#fantasy oppression

[rjalker]

A thing I keep noticing in stories about slavery that have been written by white people is that it can never just be "regular" oppression and slavery.

It always has to have some magical or scifi-tech componant to it that makes it work.

The Jaffa in Stargate are only enslaved because they're dependant upon the Goa'uld larva. As though it's impossible to oppress people without literally making them chemically dependant upon you.

Constructs (aka, anthroids) in The Murderbot Diaries are only enslaved because they have brain chips that will fry them if they disobey an order. As though it's impossible to force people to do things they don't want to unless you can literally kill them instantly if they don't.

These kinds of authors don't seem to fundamentally grasp that slavery is a real thing that happens in real life. Without any impossible outside help that only exists in fantasy or scifi. Real people are enslaved and they don't need to have killer brain chips in their heads to do it. They don't need to be surgically altered to rely on their slavers for their health.

It's the same with people who only write abusive relationships if there's some literal actual magical thing keeping the victim from leaving. As though real abusive tactics just don't exist.

It's just really fucking aggravating. I know I've seen tons more examples of this but I can't remember what they were from.

It's like these people just refuse to accept that real oppression exists without the aid of magical brain chips or parasitic aliens. You don't need to be able to literally fry someone's brain if they think bad thoughts about you if you physically or psychologically beat them down and enact real fucking control over their life.

I don't know. This kind of trope just seems like it's diminishing the affect of real slavery and abuse because it's pretty explicitly saying that "if XYZ magical control thing didn't exist, these people wouldn't be oppressed because they'd fight back".

As though real oppressed people don't fight back. As though the whole problem of being oppressed isn't that you lose every time because you lack the power that the people who oppress you use to keep you down.

I feel like it's because A)These people don't want to actually admit how horrible real life slavery and abuse is. B)they see themselves as the main character of the universe, so they think that if they were the one being enslaved, they'd instantly succeed at fighting back and winning, because they either can't, or refuse to aknowledge that when faced with systemic oppression, they'd be just as helpless as every other victim in history. They want to see themselves as all-powerful even in imaginary situations where they face oppression they've never actually dealt with, so they have to add some magical Impossible Barrier over top of the actual oppression to make it justified for why they haven't won already.

They think that if the roles were reversed and white people were systemically oppressed, they'd be the main character who magically leads the uprising with has no casualties. They think they'd magically never get hurt or watch their family or friends get hurt or be traumatized or actually opressed in any way.

It's definitely a form of victim blaming. It's definitely making light of real slavery and abuse. It's very fucking infuriating to have to keep reading in pretty much any scifi or fantasy series that deals with slavery that's written by white people.

so. Writing tip. How about learn how actual systemic oppression works instead of assuming the only way to enslave people is by literally being able to fry their brain?

Like. It's saying "these people have literal murder chips in their heads to enslave them, what's your excuse for not freeing yourself?"

#slavery #writing #fantasy oppression #fantasy oppression written by white people #Stargate #Stargate SG1 #and more #The Murderbot Diaries #Martha Wells #Martha Wells critical #and so many other series I can't think off the top of my head right now #victim blaming #writing tips #writing advice #I guess #don't write with the idea that it's impossible to oppress people without the use of magic or scifi technobabble. #as though real oppressed people don't exist #as though history hasn't happened

[princess-of-thebes-1995]

In the future when all you pro Israel supporters will lose the war, you will be cowards and declare you always support Palestine. It's cool being the rebel and being righteous in fantasy and history but in reality you are all afraid to stand up to the evil among you.

May Allah put all you who support this madness in Hell. Your days are numbered. Enjoy while you can. We will get the last laugh. Inshallah.

#fuck israel #boycott israel #israel #anti israel #Palestine #gaza #genocide #hypocrisy #oppression #free palestine #attack on titan #divergent #hunger games #history #fiction #fantasy

[cinnamonsikwate]

i still hate how the onus was on zon and his people to "prove" that orcs were capable of more than violence meanwhile marcille didn't do a goddamn thing to change their minds about elves being raging bigots. funny how she thinks elves (a long-lived race with powerful magic) and orcs (a short-lived race with no magic as far as we can see) are on a level playing field when it comes to securing land and resources!

and having bahai, zon's child, be the one to go "why can't we all just get along" like ooh ryoko kui some crimes cannot be forgiven

