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My Craftsdwarf is a masochist
« on: November 07, 2013, 12:20:37 pm »
So over the course of this fort I've only had one dwarf with Wax Working enabled. I noticed that many of her wax figurines were of 'tiny cavern snails', a modded-in vermin. That's fine - I figured she just had a preference for them.

But she doesn't.

She detests tiny cavern snails.

Has anyone else noticed dwarves going out of their way to depict the vermin they detest, over and over again?
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Re: My Craftsdwarf is a masochist
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2013, 01:21:13 pm »
I think they depict things they hate because of a horrid fascination... of course, having them around probably doesn't help their happiness...
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« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2013, 04:13:52 pm »
It makes sense to me. I can think of a couple of real world paintings paintings that are the same one way one way or another: either by zeroing on on something disgusting or something traumatic: e.g.:
Chaim Soutine's paintings of dead animals:
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Re: My Craftsdwarf is a masochist
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2013, 04:35:19 pm »
Rene Magritte made a bunch of paintings of his drowned mother.
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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2013, 07:11:02 pm »
Wax effigies of something hated are a staple of folk black magic...
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Re: My Craftsdwarf is a masochist
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2013, 09:01:03 pm »
What dwarf ISN'T a machoist? And you think your craftsdwarves have it bad, well mine just made a gold statue of ants.
I like to imagine them as being life-size, an a massive plinth.
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Re: My Craftsdwarf is a masochist
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2013, 10:16:09 pm »
Quote from: poisoned_salami on November 07, 2013, 09:01:03 pm
What dwarf ISN'T a machoist? And you think your craftsdwarves have it bad, well mine just made a gold statue of ants.
I like to imagine them as being life-size, an a massive plinth.
Lol and your mental image gave me a really strange one
UristMcUnderling: Sir Sir!  UristMcPhysicist Just compleated an artifact!
UristMcOverseer: Did he now?  Lets see it.
Underling: Er, well that's a bit difficult.
Overseer: How can seeing an artifact be difficult?  Urist Show me this artifact you constructed.
UristMcPhysicist:  Right here sir <points at empty table>  Aint she a beauty?
overseer: An empty workbench?   you made a plain old workbench?
Physicist: No on the workbench
Overseer: ... I dont see.
Physicist: Exactly!  Its a life size model of a Quark.
Overseer: Whats a quark?
Physicist: A particle of mater too small to see with the naked eye.
Overseer: Like cavein dust?
Physicist: Even smaller sir.
Overseer:  ... RIiiiiight. well just carry on then.  Achooo!
An artifact has been lost
Physicist: NOOOOOOO!
UristMcPhysicist has gone stark raving mad!

And so ends the story of the first and last dwarven physicist.
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