More color adventures! After an ominously long art drought... Here we have a picture that should have been made and posted two months ago. Scoot in a somewhat painful were-wolf transformation under a yellow moon. This one was requested/suggested by a while back (about four months), so consider it a late shabby Christmas present. Technically this is more or less a SAI experiment as that is the program that I am messing around in these days. So I hope that he'll forgive me for that.
This is my first actual *real* picture with some effort in the program so yay for that I guess. Not much to say about it. It's blue, yellow and orange! And purple! What do you call a pony werewolf anyway? A ponywolf? Nothing really seems to fit... Maybe instead of lycanthrope, lychippoi/lycippoi/lykippoi or lykippos or something like that could be used. But then again, that would be needlessly strange. Calling pony's lycanthrope would probably be better then butchering ancient Greek. Goodness knows that poor language has seen enough punishment over the years.
It depends on how picky you want to get, really. 'Marewolf' is pretty good, the only real problem is that it wouldn't apply to, say, Big Macintosh. Twilight would probably say that you have to go back to the word's origin in Middle English and work from there; but the Middle English for 'horse' is just 'hors', and that's not very interesting. The French term is 'loup-garou', which leads to 'loup-cheval' in Fancy.
I'm probably going to start using 'marewolf' myself, fwiw.
"Loup-garou". You learn something new everyday! Need to find some way to dispense this knowledge during a conversation to appear smarter. Sadly, werewolves rarely come up in my conversations these days...
I agree, marewolf is better. I'm still kicking myself for not thinking of it... It gets spotty when applied to stallions, but, then again, I think wer/were applies specifically to men, but nobody minds when we say a women is a werewolf. In Equestria the gender bias may be pointed the other way and no one minds when someone calls Big Mac a marewolf. I wonder if this would also apply to other terms like mailman/mailmare?... Maybe I'm just thinking about it too much and should go to bed.
Nice drawing.
I'm probably going to start using 'marewolf' myself, fwiw.
I agree, marewolf is better. I'm still kicking myself for not thinking of it...
It gets spotty when applied to stallions, but, then again, I think wer/were applies specifically to men, but nobody minds when we say a women is a werewolf. In Equestria the gender bias may be pointed the other way and no one minds when someone calls Big Mac a marewolf.
I wonder if this would also apply to other terms like mailman/mailmare?... Maybe I'm just thinking about it too much and should go to bed.
Everyone knows that marewolves are cannibals.