Yeah, very funny giving it such a cutesy name so you drop your guard but once you learn what it is actually called you won’t be laughing anymore:
Japanese long-tailed bushtit
Yeah, very funny giving it such a cutesy name so you drop your guard but once you learn what it is actually called you won’t be laughing anymore:
Japanese long-tailed bushtit
This all could have been avoided with a Discworld-style Thieves Guild
Kobolds are originally just the “small folk” of German mythology with all of them being gnome-like but with varying degrees of hospitality. That’s why you get your mine Kobolds, your Heinzelmännchen and your Klabautermann.
Bonus fact: Dog like Kobolds in DnD derived media are not exclusive to Japan, in the Everquest lore they are also dog like (and a bit hyena like, whereas gnolls here are fully canine)
It also did happen in other fields in astronomy or genetics pretty early on.
Somebody once described her team as “Young, motivated, highly educated and otherwise basically unemployable”.
Guess it helps that sorting through myriads of stars or kernels of corn was often not seen as prestigious enough
They used to be moderately common in the before times, like 2.5 inch IDE HDD times.
For added horror those often where Y cables, too.