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The plot was hideously lost with the replies to your Darkling post. I agreed with the point you made in the initial. Not sure how it turned into that…

Hi anon!

It was jarring, but It proved the point I made about fictional racism and fictional revolutionaries. The entire problem with Aleksander and the whole Grisha problem is that people have linked real-world morality to the Darkling as a character. And while real-world morality absolutely applies in some ways (this is a story that deals with race-adjacent themes) it is used to set the precedent that hatred of the Darkling (or introspection of the Darkling) equals a hatred for the cause as a whole. That was the carrying point for all of the following responses: the idea that the cause is somehow triumphant over self-hood. That the Darkling and the cause act as disembodied entity that ignores the personhood of the Darkling. It is why I said a character like Magneto will always work better because his cause and his personhood are not linked. Magneto being a questionable guy doesn't negate the validity of his claims or like the trauma of his background.

The fact that I can make a point saying that somewhat agree with the surface-level ideology of the Darkling, say he is the best character of the trilogy and still have people trying to prove a point I did not hint at in my initial point proves to me that the people are less mad about the politics of his character and more swooned over the dark bad boy he is...which is fine for their personal preferences but...is weird when their argument hinges on the person on the other side not understanding the intricacies of racism, revolutionaries, and politics around oppression.

And all of this is moot bc in my initial post I gave real-world and literature-based examples of better renditions of Darkling's character. I ended both responses by talking about how his character has been replicated a bit more successfully. All that was ignored to make a point that must be a hot topic in extra pro darling circles. As if I would ever hate a revolutionary who used violence to get freedom. The reason I am free today -- why most black people are free today -- is because of the violence and perseverance of the Haitian Revolution. Do you know how many riots happened that brought us the Civil Rights bill? Do you know how much we looted, and torn down and raged to get that bill passed??? It's just wild to have this much energy for a fictional revolutionary who has 500 years and one brain cell. And whose plans hinged on the backs of teenaged boys and girls who were thrown to wolves the second they made a wrong call and not putting that energy on better written, better comparable characters from literature and real life. I do not believe fandom = activism. If you want to fuck a fictional character thats your imagination, but like trying to justify EVERYTHING about this man to prove the non-comparable point about generic fantasy racism for this fictional white bad boy villain is certainly a choice.

[adhderall]

if I turn off reblogs I always make sure to turn off the option that lets others blaze it (lol) too because although it's EXTREMELY UNLIKELY (this is a very irrational thought) part of me is paranoid that if I don't, some petty ass fucker is gonna pay real money to broadcast my dumb posts just to spite me.

[bloojayoolie]

Af, Back to the Future, and Be Like: brangalia Folow prokopetz experience bizarre malfunctions wih such overwhelming frequency isnt just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, its because the Federaion as a cuture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed ful of beyond-cutting-edge bech they don't realy understand Endlessly trustraing t you have to fight them, because they can puil an efectively unlimited number of bulshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses but they're as lkely as not to give themseves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie n the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core maunctions and ncidents? 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[bloojayoolie]

