#and regardless i dont think that exists as thats not really how theyre portraying it

[atthebell-moved]

i understand that they dont have to follow the language partner rules but the ticket system is also broken so either way it doesnt matter. wilbur didnt get a ticket at all for tallulah and she shouldnt even exist according to the entire event explanation, so it's pretty clear none of the rules matter.

i also am more willing to listen to what's been portrayed in rp, which is that quackity has consistently floated wilbur as tilin's likely father more than luzu (although again i'll say this is partly bc wilbur's been on more and luzu hasn't; i think if luzu were to log on more/at the same time as wilbur and quackity there would be far more mamma mia nonsense going on). you're right that there is no "bio dad" but thats how quackity has framed the pairing system and that's why i used that langauge, as i was trying to point out that luzu could've been tilin's chosen father rather than his assigned father.

if not for tallulah im also sure wilbur wouldve taken on more responsibility for tilin; because he feels he got his own kid through her he doesnt think tilin was his but thats not particularly relevant since, again, tallulah shouldnt exist according to the numbers.

i don't really think anything has been objective about this since again the tickets are broken for these four (including bad) in particular and at this point they're all running with the rp element rather than what they were assigned/what the rules mightve declared as the objective situation. to me, regardless of what the rules might say or what ticket luzu received (i am aware he also received an F ticket, but again, not super relevant considering everything else that's happened; wilbur also never received a ticket at all), the rp is what forms the story, and right now quackity is pretty much running with wilbur being tilin's dad. that could be him coping with tilin's loss by throwing it at who's in front of him to blame; i'm not saying tilin is definitively wilbur's kid, i'm just saying that as the story is playing out right now, that is how quackity is framing it. wilbur is refusing to consider it/has decided its not really relevant to him as he never got to know tilin anyway, so it's almost entirely on quackity to decide how his character takes it.

@atthebell moving to get off ops post but i really feel like everyone is focusing way too hard on the language thing when there is no reason canon can't break its own rules. the language thing ultimately doesn't matter

also there is no bio dad because all the eggs came from a dragon 😭?? tilin aint quackity's biological kid

i'm not really worried about what quackity thinks i'm looking at what we have objective proof of and what we have objective proof of is that luzu had quackity's ticket. i've gotten off topic from the original post at this point i'm moreso like, thinking less abt quackity's thoughts of wilbur and moreso just. objectively what happened with tilin

[so-much-nonsense]

potential

one of my niche interests is binge watching. i am almost always watching something. one point in my life i ran out of things to watch. well, not literally, obviously, but i only wanted to watch certain things i completed them. stuff i did not wanna watch very often ends up being bad and boring than not. so as my last straw i have resorted to all languages. i watch content regardless of genre, language, country, age restriction(ahem thats not to say i am not old enough). anyways, during this process kdramas stuck with me as something to watch while i go to sleep or when i dont want too much plot and worry about or even think about it. they never came across having potential to me. i know a lot of others out there would disagree with me but this is just what i feel. theyre always slow paced, very bright, when not very bright trying too hard to be too dark(and failing miserably), no plot that hooks us up. but, BUT, recently, very recently, just 2 hours ago i watched a kdrama named long time no sex. obviously started off bc of the title but god it is so good. i mean, i have only watched 2 episodes really and that is the problem. so far everything they have shown me i cannot wait another 2 days for another two episodes. basically a married couple with no kids, pretty in debit and paying off loans and interests, a couple of insurances, but live comfortably. they start blackmailing others involved in multiple relationships. now the plot might not be the most interesting one ive watched, but the way everything is portrayed bw these two main leads, is more than unique. truly there are only a handful of series or movies that show this comfortable couple dynamic interestingly and god did this drama nail it. though they were a very active couple, they just stopped having sex few months or years back unintentionally and neither of them have had a problem with it. how they never stopped loving each other even though they havent been intimate is portrayed really well. the husband is literally the greenest flag everrrr. let it be when he remembers every single detail about them from 7 years ago or when he tries hugging her and reassures her that its fine if they dont have sex, or when he talks about how having sex is not a duty for married couple and when he sees that shes actually interested he recommends trying to get in the feel by telling each other things they like about one another, every single thing he likes about her is spoken so well and it is very evident how much he loves her. whenever theres a disagreement both of them proceed to talk it out in literally less than 2 minutes. though it might not be realistic, i mean, why is it not realistic? exactly! that is what should be going on and not hours of unnecessary arguments. he is really never afraid of being "lady like" and that makes him all the more manly because he is always very thoughtful and considerate about her and deals softly. no fragile masculinity exists here. i could go on about this man but ill stop lol. i can guess what the future episodes could host but i dont want to this time. this time i just want to be intrigued by it. i cannot wait for them to start having sex again, or its ok even if they decide they are better off this way(which would be totally unexpected). ok i just said that about two characters in drama. guess whos crazy? AND, and the fucking trust they have in each other, shed trust him with her life. even though he is foolish at times she balances it out. when his car got totalled and she found out that he dint tell her she figured a way to get him money instead of getting back at him or starting a fight(not that hed let a fight sustain or theyd go on for more than a minute) bc she knew theres no point in getting upset now that the cars gone and the intention behind his lie is nothing. its almost as if they know each other and communicate. crazy right. its almost as if they love each other.

