Editing Gnoll (section)

=Monstergirls=
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[[Image:Gnoll pimp.jpg|200px|thumb|left|It's hard out there for a pimp.]]
[[Image:Gnoll pirate.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Yet it's easier for a pirate.]]
Despite everything, gnolls are a little... embarrassing for /tg/. This, as much as the generally lackluster fluff, is more than likely why the race is rarely focused on, in comparison to, say, [[goblin]]s, [[orc]]s or even [[ogre]]s.

Let's start with the obvious elephant in the room; as a beast-man race, gnolls are like [[furry]] magnets. And unlike [[minotaur]]s or [[sphinx]]es (who have a mythological origin that can be pointed to), or [[kobold]]s (who don't really resemble any real-world animal), the only real difference between gnolls and [[Ironclaw|fantasy-dwelling hyena furries]] is... well, pretty much the whole "demon-worshiping cannibalistic murderous tribal monsters culture" thing. Whenever there's a gnoll thread on /tg/, you can be sure there will be an argument about whether or not they count as furries that eventually gets it locked. Needless to say, confronted with the problem of being unable to flesh out the gnolls without being accused of being furries, most DMs say "fuck it" and try to do something interesting with [[orcs]] instead.

Another major problem is that, as mentioned above, gnolls most visually resemble the spotted hyena. The spotted hyena's brutally matriarchal social structure and female favoring sexual dimorphism (that is, girls are bigger and stronger than guys) easily translates into [[/d/]]-related content, since /d/ is all over Amazon-built [[musclegirl]]s as well as femdom. To say nothing of how the gnollish slavery-focused society easily translated into sex-slavery in the eyes of [[/d/M]]s - but then, they've been doing that shit with orcs and other such races for ages. But there was more to it than that... 

See, spotted hyenas are infamous for one particular thing: the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-penis pseudo-penis]. Biologists still have no idea what function it serves (seeing as how it doesn't seem to do anything but needlessly complicate reproduction, to the point that something like a quarter of first-time mothers die of a torn and hemorrhaging urethral-genital tract, and their babies can get stuck and suffocate in the tube), but the end result is that female spotted hyenas are essentially real life [[dickgirl]]s. With the popularity of dickgirls on both /d/ and amongst furries, this led to a ''huge'' outburst of gnollish perversity that /tg/ fought hard to stamp out, but which still threatens to, ahem, "rear its ugly head" today.

(Fun fact: Both genders of Spotted Hyenas also often use erection as a sign of submission)

Add in the fact that hyenas in real life do have a lot of mythological/traditional association with perversity - Pliny the Elder reported hyenas were hermaphrodites who changed sexes whenever they wished (which considering the above is actually one of the ''more'' accurate inaccuracies in his writings), striped hyena anuses and vaginas are used for love & lust charms to the extent that "he has the anus of a hyena" is a real-world African saying today to refer to someone who's really good at scoring sex - and... well, let's just say that gnolls can very easily take a starring role in somebody's [[magical realm]] and leave it at that, okay?

Then again, if [[orc]]s, [[goblin]]s and [[kobold]]s can be rescued from the [[Always Chaotic Evil]] niche, why not gnolls? Gnolls are practically tailor-made for an unholy blend of [[furry]], [[amazon]] and/or [[musclegirl]], and "sexy evil girl" fetishism, after all...

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Gnoll Priestess.jpg
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Gnoll-TaintedElf.png|Some find a way to include more "conventional" gnoll MGs in their games.
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