#And we decided the female or just a variant of the species was a light grey or a white lmfao

[im-not-a-sheep]

omg I remember I used to have this dragon oc called Night-shade

[tunnaa-unnaa]

Thoughts on Pokemon SS reveal trailer

I’ve been busy but I think it’s time to take a closer look at the gen8 reveal trailer and share my thoughts before more information comes out. Here we go.

+ Galar region looks great. Farmland, misty forests and classical european cities are cool additions to the environmental gallery of pokemon and I feel that they fit into it nicely. The map, being basically Britain upside down, has some nice variety of environments that Alola lacked in my opinion. A bit bummed if it follows the same pattern where the icy mountain area is placed near the very end of the game again, but that’s just my taste. PokeLondon looks like the main focus on the map so I hope it delivers in activities. The region’s name has a nice ring to it as well.

- I’m not too fond of the starters to be honest. None of them stands out to me particularly well and it’s kind of odd that two of them share the same eye style - something they haven’t done since gen1. Sobble and Grookey sharing almost the same body shape too is turning me off cause it makes their silhouettes almost identical. But as usual, it’s the evolutions that matter to me the most so I’m in no way deciding my favorite based on what we have now. Just saying that our starting options are far less varied than they have been for a long time.

- Trainer characters are a big disappointment. The male is as generic as he has been since XY and the female is uncomfortably close to the Sun&Moon girl protag. I really miss the variety the characters got back in gen2-5. And not just that, but their models and animations are the same as in Sun&Moon. This is extremely disappointing to someone like me who already disliked gen7 visual style when it was new. Bums me out to see the same wonky walk cycle again on a newer console. So overall, these two don’t get any points from me. The “female protag is an angry scott with a thick accent” meme is gold tho 10/10.

+ - Graphical look is unimpressive, but has a lot of charm. Let’s Go gave us a taste of what the Switch can do with lineless, smoothly textured pokemon and vastly improved lighting and textures, so I’m a bit disappointed to see them revert back to the cel-shaded, untextured style from before. That said, in a vacuum it looks wonderful and it’s much better than the pixelated style form the 3ds games. I was expecting more, but don’t hate what we got is what I’m basically saying. Battle animations look  a w e s o m e! Nothing to complain there!

+ - Random encounters are back, no more Let’s Go style roaming wild mons. I really liked the Let’s Go style but I could see where it was lacking. Going back to classic random encounter style id fine with me, no complaints. Except it might mean they’re making another Let’s Go game. Oh well.

- Sports? Ugh... Why? Because brits love soccer? It’s not like Unova had school shootings and super bowl like come on, I’m extremely put off by this and I HOPE it’s just a visual thing disguised as something more pokemon-themed than just straight up sports. Pokeathlon comeback? I’ll pretend that’s what it is.

+ New pokemon game on the Switch. No matter what it turns out to be, I’m in.

Random list of wishes and predictions for these games:

Entirely new UI for battles since it’s back to a single screen format.

The good things from Let’s Go - size variations, nicknaming mons wherever you want, releasing multiple pokemon at once, accessing the box wherever (although maybe limited in E4 and some cool endgame dungeons) and Pokemon GO connectivity.

A more PSS-like online system instead of the nightmare that is Festival Plaza or Let’s Go’s online functions.

More varied trainer customization that isn’t just an abundant selection of colors to a very limited set of clothing. Bonus points if we get more unique hair and eye colors than before. It’s the least they could do since they’re recycling the models already.

A partner pokemon following you like in Let’s Go. You can’t give us something like that and then just take it away.

No HMs as it’s meant to be.

Longer and more puzzle-focused exploration (Twist Mountain & Victory Road in gen5 as examples) than what the simplified XY and SM gave us.

Z crystals get the boot. Out. Entirely. Maybe keep species-locked ones?

Mega stones are simplified into one stone that works for all of them.

No more regional variants. Instead more evolutions to old mons.

New pair of eeveelutions with evolution methods or items we already have. Trade Eevee holding a Reaper cloth to get the ghost evo? Or level up holding a Toxic orb to get the poison evo? Something like that.

Legendaries that are not shiny locked.

Wolf-based legendaries to match the logos.

