troy baker for an alicia vikander and a tLoU inspired plot on a wwii site.

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Welcome to Guernsey!

You cannot dictate how a person feels.

The staff have literally said they want to explore the savior and triumph; go look up the white savior trope. The entire way that this staff has been handling things goes to show just how absurd and off kilter this thing is.

You want to explore the dark themes? Okay. Then let’s see your “inspo” tag on your tumblr filled with the ACTUAL content of what happened. Not just the happy white woman in black in white or men looking at a map that you’ve been posting.

Let’s see the bodies of all the lost. Let’s see the torture. The starvation. The burning. The people ripped from their homes.

I believe the exact words she used were ‘triumph of the people’ possibly ‘our people’ - it’s nearly three in the morning and I cannot be arsed to look it up. Either way, when you consider our staff is much more diverse than you seem to be able to grasp, it’s definitely not what you’re making it out to be. And taking it out of context is unfair, because she was using it to basically say that the Nazis weren’t the good guys. And they aren’t going to win or be glorified. Which apparently had to be said in the first place. So much so that here I am repeating myself.

The dark themes was perhaps a misstep in speaking, but again - as we’ve mentioned, we’re set in occupied Guernsey in September 1942, not occupied Germany [which based on some of what we’ve heard, seems to be a matter of confusion]. I can go over the whole history of the isle with each and every one of you, if you’d like. But there were no camps on Guernsey. Starvation didn’t start until D-Day, when the supply lines became cut off. Deportation has just begun, which was an important catalyst for the island because it sowed the seeds of an actual rebellion as opposed to the passive aggression of the majority of the population. The Jewish islander population when the Germans arrived was less than twenty, as they evacuated most to Britain before the occupation. However, they wouldn’t take non British citizens, so the refugees that had made it all the way to Guernsey from France were abandoned to the Germans. There was actually a point during the slapdash evacuation that Britain told them to stop evacuating entirely. They left these people behind. About 2,000 islanders, between Guernsey and Jersey, would be deported to German camps before they were through. Most never saw their families again. 

Consider we’ve been criticized for advertising in a public space with an ad that has no discernible image of war in it. So now we’re supposed to shove the horrific war images in people’s faces... because what? To prove a point? We aren’t a graphics site. We’re a collaborative writing site. None of the above is shied away from in the text. Which is what we are being attacked for anyways. So the phrase ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ come to mind. And at the end of the day, the small handful of people condemning us mostly don’t want us to exist at all simply because of our setting of WWII. And there’s nothing to do about that except disagree and move on.

happy 44th birthday, idina menzel! → may 30, 1971

our nuclear war turned into our nuclear winter.