“All words are made-up.”
Yeah… adding other patterns misses the point. It’s a rainbow. It’s a spectrum that covers everyone. It’s not like one group owns a given stripe. As soon as a broad symbol becomes a collection of specifics, you wind up asking ‘why this group, but not that group?,’ and it’s a whole thing.
You want a flag that explicitly supports trans people? We had that. It’s… the trans flag. And also the rainbow flag, because y’all were already covered. You’re even in the acronym.
It’s just where they keep the vacuum.
Thoomp!
Skull-with-sunglasses Shaun did a whole thing about Harry Potter as neoliberal high fantasy - arguably arguing that it stems from the tribalist worldview that hierarchies are inevitable and all we can do is shuffle around who goes where. Harry becomes a wizard-cop because he’s the right kind of person to wield power. Things are good because he does them. To people in that conservative mindset, asking why he didn’t question that power structure is like asking an apple why it didn’t fall up.
I think what you want is called Worm.
Modern efficiency has streamlined it to around forty minutes.
Captain Picard drops by, breaks the opioid machine, peaces out.
Snow Crash is satire, though. And not exactly high fantasy.
Fuck every form of this. Website: you deliver the document, and I decide if it works.
Aaaugh thank you, I’ve been trying to find this for like a year.
… and did so without examining why the Republic fell in the first place, or how the Rebellion could fall to the same cyclical forces. Which is the sort of thing The Last Jedi kinda hinted at? That movie was an anarchist deconstruction fanfic that somehow got filmed as a major motion picture.
The Last Jedi didn’t do that.
#9 did that.
Currently budgeting a mission to resupply the magenta toner.