oh good apparently the weird dracula discourse has begun
guys, the association between jews and lizard people only dates back to the late 20th century because one specific conspiracy theorist, david icke, made it a thing that caught on. obviously i don’t speak for all jews and if you’re a jew and you’re uncomfortable by all means let people know, but if you’re a gentile maybe like sit this one out? please? i appreciate that y'all mean well but you’re really not helping jewish people by going to bat for us over your surface level understanding of what antisemitism actually is or what the lizard stuff actually means
like personally i think the lizard jokes about dracula are fine. he literally crawls along the wall like a lizard and that’s funny to joke about. the lizard thing is specifically a problem when it patterns itself off of much older antisemitic conspiracy theories, but the lizard aspect only dates back to like 1994. it has nothing to do with dracula. i am begging you people to learn to address antisemitism beyond aesthetics because y'all keep looking for hooked noses and horns and scales when an actual example of antisemitism that’s shown up in dracula since the emails started is stuff like the way dracula’s desire to assimilate into english society is framed as creepy and uncanny
look, sometimes good allyship is sitting down and not talking until you fully understand an issue because otherwise you’re going to confuse the discourse without addressing the actual, underlying issues you’re trying to help us with. cool? cool. thanks
Top: in Super Paper Mario, one of Mimi’s most distinctive character traits is her transformation sequence. In her humanoid form, she snaps her neck, turns her head upside-down, and six spider-like legs emerge from it, turning her into an arthropod monster. Note how after the transformation, she no longer has eyes; the only feature left of her face in the monstrous form is the mouth. This sequence, being a cutscene, can never be seen in 3D in-game, and is instead always seen head-on in 2D as shown in the footage.
Bottom: viewing the sequence in 3D using a model viewer, we can see that the reason Mimi lacks eyes in her monster form is because her eyes actually turn into a pair of legs. Note how her eyes extrude forward into the camera, which is impossible to see in-game due to the fixed angle, and turn into legs. Also note the gears inside her head, which, unlike the eye/leg transformation, can in fact be seen in-game during battles against her by turning into 3D.