Af, Back to the Future, and Be Like: brangalia Folow prokopetz experience bizarre malfunctions wih such overwhelming frequency isnt just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, its because the Federaion as a cuture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed ful of beyond-cutting-edge bech they don't realy understand Endlessly trustraing t you have to fight them, because they can puil an efectively unlimited number of bulshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses but they're as lkely as not to give themseves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie n the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core maunctions and ncidents? That doesn't actualy happen to anyone etse, "S·leray just Federaoon vesses nat go 0" the rats lke that And they do so on a fairty regular basis So to everyone else in the galaxy all humans are basically Doc Brown prokopetz Alens who have seen the Back to the Future movies ineraly dont realise that Doc Brown is meant so be funny They're just ike yes, mat is exactly what a human sclentists are like in my experience" THE ONLY REASON SOOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE 1S BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE E ROOM AND RAN AWAY vulcan science academy why do you need another warp core humans we're going to plug two of them together and see we go twice as sa last time we gave you a warp core you threw mto a sun to see the sun humans hahaha yeah s IT EXPLODED humans it exploded twice as fast I love this. Especially because of how wel plays with my headcanon that the Federation does so much bemer against the Borg than anyone else because beating the Borg with mitary tactics is nigh-impossble, but beating them with wacky supersclence shenanigans works as long as they're unique wacky Yeah, 1 love this Reminds me of the thing I wrote a whle back about Humans in high fantasy realms- they're basically Team Fuck it Hold My Beer I Got This mpulsve, passionate to a faut, the social structures they build to try and regulate this hotheadedness ironicalty creates even greater levels of sheer bull-headedness. Even their "cooler heads take action in monns or weeks All their great heroes af the past were impossbly rash by galactic standards Humans Just Go With It, which is ther great flaw but also their greatest strength roachpatiol Ingons: okay we dont get vulcan science academy get what ingons: you vulcans are a bunch of stutfy prisses but you're also tougher stronger, and smarter than humans in every single way ingons: hy do you let them run your federation vulcan science academy look vulcan soence academy this a species where you give them two warp cores they don't do experiments on one and save the other for if the frst one up vulcan sdence academy this a species where if you give them two warp cores, mey wil ask for a third one, immediabely plug all three into each other Dinch a hole into an alternate unverse where humans subscribe to even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in R because theyre offended by that, steal meir warp cores, plug those together, punch ther way back here, then try to burn a nearby sun into a torus because that was wha neir initial scientric experment was for and they dien't want to waste a trip ucan science academy: they cid that last week we have the weite-up right here. it's getting published in about six hundred scientific jounals across two hundred aiterent discipines because of how many estabished theories their dculous Ittle expednon has just caled into question. also, they did turn that sun into a torus, and no one actuaily knows how vulcan science academy s i why we ler mem do whatever the hee mey ingons:.can we be a part of your federation Come to think of it, I mean. Look at the Trst human warp drive thing in the you know what the best evidence for this is? Deep Space 9 amost never broke that imtated O'Bren to and back, sure almost none of the truly weird shit that befel Voyager and all the starships Enterprise what was the dest malfunction D89 ever had? re senior staf geting rapped as holosuite characters in Our Man Basr, and that was because a human decided to just dump the transporter buiter into the stations core memory and hope everything would work out somehow which is a bt like swapping your compuner's hard drive out for a memory card from a Play Station 2 and expecing to be able to play a game of Spyro the Dragon with your you know what I'm not done with this post let's talk about the Pegasus the USS Fuckng Pegasus, testoed for tme first Stameet cloaking device. here we have a handful of humans working in secret to develop a cloaking device in olation of a treaty wh the Romulans they're playing cabchup trying to develop a technology other species have had for a century and what do the do? do they decide to duplicane a Romulan cloaking device precisely just see if hey can match what other species have? nope. they decide, hey, whle were at it, while we're building our very first one af these mings just to find out r this s possibie, ers see we can make mis thing phase us out ofnormal space so we can fy through planets wnile we're invisible but wihy said the one Vulcan in the room because that would fucking rule said the humans, high-tving each other Red Bul mere must be like twenty dfferent counseling groups for non-human engineering students at Starfleet Academy, and every week in every single one of them someone waks in and starts up with a story ke "our assignment was o repair a phaser emitter and my one human classmate buit a chronometric- tux toaster that toasts bread aer yourve eaten it MacGuyver" is the equivalent of Vulcan vintage human horor belevision during orientation at a human coliege, vulcans are presented with a ist of what is the word tuck for," the innocent young vulcans want to know. "surely mere are more logical intensty moditiers yeah, yourd think so. say the weary jaded vulcan professors. "youd real)y here is a phrase in vulcan for the particular moment you understand what he This is why the Federation is the only organisation to ever stand a chance The Borg can adapt to the brilant miltary strategies of the Romulan Star Empre·me Kingons and even the cold logical intellectual prowess ofthe The Borg werent prepared for a starship captain to kare them into his 50% nor detectve holo-novel 뉘 d then machine gun them to death with a weapon made of hard light