We shit on France a lot for a country that does most of our favorite stuff, such as:
Antagonizing England.
Antagonizing and disrupting global religious norms (Western Schism, anyone?).
Beheading the greedy, overwealthy bourgeousie and demanding various workers'/civil rights on a regular basis.
Holding their governing body accountable, with very real consequences if citizens' demands go ignored.
Normalizing snack culture (bread and spreadable cheese with juice, amirite, fellow neurodivergents?)
Having the BEST possible villain accent for campy children's cartoons (step aside, Cockney Brits)
Providing endless meme content.
Like I'm not a France Stan by any means. Please don't get me wrong. The one French exchange student in my university's English Literature MA program did his thesis on Homestuck, for fuck’s sake.
But damn... They have the vibes.
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I think it's really funny that marvel created a character who survived the holocaust, having his family killed, being experimented on by nazis for being a mutant, had his wife and daughter killed while trying to lead a normal life when they discovered he was a mutant and then turned around and went this is actually the antagonist lol. they really fumbled that one. no actually we cannot try to nonviolently wheedle our way into living peacefully charles you know my life story we have been over this
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In season 1, Powder/Jinx was viewed by most as a screw-up, and a monster.
In season 2, Jinx will be viewed by most as a monster, and a revolutionary symbol.
In neither season did the majority opinion see her as a person. Those who did care about her as a person — Vander, Vi, Ekko (though he tried hard not to in arcs 2 & 3), and Silco, in that order — were heavily outnumbered by those who only saw her as the consequences of her actions, and not the eccentric, brilliant, but heavily traumatized and mentally ill girl she actually was.
There are some people who are angry that she is being seen as a revolutionary or peaceful symbol in Zaun. "It should be Vi!" they say. "How could they do this to Ekko?!" But here is what those people are missing:
Symbols are not people. They are iconography. A symbol can last long, long after its origin has died. Hence why doves are symbols; they can die fast, but their paintings last forever. This means that it does not matter at all to Zaun what happens to Jinx, in any way, once she is their symbol; even if she dies, that just makes her a martyr. Even better if it's an enforcer that kills her. (I could see Sevika arranging that.)
Jinx is just as alone now as she ever was. Symbols need to stay pure. Meaning that Jinx's off-color jokes and wild actions will need to be short leashed or she could risk losing that status. Even IF she feels this gives her community, she'll lose that real fast.
This is not the face of a girl who feels she is among friends:
And that is simply because she isn't. They don't know her. They don't need to know her. They need her to do her part (be the face on the murals, the martyr when we need it) and that's it. Jinx's action of blowing up the council was loved. But Jinx herself? No.
This is not an enviable position and it isn't going to benefit her, at least not in terms of her mental wellbeing. Jinx needs real unconditional love and support—what she got from Silco in his final moments, not the empty veneration of the masses who view her as an icon rather than a human being.
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It's past 11 on a school night and I'm fucking crying over robot sentience.
I could never understand what it would feel like to be created with the intent to kill and maim. Maybe, the intent to work and be worked, but not kill and maim.
I will never understand what it's like to be created with the intention of being a product for the masses, either. I think, I hope, I beg, no one does.
I will never ever be able to fully comprehend why hours of people's work, time, and money would be put into formulating my sentience only for me to be seen as disposable. Even if I could be improved, even if I were "defective", there is no reasonable justification for giving me emotions only to dismiss them by pushing me as a product for a year before starting anew.
It's... It's cruel, to the machines. Sentient or not, it's cruel. Though, I guess we are cruel.
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Saturday Six (Stuff)
It's super irritating when people don't stay out of your space. I'd rant about what I'm talking about but it's wayyyyyy too long. I just really get annoyed when people get in your designated space.( •̀ω•́ )σ
It's going to be in the 100s°F this weekend. And of course our AC has decided it's going to act up.(;*´Д`)ノ
My tomatoes are starting to ripen finally!(ෆ ͒•∘̬• ͒)◞
Got a big work project coming up! It's gonna be really cool.“ψ(`∇´)ψ
Why is getting recycling done such a pain in some parts (this part of bum f*ck E WA) of the USA so hard?(๑•॒̀ ູ॒•́๑)
If you haven't seen my favorite silleh guy Boots, just check him out. (=^-ω-^=)
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