[sleevesareforlosers]

idek if this is a weird question but are any of your killjoys religious? i know that your desertborns mostly are about desert religions/gods but do you think that modern world religions are still practiced in the zones? do you think any desertborns would practice/convert to non-desert-traditional religions? i just am very interested in knowing your thoughts on this & you’re always so good at worldbuilding 👉���

personally! my newsie & chimp are jewish and pony was raised mexican catholic and chimp and pony in my canon are both sandpups. and that’s partially because i think it would be easier to practice religion out in the zones regardless of what it is. i think bli doesn’t really want anyone believing in any kind of higher power regardless of what it is...and so mostly you see desertborns being the ones to pass on religious practices and keep them alive, and cityborns are more likely to be less religious or convert once they’ve gotten to the zones. but i’d really love to hear your take on this i love hearing your hcs ❤️ !

okay so all this comes with a big ole disclaimer that this is my personal feelings on the matter as they relate to me, my canon, and how i write, and i dont think that this is the Right Way to do things, it just what im most comfortable with

this is actually something that ive been. i dont wanna say purposefully excluding from my writings but i havent elaborated on for a reason. i personally dont feel like ive had Near enough time to do the amount of research that i would wanna put into it to make sure im doing things like. properly and respectfully. i tend to focus on zone religions like the witch and destroya and (in cherris case) the sun bc thats my little sandbox and i can say what i want without worrying too much abt overstepping my bounds. im a tentatively-nonreligious (its complicated) person and at the very least i dont participate in anything organized and id HATE to misrepresent any real-world religions, especially considering how the zones r on Indigenous land.

i feel like the zones def have like. modern/current religions in forms and ofc theres Indigenous belief systems that are practiced probably widest out of those, but to my knowledge those tend to be closed systems and i REALLY dont want to overstep with whats okay for me to portray, let alone undoubtedly mangle to fit this fake little world ive constructed. im possibly More reluctant to say anything concrete for the city bc i dont think modern religions as theyre practiced nowadays would work under bli, so then id either have to again, mangle real people's belief systems to fit my fake little world, or id have to do a 'no religion in the city' type thing which i also am personally nervous about bc i feel like with my background any attempt at a 'totally nonreligious society' would come out with a christian lean.

this is definitely more than a little lazy of me and if i were like. writing original fic or something i WOULD be putting in the effort but. im not. im writing fanned fiction for a weird little comic series most people have never heard of. (also reiterating that these r my own personal feelings on the whole matter of religion in my dd canons and i rlly enjoy seeing how other people handle it! ur hcs are so 🥺🥺)

that all being said! my newsie cherri and pony are all ethnically jewish, ghoul, dr d, ghouls brother, and angie (in canons where she like. exists) are all very protective of their hair and their braids, and people dont say things like oh my god or jesus christ, but they do say what the hell

god uh. tldr? ive thought about it but only enough to conclude that im currently not comfortable or educated enough to be writing abt how real-world religions would fit my canons

