[ SECRET POST #6444 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6444 ⌋

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


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[(Anonymous)]

I am a little confused how this metaphor worked.

[philstar22]

I mean, considering how conservatives these days, at least in the US, talk about immigrants as an invading horde, all criminals, super dangerous, the metaphor actually doesn't surprise me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I don't doubt it coykd work, I just dont quite get it

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Okay, I can imagine there are different types of civilizations, or creatures. The dragons, will likely be seen as invading a new territory bc they have turned their former territory into a wasteland (the author will likely not acknowledge how the humans and Dragonslayer people went into the dragon lands in the past to make their fortunes, ravage the land, and sabotage dragon tribe against dragon tribe, but I digress, since the author would never bother assuming the dragons had a political and social system to begin with). So now, the dragons are entering the human lands. And the humans are split between "they are evil creatures who must be defeated" and "they're sweet dragons, you don't understand their plight, etc. etc.". So, in the author's view, the dragons take advantage of the latter humans, devour them, justifying the violence they suspected they needed, and boom, dragonslayers save the day.

There's about a hundred other ways to do it, but was I close OP?

[(Anonymous)]

Ooookay, I get it now. It just wasn't working in my head. I think I was stuck on more traditional dragons.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty close, though the dragons are more animalistic. One of the points I recognized in hindsight was when the protagonist’s desire to keep dragons from eating people was misinterpreted in-universe as “hating dragons.”

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. Depending on how hard it is to ignore the metaphors and how interesting you find the premise, those kinds of series can be kind of hilarious. Particularly when they inevitably go off script by having one (1) character be antiracist or gay or something and the conservative fanbase loses their collective mind over the author "turning woke".

[(Anonymous)]

I see what you did there.

[(Anonymous)]

... I feel like if you were groping for an analogy to cast a bad light on nonwhite immigrants, zombies are right there (and have already been used to that effect). Using dragons just shoots you in the foot. Dragons are cool now! Nobody doesn't love dragons!

[(Anonymous)]

lolllll nice pun OP