#dungeon meshi #fantasy racism #she captured white ppl microaggressions against poc perfectly but cannot commit to portraying actual oppression #and with current events marcille's demonization of the orcs who are obviously fighting to keep their autonomy reads so so awfully #tfw you struggle w depicting oppression bc then you'd have to come to terms w the horrors your country wrought in east & southeast asia #ryoko kui 🤝 hiromu arakawa #interesting how the 'how laios & shuro met' comic generated more racism discourse than ep 4 of the anime #calemonsito notes #edited to include zon's name #i thought his son had an official name too but i can't confirm it in the world guide #edit 2: found his name! #just a lil tidbit: bahay means house in tagalog

[quekerahkerah]

Every time i see some beautiful shiny special edition book on instagram only to read the synopsis and find out it's another Painfully Fucking Bland Romantasy YA 😭

#i keep adding myself to the waitlist for beautiful subscription boxes and waiting for months to get to the front of the line #only to turn straight round and leave again when they offer me a spot and it's just like. 'A Rose of Thrones and Bones' #'In a world where magic-users are OPPRESSED... [for no clear reason] 17yo street-thief Skylyr has spent all her life hiding who she is 😔' #'Until she meets Xyler; a hunky 18yo and youngest general in King Fasciston's evil witch hunting military #in this steamy and thematically heavy-handed enemies-to-lovers romance; will Skylyr be able to cure Xyler of his Fantasy Racism #using only the power of her Strong Female Character wiles and badly-written banter?? #Or will magical cishet white people remain forever oppressed????

[prncewilhelm]

craaazy that some of you are so determined he stays within the mould when the entire show is chronicling him breaking out of it 

#it fills in when he takes the role of crown prince after erik's death #and slowly becomes more rough until it's entirely not in the lines anymore #like season 3's logo #young royals #yr s3 spoilers #spoilers #no one yell at me i'm tagging everything #young royals season 3 spoilers #as someone who has grown up working class w a monarchy that sucks the living daylights out of my country #and has caused so much systemic oppression and created the class system that only widens the wealth gap as time moves on #i'm really exhausted by having to explain that wille being a queer king isn't a progressive thing #and that yah this is a tv show but it presents you an opportunity to #rewire your thinking about real life situations and the actual class system #the people at the top are still oppressive even if they're gay #imperialism is still imperialism even if you let gay people go to war #go read red white and royal blue if you want your gay royal fantasy #this is literally a show about the class system #and how historical systems that are held up by institutions like the monarchy #are a bad thing #and can never be progressive #even if you rainbow wash it

[super-nova5045]

i think the reason oliver is such a compelling character - or at least to me, he is - is because in the end…he wins! he gets what he wants and comes out on top.

in this modern world everyone is a bit of an oliver. crippling social anxiety, awkward, booksmart, and later in the film mostly queer audiences STILL find themselves relating to oliver’s struggle of how to express a desire that is so unconventional, so disturbing, so queer. normally in shows like this - shows with stunning rich people and their stunning social skills - the social outcast remains a social outcast. the queercoded character does not get their happy ending and remains the perpetual butt of the joke.

but in saltburn? saltburn almost has a gone girl sort of ending in the way the supposed villain gets what they want in the end, and we’re rooting for them! we see a mostly unexplored perspective in cinema - the perspective of the outsider, of the freak, and we see just how awful these people - beautiful shiny upper class folk - are, and then this outsider, who has been patronised and placed on a pedestal and humiliated, gets his revenge and gets everything he desired in the end. and in a world where queer, different characters are killed off or side lined or made fun off for whom or what they desire, oliver stands out, because he gets what he desires and he makes the audience root for him while he’s doing it.

#he’s very amy dunne in a way #amy dunne is the manifestation of the pent up frustration and anger every woman has #she has that entire cool girl monologue to show it #i wouldn’t really say she’s a revenge fantasy but so many feminists love her as a feminist icon #because she gets revenge on a man who represents every first world modern problem women face #oliver is the EXACT SAME but for queer people instead! #we’re put on a pedestal we’re belittled we’re pitied #we’re constantly the patronised sidekick #but oliver breaks this and becomes the main character and takes everything from the people who have oppressed him in a way #and that’s why so many queer audiences love him #or at least i do #oliver quick #saltburn #cattonquick #felix catton #felixoliver #oliverfelix #felix x oliver #oliver x felix

[vyuntspakhkite-l-darling]

Prologue

I wanted to put the prologue of my book (as it is right now) out, so anyone who's interested can give questions/thoughts/feedback :3 Read the tags for content warnings before reading.

