#its creative inbreeding

[jules--pirsecon]

[fantasygerard2000]

One thing that bothers me with the Starboy fangirls, apart from their obsession with him, is that they accuse Disney for not sticking with the human star idea but they themselves ignore this in the art book.

The creators said in the book and in the Making Of documentary that in the early draft, Star was a shapeshifter, kind of like Genie and Maui.

And yes, i am aware that shapeshifters in fictional media can take on a human default form but, does he need to just be a human though?

Even after they scrapped the Starboy shapeshifter idea, they still work on a default design for Star before sticking with the flowing ball of hope and positive energy. They made several elaborate and bonkers designs for Star that I didn't hear any of y'all complaining about.

Like i wrote in a previous post, there's like a hundred concept art of Star having several non-human and abstract designs and y'all stick with the Jack Frost and Sandman fusion. You're accusing Disney of creative bankrupt yet you only stick with a plain human for Star?

It honestly just feels like the rewrite community is inbreeding with itself when all you write is the same story, just with minor variants. And yes, i am aware that there are works that have Asha and Star be platonic friends and just aren't the author projecting into Asha so they can ship themselves with Star because they're insecure about self shipping.

Star doesn't need to be a human or your work should be about romance. You can make a story about Star as a magic winged horned wolf that Asha must protect form Magnifico like Iron Giant and E.T. Or have Asha go on an adventure flying across different lands on Star.

You don't have to stick to a status quo you made up just because you think you should. Expressing creativity to break out of its limits, not be bound by it.

[wulfhalls]

yeah but fallout is meant to be the real world unlike asoiaf where planetos (george is so creative) has like basically zero consequences for generations of brother/sister incest because of "magical" blood

walton goggins plays a 200+ year old ghoul mutant? so like lets not act like we operating under gritty drama strictly adhering to reality rules lmao also the targaryen interbreeding was just manifest destiny obsession and their belief in their own exceptionalism drawn out to its most extreme conclusion and its not like george martini was like narrativly rewarding them for it all their own hubris and madness made exponentially worse by all the inbreeding is what ended their dynasty in the end....... im sorry I deeply lost track of what even ur point was and were I was even trying to go with this. I just woke up from a lil nap its just my brain hasn't yet. ANYWAYS I hope ella purnell fucks radiated to fuck noseless walton goggins soon <3

[theagentmoo]

Had a thought waking up this morning which might want to lend itself to a writing idea but I have too many wips already so I’m just gonna say it here:

AI doesn’t have Darwinism.

There is nothing about AI that is survival of the fittest. Really, any AI is probably at its best before it is fed anything from anywhere. Because the moment it gets wrong information, it becomes like a disease. But it cannot die. It cannot prove itself wrong. It’s not the fittest anymore, but it stays, dragging down others with it. Depending on what type of wrong information, lives are on the line. I saw something the other day where a family was hospitalized because they bought a nature book written by AI which told them poisonous mushrooms were safe to eat.

It’s worse if AI is being trained by AI. Imperfections and wrong information gets shared between them, and makes each other worse. It’s just like inbreeding, which remember who discovered that was a bad thing for the offspring? Darwin. And AI doesn’t have Darwinism.

Generative AI is a cesspool. A petri dish. It can only grow to be corrupted.

But if used in certain scenarios, AI can be used for good. AI can be used to spot cancer cells. It can save lives. It can make checkouts at stores easier. It can have a positive impact on anything that’s not for the use of taking over human creativity.

Basically, I guess what I’m saying is:

This can be used like a dystopian robot setting where robots inbreed into worse and worse iterations of themselves because they don’t have survival of the fittest. They all survive and drag each other down until they’re practically zombies.

Or

AI angels where some become generative AI demons that now try and corrupt the masses and each other to become even worse

[digitalnecromancy]

I truly think the only solution to generative "AI" is to collectively decide that its use is the worst creative sin.

The cat is somewhat out of the bag imo. Since people can find and run LLMs locally, taking them down or making them illegal simply would not stop their use (making them illegal is a whole other rant). Even if no more were ever made, people would still find ways to use the ones that already exist. It isn't like bitcoin or nfts where multiple users are required to make them usable, so public disinterest isn't going to stop them from being used. Eventually it's going to be too difficult to train new models (power consumption, inbreeding, etc.), but only by shifting the culture around creativity and deincentivising their use can we curtail their use and maybe save the internet.

