Reactionary Grey

An Amenta Roleplay Blog. Not Real.

[reactionarygrey]

"I used to be very scared of change when I was younger, It seemed it was always for the worse and maybe it was then. But recent events have shown me it is sometimes for the good." It's 3 in the morning where I am, and I'm sniffling into my hot chocolate over how beautiful this is.

I hope it is encouraging. We will have to face huge changes on other planets.

ooc this ask was not actually in character on artistic-arborealist’s part (which I failed to realise) so may be slightly un-amentan.

[reactionarygrey]

It sounds like you're doing really well. I'm happy for you.

Yeah. I hope with these new discoveries everyone can do so well. I wonder if they will be anyone out there and if greys will have to fight them. I hope not but also can’t help think it would be splendid.

[reactionarygrey]

Hey, it's good to see you back. It's been a couple of years-- what's up in your neck of the woods? Wait, I know, you settled down and got five babies, right? You definitely deserve at least five.

Not quite five. Although me and my partner do have kids. That is the advantage of living in Voa - everyone who isn’t a disgrace gets at least two. Her performance in the war got her rewarded with a rare third so that is the absolute most anyone can have here. We are very fortunate. I hope you can be as fortunate and even more so with the new discoveries. I wonder how they will change us all. I used to be very scared of change when I was younger, It seemed it was always for the worse and maybe it was then. But recent events have shown me it is sometimes for the good.

[reactionarygrey]

omg! you're okay! I figured you had been eaten by "ex" reds when your country let them run around everywhere!

Yep I’m alive. Life has treated me very well. I suppose I should have expected this reaction coming back after so very long. But this blog represents for me a time so long ago. A time of war and disappointment when my hopes and ideals faded and the world seemed to be rotting away. So when things got better I saw no reason to return. But after this news I almost had to almost to tell my younger self that it gets better. Maybe you will feel similar one day. From your ask you seem unhappy with the world.

[openamenta]

Amentans have found habitable planets. At 4:19 this morning, the first exploration mission returned to our world with news of five confirmed Amentan habitable biospheres, and an expectation of more to come. Amentan feet have walked upon extrasolar planets; Amentan breath has mixed with their air. It was the fulfillment of a dream Amentans have shared since we first looked to the stars. When asked to comment, explorer Thesha Pepalma said, “Our children, our children’s children: none of them will ever suffer empty springs again. The planets we have found… [click here to read the full article]

[reactionarygrey]

I really never thought I’d live to see this.

[reactionarygrey]

I really can’t believe this site and account is still going after all these years. Just reading my old blog that I’d forgotten about from the bad old days. Such nostalgia. So much has changed since then.

ooc Does anyone know just how many years ago the Voan war was in Amenta?

[blossoming-camellia]

Oh wow, Omer’s backstory is really interesting, and now I want there to be a dollmaker picture of her. Her hair jewel thing should be on her gloves, but there wasn’t a setting for that.

[reactionarygrey]

OOC. This makes me want to rewrite every anime and fantasy novel I know with amentan Castes included. Really quite cool.

[openamenta]

okay it’s sort of amazing that six different calador blues managed to agree on anything at all but who do they think they’re kidding, the rainforest isn’t worth that even if you cede sovereignty too

[reactionarygrey]

Why are they trying to sell it? It seems odd for a country to sell territory even worthless territory. After all no one can live there now but that might change in the future. Maybe someone more forward thinking will buy it.

[reactionarygrey]

Tribute to the Governer

 I just heard the news that we have lost one of the greatest leaders of our history. Truly sad. She freed our people from tyranny and restored our nation and institutions after damage that could have destroyed it. I will be attending a memorial. I wonder if we will ever see a leader like her again. In confusing times like these we dearly need them.

[dataandphilosophy]

The entire point of the caste system is to raise kids in a culture, and pick kids with genetics, that are predisposed for certain clusters of jobs. “Cleaning” reds doesn’t do any of that, even if the procedure works as advertised (I’ll wait on the data to come back.)

[reactionarygrey]

 You know I would usually agree with this. Abolishing the red caste is a massive fundamental change in our society which we cannot predict the results of and should not be done. However, insane factions seem to have seized control that desire the abolition of the red caste regardless so it is probably better that it is done like this than as a masssacre if it prevents future wars and unrest. I just hope more sensible people will be in charge of the integration process.

[divinebovineturds]

[reactionarygrey]

Not my usual sort of post but these portraits look kind of regal so I thought I might reblog them. Hopefully something to cheer everyone up. But what is it with the collar. Is that some sort of symbol with blues in some country? Any interesting history behind it?

[openamenta]

It’s been hard to get reliable news out of Biyan lately but my current understanding is they found some way to get the reds under control for now, every public cleanliness purple in the country plus some volunteers worked triple shifts cleaning up after them, and now they’re importing some Orvaran purples.  (Does it seem weird to anyone else that Orvara has enough trained red-purples to loan them out?)  The trucks are getting driven and the bodies are getting taken but there are enormous delays:

Not enough Orvarans to go around and trying to get the reds to work is scary, can backfire, so the Orvaran purples mostly aren’t trying it; greys are getting them motivated separately and they’re tripping over each other a bit

Biyani plumbing is different in various ways from Orvaran plumbing; Biyani purple cleanplumbers and Orvaran red-purple plumbers are having language barrier issues slowing them down in attempts to work together on figuring it out

Orvarans don’t know the routes and buildings and are having trouble finding destination addresses, apartments, crematoria

One crematorium has burned down due to misunderstanding of local equipment

Biyan is digging itself into considerable debt paying for all these Orvarans, all this police overtime, and hazard pay for both

[sacrificecode]

stop fucking calling them “red-purples”. purples are a clean caste

[notebookundermydesk]

Yeah I was going to say!

