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I love stories with cyborgs and robots in them — my problem with them is more that they tend to go the "no emotional connection to the world you inhabit means that you're incapable of experiencing genuine human emotions" route. (Which, in some ways, is worse than the "humans are just robots who don't understand what it is to be an organic life-form, so we need to simulate emotions/experience empathy to achieve sapience" route that is common in some similar stories)

A lot of stories with cyborgs and robots in them are "here is a very intelligent machine being very bad at being human because its creators didn't put enough effort into making it connect to human reality in the correct way" with the message that we can't have sapience until it does that. Which I disagree with.

Y’ALL WANT A FANTASY ADVENTURE??

We got Tano, an islander in the capital of the empire that conquered their islands, who’s juuuust getting by, until their best friend and roommate gets a job in the imperial palace and suddenly they can’t make rent. And then they’re framed for destruction of a sacred object of the Order of the Passage, a secular organization of scholar-monks dedicated to studying time. They turned over to the Order for punishment, and lo and behold, the Order doesn’t want to punish them—they want to TRAIN Tano.

Is the Order basically jedi?? Maybe, but I’m a better writer than George Lucas, so suck it. Is this a chosen one narrative?! YEAH, because chosen one narratives in the flavor of the time magic i’m working with frikkin rule!

imo i think she did know what she did was cruel, but felt that it was right, because it stopped the hunger, the relic wars, and ultimately stopped the crew's suffering as well. that being said, i am a lucretia stan to the point of thinking it was wrong for them to go forward with the relic plan with one of the crew being against it, & that she saw the making of the relics as a failure on her part, calling it the crew's "mistake." she loves them & frames what they do oddly

Due to similar circumstances, I’m no longer associated with the TAZ fandom or with said server--or any fandom server at all.

I talk a little about why I chose to delete here, and would just rather continue to not be associated with those fics or groups for personal well-being. 

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