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12118. Chouette (2021) [1] [2] -> a book about a mother somehow impossibly having a monstrous hybrid owl baby. the basic idea is not really anything new for speculative fiction books. you have like, Birdwing, Maximum Ride, where people are bird monsters, you have Dragon Ball where humans are hybridizing with intelligent yet very unwise monkey aliens, and that's treated as normal but is actually pretty weird if you think about it. and before that, there were these wild mythical tales where Zeus or Loki would turn into an animal and get people pregnant, and that's pretty messed up for a story that just is part of the popular culture of the time. (for Greeks, the uneducated people definitely knew about the stories, it wasn't just the poets that talked about them, although the philosopher types often didn't really believe them, and commoners sometimes would.) but it seems like there's a controversy over this book where some people think it's uniquely disgusting, or something? I have no idea if that's true or not. I can't imagine it's weirder than things you'd see in a humanities education — which, like, I rarely stop and think about how much studying the humanities can be a weirdly adult thing by accident. Zeus, Loki, a bunch of museum artifacts "used for ritual purposes" that are totally for personal sex rituals, whether the person had any actual magic-ritual beliefs around them or not (which thousands and thousands of years ago would have been possible, there was so much people didn't know and they were always making their best guesses). I will have to read this book because it sounds interesting, maybe it will be, maybe not, but when people are casting it as 'forbidden' over things that only sound so bad to me I'm only more morbidly intrigued to see what's in there. it isn't.... Mr. Nabokov's book. it's just about a weird little owl monster.
       oh and it apparently ends kind of like. what's it called. Bagi. the Tezuka movie where he tries to present humanity creating a monster cat woman as a horrible abomination that shouldn't have happened. I think people are refusing to engage critically with this book and the actual questions it asks.
12118. Chouette (2021) -> it is fine to cover this book, but P.T. is not considered Notable for the purposes of the ontology project. (that isn't abbreviating the ideology code for Toryism)

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