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Context: for weeks/months, the usian government flirted with the "disclosure" idea (the revealing of human contact with aliens basically) by making the site aliens.gov and saying by official channels they were going to finally tell the truth.

Well, turns out their idea of "disclosure" of non human intelligence is by calling immigrants, aliens.

This is straight up horryifying: a government officially calling immigrants "it"; and stupid: they even used the X-files theme song.

that’s what Susan is

but no, we have to invent the most uninspired, surface level take on her story possible and peddle that as the big takeaway of a book series that hardly ever gives you such an on-the-nose “moral”

remember, Susan and the other kids were king and queen for a while. and in The Horse And His Boy, this meant a war nearly broke out because a Not-Muslim thought she was Just So Hot that it was worth killing people over.

there's a very brief section in one of the later books, Lucy mentioned she had tried to talk to Susan about the good times in Narnia, and Susan dismissed it by saying, "oh, what a wonderful memory you have of the games we played as children."

it sort of implies that she forgot.

but, it could be more than that.

because she could also mean that Lucy is only talking about the good parts she remembers.

whereas, to Susan, in the world of fashion and invitations and dances,

if a boy is coming on too strong, all she has to do is say no. and a hundred people don't die.

but, she may not be able to put the past in the past forever.

because even in the modern world, there are still dangerous people.

and sometimes,

when you tell the wrong people "no,"

a good man still dies.

Context: for weeks/months, the usian government flirted with the "disclosure" idea (the revealing of human contact with aliens basically) by making the site aliens.gov and saying by official channels they were going to finally tell the truth.

Well, turns out their idea of "disclosure" of non human intelligence is by calling immigrants, aliens.

This is straight up horryifying: a government officially calling immigrants "it"; and stupid: they even used the X-files theme song.