allegory, allegorier, allegoriest

All "takes" on this blog reflect real policy that will come to pass in the dark era of my rule

the throughline of that last episode seemed to me to be about like. legitimacy and power. without the legitimacy of flint's name the crew have less power over the ship they're taking, and it cost them the prize. they had to sink the ship to maintain the legitimacy and therefore the power of the flag. but it is kind of distressing to see how handicapped eleanor is in this arena. she is less powerful than the men not because of intrinsic comparative weakness but because she is a woman and therefore less legitimate. people aren't cowed by her power plays like they are by flint's. she has to ask vane to back her up, and he knows it.

i mean one of the problems that flint pointed out vis-a-vis taking a ship is how emasculated the captain will feel if he submits. if he thinks the cost to his masculinity is too high he'll fight back. and going along with eleanor is necessarily felt as much more emasculating

fuckkkk my sacrificial lamb has started hanging out with the scapegoat

Postcanon Xiyao is good because JGY's ability to genuinely cycle through feeling all "🥺 precious cinnamon roll too good for this world... too pure..." about a man who fatally stabbed him kind of never gets old

yes.... good boy. put on your clocked stockings.... now the knee breeches... yesss... and the peruke.... you're doing so well.... #18thcentury #18thcenturyfication #forcefop #powderedwigfetish

thinking about max telling eleanor she was right and the important thing in this world is being a hardened career woman and they both have everything they wanted now and eleanor looking minorly tormented

i hope anne ends up sleeping with both of them

i don't think that ai is making people "stupid" and i don't think it's a psyop to turn us all into sheeple or whatever but i do think that you lose something when you get too dependent on a technology that does some mental task for you. like recently i've made an effort to try to navigate in the car without using gps for everything and within a short amount of time my mental map of the city i live in, my memory for directions, my spatial reasoning, and my ability to get lost without getting scared have gotten dramatically better. i don't want to live in a world with no gps available ever but i am glad that i have gotten less dependent on a fallible tool and am developing new skills. and doing little mental tasks like that is good for your brain i think. my mom has told me that since her workplace went paperless, her legs have gotten weaker, since she no longer needs to go up flights of stairs regularly. even if something is more convenient and in some ways better i think it's fair to ask what effects it might have on our minds and bodies y'know. they say use it or lose it and what are we going to lose if we no longer have to use it on the daily in all those little invisible inconvenient ways?