Title: Nerys and the Emissary Fandom: Deep Space Nine Characters: Kira Nerys, Benjamin Sisko Author:beatrice_otter Beta:sixbeforelunch Rating: Gen AN: I was watching the first episode of DS9 for the first time in years, and it struck me how white/colonialist the underlying assumptions are. It’s the Civilized Foreigner Come To Help The Benighted Natives who can find the Temple! The Other Civilized Foreigner checking the historical databases for things the Benighted Natives have known for years is the one who notices the blatantly obvious pattern the Benighted Natives have never figured out and Solves The Mystery! The Civilized Foreigners go off (with no native people!) to find The Mystic Treasure! (At least there is some variety, in that the Civilized Foreigners are a black man and a white woman, instead of white men.) And I asked myself: why the HELL is Kira going along with all of this? Why is she just … letting this happen?
Summary: Nerys had never dreamed of being allowed to see an Orb. And the Kai just gave one to this human, this Commander Sisko?
Reblog if you think Finn deserves to find his family, surname, and heritage after 20 years of being an oppressed child soldier
Everyone, including myself at times overlooks the fact that Finn had it the worst than everyone else and still draws the short straw in universe and out
Finn grew up with no family and was thrown into a child soldier program
Finn didn’t even have a name till he was given one as an adult
Finn was raised to kill
Finn was at best a weapon and at worst a slave
Finn wasn’t allowed any individuality
Rey, Kylo Ren, Poe, Hux, Phasmsa, Luke, Leia, Han, Finn has had it worse than anyone and after he manages to escape and DOES help blow up the super weapon he just wants to be free of war and death and live a somewhat peaceful life:
He’s called a coward and tazard by Rose
Forced into another mission he doesn’t really want to do
Lectured on how he doesn’t understand suffering and needs to stop being so selfish
And finally when there is a chance for him to find even a little peace in saving his friends at the cost of his life but at last be done with fighting, he’s denied even that and told he was wrong again.
Finn’s life is made up and defined by his lack of choices, being controlled by others, and sacrificing what he wants or what’s good for himself for others. Even in the fandom.
But no, let’s just keep portraying him as a cinnamon roll who is defined by who’s last name he gets to take. He’s a happy, seeet boy with no worries.
He’s a grown ass man who’s lives through hell.
I personally ship Finnrey, but I’d be just as happy if instead of ending up with anyone, Finn finds his family.
Maybe he was a child stolen from Jakku and since it’s clear from Rey the universe doesn’t care about Jakku, no one ever asked where he went. Plus the irony of Finn being from Jakku would be Rey and Poe both giving Finn a knowing shit eating grin that he’s from the planet he constantly talks shit about.
Maybe Finn is a Mandalorion and has a family in Sabine Wren. Because why not? Rey can be everything from a Skywalker, to a Kenobi, Emperor’s grandaughter, but Finn, an elite soldier with a natural gift for fighting and adapting to any situation can’t be from a civilization of warrior?
Maybe Finn is related to Windu, or Lando, or maybe he’s royalty and is actually a prince. Maybe he’s just some kid stolen from a simple family who miss him.
Regardless, Finn deserves his OWN story arc, family, and happy ending.
“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”
I don’t read Marvel as much as DC, so I wanted to post a list of all the Jewish characters I remember within the DC Universe:
Katherine “Kate” Rebecca Kane AKA Batwoman
Dr. Harleen Francis Quinzel AKA Harley Quinn
Gim Allon AKA Colossal Boy
Rory Regan AKA Ragman
Albert Rothstein AKA Atom Smasher
Eric Strauss AKA Doctor Fate
Harold “Hal” Jordan AKA Green Lantern
Wesley Bernard Dodds AKA Sandman
Raymond “Ray” Palmer AKA The Atom
Dr. Jonathan “Jon” Osterman AKA Doctor Manhattan (Before Watchmen)*
Ursula Zandt AKA Silhouette (Before Watchmen)*
Martin Stein AKA (half-)Firestorm [Arrowverse]
Felicity Megan Smoak AKA Overwatch [Arrowverse]
*The original version of this post had Daniel Dreiberg (Nite Owl II) as a Jewish character. However, after someone told me that he was only assumed Jewish, I did some further research and found nothing that confirmed him as Jewish in canon. Instead, he’s supposed to be a “lapsed Calvinist of a Dutch extraction.” Fans, throughout the years, assumed that he was Jewish because of his name, residence in New York, and personality (apparently there’s a trope for that called “Ambiguously Jewish”). However, during my research, I found out that Doctor Manhattan is a half-Jewish German immigrant and that Silhouette is a Jewish-Austrian immigrant in the Before Watchmen version of their characters.
So these Christian anti-feminist protestors showed up at my school and were just yelling misogynist things at everyone, when this guy suddenly walks up in front of them mid-rant and just starts…. singing opera
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