Legendaries AND regular pokemon that are NOT based on british folklore and culture. Hawaii isn’t particularly known for its wrestlers, archers and draft horses now is it. Toucans are american, koalas are australian and Togedemaru is based on a mix of american and japanese rodents. All regions have and should have pokemon that are not “culturally appropriate for the region” and I want more of them.

New breeding mechanics or reworked breeding mechanics.

Difficulty. Even a resemblance of it like we had in USUM. Give out EXP share much later in the game, or only post-game even.

Now to wait for the next news.

[enigmasong]

Remember a couple months ago when I sorted a few Doctor Who monsters into Pokemon types? Well, I’ve decided to go through ever single monster, creature, and robot (except the Abzorbaloff, because I’d rather not think about him) in New Who and sort them all into Pokemon type. Because why not, am I right?

Made a point of never going over two types, but that’s the only game rule I followed as the rest of them can hardly stretch well over what I’m doing anyway and I admittingly don’t know them very well because I’ve never played any of the games. So take these with a grain of salt.

First off, I’m gonna give an overview of the ones I’ve marked out as legendary.

The Beast and the Minotaur get it for being basically gods. The Minotaur being something that sets itself up as a god on planets (this could stretch over to the Nimon as well) and the Beast being actual Satan.

The sun from 42 and the planet, Akhaten get it for being celestial bodies. And Akhaten can also get it for the god thing.

The House and the Great Intelligence get it for basically being disembodied intelligences. And also because they seem to be fairly unique in the universe.

And the unique thing is also what gives the Star Whale and the bat-dragon thing from Kill the Moon this status.

I think the Racnoss and the Carrionites probably also qualify from being species from the Dark Time of the universe.

And, finally, I’ve the Thames river monster from Thin Ice as one on account that it’s really big. And we don’t know much about it. Okay, yeah, I’m stretching a bit on this one, but it’s staying.

Alrighty. I’m gonna take these in order of first appearance:

Plastic duplicates : normal - They’re just plastic. What else can I do with them?

The Nestene Consciousness : poison - At least in the interpretation of it that appears in Rose. And, to be honest, I’m only giving it that because toxins is what it eats. It is a bit of  a stretch.

The Forest of Cheem : grass - ...yeah, I don’t need to explain myself here. I’m just not gonna fill this part in on anything I don’t have to.

The Gelth : ghost/poison - They are ghosts made of gas. And there are plenty of Pokemon that get poison type because they’re made of gas. Heck, the Gengar line are ghost/poison because they’re made of gas.

Raxacoricofallapatorians : fighting/poison - They ritualistically hunt and, as their Pokedex entry puts it, ‘in extreme cases, when her life is in danger, a female Raxacoricofallapatorian can manufacture a poison dart within her own finger and, as a final resort, the excess poison can be exhaled through the lungs.’ Hmm, I guess that’s only make the female ones fighting/poison and the male only fighting.

The Daleks : dark/steel - They are angry squids in tanks.

The Jagrafess : ice - It was kept in an icy place?

Nanogenes : fairy/steel - Well, they’re machines and they have a magical look to them, so...

Sycorax : fighting - Same reason as Slitheen.

Cat Kind : normal - What? They’re cats.

The Werewolf : dark - You don’t get much more evil than trying to take over the world. At least in fiction.

Krillitanes : flying - But only for the particular version of them we saw. Their ability to assimilate any trait from other creatures they please gives them the rather fun sounding ability to change their typing whenever, so they could potentially cycle through any of them.

Clockwork Droids : steel - They’re robots. I won’t bother explaining that for further ones where that’s the only reason for their typing.

Cybermen : steel - I’m a bit flim-flammy on whether or not I should give them dark as a secondary type.

The Wire : electric/ghost - It’s an electronic being that possesses TVs. It’s basically a Rotom.

Ood : normal/psychic - just your basic species with basic telepathy.

The Beast : dark/fire - Literally Satan.

The Isolus : fairy - It even kinda looks fairy-ish.

The Racnoss : dark/bug - They will devour entire planets because they are forever hungry. And I don’t think I need to explain bug typing choices here or anywhere they turn up.

Jadoon : normal/fighting - Just your basic thug cops.

The Plasmavore : dark - She’s a vampire and I don’t know what else to do with her.