Basked in the orange light of the setting sun, Arsioly stood, attentive, and witnessed his third execution.

Most people didn’t see that many in their lives, much less when they were barely pushing eighteen, but it was different for Arsioly. His father was the one who carried them out, and his attendance was expected. At least this one was a little more interesting than the others; it was a public execution, done in the dusky light of the snowy city square with a small crowd watching, as opposed to the secluded nature of the other ones. He supposed that serial insubordination and homosexuality were lesser crimes that didn’t require such a spectacle as this.

The rough voice of Colonel Rasily, his father, echoed out over the small crowd, drowning out the pained huffs and curses of the young rebel who kneeled, bound and beaten, at his feet.

“It is Emperor Vahesy’s divine right to rule over these lands, and all those who oppose him will be punished!” He shouted, sending the ball of his foot into the rebel’s face; drops of blood from her nose glittered briefly in the air before splattering to the ground. Arsioly silently marveled at her ability not to cry out, ignoring the frightened whimper from Visralion beside him, the tightening of the boy’s grip on his arm.

The hits kept coming, and Arsioly watched with fear and pride, paying close attention to his father’s actions, as he always did. The way each strike hit easily despite the girl’s struggles; the way he remained unfazed by the curses she spat at him; the way he didn’t flinch at the freckles of blood dusted onto the pale fabric of his pants. His movements were confident and bold as one hand grabbed a fistful of hair and wrenched the woman’s head backward, and the other drew the shining dagger from its place at his side. He brandished it for the crowd as he cried, “Let this be an example to all of you! For the glory of the Emperor!”

With that, he brought the blade down across the rebel girl’s throat, slicking the snow with a hungry pool of crimson. He wiped his dagger on the shoulder of her shirt before replacing it in its sheath. He released hair he’d grabbed; the rebel thumped lamely to the ground. Once the blood stopped bubbling and gurgling in the body’s mouth, he motioned to the two soldiers standing at attention behind him to clean it up. Arsioly looked on, thumbing the folded paper in his pocket and avoiding his father’s eyes. 

“Arsi, can we leave now? Please?” Visralion asked in a hushed tone, his face hidden against his friend’s sleeve.

He looked down at him, back up at the Colonel, then at Visralion again. He gave him a thin smile and ruffled his curly brown hair. “Yeah, let’s go,” he agreed, turning and walking away with his friend.

The boys made their way through the city streets, taking some of the smaller ones to avoid the other kids who were undoubtedly outside and taking advantage of the weekend. They walked towards the edge of the city out of habit, towards the woods where they often went to enjoy the relative solitude.

Once they’d passed the last building and the flat, grassy strip that separated the city from the forest, Arsioly glanced around to check that he and Visralion were the only ones present before pulling the folded poster from his pocket. 

“Take a look at this, dove,” he said, cautiously unfolding it. He’d lost track of how many months he’d been carrying this around, and he’d rubbed at it so much that the paper seemed likely to tear if handled too roughly.

He opened the paper, revealing a boldly drawn illustration of a soldier with a gun. The uniform depicted didn’t align with the ones that the boys saw patrolling the streets every day. Even more damning than that was the big text written across the top, declaring, ‘Save your homes, join the Freedom Army!’

Visralion gasped, stopping in his tracks and taking a hasty step away. “Arsioly, why do you have that? Are you crazy?”

He laughed and shook his head, grinning. “Oh, calm down, it’s fine. Look— look what it says down here,” he said, holding the poster out to Visralion and pointing to the smaller words along the bottom. “It says that there’s free meals and shelter for anyone who joins.”

“So what? Our Army has that too!” He protested, backing up to a nearby tree, as if the paper held some disease he might catch if he got too close. 

He folded the poster and put it back in his pocket. “But our Army won’t let you or your mom join.”

“That’s fine! We don’t even need that, we’re doing just fine by ourselves…” Visralion trailed off, and Arsioly scoffed, knowing that wasn’t even near to the truth. “Whatever. We still can’t join the rebels. We’ll be killed, like that girl—”

“No, we won’t. Trust me, dove, I’ve been planning this since forever. And think of how great it’ll be! We’ll run away and join the rebels, and we won’t have to worry about money or rules or anything.”

