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Something I really love about queerness is how somebody's sexuality merges and bleeds into their gender.
I think for some, it can be, in part, a reclamation of the idea of being punished for not truly being your gender or not being enough as-is. A lesbian who's punished for not being a "woman" by cishet society can reclaim themself by declaring they aren't a woman but a lesbian, lesbiangender, in short.
Queerness in any capacity is often (though not always and not across-the-board) punished as a failure in some way. You're a second-class man or woman, a second-class person, depending on many factors. Reclaiming that can be really relieving and cathartic
#queer#lgbt#lgbtq#this is obviously more complex for many#but it's why my own sexuality plays into my gender - it is recognizing that i am often punished for not being a 'true man'#both because i am trans and because i am queer#i know of a het trans person whose gender seems like... hetman (which i honestly vibe with for him)#so it's not like this doesn't apply to non-het or non-queer-in-sexuality people#in so many ways i am more similar to that trans person than a lot of other people even if he's straight and i'm not really
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I'm so glad to see more people talking about just how disturbing Yuno's situation actually is and how maybe it did fuck up her 18 year old psyche to have middle aged men sleep with her
#Yuno in general is so often boiled down to either a girlboss or “the only normal one” and I think both interpretations severely mess with-#-the fandom's perception of her character#People have obviously talked about how her girlbossification boils down her character and such#but I don't see many people talk about how much it adultifies her and makes her seem like a mature woman who knows what she's doing#and that's just not what Yuno is despite how much she wants to be seen as such. She is a high schooler.#And treating her like she's the only normal one because her 'murder' is easily forgivable and her having a less flashy reaction-#-to her verdict also does a disservice to her and any attempt to actually analyze her or the complexities of her character#she's just as fucked up as everyone else !!! talk about that more !!! she isn't normal or boring and she's also not a mature girlboss !!!#she is a teenager !!!#haru chats about milgram#milgram#milgram project#yuno kashiki#kashiki yuno#milgram yuno
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flint's look to silver when he escorts him to the beach and he just... walks on and kisses madi. he's bittersweet. he's uneasy. he's a man being reminded once again that he's lost every single one of his loves. that silver might share his darkness, but it's not the only thing he has. he has madi, and loves her, while he can watch from the sidelines knowing he has no place of that kind in silver's heart.
#i have so many feelings about madi and silver too. i don't believe that silver is actually in love with her until this scene.#but to take a man like that and give him somebody who sees through his lies? to give him somebody who trusts him without ulterior motives.#flint is so obviously trying to 'court' him somehow at this point of the story. and silver puts distance between them more and more to not-#let him find out more about his story. and this is so painfully clear in the last two episodes#can't wait to get to them in my rewatch#black sails#i have to physically refrain myself from writing every single thought that crosses my mind while rewatching rbh#you think i don't have complex feelings about eleanor? max? RACKHAM? VANE?? fools.
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At the bus stop one time there was a gaggle of preschoolers waiting to catch the bus for a field trip day, and someone walked past with a couple of friendly little dogs, to great general delight.
But after a little bit, the dogs were getting overwhelmed, and the preschoolers were gently coaxed to back off so the person with the dogs could continue on. Specifically, one of the preschool teachers said, "Sometimes, when you're small, being surrounded by big people can be a bit scary and overwhelming. Even if they are friendly."
This was recieved as great wisdom: after all, the preschoolers were also small, and understood how scary and overwhelming big people could be! And the dogs were indeed even smaller than the preschoolers, so it made sense.
What was funny and charming was that, upon absorbing and reflecting on this wisdom, they all felt the need to tell it to one another. In tones of great insight, they turned to one another and said, "Did you know? Sometimes when you are small, being surrounded by big people can be scary and overwhelming! Even if they are friendly!" Back and forth, without any particular concern that they were all saying the same thing. Have reached comprehension of an insight, it must be shared!
I must say that this behavior is less charming in tumblr users than in preschoolers. Not least because tumblr users, having gained a little analytical skill to misuse, insist on Summarizing and Generalizing and Unifying the insights they repeat, quickly turning any interesting new information into formulaic dogmatic mush.