[projectheadquarters]

|1| CLARK: "...BUT, the real question is: is it both dead and alive?" PHILIPS: "It always have been, all we need is to recreate it since we already have the cat-" (CLARK and PHILIPS began laughing)

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...The fur pattern on this animal was impossible: a perfect division of jet black and ghostly white fur on either side of its body—it looked artificial, yet completely natural at the same time, if that's even possible...

I asked Benjamin to see if the cat is part of whatever bizarre stuff he does in his vivarium from how he has always kept the place out of bounds from everyone unless supervised by him ever since the incident that almost got him suspended: one of the students who broke in out of mischief and came back out comatose on a stretcher, an abnormally nasty, swollen, veiny wound to their face and zoophobia which he said was supposedly from “one of the snakes” despite the wound being almost too severe to simply be from a snake alone. Ever since then it was lore within students that he contained aliens or other unthinkable creatures within the place. It was funny how far their stories would go, since I've known Ben since high school and have never had anything remotely related to any 'alien' or 'Lovecraftian monster', for all I know.

Nonetheless, I still queried and he denied having any association with it, thinking that I was playing a joke on him, but he still agreed to check up on it for a couple of days. Coming back, he declared that it isn't microchipped and to add to our surprise, its pattern is perfectly natural; free of dyes or any signs of inbreeding whatsoever.

"Natural"? It looks more lab-grown than 'natural', even if it looks way too advanced for it to be made with genetic modification. But, if the latter actually is the case somehow, then that would be a one in probably a billion chance to have specific gene sequences, combinations or mutations to produce healthy offspring with this specific coat pattern— We didn't really question further. It's already there, in front of us, existing, and I'm not much of an expert in Biology than Ben is to explain these things, and he already seem to be as perplexed as I am.

With the revelation that it was a stray, we decided to keep it around the school with enough votes from the other teachers and students, under the custody of Ben [and technically myself, since it found me first and followed me ever since for unknown reasons]. It instantly blended in, awed and respected by everyone with those curious pair of wide, yellow eyes, even getting its own ID and lanyard for the place as if it's employed. To its luck, those who were allergic either didn't mind or were more than glad for it to stay.

Well, seems like Schrödinger found its place.

Charles helped to take the picture for Kelly when she gifted it its necktie collar to blend in the school after realising she ran out of phone storage. And, of course, with her creative expertise, Kelly did the editing.

- Isaac

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[zigmenthotep]

The really interesting thing about the whole "Replace all artists and writers with AI so worthless people can feel important" mentality is that the more AI-generated content is put out, the more AIs are going to be trained on AI-generated content. Essentially we're building a system in which creativity in "creative work" now has an endpoint.

I think the best example of this is online clickbait articles. Those were never made with any intention beyond farming clicks, and I can pretty much guarantee than at least half of those websites have switched entirely to AI-generated content. Since they were already content poachers, that's not a problem, the AI can scrape and reword 1000 articles in the time it would take a human "writer" to do 1. But then what happens when all of those sites are exclusively AI-generated content? Even if you have an "Idea guy" coming up with the concepts, the AI still needs to steal the content from somewhere, it can not determine what are "10 Shocking Facts About Pokemon," or create "Fast Fun Recipies for Your Superbowl Party" on its own.

That's the big thing that the AI bros know, but refuse to admit. The algorithms depend on a fresh stream of human-generated content. And as we replace more and more human creators we're going to see the AI content getting more and more homogenized, and then just kinda freaking out as it begins magnifying errors. In the simplest terms, the AI will have to start inbreeding, and suffer all the effects of that.

[yoonyia]

this was the first thing I noticed when reading the children of the mind

IT FEELS LIKE 1950 NOT SOME 3000 YEARS LATER

there's no real reason for it either

I mean the language makes sense cause common needs to stay the same to be used for communication across all worlds

but everything else is absolute bull crap

orson scott card lacks the perspective thinking and creativity it takes to make a world like this believeable

I was making a scifi world using these constraints on same culture of the 21st/20th century when it was thousands of years later (a singular thousand because I genuinely couldent do 3000, it just dosent make sense) and even then I came up with vastly different social rules like the legal age being 25 and coming of age parties being more of an analysis of the wider community to analyze the kids and see their strengths rather then a social gathering

and little things like verbal shorthands that aren't just omg and lol but compounding and removing entire words from sentences when you're with someone that knows you well.

