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you know what? fuck it *reads the fanfic I spent hours writing for my own enjoyment*

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jaime Lannister & Tywin Lannister Characters: Jaime Lannister, Tywin Lannister, Théoden Ednew (mentioned), Aragorn (Tolkien) (mentioned) Additional Tags: How Do I Tag, Character Study, I think?, Introspection, Crossover, Alternate Universe - The Lord of the Rings Fusion (Tolkien) Summary:

“You’re going to do what?”

Jaime grits his teeth in the face of his father’s incredulity. “You heard me. I’m going to follow Theoden. I’m going to fight with the Rohirrim.”

“And why, pray tell, are you going to do that?” Even sallow and bedridden from the attack of those foul not-men, Tywin’s demeanor remains as imposing as ever. Refusing him is nothing new to Jaime; he stayed in the Kingsguard, after all. But every time, his father makes him fight for it.

“I don’t expect you to understand, and I’m not here to debate it. I’m going, and short of having your men chain me to a post there’s nothing you can do to stop it.”

A muscle in Tywin’s cheek twitches. “Why?” he grinds out flatly.

Jaime really had hoped to avoid this. Tywin is cold, stubborn, too clever for his own good, and he has no qualms about slicing apart his children with his sharp, uncompromising tongue. Staying will only invite pain and frustration for the both of them.

But running would be cowardly, and Jaime’s done dishonoring himself with things like coward

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Ok, so this exchange from TCW S7E9 has been living rent-free in my head for years now, and not for a good reason.

Let's preface this by reminding everyone that it's OK for characters to be wrong. In fact, it's good for characters to be wrong in many cases, because that's what creates conflict and drives the plot. If a character is never wrong, how do you develop them? If a character is never wrong, you have greatly limited avenues with which to explore their character in a character-study-type way. I would also like to remind everyone that just because a character says or believes something, that does not necessarily mean that the writers agree with them, although on the other hand that is very often the case.

To set the stage, this scene is a little more than halfway through the episode. Anakin and Ahsoka have a . . . weirdly shallow and perfunctory reunion (I guess the Sabine/Ezra hug thing from the Ahsoka show wasn't a fluke?) and arrangements? are made for the attack on Mandalore. Before they can come to any kind of agreement, Obi-Wan bursts in to relay the news that Coruscant is under attack, which for the audience signals that RotS is about to start and shit will definitely be going down soon. Obi-Wan orders that the 501st mobilize and head to Coruscant, de facto killing the Mandalore mission, at least for the time being. Ahsoka . . . does not take this well. She argues with Obi-Wan while Anakin just kinda stands there awkwardly. It is that argument that I want to talk about.

Writers do not necessarily agree with everything their characters say and believe, but it is quite common for writers to pick a side. I've harped on this because this is a matter of subtext and interpretation, so you may disagree, but the way this conversation is presented appears to me to be endorsing Ahsoka's argument and POV. Which is . . . bad. Because Ahsoka's argument is insane.

Ahsoka's argument is that the Jedi are abandoning Mandalore to it's fate in favor of political considerations in the Republic.

Even back when I first watched this episode, I kind of got weird vibes from this scene. I hadn't quite worked out why, but something definitely felt off. Upon revisits, the problems started to become clearer to me. SO! Here's what we're going to do.

I've gone through and transcribed the conversation for you to read, and then I've broken it into chunks to give my analysis. The names of each character have been color-coded for your convenience.

Also, because people will get mad at me if I don't forewarn you, I get very performatively angry here. The frustration behind it is real, but I have exaggerated it for comedic effect.

Because it's fun.

Now! Begin!

