Today’s driving thought is how do you think John Raul Gary would’ve turned out if Alana had not been there classmate
Agree with @curls-cat, simply insufferable. Jon needs fairly constant intervention in order NOT to become insufferable, and he’s the strongest personality in addition to his political power. Alanna’s role in palace politics is the brick-over-the-head intervention; Raoul and Garyhave the ability and drive to change the direction on individual issues, but neither the breadth of experience nor the force of personality to change Jon’s actual overall worldview to create a bigger and better vision. Thayet seems to do a lot of this work later on, and her existence in Jon’s life is also directly due to Alanna. No other queen candidate we saw would have even cared to do that, let alone been able to manage it.
They end up a classic case of well-intentioned but sheltered administrators, living in a bubble they don’t see the limits of and using their combined intelligence to rationalize those limits in a way that makes everyone else want to scream. The positive changes they make are competently executed, but barely more than operational in scale.
The real good ending for MDZS/The Untamed is that in-canon history remembers Wei Wuxian primarily as an inventor and teacher, and learning about the Yiling Patriarch is like if in history class in middle school or so you found out that Thomas Edison used an early variant of tamed electricity to commit war crimes when he was 17
Extremely correct response, leaving out the inevitable debacle over citizens declaring counterfeit genders in order to have rarer pronoun pins to sell to collectors in the underground pronoun market.
Dibbler, only mildly discouraged, eventually realizes he can sell embellishments for your pronoun pin, which he claims will upgrade your gender.
Also of note is that there are no cops present at Ankh-Morpork Pride. This is not because they aren’t welcome (everyone knows Nobby is as kinky as they come), but because the festivities include throwing bricks at the City Watch building and they are busy trying to make sure they still have a place to work the next day. The Night Watch prepares each year with a barricade, and pre-marriage Vimes always collects the good bricks so he can save for a house. Nobody is really sure where the tradition came from, but it’s good fun and usually nobody gets hurt too badly.
The bricks are provided by Vetinari, who considers it a good test of city infrastructure and training for the Watch.
Cheery would 100% march in the parade. She’d get Nobby to go with her, but Nobby would be completely oblivious as to why (he assumed she just wants company).
Moist von lipwig would have pride-themed stamps made; these would inevitably have some kind of issue, which would create some outrage and ultimately make the stamps more valuable as collectors’ items.
I don’t get the impression that Ankh Morpork ever had anti-sodomy or crossdressing laws, so I don’t think the queer community’s history with the police would be the same as it is in the real world. Especially because Cheery Littlebottom literally started the Dwarf trans/feminism movement as an officer of the Watch, with the Watch’s support.
Dibbler would totally sell pride flags with the wrong colors (and then insist it was the “new, updated version” if anyone questioned him)
The nobility are all scandalized, meanwhile the Seamstresses Guild has a float in the parade
Adora Belle Dearheart is deeply involved with at least one queer organization and is one of the main organizers of the Pride festival, but refuses to answer any questions about why
Ridcully decides the wizards should be involved, and Ponder Stibbons should make a float and organize the refreshments for them to eat while riding on the float. Ridcully’s concept of allyship is loudly saying, “Well done, that man!” and pointing at anyone he thinks is exhibiting particularly queer behavior.
Madam Sharn and Pepe release a whole new line of Pride-themed chainmail
Bengo Macarona is embraced as a gay icon
Reg Shoe decides the main pride event is too corporate, and organizes an alternative pride parade for the same time and place; this immediately gets subsumed by the main pride event. Some Omnians show up to Pride to protest and Reg is delighted to have someone to fight with.
The problem of museum work where it is my life’s goal to explain to you that your favorite heroes of the American Revolution were in fact, just Some Guy who probably owned slaves and you should never in 100 years emulate, but also learning about them is extremely important to understanding politics and human nature and I definitely deserve a living wage to tell you about it
Meanwhile, the Board of Directors is like: In the 1970s this entire enterprise was run by socialites who knew absolutely nothing about history and worked for free and everything was fine. Are you SURE we have to pay a marketing manager minimum wage? That seems excessive
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