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The second worst part is, once you get older, you find yourself saying "you'll understand when you're older" with Full Comprehension of how fucking annoying you're being right now, but also knowing that it's all you can say.
The third worst part is that once you get older, sometimes you understand why something was done a certain way, but you still disagree with it and in fact are now more upset because you've learned the "why" is some combination of racism and sexism
Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.
chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.
grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet
he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.
even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).
(…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)
famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.
and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.
when this post first went around (a year ago apparently) I was like BUT WHAT ABOUT DADDY DUMAS THOUGH because basically
daddy general dumas was an immense fierce french warrior who was a 6 foot plus, stunningly gorgeous and charismatic Black gentleman
he invaded egypt
the native egyptians said “is this napoleon? this must be napoleon. we for one welcome our majestic new overlord”
then napoleon showed up
napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus
the native egyptians were like “… no… no, we’ve thought very hard and we’ll have General Dumas actually”
this did not make napoleon happy
in fact it made him jealous
napoleon felt so emasculated that he launched a campaign of revenge against General Dumas, including taking away his pension, that probably inspired a lot of Alexandre’s rather satisfying scenes in which fathers are nobly avenged and the money-grubbing villains are rubbed in the mud
His stuff is in the public domain, you can find them on Project Gutenberg here:
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People seriously underestimate the long term effects of constant loneliness
"why are you so weird?" Idk, maybe because being completely isolated while growing up has destroyed my brain and now I'm nothing more than a human-mimicking creature that bases all of my actions on what I think is normal human behavior rather than just doing things naturally
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nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.
So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"
Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here
So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work
Free my girl she's done nothing wrong ever in her entire life
I am so serious look at her she's just a baby
GET HIS ASS RICHEH. This is the first time Easthies loses to a child and it will not be the last <3
If sweet little Tetia called me mean to my face I think I'd cry, genuinely. Also oh god these kids love putting themselves in harm's way to protect each other. Literally shielding them. Also, the timing here - that the girls got there first, but roughly at the same time - suggests that both Qifrey and Olly headed off after the signal at the same time, but somehow Richeh and Tetia outpaced them. Maybe Qifrey and Olly slowed down when they saw the Knights, and the girls simply did not.
It's almost time for Richeh's arc! So we get a glimpse into her worldview (based and correct as fuck, and also arguably a central thesis to this whole story) to establish that there might be Something Going On there.
You know, I talk big game about Arkco, but Tetia is making a good showing for herself. Two little rays of sunshine and sweetness, truly
And here we get the Knights Moralis' foundational philosophy laid out clearly: the world and its contents are black or white, permitted or forbidden, and if you stray from the path there is no kind correction available. Because people cannot be trusted to handle nuance, absolutes are the only safe way to proceed. Maintenance of the power structures and existing rules is more important than anything else, including individual or collective wellbeing and agency. Also, scale imagery - not just tipped, but with its foundations broken. And damn if Easthies' pennant doesn't look a bit like a scythe here. In conclusion: ominous fucker.
You can see so clearly that these two have history, and that Easthies is being set up as a direct foil to Qifrey. They're both proteges of the Wise Ones, both used to using memory magic, and... that's it. Literally everything else about them is about as opposite as it can get. But it's hard to even say this is an order and chaos dichotomy, because it's really just like. Order and Common Fucking Sense. And the absolute lack of respect on both sides is really funny.
Hello little bitty lore drop!
I am simply going to point at chapter 40 and say nothing here. Because the hypocrisy and irony is just. Agonizing.
Easthies asking whether the brimcaps could have taught Coco something while he wasn't looking really strikes a chord in Qifrey - he was already concerned about what might have happened while she was missing in the dragon maze, and the idea of Iguin doing something to Coco that led to this isn't a new one for him. He doesn't even have a rebuttal here. It's a good thing Olly breaks in when he does, being the very good witch that he is.
This is something Qifrey does in Romonon as well, letting his stubborn desire to argue with Easthies/chase after the brimcaps override the more important priority at hand - and it's the exact same thing we saw Agott doing, so fixated on proving herself that she overlooked the reality of the situation. Having those outside reminders that there are more important things at stake than their own ambitions is very necessary to both of them. Agott is a lot like Olly, but she sure does take after her master.
Hey Luluci it's fucked up that you're using his kid's life and access to medical care as leverage here. Surely these three won't be interacting again later.
This time, Coco's drawing with a different pen (one of Qifrey's, perhaps?) but more importantly, a different ink. We know hers got left behind somewhere in the sandbank when she lost her cap, and it's a damn good thing it did.
United front of 'back off from interrogating our students'. See, this is why I don't think Olly would have gone through with turning Coco in to the Knights. He can't hide his own dislike for them, either.
Hello Sasaran foreshadowing! Also. Height differential as a power dynamic once again. He's not even trying not to scare her, and every time he's been close to Coco, he has been towering over her, keeping her below him.
And then once things calm down, Qifrey apologizes for leaving the girls alone!! Which he's right to do, he shouldn't have left them unsupervised in this situation, even if it seemed calm. Easthies stiffly refuses to even entertain the idea that he might have been wrong to accuse a child of forbidden magic, and Qifrey openly apologizes to his students the second he has the chance. Because one of them is a good teacher and a reasonable person. I am, frankly, terrified to see what Easthies' new, shitty apprentice will turn into under that man's tutelage.
