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That would be consistent with how sex chromosomes work in natural human reproduction; the white rose would be like an X chromosome and the red one like a Y chromosome. XX produces a female child and XY produces a male one. If the two children in this story are identical twins (or at least if they would've been if not for magic) and not fraternal ones, then they would by definition be the same sex.

Now, unless the creator of this tale was a time traveler, that couldn't have been what they intended, since the y chromosome's role in determining sex wasn't discovered until 1905. I'm assuming they didn't put any more thought into it than "A Wizard Did It".

Chalk it up to Accidentally-Correct Writing, I guess.

Just to note that someone DID do webcomic version of tale where lindwurm was female

Honestly, as much as people rag on the queen about not following magical advice, I feel a lot of trouble could have been avoided if the witch just went "If you eat both roses, you will get two babies, but one will be a massive lindworm. Please don't do that."

Edited by Druplesnubb on May 8th 2021 at 11:40:20 AM

Maybe the effect is random but always bad.

Witches and the like always seem to be very vague about what the consequences of not following their instructions would be, probably so they could go "I told you so".

Then again, even in stories where the magic giver is completely straightforward with what'll happen the person will still not follow it.

In fairy tales, these people are complete morons.

Regardless, it teaches the heartwarming moral that with proper bondage, consent, and aftercare, you too can have a cute dragonboy as a husband.

And now something new from both Red and Blue: Detail Diatribe, a new series where Red and Blue are talking about specific scenes from different medias. The first one is about the training montage from the Samurai Jack Premiere Movie:

Edited by jouXIII on May 14th 2021 at 6:10:33 PM

I do love these more casual things they sometimes do given how professionally they talk in the other videos, it's amusingly jarring.

In today's Trope Talk, Red talks about Sins of the Father:

Kinda interesting since I had a fanfic idea that seems to eventually dabble into revenge as a theme, and I find revengance to be a fascinating topic.

In today's History Summarized, Blue talks about the history of Poland:

Ah, the Szlachta. Arguably, history's best argument against nobility having special priviles... or existing at all, really.

In today's Miscellaneous Myths, Red talks about Medea:

I honestly now wonder if there was one version of the myth where the Golden fleece is Medea.

Also, Medea seems to be quite the interesting character.

I was rooting for Medea until she set up her own kids to be murdered. The fact that she loved her kids yet still did it anyway only made it more deplorable.

Yeah, that was some powerful spite there. Not exactly an admirable trait.

I actually laughed out loud when Jason went with the "you'd be like my Ariadne". I mean, if that's the comparison he was going to make, what did either of them expect out of this relationship. Unfortunately for Jason, Medea wasn't the type to just let herself be marooned on some island. Medea has a plan. Medea always has a plan.

It's murder. The plan is murder.

Man, you have to be a special kind of dickhead to make Zeus and Hera agree on something.

If I recall correctly, Ariadne actually got a fairly sweet deal out of the whole ordeal, at least in some versions of the story.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Jun 4th 2021 at 5:15:09 PM

Depends on the version of the Theseus story. The first one is a hackjob with nonsensical plot.

Medea was the same person who chopped up her own brother to facilitate a getaway. She's not someone you want mad at you.

About Medea and the kids, if I recall the play has the chorus asking her outright why she's going to kill them, being their mother and the kids being innocent and all. Medea says yes that is true, yes Jason said he would take care of at least them, but let's be realistic here, he is remarrying, to a princess, with the purpose of getting a city and dynasty that is legitimate. There is no way Glauce would suffer the children to live and pose danger to the ascendance of her own children by Jason.

That just sounds like cheap justification to me.

Considering it's ancient Greece where everyone is extremely petty I'd say that's justified in context.

It does need a bit of context because, while Jason is not from the ruling family of Corinth (whereas Glauce is), it would be him who ruled, not Glauce, similar to how it was Menelaus who was king in Sparta despite having no ties to the place before being married to the princess, Helen.

This is important because, no matter how strenuous, this could give an excuse to anyone wishing to support Jason's children by Medea inheriting after his death, given they are older and thus should come first if they are accepted as his legitimate children. This is also why Jason claimed that his marriage to Medea didn't count because it was in secret and she's a barbarian foreigner anyway.

Edited by akanesarumara on Jun 8th 2021 at 2:12:13 PM