#org/theory

[soleil-in-the-sky]

Just gonna quickly link this later post on how magolor epilogue's descriptions essentially confirm this.... Well, probably confirmed but still ridiculously likely.

The Interactions of Marx & Magolor

Some think I’m out of my mind thinking Magolor’s castle (or “Magolor Land”) bears a resemblance to Marx, and even more crazy to think it will lead to an appearance by him in the remake. 

…And maybe they’re right!

But I would just like to see these two who have been hinted at knowing each other for nearly TWELVE YEARS to finally interact on screen together. Canonically. (Not counting Star Allies. Great as it is.)

So, with that in mind, let’s take a look back at all the times Marx and Magolor have canonically (or canon-adjacent) been hinted at knowing each other or otherwise been seen together!

1) Magolor’s “somebody” in the “Return to Dream Land” script

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[ganondorf]

sometimes i see people on here talk about anarchism and it's very clear their understanding of it is on par with people whose understanding of communism is "under communism we all use the same toothbrush"

[gendervesp]

This pride month I want more of us to spend less time reviving random pride discourse and more time calling reps to fight against anti trans/queer bills

[become-a-robot]

In the months that I have been practicing keyboard, I have yet to have composed my own music or create a cover, but I DO know what notes each key on the piano are, how to move my hand across them, and how to read all the lines and spaces of sheet music. I feel like 5 months ago I would be impressed by that, considering how daunted I was initially, so I still consider this a win

[batwynn]

Just a heads up, I might remove my Accidental MerDer comic from Webtoon due to a few extremely persistent people being complete assholes who forget that some of us don’t have teams of people who work on the comic, and who are disabled/chronically ill and can’t keep up pace with the bullshit ‘Webtoon schedule’ because it’s unhealthy for even able bodied people.

It’s truly wild to me, also, that I have almost 4K people who bookmarked and are reading it, and yet virtually no Patreons or kofis from that group at all. These people are complaining that I don’t update fast enough… for a comic… they get for fucking free.

I genuinely hate what has happened to webcomics.

[taniushka12]

from time to time i think back to the bookers like... a (true) crime writer married to a financially struggling artist, sounds familiar? theres a clear parallelism there with alan and alice, its such a shame that they kinda appeared at the start, you get one or two manuscript pages about them, you get to hear their inspiration in the dark place's echoes, and then...? they're gone? what HAPPENED to them? didn't ed get like kidnapped or something? did he die?? i kinda wanna hold on hope that they'll appear in a future remedy game 😔

[kosmic-arts]

just had a thought. what if 358/2 was about roxas. like, xion is never a character and all her emotional angst of slowly finding out who she is is instead entirely offloaded to roxas. days is about roxas and him slowly learning who he is, his relationship with his best friend axel and his supremely dysfunctional family of the organization. he learns xemnas' AND the founding members' true goal behind forming the organization and attaining kingdom hearts. why have a trio, and not a family. what really does xion add but complications to the story while diverting much needed attention away from roxas' own game and the other organization members. ive just been wondering...

[hannie-dul-set]

i miss home for the bitchless beomgyu.

[kawarikisaki]

If I right about it being able to show up in any phase besides a new moon that would explain why Kaito’s more “careless “ than the organization because he doesn’t care about that. Though I have a sinking suspicion not only has Pandora been found and used but the organization is aware of this and that’s why they’ve never shown up in a Detective Conan story.

The thing is he probably should care about that, because to our knowledge his only source of info about Pandora is what he overheard those bad guys say. Which again it's entirely possible they're working with faulty information, or that Kaito was able to find info they didn't say through research..... however, we don't know that. So we have to assume the info they had is correct until we're shown evidence to the contrary.

So we know; 1. Pandora is currently hidden in a larger gem. 2. Pandora will shine red if held up to a full moon (Or possibly just moonlight depending on translation.) 3. Pandora is said to shed 'tears of immortality' if held under the Volley comet. (though I suppose it's worth noting that in the 1412 version of the anime they do omit mentioning the comet and just mention the full moon).

But anyways, onto the theory that Pandora could have already been found-

There are a few ways that could go down, but if it's found by Kaito's organization then that wouldn't be the end of it. They would still want to dispose of Kid because he would pose a threat to their continued possession of the gem, especially given that he declared in front of them that he wanted to find and destroy it. That said them finding it would result in there being at least one immortal person running around depending on how the gem actually works (Does it shed multiple tears at once? How are these tears used? Is it proper immortality or does it just extend the lifespan? How often does this comet come around for some reason my mind is saying 1000 years but I don't remember where I got that number?) and while that's not likely to actually be a tangible problem in a story that happens in a compressed timeline it could still potentially have consequences.