#i made the mistake of looking in the notes of the beach sand post i reblogged to see if anyone else had interesting comments#And the rate at which it went from like#1) person states with moderate confidence an opinion based on their personal observations#2) multiple people reply with “wow thats so insightful!” (aka it aligns with my preconceived notions of how things work)#3) someone else adds additional personal observations which are not really relevant but which can be absorbed into the narrative#4) people start outright stating the underlying belief on which this bias is constructed as if it were a fresh insight#5) general derisive attitude towards people who haven't seen the Obviously Correct solution to this complex real world problem yet#It's very.......#It's not like it's a high stakes post but it's such a microcosm of the whole dogmatic phenomenon#Also this js a more specific gripe to My Field or w/e#But the degree to which people react to the problems caused by the whole “Control of Nature” era of engineering#with this equally reductive “Nature will Fix Everything” type of attitude#Is sooooo frustrating.#Yes a great many of our current problems could have been avoided if we had not made massive changes to ecosystem processes on the assumptio#That they were simple and we understood them. And that they would respond in predictable ways.#the simplicity in retrospect of “wow we Should Not have done that” does not mean that they are simple to undo!#You can't go back in time. You can't turn back the clock on chaotic processes#Which is. Almost every process ever.#Restoration is hard! Returning to previous regimes of sediment or flooding or fire is tricky and full of foibles!#Moving towards a future which doesn't suck as much even if the past cant be recreated is also uncertain and difficult!#It's frustrating to see people act all high and mighty about how they Respect Nature unlike whoever is making all these decisions#When their understanding of the natural processes in question is AS simplistic as the people who caused the whole mess back in 1910 or w/e#Like I'm not saying there's not bad interests standing in the way of functional restoration on all levels#That's very much a fight to be fought.#But looking at that fight-in-process and saying “wow none of you Respect Nature like me uwu let nature fix it”#Is.#Ugh.
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like my personal Advice To You if you’re a small artist with a modest amount of success selling your designs on RedBubble, like maybe you make a couple hundred dollars... You’ll make so much more money just buying some sticker paper, self-adhesive laminate sheets, stamps and envelopes and just starting a little Etsy shop.
#you don't even have to have any resources you can print stickers on your home printer#and get some art prints made if you wanna do that#Obviously RB is much easier for mugs and shirts and more complex merch. that takes upfront payment from you#but so many people just buy stickers and prints from RB? and they're so easy to make?#the first month I had an Etsy shop I made x5 the amount that I'd normally get from RB#by selling the same amount of stuff#that's how big of a cut RB took. and their quality aint even that great#and my art kept getting stolen on there. and my account got hacked and it was really EASY to hack#and RB didn't do anything abt the money that was stolen from there. soooo.#sergle.txt#and if you're scared to branch out. you can have them both up at the SAME time#with Etsy being less expensive to encourage people to buy from there instead.
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................. not to rain down on anyone's parade but barely characterized 14 year old lucerys could never have the swag eleanor or henry had
#1#2#3#4#5#again you do you per carità i'm not here to judge anyone's taste because then i'd be a fucking hypocrite#but this still made me laugh#maybe because i never really understood the hype around luke/aemond. i mean i get it on a intellectual level#but there are so many juicier pairs in hotd that while i understand why people would ship it i'm not sure why it's so popular#no hate to the pairing or anything of course. you can ship whatever you want!#but this reeks of the usual inflated m/m ship with one (or two) fictional men with weak or barely acknowledged characterizations#while incredibly complex female characters (at least in comparison) are JUST THERE#again this is not a hate post about the ship or slash pairings (OBVIOUSLY!!)#but still. in any case the eleanor/henry dynamic fits better with rhaenicent or maybe daemyra tbh#like... even when i love a ship with all my heart i wouldn't assign *every* possible au to them but only those who fit their characters bes#if my otp is a etl ship i wouldn't want to read or write a childhood friends to lovers au because what i like about them#is that they fucking hate each other's guts and perpetually try to kill the other (before falling in love... and sometimes even after)#if a pairing is more p&p like i really couldn't get into a wuthering heights au even if i'd recognize it's magnificently written#because that's not what these characters and their dynamic are. it would be projection#at this point i would prefer to read/write about two ocs ngl#again in fandom you can do whatever you want i'm no one and i could never tell you what you can or can't like. that'd be ridiculous#and idw the op of that post to feel bad about it. it's just my personal preference/opinion on fanworks that's all#val speaks#val rambles in the tags#txt
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unpopular opinion?? maybe?