AND THIS IS STILL KEEPING THE GENERAL STRUCTURE AND IDEALS OF MODERN SOCIETY AND ITS STILL VASTLY DIFFERENT???

yes there are some ideas of racial prejudice and of homophobia but those beliefs has warped into an idea of genetic diversity and the role of a SPACE COLONY THAT NEEDS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PEOPLE TO EXIST AND NOT START INBREEDING, since its not a planet ITS A HUNK OF FLOATING METAL flawed as this idea is even in the context of the colony atleast it has a context that would have realistically have gotten attention in the setting

if you really want to tackle and show themes of the modern era in a place that is a millennium away you need to at the very least find a new context for it that would make sense in a society that's so far removed of the culture of now

there simply isn't a reason to orson scott cards world building being poor

there is no excuse

it's laziness and close minded limited thinking that is the biggest flaw in orson Scott's writing that I, someone who believes he is a genuine remarkable writer, must always insult

I MEAN THE CHAIR SITTING THING?????

also I will say the monoculture of the colonies are so weird

I mean it makes sense I guess, I do believe that if Korea got ahold of an entire country it would be mostly rice fields, and i assume it would be rather similar for china as well, which I think was one of the weirdest critiques I ever saw WHEN THEY LITTERALLY CARRY PEOPLE ON HUMAN HELD CHARRIOTS???? THOSE THINGS ARE FROM LIKE HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO FROM TODAY??????

let us use cars ok man

we like our air-conditioning

in conclusion orson scott card really can't write stories that require more then 20 minutes of critical thinking and the weird 21st century feeling in all these books aren't some clever writing trick its just the inability to be unique and make shit up that makes sense. thank you can we please be friends

Progressing through Orson Scott Card's Ender Saga. Currently up to "Children Of The Mind", and good fucking lord these chapters with Wang-mu and 'Peter' are such an utterly fucking atrocious trainwreck.

Can anyone in the Ender's Game fandom explain this to me please??

Why are these characters in the Sixth fucking Millennium A.D. talking about "Asians", "Europeans", and "Americans"; and their identities thereof, as if those are even REMOTELY meaningful categories of culture to the peoples of a humanity that have been spreading out into and colonising outer space for over three thousand years?????

Like, right now where I'm up to, Wang-mu and 'Peter' are having their first little conversation with Ainmaina Hikari, and Wang-mu is breezily bullshitting about Ancient Egypt/China/Mesopotamia or whatever

And, like, those ancient cultures are as far-removed from me, the reader, as China/Japan/America are from Wang-mu/Hikari/'Peter'!

If you were to squint hard enough, yeah, it could be said that my distant ancestors came from the Roman Empire, but, fuck no there is no way in heaven or hell that the culture of those 3500-years-ago ancestors and their neighbourly relations with other cultures and peoples has ANY kind of bearing on my life or cultural outlooks.

Like, I'm not gunna give the side-eye to some random stranger I meet whose culture mores seem different to mine and start waxing poetic about "oh he's just like that because he's a Carthaginian. 🙄😒 You all know what Carthaginians are like amirite?? "

(I guess 'Peter' is technically an American—or a 'cloned' caricature of one, at least—so he gets a pass on this)

The Doyleist explanation is that Orson Scott Card simply didn't have the sci-fi chops to imbue his creation with coherence; he's just trying to tell a story here and doesn't have the Tolkienian level of galaxy-brain required to convincingly pull off the 3000+ years of history and sociology experienced by his humanity across its umpteen number of colony worlds, so he's just sticking to what he knew and is hand-waving away the shockingly breathtaking levels of cultural stagnation his humanity has wallowed in.

But what's the Watsonian explanation for that cultural stagnation?? Is there a Watsonian explanation??

(also, what's with Miro's latent homophobia?? Is he Like That because of Card's own intense homophobia shining through, or is it simply because Miro grew up on The Catholic Planet?)

