So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Also, in case anyone was worried, rest assured mim the local void is missing no meals

White Sands, New Mexico

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

Episode 3 of Our Wars Have Ended is live!

In the conquered city of Catalfac, a young dead-diver takes on her newest contract - a job to descend into the depths of the Nether and retrieve valuable information.

Transcript is live here: https://www.ourwarshaveended.com/transcripts-episode-3

Cast List

This episode features, in order of their appearance:

Bekithemba Mbondiya as the Nameless Historian

Laya Lewis as Caul Serrikane

Méabh de Brún as The Severed Head Of Sister Bull

Gregory Dwyer as Caul's Fader

Adam Sam as Nametaker's Second

Gayle Why as The Nametaker

B. Narr as Vile-And-Repugnant Wiles

H.R. Owen and Syd Hymanson as Blinders-in-the-Guts

Additional voices by Kit Paterson, April Tuiolosega, Melissa Lusk

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