Matt & Ivy have a really interesting dynamic!! both pre- and post-canon!! with or without romantic undertones!! either reciprocal or one-sided!!
and obviously it has to be handled with a particular level of care/respect BUT I think if we allowed them enough grace there is space to explore a really interesting possibility for that relationship.
#obviously Matt is not ENTITLED to Ivy - im absolutely not saying that at all#and he definitely did a lot of things extremely wrong and Ivy doesn’t HAVE to forgive him - she doesn't even have to *like* him#and in many stagings she actually doesn’t at all! even pre-canon she isn't into him on a *platonic* level - which i love for her#but I also think that - misguided & clumsy about it though he was - Matt is genuinely trying his best to see her as a person.#an idealized version of a person yes. but a person nonetheless.#which is what Ivy wants from Jason (and tbf he sees her as a person also but it’s an obviously different situation)#and while you can't force romantic compatibility (that was like. the whole point.) in some versions of the show they're not-quite-dating#- in varying types of “situationship” with varying levels of commitment. so it's not insane to me to say hey#maybe they need time to stabilize themselves and figure out who they are again after the events of the show. but maybe a couple years -#- down the line they reconnect and they're both in a better place & maybe this time it can all work out.#idk I think I just see a lot of people write it off entirely - and they’re well within their rights to do so don’t get me wrong#but I don’t think it’s fair necessarily to put them in the ‘doomed to fail’ category#wow okay I care about them as a pair more than I realised#tldr; give Matt & Ivy and their relationship dynamic the grace + complexity they deserve#mouse talks bapo#bare a pop opera#Ivy Robinson#Matt Lloyd#[as a side note - sometimes I think about queer Matt & transmasc Ivy & the interesting concept of their potential boyfriendism]
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one reason I also just really think emasculation was a successful tool of tormenting & degrading Sam too besides what we do see of it on screen itself is just that Lucifer also weaponises gender quite frequently later on, which I do think comes from how that has worked force people below him in the past.
#while obviously that could say something about the complexes of the people hes possessed. (mostly Sam & Nick for this)#it's like. also. on. screen too. he does this#i mean obviously many times its thoughtless on the writers fault to make the devil sexist in regards to continuity. but#like given how we see that evolve! like Lucifer uses the tools he knows hes given. he possessed a couple men first by happenstance#and in the Cage taking on that role while degrading Sam was an effective tool#etc#lucifer#spn#incoherents#sammy#supernatural#sam winchester#tw abuse#sam & his relationship to gender is sooooo fascinating to me. more so than dean bc of the fact it's not him playing into it#while it also clearly does matter to him.
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could you imagine how good spirit animals would be if it wasn't written as a children's series
#thats the country that is bad and full of bad people that deserve to be mistreated and suffer a horrible disease that is easily curable -#- that the rest of the world has access to because a long time ago they started a war#i feel like bc they were kids books they couldnt really touch on the horrors of war#or how vile The Many were#it could also explore the greencloaks more in the way that they werent good guys. in the slightest#it would have so much more nuance#GOD IMAGINE IMAGINE IMAGINE#IT COULD BE SO SO SO GOOD#i need someone to write the books in a grittier way.#i mean obviously they touched on the fact that these kids were fighting in wars at 11 years old#and that stetriol was justified in rising up#and shane is already a really complex character but we never really got to see the like super gritty side only glimpses in the book of shan#spirit animals books#spirit animals series#and the fucking bile???? thats a terrifying concept that didnt get treated as seriously as it shouldve i think#especially how the fact it can turn regular animals into brutish killing machines was mentioned only once or twice#the amount of proper angst you can explore in the main four as well holy shit
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I finally caught up with the last two episodes of 911 amidst traveling and uh, what are you all worried about again?!?