[qqueenofhades]

Can you say a little bit about congenital disorders in royal lines? I know some of the fun ones, like the tendency towards hemophilia in the Romanov line, but I’m curious how much we can blame on cousin marriages and the like

You may already know this, but the ultimate poster children for "Jesus Christ, Don't Marry Your Relatives" were the Spanish Habsburgs. Their systemic practice of inbreeding, usually by marrying uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews, culminated in Charles II of Spain (r. 1665-1701), who had one of the more horrifying family trees imaginable and a litany of severe physical and mental disabilities. The phenomenon of rulers marrying their close relatives was also more of an early modern practice, rather than medieval. Indeed, medieval people were subject to the laws of "consanguinity," which prohibited them from marrying relatives within a certain extent of kinship. Complicated rules of blood, marriage, and even godparent-hood dictated who was related to who and whether it was permissible to marry them. This was often politically manipulated, as kings often claimed a heretofore-undiscovered degree of relation when trying to get out of an inconvenient marriage (for example, this was the rationale used in Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine's divorce in the mid-twelfth century, even though they both quickly remarried to spouses to whom they were more closely related). If you were a king and wanted to marry someone within the prohibited degree, you had to apply for a dispensation from the papal court in Rome, and a lot of politics (i.e. whether the pope liked you or the potential implications of your marriage) went into deciding whether you got one.

In the Spanish context, this began to change in the late 15th century, as the so-called "reconquista," or "reclamation" of Spain by Catholic Christians, by expelling or outlawing the Muslims and Jews who had lived there for centuries, reached its culmination in 1492. This was supported by a set of restrictive new social, religious, and legal frameworks, such as (Nobody Expects The) Spanish Inquisition and the rule of limpieza de sangre, or literally "purity of blood." (Yikes.) Spanish Catholics were forbidden from marrying often-forcibly-converted Jews (conversos) or Muslims (Moriscos), in order to, you guessed it, preserve the "purity" of their superior Christian blood. The Hapsburgs were also influenced by this premodern eugenics principle, and began to marry their close relatives in order to maintain their "pure" royal blood and to make sure a direct descendant of the Hapsburg line was always on the throne. (After Charles II's death, there was the War of Spanish Succession, so... that did not entirely work out for them. As well as, y'know, the deformities.)

If you want to read more about this:

Burk, Rachel L. 'Salus erat in sanguine: Limpieza de sangre and Other Discourses of Blood in Early Modern Spain' (University of Pennsylvania, unpublished PhD thesis, 2010)

Dillion, Megan. 'Consanguinity on the Canvas: Studying Inbreeding

in the Habsburg Dynasty through Portraits', UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity (2018)

Kaplan, Gregory B. 'The Inception of Limpieza de Sangre (Purity of Blood) and its Impact in Medieval and Golden Age Spain', in Marginal Voices: Studies in Converso Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 19-41.

Nirenberg, David, María Elena Martínez, and Max-Sebastián Hering Torres, eds. Race and Blood in the Iberian World (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012)

[jack-starling]

Re8 (Village) Headcanons

I’m starting with Dimitrescu because I’m a dumb simp for this lesbian vampire. And because my friends are sick of my hyperfixation rants on discord, I’m gonna post most of my headcanons here from now on. Will give me an excuse to use this account I guess, lol. Some of these are based on either confirmed canon or what was implied in canon, others are just me getting creative or just wishful thinking.

Lady Alcina Dimitrescu Headcanons

She was already pretty tall before Miranda injected her with the cadou parasite and was originally insecure about it. Though over time she grew quite prideful of her ever-increasing height, especially since it’s proved to be a huge advantage over her enemies and prey.

She was so lovely that men from all over Europe fell for her and/or came to propose to her, she of course rejected them all, and not very nicely. Her hereditary blood disease, a result of her wealthy family's inbreeding, something many families in those ancient times did, has made it impossible for her to have kids naturally. The blood loss from birth would kill her. 

