in-universe "logistics" aside, i think it's good that echo has the permanent scomp arm instead of a hand for like. real-world representation reasons.
in star wars sure they have fully articulated replacement prosthetics but we very much don't have that in real life, and i feel like echo with the scomp is good rep for that. he's one of the most competent characters and i think it's good to show that he can do All That as he is, especially with how irl people with only one hand usually are very capable, even more if they've been living with it for a long time, and very rarely do we see that in media.
like, mark hamill once said he talked to a kid for a make a wish thing who was about to have his arm amputated, and the kid said that he wasn't worried because luke did it too. i think that's important
I feel like Illusen wouldn’t be super good with social stuff, bc she spends all her time in that tree house instead of socializing with other faeries
Im still on the fence whether or not she does.
Her glade in the game is a huge sprawling village-like space that others live in so shes not out there alone. But it is possible that the ppl living there are mostly temporary refugees because she uses her glade as a place of protection for refugees during wars.
Most of her canon interaction with other faeries is with Jhudora but there is the odd time shes referenced talking to others so she definitely has other friends who are faeries. like in this neopedia article with a group of other earth faeries (in which shes also talking about jhudora lol...)
Who she doesnt talk to is Fyora's court, but theres a common sense of frustration with her court among most ppl so that doesnt seem too strange. Its also one of the rumours as to why she left and is the more likely one after the faerie festival. Its clear she feels bad about whatever happened between her and Jhudora so the other rumour of her finding Jhudora did something evil doesnt look true.
Illusen was either part of or interacted with this court at one point until she left
so she seems purposefully secluded from Fyora's court but not all faeries and probably gets along with most of them.
i feel like i should start making more of an effort, when i talk about something in a piece of media being Upsetting to me, to distinguish between 'cathartic' upsetting and 'gave me psychic damage' upsetting. sometimes i mean OUGH OW MY FEELINGS THIS FUCKS ME UP IN A MEANINGFUL AND RESONANT WAY, MY LIFE IS ENRICHED FOR BECOMING AWARE OF IT and sometimes i mean that it is genuinely distressing and i want to shake the creators and ask what the fuck they were thinking
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: i believe that johnson will not leave of his own volition. the man is too obsessed with the power and prestige of premiership to simply let it go
he will have to be forced out of power, but i wouldn’t be surprised if he changes the rules to make that as hard as he possibly can - the same way he broke the ministerial code then rewrote it to remove all requirements of honesty and integrity. i feel like if he has to play dirty to keep his position, he absolutely will
Republicans get caught trashing their own party for the obvious retaliation vote to oust Rep. Ilhan Omar from House committees. John ladarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
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AOC to GOP: Don't tell me you're condemning antisemitism when a Republican 'who has talked about Jewish space lasers' gets a plum committee assignment.
"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unloaded on Republicans for hypocrisy Thursday while defending her fellow 'squad" member, Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Republicans voted to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because of her controversial comments in the past about lsrael. Ocasio-Cortez, in a fiery floor speech, said Republicans have been rewarded for doing worse.
"Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of antisemitic remarks, when you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers, and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body" she said, a reference to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. "This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America."
Greene in 2018 published false and antisemitic conspiracy theories alleging the "Camp Fire" wildfire in California was "orchestrated by politicians and wealthy Jewish bankers."
i think its so fun to be writing semi self insert fics while aro bc i dont want to be in a relationship with canon characters, i just want to criticize their choices and be a massive bitch without any consequences