#i’ve seen so much anxiety and anons despairing the past two weeks I was like ???? wtf is happening#and to each their own but I found both episodes very good and enjoyable and moving pieces of media#also#having been not as involved in the fandom anymore but still being around#that not everything is about buck+eddie all the time lol#this has been said so many times obviously#but they have feelings and struggles and pain that is their own that they still choose to share with the other#and that’s beautiful!#but not everything they’re trying to process is directed at the other person#that’s not how relationships work#I’m talking about the graveyard conversation and so many takes i’ve seen have stripped it of all nuance and complexity#maybe i’ll talk about this in more detail but yeah idk what all the worry is#i liked natalia it’ll be an interesting dynamic#and i loved eddie’s arc these two episodes so much I’m having all types of feelings about it#911 fox
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Obviously I bought it! The collar is Slightly odd with a stitch down the center, like a very shallow V Neck, and it’s quite big on me lol, but it’s very workable! And so soft, like you wouldn’t believe. Very comfy!
Also, pretty sure I’ve talked about this before, but here’s a refresher: I always pick up any Lalaloopsy from any second-hand shop I find them in, being out of production and so inexpensive and so cute - I’m a casual collector ♥ I never expect to see them, so I’m always so excited when they’re there! I actually managed to get three this time, not only with their original clothes, but also their shoes! (Why are they always missing their shoes?) And you’ll never guess which ones, what they were wearing:
It’s Rain E. and Storm E., with their black and white striped shirts!
We match <3 <3
#Doodles#Lalaloopsy#I've never seen so many striped articles of clothing in one place - let alone with so many Extra Details!#Way too complex for my simplistic character design lol I am but a humble cartoon#The skirt in the shirt section was truly the perfect comedic setup like - I literally couldn't make that up it's too silly! But it happened!#There were even a couple more striped shirts that didn't make the cut here! Mostly the long-sleeved ones#Like there was one that was Mostly striped but then had a?? red plaid jagged-cut collar/upper half?? Very confusing lol#The button accents on the shoulders were nonsensical but cute - I just like buttons#Obviously lol ♪ Gosh what a lucky shopping day that was!#I even found a tool to help with one of my side projects :D And got divine inspiration without having to purchase to unlock! Lol#Still haven't used the divine inspiration but I've got it so that's the important part lol#Also - I am still masking in public :0 It's not something I drew here because it's not as visible to me since it's on my face#So I just - forget lol#It's also not as expressive but that's mostly secondary to it just not registering lol#I mean heck I wear my rainbow bracelet literally every second of the day and how often do I remember to draw it on myself?#As clearly evidenced here lol and no that wasn't on purpose! I'm just a forgetful lol#Anyhow :3 Onto the grey dye next >:3c#I've been needing to stop by a fabric shop anyhow I've got Yet More Projects!
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Living as a trans man, I can personally confirm that, truthfully, we transition for the betterment of our well-being. "Escaping misogyny" hasn't been a goal of mine because (at least personally) I'm still persecuted because I am a trans man. Legally, trans people are not at an advantage. Socially, trans people are not at an advantage. At least currently, trans people are encouraged (or forced) away from being trans, because transphobia is rampant. At the very least, what people can do is rely on us to narrarate our experiences, not to assume what our motives are. Nine times out of ten, you will be wrong
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#nonbinary#transphobia#transphobia tw#i used to question if i was trying to 'escape misogyny' but what i learned was...#...even in the most misogynistic circumstances women do still identify with and as women...#...and the women i talked to about this really confirmed that they've thought about what life would be like as a man...#...but would HATE if they were men because they're women#i feel like i'm explaining this really weirdly#i just feel like this is a case of occam's razor#because politicians SPECIFICALLY go out of their way to target trans people. and so do regular people#cis people don't go 'oh you're ftm? well gee time to treat you well!'#in fact it's the exact opposite in many of my experiences#like... obviously it's more complicated than what a tumblr post can delve into. i might follow up if there's questions#these are generalities by the way. our experiences are multifaceted and complex#described images#image desc in alt text
