I’m just gonna say it: the primary factor in deciding whether a piece of media is good representation should be how it made the oppressed group feel, not how the oppressive group reacts to it.
The term “Time Tot” was introduced to Doctor Who in Douglas Adams’ Shada (therefore existing in every version of that story), where Romana discussing owning a nursery book called Our Planet Story. Just sort of a cute, silly term, typical of Adams’ signature style of making the mythos tease itself.
We’ve since seen that “Time Tots” most definitely recieve nursery rhymes and such at young ages, and the Tenth Doctor has even mentioned things about “playing in a nursery.”
Paul Cornell’s Goth Opera takes this further, showing that Time Tots really are treated as humans would treat toddlers…
“And that is the story of how Rassilon slayed the Great Vampire, and let us
all sleep safely in our beds at night.“ Romana closed the book with the
Great Seal of Rassilon on the cover and smiled at the children that were
sitting around her chair in a rapt circle. “Which is what all of you Time
Toddlers should be doing now.“
Nurses led the little Gallifreyans away, oblivious to their protests. Some of
them stopped to thank Romana or ask questions about Rassilon, and she
replied to them all.
…. as does Ian Potter’s (excellent) “Apocrypha Bidpedium, with several excerpts coming from a children’s book titled Tales of the Matrix– True Stories from TARDIS Logs, Retold for Time Tots by Loom Auntie Flavia.
And y’know, yeah, all cute and sweet and silly, “Time Tots! Time Toddlers!” It’s cute!
Until you remember Lungbarrow…
“They are all born from the Family Loom as full-grown adults. They are like children at first and have to learn like children. Andred calls that time brain-buffing. He says the things they live with in the House are deliberately big, so that they feel as if they have been small.”
…. and Faction Paradox’s Of the City of the Saved…
“A childe is not a child. Youth is relative, as is biology. It’s doubtful any true childe of the
Houses has been a child, except in appearance.”
… meaning that whenever you read/hear a sweet little Time Tot nursery rhyme, it’s either being read to a) afull grown adult with a baby brain, or b) some sort of Damian-from-The-Omen-esque nightmare genius child.
for the next pokemon game nicknaming should work on a professional horse racing level, ie literally no pokemon in all of history can have the same nickname, also you get unlimited space to name your pokemon, also you literally must nickname your pokemon, also and this is the most important bit everything is online so there is a constantly updated database of names that you are no longer allowed to use, this is the gameplay innovation this series has been waiting for
those “monkey brain/human brain” posts except the monkey brain is presented as the rational one
monkey brain: extra body hair provides warmth and producing it but then cutting it off wastes valuable nutrients
human brain: hehe leg smooth
*looking at a tiger*
monkey brain: that animal right there is a dangerous predator adapted for stalking, chasing, and quickly dispatching of creatures like us. we should find high ground to get away from it before it sees us
human brain: hehe kitty wana pet
monkey brain: the ocean is the last place we want to be right now. we’re not built to swim and we’ll likely drown within five minutes. and let’s not even get into what might want to kill us once we get into open water
human brain: wheee swimmy
Monkey Brain: go to sleep already, we only have so much energy stored over.
Superheroes that are like “if we kill them we’re just as bad as they are uwu” ? Micro dick energy
The only exception is Aang, whose whole “I’m not gonna kill him if i can find another way” thing is less false moral equivalency and more “I’m twelve and I have been through way too much bullshit this year to add ‘commit my first murder’ to the list.”
To be fair only few cats deal with capitalism. The vast majority already live in a welfare system. They lay around all day and get free shit paid for by someone else.
Ther are great programs out there that places non domesticated feral cats with businesses to help with their rodent problems. The cat gets to do a job and in return gets food, water, shelter.
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