#maybe i'll make a proper post abt this with sources cited

[g1deonthefirst]

i mean the tlt fandom is constantly doing the push and pull between "john is an evil mastermind" and "john is just a normal guy with normal flaws" and i think the truth is somewhere in between. john is a fascist who's destroyed countless planets and murdered countless people, but he's a complex three-dimensional fascist because tazmuir writes complex characters and because real-life fascists are complex and three-dimensional human beings. and i do think it's important when analyzing his character not to lose sight of the fact that john is a complex person who isn't at all omniscient, but it's equally important to remember that he did choose to nuke the earth and become the god of a fascist space empire and conquer planets. he didnt just stumble his way into it!

#tlt #john #once i'm back at my apartment where my books are #maybe i'll make a proper post abt this with sources cited #but the whole 'any of us could have been john' really gets to me because. well. yes and no #any of us could be john in that john was a perfectly ordinary person. not a particularly bad person even #but no in that we are not all neoliberals with john's specific biases and massive ego #like even setting aside nuking the earth. which. idk. #i don't truly believe that We All would have recreated christian imperialism