i dont think its comically evil that the emperor tortured and killed countless people under a proclaimed righteous disguise because that is irredeemably evil but that is also literally three genocides happening in the world right now ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
i do think that its comical the way the ultimate confrontation in these regency era stories always end in battle though like if it was that easy just kill him 50 episodes ago. justification is necessary for logical story progression but politics is utterly nonsensical so all this faff is for nothing.
i did love how sophia still loved monica though because i do believe that all you love comes back to you in the end.
also the art change is criminal felt like i was reading a completely different story.
read this to me when im dead and watch me come back to life
hate it when systemic problems of imperial/monarchal societies are individualised into the fault of a single ‘evil’ regent or ‘bad’ ruling party so all dehumanisation problems can be resolved by placing the correct person in power as if systems of hierarchies are not inherently built on exploitation and oppression. its banging on a wall whether the wall is brick cause they dont want to see you or glass where they do
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The reason why corruption occurs is because the wrong type of individuals are in power. So yeah, if the right kind of person or people are put into positions of control/authority they can fix issues within the system. (Because they’ll strive to remove and implant things for the benefit of society.)
The only problem is that it’s very difficult to find people like that. Most human beings, whether they are rich or poor, have a very bad tendency of being greedy as hell. And when you have individuals who only care for themselves at the highest level, then obviously those at the lowest will suffer gruesomely.
i dont subscribe to the assumption that humans generally have a tendency to be greedy as hell. i believe that on a case to case basis greed is a very human thing to experience for sure. but on a societal level greed like billions in capital being accrued by a single individual or families owning corporations with the kind of capital that can lobby politicians to bomb other countries to subsume their agricultural sovereignty (because they are taxed less than those making under minimum wage) is a systemic problem. societies functioning on a capitalist model will always produce and enable greedy as hell people because politics is built on assumptions and capitalism will always assume that all people are greedy and will always teach people to assume each other as greedy. and yes people whose politics are fundamentally anti capitalist will certainly work to the benefit of the public good. but a system of which the sole purpose is to enrich the 1% will fight to undo this change at literally every turn. that is why roe v wade was overturned because the suffering of all pregnant people to force the birth of a future workforce is a capitalist agenda. you see the system as this structure that is immovable and unchanging but the structure was implemented to do one thing (hoard resources) and no matter how the cogs (leaders in charge / party members etc) change to enable or disable the structure’s ability to do that one thing, ultimately the structure can only do that one thing. people can learn and change. the structure of capitalism cannot. good things produced within capitalism are aberrants not the goal. so you can put even jesus love your neighbours christ on the presidential seat and he would still end up on the cross.
loyer trust the personal attorney is right up there with sara blizzard the weather forecast reporter, andrew drinkwater the water researcher, page turner the author, les mcburney the firefighter, joshua butt the gastroenterologist and usain bolt the sprinter.
the burn was slow but i think the lengthyness braised the story real tender and juicy. details like how her taste buds are incongruent to the people in this other world because she does not belong is so delicious to me like i can tell when an author puts their pussy (soul) into it. plus the conclusion and the added side stories tied it up pretty nicely for me. i like that after such a world shattering ordeal these people are united in way that does not have to be confined to strict labels like romantic or sexual ‘cause really they are tied in the mental way comrades be after everything theyve been through.
what ruined the reading experience was the few people saying odd unprovoked shit in the comments like “these evil gays made me homophobic”. was that supposed to be fucking funny? if youre joking then why is no one laughing? and that kind of talk in this political economy?? (╬￣皿￣)凸 miss me with that bullshit.
also the evil of yurigel and evans was the way entitlement via unchecked tyrannical power allowed them to manipulate entire systems of society to benefit themselves at the cost of the dignity and freedom of others. and their degradation of women specifically was rooted in them being rich and powerful men who would never be subjected to the dehumanising humiliation that renders an able individual into inaction through repeated learnt helplessness to exhaust them into suffering silently. because they were men.
they didnt do that shit because they were gay. they did that shit because they were rich. powerful. men. who saw the lives of other human beings to be that of ants.
I couldn't have said it better myself!
yall have a fundamental misunderstanding of consent in the comments. do allow me to clarify. sexual consent is four pillared.
1) it must be Informed. he was not informed of her touching him (he thought what she did to him was a dream) and she was not informed of him touching her (she literally said she woke up feeling weird without reason ergo she didnt know it happened) (and no i dont think your personal assumption that just because you would know what happens to you when youre asleep somehow equates to her also knowing. are yall the same people? do yall think all people are the same? do yall think all sleep is equal? lets ponder with whimsy in our hearts. powered by all available brain cells in the room).
2) consent must be Explicitly Given. which is saying outloud i want this or writing it on a piece of paper. literally any mode of convey will ball. this happened only once at the very end (when she said i want this and grabbed his cock - correct). before that she was asleep when he jumped her and he was asleep when she jumped him. aurkay? you can say nada that you mean when youre asleep.