Carrionites : dark - Evil witches.

Macra : poison - I’ve not seen their original appearance in Classic Who, but I’m pretty sure the use of them in Gridlock has them severely nerfed. Anyway, the poison typing comes from the fact that they live and feed of the toxic car fumes.

Pig slaves : normal

Lazarus : dragon - He’s a big beast. Which, as far as I can tell, is the only thing that is required to have the typing. I mean, the Alola variant of Exeggutor is a dragon type and the only visual difference between it and a regular Exeggutor is its long neck. If that makes something a dragon...

The Sun from 42 : fire

Family of Blood : dark - For lack of a better option, mostly.

Weeping Angels : dark/fairy - The dark is a given and I don’t really know how else to describe their abilities besides ‘vaguely magical’. Thought about giving the Carrionites the fairy type as well, but I decided not too so the Angels can remain special.

Toclafane : dark/steel - Living in a dying universe will do that to ya.

Heavenly Hosts : steel/flying - They could be flying/steel. I don’t think the order matters much in this case.

Adipose : normal

Pyrovile : fire/rock - This is the only rock type in this list. And it’s not even as the primary typing.

Sontarans : fighting

Hath : water - I mean, they’re fish people? I mean, we don’t see them doing anything with water, but that’s the only thing we know about them. So... I dunno. Fish-water, okay.

Vespiform : bug/flying

Vastra Nerada : dark - Quite literally.

The Creature from Midnight : psychic/dark - I’m not certain on the dark thing, though. We don’t know enough about it to be sure.

Trickster’s Brigade Beetle : fairy/bug - It’s the time travel thing. I know Celebi’s time travel abilities give it the psychic type, but that was because it came before fairy type existed.

Tritovores : bug - Raise of hands, who actually remembers these things off the top of their heads?

Wormhole Manta Rays : flying/steel

The Flood : water - Though I suppose that they basically posses people could make it ghost type as well. I dunno.

Prisoner Zero : psychic - I was gonna base this on Ditto’s typing since it’s the shape shifting Pokemon. Ditto’s type is normal. That... doesn’t make sense. So I’m making PZ psychic type since it requires being psychicly connected to people to take their shape.

The Star Whale : dragon/flying - Again, it’s really big. And flying. Through space.

Saternynes : water

Eknodines : poison - Um, are these actually meant to be real, or might they have just existed purely in the Leadworth dream?

Silurians : ground - Because that’s where they live. Okay, yeah, I’m stretching here.

Krafayis : dragon

The Silence : psychic/electric - Seriously, water is a conductor of electricity. It is not going to insulate Jack. Why are you putting them in water?!

The Siren : fairy/ghost - Actually, I feel really unjustified in this claim. But I really don’t know what else to give her, so I’m not bothering changing.

The House : dark/ghost - It’s a sort of disembodied entity. Doesn’t that count as ghostly?

The Peg Dolls : ghost - Entirely because there is an existing ghost Pokemon that is a doll. And I lack a better option.

The Handbots : steel/poison - Unless your one of the species their medicine is safe for, then I guess it’s just steel.

Tivoli : normal - Nothing really special about them, is there?

The Minotaur : psychic - Because it has to change people’s minds to make them suitable for it to eat. Or was it the ship prison doing that?

Androzani trees : grass/psychic

Solomon’s Robots : steel

The Gunslinger : fighting/steel

The Shakri : dark - Let’s file this under ‘citation needed’.

The Great Intelligence : psychic/ghost - The ghost thing for the same reason as the House and psychic for the intelligence aspect.

The Snowmen : ice

Akhaten : psychic - Well, it eats psychically embedded things in any case.

Ice Warriors : fighting/ice - It’s in the name, isn’t it?

The Crooked Man : normal/dark - That dark typing being entirely appearance based. There are a couple dark Pokemon in which this is the case, so I feel justified with it.

Mr. Sweet : poison

Zygons : psychic/poison or psychic/electric - We come to the first and only DW creature to get an Alola variant. The psychic runs on the same reasoning as Prisoner Zero and the poison coming from the fact that they’ve always had the venom sacs as their primary attack. At least until Peter Harness rolled along and made them have electric abilities for some reason. So this is my compromise on that.

