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One of the interesting things about the Cardassian / Maquis arguments on Voyager is that I really do think that Janeway is more sympathetic to the cause of the Maquis than other Starfleet officers because of her experience during the Federation/Cardassian border wars.

Also, it's funny whenever someone attacks Chakotay about being too Starfleet because he used to be Maquis. As if Chakotay hadn't spent years of his life as a Starfleet officer and that when he was Chakotay was the very model of a modern Starfleet Officer.

And while Janeway loves regulations, she's more of a risk taker than Chakotay, and if she wasn't so tied to duty she would have helped out the Maquis more.

I don't think it was easy for Janeway to accept the Federation gave up border worlds that she and her friends fought to protect.

But she has far too many ties to Starfleet to walk away, and I think she thinks it's better to stay put in Starfleet so someone is there to advocate for the Federation citizens left behind.

Also, some Starfleet people are too overzealous in trying to arrest ex-Starfleet who became Maquis and she probably thinks it is better she's the one who goes after the Maquis.

Anyway, I just think it's funny that most of her crew assume she's more or less okay with Cardassians. Tuvok might be the only one who knows that Janeway isn't a fan of Cardassians because she keeps that close to the vest.

(This is why, I wish we had more scenes between Janeway and Seska but they hardly had any scenes together post-reveal Seska is Cardassian. Seska was so focused on Chakotay, as if she was not friends with B'Elanna from before. And that was also equally fraught!)

During the run of Voyager seasons 1 - 4, the prevailing beta canon was Mosaic, written by Jeri Taylor -- one of the creators of Voyager-- and in that book part of Janeway's backstory is that Janeway was a prisoner of war and had suffered torture under the Cardassian's tender mercies.

So at the back of all of this, at least to Jeri Taylor's mind, Janeway might not have a good perspective on Cardassians but she's kept it under lock and key.

And yet, most of the time, her crew assumes that she has neutral feelings about Cardassians and negative feelings about the Maquis. IMO, it's not the case.

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Bryan Lee O'Malley remarking that he had Scott explicitly spell out that his relationship with Knives was inappropriate in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off because he feels like a lot of the comic's readers maybe didn't pick up on that is very funny not only because how do you not, but also because the original Scott Pilgrim comics are some of the most didactic media I've ever read outside of, like, medieval Christian allegories about the wages of sin. It's just constantly explaining to the reader exactly why Scott is a bad person, sometimes with little annotated diagrams. Genuinely, what's it gonna take for the twentysomething male audience not to idolise a loser?

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Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.

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I think I dislike ‘fuck canon fanon rulez’ takes because time after time I see how boring and predictable fanon is and how often it reinforces racism and misogyny etc. in ways canon never did

and I think having to work around canon and with canon to make something new usually ends up pushing people to make something weirder and cooler

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construction workers were a superstitious organization who thought orange objects could ward off vehicles, or even control people.

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there is such a thing as fireworks. there is such a thing as earthworks, and waterworks. why no airworks? really makes you think.

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Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

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I don't think we need a monologue or explicit statement from Dany renouncing the Targaryens of Old Valyria for owning slaves and the Old Valyrians for spreading slavery through Essos. She never thinks about them, she doesn't have them on a pedestal in her mind. She has a favorable viewpoint of her immediate family, mostly Rhaegar, that she was taught by her brother. I dont think we need to see Dany explicitly state for the readers that her slave owning ancestors were evil and she disagrees with them because her actions show this.

#asoiaf #daenerys targaryen #reblog

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Some of you don't have firm principles that transcend ideology, and it shows.

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The whole "Targaryens are colonizers" take is so frustrating in more than one way. First off: it's blatantly wrong. Colonialism is the taking of someone else's land in the name of your kingdom and exploiting the land and people for resources. A necessary part of this is establishing a colony, which usually goes hand in hand with wiping out or severely reducing the population of the natives. The Targaryens didn't do this.

They began their time in Westeros as refugees who fled to a small Valyrian outpost off the main continent. They basically no influence or interest in Westerosi politics. This changed with Aegon, who led a conquest of Westeros, not for Valyria, for his house. Because the Targaryens lived in Westeros for over a century, they became just as Westerosi as the Andals. So, Aegon's conquest was not the establishment of a colony in the name of a foreign power, Aegon was from Westeros, his family had lived in Westeros for generations. Yes, the Targaryens kept the Valyrian traditions, the Andals and First Men also kept their traditions when they came to Westeros.

My second reason is that by painting the Targaryens as colonizers, people are erasing the true natives of Westeros, the Children of the Forest. The First Men were not the first inhabitants of Westeros, something people always insist on for some reason. The Children of the Forest lived in Westeros long before the Dawn Age, before any humans came to Westeros (that's fucking why the First Men are called that, they were the first humans in Westeros). They suffered huge massacres during the wars with the First Men and were forced into restricted areas to live after the treaties, then were forced further and further off their land until they were completely gone from the Seven Kingdoms. Sound familiar? This is almost exactly what happened when colonies were established in the real world. The name "Children of the Forest" literally was one of the names used to refer to the American Indigenous peoples. The First Men invaded and had reinforcements and resources sent to them from their original kingdom until the CoF destroyed the land bridge. Erasing the CoF destroys a huge part of the story Martin is trying to tell.

Finally, my third reason, it's a symptom of people misusing and misunderstanding the word colonialism. Words have power, but people seem to enjoy minimizing words like this by constantly using them when they aren't appropriate. The ASOIAF fandom is just a small example of a culture-wide issue. When people constantly use words like colonialism it loses its true impact, so when actual examples exist, people don't see it or nothing is done. I'm not saying it's the antis faults, I'm just saying it's a small symptom of a bigger issue.

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how do you infinite scroller webcomic people DO IT

#reblog #the legend of zelda #zelda #video games #tears of the kingdom #totk #rare art reblog

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They get there by working backwards from their preferred ending of "Dany goes into a jealous rage and burns King's Landing"

Where the notion that Young Griff will have half the regions support his case came from? At best he's gonna have Dorne's support and that will be only if Doran gets to have his daughter become Aegon's wife ( aka Queen of Westeros in case Aegon succeds).

#asoiaf #reblog #i assume he'll of couse have the stormlands too #but riverlands north vale westerlands? #just wishcast lunacy

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Those gifsets of Faith at the lowest point of her life looking half-dead while torturing Wesley turning out to be unexpectedly popular with non-Buffy mutuals. Anyway yes this is a sign, you should watch the show.

#that was the first episode i watched! #it got me into both shows! #reblog #btvs #faith lehane #angel the series

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God I am so sick of people who only watched Clone Wars and skimmed Rebels watching Ahsoka and asking why Sabine is so obsessed with Ezra and acting like her turning back was some sort of character development, when one of the core parts of her character is giant abandonment issues.

Sabine has watched her family turn their backs on her, Ketsu leave her to die, the other members of the Ghost crew falling away for one reason or another, losing her family, and then Ahsoka ditching her for being sad about it. She has spent over half her life watching the people she loves leave her behind, and she would never do that to someone else. Let alone to Ezra, who she bonded with over also having abandonment issues and who was only able to leave in the first place because he counted on her to bring him back.

It's not about romantic feelings or priorities. It's about the fact that all she's ever wanted was someone to come back for her, and when she's on the other end of that decision, there's no scenario where she fails them the way everyone else failed her.

#reblog #star wars #star wars rebels #star wars ahsoka #sabine wren

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I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

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