[timdrakegeocities]

very interesting to me how the line between anna and rapunzel kin is so thin and vague because theyre like... the same character how did they get away with this... but the Details are different. intetesting to me that way more people are into rapunzel... i feel like the subtle differences add up a lot like its easy to be like oh i have mommy issues so im rapunzel yknow vs people still argue about whether annas parents are bad or not... like anna doesnt experience Abuse but its this very pointed loneliness that didnt need to happen. and like the fact that you dont need to presume they were straight up neglectful adds to it bc regardless of what their parents Did she still Felt that badly. which is like. yknow. really kin like thats the adhd probably. but its nonspecific and uncommon to portray so while for me im like oh god oh fuck kin other people are like... ‘hm this doesnt process i dont have any opinion about it im just gonna focus on elsa’ yknow. and i dont think theres that many elsa kinnies...? im not certain...? i wanna like look into this more tbh i need to diagnose it. elsa is easy i think to be a fan of but less easy to identify with because her struggles are so melodramatic/unrealistic but also metaphorical like... its hard to be like ‘yes thats me’ but very easy to be like ‘oh i get it and i care’ yknow. and anna specifically being in the shadow of a character thats like that is what makes her this intriguing... middle ground... oddly realistic character... to me yknow... theyre playing with deep concepts. its serious. rapunzel is what happens when they intentionally set out to do a parable about realistic abuse and shes Good because of that and very accessible because of that which is why you have not just kinnies but like normies who stan intensely, like theyd count as kin if they knew it existed, there are a Lot of those.... but anna is like. what you get when things are just. weird. you slip through the cracks. thats the entire appeal. its that deep :(

[sylwanin-was-right]

Its not pretend at all lol. Again, Cameron confirmed while fighting plaigairism lawsuits a decade or so ago that the Avatar films are allegories for colonization in the Americas and political commentary on colonialism as a system, or at least war. The movies are also cautionary tales about environmental conservation and arguably against consumerism. These themes are pretty overt in the movies, as Camerons also stated theyre "not supposed to be subtle" in his lawsuit declaration.

There are no confirmed reasons why Jake dons dreads in AWOW, so all anyone can do is speculate why only he (and Spider) have them. I suspect its because they will both do something similar that makes them appear as outsiders. Regardless, I personally doubt his hair style change was for becoming Toruk Makto in A1 because he had a mohawk then, and, again, no one among the Omatikaya clan seems familiar with locs as no one else has them. As far as Africans doning locs, its often less to do with political statements, and more to do with personal spirituality or unambiguously existing as someone of their culture.

Again, I think its distasteful that Jake has dreads because they make him stick out despite his supposed assimilation. And personally, I just think they look bad on his character lol. If Jake and Spider were to reject colonial ideas of the RDA by embracing Omatikaya culture, then it doesnt make sense they would adopt a style thats completely foreign to their culture.

It seems a lot of people who take issue with the racial criticism of Avatar dont really have a very good understanding of what a white savior trope is. A white savior trope is not just an emphasis on representing certain skin colors of characters, but a specific emphasis of white people's role among non-white people as mediators, problem solvers, leaders, and or superiors in the non-white group's lives because they were deliberately written to consult white aid or succumb to white superiority. In other words, the white savior trope is how such white charcaters are portrayed as exceptionally necessary to the resolution of issues among Indigenous or Indgenous-coded characters so as to validate white privilege to the audience.

Avatar fits this trope in many ways, some of which I've described before here, but its particularly so because Jake Sully, the white protagonist, is determined as the only "chosen one" to undergo a "spiritual awakening" to unite the Na'vi and solicit supernatural aid to betray his own colonizing force.