The Robots of Sherwood : steel

The Teller : psychic

Skovox Blitzer : fighting/steel

The Moon : flying/dragon - Literally the only thing we know about that thing is that it flies. Well, that and it’s somehow able to birth an egg that’s bigger than itself immediately after being born itself. Sorry, it did kinda lose me there.

The Mummy : ghost - I mean, it’s a dead guy.

The Boneless : fairy - I guess.

The Overnight Forest : grass/fairy

The Dream Crabs : psychic/dark - Though I think we can debate the dark.

The Fisher King : dark - Because ‘underdeveloped villain’ is not a Pokemon type.

The Mire : fighting

Whatever Leandro is : fire - It breathes fire at one point. Does that count?

The Sandmen : ground - They’re made of sand. I mean, not actual sand, but... it’s close enough????

The Quantum Shade : dark/ghost

The Veil : steel - It was ultimately just a robot, after all.

The Cloister Wraiths : ghost/steel - Haunted robots are rad.

Hydroflax : fighting/steel - The body, not the person.

Harmony Shoal : dark - Kinda didn’t know what else to do with them

Heather : water

The Vardi - steel

The Thames River Monster : ice/dragon

The Dryads : grass/bug

The Monks : psychic/dark - Because, again, ‘underdeveloped villain’ is not a type.

The Eaters of Light : dark - Again, it’s in the name.

Testimony : ghost/fairy

[colleydogstar]

Humans and Demihumans

From Mod @rollem-bones

Okay, there seems to be a running thing about people asking about how Demis work. So I’ve decided to come down and answer some basics to hopefully clear a lot of things up. So I’ve dug into the files I keep regarding the Estha (My name for the planet/reality Rhodie’s adventures take place in) setting to bring you what I’ve done on this.

On Humans and Demihumans(Demis)

When it comes to humans and demihumans they are, by the basic Earth definition, the same species. A greater deal of visual difference than most species on Earth, but still capable of interbreeding and producing viable offspring. The people of Estha just don’t have the same taxonomic standards as we do. As such, they tend to refer to humans and demihumans as though they were different. When the differences are basically surface level.

The Basics

The basic structure of humans and demihumans is what you would expect. Four limbs, torso, head. Big difference in Demihumans and Humans is in the head, as they resemble more base creatures. Though placed next to an animal, a demihuman is clearly not the same. Binocular vision, greater range of expressive musculature in the facial area, feature ratios being different, and of course a much larger brainpan.

Whenever a human or demihuman sports additional changes to their anatomy it’s known as “feral variance”. This is usually found in the presence of tails, digitigrade stances, claws, teeth, and similar markers of the more primitive examples of the “species” of Demihuman. Some cases, such as Donnel having a broader range of sensory information, is a more subtle feral variance.

Side note on culture is that different places view feral variance with differing opinions. Some just see it as nothing special. To some cultures, feral variance is attractive in a noble savage sort of way. To others, feral variance is considered a sign of inbreeding like the Habsburg Jaw.

Long and Short of It

Okay, so, the population on Estha stands between five feet(152cm) and seven feet(213cm) tall and weigh between 100lbs(45kg) and 400lbs(181kg). The average person(male or female) of a given section of population would be 5’8”(173cm) tall and weigh around 145lbs(66kg). Compared to Earth, the bell curve is a little more flat in its distribution and as such more people veer shorter or taller than most would expect.

In addition to the standard heights and weights, some individuals can fall far into outlier territory into either very large(upwards of 9-10 feet and several hundred pounds) or very small(Small child size despite adulthood). They are rare, but they do exist. Typically, these types also have more common “feral” variance than most of the population. This should not be considered a rule, however.

“Species” does not rule size, but can inform it. An elephant demi would be expected to be very large, and while they have a higher concentration of those that fall into giant outlier territory, it’s not unexpected to find an elephant that is a dainty five foot waif. Don’t let “species” lead to expectations.

Anatomically Speaking

Simple rule, if you know humans are that way, a Demihuman is like that as well. Simple as that. The squishy bits under the skin are basically uniform. A deer Demi like Silberschmidt is just as omnivorous as a wolf Demi. Some choose to be vegetarian, some can and do have dietary restrictions, but that’s based on the individual and not “species” wide.