AN – Anakin

OW – Obi-Wan

AH – Ahsoka

[ OW enters ] OW – "Anakin, Rex, prepare all forces. We're jumping to hyperspace immediately." AN – "So the attack on Mandalore was approved?" OW – "No, it's Coruscant. Grievous has attacked the capital." AN – "What about the Chancellor?" OW – "Shaak Ti has been sent to protect him, but Master Windu has lost contact with her." OW [ to AN ] – "Not to worry. Our fleet can be there within the hour." AH – "So that's it? You're going to abandon Bo-Katan and her people?" OW – "Ahsoka, surely you understand this is a pivotal moment in the Clone Wars. The heart of the Republic is under attack." AH – "I understand that, as usual, you're playing politics." AH – "This is why the people have lost faith in the Jedi." AH – "I had too, until I was reminded of what the Order means to people who truly need us." OW – "Right now, people on Coruscant need us." AH – "No. The Chancellor needs you." OW – "That's not fair." AH – "I'm not trying to be." [ End Scene ]

OK, that's the scene that has haunted me for years now. You may or may not have already noticed some problems, but either way let's break it down.

[ OW enters ] OW – "Anakin, Rex, prepare all forces. We're jumping to hyperspace immediately." AN – "So the attack on Mandalore was approved?" OW – "No, it's Coruscant. Grievous has attacked the capital." AN – "What about the Chancellor?" OW – "Shaak Ti has been sent to protect him, but Master Windu has lost contact with her." OW [ to AN ] – "Not to worry. Our fleet can be there within the hour." AH – "So that's it? You're going to abandon Bo-Katan and her people?"

Are you forgetting that the Mandalorians are not part of the Republic? Sure, they can request assistance, but not only is the Republic under no obligation to help, but they actually have a treaty of neutrality that they would be breaking by sending in troops. It's not really "abandoning" them, because the Republic owes them nothing. They are in the middle of a galactic war with their resources spread thin as is. You aren't just asking for aid, you're asking them to start another war they really don't need at the moment.

They have limited resources, Ahsoka. They can't really spare anything fighting starting another war.

OW – "Ahsoka, surely you understand this is a pivotal moment in the Clone Wars. The heart of the Republic is under attack." AH – "I understand that, as usual, you're playing politics."

Ahsoka. m'love. m'baby. m'darling.

Do you not realize that there are people who live on Coruscant that aren't senators? A whole bunch of them, actually. Like, literally all of them except a couple thousand. Coruscant is one of the most populous planets in the entire galaxy, dwarfing the population of Mandalore, and that enormous population is currently under siege by the cunning and merciless (allegedly) General Grievous. I know TCW nerfed him to all hell, but in the EU he was, like, an actual génocidaire. He glassed entire worlds. His part to play in the Sith Grand Plan was to make the CIS look as monstrous as possible to justify why Palpatine needed unchecked power to destroy any hint of separatism and rebellion.

How.

The. Fuck.

Is protecting Coruscant from Grievous "playing politics"?

AH – "This is why the people have lost faith in the Jedi."

The RotS novelization (by Matthew Stover, it's the greatest Star Wars book, go read it) has one of the greatest openings of any work of fiction I have ever read. I have never been able to read it without tearing up. I can't put it all here, so I'll just use a short excerpt from the end.

The adults know that legendary heroes are merely legends, and not heroes at all. These adults can take no comfort from their younglings. Palpatine is captured. Grievous will escape. The Republic will fall. No mere human beings can turn this tide. No mere human beings would even try. Not even Kenobi and Skywalker. And so it is that these adults across the galaxy watch the HoloNet with ashes where their hearts should be. Ashes because they can't see two prismatic bursts of realspace reversion, far out beyond the planet's gravity well; because they can't see a pair of Jedi starfighters crisply jettison hyperdrive rings and streak into the storm of Separatist vulture fighters with all guns blazing. A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two. Two is enough. Two is enough because the adults are wrong and their younglings are right. Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.

Fuck, I got tears on my book. This is not a joke, by the way.

The manipulations of the Sith have damaged public faith in the Jedi, true. But this is not one of those cases.

