#and reading fic is a frustrating experience in terms of how global politics are framed but i don't want to be a dick about it bc shit

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i also just think it's very funny for the main fandom discourse to be all about the ethics of shipping alex and yassen and im over here going hmm yeah that's fine can we talk about the casual racism and xenophobia in fanfic depictions of places like afghanistan, iraq, and various african nations (nowhere specific ofc bc africa is an impoverished war-torn monolith) and also let's maybe address how MI6 are often recognized as being awful but only because of how they treat alex, not like. all of the war crimes and overthrowing foreign governments or torturing political prisoners you know the list goes on but for some reason most fic authors still seem stuck in the world view of british and american intelligence services being the "good guys" so hey let's unpack that! it'll be fun, promise!