Tatzl was one of those ponies, who’d been working for days tending her “tree tomatoes” when on one particularly cold night her otherwise tough immune-system was compromised. And she still wanted to work.
It was time for an intervention. After a brief exchange of messages between one spiderpony and one vampire, Silken Gem was on the case. The next morning, Tatzl got up despite sickness, walked out to her little farm… and was snared up by a conveniently paced web. Next thing she knew, she was wrapped up, dock to shoulders in silk.
Yeah, duh, but the nickname “the big C” in a medical or disease context is pretty much permanently cancer. They even made a TV show with that name about someone with terminal cancer.
It would be like someone who uses the term “the S-word” in conversation, but actually means “slut.” It’s confusing.
Yeah okay mate, but COVID is what everyone’s worried about right now, so…