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[seafleece]

Unrelated to your recent awful anons but I've been relistening to partizan and comparing how it and cr2 deal with empire is extremely funny

RIGHT like their releases overlapped and the comparison was unbelievable. critical role "it was too big and bureaucratic so we didn't do it" compared to partizan "this conflict is actually too big and awful to show, let alone end, in one season, so we decided to make more"

[weaver-z]

All these people are annoying-coded

GHSDKFHKDSF

[weaver-z]

Can't believe all the casting calls for your oc voice casts are for southern accents ... Truly northernphobic

Sorry, Mr. Cold Miser

[seafleece]

Are you caught up on Partizan bc I feel like some of the stuff SI said in the second most recent ep is really interesting with your read about the theme of undeath and labor

i am caught up!!! 37 and 38 really got me and i’m still kinda mulling it over but yeah!! i think SI is really interesting as a character whose relationship to work hasn’t really seemed to differentiate whether it’s work under a despot (or despot in training) or work towards a revolution. 

i think undeath for him is less apparent since he has a self-preservation streak that’s usually more subtle than it’s been lately, which might be why he seems to think so little of valence’s death as meaningful beyond killing crysanth. the continuation of his work is a different kind of horror: he just has the seeming curse of outliving his team and the rebellion they made, and surviving the fallout even when others die then, too. it’s never his fault, but he never makes the sacrifice, either. 

valence was afraid of being used in a way that conflicted with their beliefs and enraged that it happened to gur sevraq, and they destroyed themselves to escape it and destroy as much of the empire as they could. SI has rebelled before, and gone back to work with the force he fought against (if unwillingly). to him, work can always be done no matter the circumstance, as long as you survive to do it, and he doesn’t understand people like valence who would rather die than do something that would serve empire. he doesn’t fear undeath and continued labor because he’s been forced into labor already-- it’s also definitely because of the synthetic versus organic aspect, because synthetic beings can be easily separated as consciousness from body. valence’s fear is one that doesn’t affect him the same way.

[weaver-z]

I thought Benoit was a fake name they invented for Knives Out lol

LMAO no they invented it for me

[seafleece]

I'm interested in where you got the read that the elects have total mastery over divines in Partizan bc I think while that was the initial pitch it kinda got rethought when in r2s6 empyrean turned out to be a fan of being a part of empire. Also with the divines we've seen on screen most of them seem to be the other way around, courage and Mourningbride are probably the closest to the elect having mastery but both asepsis and motion seemed to have complete control over their elects

it comes from the end of twilight mirage!! don’t read further if you don’t want spoilers but

it’s mostly from the concept that nideo and the remainder of the divine free states solidify around when they separate from the mirage, not just of dividing gumption among the other divines but of having the divines as eternal, glorious servants, unable to die even when they, like past, seem to want to. the “mastery” is less about the elects having mastery over their divine, and more of the principality having control over divines by virtue of their construction, usage, and immortal servitude.

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[puzzled-dragon]

great . Thanks