The "societies in high-magic fantasy settings where body-altering magic is widely available would obviously have a very different relationship with gender than our own, and I feel the implications of that are worth exploring – purely as an intellectual exercise, of course" to "hey, wait a minute" pipeline.
#this is the book equivalent to picking the girl in a video game as a speedrun strat (via @thetrashiestoftrash)
I once bumped into a guy who argued in all apparent seriousness that video games with selectable player characters where the girl has better speed tech are part of a plot to turn speedrunners trans.
Shout out to Castlevania Portrait of Ruin, where there"s a boy protagonist and a girl protagonist, but the new fastest speedrun route involves using a glitch to turn the boy protagonist into a girl:
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