Not only is Jake Sully written as exceptionally capable among the Na'vi, but the native Na'vi are written to be exceptionally and arbitrarily receptive to Jake's prescence. In A1, suspicions of him as an avatar spy are arbitrarily turned into fascination to justify Jake's easy entrance into his scenes of "spiritual awakening" among the Omatikaya, which directly serves his military task and his personal investment in their "refreshing" lifestyle, his new body, and his exotic love interest. We dont see any hostility between Na'vi and RDA while Jake is gaining intel until scenes of major events becsuse he's sent to "pacify" them for the RDA's purposes and for the white audience's sensibilities about noble Indigenous.

The writer specifically positions Jake in situations where he has to exploit the Na'vi's lifestyles, their homes, and eventually their suffering as spectacles and simulations for his character development, which the movie is centered on despite the story being about Pandora and the natives' struggle against colonizers. The writer even makes the Indigenous-coded characters plead for Jake's help because of the destruction he wrought upon them, which apparently then requires Jake to become a messianic figure who is later is officially seated as the Native cheiftan (olo'eyktan). Jake doesnt take on a role of supporting ally among the Na'vi. The white protagonist saved the natives by being an an active omen for uniting their clans and for being the one to call upon god to evoke the wildlife against the enemy because his white perspective was chosen to portray messages against colonialism and war, and in support of Indigenous resistance and wisdom instead of Native perspective.

In A2, Jake retains his white savior role by literally "becoming" Na'vi as a permanent avatar and being one of the main protagonists the story of Indigenous resistence is told through. He constantly reorients the Native's reactions to their conflicts where they then always adopt his sentiments, and Jake ultimately benefits from bringing trouble to their homes by hiding among them and never sacrificing himself when the stakes got really high. Sure he lost Neteyam and finally realized everyone was right wrt not running away, but this was at the expense of an entire island group of people, Neytiri, and even his children, who, once again, had their cultures and suffering used as spectacle and simulation for Jake's character development. Its al told from a white POV and the white protagonist remained instrumental to the resolution of Indigenous liberation from the colonial forces. Jake remains a white savior.

The white savior trope in Avatar is obscured by a scifi, transhumanist loophole (avatar driving and permanent consciouness transfer), but all throughout A1 and even in A2, Jake is a white character that is written to be unnecessarily exceptional and more capable to rally, lead, and convince the native Na'vi (and their god aparently) to make certain descisions to defeat the colonial enemy. This unambiguously constitutes white saviorship.

You can start to read more about the white savior trope in Avatar here, with some more acedemic commentary about white saviorism in general here.

As for your comment about racial sensitivity, I think its very troubling. The world is impacted by many historically enduring racial hierarchies, particularly white supremacy and American paternalism, because of the history and expansive scope of western colonialism and imperialism as global economic systems. Its a very complex subject and deeply embedded in society's social structures (from road infrastructure, to county lines, to food distribution, to education, to childrens shows). These racial hierarchies are enforced in many subtle and overt ways by classes of racial privilege and institutions of power, particularly "white" people and their private militaries, companies, and politicians, at the expense of "non white", usually working class racialized people (race and economic class are closely linked).

Movie directors, like James Cameron, are not immune to enforcing these racialized social hierarchies from their own implicit biases socialized into and inhereted by them at birth, even if unintentional. It shows in the Avatar franchise, and some of his own commentary about the design of the Na'vi (like exotifying the Na'vi women).

Its one thing not to agree with the criticism of Avatar being a white savior movie, but its another to dismiss criticism of Avatar's racial elements as if people are irrationally mention race (and then go on a dubious rant about how minority representation is endless bickering). Race had an impact on how the movie was written, casted, filmed, and advertised because the world is racially structured and thats why people are talking about it. Its why you are bringing up Māori at all becase racial representation is an overt element to the films (in the form of coded characters).

And btw racial representatrion extends far beyond aesthetics and skin color (ex: how are the characters of the actors of color depicted conceptually? What roles do their characters have in the franchise? Are their characters fleshed out or fodder? Are their roles appropriate? What conditions did the actors of color work in? Were the communities of color represented in the film fiancially advocated for/their causes endorsed through the film team's marketing and profits? Are the stories of poc among the cast being told from their perspectives or their community's perspectives? Etc Quality matters more than quantity when concerning representation as "idpol" can be used as a psyop against radical analysis of racial disparities in media and positions of power).

