Pointy ears

[ladyofastolat]

I very much dislike pointy ears. No, I'll qualify that. Pointy ears are perfectly acceptable when in their proper place, which is on cats and hounds and fennec foxes and rabbits and hares and all the many other species of animal that have the decency to clothe their pointy ears in fur. I'll even allow Vulcans to exist in all their pointy glory without snarling at them for their ears, since those ears are subtle and their points are delicate in flavour. However, I have spent far too many hours of my life encountering computer generated elves whose ears are a good nine inches tall, culminating in pencil-sharp points that stick out from their hair like horns. They never wear ear-armour, either, not even the most warlike of pointy-ear-possessors, which piles bother upon bother, since these ears seem such an obvious weakness in battle. (Much like Buffy's huge and dangly hoopy ear-rings, which make me cringe whenever I see her fighting in them.) I refuse point blank to play an elf in any computer game, because the ears annoy me so much. No doubt I'd get loads of lovely racial bonuses, but... urgh! Ears! No!

Yeah, I know it's a kind of trivial thing to be ranting about, but it's something that's been annoying me in my ridiculously petty way for years, and sometimes petty bothers have to spill out.