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good--merits-accumulated · 11 months ago

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can't stop thinking about like: nation building as a motif in the Western. how would that work in a DPS Western AU. does it not perhaps already bear this aspect of the Western because what is DPS about if not a group of white boys trying to build their own nation of freedom and self-expression on the land that belongs to somebody else

#i only have half a thought on this because i can't get into any kind of motifs on 'expanding into the wilderness'#without being like. yeah. the wilderness. you mean the wilderness already inhabited by Native American nations?#in that vein i think a DPS Western /horror/ (and indeed any kind of Western horror) could work very well #being as it would be a series of narratives each crushing over the top of the other only to slip and drown in the blood #and to a much less nefarious extent DPS IS about re-treading the (ideological) ground someone has been over already #but in a way that's not extremely pertinent to what i'm trying to get across here #basically. hm. what i'm saying is that it's very difficult to write in a genre so ensconced in the American Dream #if you a) want to write happy stories. and b) know anything at all about the historical reckoning of said Dream #dps are my favourite rich privileged white boys. or whatever #- signed your very tired resident southeast asian overthinker #ALSO i want to be clear i'm not saying that DPS is about colonisation lol it isn't. there are iffy moments in the film #but this isn't quite one of them #rather it's about... hmgh.. my poc-ness and the difficulty of writing a Western - so historically focused on poc cowboys n such -#about a group of rich white boys from New England #also like parallel motifs whatever. they don't necessarily have to Mean The Same Thing my brain just makes those connections #tristan writes

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