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[–] nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 9 months ago (3 children)

this thread needs this apparently

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[–] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In your picture the Minotaur has hooves.

Wikipedia:

a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man

You either have to accept (by your definition) a Hoove or by wikipedia at least a Tail. Shown in many wiki pictures.

(Judged by the second picture, apparently also a very tiny dick)

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it's worth noting that Pegasus and Cerberus are proper names of individual creatures, not species.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are there names for "winged-horses" and "three-headed dogs" in general?

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Don't think so, which is probably why they are sometimes used as common nouns even though they're technically proper nouns.

[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I read this as pairings:

  • Phoenix and the Gorgon are an item
  • The Pegasus is pegging the Minetaur
  • ...
[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I mean... I wouldn't say no to the second one 😏

[–] Xatix@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Is this what mermaids look like to you?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/665d1d4e-eac5-408f-a2f2-1773b39d8d85.jpeg

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So the top half of a minotaur is human, according to you?

[–] Xatix@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, mixed up centaurs and minotaurs. Still gonna leave the fishman here because its nice.

[–] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

That's what Fry wanted.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I remember fucking this is Monster Girl Quest.

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[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh you might look like 'just a guy', but your preternatural skill with mazes and singing voice that leads people to risk their lives to hear better would be a dead giveaway that you were not so ordinary.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

The Minotaur was more about being effective at killing people in a maze. If he was good at mazes, he probably would have left.

[–] lukstru@feddit.de 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

Nuke that damn thing from orbit.

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[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I would say the image OP meant a centaur and not a minotaur. But then the other way around would be a hippocampus! hippocampus

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No they're saying the human half of a minotaur (from the waist down) and the human half of a merfolk (from the waist up).

Centaurs don't have horse heads, so they can't make a water horse.

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The issue is that the bottom half of a minotaur is just the hind quarters of a bull. But you are right that centaurs miss the horse head too

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Minotaur just had a bull's head, and sometimes a tail. Everything else was human. We usually imagine the shoulders as broad and bull-like too but the Greeks just went with bull's head (and sometimes tail, but just the tail, like when anime furries make cat girls. Yes I said it)

https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/theseus-minotaur.jpg

https://avradio.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/wpcontent/uploads/import/2018_04_18_performance_the_minotaur_and_the_labyrinth_satyamayi_english_2.jpg

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You'd be a guy who's hung like a bull and has fabulous hair, I guess that would be all right.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

This Jason Momoa theory is seeming more plausible...

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Replace 'guy' with 'girl' in that sentence and everything still checks out.

[–] Mun_Walker@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And your offspring are just fish and horses

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Fish and bulls*.

The horse one is Centaur, and that has the same human half as mermaids. Maybe it would be able to make a being with the torso of a man, front legs of a horse and a mermaid tail sticking out the back.

[–] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

A Meritaur!

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure that's Jason Momoa's IRL backstory, though. ☝🏼

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Alternativ you'd be a seahorse

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Sounds like a heart condition.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And your sibling got the other halves and you spent hours a day explaining to strangers that you are related

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

And being the fully human one you'd probably be considered the weirdo. You'd look angrily at your sibling and think "what a load of bullfish!"

[–] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

The only human part of a minotaur is the arms/torso, right? He still will have hooves and a tail.

EDIT: Wikipedia:

with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I... don't mind that. Nyaaah uwu

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

How did a horse fuck a fish, exactly?

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Minotaur is the cow on top one

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[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Biology fact - fish can reproduce externally. Female lays the unfertilised eggs and male fish squeezes milt (spermes) on top.

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[–] bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean a fish is just a lubed up fleshlight

So life UHH... finds a way

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

How to say you're a dolphin without saying you're a dolphin

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[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

WHO THE FUCK GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MY LIFE?

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