text | un: undyingsoul

[necroyalty]

So, purely out of curiosity, I'd like to conduct a poll -

How far removed does something have to be from your own species for you to consider it

well

unorthodox

to have any sort of romantic aspirations with them?

I ask this mostly because I'm betrothed to a damned dragon in my own world (no, not a humanoid with draconic qualities, an actual, literal dragon) and apparently both of those are considered just a tad too extreme by most people's standards?

But then no reasonable human on my world would really consider another human at all strange for wanting to bed a goblin, or an elf, orc, dwarf, or what have you, so it appears the line has been drawn somewhere.

Not bothering with anonymity, because why in the Nine Hells not, but you're welcome to if you wish.

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text | un: springtime

[hopticulture]

Where I'm from same-species couples get a lot of benefits, especially if they have children together. And when you are in an interspecies relationship a lot of animals dismiss it as a phase.

But I think if you love someone, even though being a different species brings on some challenges, if you're willing to confront those challenges you can make it work.

Some animals where I'm from treat interspecies relationships like some kind of fad, though, especially if you're a herbvore seeing a carnivore, which is just as frustrating.

[necroyalty]

That's certainly something I'm familiar with encountering myself, although with my own world the challenges are...considerably different.

I knew a half-elven man whose mother gave him up at birth because of such a challenge.

An elf lives six or seven hundred years; they're an adult at a hundred. A human lives...eighty? Ninety? Rarely more than a century.

Split the difference, a half-elf lives about two hundred. Perhaps two hundred and fifty, if they're fortunate.

You can see why this is a problem.

[hopticulture]

It's kind of sad, hearing about parents giving up on their child just because raising them would be difficult...but I can understand how the different lifespans could be a challenge.

[she's still grappling with her own privileges that she's given up. at least, the privilege of knowing just how she'd live her life were she to be with a fellow dwarf rabbit, or even any small herbivore similar to herself...]

I don't know any hybrid animals, I only ever hear about them. They don't seem to live very easy lives though.

But you make it sound like species differences aren't a big issue where you're from. Is it only having children that makes things challenging?

[necroyalty]

Well, no. Even if you choose not to, I'd imagine that the lifespan difference on its own poses a challenge.

Few people want to make a serious commitment with someone who's only going to be around for a fraction of their lives.