This covers everything. If you’re one of those wondering reproductive systems, childbirth and the like, I suggest you refer to a competently written health or sex ed textbook.

The one point I will address regarding procreation is that apparent species follows the mother, but with some influence from the father. For example, Pritchard is the son of a wolf demi father and a human mother. So he is predominantly human, however his hair and eye color is more in line with that of his father.(All images of Pritchard with little pointy ears are for chibi cuteness purposes only. His ears are otherwise totally human shaped)

Recap

Humans and Demihumans are the same species. Most things about one can be answered as you would for a human. Some have feral variance that are more obvious than others. No feral variance is great enough to fully separate the demi from basic human biological compatibility.

Should be noted that Errantbloods break rules by their very nature. That and their bodies are more or less stapled together with pure magic. So don’t think everything here will always matter to them. Rhodie’s speed and agility can and will be far and above human or demihuman, for example.

One Final Note on Humans and Feral Variance

Humans do have Feral Variance. They just are rather rare and don’t express often. Fully expressed Feral Variant humanity tend to stand digitigrade on taloned feet, have a sinuous, whip like tail, short clawed hands, sharpened teeth and ears, horns, and a broader palette of skin tones. Basically, were you to take Goliath from Gargoyles and hack his wings off, you have a good idea.

That humanity’s feral nature comes through in a demonic or devilish appearing light in Estha is a “take as you will” thing.

[quasi-la]

12         THE MATRIARCH

              When ever I hear people talk about their god they always refer to Him, but who on this old Earth has ever seen the divine gonads? Of course that question is irreverent, but not irrelevant because all His-story shows us that such abstractions of the ego are way more dangerous than a game of words... Anthropologists will tell you all single god hypotheses are an extension of the male ego, but in fact the ontogeny of this deeply 'embedded' conviction goes back a little further than a heart beat ago – when Adam was still a boy! The clear light of understanding began to emerge when Jane Goodall started studying the gorilla's natural social behaviour close up, since then a great deal of work has been done on other primates as well, and particularly the chimpanzees which are by far our closest relative, in fact something like 97% of our genes are homologous. Which is to say the same but different, as in the difference between one human and another...

                                                                                                                     It was 1974 when lethal raiding was first observed among chimpanzees living in a natural environment and social groupings, before then it was thought that 'we' were the only species that killed their own kind in situations not necessarily about survival. Those who invented the single-white-male-god also taught that some kind of original sin had condemned us to suffer this unkind behaviour; but this flies in the face of newly observed behaviour – the reality is our chimp cousins also kill and rape for thrills! Female chimpanzees are generally not picky about their sexual partners, they find most males acceptable but something inside tells them to refuse their brothers. Most of the time that's the end of it, but occasionally a brother's ego can't stand being denied, the more she resists and avoids him the more he becomes enraged, he beats her and holds her down – there's nothing she can do. Measured tests have shown that even average chimps are four or five times stronger than human athletes in top condition, and right up to now they are the only species beside Homo saps that still tolerate these degenerate characteristics AS IF there is nothing We could do about it?                        

                         If you take the time to read the reports and papers coming out, you will see the male violence that surrounds and threatens chimpanzee communities is so extreme that just being in the wrong place at the wrong time from an other group can mean death by murder-squads. Just as territorial by nature as we are, ALL the elements of political degeneration are evident as well, including genocide, so our 'human nature’ as it is invoked by many an old fool – is not so unique after all! Its just too obvious that the patriarch which easily dominates women in primitive cultures so closely emulates the behaviour of our chimpanzee cousins. And this pattern is carried on and on by primitive religions...and then the thousands of rapes and murders committed by U$ troops stationed in Japan since WW2 become more understandable, even though (their) gorillas still can't be tried in any Japanese court - because Japan is still an occupied country? 

                                                              Over the past four decades much new knowledge has been gathered, needless to say it hardly gets mentioned by mass media, but the comparison of murders and incarceration rates speak for themselves. As the research piles up the gap between us and the chimps keeps shrinking, already it is genetically provable we are closer to them than they are to gorillas! Facts like this are an anathema to religious institutions, in the daze of their rule they would simply be rejected outright and the offenders burnt at the stake; while another awe inspiring cathedral is built somewhere... For those still capable of rational thought the single most gripping fact about chimpanzee behaviour is that their society is (also) male bonded...and their borders are defended and/or extended with potentially lethal violence. Any one can see similarities that go way back 5 million years, when chimpanzee ancestors and human ancestors were indistinguishable. In fact there may have been several Adams but mitachondrial DNA has revealed an Eve, a particular black African women was the mother of every single Human on this old Earth! 

