It's worth stating that while I think it is narratively true that the story works better if Jax isn't trans, it is also true that trans fans only get to see themselves in Jax if Jax is a repper who not only doesn't get but doesn't deserve a happy ending
As much as I wish it was there, Jax isn't canonically trans in TADC and if he's repressing, that actively makes the story worse. I wish they went for it instead of just leaving hints, because instead they leave two irresponsible stories with different meanings awkwardly entangled
I remember when they released this clip ahead of the movie and it felt like a preview of how they handled lore: McCoy’s divorce was one of those ‘only mentioned in the series Bible, the cartoon and other errata’ deep cut, but it also includes a brand new origin for his name.
@LongArmsPerk I do find it interesting that this idea is a reverse The Matrix. Instead of the future all converging on a fake version of the 90s, it's the past. The End of History exactly
It’s fun to think the galactic empire as a sort of reverse Cromwell where the millennia of republicanism is replaced with 20 years of hype & aura imperial glory before reverting to boring republicanism again
Something I got from this book is that for all the alt history about Germany winning World War II, there’s no alt history for what should have realistically happened where Germany loses in 1940.
every passage is like "hitler demanded 50000 planes to be made in one year. albert speer swore he would make a hundred thousand planes instead. by using slave labor and at the expense of everything else they made 23469 planes. in that same time the allies made 250 billion planes"