Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
just remembered wakfu exists and that i still know much of its extensive lore and how fucking funny that lore is sometimes
see this old guy and this tiny baby guy?
they're LONG LOST TWINS
what's the old guy's name??? fuckin
GROUGALORAGRAN
and what's little guy's name???????
~ Chibi ~
btw old guy is a dragon. his baby twin brother is Not a dragon tho.
also there's like an entire religion/ethnic group just based around funny crime and tomfoolery? and they share a god with a different group of people but they actually don't know that since he's a trickster god and is pulling a prank on them? and then there's this OTHER group of people who i think are the only ones confirmed to reproduce asexually, LITERALLY FROM A CABBAGE PATCH? and human society has gone through pretty much a complete do-over TWICE (the second time was an apocalypse caused by a guy crying really hard after his girlfriend died) and this is just something everyone knows?????
new kinds of homophobia/transphobia to add to your worldbuilding:
if you want your fictional society is to be less just world, but in new ways.
Sexist society that believes men are better; thus, views transmen as extremely valid, as unlike women, they have seen the light.
Gay men are honored, as with polygamy there is a continual shortage of women, and gay men means more women to go around. Lesbianism is seen as just something wives do sometimes. Transwomen are controversial because, on one hand, more women, but, on the other, some people suspect it is a scheme by fathers to have more daughters to get a bride price for.
Lesbians are controversial but only because they are seen as appropriating Amazonian culture. If you are over 6ft tall and strong, then it is okay.
Gay men are seen as too manly. That they are somehow stealing the manliness from the straight men. If woman are around them, they will somehow turn into men.
Society that "solved sexism" by dividing the world into short people and tall people and then assigning the short people to the former women's roles, and the tall people, to the men's. Now people are homophobic about two short people getting married.
people are afraid of people born in the same country as them. i.e. the opposite of xenophobia. This is homophobia. (this is what I thought homophobia was when I first saw the word)
people assume that men are gay because they have never seen a women before. People react very sympathetically to a gay man coming out because they assume it means they were locked away from society as a child.
sexist society loves trans-women because it means one less man vying political power.