[ SECRET POST #3358 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3358 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A bunch of characters on the good guys' side are dead and the living ones have a lifetime of accumulated trauma to deal with and a lot of work ahead of them but sure, peachy.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but that's just fucking life. People die and people have to deal with the weight of lived experience and trauma. I don't think writing a story about human togetherness and coping and figuring those questions out together is at all inconsistent with Fury Road. It probably doesn't look like contemporary ideas of self-care but i profoundly disagree with what looks to me like OP's suggestion that Fury Road fic should be centered on Immortal Joe's cult or be bounded by the idea that everything falls apart and everyone is alone. That's not what Fury Road is.

[(Anonymous)]

...I'm sure that part in the secret about the War Boys being unbrainwashed overnight is just, you know, an example that OP thought would illustrate the kind of trend they dislike and not in fact a demand for Fury Road fic to be centered on the cult. Seriously, I'm impressed by your ability to somehow read that into the secret's message. And also this: "the idea that everything falls apart and everyone is alone". Slow clap for drama.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah it was super overwritten but I was in a hurry.

I think I'm focusing particularly on the language of "There's no room in this world for". That's what I really disagree with here. I'm sure that there are people who are executing the idea poorly - and I agree that it would be unrealistic, given their lives to that point, to expect any of the characters to become clones of people from our world.

But the idea that there's no space for those kinds of things - that's what I think is rubbish, there's absolutely space for being together and empathy and construction and reconstruction and recovery in the end of Fury Road. The whole end of Fury Road is about the promise of that, to me. It feels super reflexive and wrong to just dismiss that out of hand as impossible, and that's how I read OP.

Like, people trying to figure out those kinds of things in a really hard world - to me, that's what Fury Road is about, on the most basic level. I'm sure people are writing about that clumsily, but they should definitely be writing about it.

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That... wasn't my suggestion? You're reading a lot into my complaint. All I'm suggesting is that fic authors take into account that the values and virtues coded into the Citadel's people cannot be rewritten like a thumb drive. Toxic masculinity was not defeated on the Fury Road. That wasn't even the goal. Furiosa and the Wives accomplished the goal of breaking Immortan Joe's chains, but they're still bound by a lot of other constraints. At the end of the film the citadel is virtually undefended. Furiosa's responsible for destroying the object of the War Boys' cult; it isn't likely that even the children will forget that entirely. There are a lot more things that Furiosa and her squad will have to deal with before they can start loving their bodies and learning about healthy sexuality and so on.