer to dragons, serpents, vipers and their derivatives. Until heraldry took the term to mean a two legged dragon in the 1600s at the latest, it was synonymous with dragon or serpent (those are the same thing). The Sockburn Dragon, for instance, is referred to as a "monstrous and poysonous vermine or wyverne, and aske or werme".
In general, I go by what the text calls it. Doesn't matter how many legs it has or if it has wings or not, if the text calls it by a name then that's what it is.
Unfortunately a lot of modern retellings decide that, if a dragon is depicted with two legs, it has to be referred to as a wyvern, even though the original text uses dragon or worm or whatever term.
So is there something textually referred to as a wyvern? I used to think that the classic wyvern story was that of the wyvern of Coed-y-Moch or Llyn Cynwch in Wales.
(Illustration from Wonder Tales of Ancient Wales (1922))
(Cigarette card art (1936) from here)
But the original wasn't referred to as a wyvern! The English translation is wyvern, but the original Welsh refers to a gwiber!
So is this a reference to a wyvern? Are gwibers wyverns? Depends. Are guivres, wivres, and vouivres wyverns? Where do you want to draw the line? Some of these have a more developed folklore than the wyvern. You could take every reference to vipers and run with it, or you could count each variation as its own thing.
Incidentally, the name of the venomous weever fish is derived from the same viperw origin! And most of its names are dragony. There's E. vipera, T. draco, in English it's weever, in French it's vive, in Greek it's drakaina!
Venomous wyvern fish!
So in short: wyvern is more or less synonymous with serpent/dragon/viper, and only really became distinct when heraldry took it.
Even shorter answer: your friend's wrong, wyverns are dragony as fuck.
Just imagine team rocket running up on ash with the latias harem.
They finally chase down that Pikachu, only to see a bunch of Latias. Immediately, they zip into a nearby bush to discuss:
James: Change of plans, there's no way we're getting through all of those!
Jessie: I'd call you a coward, but cowardice is a very attractive option right now!
Meowth: Hold on you two, I gots an idea dat'll solve all our problems!
James: Hmmm?
Meowth: Listen: da boss loves ta travel in style, right? An' what's more stylish than a poysonal jet, pulled by a team of Latias?
Jessie: That sounds right up his alley! Fast and respectable!
James: Not to mention eco-friendly!
After he managed to escape from an attack by Starscream, he left 2 of his friends behind but also he damaged his voice box. This made him to develop a kind of telepathy to exclusively communicate to others. (Except organics)
Anyway, this is how he would sound like! At first I thought Ao Lie from Lego Monkie Kid could fit him but I ended up choosing Prismo from Adventure Time✨
if you and your friend are both artists i STRONGLY suggest making characters together so that one of you can draw them kissing and the other one can draw them stabbing and maiming and killing each other. and you can do that simultaneously
Note the dandyish curl of the man on the left's hair, the deadpan skull with its 'POYSONED' inscription, and (most excitingly) the REVENGE declaiming woman with her daring thigh-slit dress...
The Warders strutted up and downe the dead.
To help the deed with such poysonous care
my looked so wistful eye; the heir. How many
are you or grew or stood. So thou night
I sing by night my father got up early
and pure, beyond the girl! And your fierce
tears on her fame of single gentle into
the blossom, in the chief philosopher,
when the Foeman’s Glory she wears, but
tis with girlands crowns over Orion’s grand
antithesis to grow. The love of a
dance, and half so dear! Writer shore, the worst
part of pretension will go much
That God’s life in losing when they rang thee!