If she doesn't consume blood or human flesh in 5 or more hours, she'll go into a "bloodlust" feral state and act like a vicious starving beast (this was actually shown in the cute re8 puppet trailers advertised in Japan). If she gets hungry enough she'll straight up mutate into her vampiric dragon form. She actually hates the taste of blood, but since she has to drink it to live, she had no choice but to tolerate its bitterness. She started mixing it with her special wine to sweeten the blood's flavor and make it more tolerable to drink. That's how she created her signature wine "Maiden's Blood”. Years before she met Miranda, Alcina fell in love with one of her maids. The secret relationship went on for about a year before the woman suddenly cut it off to run away and marry a male Gardener of her castle. Alcina despised men ever since. She never forgot her though, the song on Alcina's piano is always played in the maiden's memory. The one who got away. When she turned 44, Alcina came to Miranda in desperation, as her blood disease was killing her. She heard of the miracle that her injections could cure even the worst of illnesses, so she willingly became her test subject. She doesn't remember much about the years leading up to her mutation by Miranda, just the things listed above and some blurry faces of relatives. The cadou parasite affected her memories greatly. When Karl Heisenberg was first indoctrinated as a lord at the age of 8, Alcina reluctantly took him under her wing, letting him stay at her castle and helping Miranda raise him as her little brother. Over the years she grew fond of Heisenberg, even joining him in some of his childhood mischief. The two grew close over their shared pain and complex relationship with Miranda, they were there for each other through it all. But as Karl reached adulthood, things started to change between them. He grew bitter, cold, and distant from Alcina and the other lords, despite her attempts to maintain her relationship with him. He hid himself away in his factory more often, rarely seeing Alcina or the others anymore. He refused to open up to her and eventually they devolved into full on rivals, seeming to forget their bond and focused entirely on becoming Miranda's favorite child. Though deep down, she knew his “pining” for Miranda's approval was a facade he put on, Heisenberg had different plans. Alcina never wanted to admit it to herself or to warn Miranda about his true agenda against her. Cause deep down she still loved him like a brother, she hopes some part of him still cares about her and the time they spent together too.

[mendelpalace]

"And," says Scholz, "They make us look sick. When I think of the best `speculative fiction' of the past few years, I sure don't think of any Hugo or Nebula winners. I think of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and of Don DeLillo's White Noise, and of Batchelor's The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica, and of Gaddis' JR and Carpenter's Gothic, and of Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K… I have no hope at all that genre science fiction can ever again have any literary significance. But that's okay, because now there are other people doing our job." .... Many of the best new SF writers seem openly ashamed of their backward Skiffy nationality. "Ask not what you can do for science fiction—ask how you can edge away from it and still get paid there." A blithely stateless cosmopolitanism is the order of the day, even for an accredited Clarion grad like Pat Murphy: "I'm not going to bother what camp things fall into," she declares in a recent Locus interview. "I'm going to write the book I want and see what happens… If the markets run together, I leave it to the critics." For Murphy, genre is a dead issue, and she serenely wills the trash-mountain to come to Mohammed. And one has to sympathize. At one time, in its clumsy way, Science Fiction offered some kind of coherent social vision. SF may have been gaudy and naive, and possessed by half-baked fantasies of power and wish-fulfillment, but at least SF spoke a contemporary language. Science Fiction did the job of describing, in some eldritch way, what was actually happening, at least in the popular imagination. Maybe it wasn't for everybody, but if you were a bright, unfastidious sort, you could read SF and feel, in some satisfying and deeply unconscious way, that you'd been given a real grip on the chrome-plated handles of the Atomic Age. But now look at it. Consider the repulsive ghastliness of the SF category's Lovecraftian inbreeding. People retched in the 60s when De Camp and Carter skinned the corpse of Robert E. Howard for its hide and tallow, but nowadays necrophilia is run on an industrial basis. Shared-world anthologies. Braided meganovels. Role-playing tie-ins. Sharecropping books written by pip-squeaks under the blazoned name of established authors. Sequels of sequels, trilogy sequels of yet-earlier trilogies, themselves cut-and-pasted from yet-earlier trilogies. What's the common thread here? The belittlement of individual creativity, and the triumph of anonymous product. It's like some Barthesian nightmare of the Death of the Author and his replacement by "text."

Bruce Sterling, "Slipstream," Catscan #5 Science Fiction Eye, #5 July 1989

[theangrypokemaniac]

its fine if you dont like alola but can you not make incest jokes?

I'm not joking. I'm serious.

Alola, or, as I prefer, La Boca del Infierno, ain't all sunshine and smiles as it pretends. Beneath that plastic exterior lies true darkness.