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i hope to not-wc mutuals i dont seem like one of those people who are like “ugh i hate it when characters do bad things, thats bad writing” bc i like protags who fuck up and are allowed to do so, villains are also super good, but my problem with characters like moth flight or lionblaze arent that theyre assholes or that they fuck up sometimes, its that their actions are not actually intended that way by the writers and we’re supposed to perceive them as noble and at the very worst theyre just oopsies that werent their fault at all
#like breezepelt is obviously much more morally wrong than either of these two but like. the erins actually know that#moth flight is also just bad in so many ways beyond her actions also. shes just badly written overall#like shes bad nd rep shes another exhausting example of a character who punishes others for their own trauma#and shes just not complex in the actual text at all#echoed voice
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my belief system basically amounts to 'i don't know if this is true and i never will, but i'd like it to be'. is god genderless? they are to me. do they love everyone regardless of who or what they are? they do to me. is there an afterlife where everyone who dies and wasn't an evil person in life can be happy? there is to me. if there's not to you then have fun living a less fun spiritual life ig
#personal crap#the other reason is i think assuming there's no god or afterlife is boring#even if there isn't isn't it beautiful that humans come up with so many complex explanations for why we're here?#i wish we didn't fight over them or use them to justify prejudice so much obviously but i like the way it shows our creativity as a species#and maybe one or some of them are right on some level#plus i've encountered too many religious people who use thinking they're right to bash people to rigidly stick to one#and too many atheistic people who think they're smarter than everyone else for being doomer-y about faith to like atheism#i have no idea how you'd describe my position but i like calling myself a lapsed catholic since i was raised one#plus it makes my identity sound more dramatic lol
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Sorry I know it’s been literal months but Hitting On 16 is still rotting away in my head-
Like it was SO good you guys I’m dying because we all took it as c!Wilbur’s arc right? And it was, BUT, it was also c!Ranboo’s arc. They both grew in such a dramatic healthy way from their friendship with the burger van and I can’t stop THINKING ABOUT IT!
By becoming friends with c!Ranboo, c!Wilbur learned to open up and trust somebody with blind faith and nothing more. Sure, at the beginning, he tested him to see how quickly he’d chicken out and abandon c!Wilbur, but pretty soon after he realized that wasn’t necessary and it was just c!Wilbur and c!Ranboo causing mischief to piss off c!Quackity.
One of my favorite things about c!Wilbur is how he acts the most like a friend when he’s not thinking about it. Giving c!Ranboo sweet nicknames, complimenting him, hyping him up, cheering him on, all these small things he doesn’t even think about because it’s just subconscious love for his friend. He becomes healthier with his bond with c!Ranboo and can actually chat and hang out without the constant fear of “being perceived as evil” taunting his mind.
And then there’s change on c!Ranboo’s end as well!! If you actually really truly think about it, being on c!Wilbur’s “side” of the burger arc was the first time he ever chose a side. Before then, c!Ranboo would do anything he could to help out all parties, even if they directly contrasted each other. He didn’t want to make anyone upset and would therefore make everyone upset by not being loyal to one specific group. Even with the cookie outpost, while he was primarily in c!Tubbo’s favor, he still tried to negotiate and more importantly get along with c!Quackity, which to his sadness didn’t work out.
But then in comes c!Wilbur, who is passionate and impulsive and paranoid and thinks nobody would ever willingly choose to stand by his side. And c!Ranboo wants to give him a chance, to prove that that thinking is wrong. And the only way to do that is to directly oppose c!Quackity.
So he does. c!Ranboo, no matter how risky or sketchy a plan c!Wilbur creates, always follows through. Even when it’s directly going against his good morals (like vandalizing the restaurant) or the people he cares about (like his own fucking husband!) And this isn’t because c!Wilbur manipulates him into following his every command, it’s because he cares about c!Wilbur!
While nervous at first, throughout their time together c!Ranboo genuinely begins to enjoy his company and following his crazy ideas. He goes along with him because he wants to keep an eye on his friend, or keep him happy, anything to prove to c!Wilbur that “I am hanging out with you because I want to, exactly what you thought no one could do.”
