God waiting for LMK season 5 episodes to appear feels like this
I’m so nervous as time just passes by
I went ahead and filtered any tags that could possibly lead to anything leak related being shown (pls remember to tag your spoilers) so
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Trailer dropped how we feelin?
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im so funny, i was like
"yeah i enjoy romance but not that basic 'omg i just wanna hug you and kiss you and love you and snuggle you' shit that makes me sooo uneasy. i just want a comfortable silence and someone i know i can trust and watch stuff with and feel comfortable around no matter what. someone i can really fully trust that I don't have to put on a whole weird lovey dovey show around. that other stuff feels so fake and forced and weird, even if it's true it's like, oh my god shut up what are you talking about." <- IDIOT!!!! YOU'RE AROMANTIC. GOD.
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would you be able to give examples/explain more about how race only impacts gideon in the tlt-universe? not being facetious or condescending, genuinely asking. thank you!
Hi anon! If you mean my tags to this post, I wrote
#earth conception of race doesn't impact any character in the series except the canonically brown main antagonist
By which I mean my Worstie and main antagonist of the series, John Gaius (PhD).
I don’t think TLT as a series engages with race in any especially meaningful ways. It’s set in a post-Earth society with entirely different social norms, and there’s no concept of race and ethnicity within the population of the Nine Houses. Physical descriptions of the characters are scarce to say the least, and they rarely spell out the kind of features that suggest specific racial connotations, because the POV characters don’t seem to think it’s something worth remarking upon. iirc, it takes until halfway through HtN for the narrative to confirm that Harrow has brown skin.
[See also Tamsyn’s GtN characters description post. It quotes passages from the book, and you can see how minimal the descriptions are, and she repeats several times that her characters’ appearances are up to the readers’ interpretations. It just doesn’t seem to be a big concern of hers]
Then there’s John, who grew up in twenty-first-century New Zealand and IS explicitly Māori in a way that absolutely impacted his character arc. It's not A major theme of his Nona chapters, but it’s there if you read between the lines. The boarding school he went to, which IRL had a high percentage of low-income Māori students on scholarship. The depth of his climate anxiety, his uncompromising “Nobody left behind” stance before the cryo project was halted, and his fervent hatred of ‘the trillionaires’ afterwards... these are all informed to some extent by his background as an indigenous man imo, and so was the global reaction to his developing powers. The “We were going to put you fellas in jail, weren’t we?” the way his initial attempts at publications are all flat-out ignored by the scientific community and dismissed as culty gimmicky faith healing until he leans into it.
John being Māori is just one of the many pieces of his backstory, and far from the most impactful to what eventually went down, but my point remains that he is the ONLY character in TLT whose racial background 1) affects his story arc and 2) is relatable to the audience. Everyone else is ten thousand years removed from Earth, and I’m just not very interested in using racial identifiers when exploring these characters and their dynamics, because the characters themselves don’t care and neither does the narrative.
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Another thing about Milgram project: we're asked to judge the guilt (not forgive) / innocence (forgive) of the individual inmate, but a lot of them committed their "crime" because society had failed them in some way, and we don't have the ability to judge the institution/society for failing them the same way as we are asked to judge the individual characters for their actions. In other words, all this time we've been judging the individual when we should've been judging the institution.
Like. The Milgram system does fit Kotoko's line about "sympathy is useless, hate evil for the evil that it is" in that we are asked to judge/punish the character (individual) without a chance to change or judge the institutions that led to the various "murders" (the system), and yet she's voted guilty with the highest guilt percentage ever for basically advocating what Milgram asks us to do anyway.
I highkey hope we are put on trial by the end of the 3rd Trial lol—not Es but *us*, the audience
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*stares at screen cunfuzzled* Um?
Hello. I'm confused here. What does this mean?
I'm checking up on my stuff on Quotev and someone is posting their story in my comments? I'm just confused.
I'm not sure how I feel about them using my comment section like their own. Idk if I'm being weird but it's just a thought/feeling. To me it's weird because they can do that on their page. It feels like they are just using mine to get recognition.
Am I being weird or is it weird?
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