What am I meant to think when I see this?

There's swimming pools bigger than the gene pools down their way!

Although described as 'twins', it's really triplets, but Lana suffers a prematurely ageing growth abnormality.

Children I expect to bear a similarity to their parents, but the moms 'n' dads ain't meant to look like each other!

Everyone here has blue barnets and Inside-Out Eye, where the pupil's the white and the white's the pupil.

Sight defects are notorious in the 'close-knit' communities.

Each insists on hair decoration, but it's almost part of their heads, which you can call bad animation or deformity resulting from too much intermarriage.

Momma's 'thing' just resembles lumps.

It's them space ticks at it again.

Even the hedgehog is round in this house, which may imply he's an illegitimate offspring of one of 'em.

What about inbreeding suggests practitioners won't stoop to even greater infamy?

Stufful's dad never arrived did he?

Funny that, and a bachelor like Oakie-Dokie residing nearby knew nothing about it.

All that bathing in Cuprenol does terrible things to a man.

Ever wondered what'd go down in the marriage of Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Well here you are, yer deviant.

A pair of pudding-faced, gormless Cabbage Patch Dolls, each with snouts, black button eyes and glandular issues, and they don't share DNA even when they do?

Oh yes, Lusamine met a total stranger also possessing her lime pies and effusive mane of unruly, ice-blonde slats.

Total coincidence there.

He came to Alola, he says. On a prison ship.

It's just one head in triplicate!

Oversized an' all: sure sign of genetic tomfoolery.

Dot Nose, Bridge Nose, Fish Eye: bloody serious case we have on our hands.

Now you understand why she failed to remarry: no other brothers cuts yer options ter nil.

Incest is of course, relative.

Whatever dæmon they worship, some are more pious about it than their fellow perverts.

The more dedicated the believer, the greater insistence on keeping things running in the family.

They'll show off their interwoven connections to the neighbours in a smug game of one-upmanship.

The more lapsed follower will tolerate copulation with distant kin.

These sinners are naturally despised and forced into menial labour, whereas the fanatics just so happen to be rolling in wealth.

Consider:

• Lana's family get by on a fisherman's salary, apparently.

Yeah, yeah, as if the state doesn't have to subsidise their medical bills.

• Sophocles don't go hungry, he has a lab, a giant hamster wheel, a portable hologram in a Pikachu, and he's so rich he not only had the roof fixed, but can move down the road in the meantime.

Oi! The rest of us get by putting a bucket under the leak!

• Lillie has every material possession possible, but no spine or company.

Oh the irony that top sickos should be so resistant to the lure of family obligation.

Hey, yer didn't say that earlier!

• Lusamine is fawned upon for her pwehshush research to the extent she can abandon her children, turning her daughter into a nervous wreck and her son a moody, absent drifter, and it's up to them to understand her work comes first.

• Mohn (by name and nature) fannied about with worm holes until he got sucked off by another dimension.

What did yer think would happen?

Yet on his return, is he knocked on his arse as he deserves?

No, because of incest privileges. The in-group take care of their own, and worse.

Mallow's mater and pater both share hair, thick brows and close-together peepers of murky green.

The contrast in noses suggests something lesser than siblings, but then again other differing aspects are forgivable.

She is of a lighter pallor, being dead, and wanting an open coffin, had a shave beforehand, which is a frightening nod to morality.

Woman, are you ashamed of our love?

Well Abe went along with it, thus is also culpable of this grotesque bristle denial.

Being unclean, he's gotta cook the dinner.

And this lot milk the cows.

On the surface, Kiawe's old 'uns aren't identical. You might think some heretical decency has finally sneaked in under the oppressive Alola regime, but it ain't that simple.

These people pray to a volcano as if an earthbound deity, so are nutters.

One aspect you must remember:

Ol' Granpappy the Island Kakuna, i.e. a dried-up chrysalis.

'Cause Pappy got Momma's tufts...

And Dadda's humourless mouth, oblong head, straight-line nose, rectangular eyes and pin pupils.

Well that's not how it's s'posed to go!

I'm thinking Granpappy, as one of them there Kakunas, is in a position of power high enough that he's able to wilfully flaut the laws he imposes on others, like how popes had kids in the Good Old Days and no one took a blind bit o' notice.