Visralion hesitated, and Arsioly took that as a sign to keep pushing. “And they’re fighting for our freedom, it’s even in the name! Come on, we have to do this.”

“But—”

“But, but, but. I’ll go no matter what. I’m only saying that you should come with me,” he bluffed, even though he was quite sure that he couldn’t bear to leave if his only real friend wasn’t going to be with him. 

Visralion looked down and didn’t respond right away, picking at the frayed ends of his scarf. “Do you promise you know what you’re doing? I’ll only go if you promise.”

Arsioly nodded. “I promise, I know what I’m doing.”

“Okay,” he sighed, walking away from the tree and back up to Arsioly. 

“Good,” he smiled. “We can leave tonight, just pack a little bag with anything you really want to keep. I’ll come and get you when it’s really late so nobody sees us leave. Don’t tell your mom what we’re doing.”

Visralion opened his mouth to argue, but closed it without a word and just nodded instead. 

“Alright…” he agreed after a few moments. “Are you really sure about this?”

“I’m completely certain.”

#writeblr #my writing #writing #writer #fantasy #writers on tumblr #tw: death #tw: blood #tw: oppression #biting the bullet vld

[angel-maybe-alive]

I just adore when a Dystopian YA goes:

"Yeah it's the year 3984 humanity somehow ended all types of prejudice based on race, sexuality, religious beliefs, disabilities, gender and gender expression but we will be prejudice against this new group of people (psychics, people capable of having feeellliiiinngs or x-men) and of course the white, cisgender, female, straight, able bodied protag will be a part of this group so she can be the face of revolution also the author will not include any of real life oppressed people on the narrative unless it's to get them killed for shock value"

#im a hater first and a human being second #anti ya #anti booktok #anti divergent #anti ya dystopia #white feminism #its white feminism all the way down #white girls need their oppressed power fantasies

[themoonking]

why is every sapphic relationship in adult high fantasy (that i've read) like: poor / lower class, physically capable and occasionally aggressive masculine woman + wealthy / upper class, cunning and hyperintelligent feminine woman in some kind of position of power over the other. like why is this the formula can i have something different please.

#yes this IS a call for sapphic fantasy recommendations <3 #bonus points if the femme woman is not only in a position of power #but also is a high ranking member of the group that has oppressed the butch woman's people for years #i speak #anti booktok #sort of?? #my issue isn't inherently that these relationships are unhealthy #though if they were aimed and younger audiences and / or marketed as fantasy ROMANCE i WOULD take issue #like in darker grittier fantasy series im not exaclty there for the romance #its that its all so samey and also playing into some overdone stereotypes

[aphverse-confessions]

Something that's always bothered me about Mystreet (and especially the later seasons once we start focusing on werewolves and their lore and stuff) was how the racism aspect was handled.

I think on paper the werewolf racism wasn't necessarily a,, bad idea to include this since it's a very real topic and this could have been a good instance of explaining this kind of thing through metaphor/allegory (although whether its inclusion was a good thing is also up for interpretation imo. Personally I think you could include it but you would need to be extremely conscientious and knowledgeable through research about how to tackle this in a realistic and respectful manner). I just feel it's so weird that werewolves are the only ones who seem to get hit with the racism button and no one else does?? Meif'wa don't, witches don't, demons don't (at least in Mystreet) so why is it only the werewolves? (oh hey Jess' not so blatant werewolf fetish what are you doing here?)

And what constitutes actual racism in this universe? Are there slurs? It seems to be implied a few times when werewolves get upset being called 'dogs' or anything similar. And I think 'furry' could be read as one too? And it seems like 'cat' could also be one for meif'wa (although that was mostly a thing from a Halloween special mini series that was a zombie movie parody with magic cats so idk how canon it is). But meif'wa aren't considered as much of an issue as werewolves in-universe which,, okay??? Why?? Surely there's a stereotype about them scratching stuff up all the time?? If there are stereotypes about werewolves shouldn't there be some for meif'wa? And Zianna, when meeting KC, says that she's heard meif'wa are "so easy going". Couldn't that be considered a micro-aggression in some contexts? But no one says anything about it? It was so weird. Also I'm pretty sure Zane called KC "kitty" once or twice which again,, wouldn't that also be considered a micro-aggression??? I feel like I'm going insane

Like there's so many instances of Aphmau using terms or doing things which other werewolves find offensive (like calling Aaron alpha which,, I'm not touching that with a 39 1/2 ft pole) but meif'wa being called kitty or other variants are fine?? This also isn't helped by the fact that the meif'wa literally have no culture or lore development whatsoever.

