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arbitrarygreay · 5 months ago

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More evidence that Alder would have done gangbusters focusing on espionage: Petra notes in 2x4 that "Intelligence does often have a hard time keeping track of the General's comings and goings." Literally the person in charge of keeping track of information and shit says that Alder and her Biddies were giving them the slip all of the time over the decades. It's like the inverse of the Marshal being able to hunt anyone down, Alder is able to slip the leash when she wants. Which kind of goes against the popular fanon of Alder being stuck in meetings and in the unavoidable public eye all of the time, and finding it a burden. It turns out, Alder not only made a habit of getting around surveillance, but the other side of that coin is that what publicity/propaganda/speeching/posters/etc. she did do was of her own desire. If she didn't want to be a public face, she could choose to avoid it all. (To where when Nicte forced her into the Warding Circle and Petra appeared to make announcements with Silver instead, it was notable by everyone, a duty that Alder relinquished reluctantly.)

#motherland fort salem #sarah alder #reinforcing my headcanon that alder makes passionate speeches at the drop of a hat!#category: tv #I've noticed a lot of moments where both alder and other brass pointedly ignore the possibility of demilitarization as a viable strategy #she does not entertain the idea of integration as a goal; whether with conventional military forces or in the civilian population #there is never any desire from them for the government to stop wielding them #in fact most of their chafing is against others trying to hold them back from carrying out more operations #this is obviously the show making a point about the US's modern foreign policy in the WOT era #which can clash with fandom's instincts; see again my comparison to star wars prequel era fanfic #and its tendency to valorize giving the jedi order and/or militant mandalorians more power as the way to solve things #when the actual source material is deeply ambivalent about it #whoops I accidentally a word vomit #example when silver asks if they can keep penelope safe they never say 'well maybe stop sending us into war'#or 'hey maybe dissolve the accords so they don't have to be conscripted'#instead they seem to take deep offense to the idea that witches should not serve #the brass is all hard into the militarism kool-aid #it's not just magical enforcement either; since they could exploit legal loopholes like tally's dispensation if they wanted to #they don't want to #and tbqh they're more interesting characters to be that way #for them to actually believe it and to not lay the blame at the feet of other entities #I believe in women's wrongs

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