                                                        In reality the most likely scenario is that early humans were less violent and way more social, and then a backward and violent variant has arisen in relatively recent times, and now that mob threatens to take us all to hell with them! Its a fact not well known that Neanderthals had a larger brain and many studies suggest that Cro-Magnon replaced them through enhanced brutality, not intelligence as we would like to think. The ultimate truth may never be known, but many of the Nazi leaders came from devout Christian upbringings...and dehumanised “wolves in sheep's clothing” are now threatening our continued existence on this old Earth; and ALL fall back on one male-god-construct or another to justify their actions. Moreover the link between male violence and 'putrid' patriarchy is self evident in almost every human culture as it is with the chimpanzees, the statistics on violent crime within a community show the same gender-biased pattern, women can kill of course but everywhere the globally consistent trend is that males are the 'specialists' in violent crime.

                           In the U$ for example men are nine times more likely to-be killers, seventy eight times more likely to rape and ten times more likely to commit armed robbery. Even in non violent crime the same gender-bias is equally strong, so the obvious question now before us is why are advanced 'democratic' societies still living under the spectre of male dominance? The simple answer springs to mind (some) men with brutal tendencies seize power and repress everybody because the pattern already exists in their genes and/or memes. This I$ patriarchy worldwide and throughout history, written by the victors with the unspeakable brutality filtered out of their stories; but the origins are now detectable in the social lives of chimpanzees! All the way up to the 'gorillas' at the top of ANY hierarchy, and these throwbacks are holding back Eve-olution; “man is still more ape than any ape” 

                         Yet it goes without saying that western societies could not be dominated by such ape-men unless they were aided and abetted by the women close to them, their wives and/or lovers for instance, and even their mothers and daughters! No one has figured out how to change a paradigm yet but everybody knows that power as the ultimate addiction has many disguises. Just because certain behaviour patterns have always taken hold of power doesn't mean they can't be changed, all the incredible achievements of our species could never have been realised without genius and our common Humanity – in spite of the gorillas in our midst! The fact that everywhere the feminine is now in the ascendant shows any open mind that A matriarchy is all but a fait accompli, and the light shining through the fog of current events are memories of A future so bright it will pale into insignificance all that has been achieved under duress... 

                                   To even see the final destination its necessary to understand the past, our origins and the link to primates past and present is a given, but the continual escalation of destruction and violence as a means of political economy must become obsolete or we shall join the dodos. Considering the weaponry at hand any sane mind can see that future is no future at all, once we dispel the delusion of being special and above Nature we can solve many many problems that have been consigned to the too-hard-basket because of human nature. Another aspect of primate behaviour that is observable in our societies is the hundredth monkey effect...so that when around a hundred monkeys (or humans) learn a new trick, other monkeys anywhere given the same idea or inclination will rapidly acquire the new skills and/or paradigm. The collective nature of consciousness reveals itself as Jung predicted and one can easily imagine the snowball effect when the media barons decide that having a future is as worthy a cause as fat margins! 

                              Hollywood has been en-powering women in their portrayal of our nature for some time, in fact Humans never act without emotions and the wrong emotions are the cause of aggression, now this might sound familiar; male chimpanzees compete much more aggressively for dominance than females do...a male (chimp) in his prime organises his whole life around rank...the male behaves as if he is quite driven to reach the top of the community heap. Interestingly once they get there the alpha male's tendency to violence reduces dramatically, then they may become benign rulers or mad dictators, but either road up its the same. Power is the most addictive and unpredictable 'drug' there is, and when testosterone plays its molecular role as the catalyst, (it) becomes the most dangerous force in the known Universe! All of Nature IS locked in a mighty struggle, but for reproductive power, among hierarchical societies the difficulty of getting to the top is what induces aggression. Pride obviously serves as a stimulus for much interpersonal aggression in humans, and we can hypothesise confidently that this emotion evolved during countless generations in which the males who achieved high status were able to turn their social success into extra reproduction. Male pride, the source of many a conflict, is reasonably seen...as another legacy of sexual selection. (Demonic Males – Apes and the Origins of Human Violence)

