Tajaran Fluff Myth Debunking or something

[hivefleetchicken]

What really sucks is when I have to make a bait post in order to lure people into giving criticism when the other threads I've tried haven't worked.

The problem with lore work is that you really always want criticism for your work but a lot of the time it comes out weird or doesn't come out at all. The concerns of the player demographic never get voiced and instead get snarled around in circles in a Skype or discord group.

In order to hear about anything these days, like the group of players who thought they'd get their Whitelists removed for some reason, I need to goad poor guys into being honest and confronting me.

If I hadn't have made this obvious bait thread I wouldn't have been able to do my best to relieve Sierra of the worry that he'll lose his cat the second he arrives on station.

Now that mofo has actually derived meaning to this thread, check the OP and read it. Nothing really got said in there besides "this is weird but I am not going to punish it at all".

The original post was a whole bunch of nothing I typed at 4am so that people would finally get talking.

Don't worry. Qwagging is merely immature. It's not something you'll get in trouble for in a million years. Same with being as obnoxious as humanly possible. So sit back and don't worry.

Your cat is safe. Unless you make a really big scene consistently for some hugely illegal stuff or for ranting about eating pussy over comms over and over.

The Tajara are supposed to be an easily-offended, untrusting, selfish, but humble and pious race. All I did was make them commies who hate their own hedonism.

[NebulaFlare]

Something I would like to see amended:

Tajaran culture doesn't play off major gender-roles (men are bread winners and women stay at home) like Unathi and Humans. There is a stigma of man=manly and women=womanly. But among the Tajarans...there's little to no mention of this stereotype and separation of duty. The real separation stems from their caste system, of noble and serf. This is partly why I didn't understand the anti-homosexuality portrayed within their culture and people nowadays.

Before I go further, lemme just say I got nothing against people and their sexual orientation. I am looking at this purely at the light of our made-up galaxy.

Why would Tajarans care about masculinity and femininity, and thus, be sent to work camps? Unless this is considered a humanized masculinity and femininity, straying away from established Tajara masculinity and femininity? If so, where is the line drawn? Tajara ladies can be just as robust as their male counterparts, so I'm theorizing proper ladylike behavior is acting like a mature, professional and respectable individual. Would this mean that a Tajara gentleman can be acceptable as meek and docile, and to humanity this just appears feminine, when he's just being a gentleman? Should partnership should be strictly gender-based male to female, making it biologically unnatural to seek mates in the opposite gender in the Tajaran world?

I get the OOC reason - to stamp out people who play the Tajara in a way that deteriorates the lore. I haven't played my character Tavaku Mo'Taki in awhile (Karima's older brother). On the surface, he could be pegged as a likely candidate for labor camps. He's a 'stay at home' nerd, doing the cooking and cleaning since his little sibling is pulling all-night shifts to bring a big fat paycheck to send back home to their family. But he does all this as a protective big brother, looking out for his little sister. He drives a gravbike, and works as a chef cooking 'exotic' Tajaran dishes for human customers, and has an addictive smoking habit. He's not gay, but he's romancing Romeo and a guy who gets his heart broken...a lot. So he pulls out a cigarette to smoke his cares away and gets chased off to the roof of the apartment complex because Karima hates the smell of smoke in her lab.

Obviously, Tavaku would get picked on pretty badly by Unathi - what is a male like him doing the cooking and cleaning? But he's Tajara, not Unathi. And he's not being feminine - he's a rugged biker that smokes and likes to cook. He just does what's got to be done for his family. So, where would that fall on the Tajaran lore? Is Tavaku a wierdo, or a stellar model?

[hivefleetchicken]

I'm not going to quote your post because I don't want to make the page infinitely long, so I hope you just check this thread to see my response. If I don't make any sense because I'm typing on a phone (I have no computer anymore) feel free to tell me I'm a retard and that I need to retry.

Tajaran gender isn't really separated by social conformity or anything. Females can attain the same ranks and positions as men.

Like you said, everything on Adhomai is moreso determined by your genes. The story behind this is the reason for all the homophobia.

When the nobles were in control, everyone was bred to keep bloodlines pure and a lot of it was done against the will of the ones being bred. Two Tajara of different social castes could never breed. Many were traded and shipped away when their forbidden love for one another got discovered. It was complete natural law. When the peasants won at the end of the civil war interbreeding became legal (this kind of was to help explain the spike in halfbreeds because suddenly it was legal) and a whole lot of free-spirited lewd happened.

Or so we thought. Instead of making the leap from complete natural law to the deepest depths of depravity, the Hadii family, who are NOBLES, decided that it would be best to take this slow. If you had a wife who got shipped away because she wasn't an M'sai like you, you now have a right to find and marry her regardless if she's Zhan, or even Njarir (But who would want to fuck one of those scum)! But further than that was still prohibited; people were still really hesitant. It was not an easy leap and their dick scorpions were not comfy with such rapid change. Homosexuality was one of those things that was still way out of the spectrum of possibilities.

Then a bunch of female cats showed up on a human ship, took one look at lesbay, and said "hey, we should all make out! And leave Adhomai furever! And use birth control! And pounce on eachother!!!!" And the Hadii went "whAT NO" in full on tumblr caps from his throne.

And from there the merciful Al'Mari Hadii realized Adhomai had no culture. All of it was lost in the war, and what remained was traumatic. Hateful spite against the nobles, a bunch of sex against your will, a god that's nice and a god that literally embodies all evil and wants to eat your soul, and a fuckton of war. So, he made a culture for the Tajaran race. And he swore, (becoming the enemy he hated) to kill if it meant preserving his idea of the culture.

Then he died and his brother Malik declared war on the degenerates while taking these policies to 100 real quick.

As a final note, love on Adhomai is precious. But sex is a different picture for them. It carries a lot of weight emotionally because of all the trauma in regards to history of forced breeding, birth control is extremely difficult, and there are no ways of preventing STDs. Sex is 2spooky to the average Taj, and homosexuality is just kind of really weird to conservative Taj on Adhomai because if you aren't making a baby then wtf???

Hope you enjoyed reading a paragraph about gay furry sex as much as I fucking hated typing it.

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I love this. Hivefleetchicken is doing god's work, here.

[NebulaFlare]

That explained things a lot better. Thanks.

 

Hope you enjoyed reading a paragraph about gay furry sex as much as I fucking hated typing it.

 

Typing on a phone...painful. My heart bleeds for you.