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not sure how well i'm going to articulate this but something i really appreciate about project hail mary is that it takes what's a fairly common scifi trope of presenting you with a body that has been deemed "expendable" and asks you, as an audience, to get to know it better; engage with it, and determine whether it has a claim to personhood and the rights and free will to make its own choices that come with that. except, most of the time, the body in question belongs to an android, or a clone, or some other kind of synthetic being that resembles a human, or at least shares a number of traits we consider definitive of "humanity", and the role (well, one of many) of the audience is to assess its capacity for humanity and award or deny it personhood accordingly. can we relate to this being enough to humanise it? can we resist the external and internal influences that encourage us to objectify? what is it that makes us "human" and therefore worthy of dignity and respect?
project hail mary, on the other hand, presents you with someone who has been reduced to an object; had their rights violated and their memories and life experiences - the formative parts of what many people would agree make us who we are - stripped from them, voided of context, and asks you to consider the much harder question: is this still a person? because, in the world that we live in, governed by the interests and value systems we frequently take for granted as necessary, many people in the world endure experiences not dissimilar to what grace did on a daily basis. are they human enough for you to care? what would it take to make them worthy of that compassion, that attachment, that dignity? if you got to know them even a little; if you spent enough time with them - let's say a couple of hours, or about the average length of a film - could you still justify letting it happen to yourself? could you still bear to look away?
it doesn't do a perfect job, of course. no work of art will ever be the answer to all of our social problems, much less a hollywood blockbuster. but it's still a valuable idea to be confronting people with. it still matters that the question was asked.
not sure how well i'm going to articulate this but something i really appreciate about project hail mary is that it takes what's a fairly common scifi trope of presenting you with a body that has been deemed "expendable" and asks you, as an audience, to get to know it better; engage with it, and determine whether it has a claim to personhood and the rights and free will to make its own choices that come with that. except, most of the time, the body in question belongs to an android, or a clone, or some other kind of synthetic being that resembles a human, or at least shares a number of traits we consider definitive of "humanity", and the role (well, one of many) of the audience is to assess its capacity for humanity and award or deny it personhood accordingly. can we relate to this being enough to humanise it? can we resist the external and internal influences that encourage us to objectify? what is it that makes us "human" and therefore worthy of dignity and respect?
project hail mary, on the other hand, presents you with someone who has been reduced to an object; had their rights violated and their memories and life experiences - the formative parts of what many people would agree make us who we are - stripped from them, voided of context, and asks you to consider the much harder question: is this still a person? because, in the world that we live in, governed by the interests and value systems we frequently take for granted as necessary, many people in the world endure experiences not dissimilar to what grace did on a daily basis. are they human enough for you to care? what would it take to make them worthy of that compassion, that attachment, that dignity? if you got to know them even a little; if you spent enough time with them - let's say a couple of hours, or about the average length of a film - could you still justify letting it happen to yourself? could you still bear to look away?
it doesn't do a perfect job, of course. no work of art will ever be the answer to all of our social problems, much less a hollywood blockbuster. but it's still a valuable idea to be confronting people with. it still matters that the question was asked.
Anonymous asked:
Doo you have any recs for VAL/silt verses fanfic AND have you read The starving saints by Caitlin Starling? The vibes are quite silty and I liked the audiobook A LOT
i have read the starving saints! i really enjoyed it, although i do feel that it lost momentum towards the end and stumbled over its own feet a bit at the finish line.
as for fic recs, the tsv fic tag is so small that i honestly recommend just filtering by the VAL character tag and checking out anything that looks interesting to you. it's all pretty good stuff in there, the quality of the fanwork reflects its source material fairly accurately.
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Sore Morel behaves as if he's better than the ruling dead (who are hallmarked by their queerphobia and other discriminatory practices) and yet his able-bodied cis daughter has a smile that could fix the world but his nonbinary child with an atypical body is 'filthy' and 'corrupted'.
#hes literally fine with all the retvrn to tradition shit his objections are almost entirely based in#his patriarchal entitlement and legitimacy being challenged by something he cannot hope to ever control (mortality)#rendering him impotent and inflaming his shame at being defeated in the war. worlds most normal military vet.#owhe
Anonymous asked:
I saw project hail mary again last night because your posts about it and about eva stratt have been driving me insane for the last month, thank you
while eva stratt was inarguably right to do what she did we must nonetheless acknowledge that she committed countless violations of human rights on both an individual and global scale, and the uncomfortable truth that no value system is unimpregnable and no course of action unjustifiable given the right conditions to enable it [waits until grace is forced into an induced coma and launched off the face of the earth] if eva stratt was a fire truck she would be the biggest one in the world
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why are you and your devoted followers so obsessed with that fucking patron saint of whatever the fuck dog. her ghost isnt gonna fuck you freaks
grow up
"what could you possibly stand to gain from feeling a sincere emotion about something? do you want a medal? do you want to fuck it?" i've seen toddlers throw tantrums in grocery stores with more composure than you're showing right now