Be sure to respect the werewolf's sexual preferences while you're at it
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So am I, but I'd happily cuddle him, he's all fluffy
Mistletoe is already on the list. Iirc, there isn't anything in lycanthropic lore about them being adversely affected by mistletoe.
So, with that in mind, it wouldn't be the mistletoe itself it is recoiling from, it's the implications.
Some types of mistletoe are toxic to dogs. Some types of mistletoe are also toxic to people.
Werewolves are both dog and people so they get 4x damage
While true, not something I'd base a meme on. The sexual/romantic connotations of mistletoe are far more well known.
Besides, in lycanthropic lore, wolfsbane is the herb of choice against werewolves.
Man I used to watch teen wolf (the mtv teen drama, not the movie—though that’s also awesome) back in the day, so I didn’t even question mistletoe being on the list. Though you’re right that wolfsbane would’ve been the go-to in my brain
werewolves HATE kissing because in dogs that's a sign of submission and werewolves are all suffering from intense toxic masculinity
It's wolfsbane that werewolves hate, they got the plant wrong
Yup, already said that in another comment.
Yessir you did, didn't notice till I had already wrote it
*writes neat tidbit that I know about a niche topic and post it*
*immediately see that it's already mentioned it in another comment
I do that all the time.
If mistletoe can kill a god (Baldr), then I don't think a puny werewolf stands a chance.
The irony of choosing that myth...
The only reason it can kill Baldr is due to the nature of how he gained his invincibility. His mother, Frigg, after receiving a prophecy that harm shall befall Baldr, made all things in creation swear an oath to her in which they shall do no harm to her son; all except for mistletoe, as Frigg neglected to ask it, believing it to be too small and innocent of a thing to bother making it swear an oath against doing harm.
Loki, knowing this, tricked their cousin Hodr, into throwing a spear made of a mistletoe branch at Bladr as he was boasting about his newfound invincibility in celebration of avoiding the prophecy.
I like the implication that everything is sentient enough to swear oaths and choose whether or not to harm someone so that means mistletoe made the decision to kill Baldr in this story. Kind of a dick move mistletoe.
"Underestimate me, will you?"
I was hoping that people would understand the background story and think that it was absurd that I would equivocate the slaying of Baldr with the ability to kill a werewolf, lol.
I would not have brought up Baldr in conversation had it not been for the like me being aware of the mythology.
But you do also have to admit that if we were in some sort of scary movie and my dumbass picked up a twig of mistletoe and looked you dead in the eye and said if it can kill a god, it can kill a werewolf and stabbed the bad guy werewolf and he fucking died from it, that would be funny as shit.
On further thought, it would also be funny if I stabbed him with it. It had no effect whatsoever, and then he immediately murdered me.
This is why I keep a silver buttplug in me at all times. One way or the other, he's going down.
🤣 I'm glad I didn't think about this when I was first getting into horror. I would hate to have that genre turned into comedy so early.
in a fight
"Wrestling"
Not exactly related, but I just learned about the Livonian Werewolf, and this seems like a good place to share. Old man in Latvia claimed he and other werewolves would go to Hell to fight the devil and kill witches.
i wonder how he would feel about Powerwolf
so what is this other way ?
The comments below seem to have converged on wolfsbane but I feel like there must be some kind of dirty joke whooshing over our heads...
Could be a peanut butter joke too.
As in dogs like to eat peanut butter?
Yeah, iirc it started as a tip for getting them in baths. Peanut butter on the bathroom wall where they can lick it. Then the "Internet made it fucky" alarm went off.
That's an old urban legend, a surprise party waiting for a woman in the bottom living area of her split-level house, she thinks she's alone and comes down in a sheer negligee with her little dog tucked under one arm and a jar of peanut butter under the other.
Obviously fake but I remember that story from way back
Ahh, I hadn't heard that exact one, but it makes sense.
yes this is my feeling as well but I have no idea what the specifics are
Seduce the Werewolf?
Somehow I don't think it would work? Or that it would let you live afterwards? But maybe.
Kind of a Caleb Meyer situation.
as plainly as possible: fucking the werewolf
Like they do in the romantasy novels.
roman fantasy writers had werewolves as a concept?
sure. fuck it. let's go with that. the hot new tiktok trend is reading books from the roman empire now.
What's the other way? Fetch?
Sure. Let's go with that.
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Rule 34 me.
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It's more of a rule 621.
I don’t need sleep, i need answers!
Setting my house on fire to keep the werewolves away