3) consent must be Enthusiastic. enthusiasm is most evident in the lack thereof. for example: girlfriends and wives often feel obligated to perform sexual activity because its “their (marital) duty”. so despite the propaganda of abundant pornography with an agenda, no you cannot show enthusiasm when youre asleep. your brain is not even on, there is no proper assessment of risk and reward. please be serious.
and most importantly, 4) consent must always, without fail, be Reversible. if you cannot say no then saying yes holds absolutely ZERO weight. for example: if you are ‘persuaded’ and ‘convinced’ into saying yes after saying no then thats coercion. he could not have even said no (half asleep) and neither could she (completely asleep). sure we know now that they would have said yes - ah but they didnt. how can you reverse a decision you have never made?
5) i do acknowledge that the waters muddy in kink. thats why safeguards must exist in order to temporarily bypass these pillars. for example: safewords, clear boundaries (in discussion of kinks before practice, parties outline plays that are most often categorised in the colour system: red for no go/yellow for only in certain ways or only for a set period of time/green for totally good) and practice. it takes trust to lay still like youre sleeping and allow another person to touch you as they please. and that type of trust takes time to solidify. without these safeguards, where power is properly redistributed to ensure autonomy, its just rape.
so in conclusion: yes they raped each other. it is possible for people to be both victims and perpetrators. and i dont think that saying that it is rape (because it violated all four tenets of consent they way they violated each other) is somehow unproductive. there is a 1:1 ratio between fiction and reality. if you cannot recognise rape in text, how will you recognise it in motion?
I mean I feel like everyone here agrees that this is rape…
class dimissed then…
praising elon musk as a genius entrepreneur is actually pure fucking jokes the man is a stupid deranged white supremacist who inherited an emerald mine and has never worked a day in his life. bitches (author) love to googoogaga for the knife for fucking free
its the first time ive read a story where they dont try to salvage a selfish genocidal warmonger through the ritualistic sacrifice of literally just some poor girl. and for that i feel i must applaud! i think yall are mad because yall expected a more romance appropriate ending with some kind of relief or happy ever after but the story was filled with horror and blood and fear and its not incongruent then for it to end bloody and fearful. i wouldnt say it was satisfying but subverting the genre is rare and honestly i think the ending (even though absurdly abrupt) [is the cia chasing after the author with a knife?] is realistic as hell. its a fairytale when a woman who lives in fear of a man renown for his cruelty suddenly redeems him by repeatedly forcing herself into decisions that betray her comfort and character. so their story ending with him disappearing her from the world in order to cage her forever is consistent with his inhumanity and her willingness to delude herself into believing that imprisonment is peace if he just said this one right thing is too consistent with her character. truth is, almost everybody in her position would have suffered and failed. seraphina then angelica and if time was wound back a hundred more times, a hundred more girls would be dead.
korean social mobility slop ragebaits me like no other. genuinely whats even the point of becoming emperor or taking revenge on the people who killed you only to turn out exactly like them? what did you change bro? what wrongs have you righted? what good are you beside chasing power all your life because you were deprived of it?
he was raised in a barn scoping shit but became a ruler that didn’t give a fuck about his people, that was made out to be a heroic ally of a marginalised race only because he showed up when it was convenient to him and killed people he wanted to kill which happened to not be the elves in question, that allowed reinhart to be reduced to ashes. he was alienated for utilising the spear and instead of getting more people to learn the spear or changing the worth of the spear, he just goes out of his way to kill as many people in a flashy as possible manner. that didn’t display the greatness of the spear that’s just gloating the greatness of himself and alienating the spear even further, the spear’s greatness is not the spear’s but joshua sander’s. he spoke out against the dehumanisation of people at the academy but didn’t bat an eye at single handedly slaughtering a million people. if you are strong enough to have reduced them to ashes you could have simply stopped them from charging at you again. he was subjected to pure classist venom for his mother supposedly being a maid but became a sovereign whose nation is strictly hierarchical and will further perpetuate the venoms that had him and his mother getting beaten up scooping shit deprived of dignity or respect or freedom. he had all of this unimaginable power but instead of just clearing out the rot he so claimed needed clearing from day one, he stood there chapters after chapters watching them throw tantrums and argue with each other to build up a bunch of necessary loss of life and resources before he stepped in and stepped up. bro thinks hes fucking jesus christ (╯°Д °)╯everybody point and laugh, its a clown!
i also hated the whole hes not defined by his bloodline take when his mother was lucia the maid and the 180 turn of hes got claim to the throne from both bloodlines take when his mother was revealed to be a van briton. thats that classic harry potter pitfall. because the social mobility propaganda of you can work hard and you can prove yourself and you achieve if you keep going is ultimately just bullshit. you’re strong cause your dad is strong cause his whole bloodline was strong and also youre a reincarnated angel, and youre an emperor cause your mama royal and your dada royal and also you’re the chosen one. a hypocrite piece of nothing because hes got no substance (didn’t really stand for anything didn’t really want anything beside revenge), no integrity (injustices and personal betrayals are bad because it happened to me not because it exist at all) and no fucking guts because you and i both know that he could have ended it all 100 chapters ago before all these long winded plans came to fruition or all these new underdeveloped no clear motivation no clear goal no background characters came out of the woodwork. joshua sanders is the author’s rock hard fantasy, to disappear as it falls to shit and to return when its all fucked up seven ways to hell so that you’re needed most. im sorry that you’re so much of a fucking coward you have to resort to fantasies of being god just to be a person.