Yes, there is a degree of politics, if one can call it that, alongside the military and sentientarian reasons for diverting to Coruscant. The people of the Republic are watching as the heart of the Republic, the seat of democracy, and soon the stalwart, beloved Chancellor who has guided them through this existential galactic struggle fall into the bloodied mechanical fingers of the most monstrous (allegedly), most lethal (allegedly), most brilliant (allegedly) warlord of their enemies. To quote the novelization again:

[Grievous] is an abomination of nature, a fusion of flesh and droid—and his droid parts have more compassion than what remains of his alien flesh. This half-living creature is the slaughterer of billions. Whole planets have burned at his command. He is the evil genius of the Confederacy. The architect of their victories. The author of their atrocities.

I know this isn't technically canon anymore, but regardless of the specifics Grievous is supposed to be a threat; that's his whole point. He is a ersatz Satan built by Palpatine for the specific dual purposes of killing Jedi, and scaring the Republic shitless. He is the ultimate bane of the Republic. He is an abomination straight out of the Republic's worst nightmares.

And the Republic's only hope is the Jedi.

Night is falling on the Jedi Order, but this is their grand finale. This is their zenith, their 'finest hour'. This, in another timeline, would be the thing the Jedi of this era would be remembered for. The people have lost faith in the Jedi, but not because of the times when they came in clutch and saved the fucking day.

AH – "I had too, until I was reminded of what the Order means to people who truly need us."

Ahsoka dear, the heart of the Republic and one of the most populated planets in the galaxy is under siege by a massive Separatist fleet led by—

General.

Fucking.

GRIEVOUS!

THEY NEED THE JEDI ORDER, AHSOKA! THEY NEED THE CLONE ARMY, AHSOKA! MANDALORE WILL BE FINE, MAUL HASN'T DONE SHIT TO THEM! FOR ALL YOU KNOW GRIEVOUS IS A FEW HOURS AWAY FROM GLASSING LARGE PARTS OF MOTHERFUCKING CORUSCANT! FOR FUCK'S SAKE, AHSOKA, I THOUGH YOU WERE SMARTER THAN THIS!

OK, I think I've calmed down.

OW – "Right now, people on Coruscant need us." AH – "No. The Chancellor needs you."

OW – "That's not fair." AH – "I'm not trying to be."

I'm gonna fucking kill you.

Also, why is Obi-Wan the one getting the third degree here? Anakin was the one who asked about Palpatine, Anakin is Palpatine's close friend. One would think that might come up here? No? OK.

[ End Scene ]

This scene has lowkey bothered me since the first time I watched it, and it has only grown more frustrating since. I can see what it's trying to say; the Jedi have lost touch with the people of the Republic because military and political concerns have eclipsed the Jedi's original mission to the Force and to the people of the galaxy. And, to a certain extent, I agree. At this point in the timeline, Order 66 is only a few days away. Already, the Jedi Council are talking about the Chancellor's emergency powers, and they're only a few days away from Ki-Adi-Mundi proposing an actual fucking coup. I think the writers wanted to have a scene that connected to that, and this was their attempt.

The problem is that this is quite possibly the single worst situation to try to apply that logic to. Anakin and Obi-Wan are about to embark on a mission to save Palpatine, but a) the rest of the Open Circle Fleet (which you would need to divert for the mission to Mandalore) will be up in space fighting in the battle and b) Ahsoka doesn't know that Anakin and Obi-Wan will be rescuing the Chancellor. Anakin and Obi-Wan don't yet know that they're going to be rescuing the Chancellor. It's possible Palpatine hasn't even been kidnapped yet.

The writers badly fumbled the execution of this scene. The most egregious bit is the whole "The Chancellor needs you." It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for Ahsoka, in universe, to even bring up the Chancellor. For all she knows, Shaak Ti, Windu, and Yoda have Palpatine covered and Anakin and Obi-Wan will be in their starfighters blasting away at Vulture droids.

Now, as I said at the beginning, it is OK for characters to be wrong. If Ahsoka had said the Chancellor line in response to Obi-Wan saying something to the effect of "Coruscant is under attack by Grievous. He's kidnapped the Chancellor." then it would at least kind of make sense for Ahsoka to say it, even if I still think that her argument is wrong. Ahsoka was failed by the Order in a very personal way and it would make sense for her to react badly to the Jedi apparently prioritizing a politician over the people of Mandalore.