Also, there was never a time where media was never criticized anf never problematic lol.Just times when criticism of racial insensitivity and approproation specifically were taken less serously and more suppressed by law and society. Now there is more open discussion about it because of racial liberation movements and consciousness raising. Discomfort about racial commentary concerning Avatar, and overt representation of marginalized groups in media in general doesnt mean the world was better off "without" all of it nor that its now being "shoved in your face". A very dubious thing to say since equality often requires equity to boost such groups from disproportionate social and economic positions caused by oppression.

As I've already said, people can criticize the films while enjoying them, and if you dont personally want to criticize the films, then thats fine. I'm not calling you names or pejoratives for your commentary, and I've made it clear you dont have to agree with criticis. Whats troubling is the implication that criticizing Avatar at all for racial elements in its explicitly racialized, allegorical, political narrative "ruins" the movie and "ruins" engagement in the fandom (a sentiment that a considerable number of people in the fandom have).

I appreciate your willingness to understand and for sharing your perspective, but this is a troubling sentiment in the fandom that is exposes implict racial biases among fans (who largely benefited from its white savior trope by feeling distanced from the film's racial antagonists).

So I know this may be “controversial” but I’m so sick of seeing people complain about the new Avatar movie and try to cancel it over the most ridiculous things.

For starters… they are 10FT tall blue aliens with 3 fingers living on an alien planet that takes about 5 years to get too, from the future. How are people trying to make this about the human race living today in our times?

People complaining because Jake has dreadlocks… it’s called ✨Na’vi culture✨ on earth it may be an African cultural thing, but they aren’t on earth, they are on Pandora where the Na’vi are an alien race that believe it or not, do in fact have their own culture. Besides they also have a giant braid that has stuff inside of it…

People mad because they think Jake is trying to be “indigenous” when he’s “just some white dude pretending” like bro… it’s called acculturation and assimilation. What else would you expect him to do? It’s like getting mad at a European trying to embrace an Asian culture because his partner and kids are Asian and live in an asian country…

And finally, the people who are for some reason getting triggered because Avatar 3 will have an element of the new Ash tribe and Fire Na’vi saying that James Cameron is “copying” Avatar the last air bender. There are so many ways to break this down but here’s two: 1 is about an alien planet with 10FT tall blue people that have glowing dots on their skin, the other is about a bunch of people controlling elements… (essentially) how are people making connections here?

The other way to break this down is: Pandora is a lot like earth, it’s has ✨biomes✨ and different ✨environments✨ right. So there’s this thing called ‘adapting to your environment’. The Omatikaya is Forest Na’vi which is aliens that live in the forest. The Metkayina is Reef and Sea Na’vi which are aliens that live by and in the sea… the fire Na’vi (from what I’ve heard) live close to or in a volcano… they don’t control the elements they simply live in environments to which they have adapted to and hence the reason they are given different names.

From the sounds of things Pandora has reefs, forests, mountains, deserts, snow(?) and is again just like earths structure and environments. Which makes it so much better than all these other futuristic outer space movies where there are planets that seem to be only 1 biome and earth is the ONLY planet that has multiple.

On earth, people who live or come from Europe are called European. People who live or originate from Africa, are called African. People who originate from Asia, are called Asian. On Pandora, Na’vi who come from the forest are the Omatikaya people. Na’vi who come from the reefs or oceans are the Metkayina people.

So before you all start raising your pitchforks and torches claiming “cUltUraL apProPriation” about 10FT tall blue aliens from outer space, take a second to realise how dumb it sounds. If you didn’t like the movie, that’s okay, but don’t ruin it for the rest of us. It seems today that no one can enjoy something without someone criticising it and ruining it for the ones who just want to watch a cool movie with beautiful aesthetics and nice visuals…

To anyone who’s made it this far into the rant, I appreciate it. To those who don’t agree, I don’t care but feel free to disagree all you want, and to those who agree, again I don’t really care but cool.

