#ruby’s busy SAMM play no children by the mountain goats

[waters-and-the-wilde]

no but i love the fact that Dark Matters doesn't have something bigger and more insidious than the Theia

like. what they have is guns and prisons and corporate cronies. maybe a dragon's hoard of stolen tech that they're sitting on but are more concerned with controlling than actually using in any wide-reaching capacity. they're pretty big and spooky but in a smoke and mirrors way that belies the fact that their power is mundane and in some ways still vulnerable to a bunch of meddling kids plucky gay space rogues. maybe that's part of the power fantasy but also part of the message. idk there's something about the tension between how deliberately cartoon-y the tone of the show is and the way it deliberately inflates and then punctures that spooky factor that makes my brain go brrrrrrr like the power they wield is legitimately a threat but it's like how ursula k le guin talks about how evil is banal. and how sasha's both 'the big villain' and also 'you know what i'm not actually all that good at my job it's kinda embarrassing. guess i'll die. i hope we both die'

'evil is banal' and 'we changed some stuff enough to ruin some rich peoples' days and make things a little better and we're never going to fully grasp the long-reaching ramifications because nobody really can' and 'HEHEH MIND MELD ALIEN ROCKET ESCAPE' 'we don't look back at our explosions but not bc we're cool. we're not cool we're just looking to the future. maybe we're a little bit cool. c'mon let a lady and a car lady be a little bit cool'

i have some notes scribbled on my phone to the effect of 'sasha's not actually very good at her job bc dark matters is inherently fucked up' i should go find that

[waters-and-the-wilde]

[image description: the seinfeld 'you're crying meme'. text reads 'You're crying over Sasha Wire?' and 'The inherent tragedy of destroying yourself and what you loved in the name of a higher goal while suspecting it might have all been for nothing but determining to see it through because either way you believe there's nothing else left for you got to me.']

[waters-and-the-wilde]

oh apparently we're done giggling and kicking our heels and it's time for ugly crying now thanks ever so fuckign much kabert i didn't think it would be possible to do this over someone who literally tried to murder my darlings but i thought a little too hard about her turning up at mick's after him thinking she was dead so here we are i guess i gotta hand it to you

[waters-and-the-wilde]

ALSO

I HAVE A DRAFT BLANK SLATE CODA CALLED OOLONG

I WAS NOT EXPECTING THE OOLONG CALLBACK

FUCK