#godheadcanons

[gynandromorph]

sorry if this is too vague/general of a question, but how does jessie's world work in terms of what species are present? i saw that some extinct species, like the passenger pigeon and europasaurus, are going to be characters. sry if the question is worded weirdly i have No idea how 2 phrase it lol. thx 4 the response in advance :]

so basically evolution did not happen for these guys. intelligent design, per se, is a proven fact in their universe. they just spontaneously popped into existence one day. consequently, extinctions due to various extinction events or evolutionary pressure also never happened. the criteria are like this:

extinction isn't really a thing, so extinct species are valid candidates

the species at large needs to be able to stand on two legs, even if only for a moment, in order to be a valid candidate

domesticated animals like dogs and livestock have a different "covenant" from the animals that stood up and are not valid candidates. they exist but they are not anthropomorphic

primates don't exist at all, and are not valid candidates

modern bird species exist, but they are built like coelurosaurs. i believe i mentioned that swifts cannot be anthropomorphic because they cannot stand up, so they are exempt from this, and they are not valid candidates. i consider the change in appearance a byproduct of Standing Up like the other physical changes brought on (ex: hands).

as a weird tangent: because bugs have almost unanimously stood up in this world, but there are still actual bugs, i'm cooking up ideas on how to explain it, but what's currently in the lead is that the non-anthro bugs are in fact very very small like... horses or dogs with 6 legs and wings. it adds a level of absurdity and horror to any instance of killing a bug in the comic.

[gynandromorph]

You could call Jessie transphobic if she kills you and it would probably work like she'd be too scared to do it then

[gynandromorph]

jessie's dissatisfaction throughout the story is definitely related to the theme of fantasy -- i can fantasize about anything i could possibly dream up, so much more than reality could ever offer, so why can't it live up to something real? why do i still feel the void when i write my dead dog to be alive again? why do i still feel lonely when i write myself a girlfriend? shouldn't someone i can craft to synchronize with every whim and curiosity i could have be MORE fulfilling than someone i have to fight and compromise with? why does fantasizing about sex make me want it more when the orgasm i imagined felt so much better? why does imagining eating food make me hungrier for real food instead of satiating the hunger? why is something that's supposed to have unlimited creative potential unable to CREATE anything? what is the point? what is the point of fantasies when they only make you wish they weren't FANTASIES even more? those types of questions surround jessie's character arc arguably much more deeply than the theological themes. even the first shot of the comic focuses on fantasy and what it is rather than jessie herself

[gynandromorph]

I've been drawing a scene with Evelyn in it, so I've been thinking a lot about Evelyn, right? How many friends do you think she has lost because Jessie killed the friend's kid or maimed grandma or even just directly murked the friend or something? After a while? Probably a lot!

[gynandromorph]

jessie chewing things up as retaliation when she's angry at her parents as a kid. jessie destroying a $2,000 couch with her mouth in a matter of 30 minutes. evelyn walks in and the front door looks like this

[gynandromorph]

you just know she changed her name to this, legally--

[gynandromorph]

insurance policies exclude coverage of damages done by jessie

[gynandromorph]

if sound and speech are just specific visual cues in the idletry universe and not actual sound as we know it, that must mean books "make noise" in their universe. at the very least, circular books are identical to someone talking out loud. but even sound effects are audible, which aren't always in bubbles, so the bubble itself isn't the "sound"-inducing stimulus. it's the words.

[gynandromorph]

Cult members trying to "speedrun Jessie" by getting her to kill them faster than anyone else by any means necessary

[gynandromorph]

Tasmania doesn't exist in the Idletry universe, so tasmanian devils are just called devils

[gynandromorph]

one of my favorite things about jessie on concept is that she is omnipotent and the omnipotence is resolved by allowing her to contradict herself and to be untruthful. in apologetics, the biblical god's omnipotence, which unfortunately must also be rationalized within a triomni framework, is often handwaved by saying that god is RELATIVELY omnipotent, god is limited by nothing EXTERNAL to itself, god is omnipotent but would never be motivated to contradict itself -- and so on. they are all... adequate, if you're looking for enough doubt to disregard the criticism. it is a little boring, though. i had to think about if jessie would be limited by her own canon -- the story would have gone a different, possibly more obvious way. either jessie was going to become smaller and smaller as the universe she built up became bigger and bigger, or the universe was going to become smaller and smaller as jessie forces it to become as small as her mind. i found the latter more interesting, more thematically appropriate. we see those in positions of power freely contradict themselves all the time; POWER excludes ITSELF from its own control. power protects power.

[gynandromorph]

doctors inventing super chemo to treat super cancer and jessie needing to create super ultra cancer or some shit

[gynandromorph]

jessie didn't give herself shapeshifting powers in front of her family, she simply had a third arm and then sucked it back into her body one day during breakfast and they had to accept that. actually it would be funnier if it jumpscared each family member separately. adam sees the third arm at breakfast. the next day evelyn says something behind jessie and sees her rotate her head and neck like a corkscrew to look. a week later emily approaches the stairs only to find jessie's hind legs at the bottom and the rest of her body stretched up the stairs, across the hallway, and into her bedroom while she roots around for something

[gynandromorph]

Jessie having like a large chew toy or a travel pillow her parents give her as a kid to just bite as hard as she wants and scream into when she's upset

[gynandromorph]

even when emily grew taller than jessie, jessie still outweighed her and always has imo. but i can still easily see jessie having some kind of runt-of-the-litter persecution complex, despite never being runty

[gynandromorph]

their emergency alert system has an impending jessie disaster warning. you can receive a jessie watch (jessie has been spotted nearby and may enter the area), a jessie warning (jessie has been observed in the area by a spotter or on radar), or in extreme cases, a jessie emergency alert (jessie is in the area and actively destroying property and people). people make a killing selling shelters that are allegedly jessie-proof (with the two primary categories being either durability shelters, or indirect jessie protection, and visibility shelters, or direct jessie protection). i'm on a roll here--