#at least considering all the stuff he /didn't/ take a moral stance on before that point

[dear-kumari]

Looking at some of the post drafts I wrote at the height of my fever and feeling very relieved that I did not finish or publish any, bc the last thing I needed to do when I already felt like shit was take a big ol’ swing at a hornet’s nest

#girl why did you TAG IT #(also didn't finish a more vitriolic but far less interesting 'anyone who thinks this show is as good as AtLA has serious brain worms' post) #anyway I still feel bad but now it's just bc my seasonal bronchitis has been reactivated #Guess who's gonna be coughing up mucus for the rest of the fall. yaaaaay #Kumari comments #Kumari procrastinates irl #ngl this was on my mind bc I spent most of my time in bed watching cartoons‚ TeeDeePee included #I revisited a couple episodes from the first and third seasons and I was reminded how much weight was put on 'destroying the egg' #and Harrow being like 'it's horrific' over Viren's choice was just. weird #at least considering all the stuff he /didn't/ take a moral stance on before that point #You could be like 'well some guy destroying a fertilized egg unprompted is very different from someone making a choice about their own body' #but an actual pro-lifer wouldn't make that distinction! any narrative about an innocent unborn life is useful to them #in fact it's /very/ useful that Zym and his mother are completely separate bc then you have to leave the issue of autonomy at the door #that way the story can focus wholly on the importance and beauty and wonder of the egg #and how only evil people would want to destroy it #and just bc it wasn't intentional doesn't mean it's not there (I'm sure the writers didn't intend to write ethnic cleansing apologia either) #idk if I missed someone pointing this out when the show first aired but it is a subject I'm genuinely interested in now #just … maybe not a subject to bring up with the fandom at large #Kumari abuses the tagging system #(Also I revisited that Twitter post and the number of reactionaries in the replies was. significant #not overwhelming but it was clear that some of them weren't random keyword-seeking trolls and actually did watch the show)