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a-green-onion · 4 years ago

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...every single character description in the Machineries of Empire series sounds like that "diversity win!" meme

diversity win! the mass murderer kept alive for centuries as a living weapon who just bombed your planet is a bi person of color with dyscalculia.

diversity win! the general who ordered you into a near-suicide mission then left you to die when you didn't follow orders instantly and to the letter is a lesbian Woman In STEM from a marginalized ethnic group.

diversity win! the immortal scientist brainwashing you so he can use your body as raw material for experimentation is a gay person of color.

diversity win! the military plant running your ostensibly-democratic puppet government is a trans man of color in a t4t relationship.

there's three books and a short story collection; I could do this all day.

#person of color #if anyone sees this who hasn't read the books #I need to emphasize that these are all 100% explicitly canon #(this is not a case of making villains queer out of queerphobia #half of these are Extremely Morally Grey Heroes)#(also I'm saying instead of specifying since it'd be weird to call someone e.g. Korean #in a world where Earth doesn't exist much less Korea #but there is specificity in physical and cultural descriptions in the books)#to be clear: i love and adore them All #tooth speech #machineries of empire #machineries of empire spoilers #revenant gun spoilers #raven stratagem spoilers #ninefox gambit spoilers

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