🚀 🧠 yeraldI’m rewatching #DowntonAbbey, and thinking about why I like it’s despite basically disagreeing with creator Julian Fellowes’ whole lifelong political-artistic conservative project. I also just read #VictoriaGoddard ‘s #HandsoftheEmperor series, #LoisMcMasterBujold’s #VorkosiganSaga, and have been watching a lot of #StarTrek, and realized what they all have in common: reciprocity. They’re reciprocity porn, and ideas of fealty, loyalty, connection, obviously appeal right now.
Dr Camilla HoelWhile everybody on the island seems so happy on the island, someone always leaves. In appearing to break from tradition, but saving the world from corruption and connecting her people with their wayfarer past Vaiana is basically Cliopher Mdang. In this essay I will
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