It’s through his friendship with c!Wilbur that c!Ranboo learns the values of dedicating to a specific side. Sure, it creates conflicts that are messy and not fun, but it’s worth it to fight for something you care about, which is exactly what he tells c!Tubbo!
“For God’s sake, just give him a chance! I know that I haven’t always made the best decisions with who I trust but this time I swear to you that things may not always be as bad as you think! I mean, people change, people get better and if you never give them a chance to prove it you’ll be stuck hating everyone that has ever wronged you and you won’t have anyone left...”
He is directly opposing his husband to stand for what he believes in, which is c!Wilbur being a better person. And while I am convinced there is a little self-projecting going on in here that might’ve helped motivate him, it is in part because he believes in c!Wilbur.
The saddest part is that their own personal flaws outpower their friendship, which leads to their inevitable downfall. c!Ranboo is never able to outright express his feelings to another person despite them all expressing their feelings towards him, leading to him killing himself to make a point thinking that would hit c!Wilbur more clearly than just directly talking to him.
Then on c!Wilbur’s end, not having c!Ranboo clarify and reassure him that he did enjoy being friends with him, his self-hatred wins out and he convinces himself that c!Ranboo never wanted anything to do with him. That he was spending time with c!Wilbur against his own free will.
They both grew thanks to their friendship, but it wasn’t enough to fight against all of the other problems they both still need to work on. I just- THIS man- ARE YOU HEARING ME? HITTING ON 16 WAS THEIR STORY AGH!
#star's analysis#dream smp#hitting on 16#wilbur soot#ranboo#c!wilbur#c!ranboo#c!burger boys#ho16#dsmp lore#tw caps#tw cursing#tw suicide mention#obviously there was a lot of growing for c!quackity c!tubbo and c!tommy as well#but the biggest focus of this story was their friendship and how they changed with it#neither of them had ever dedicated to friendship like that#for c!wilbur you could say he has with c!tommy but that relationship is a lot more complex and different than his with c!ranboo#they both have to evolve and get accustomed to changing for the better to be a better friend#unfortunately too many other factors got in the way to allow them to finish growing#i seriously need c!ranboo to get revived and just slap c!wil in the face and go#'HEY'#'I LIKED BEING YOUR FRIEND'#'STOP THINKING I DIDN'T'#i care very deeply for burger boys if you haven't already guessed#long post#long tags#tw italics#man i missed analysis i sound fucking bonkers it's great#star rants
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my biggest problem with a people’s history of the french revolution by eric hazan is that he keeps like. implying that lafayette defected to the enemy (meaning Austria and Prussia), but like. mf was immediately arrested bc he was seen as the cause of the revolution. the only people who saw him as a conservative were in france
#marquis de lafayette#lafayette#lowkey feel like the french revolution has so many figures who are misrepresented by people bc they were more conservative/liberal#like robespierre got the same treatment as lafayette but like reversed#i feel like the american revolution wasn’t so controversial as to have the same effect#and on top of that people have been working since it happened to counter balance whenever that happened#obviously some figures are still glorified but like there’s always been a lot of historians treating them as less one dimensional#but based off the books i’ve read about the frev at least one party is portrayed as one dimensional#and they’re always the villain too#like no one in the frev is overglorified GWKWBWKWN#they’re either a complex person or a one dimensional villain#like hazan shows different elements of robespierre’s character but doesn’t do the same to lafayette#the last author i read (forgor her name lol) showed all parts of marie antoinette and king louis’ characters#she did touch on robespierre a little bit showing his qualities but she didn’t go in depth on any of the revolutionaries really#but like brissot and co were portrayed as just bad guys who never did anything good ever#idk im just kinda used to authors at least attempting to show good and bad#even if its just ‘one time he helped an old lady cross the street and then he slaughtered someone’s entire family’#no hate to hazan tho this book is awesome#i just wish it wasn’t trying to push such a black and white narrative in this particular instance#for the most part he doesn’t do it with anything else#but tbf i did start reading this bc i needed a more leftist sympathetic book to counteract the strongly royalist one i read before#imma tag this as#books#and#resources#in case anyone wants my thoughts on this book#this rant was longer than anticipated HEKWHWJ
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