And when Qifrey talks to them, it's not an aimless scolding, it's a very clear explanation of the consequences (something which he himself has thought about for a long time) - not just for the girls, but for the other people around them. They're smart kids, they just lack that experience and understanding of the real-world consequences of their actions, and Qifrey is trying his best to impart that here. He treats them like they can be trusted to be responsible. Like they're people, not things (thank you, Richeh!)
And part of that responsibility comes with extra privileges, too - like Agott taking the second test! Look at her little face, she's so excited!
We've had multiple instances over the past few chapters of Agott being separate from the others, whether by physicality or by framing. But now she's right in the middle of them, after working side by side with Coco to fix a problem and then defending Coco to the Knights Moralis. Yeah, I think she'll be just fine for a bit. (Also I would kill for a speech-bubble-free version of that leftmost panel. The two of them side by side with the girls in the background is something that can be so personal)
Hey man so are you familiar with the concept of ecological restoration. I think it might be an important thing to integrate into your approach to life. Not every consequence is unchangeably dire actually.
Oh, Qifrey. And you were doing so well, not doing stupid things to chase after the brimcaps.
Hello again, Iguin! Fun little inversion of that initial phrasing they gave to Coco. Not just the Pointed Caps as a source of lies, but magic itself. I wonder how grand their plan for Coco truly is - if they want to dismantle something even larger than witch society as it currently exists. And of course, using their blood as an additive to the ink to make it much more volatile. Ink is already made from a kind of blood, so I wonder what kind of reaction is happening there to alter its properties. Can we get a magical chemistry spinoff as well as Kitchen?
The reason why nobody succeeds at "redeeming" Metal Sonic is because nobody is offering freedom, they're offering him sympathy.
The few times the characters are shown to try to reach out to Metal they do it with an extended hand, words of understanding and a promise that everything will be better if he just trusts them.
But he doesn't want that sympathy, it is useless to him. He doesn't want you to feel bad for him, he wants you to give him an actual solution. Your empathy is worthless if you can delete Eggman's code out of him, and somehow that's the thing nobody ever offers to him. Because what use does he have from getting pitied if he's still going to be forced to follow Eggman's commands?
Meanwhile, Sage is the complete opposite; she doesn't thrive for freedom, she doesn't think anything is missing on her life. She thinks that's perfectly fine to keep on following Eggman's commands to the end of time. No, what she wants is connection, and that's the thing she has to BEG to get a scrap out of.
But nobody pities her. Nobody feels bad for her. They all see a girl happy to follow her father's command and don't bother to try to form a connection with her: she has already made hee choice, she has already chosen a stance, so why bother?
The characters are offering Metal the sympathy Sage wants. They all think she's free, she thinks so as well, but what use does she have from this "freedom" if she's completely alone? She doesn't want solutions, because she doesn't think there's anything to fix with her: she just wants a family, a loving, close family
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Gets stuck in the past and makes a random village get way smarter and less violent in a generational sense because I keep smacking people over the head with a stick and telling them that it’s the devil’s metal whenever they try to use lead for something in my presence and there develops a very niche regionalized superstition that an angry warlock will jump out of a tree and beat the shit out of you if you touch lead with your bare hands
Gets excommunicated by the Catholic Church for telling people that they can banish the devil from their water if they boil it therefore saving hundreds of people from a cholera outbreak but I don’t care and keep trying to convince the locals to use soap more often
Gets seen as crazy when I say I’m distilling peppermint oil to banish the miasma but people start asking to have some real quick when the Black Death comes to town and I am unaffected due to my constantly minty fresh house repelling rodents and fleas alike
"Grace sounds like a young Eridian" this, "Grace is chronologically a pebble" that. ENOUGH. I propose "Grace is a creaky old man to Eridians." His wealth of knowledge beyond theirs gives the impression that he's spent centuries alive to learn it all. His rougher voice (compared to their whalesong) and steady, fluid movements (compared to their habit of either perfect stillness or jittering) are both full on Eridian gandpappy. They're convinced he's basically Bill Nye before he even reveals he wants to teach science.
Give me an Erid that refuses to accept that Grace, a thirty four year old, isn't everybody's sweet old grandpa no matter how much Rocky rages that Grace is technically younger than everyone he's teaching.
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Okay, as much as I love Rocky extending Grace's life without telling him, consider: Rocky *does* tell Grace, Grace just then somehow manages to like. Horrendously misinterpret what the treatment is actually for. Like.
Eridian Doctor: We went through the human genome and found a bunch of places with old broken DNA repair mechanisms so we came up with a gene editing therapy that fixes them in order to extend your lifespan.
Grace: *flashbacks to when Rocky found out that humans can experience long term effects from lower doses of radiation exposure and Grace wasn't being as careful as he should have been back when they first met because he still thought this was gonna be a suicide mission*
Grace (internally): Oh, so cancer prevention! Got it!
Grace: Sounds good!
*like 100 years later*
Grace: Hey Rocky, how am I not dead yet?
Rocky: ???
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