[ SECRET POST #4544 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4544 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

TV Pollution didn't look like the Pollution I've had in my head since college (this is my favorite book, the only novel I've regularly re-read when I normally prefer to read new books, and it's very personally important to me for a host of reasons)... but I really liked them.

I think the actress is lovely and I think Pollution being non-binary works-- in fact, I think Pollution being non-binary and a PoC makes SENSE, because Pollution isn't SUPPOSED to look like the corporate architects of pollution, they're SUPPOSED to blend in at the ground level where they can press the wrong button at the right time.

If Pollution can be taken as a man or a woman, can be read as ethnically ambiguous depending on where they go, it makes their job of blending in on oil tankers and in waste processing facilities and nuclear plants and chemical labs that much easier.

(Doesn't change my shipping preferences, personally)

I do miss the 'consumptive poet' look and wish we'd seen more of that come through, but I still like what they did and I like the actress a lot having seen her performance.

[(Anonymous)]

Then why was War still a woman? Because afaik, women are still not the main instigators of wars in the world.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT, but War in the book tells Brian and Wensleydale she can make them fall in love with her, so the idea is that men love War. And I’m pretty sure tv War’s “you’re born in me, you die in me” or whatever the line was, was a really bad sort-of pun: women give birth to boys, and then they grow to men and die (in the little death sense) in women.

[(Anonymous)]

Which makes sense in the book but doesn't actually make much practical sense so I don't know why this has to be a requirement for Pollution.

[(Anonymous)]

Because War's function as a horseperson/entity is different from Pollution's??

War isn't on the ground level the way Pollution is-- in Pollution's pre-apocalypse background/scenes, Pollution is someone who hits the button that dumps the waste, is blending in and moving from place to place.

War DOES NOT DO THAT. War goes someplace, STANDS OUT, and creates chaos. War is described as beautiful from far away. Not up close.

The horsepersons are not identical in the way they work in the world, so their humanoid appearances don't need to follow the same set of rules as each other-- they are meant to be distinct.

And so it works for me, though certainly not for everyone, given they were already very different from each other in the book, to have one man, one woman, one non-binary humanoid, and one skeleton. The horsepersons were never homogenous.