The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

— Sir Terry Pratchett, The Globe (The Science of Discworld, #2), 2002

And fire. Fire is essential for story time.

...and his dick was so big, Snake fell in love with it. And that's how the world was made. And that's why I wear this funny hat to keep us all safe.

Currently reading "The Science of Storytelling" by Will Storr, it is quite good so far!

The more complex evolution makes a brain, the more likely animals are gonna do some weird shit with it.

Plot twist evolution wanted social cohesion too

Na bro, you are just influenced by the Narativum in the atmosphere, which has nothing to do with your brain

Happy RPG noises

that final panel reminded me of this sequence

It's time for a little story....

It's definitely Storytime... *Nightwish song starts playing*

Gurk likes one with half man half mammoth