I also take issue with (again my own personal interpretation, you may disagree) with the episode's framing. The subtext seems clear to me that the writers are on Ahsoka's side here, and agree with what she is saying, which, again, madness. If Ahsoka had better reason to react badly and if the episode actually gave Obi-Wan the chance to challenge her fairly and point out the glaringly obvious I probably wouldn't have a problem with this scene. In fact, I think it would serve as good character work for Ahsoka; showing the ways in which her expulsion has changed her worldview and soured some of the good faith she once held in the Jedi. But they didn't do that, and the end result is that Ahsoka ends up looking kind of stupid. She pulls the Chancellor bullshit out of thin air and appears blind to the fact that, once again, Coruscant is under attack by General Fucking Grievous. And I have a problem with that because I like Ahsoka, and I thus react badly to fumbled storytelling that assassinates her character like this.

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Gotta say, I think an underappreciated aspect of Star Wars that I think Disney Canon (really 90% Andor+Rogue One) is doing better than the EU is getting across the sheer scale of the Death Star project.

In part because they're overused to hell and back, it feels like, to me at least, that the EU doesn't really give the first Death Star its due. This is a planet-killing weapon. Do you know what that means, in terms of physics?

Planets aren't full of C4 waiting to be set off; they are giant balls of rock and metal. To destroy an entire terrestrial planet would require enough kinetic energy to accelerate the entire mass of the planet at escape velocity. You would literally be lifting an entire planet outwards with enough force to prevent it from reforming under gravity. That is an insane amount of energy.

The more Andor and Rogue One flesh out the construction of the Death Star, the more it feels like a project on the scale that should be required to build a planet-killer.

Yeah, it probably should take a material with extremely unusual resilience to survive the conditions in a reactor that creates enough power to destroy a planet. Yeah, it does make sense that such a material would be difficult to find.

We have no idea how long the Empire has been searching for Kalkite. Perhaps it's been a year or so, perhaps it's been over half a decade. Krennic is prepared to deliver equipment and start mining all the way back in 4 BBY, before the ISB plots around Ghorman were even started, because every day is another roll of the dice as to whether or not Stardust gets revealed. They don't have another five years or so to find a more convenient Kalkite source. No wonder the ISB was investing so much into justifying the Ghorman massacre for years.

It would make sense for the Empire to have to dedicate entire planets/moons to the manufacturing of components for a space station a third of the diameter of Ceres. Narkina 5 may have had anywhere between hundreds to hundreds of thousands of prison facilities, with more on potentially dozens of worlds. Narkina-style prison facilities are apparently so numerous that the Empire felt it necessary to develop the electrified floor technology to cut down on payroll, something they wouldn't have done if the savings were minimal. There were probably millions of workers manning these facilities as is. The Imperial prison-industrial complex probably represents one of the greatest mobilizations of labor resources in galactic history.

Yes, it would make sense that a project of this magnitude and complexity would have taken nearly 20 years to develop. It would make sense that the Empire would face years of delays, work stoppages, technical issues, and the like. It would make sense for the program Director to personally intervene in the re-recruitment of a key scientist in the program, because there genuinely may be single-digit numbers of people with the mind and skillset required to solve these specific problems known to the Empire.

For years, whenever I would hear about the Tarkin+Krennic/Thrawn rivalry for funding for Stardust vs the TIE Defender, there was always a part of me that wondered why the Empire didn't just choose both. Surely, I thought, a galaxy-spanning Empire should have resources to spare for both projects. Andor and Rogue One fill in these blanks. Resource extraction on Ghorman, Jedha, Ilum, and hundreds more planets, upkeep for prison facilities incarcerating millions, research funding, construction costs. It would make sense for entire species to be enslaved for the labor necessary to construct this station. To keep a project of this magnitude secret is an enormous task, and every day that passes is another roll of the dice. Stardust probably would be hoovering up enough funding to leave everyone else scrambling for the scraps.

