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anghraine · 2 years

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There’s a post taking shape in my head about the complicated relationship between large-scale systems of oppression and the nature of suffering, and I know Tumblr is generally a pretty terrible place to talk about it at all (third only to Twitter and TikTok, perhaps!), and also that it’s very Handle With Care because there are a lot of gradations between “but what about meeee” hyper-individualism and being incredibly dehumanizing in how we talk about basic human suffering.

I’m still figuring out exactly how I want to put it, but it’s been percolating in my head after a conversation with a friend who is so enmeshed in discourse about systems that he doesn’t recognize when individual people are being astoundingly callous. (I’ve been thinking about some particular aspects for much longer, though.)

Anyway, the idea of actually writing it was exhausting, so I went and worked on my mother’s legendary in GW2 instead.

#got from artificer 0 to artificer 350 and thought some more about headcanons #the whole concept where victoria (my orphaned adoptee human pc) is the pc in her continuity but a background character in althea's #is really entertaining to me—in one universe althea is the hero of shaemoor (and victoria is the adopted cousin she likes #who turns up in the vigil later on)#and that's the only one i've written anything for #but there's this whole other universe where victoria is the hero #and althea is her sometimes prickly yet lovably frivolous and affectionate cousin who she thought was safely in luxury #until she was on pact business and heard some order person say 'lightbringer althea' and then turned around and it's HER family's althea #but it's victoria who is the grand hero #and i was thinking it might be cool if some iteration of ALL my characters actually exist in all universes #like there's still an althea fairchild in the ex-bandit from the streets version of the pc #but in that continuity althea is an only child and deborah is gwen's semi-estranged sister #and i was thinking of all the pc -> npc iterations of my characters basically #an easier subject anyway!#anghraine babbles #discourse hell #ascalonian grudgeblog #anghraine's gaming #anghraine's headcanons #(some of my pcs do get to know each other in the different continuities. and become girlfriends obviously)#(i like the idea of althea/gwen in particular and i'm deciding whether i like it most with pc althea or pc gwen)#(i like victoria/gwen too though—victoria is less obnoxiously patrician than althea can be but also much more dissimilar from gwen #but now there's isabel the geeky scholarship kid turned priory necromancer and i want to fit her in too)#long post #for the tags lol #althea fairchild #victoria langmar #etc

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