Meanwhile if Kaito found it then that could be interesting, because if that were the case then the fact that he's still holding gems up to the moon speaks volumes. Because it means that he hasn't been able to destroy the gem, and therefore is pretending that he hasn't found it yet. (Either that or sheer force of habit.) Which would mean that the organization is still out there and still after him and the gem.

Of course the reason that we can't have the MK organization show up in DC canonically (they have shown up in an OVA, though admittedly it was an MK chapter that Conan was shoehorned into) is mostly for clean storytelling reasons. In DC there can't be any significant progress made to the MK storyline, and in MK there can't be significant progress for the DC storyline. Because that would cause trouble for people that only read one of the two stories. And even if we ignore that if the MK organization were to show up in DC then that would clue Conan in to what Kaito is trying to achieve, and I doubt that Conan would be able to just leave that alone even though he already has so much on his plate.

[mityenka]

by the way i think that a lot of people's idea of activism is a very individualistic one which is counterproductive to most forms of (effective) activism and can easily leave you feeling overwhelmed if you have not yet had any experience with bottom-up political action. like a popular idea that i've seen a few posts about is that people should primarily ask themselves what small scale political action they can take tomorrow which is in my opinion a wrong approach to activism because it encourages individual uncoordinated actions when real political change can only be brought about as a collective. there are numerous existing orgs and revolutionary structures that you can join that already have experience in effective organizing, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. nobody benefits from another five person book club that falls apart after a few months due to bad organisation and half of the friend group moving away for college

[supercantaloupe]

if i somehow manage to get As on all my midterms this semester it'll be a cause for fucking celebration

[ghostmourner]

Every now and then I remember that one ML who said they wanted to start a programme to get people out of the imperial core so that they won't uphold it through taxes & advertised it by saying land in the global south is so cheap so it'll be easy to do if you save up for a few years or have a WFH US job. Gentrification but woke !

[dancingindreamlight]

Maybe I'm immune to conspiracy theories because, when i was 13, i wrote the biggest conspiracy of all, spanning the world. A very clever, handsome man was using many multiple attacks, from fake terrorists to the media, to take over the world.

You think these things can't be easily made up? I can make up 7 conspiracies before breakfast

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

*opens the notes of a political post like a dumbass*

"pSyOp"

[soleil-in-the-sky]

(edit 2: if the read more doesn't work for you, pls tell me so i can tag as long post!)

cant believe i missed this, but i don't care. a late opportunity to make underdog!susie and evil!taranza propaganda is still an opportunity. (edit: yeah now i realize it sounds like i hate taranza but that is not the case at all. i like taranza too, its just I'd like to see more of taranza being actually evil during TDX.) (edit 2: ok so this post is kinda... bossy??? honestly even if i don't like when ppl do it, its ok to not like susie or characterize her as evil, or make taranza less evil than he was in tdx, everybody is entitled to their opinion. plus susie's morality isn't really stated so its up to interpretation. plus i might've missed stuff..... i don't feel like rewriting this, so yeah, sorry if this post feels rude or pushy.)

but yeah, It's absolutely susie and taranza. IIRC, Susie was a mole against HWC the whole time (and her still mechanizing people is a mistranslation. the OG JP version of KSA states she betters lives and brings family harmony using science.), while Taranza willingly helped Sectonia take over.

The problem with susie is that, while the OG version of Robobot implies shes been in the company for a short time (saying "i didnt think this opportunity would come so soon" instead "i didnt think this day would come" when stealing the controller), it still doesn't specify just what she thinks about the mechanization project (from what i've seen). She could have been plotting to reset star dream's creations before selling it, but she could of also just not cared. I also feel like her putting up a facade isnt mentioned enough (maybe its more obvious in jp bc she goes from using a formal watashi to a more informal atashi).

Meanwhile, from what I know, there is no indication in the OG version of TDX that Taranza was against helping Sectonia.

I think the reason she is so hated is because 1. HWC is way too similar to real life, and again, her stance on the companys actions is ambiguous, and 2. Mecha Knight... just mecha knight. That's a whole can of worms i dont feel like discussing too much bc i just want to finish this dang post. But my 2 questions for anyone whos knows more/has the time are these:

Is mechanization really as painful as people make it to be? Obviously there's the loss of free will, which sucks, but is that really unforgivable? (and yes, mechanization is reversible, and all of star dream's creations were reversed with its destruction, hopefully including previous planets, which susie may not even have been there for.) Magolor wanted to conquer the galaxy and rule over everyone, and Taranza helped Sectonia take over Floralia too, so what's the difference? But yeah, does mechanization really involve physical pain?