[tumblunni]

Also yeah while im on the subject

I really hate fantasy settings where magic is limited by biological sex. Because usually its used to enforce some sort of stupid gender stereotype that the writer believes is "biologically innate" rather than predjudice, by making up a world where it actually is biologically innate. Or its like "oh but women cant do those jobs" but again, a made up excuse for it to be LITERALLY TRUE. And usually they either dont even touch on the subject of trans and gay people (since it often conflates heterosexuality with gender...) or else it actually does bring it up and just creates a cavalcade of even more everything-ism...

Like i mean i love the game Jade Coccoon and considering it came out in the early 2000s i can understand it being more sexist, and its supossed to be a dark game anyway and a lot of the societal structures in Syrus Village are meant to be wrong and evil even if the characters act like its the way the world should be. The villain of the game is basically the toxic atmosphere of your shitty town and their paranoia of things they don't understand. Tho that means the player kinda has no motivation to finish it cos the main conflict is also saving those same villagers from dying and theyre all fucks. Anyway i'm going offtopic! What i mena is that i dont think it was a particularly sexist example of the inexplicable gender segregated magic trope. But just cos its a fave game of mine im gonna pick it to talk about anyway. Hope i dont sound too negative on it, cos seriously i love it loads!

Ok so to use Jade Cocoon as an example, here its a thing that only men can be cocoon masters and only women can be nagi. Tho it also gets a bit complicated because nagi is also an ethnicity as well? Its kinda like being romani, they're a race of displaced people who travel the world giving their magical services to other countries while searching for their lost homeland, which you end up finding at the end of the game. So yeah its extra weird cos male children of the nagi race are born with no powers whatsoever and cant even become cocoon masters, yet they get the ruling position in this homeland place? Like thats a better metaphor for how christian societies work, honestly!

Anyway im going offtopic again!

Basically, cocoon master = adventurer dude who catches monsters, nagi = magician who purifies those monsters so you can use them in battle. So when you catch stuff it becomes an inventory item rather than being able to use it on your team right away. And also nagi women can fuse monsters together to make super badass new ones and basically the gameplay system works really well to make you believe your wife is absolutely necessary to your quest and you would die without her, even if she cant fight. And honestly its actually kinda romantic! I just wish it wasnt presented as this weird sacred heterosexuality arranged marriage nonsense where all women are physically unable to go to a dungeon and all men are physically unable to not fight every day. Or at least thats how the powers work and if you try and step out of that role you fuckin die. Like it would be romantic to have a couple of a battle partner and a supporter magician if they actually chose it, yknow?

And whats annoying is that they actually do bring up the subject of people defying gender roles and canonically state that you not omly die but bring a curse upon everyone and are hated forever. They dont mention trans or gay people, instead the excuse is that a man loved his wife so much that he tried to learn nagi magic to lift the burden from her. Cos oh yeaj women get 'punished' by god for doing this magic?? Cursed tattoos all over their body the more they use it, and everyone hates them and eventually they turn into a fairy and forget they were ever human. And in the japanese version you can actually fight other nagi women who met this fate, theyre just another monster that you can fight and capture. They were censored in english cos they looked like really racist stereotypes of black women! Ugh! So yeah anyway nice straight husband is punished by the magic straightness enforcing rules of the universe for loving his straight wife too much. So what is the even point? If a man tries to use nagi magic it creates the "black cocoon" of cursed doomness and blah. Literal punishment for not conforming to gender. Damned if you do, damned if you don't!

Anyway this setting always made me wonder about all the stuff it just glosses over with this implication that every one of these relationships worked out fine. Like even before we rub lgbtq topics all over a retro videogame, there's a lot of logical holes! Like seriously how many of these arranged marriages ended up loveless or abusive? How many women just didnt want to stay confined to one room forever and not even have anyone look at them because their magic markings are shameful yet its also shameful not to want to do it?? How many men were terrified of going out on this advebture fighting literal demigods sent by heaven to punish humans? How many of them just had no ability to fight and died immediately because of shitty traditions, while perfectly qualified women had to sit there and watch it happen? What if there werent enough straight men and women of the same age and people were forced into gross pedophilic shit or other horror scenarios just cos there has to be this one magical straight couple or the village dies? Whenever theres this stupid gender magic its ALWAYS portrayed as idyllic and never failing ever, unless *gasp* people dont follow the gendrules...

