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the observation of trifles

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gen-is-gone

[Ignore the previous poll if you saw it; I wanted the poll to go for a week instead of a day]

Idea stolen from @sillylotrpolls:

Counting all media, and you may take as generous a definition of companion as you like. To specify what 'number of characters' means in this context, if one character has multiple names, (fr'instance Bruce Wayne/Batman) that character only counts once. Otoh, multiple different characters with the same title, (ex. Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, et. al.) might all be Robin, but they each count as separate characters.

As always, feel free to reblog for wider reach.

#i opened up a doc and could list 46 before i ran out#but also wasnt sure how liberal I could b with the definition LOL#i had a serious moment where i was blanking on Charley's name but could remember who plays her for some reason but also in my defense I've#never actually listened to eight's audios sjsljd sorry#doctor who
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willowcrowned

incredible how much housework you can get done if you take a chance and believe in yourself and also have fifteen other much more pressing responsibilities

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husborth

i know people have brought up the idea of Stormtroopers Under Vader’s Command Have A Vader Cult before, and i know a lot of people think it’s a little gratuitous, but i have some thoughts:

  • these are enlisted people tossed into the meat grinder of war under a commander who is like sauron fucked the terminator and a baby manifested from that union, you’re essentially in a terrifying, hostile environment stalked by terrifying, hostile people the entire time, and there’s a solid chance you’re about to get shot and die. vader being on a battlefield is a major tactical bonus in that he’s a one-man tide-turner, and listen, when you really think you’re about to die, you would be grateful for anything that bumped your survival chances up from 35% to 65%, even if that thing was your commander wantonly slaughtering the enemy right in front of you. there’s blood and guts everywhere but at least you’re alive to see them, you know?
  • if your superior was a mystic who bought into a strange religion of arcane power, not tangible to you at all but you have definitely seen your commander flip tanks with it, you might think things like blood sacrifice could materially improve his power, and therefore materially improve the chances of you and all of your friends not dying horrible bloody deaths in the maw of war. (considering vader’s psychic powers feed on fear, agony, hatred and rage, a blood sacrifice in his name might actually literally work, which is overwhelmingly funny.)
  • tall of the empire’s other military officers are people who graduated space west point, either having wealthy families with connections or just connections, who are guaranteed to not give a singular shit about things like “feeding your soldiers” or “do your soldiers have shoes” as is the trend for dudes who never had to worry about those things before. and, granted, vader probably doesn’t give a singular fuck if any of his soldiers are having a particularly good day, but he did spend a chunk of his childhood being exploited for labor and starving at the whims of the guy who owned him, so he is at least more capable of making the logistical jump of “soldiers need food in order to kill the people i want them to kill” than dudes who never thought about that. and if you were starving as fuck, and the only guy who cared overly much about feeding you was a literal wizard, “a cult” might seem like a rational way to thank him. (considering vader’s psychic powers literally feed on vibes, this might actually literally be a rational way to thank him, which is overwhelmingly funny.)

in conclusion, Stormtroopers Start A Vader Cult isn’t actually the most out there take in the world.

#op this makes complete sense who is saying it DOESNT#star wars
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Sometimes fiction doesn’t have a moral to the story. Sometimes fiction points at something and goes “Ever thought about THAT???” And you look at what it’s pointing at for a bit.

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ciderbird

academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

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I've been down a rabbithole on 9th century Anglo-Scandinavian history for the past six months, and all of this is so unbelievably accurate. 😂

And then for bonus points, ask yourself:

Why is this author so invested in making King Blorbo look good?

(The answer is usually that they're a nationalist, engaged in the project of constructing a glorious national history.)

Or, why does this author have inexplicable beef with King Blorbo?

(Could be that they're from a culture King Blorbo colonized and terorrized, and they're rightfully fed up of hearing about how cool he was; could be that King Blorbo is the one about to get colonized, and this author is priming you to feel that he had it coming.)

But, you might be saying, King Blorbo died 1100 years ago! Why does it matter whether he was good or bad? Who cares if some historian is doing some shady scholarship to retroactively polish (or tank) his reputation?

Welll, because if they get their version of history entrenched in the cultural consciousness, that is going to shape how we understand the world around us, and how we deal with the current issues that are a direct legacy of that history. That's how you get Victorian scholars cherry-picking Anglo Saxon history to build a myth of British exceptionalism, to justify British imperialism, and American right-wing personalities canonizing Lincoln and the Founding Fathers for the same damn reasons.

History isn't dead, and whenever an author clearly wants you to feel a certain way about King Blorbo, good or bad, you should be asking why it matters to them, and what the implications are if you do.

#history#'cringefail authors A and B' fbkdbfkd
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