All of these could have been head-canon before Disney Canon established the specifics, but Disney Canon focuses on these aspects and makes the Death Star feel far more enormous than it ever did under the EU.

Moon and stars, I love Andor+Rogue One so much I wanna—

Also fuck Sun Crusher and whoever came up with it. You're the dumbest, and you're worst. For those unfamiliar, its basically an overpowered Wattpad self-insert protagonist written by a twelve year old as a superweapon, except that it was conceived by grown-ass adults and written in published SW EU media.

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In Lesotho, a small African nation surrounded on all sides by South Africa, the combination of US aid withdrawal and President Trump's threat of imposing a 50% tariff led the nation to declare a national state of disaster.

"In a Country Trump Says Nobody’s Heard Of, Tariffs Bring Chaos," Alexanda Wexler, Wall Street Journal, 1 August 2025 [non-paywall version here]:

Trump, who publicly disparaged Lesotho as a place “nobody has ever heard of,” threatened the tiny southern African country with 50% tariffs, among the highest rates proposed for any single nation or territory. The Trump administration ultimately set a 15% tariff on Lesotho late Thursday, but much damage has already occurred to the country’s textile industry. It is uncertain how many buyers will return, leaving thousands of workers in limbo... By imposing tariffs, Trump appears to be sidestepping the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which allows 32 African countries to sell some 1,800 products in the U.S. duty-free. The law expires this year, and, with Trump wielding tariffs as the foundation of his international economic policies, most experts don’t expect the Republican-controlled Congress to renew it. Shelile says a lobbying group that purported to have access to prominent members of Trump’s family asked in a virtual meeting for $1.5 million to campaign for tariff relief. He didn’t identify the lobbyists. “They wanted the money immediately, and they didn’t want to guarantee results,” Shelile said. Lesotho declined the offer, he said... In September 2024, the U.S. Embassy in Maseru said it would pay for a new schoolhouse in Qabane, but had only disbursed about half of the pledged $9,000 before Trump ended the funding, said Cheletsi Lefa, the school’s principal. The school’s 47 pupils continue to attend classes in the roofless church hall while Lefa searches for funding to finish the new building.  “We are going to every corner we can reach to get funding,” he said. “We are leaving no stone unturned.”

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My god, we are never getting out of this Hell are we, Americans are the fucking spoiled brats of the world and yet they demand to be pampered more

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someone I follow on the bird app just announced they’re starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they’re reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there’s 10,000 other people that will continue…but if you participate in a fic “book club” server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don’t rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit “post”

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*wokely* tell me what genitals you have, stranger i just met

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Entitled white women I swear to God

People have been doing book clubs since forever. They do not put George RR Martin on the phone so he can join the chat.

Oh, thank you, kindly court jester jingling into my life under the brave banner of anonymity, for illustrating the exact problem of current fandom.

(This ask is about this post about private fanfiction "book clubs," for those of you who are not following my jester's ire.)

The bedrock of the problem entrenched fandom is having with the newer "TikTok fandom" element is that we have a fundamental disagreement about what fandom is, and what is the social relationship between the people who write fanfiction, make fanart, etc, and the people who read that fanfiction and enjoy that fanart.

(I am not going to use the term "content creator." Because that term is not applicable to fandom, fanfiction authors, or fan artist. Kill the capitalist in your brain. Content is hummingbird nectar made with artificial sweeteners. It resembles the real thing at a distance, but it is devoid of nutrients. It will fill you up so you're not hungry while starving you. Generative AI can produce content because it's empty; it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't even want to engage with you. The sole purpose of content is to get you to sit still long enough for the people who own the platform to squeeze whatever it is they want from you out of you and then abandon your malnourished husk until the next time they can get something from you.)

George RR Martin is not a member of fandom, and the relationship he has with his readers is fundamentally different, because his relationship as an author is explicitly a professional one. When George RR Martin sells a book—not to his readers, but to a publisher who acts as intermediary—he is given a lengthy contract outlining the terms of the sale. How much he will be paid, what can be done with his work by who, etc. George RR Martin is not your peer.

