[ SECRET POST #5704 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5704 ⌋

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


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[Yakuza: Like a Dragon]


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[Azure Striker Gunvolt 3]


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[Yurukill: The Calumniation Games]


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[I Am Magicami]


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Comments

[sabotabby]

I didn't read it because apparently the author was inspired by an actual genocide and his answer to a very real situation that still impacts Indigenous peoples and nations to this day was "be kind." One of those cases where an author interview makes me nope out of the book before even starting.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh. Like I get how that might seem like a good and smart idea, but... ugh. It just rubs me the wrong way.

[sabotabby]

There have been some excellent fantasy books written inspired by the residential school system—The Marrow Thieves and Hunting By Stars by Cherie Dimaline come immediately to mind. They even have queer found family tropes for people who are into that. There's also The School That Ate Children by Sara General for younger readers.

The difference being that these are by authors with intimate personal and cultural knowledge of the residential school system, not someone using it as a backdrop for their twee "everyone just needs to get along" story."

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't know that, but wow, that really rubs me the wrong way.

I did think it was trying to address the current cultural climate in the US because there were a lot of parallels and the solution was basically "be nice to the bigots and maybe you can convince them that you deserve to exist" which frustrates the fuck out of me. I hate that whole "we go high/enlightened centrism/'moderate'" mindset so much, but that's a whole different topic.

[sabotabby]

I hate that.

Like the solution to residential schools is not "everyone should be nice," it's that they needed to be closed, the survivors (and their families and descendants) given massive compensation and therapy, and everyone involved in running the schools up to the very top facing financial and criminal charges for their crimes against humanity and complicity in genocide. It's not something that can be solved by greater understanding and compassion.