                         The problems really get out of hand when the ant-colony version of human existence comes into the fray, because villages, city-states and even today's mighty nation-states act out the same pathology. The first great multi-state war ravaged ancient Greece for a quarter of a century, the cause was finally put down to the rise of military power in Athens, and the fear it caused in Sparta – who had been allies in the past! This pattern has been repeated so often it brings on feelings of nausea and apparitions of ape-men fighting each other because their hierarchy exaggerated some danger before (it) happened. Always there is the hidden agenda and always in their heart of darkness they see a potential to gain power, either personally or politically, which boils down to the same primitive archetype. Certainly not all men in our time are so afflicted they cannot moderate their ape-nature, but the corridors of power are still overcrowded with testosterone units. In 1914 the badly trained dogs broke loose from their tether and repeated the same pattern, and we are still living under the lengthening shadow of that barbarism – now that machine wars are very good for business it belies any attempt to place our common Humanity above the market-place morality of mass murderers. These 'errand boys for grocery clerks' are the political scum that create nothing, while their spin doctors write their speeches the old warriors get out their medals and the same old pattern sucks us all in again and again... 

                                                          Forgetting for a minute that mythical beast 'human nature’, and the delusion that (it) will never change; the truth is they don't want it to change because societies have been ‘developed’ with a dependency on top down command structures - by individuals genetically closer to you-know-who! It wasn't until 1928 that scientists discovered a ‘new’ species of primate now called Bonobos, the reason is they are so similar to chimpanzees even experts find difficulties telling them apart. An early primatologist had one for a pet and lived with him for years and still didn't pick it, but he was constantly amazed by “Prince Chim” and his unique behaviour. In his words “doubtless there are geniuses even among the anthropoid apes”, and even the local tribe of humans called the Mongandu, who live in the same forest never hunt the Bonobo because their god tells them they once lived as brothers! I don't know the sex of their deity but this mob are not shy vegetarians – they've wiped out just about every other creature big enough to barbeque! 

                          The Bonos weigh on average about the same as the smallest chimps, with small heads, longer arms and legs and slightly different facial features, scientists know that the Bonos descended from a common chimp-like ancestor, rather than the other way round, with genetic dating putting the split somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million years ago. Though they are clearly a distinct species, the differences are less than the average differences between many human populations – but their social behaviour is like chalk and cheese. Compared to chimpanzees these are gentle apes, they have a much reduced level of violence in relations between sexes, between males and between other communities; after twenty years of close observation there is no evidence of males raping females, battering adult females, or killing infants which is common among gorillas. On the surface bonobo social life is very similar to chimps, living in communities of eighty or more, with a shared territory, moving about in various size parties, male kin groups that defend their borders against outsider males. Also the same size difference between males and females, but among chimps (and many humans) every adult male is dominant to every adult female...and he enjoys that. She must move out of his way, acknowledge him with the appropriate call or gesture, bend to his whim or be punished. That can be a slap or a belting, kicked and dragged around screaming till her throats cramps – a reminder to grovel next time. None of this crap among the bonos, here the sexes are co-dominant, there is still a ranking system but the top female and the top male are equal, and this extends all the way down the line. A whole different system of politics has developed that doesn't always resolve to brutality.

                        In the Bonobo system sons are almost inseparable from their mothers...they stay in the same party all their lives. A mother's support is crucial when competing with other males because the females bond into fighting groups rather than males...so those whose mothers are alive tend to be high ranking, and it goes without saying that these kind of alliances tend to be much more humane! Among Bonobos, the mother-son relationship is the closest bond there is between males and females, and if a mother calls for help, her group (of females) is always liable to counter attack in her defence. In contrast males don't cooperate with each other, either to defend themselves or to attack females, so that even the alpha male can and will be defeated by female power...

