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rietstengel t1_ja7zxnn wrote

Reply to comment by Spozieracz in [WP] Tradition dictates that each sentient species is given one seat in the Galactic Parliament. When humanity made contact with the galactic community, it was decided that planet earth deserves to have four senators. by Spozieracz

You mean Sapient species. All animals are sentient. Its humans that are Sapient. People confuse the 2 all the time, but the easy way to remember is that Humans are Homo sapiens and not Homo sentient

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Martinus_XIV OP t1_ja7ydva wrote

Reply to comment by Mera_Green in [WP] When a god summoned your group of friends to save his magical realm, he allowed all five of you to choose your appearance in this world. The first two of your friends chose to be idealized adult versions of themselves. The next two chose fantasy races. Everyone was suprised by your choice... by Martinus_XIV

At the risk of putting words into the author's mouth, I think this story is less about being OK with being overweight or about it being bad to want to change yourself, and more about not giving in to societal beauty standards. All of the characters kept the changes to themselves that they liked. The point is that they re-examined which changes they made to themselves because they wanted to, and what they did because of societal pressures.

Kenzie did away with what society told her was sexy and kept only what she herself needed to feel sexy.

Rod stopped caring about having to appear masculine and instead found a way to live out his power fantasy as a more authentic version of himself and have the long hair he always wanted.

It's implied that Zedd only gave his monstrous form a washboard because he felt he was supposed to. Perhaps he is an artist who learned to draw by imitating DBZ or something in a similar style.

Finally, Melissa is written as though she only feels that her freckles, her glasses and her figure are ugly because she has been told so by others - bullies, influencers, society in general. When she takes a step back to consider how she herself feels, she realizes that she likes these parts of herself.

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Artanthos t1_ja7xqyi wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] When a god summoned your group of friends to save his magical realm, he allowed all five of you to choose your appearance in this world. The first two of your friends chose to be idealized adult versions of themselves. The next two chose fantasy races. Everyone was suprised by your choice... by Martinus_XIV

The third one either chose Sailor Moon or Smaug.

For very different reasons.

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LonoRising t1_ja7xlq8 wrote

Reply to comment by Spozieracz in [WP] Tradition dictates that each sentient species is given one seat in the Galactic Parliament. When humanity made contact with the galactic community, it was decided that planet earth deserves to have four senators. by Spozieracz

Maybe, unbeknownst to us, the galactic federation correctly identified that there are four distinct highly intelligent species on earth:

Octipodes, Jumping spiders, Brazil nuts, and Jeff (Jeff being unique in that he is the only one of his species, he’s not going extinct, there just always been one of him)

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SeaboarderCoast t1_ja7xkkl wrote

Reply to comment by Spozieracz in [WP] Tradition dictates that each sentient species is given one seat in the Galactic Parliament. When humanity made contact with the galactic community, it was decided that planet earth deserves to have four senators. by Spozieracz

And Russia still hasn’t made a good enough case for ‘Russian’ being a different enough species from humans to get a separate congressional vote. It might just have to wait a little bit.

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SeaboarderCoast t1_ja7vr32 wrote

Reply to comment by Spozieracz in [WP] Tradition dictates that each sentient species is given one seat in the Galactic Parliament. When humanity made contact with the galactic community, it was decided that planet earth deserves to have four senators. by Spozieracz

Maybe Humanity has created new sentient creatures / robots / whatever.

1 seat for Humanity

1 seat for Sentient Robots

1 seat for, idk, cat people or something

1 seat for the State of Florida

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GnomeAwayFromGnome t1_ja7vd05 wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] "The star fated" some people are born with a star symbol on their body marking them to be chosen by a star in the night sky allowing them to use magic at night but the star that chose you is the sun in our solar system allowing you to bypass the limit of night by VendeloX

You seem to be low on punctuation; have some of mine.

.....,,,,,,,:::::;;;;;-'"""[][]()()___/////??????!!!!!`````~~~~~

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raqshrag t1_ja7uiro wrote

Reply to comment by Mera_Green in [WP] When a god summoned your group of friends to save his magical realm, he allowed all five of you to choose your appearance in this world. The first two of your friends chose to be idealized adult versions of themselves. The next two chose fantasy races. Everyone was suprised by your choice... by Martinus_XIV

I believe you when you say you're disgusted. But don't pretend it's just in the context of realistic conformity to the practical needs of the plot. After all, it's just a short make-believe story that isn't even about the quest you put so much focus on. You make it quite clear that what you find disgusting is the idea of people who are overweight according to modern standards. You're lying about your perspective at the beginning of your second paragraph. I don't know if you care whether people notice, but I thought maybe you would be interested in knowing how obvious you're making it. If you really want to hide your true opinion, you should be more subtle.

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GoogleIsYourFrenemy t1_ja7u5mh wrote

Reply to [WP] Humanity, the parasites of the universe were banished to a remote galaxy, and had all knowledge of the intergalactic Federation removed. Against all odds they returned. by SexySocks7

It was bad. Real bad. A pack of humans? A group of humans? A Rave of humans. Yes that's the word. A rave of humans kicked open the doors to the Intergalactic Federation senate. The entire senate turned to see what the commotion was. They had a dude carrying a boombox on his shoulder and it was playing Rick Astley. Loud.

"Order! Order in the Senate!" The speaker tried to shout over the horrific racket. The humans ignored the command and approached the podium. Only upon reaching it did they turn down the volume and switch to a kareoke machine. They started with What's Up by 4 Non Blondes. He-man dance remix.

Yeah. Once the guards threw them out again, this time they were banished to their own alternate reality universe where life could never evolve. They were DONE with humanity. Transported the entire planet, just pushed it through the Tannhäuser Gate. Nobody deserved neighbors like them. Memory wiped them AGAIN for good measure.

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AutoModerator t1_ja7sb7f wrote

Reply to [WP] Soulmates are real! Unfortunately, you don't find out who they are until after you die and it's almost never someone you knew in life. by hisnameisbruno

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