honestly, this fits with everything else we know about mercymorn, which is that she is just a girl who is really really bad at socializing, except for some reason she's doing it well in an incredibly alien social context (the empire, presumably?), and we're only ever supposed to notice she's being "socially inadequate" because of a) her strange relationship with john and b) her ability to kill people at will
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for years you have paraded around in public, wearing a hat that so boldly claims that women want you and fish fear you. you know just as well as i do that this is a lie. can you live up to the bar your hat sets? currently you are being lowered into a tank of piranha, and only your wife has the controls to save you. does this woman truly want you, or will it be you who fears the fish? let the game begin
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Humans doing the hard jobs on on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted
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I see it a lot in my students that the ONLY mode they can engage with literature on is one in which they either say it's good because it's "relatable" or it's bad because they "can't relate to it" as well, and I feel like this is a symptom of the same problem. An unwillingness to engage with fiction outside of its ability to be a mirror to your specific worldview and set of morals. But art doesn't exist to give you moral purity badges--it's a mode of expression that produces conversations between artists and readers. And to engage in those converesations on an adult level you need to learn to process the discomfort of flawed human realities productively.




















