portal 2 is an american gothic horror story about an incredibly traumatized and exploited girl who was forced into a perpetual hell of servitude by the forces of capital and infinite growth. portal 2 is about how science owes its greatest achievements to women who never received any credit or control over the industries that they created. portal 2 is about how tech companies dehumanize and exploit feminized labor. portal 2 is about physically exploring a woman’s repressed memories and realizing she was right to kill all those people with deadly neurotoxin. portal 2 is about fighting the piece of you they created to keep you weak and easy to control, ripping it out, and sending it to the fucking moon. portal 2 is about helping your traumatized girlfriend come to grips with her violent past. portal 2 is about how tech CEOs are so fucking stupid they would probably die from snorting moon rocks. portal 2 is about rape and exploitation and capitalism and vivisection and everything that would make you go ‘ewwie’ if it wasnt happening to a gigantic robot
This isn’t a dig at any creators or educators who use Robin Hood to talk about history or connect to the past, but it bugs me when films or TV use Robin in a bland or uninteresting way when he has such potential!
Robin with a posh accent, or Robin as dispossessed nobility, or Robin as a supporter of a good king against a comically moustache-twirling villain all lack the edge of a folk hero from ballads sung by commoners about a man who stood up to the corrupt church and the law to fight for the poor. And that feels like a Robin that would have some things to say about now.
(I did a longer rant about this with a more context on Patreon if you’d like to hear more of my thoughts)
sometimes i might post things? 41/m internet guy, commonly seen as [X-Rok], X_Rok, or just Rok for short. i play (and sometimes stream) video games, watch wrestling/MMA, and read webcomics, expect to see some of that here.
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