                              However its much more than a simple role reversal, females rarely assert their power, because under this regime a male rarely loses his temper bad enough to hurt a female. All available observations tell the same story, thru cooperation female bonos turn the tables on men, but its not based on kin; just like chimps when the girls reach puberty they leave the family and migrate to a new community – most of the women they bond with will be unrelated. In their societies sexual activity is greatly enhanced, even the sexual organs are larger to facilitate greater utility, an instrument of politics as well as procreation! When entering a new community a young women identifies an older one to befriend, by a gradual process she shows respect and affection until they begin sexual relations...and from there on build up a network. In our language it might be called love, but one thing is certain; in their culture it forms the underlying bonds that hold their communities together.  

                                Unlike males they don't feel the need to display aggressively toward each other, tension and even aggression occurs rarely but they tend to make up quickly, so these kind relations among females make for a peaceful life. Bono males treat other males much as the chimps do, both compete for status and form hierarchies, but only the latter are prepared to fight fiercely and risk a great deal to be the boss. Aggression among the Bonos often leads quickly to resolution, and both parties taking their turn to bend over with obvious sexual excitement! Chimps take their time about making up, also attacks between Bono males are mild in comparison with less competition for rank, and not forming political alliances makes for a peaceful existence – which all turns on sex. The reason males are much less concerned about who mates with the females is they are unable to tell when ovulation occurs, Nature seems to have engineered a way to hide the scent that normally triggers the testosterone response! Humans like to think they're the best, but this mob can mate dozens of times a day, eagerly engage in hetero and homosex; manipulate each other's genitals by hand or mouth, copulate in numerous positions...and it all begins long before the onset of puberty!

                                             A matriarchy could mean much more than this; even more interesting is what Bonos do with their sex, they use it for much more than making babies, they (too) use sex as a way to make friends, to calm some one down who is tense, and to reconcile for aggression. And the last of these applications is the most important; when travelling parties meet at their boundaries they can even get friendly at a time when the chimps would be smashing heads! Its still true that small groups usually avoid large ones, but if two large groups bump into each other at some food source for instance, more often than not a stand off ensues. After half a hour or so one female will cross the neutral zone and hook up with a female from the other – bingo. Altercations between males can also be neutralised by females from their respective groups literally hooking up with the antagonist! The game changer is that friendliness is always initiated by females – at the end of ego's aeon?

                            Even other species in their territory benefit also, male chimpanzees everywhere hunt and kill mammals (other monkeys included), they kill often and the reaction to a successful hunt is intense excitement. The prey-monkey may be eaten alive, shrieking as it is torn apart, dominant males try to seize the prey for themselves leading to more violence on the side – its blood lust in its rawest form. Bonos like meat too, they sometimes grab small antelope babies, flying squirrels and even earthworms, but they never eat other monkeys that are so close to their own kind it borders on cannibalism... Certainly they could catch them if they wanted to, but the theory is that the suppression of personal aggression carries over to the suppression of predatory aggression? Their common ancestor hunted monkeys and probably each other as well but they evolved above and beyond the blood lust of simple predation as a means of survival...

                       The litany of parallels with our hallowed human His-story speaks for itself; cannibalism, genocide, rape, domestic violence, truly massive disparity and war after war – what MORE evidence is required? On the other hand (and gender), A new age of much more peaceful existence is literally waiting behind the bedroom door, where ego is not a dirty word! The only mob that stands to lose from the shifting power base are those greedy egotistical jerks that fear female power and would stop at nothing to hold them back. Another blinding fact is that less than 1% of child sex abuse is committed by women, and only now after centuries of impunity the full activities of these wolves in sheep's clothing is being revealed. Its no coincidence that every institution from the church to the military is male bonded and jealously guards power for their own ego's ends. Behind the facades presented by the political pundits are the bank managers, bureaucrats and generals that keep the steam roller stoked up and flattening any real opposition to the pestilence of their putrid patriarch.

                       Questions please!!! Why isn’t this Truth being taught in the gov/church schools? For how much longer will a tidal wave of mass mediated madness enable a single swollen ego to crawl to the top of the heap?? The lessons of His-story are there for all to see...she doesn't suffer quite the same affects from exposure to power. Of course there are examples of women who acted the same under the prevailing paradigm; but past performance is not the only indicator of future 'behaviour'. By extension, when all politics becomes ‘secret women's business' will ALL institutionalised patriarchal hierarchies based on brutal power “wither away” - just as Marx predicted???

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