Question: Choosing Moeities

[anxious_songbird]

Not much is actually said about moeities in Ursula's works outside of the marriage aspects, despite the text saying it has to do with ancient religious reasons. How do you decide on what moeity a character is in?

Do you just go by gut instinct or go with what aesthetically makes sense? Do you create your own worldbuilding around it or are you lax with it? Are there in your headcanons markers of what moeity someone is in and if so what are they?

Comments

Re: Thoughts

[wallwalker]

This is a really good post! I really do like the last paragraph and would enjoy seeing more sedoretu fanfic about filling in gaps, too.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> This is a really good post! <<

Thank you. I have toyed with the idea of fleshing it out more for marchmetamatterschallenge if I have time, because correspondences are really interesting and useful in sedoretu.

>> I really do like the last paragraph and would enjoy seeing more sedoretu fanfic about filling in gaps, too.<<

I think it has a lot of potential. It highlights some of the big differences between sedoretu and couples. In a couple, if one person leaves, that's half the group gone; in a sedoretu, it's only a quarter. So for instance, the hit to family ties for children or income for household is much less likely to collapse the whole system. Similarly, finding a new partner for a single person is straightforward, since they only have to match one person's tastes and sex/gender needs; but in a sedoretu, the new person has to be a specific sex/gender and moiety AND be a good match for three people.

You can ask me to write sedoretu during any relevant prompt call. Grab something the from the table on this comm if you like. Currently open is the crowdfunding Creative Jam on "knowledge" and up next will be the March 5 Poetry Fishbowl on "brands / products / services we wish existed."