They’re already saying red-purples are you fucking kidding me.

Anyway Orvara burned the commons and is now making money hand over fist from it, fucking shits. The international community should get it together and levy fines or something, if they’re not going to do anything else.

[thoughtfulphlox]

Purples are a clean caste!

[megasilverfist]

r e d - p u r p l e s Fuck Orvara.

[openamenta]

does anyone have any ideas for things to call purples doing red work idk what to call them that isn’t stupid long

[a-terror-of-shadow-and-flame]

you could just call them purples! they’re still purple!

[reactionarygrey]

People won’t think of them like that. They can’t. This madness will accomplish nothing more than killing off our old unclean caste and replacing it with a new one while causing massive social destruction an permanently angering the purples.   

[reactionarygrey]

Well, I’m back at home now. Turns out that my country loses land and I never even fire a shot. Somewhat depressing. But at least we got something. The fact that over countries without farmland to take are allowed to completely upend the social order without objection doesn’t exactly improve things. I’ll have more to say later but for now just like to tell anyone that I’m OK. My partner was injured but should be better soon. It is so good to see our daughter again after all this time when we saw her rather seldom so that is a comfort. I hope that everyone is OK that I used to talk to before the war. The best thing is that everyone seems very calm and no one seems to be doing anything stupid in Voa at least.

[imrainai]

It’s definitely better here than it was. Thanks for serving. I’m glad you made it back home safely. 

[reactionarygrey]

Well I didn’t do much. Anything really. Thanks though. My partner was quite a hero but I spent the whole war guarding a part of the border that never moved an inch and never even heard enemy gunfire.

[thoughtfulphlox]

Partner?

[reactionarygrey]

Yeah, she got hurt on the front. Fairly mild she should be back up soon. A lot suffered far worse. She at least got to serve properly in this war. A better example to out daughter than me. Part of me is glad that my daughter saw this. A grey should understand their role and duty and I feel she does far more deeply than she did now. I'm very glad we are still both here for her though.

[reactionarygrey]

Well, I’m back at home now. Turns out that my country loses land and I never even fire a shot. Somewhat depressing. But at least we got something. The fact that over countries without farmland to take are allowed to completely upend the social order without objection doesn’t exactly improve things. I’ll have more to say later but for now just like to tell anyone that I’m OK. My partner was injured but should be better soon. It is so good to see our daughter again after all this time when we saw her rather seldom so that is a comfort. I hope that everyone is OK that I used to talk to before the war. The best thing is that everyone seems very calm and no one seems to be doing anything stupid in Voa at least.

[imrainai]

It’s definitely better here than it was. Thanks for serving. I’m glad you made it back home safely. 

[reactionarygrey]

Well I didn’t do much. Anything really. Thanks though. My partner was quite a hero but I spent the whole war guarding a part of the border that never moved an inch and never even heard enemy gunfire.

[reactionarygrey]

Well, I’m back at home now. Turns out that my country loses land and I never even fire a shot. Somewhat depressing. But at least we got something. The fact that over countries without farmland to take are allowed to completely upend the social order without objection doesn't exactly improve things. I’ll have more to say later but for now just like to tell anyone that I’m OK. My partner was injured but should be better soon. It is so good to see our daughter again after all this time when we saw her rather seldom so that is a comfort. I hope that everyone is OK that I used to talk to before the war. The best thing is that everyone seems very calm and no one seems to be doing anything stupid in Voa at least.

[thoughtfulphlox]

I’m a little busy IRL (I got into my brother’s account!) but a quick thought on Orvara. This is what happens when caste abolitionists and the hard anti-red movement collide. “Red rights” and being anti-red aren’t full opposites; they both weaken the social institutions that keep atrocities like this from happening. Now hundreds of purples will be polluted and degraded while thousands of reds will die.  We can’t call for genocide like it will solve our problems. We can’t explain away fundamental human differences as superstition. Genocide and abolition both seek to destroy the red caste, and when you destroy a pillar, no matter your intentions, the whole building will crash down around you. We don’t need caste war. We don’t need caste destruction. We need caste solidarity. That’s the choice we face.

[reactionarygrey]

This. This is what I keep trying to explain. Hundreds of years of tradition can't be overthrown in the middle of a crisis like this without appalling consequences.

[openamenta]

Lathande, Orvara - Today the city of Lathande announced that in cooperation with local theologians they have arranged for purple Orvarans to learn red occupations, which given modern technology and safety standards can be performed without substantial risk of pollution.  Click here for a complete standards and practices writeup.  Although there is an initial cost outlay associated with the training and equipment, and purple workers are more expensive than reds, the city is ameliorating these costs via the sale of the now unoccupied red district of Lathande, soon to be demolished and cleaned.  Lathande was declared red-free this morning.

[iguesswereatwarnow]

What the fuck? Purples are not replacement reds you abject idiots! What the fuck is wrong with Orvara?

[reactionarygrey]

I assume that, given consistency, Orvara will now have war declared on it. I mean this is the worst violation of tradition and the rules that I have seen or imagined in my lifetime.