And then SERIOUSLY do no queer people exist in this universe?? Man i'd be so interested in their stories! I actually had an oc idea of a self insert version of me as a travelling merchant. Because maybe what if nonbinary people could do both sides of the magic at once and thus adventure alone without being tied to a village's straight marriage system? So i'd just go around purifying monsters and then be a place you could buy new and rare mons from other villages without having to catch them. Maybe an easier way to get the super rare drop fusion materials for tiger pattern and stuff? And like seriously itd be good to have a character to talk to who agrees that your village is made of assholes. I cant say its bad writing cos it was clearly intentional, but they shoulda at least put a bit more incentive to keep playing even if you didnt care about these people. Also it would help plug the plothole of how a village even survives if it doesnt have the required people to form this magical straight marriage. Have some mysterious enby avengers who travel all across the world and save everyone regardless of country! All we ask is you buy some of our lovely souveniers! Maybe a pet patalchu for your family? Seripusly why dont they ever show anyone using the purified monsters for anything other than fighting the unpurified ones? You'd think they'd be really useful in repairing the village and guarding the walls and like..regular industrial jobs. Help the place actually advance and not have to live day to day on scraps,bickering amoungst themselves as the monsters grow ever closer to breaking through. Hell, you could even have them help spin the cocoons for other monsters! If this magic only depends on having a dick or not, then cant we just dress up some animals in the magic straight marriage outfits? XD

And like aaaa man im getting so emotional just imagining a trans woman who's constabtly told she will literally bring about the apocolypse if she tries to fill the female role in this ritual. And then one day she tries to spin the magic silk and she thinks she's committing the ultimate sin and they were all right. But the magic responds to her touch, and she makes a spell more beautiful than any other woman in the village! It would probably be harder for a trans man cos the magic doesnt have so much of an immediate proof like that. Just going out and winning a fight with a monster can be called "dumb luck", and knowing these assholes they'd probably keep calling it dumb luck even after the thousandth time you save their life!

And man, i wonder how gay relationships would work in such an annoyingly strict system of enforced heterosexuality? Would it be like the magic isnt REALLY gender locked at all, and it can just be any couple with either partner taking either role? Or would it be that it is one magic per gender but the bigoted villagers were wrong about it being impossible to do things without both? Like maybe when you're going into battle alone as a single cocoon master you cant fight without catching other monsters. But when two cocoon masters love each other their magic is amplified and they become able to like.. I dunno.. Imbue each other with elemental strength so they can fight the monsters hand to hand? Cos really the elemental system is the only reason you cant do a no monsters run of the game as it is. Maybe since they cant purify monsters but they can still catch them, they equip the monsters as sort of a power rangers transformation? Or socket them like materia on their weapons? Or just if the world was less segregated into tiny sexist racist villages they could simply buy the purification coccoons from another local nagi, and villages without a coccoon master could buy the services of travelling ones. Oh, and maybe two nagi lesbians could be even more badass! Cos if they can only purify and not fight, maybe their double purification is so strong that they can just straight up walk into the forest and monsters don't attack them. They dont even need to do the full spell, they can calm a beastie's rage just by holding out their hand and patting it on the head. So they coukd be infinately more effective and not have to just tenporarily clear single travelling routes of a few monsters, but actually work towards slowly purifying the entire forest and creating a peaceful land again. Tho i mean the game did have a unique atmosphere with the whole 'no hope of ever beating them' aspect. It was unique to see a society formed around the idea of never going into forests or you Die. But magical lesbians and their family of a million pet dragons is honestly better!

And uhhhh ive gone all offtopic now and i camt stop thinking about how much i love magical lesbians with a million pet dragons

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