Talk:Preta/@comment-4849011-20161104005119

The reveal of the preta was good and the description was sufficiently horrifying. The bluebottle fly scene was gross too, and I think what made it gross was the comment that it must have been in honey. That made me think about what else it could have been in. It’s interesting to read this after “The Visitor from Curtisville”. Tullugaq is definitely a brat, but she’s not entirely bad. The Poison Zodiac is a neat concept. Asp’s failures indicate that spellcasting isn’t as easy as Harry Potter makes it look. No place is perfect, evidenced by vehicle theft and lice panics occurring in this world too. It’s amusing that these strange magic items are collected like bottle caps, or maybe it’s closer to those Monster in My Pocket toys. Weird Wonders of the World- collect them all! The idea of a vegetarian ghoul was funny too. Did you hear about the couple (I think this was in Australia) who brought their cat to the veterinarian because it hadn’t been eating and had grown weak & sickly? The vet asked about its diet and the couple replied, “Oh, we’re vegans, so we’ve been giving it vegetables and grains.” Yep. This couple’s cat was starving because they didn’t realize that cats need meat; they thought it would adapt to eating vegetables simply because they ate vegetables. The vet gave them some food for the poor thing and told them not to force veganism on a carnivorous animal. The denseness of some people is about as scary as the pretas. [Note: This isn’t an attack on vegans in general; it’s an attack on stupid people regardless of their diets.]