Antiendovents didn’t “dox” the main. I did -Sk
Please for the love of god stop having beef with a MINOR(?). You are an ADULT. I am 22 and yet I know to not fight and be rude and say horrible shit to the future of our generations. Grow a pair. I did it to protect others. Stop harassing and stalking them, DudeTM.
I and the rest of us here will take their side over any bullshit whining that an ADULT has to cry over a minor not understanding.
Whatever decent acquaintance ship we had in the past on discord and whatnot is over. Just block me and any of my side blogs you come across I am not going to respond or give you attention outside of this.
yeah guys, I don't really mention it much, but like I'm still in school 😭 I made a post about exams a while ago,, lol. But yeah,, their 30 year old grown ass throwing a tantrum over a mistake we made really fucking pathetic tbh. Like how are you 30 years old and this upset over a simple mistake?? So much so as to insult me in a public post and be aggressive and also getting people to stalk my blog for them?? I assume? I don't really know how else their getting information on our posts
((also thanks for defending me 👍))
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Actually I'm still thinking about it. Another interesting way in which RvB is anti-war is the way that the Director fills the role of a villain and antagonist (especially in the Recollections trilogy, where he's a faceless villain we never see but is responsible for everything that happens).
In his memos to the Chairman, the Director emphasizes his sense of duty and obligation to the military- he becomes irate for the first time when he feels that it's being implied that he was derelict in his duty... or that the work he did out of that duty is being criticized for being against the military's interests. He also talks about Allison's death in a way I find... interesting.
"You see; I never had the chance to serve in battle. Nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War. Someone extremely dear to me was lost very early in my life. My mind has always plagued me with the question: If the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? [...] But, given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself... Had I only the chance."
The idea of sacrifice is central to the way he talks about his wife's loss, to the way he talks about the war in general. He talks of sacrifice with a sense of veneration- that it's something he aspires to do, that he longs for. There's a few ways we can interpret "I would have made those sacrifices myself"...
-That in Allison's place, he thinks he would have laid down his life too.
-That if given the chance, he would have given his life to save hers.
But most interestingly...
-That he would have sacrificed Allison's life for the continued survival of humanity, if that was what duty called for.
...And personally, I think all 3 are true.
In most war media, the Director's perspective on sacrifice is very common. Sacrifice is glorious and heroic- to die in battle is an honour- and it's the only way to ensure the group you serve survives. This is a tool of propaganda- nobody wants to go to war just for the sake of it, you have to give them a reason that the risk of dying or being permanently disabled isn't just acceptable, but desirable. Beyond that, most people don't want to do things they think are immoral- you have to convince them it's important, a necessary lesser evil. You teach them to sacrifice their morals, too.
The way they train soldiers to follow orders and to kill, is to convince them that they, and the people around them, and the people they care about, will all die if they don't. It's drilled into your head from day one. It's the way they ensure their commanding officers won't shy away from sending their men off to die. The message is constant- sacrifice is your duty, and duty ensures your people's survival.
In the Director's eyes, the damage Project Freelancer caused was his sacrifice. He never got the opportunity to sacrifice himself during the war- so he sacrificed others, as military brass do. The Freelancers- including his daughter. The countless sim troopers. Any people he considered "collateral damage" on missions. And when the opportunity to do so presented itself, he sacrificed a copy of himself- Alpha- and he sacrificed a copy of Allison- Tex.
The very thing that derailed his life- the loss of his wife- he made it happen again. He put her copy in dangerous situations, let her exist in the position of constant repeated failure, created the circumstances that would eventually lead to her death. He put their daughter in deadly situations that nearly killed her repeatedly, provided her with impossible expectations leading to self-destructive behaviours in the name of duty, implanted her with two AI knowing they could cause her permanent harm. He was confident he "would have made those sacrifices himself" because he did.
The Director is the embodiment of the military war machine. As an antagonist, he is a warning against buying into the glorification of sacrifice. He's a condemnation of the idea that one should be willing to do anything to win a war- that duty to the military is the thing that ensures survival... All the messages that are pushed to ensure recruitment and obedience of soldiers.
He's a reminder that swallowing the propaganda leads to you doing terrible things... and in the end, you're a broken man left mourning the losses that you suffered even as you repeated them, convinced that it was all necessary.
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Hello I just wanted to say that I’m a minor and I love ur blog HEHEHEHEHE
IDC ABOUT 18++ I JUST WANT TO READ MIGUEL SMUT LEAVE ME ALONE
LUV U VIOLET 🩵
The feeling isn’t mutual, go fuck yourself 🤗
My blog is 18+ to discourage minors from being exposed to more sexual content than they already are in their daily lives. I don’t want to be part of the blame when you’re in your 20s wishing you spent your upbringing being more childish and immature rather than sticking your nose in topics and spaces that you don’t belong in and aren’t even ready to comprehend.
Now you’ve made a creator that you “love” feel guilty and uncomfortable, congratulations!
You are free to self-censor what media you choose to interact with, but this is not a safe space for you if you make the fucking awful decision to view the content I post. I will not babysit you just because you are a horny teenager and you like reading smut on my blog.
You’re not funny because you “turned yourself in” or whatever. It’s sad. Go play outside or something.
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