He's a rebel I tells yer.

He don't play by the rules.

No sister-wife for him.

Not when he's got a sexy cousin a-waitin'.

A little bit of new blood's crept in, disgracefully so, that's why the whole lot's punished by living near an active volcano.

Surrender 'em to the flames!

Kiawe makes such a big deal about Pappy, and sod the other three grandparents.

Except he only had two!

What is the explanation?

1. Bone-idle writing team.

Character design is foundational stuff. If yer can't even be arsed to do that properly, nothing you do is worthwhile.

I mean, come on, repeating the same model that blatantly?

Halfwits so limited in imagination shouldn't be working in any creative industries.

I blame modern diets.

A whole generation's grown up timid and risk averse because they were taught to fear E. numbers as kids.

I make it a rule to suspect any sod unaware of the joy of a blue tongue.

They've never lived, man!

Where did you think it'll end when dangerous, pretend edibles like houmous, avocados and quinoa replace the wholesome, nourishing fare of biscuits, cake and crisps?

Stop toying with the fundamental principles of the universe!

The mess of the modern era screams systematic abuse of too much kale and not enough sugar.

2. Incest

Alola is extremely insular.

It's implied to be a tourist destination, but no amount of degenerate outside influence appears to have diluted the weird customs it still upholds.

They didn't even think of starting a League until Ash turned up with all his wild exoticism, and why's that?

A. Inbreeding has destroyed their capability for innovation.

B. Many thousands of years ago, Alola got well annoyed its dirty habits weren't exactly catching on as it strove to spread the Satanic message.

Thoroughly confounded in its plans for world conquest, Alola shut itself off in a purification ritual, which is why later developments popular  elsewhere, such as replacing beasts of burden with machines, never caught on.

3. Alola isn't Hawaii, it's a combination of Australia, a penal colony, and Crete, where lived the lepers.

Specifically it's a dumping ground for all the regions' sex offenders to keep their own societies clean.

Of course, the guilty took their nearest and dearest along too, since they were on the receiving end, and loved it.

This explains the large amount of foreign Pokémon, since the owners are also from abroad.

Now I think 'anging's too good for 'em, but these wet-willy countries insist on storing up trouble for themselves, for if cinema has taught us anything, it is that mutants will always escape.

Nature finds a way, however abominable.

Since so many on Tumblr simply love Alola, they aren't about to admit the slightest weakness in the creators' abilities.

Therefore, incest is the acceptable answer to all and sundry.

[anaxis-infermaul]

To start with, I have nothing against any style of breeding. Everyone gets to make the game fun for themselves and honestly the creativity of ppl using different play styles is really cool to see in action

That being said, shorthanding the styles into "clean" and "dirty" was probably a bad move in the long run. There's all sorts of implications caught up in using those terms and yeah, that matters. I know some people use linebreeding but thats not entirely interchangeable with all aspects of whats considered "dirty" aka "not one of the clean styles" breeding.

Some ppl just breed...whatever. Whatever breeding. Just For Fun breeding. I Like These Lions Too Much To Care About Inbreeding Or Heritage I Just Want To See Their Babies breeding.

And also, its difficult to get what everyone means when they say Clean Breeding? Do they mean No Big Four? No Inbreeding? Both?

[followthebluebell]

Hey there. I came across your blog from that super lemon frost leopard gecko post. I'd like to get into leopard gecko keeping - while that morph is obviously very unhealthy, are there any other morphs to be avoided, that art linked to any health conditions?

The one you’re most likely to see is the enigma morph.  It’s a beautiful morph--- really, it’s more like an enhancer than a trait on its own. 

Unfortunately, it’s connected to a degenerative neurological syndrome called Enigma Syndrome (leopard gecko breeders are very creative).  It causes circling, stargazing (staring directly upwards), head tilting, seizures, and uncontrollable rolling.  It generally affects geckos more strongly when they’re stressed (just moved to a new enclosure, for example) or excited (when they’re being fed).

It affects every enigma gecko, although some are much more heavily affected than others.  We don’t know exactly what causes it or why some geckos are more affected than others.  It’s currently believed that the pigment distribution affects the development of the neural crest.

