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This triggered a religious uprising in which the old elite were butchered and their computers smashed and all electronic intelligence banned forever.

The result of this was the development of techniques to maximize human power. The Bene Gesserit's body control and observational skills. The massive intellect of Mentats - human computers. The unstoppable combat skills of Swordmasters. Guild Navigators, who get high on magical drugs, see the future and guide space ships safeely at FTL speeds.

Of course, this all takes resources, so this just created new elite nobles with the money to employ/become these kinds of people, who oppressd the masses and treated them as garbage.

Goodbye to the old boss, hello to the new.

It is pretty much the essence of Dune that all revolutions simply lead to a new set of bosses, as bad or worse than the previous ones.

gansey, gently, thinking that perhaps adam wants to have a long-overdue conversation about moving on from blue and the fact that gansey is dating her now: why do you ask?

adam: because ronan is gay and in love with me and I’ve known for ages and we just made out upstairs because I’m bi and definitely into him but I need to figure out if I’m actually in love with him too before I proceed any further because I don’t want to hurt him irreparably because it’s ronan

gansey:

Like.....

Like he genuinely does go through this fun little progression. Season 4 kind of surprised me on rewatch because I didn’t remember how much Cas just kind of, doesn’t register the (to him) weird incomprehensible shit Dean says. He does not engage with it, it just kind of slides right off him as he keeps trying to have the conversation he’s supposed to be having. He engages a little bit with metaphors and mirroring Dean’s language in moments of connection (”I am not a hammer as you say”) but mostly you just hear a faint wooshing noise as things sail over his head and he studiously ignores him. In season five when he’s actually all in on team Winchester, that’s when he starts actively questioning them and trying to understand them. He tells them when he doesn’t know what they’re talking about (”I don’t understand that reference.”), asks questions (”Who’s Glen Close?”), and tries to interpret them to the best of his ability, which often involves taking things very much at face value because he has no other option (”God’s not on any flatbread.”)

Season 6 is an extension of that, he’s getting better at understanding and communicating with them and he’s clearly making an active effort. Coming to head with the Superman going Dark Side line which is expertly designed to punish me specifically and make me feel bad and terrible and have to pause the episode and go do something else for a while. (He’s making a JOKE! He’s ECHOING THEM! He wants to Understand and be Understood by them so badly that it undoes everything he worked for!!! Kill me!!!)

Season 7 has Honey Cas who is no longer making any effort to be coherent even to himself. He is speaking nonsense and I love him, and this is kind of something that ends up carried forward a little bit in Cas’ characterization even after this era is over. This is when Cas starts Really starts just saying stuff and he never really stops. It’s not all about trying to fit his mode of communication to other people’s anymore, now people have to make the effort to understand Cas because he has got shit to Say.

Which brings us to season 8, he is now familiar enough with human interaction to participate casually and easily and he is also always doing it wrong. It’s amazing. He understands human connection but not human convention. A waitress comments that he likes coffee and he just starts telling her about when humanity first discovered it. This is a bizarre conversation for the waitress but also totally normal in terms of the broad strokes of how conversations work. The waitress makes small talk about the food and you chat back about your meal, maybe you tell her where the best version of it you ever had was, or why it’s your favourite, or how someone you know makes it in a real specific way.

This is diner small talk, Cas is following the social convention perfectly except that he’s an immortal being who does not eat and so his anecdote is off the wall bizarre. But he’s never going to be anything other than completely genuine about that because the whole point is being genuine! The whole point is he is sharing something about himself with this stranger, he’s not going to make it up, he’s going to tell her about how early humans chewed on the berries to get their caffeine, and they learned it from watching goats.

Sam’s voicemail: If this is an emergency, call my brother.

Dean’s voicemail: If this is an emergency, leave a message or try my other phone.

I think Harry is somewhat gray, because his canon version doesn't believe it's wrong to torture someone he knows is a bad person and has probably done the same; furthermore, he doesn't really oppose the idea of killing the villain, even though he identifies with him in several ways. I think Harry could easily wish death upon someone he hated (and some people disagree with this, mentioning Draco; however, I don't think Harry hated Draco at all. He simply disliked him greatly and considered him an enemy because he bullied him, but he didn't wish him death or any greater pain than a punch, if you know what I mean).

Other people also mention Peter, but I think that's very different because when Harry prevented Peter's death, he was thinking about the well-being of Sirius and Remus's souls, thinking that his father wouldn't have wanted them to be murderers (and this is because he now feels better knowing that his godfather/his father's best friend isn't guilty, because before he was in favor of killing Sirius violently). I think Peter didn't deserve to die ( in the sense that death is too good for him). Harry tried to prevent him from dying later, but at this point Peter had just chosen not to kill him, since Harry didn't really care when he died, I don't think he had anything but negative feelings towards him.