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andhishorse:

itsbenedict:

yieldsfalsehoodwhenquined:

prudencepaccard:

prudencepaccard:

prudencepaccard:

an insight from one of my friends:

“Thinking about how wild plants do complex optimisation and communication and all that cognition happens in the roots, and grains have tiny shallow roots because we’re breeding them for the edible parts

Wheat is bimbofied grass”

possibly even more true of plants where the edible part is the root, like carrots, since\u2013\u2013as he points out\u2013\u2013they’re bred to have thicc juicy sugary roots that grow in straight simple shapes

technically I suppose all domestication exists at a strange nexus of neotenization and bimbofication

:/

are you saying that domestication is the same phenomenon that makes the Fate series turn historical figures into big tiddy anime girls? is that the implication here?

What is a bimbo, if not the end result of the process of turning a natural form, with a set of features and magnitudes which were to its benefit, into a domesticated form, with a set of features and magnitudes of those features which may not be to its benefit or even remotely practical but for the fact that they are preferred by its cultivators?

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