There was once a moderately popular song, now all but forgotten aside from being referenced a few times in Looney Tunes, Merry Melodies, Fractured Fairy Tales, and other such media at the time. Common wordplay was to interpret the girl named Jeannie as a genie.
My comic is about sixty years removed from that, but I grew up on VHS tapes of much older cartoons.
Genie if you really insist on splitting hairs is derived from the same root as the word "genius", which is a type of spirit, but is pronounced similarly enough to the middle eastern word djinni referring to a different type of spirit that it's frequently used as a translation.
The terms djinn/djinni pre-dated Islam by several centuries. The word was used by Aramaic Christians to refer to any spiritual being with free will that was not specifically God, pagan deities as an object of false worship, human, or an angel (demons being angels who have fallen to sin). It thus refers to most Gaelic fairies, Japanese youkai, and modern day folkloric aliens and everything in between.
Muhammad, as he did for many other things, had very specific ideas about the world of spirits and how they functioned. His specific ideas of djinn meld together the demons Jews and Christians believed in, various pagan Arab spirits, and his own personal delusions and visions. Effectively post-Muslim Arabian djinn are mortal, long-lived, and were crafted by God with bodies made of fire the way Adam was from clay. These djinn could be pagans, Muslims, or (as is the case in this comic) Christians.
The resemblance between Middle Eastern oil lamps and Western teapots has also been a staple joke for a long time.
I had a lot of fun depicting Jeannie overlapping the panel gutters and the like, to demonstrate her supernatural abilities of breaking the fourth wall (something my fursona also does, being a fairy).
Lemurs are the only primates I find more attractive than humans. It's not by a lot, but more attractive than some of the other species I've featured as those I'd willingly partner with. Species preferences are a lot like hair color preferences or the like in real life; just because I think redheads look the most attractive doesn't mean I'd let that be the deciding factor in a relationship.
Now, I could have just wished she'd marry me while I had control and ownership of her imprisoning pot. She'd have been a dutiful and loving wife and come to see me as a loving and honorable husband. A lot of incels in my position would've gone for it with gusto, but I decided my principles were worth taking the chance that, given her freedom, she wouldn't be interested in me.
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24 Mar 2021 17:55 CET
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