Thread:Mnzombie/@comment-24598219-20140320053749

Just thought I'd pass a note. I looked at Monster Girls<3, at the stated URL; and while the artwork (about 25) is very pretty, and they link to your MGE, I did post a question about one of your "Creatures" thinking one of the Admins there was responsible. My fault, and I apologize.

But to the subject at hand. I posed a question, and a request for change of content, because the MGE was in error. After several parts in the thread, I was told I was 'crazy' (which I probably am) and then told I didn't understand the young fellows' feelings, and the feelings of his fellow members of the Group. His worst crime was not writing well enough to do verbal combat. I suspect however, that you are.

A "Succubus" does not get to be created. It already exists in our mythology and folklore. It has existed for more than 1,000 years! If there were real female monsters, the Succubus is one of the few that might actually exist (see Succubus or Sleep-Hag in sources like Wikipedia), and has been reported all over the World. It's description, by observers, is actually better than yours and is fairly spooky. Most importantly: it is not an energy vampire. Not only can't it draw energy, it doesn't want/have to. This confusion of facts is present in many Anime and Manga, even confusing a energy-vampire with a Succubus by name, and visa-versa!

Its' task is to philosphically/ethically destroy a Human Male. Once it has completed its' mission, the Male in question falls to the depths of Hell, because he has corrupted himself, by the temptations of the Succubus. In some cases, the Succubus actually has been known to present herself as quite attractive, tempt a Male into her embrace, she changes to her true and hideous form, causing immediate cardiac arrest.

I have one of those characteristics that tends to believe that language, based on proper nouns, is fairly important. This means that fictionalizing something that is already in the language; softens the language, and makes it more difficult for the language to be a means of interchange of ideas. Making up a new definition for something already present in the language and culture, therefore; is tantamount to an error in judgement. While I understand your are trying to create a compendium for fans of fictional art and anime, the point remains; if one wants an energy-vampire so be it, but if you want a Succubus so be that too. But on what logic does one confuse the issue, when many of us out here actually know the difference?

It would be nice if this distortion in the language, were corrected. Even some of the descriptions of a Succubus by eye witnesses, can be quite beautiful, and therefore useful in your MGE (the batwing creature you present has nothing whatever to do with the actual creature). But a definition more closely associated with the actually beasty present in the World lexicon, would also be a nice change, and most people would find that a faithful definition (including an illustration) would be just as compelling as the one presently used. The only problem is, it does not fit the basic definition of a Monster Girl in your Encyclopedia; as in Truth, a Succubus is at its' core, just a woman with a bad attitude. And we've all seen one of those, right ?

You can do what you want, after all; it IS your Wikia. But a Wikia is supposed to be a statement with some accuracy attached to it. Accuracy is not defined by the voluminous nature of your Wiki. Attention to the basic nature of things as they actually are, ARE the basis's of a Wiki.

Good luck, and have fun! 