#truly this is what baffles me about the izzy discourse and debating exactly how good he is at any one skill | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

knowlesian · 2 years

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the thing that really gets me about both the bear and ofmd is the way they ask: did The System and doing things The Way They’ve Always Been Done create your success, or did you succeed in spite of those things?

if you did your best work under a boss who treated you like garbage and made you genuinely afraid to fuck up, was that what did it? do you owe them for ‘toughening you up’? did it ‘make you better’?

or did you just manage to survive it, and along the way you convinced yourself perpetuating those systems so others have to survive the same exact bullshit was right and good, too?

#truly this is what baffles me about the izzy discourse and debating exactly how good he is at any one skill #it doesn’t MATTER if he’s the best sailor in the world alongside a good sword dude #he treats people like shit so nobody respects him #you earn respect you cannot just swan in and demand it #everybody deserve basic dignity and respect nobody owes you blind fealty #truly “what if we looked around realized wtf is actually going on and changed things up” is something that can be so personal in fiction

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