let's all fujoshit out together

the gender ratio for azurill is 75% female whilst for marill it’s only 50%.

All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because *they are mine!* *I have a duty!*

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The “treating people like things” is how you treat people when you are interacting with them, or having an impact on their lives.

The Tiffany quote is about motivation, not interaction.

So Tiffany’s motivation isn’t treating people as things, (no witch who wasn’t already predisposed to cackling could do that) it’s about treating everything as your responsibility, as being under your protection as their witch, and so being motivated to action by that responsibility.

You don’t even have to like them, or think them good people, but if they are your repsonsibility, you help them.

“Oh, no,” said Miss Level, genuinely shocked. “You can’t not help people just because they’re stupid or forgetful or unpleasant. Everyone’s poor around here. If I don’t help them, who will?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.