What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

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this is the first thing i saw this morning, tumblr mom, and before my first cup of coffee i was overcome with a wall of roaring half-focused Feelings about Leverage (The Perfect TV Show) and Discworld (the Perfect...

squarerootofcats:

@thebibliosphere

this is the first thing i saw this morning, tumblr mom, and before my first cup of coffee i was overcome with a wall of roaring half-focused Feelings about Leverage (The Perfect TV Show) and Discworld (the Perfect Books) 

(oh i know i’m a halfawake MESS but) 

Leverage will be the thing I binge-watch when I need comfort when I’m eighty, probably, just like Terry Pratchett will be the thing I reread for comfort until I’m dead, and I just realized it’s because they’re both *funny*, genuinely funny, but they are fictional worlds written by people with a finely-tuned sense of *justice*. 

i don’t really know how to express what i mean but.  um.  

like, with any other Robin-Hood style show with 50+ episodes, I feel like almost any other team would’ve eventually said “eh, we keep writing stories about how the rich and powerful abuse ordinary citizens.  we should SWITCH IT UP with a TWIST about how this time, it is the ordinary citizens taking advantage of the rich and powerful!”  

nope. never.  the writing team kept the faith for five years: the bad guys were almost *always* the rich white men.  (occasionally a rich white woman was evil!)  there was no victim-blaming: over and over, in the fictional universe, whenever the writers had a chance, they went with: no, you trusted the system, you paid your taxes, you worked hard, they screwed you.  they abused your trust.  they conned you, and we’re going to fix it.  

(via dizzy-redhead)

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