Eagerly Awaiting TriStamp Season 2

Constructing Legends: Episode 09 is now live on YouTube!

Well, I certainly can't show this on the Blue T website, but you CAN find it...elsewhere~

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In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.

In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.

In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.

This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.

they first find him in the jungle, where an armadillo has no business being

they find the entrance to the city, while being followed by him

he is present when the volcano starts to erupt (previous concept art also showed him in the background actually stopping the eruption)

miguel and tulio sucked ass at the ball game, so they used Bibo as a ball. He ricocheted himself all over the place and defied physics to get into the hoop every time

While Spock’s status as a half human does make him part of an oppressed minority on his home planet, that’s not something that a human from outside the culture would necessarily be able to grasp the full implications of.

Instead, McCoy’s jokes are typically about Spock being a Vulcan, and Spock is able to shoot back with snarky comments about humanity.

It works because both species have roughly equal political power. Though Spock’s status as the only Vulcan onboard might tip the scales a little in that regard, fundamentally McCoy’s cracks about his ears don’t pose any threat to him, any more than his comments about “illogical minds” pose any threat to his human crew mates.

By comparison, Data’s position is much more precarious.

Though the Enterprise crew seem to mostly accept him, he still faces regular challenges to his personhood. He has to ask Captain Picard not to refer to Lore (the closest thing to another member of his ‘species’) as an “it”; he is challenged over his right to procreate; he is made to defend his ownership rights over his own body in a court of law on pain of being fucking dismantled.

And it’s the Federation— aka ‘the good guys'— who do this to him. Data’s rights and personhood are always considered conditional, even by his fellow crew members.

He can’t defend himself against Pulaski, not only because of his problems with communication and social cues, but also because— unlike Spock— he can’t really afford to make witty remarks about his own perceived areas of superiority.

His continued right to work on the ship and be treated as a person is basically dependent on the support of human advocates like Picard. Even if he didn’t genuinely seem to consider human nature to be superior to his own, going on about how great androids are was what got Lore taken to bits and stuffed in cupboard.

I wrote a new sexy wranduin fic!!

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