And also, does meta knight really fear susie? Everyone says that because of that one KSA title screen animation, but who says that meta knight flinches because of mecha knight, and not because shes a crazy fangirl? And when she notices DMK and stops to think, who says shes planning to make another mecha knight? Who says shes not thinking because shes just discovered another meta knight? There's also a kirby twitter illustration for hinamatsuri where susie gets to be the hina doll, and meta knight sits next to her as the emperor doll, and merely has a concerned expression, like almost everyone else in the picture, since susie was not expected to be the hina doll.

Ok, i ended up talking about mecha knight a lot more anyway. Im getting tired, lets move onto taranza. People (and honestly, even HAL) keep boiling his personality down to "sad heartbroken boi", and although its true him helping sectonia may have been because of his crush, he is also described in various sources as intelligent, clumsy, and easily lost in thoughts (although that last part may just be him mourning).

Another susie thing: she calls popstarians and jambandrans "uncivilized". Yikes. I think that's just a bad decision from HAL's part. Same thing with Taranza calling "bonjam" a "silly greeting".

I spent all day writing......... bye.. 😴

Please be polite and respectful ^^'

[star-anise]

Disclaimer: I like Anita Sarkeesian.

But also, I just saw a writeup of a Youtuber whose content has come a long way from his Gamergate days, and to explain that, the wiki says, "Anita Sarkeesian is a radical feminist who created a webseries about sexist tropes in video games"

AHAHAHAHAHA ANITA SARKEESIAN, RADICAL FEMINIST

HOO HEE EXCUSE ME THAT'S A GOOD ONE

Radical feminist. Feminist extremist. Anita Sarkeesian.

Anita Sarkeesian did her Master's Thesis in Social and Political Thought in 2010 on the trope of the "Strong Woman" in fantasy and science fiction TV shows, and produced Tropes vs Women, a series of online videos breaking down her work in a way that was accessible to a lay audience. She found a ready audience in geek feminist circles, since this was exactly the kind of thing we wanted and needed right then.

Tropes vs Women was extremely bog-standard cultural critique, what you'd find expressed in discussion between scholars of literary theory or media analysis anywhere, and exactly what 99% of feminists were saying at the time. It certainly talked about patriarchy as the complex system of sexism fused into our cultural matrix, so it's not like it wasn't radical feminism from that viewpoint, but it wasn't "radical" by way of being especially militant. Sarkeesian frequently pointed out how individual occurrences of a trope weren't harmful in themselves, but that a media landscape completely saturated with only that trope and nothing but that trope is, in the aggregate, a big feminist issue.

And the internet

HAAAAAAAATED

her for it.

Like, geek feminists got flak a lot anyway, especially when we wanted things like properly enforced policies against sexual harassment at science fiction conventions. And yeah, there totally were toxic keyboard warriors who said stuff about all men being scum - but Sarkeesian wasn't one of them.

It's probably because of her succinct, matter-of-fact, "this is not a debated issue, feminists have decades of theory and research to back this point up, sources abound if you google for thirty seconds so I won't stop to baby you through all the fundamental concepts" approach that she got such a big reach. She was calm, concise, coherent, and rational, everything feminists are told we need to be.

Unfortunately that just made her seem... attackable, I think. A good target, not actually scary or impassioned, unlikely to respond to violence with violence. The perfect kind of person to play five seconds of, and then spend the next five minutes yelling into your mic because IF ANITA IS RIGHT ABOUT VIDEO GAME SEXIST YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY THAT EVERYTHING IS SEXIST AND SEXISM IS SYSTEMIC AND ENDEMIC TO ALL OF WESTERN CULTURE AND OTHER CULTURES TOO, WHICH IS CLEARLY RIDICULOUS, ANITA LADY BAD.

She literally spent five solid years as Enemy #1 in online geek spaces. It was completely insane. I am so sorry she had to take the brunt of it, and yet grateful that she did. She held the line and took the shit and kept doing good decent feminist work for years after, though she did admit to burnout and closed up shop on her nonprofit org Feminist Frequency in 2023. I hope to hell she's having a good day.

But even now, more than a decade later, dudes talk about her as though she were Geek Feminist Godzilla, the biggest baddest woman in the universe, off to lay waste to downtown Video Games and cut everybody's balls off.

When people (mostly dudes, but not all) talk like this, it's just very funny and unintentionally revealing because of the absolute averageness of her third-wave, trans-inclusive, western-centric, intersectional feminism. It makes them look absolutely pathetic.

Because it just makes it clear that she is probably the first and last self-described feminist the speaker has ever paid attention to.