White and Yellow geckos can have a similar neurological syndrome called White and Yellow Syndrome (see what I mean about that creativity?).  But the good news is that it’s not connected strictly to the morph, and can be bred out.  A good breeder will avoid crossing a White and Yellow gecko to another White and Yellow.  It’s thought that the largest factor is inbreeding. Both of my white and yellow leopard geckos show no signs of WYS.

Super snows are another iffy morph.  They tend to have weird neurological issues, like being very picky eaters and being slow to gain weight (which, in turn, puts some extra stresses on the liver).  They’re beautiful, but please try and get an adult if you have your heart set on this morph.  Getting an adult gives you more history on the animal (including whether or not it has the typical eating problems of the morph).  Inbreeding seems to be the biggest factor here, since there are super snows who are healthy.

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Harry Potter Asks: 5, 6, 16, 17, & 19 😊

Hey Batgirl, thanks for the ask! Took a bit to write out. I tend to ramble out my thoughts.

Anyway, to the questions/answers!5. Pro or anti Marauders?

Not entirely sure what that means? Like do I like or dislike the characters? Or disapprove of their actions? I don’t really feel strongly one way or another about them as a whole. Individually, I feel stronger about the three we actually meet.

James, we really only have his friends’ word, his school-time rival’s memory viewpoint, descriptions by those who saw him as a hero-type, and how Harry pictured him. All were honestly kind of biased, so its hard to judge.

Sirius I’m sure had to be fun, if over the top at times. I think if I’d attended Hogwarts then, I’d have disapproved of some of his actions, but the rest of the time been amused by him. His time in the books, he was a pretty cool guy. He wasn’t a top favorite, but the fifth book still hurt.

Remus I would undoubtedly have liked if I’d gone to school with him. And quite possibly would have crushed on him at least a little. Had I gone to school with Harry, Remus would probably have been that one teacher I had a crush on. I like how he’s got that quiet sensible air about him, but also a quiet sense of fun and humor too.

Then there’s Peter. Had I gone to school with him, I probably would have tried to befriend him. I had a tendency to collect friends who didn’t quite fit in or had low self esteem. We were usually able to bounce our anxieties off each other, and work out that we’d be ok. I don’t know how he would have responded or behaved though. It is sad that he chose to betray his friends to save his own hide. He obviously had the potential to be stronger than that being put in Gryffindor, but he chose to be a coward instead.

They made a wicked cool map, at any rate.

6. Avada Kedavra, Crucio, or Imperio?

Blegh. Imperio disgusts me on principle alone. (The same category as love potions or mind reading. Its a violation that removes consent.) Crucio causes unbelievable pain, which just makes me cringe to think of. I’m not very sadistic.And something created specifically to kill is sort of uncomfortable. Even most bladed weapons started as non-combat tools. But something invented strictly to cause death, with no other possible application? Ew. Humans can be so messed up.

16. Who would be your enemy or enemies at Hogwarts?

This could cover a few generations, so I’m just gonna be a little more general.

Muggle-haters obviously. For one, the Wizarding World needs more bloodlines or we’ll end up stagnating and inbreeding and that’s just not an option for me, thanks. Secondly, Muggles are innovative as shit. Muggle haters are so damn stupid.

Mean Girls. (Like Emily in HPHM) I had a tendency to punch my bullies in grade school. It was taught out of me in middle school. I really regretted that fact all of high school. Man did I want to punch some faces. Hard. In Hogwarts, I likely would have lost so many House Points till I learned how to cause my tormentors woe without anyone being able to prove it was me. (magic is great)

I wouldn’t judge based off House though. It takes all kinds to make a world. Or a team.

17. Who would be your best friend at Hogwarts?

Like I said before, the weird kids. The non conventionally attractive ones, the depressed ones, the autistic ones, the queer ones. Often artistically creative in one way shape or form. 

Undoubtedly I’d be friends with at least one Weasley of whatever generation I was in. And probably have a crush on them. Because I’m predictable like that.

And probably muggle-borns. Because if I was pureblood, I’d be curious how the hell they manage to get by without magic. It would sound awful!If muggleborn or half and half, I’d want someone else to share muggle jokes with. Who else will get my movie references?!

Probably some folks in Frog Choir, cause I would have auditioned for that in a second.

19. Favourite Weasley?

Answered!