Also the fact that race fetishes exist in Mystreet is,, a very fucked up choice. Why was this decidedly a thing for Sylvanna?? It's so weird and uncomfortable and she does this IN FRONT OF HER HUMAN BOYFRIEND ERIC. It felt so distasteful and just should've been excluded entirely.

Also none of this is helped by the ACTUAL racism present in Jess writing (especially with KC bc holy shit she was a hot mess) and other stuff which I honestly can't name off the top of my head but it sure exists :/

TLDR: why was racism included in this Minecraft roleplay YouTube series to begin with it's weird as fuck

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#aphmau #aphblr #aphverse #aphmau confessions #aphmau mystreet #mystreet #I think making werewolves an allegory for an oppressed group of people was always a mistake #werewolves are horror concepts about losing control of your humanity and becoming a literaly monster #even if u strip away the horror of it and just leave it as Jess does #just regular people with heightened aggression (usually) and omegaverse lives or whatever #she's still creating a /reason/ for people to be genuinely afraid of the werewolves (as seen with Katelyn) #and as such it falls flat as fantasy-racism-stand-in because REAL racism and oppression exists #because real racism doesn't have a justification it's people hating things that are different #if that makes sense

[rjalker]

if the fantasy oppression in your setting "makes sense" throw it the fuck out.

If your fantasy oppression is the equivalent to regular people who do not want to get shot getting the fuck out of the store because some Guns Rights Activist family with half a dozen AK-47s in full tactical gear strolled in, your story is racist, you're bad at writing, throw it the fuck out, learn how actual oppression works.

Mice being afraid of getting eaten by cats isn't bigotry, it's called basic survival instincts.

#writing tips #writing advice #fantasy oppression #now watch some random racist get REALLY mad at this post #for no reason #Martha Wells #Martha Wells racism #Martha Wells critical #The Books of the Raksura #The Murderbot Diaries

[eelhound]

"Fantasy and science fiction in their very conception offer alternatives to the reader’s present, actual world. Young people in general welcome this kind of story because in their vigour and eagerness for experience they welcome alternatives, possibilities, change. Having come to fear even the imagination of true change, many adults refuse all imaginative literature, priding themselves on seeing nothing beyond what they already know, or think they know.

Yet, as if it feared its own troubling powers, much science fiction and fantasy is timid and reactionary in its social invention, fantasy clinging to feudalism, science fiction to military and imperial hierarchy. Both usually reward their hero, whether a man or woman, only for doing outstandingly manly deeds. (I wrote this way for years myself. In The Left Hand of Darkness, my hero is genderless but his heroics are almost exclusively manly.) In science fiction particularly, one also often meets the idea I discussed above, that anyone of inferior status, if not a rebel constantly ready to seize freedom through daring and violent action, is either despicable or simply of no consequence.

In a world so morally simplified, if a slave is not Spartacus, he is nobody. This is merciless and unrealistic. Most slaves, most oppressed people, are part of a social order which, by the very terms of their oppression, they have no opportunity even to perceive as capable of being changed.

The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.

Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truth-teller.

It is sad that so many stories that might offer a true vision settle for patriotic or religious platitude, technological miracle working, or wishful thinking, the writers not trying to imagine truth. The fashionably noir dystopia merely reverses the platitudes and uses acid instead of saccharine, while still evading engagement with human suffering and with genuine possibility. The imaginative fiction I admire presents alternatives to the status quo which not only question the ubiquity and necessity of extant institutions, but enlarge the field of social possibility and moral understanding. This may be done in as naively hopeful a tone as the first three Star Trek television series, or through such complex, sophisticated, and ambiguous constructions of thought and technique as the novels of Philip K. Dick or Carol Emshwiller; but the movement is recognizably the same – the impulse to make change imaginable.

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

I want to close and crown these inconclusive meditations with the words of a writer who never spoke anything but truth, and always spoke it quietly, Primo Levi, who lived a year in Auschwitz, and knew what injustice is.

The ascent of the privileged, not only in the Lager but in all human coexistence, is an anguishing but unfailing phenomenon: only in utopias is it absent. It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end."

- Ursula K. Le Guin, from "A War Without End." Utopia, 2016.