Fanfiction authors are your peers. They're your next door neighbors. They write fanfiction to connect to other fans in celebration of a canon everyone involved loves. Nobody makes a single red cent from writing or sharing their fanfiction. George RR Martin has sold 90 million copies of his books, and he gets money for every one. Because TikTok has trained you that people who are putting their creations out there are monetizing the experience of you reading or watching their art, the "TikTok fandom" element has you sorting your peer posting fanfiction on AO3 into the same category as George RR Martin. But your relationship with George RR Martin is a professional one, and the expectation from fanfiction authors and artists is a social relationship.

When you have a private book club reading and discussing fanfiction without ever telling the author or, God forbid, leaving a comment about how much you enjoyed the story—which is the expectation entrenched fandom authors and artists who view fandom as a social relationship—you think you're reading a mass produced novel from someone who has already been paid for it several times over, but this isn't even Walmart vs. local mom and pop. What are you actually doing is going to your neighborhood block party, picking up the cake someone made and brought to share, and taking it back to your house to eat with friends.

We are your peers. We are your neighbors. We are doing this for free because we want to talk to you about our common interest. No, it's not "payment." We offer our work for free, and you have the option of treating us like vending machines or ChatGPT or Walmart. This is a social relationship; you have this option just as you have the option of leaving your shopping cart in the middle of the parking lot instead of walking it to the cart return. You have that option just as you have the option to stick your chewed gum on a park bench or park your car across three handicap spaces or take a shit on the floor of a public bathroom. How you treat your peers and neighbors, how you treat the people in your community, is up to you.

You can keep stealing cakes from block parties. But don't be surprised when people get fed up with it and stop having block parties. Then you'll be stuck buying cake from Walmart or consuming artificially sweetened hummingbird nectar from ChatGPT while vultures raid your corpse for data.

Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk, court jester. Now get the fuck off my lawn.

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have you or a loved one been diagnosed with asshole? you may be entitled

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the whole "lipstick on a pig" thing makes no sense because the second we gave a pig access to makeup she became god's cuntiest soldier

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I honestly blame the rise of anti-intellectualism and things like hating on old books because they're not up to modern standards on why people can't think with nuance and are afraid of bucking the norm or forming their own opinions. You're going to read Of Mice And Men and you're going to be fucking uncomfortable because that's the goddamn point. You're going to read the original Romeo and Juliet and remember the whole point is to make fun of how stupid and dramatic teenagers are and you're going to sit there and be uncomfortable because the only way you're going to expand your horizons is if you're feeling weird and off and hate it for awhile.

You're going to have to sit in front of the trolley problem as hate that there's no "win" scenario because that's the point. There is no Everybody Wins and Nothing Bad Happens in real life 99% of the time.

You need to be uncomfortable. You need to be conflicted. You cannot be a complete, nuanced, and intelligent person if you refuse to engage with the gray. You are just a bad person at that point. And a stupid one. Because I'm done pulling punches.

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I think the most annoying part was how people reacted to the idea that politicians will have to say "I hear you" "I understand your concerns" around trans sports issues and maybe wider trans issues. Like, Obama talked about his racist white grandma and still loving her any ways as a way to address voters who had mixed feelings about a black President

like politicians aren't gonna say "you're all bigoted assholes who should choke" particularly to what is the majority of the public at this point. Like an unwillingness to try to rhetorically soften the blow while still on a policy level supporting trans rights

I think so many people are in self made bubbles where they only talk to other trans people or a small number of ultra supportive cis people, and so someone even acknowledging transphobia in this way is shocking, but like thats not the real world? the real world we're dealing with like 60% of voters having some level of transphobic views, trying to just scream them down is not working, try talking them round?

We’re in an age of brute force and shouting down, and trying to convince or converse is seen as weak, ineffectual, limp.

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inside me there are two lungs. and one liver. one stomach. a few meters of intestine. there's a lot inside me actually