Fuzzbutts: Inexplicable Husbands
Added 2021-11-17 06:02:56 +0000 UTC"If you keep this up, we're going to need to re-nyah-gotiate our marital status."
"Aw, don't be like that, sugar! You know I'm only.....kitten around~"
"I want a divorce."
Thibodeaux (Tibbs for short) and his stupid catboy husband Perry (who unfortunately, remains the love of his life). Just a doodle to lock down their personalities and designs. Tibbs is a big scary metalhead with a voice like gravel, Perry is a teeny cowboy that manages to be 50% charming, 50% annoying. They're in their thirties and have been together for around ten years (married for half of that).
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Ahh!!! Have a good, safe trip! And thanks for the explanation - I figured it had to be a complex issue but I wasn't sure if I had missed an explanation somewhere or what, haha. (And as an aside, I feel u Tibbs. Someone made a comment about how I must be the one running the relationship and I was suddenly and irrationally angry - when I thought about it later, I realized I was just...mad that people think that my husband doesn't fully and equally contribute to our home. Yeah, he's a big doofus, but he's also a wonderful house husband and dad to our dogs. Don't you dare pull the "dumb incompetent man" trope on me.)
Scyllarus
2021-11-19 18:12:29 +0000 UTCOh! I'm sorry, I thought I explained that already, but looking back I have not. The stigma against pred/prey relationships is.....fluid, if that makes sense. The concern here isn't that Perry will eat or harm Tibbs (he couldn't even if he wanted to), but rather that Perry is EMBARRASSING himself with this relationship. Predators are supposed to be dominating, powerful, and dignified. Perry should be with a predator his size or larger.....not a pig. A small predator fraternizing with a massive prey animal is seen as hiiiighly undignified, cringe-worthy even. It makes Perry look small and pathetic, a poor excuse for a predator, letting a prey animal lord its power over HIM. (Tibbs of course doesn't do any lording at all, their relationship is very equal, but people make a lot of kneejerk assumptions.) At best, Perry is seen as a dumb...."simp", for lack of a better word.....and at worst, he and Tibbs are seen as perverts, indulging in some odd pred/prey powerplay fetish. (Again, not the case, although what society decries as a cheap fetish is actually much, MUCH more common than anybody wants to admit. Predators and prey are people and naturally want to intermingle. Some of it is indeed fetishistic interest, but predators and prey do fall in love sometimes). Idk if I'm doing the best job explaining it, but Perry and Tibbs face a unique sort of stigma, where Perry is the one shouldering most of the social scrutiny. In an unfortunate sort of double standard, Tibbs tends to get approval from other prey animals ("Congrats on making a pred your bitch!"), which deeply upsets and irritates him, because Perry is his equal, and always has been. On the issue of omnivore citizens and unusual predators and prey, well, that is a messy issue. I'm sure you're as well aware as I that while society likes to set black and white rigid social parameters, people rarely fit neatly into boxes. This is also the case for Fuzzbutts. Tibbs himself is omnivorous, but the average citizen might not know boars like to eat eggs and the occasional bit of meat. I don't have time to get into the matter atm (I'm actually packing for a roadtrip!), but I hope to answer your question in full soon. :3
Lopoddity
2021-11-19 17:45:24 +0000 UTCI'm always weak for the straightman/funnyman dynamic, so I adore this. I do have to ask, though - In general I can see where some of the prejudice comes from with pred/prey relationships, especially in ones where the predator is, well, the more physically imposing. But in this case, it seems a little odd for society to care as much - Tibbs is like. Four times Perry's size, plus boar aren't exactly timid animals...I guess what I'm really wondering is how people deal with the messy lines of omnivory, prey animals that may not *eat* other animals but also pretty much never need to worry about predation (I remember seeing something about how things like elephants have a particular privilege in that regard), or predators that are too small to avoid predation from other predators (ie, cats, foxes, etc).
Scyllarus
2021-11-19 15:57:32 +0000 UTCBoarback meowntain
Haley Riggs
2021-11-19 08:48:29 +0000 UTC
