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Tbh, it's understandable that the councillors thought that Shepard was insane about the whole Reapers thing in ME and ME2. Imagine some random soldier of a newly joined species comes to you and tells you that there are intelligent machines that want to slaughter a bunch of people every 50 000 years. And their evidence is all gone or just a bunch of experiences they (and their crew) witnessed. The crew's biased, obviously they'll follow their CO. Shepard wasn't even a high-ranking officer, only a Lt. Commander. Sovereign could be written off as a Geth creation because the Geth had kept to themselves for hundreds of years and no one knew what happened to them or what technological breakthroughs they had. The whole thing would probably sound like a conspiracy theory.

They just—took away an entire population’s valid IDs. With a stroke of a pen. No grace period. No chance for anyone to get their IDs “fixed” in time, not that they should have had to in the first place. They even made it illegal for people to drive themselves to the DMV to get a new ID. That’s insane y’all. That is dystopian level madness. It is petty and cruel and literally dehumanizing.

They have also invalidated their birth certificates, thus jeopardizing their ability to prove citizenship and vote. It’s voter suppression on top of everything else.

They wanted to make an entire population into criminals with a stroke of a pen and that’s what they did.

And the rest of the country just… hasn’t noticed. No one cares. There’s no headlines. Nothing on the news. Because it’s Kansas. Because it’s trans people.

tier 2 media analysis: what is the story communicating by setting things up so that blorbo would do that

Holy fucking SHIT this is AWFUL. Decades of ghibli woobification leads to turning a biomechanical horror franchise into a pastel ghibli-AI version

I think calling this a “ghibli-ai” version is extremely disrespectful to the many artists who worked on the animation to bring this series to life. You can even see the concept art in the tags here on tumblr. 3D animation =/= AI.

It is an important part of the work because it helps to blur the line between good and bad, kids are gonna assume the Germans are Nazis but when you have sentient animals being twisted into forsaken by god monsters to fulfill mundane purposes it really breaks the normal framing of ww1.