#ursula k. le guin #primo levi #quote #quotations #storytelling #fantasy #science fiction #sci fi #imagination #freedom #utopia #dystopia #justice #activism #revolution #books #reading #oppression #injustice #patriarchy #privilege #capitalism

[reluctantbylerblog]

they really have the gall to say they aren’t biased against byler when these are their reactions to both of these posts:

like c’mon bffr

#byler #not gonna tag this as anti m*leven because the last time i did that my post ended up on the actual m*leven tag #so tumblr clearly can't be trusted #but lol I don't much care for m*levin romantically but it just blows my mind how… #idk…let's say…passionate the st subreddit is about ensuring it's sanctity #like they're always like ‘i have no problem with people who ship byler my problem is with people who want mike to break up with el for him’ #and idk it all just seems like a cover for what the actual problem you have against byler: #it's a gay ship involving a character you've projected all your straight fantasies onto (mike) and you feel that #because byler shippers ‘force’ people to admit it will be canon #it says something about your own sexuality #like please touch some grass and work on your homophobia because you can relate to a character who is gay #it's okay #you're not going to magically turn gay if mike ends up being gay #now I'm not saying byler shippers are all little angels btw #(we could probably do better if we just focused on enjoying the ship and the characters instead of arguing with homophobes) #but i definitely think the hate towards byler shippers is queerphobic (it's no secret most of us are queer in some way or another) #where the hate towards m*levin shippers (simply by the fact that it's a straight ship) is just not #and no I don't buy the argument that it's misogynist to want mike to leave el #(as if el's character arc hasn't been intrinsically tied to how misogyny and heteronormativity are #tied together under oppressive systems like the patriarchy #and that her idea of romance and boyfriends under it has been harmful to her independence and sense of self)

[sun-marie]

It's been a while since I last thought seriously about Dr*gon A*e (even prior to falling in love with BG3) and I think a big part of that is I'm not as big a fan of the setting and the worldbuilding as I used to be. Like to me it really does feel like BW looked at typical fantasy settings and went "hmm okay but what if there was Catholic-enforced racism and abelism". And like. Cool thought experiment bro. Do we really need three games made by primarily white guys about that.

#dragon age critical #marie speaks #idk if ableism is the best comparison for mage oppression but idk you get my larger point #I've heard that DA was supposedly BW's critical response to settings like Forgotten Realms after making the og BG games #and idk if that's true but I'd be willing to believe that bc that's what a lot of it's world building feels like #“oh u thought the elves where gonna be ethereal and respected? nah they're a haphazard blend of irl oppressed groups” #“oh u thought this fantasy world was gonna have a plethora of interesting and dynamic deities and gods? nah it's just fantasy Catholicism” #“oh u thought people who can use magic would have respected places in society? nah they're locked in jail for being Different” #like I feel like these ideas were kinda cool for one game. An expanded thought experiment #but idk if they were strong enough to sustain an entire franchise #without significantly expanding their pool of writers to get the perspectives of people they're attempting to represent at least #but that's a whole different issue #anyway DA has some legit cool concepts like the Grey Wardens that I will always love #and most of their early character work is still really strong #but for me every time that setting rears it's head problems arise #anyway if you're still a DA fan that's totally fine! I'm very happy for you! #don't let my salty ramblings spoil what resonates with you from these games #I'm just reflecting bc it used to be a huge part of my life especially through like all of highschool #and now it's just. not.

[the-rainbow-lesbian]

anti-west westerners who enjoy living in a democracy where they are allowed freedom of speech and belief using that privilege to advocate for repressive and fascist regimes thousands of miles away that would take it away from them if they could instead of advocating for the people being oppressed by these regimes are stupid beyond belief and also incredibly vile

#they need to realize they're not special #they won't get a seat at the table #they'll be oppressed like everyone else if their fascist wet fantasies become real life

[yamameta-inc]

Also. Even though I don’t like sci fi i desperately wish people would write fantasy the way they write sci fi. where are the Ideas

#with sci fi it’s expected that you’re gonna put philosophy in the machine!!! #it’s expected that people will have thoughts on the relationship between humans and technology! #it’s expected that you can literalize the human condition through physics! #but fantasy? ummmm………………. have you heard of an ‘analogy’ #okay now imagine if this one race represented this irl group of people… #now imagine they have magic…. and are oppressed…. and uh #magic is like…. you know….. superpowers…….. anyway imagine they get oppressed. wouldn’t that be fucked up