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Everyone- kings, priests, 'nobles', scholars, craftsmen, and ordinary people alike- was subject to the will of the harvest and the will of the weather. One drought was enough to cause mass famine and mass death. Five years of bad weather was enough to destroy a kingdom.

50% of all children born- to king or slave alike- would die before they reached the age of 5. (In the worst shitholes on earth today, that number is 14%. In countries with access to proper medical care, it's less than 1%.)

A lot of stories written in the past- Greek myths, the Bible, the Torah, or Chinese legends- caution people against hubris. If you are living at the edge of a knife, any risk you might take doesn't just harm you. It harms your family, your community, and (if it's bad enough) possibly the entire world.

If every man in your village goes off to war and plays hero, you might not have enough men come back to harvest your crops. If you leave your family behind to go off and seek your fortune, and you fail to find your fortune, you're risking your family not having enough to eat, your children (or your parents) dying while you're gone, or dishonour and scandal on everyone you care about.

....If you have access to Tumblr, you no longer live on the edge of a knife. Your society has enough food to feed you, regardless of a bad year; if you take risks, the person they're most likely to impact is you. We've invented wings of steel that can fly so high that there is no "air"; the sun is no longer our enemy.

Oi, I’ve actually got a playlist of essays and shorts I’ve done for the show on my channel!

That aside, no other essays are specifically leaping to mind, but I HIGHLY recommend watching @ohnoitstbskyen’s reaction/commentary videos on the show.

First draft of the script is about 3/4 of the way done, and only about 2000 of the words are spent analyzing the first thirty seconds of episode one.

THE DROUGHT IS OVERRRRR

God this series NEEDS to be peak. KH has been an insular, stagnant fanbase way too goddamn long.

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.