2023-11-03 8:08:19 ¶ ● ⬈

lime-bloods:

> > TT: Later she instated a lusidroid system to serve the same function, as she began phasing in more robotic solutions in favor of all this ill conceived biotech nonsense that always did nothing but backfire.

> on reexamination, this line comes across as such a coded misogynistic slur… like Dirk has a vested interest in making it seem like Meenah had no choice but to adopt cool, logical machinery after all that messy, emotional biology inevitably failed on her. potentially paints his whole retelling of Earth’s history in a different light (read: scratch doctoring). the narrative that machines overtaking organisms is inevitable ultimately only serves those on the side of Sk(y)aianet and Lord English/the Terminator…

> feel a little foolish having discussed Ozymandias as a gynophobe on more than one occasion and never for a second considered the gynophobe was Dirk!

when we view machine supremacy as analogous to patriarchy, it becomes even easier to see how Alternia is only superficially matriarchal. though it appears at the surface level to be a world dictated by the biological processés of flesh and slime, these processes are in actuality the front of a vast machine. colonies of workers form vast mainframes, with the lifespans of organisms reduced to mere lines of code

and if everything on Alternia is couched in this organic esthetic to mask the truth that there are computers watching you everywhere you go, I’m once again forced to wonder if the cocoon-bed is just code for a computer-bed!