Ch01-016
Added 2026-02-11 04:41:43 +0000 UTC
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Tree called him explicitly Gefendur in the prologue, so yep.
Ashley
2026-02-11 16:48:54 +0000 UTCTheir morality is highly situational :)
Ashley
2026-02-11 16:47:59 +0000 UTCAlso "this could be your father or your honey but sure as hell he didn't have money" is such a FIRE protest slogan, jfc.
Spider
2026-02-11 15:13:04 +0000 UTChey ashley im starting to think maybe these two arent strictly speaking "good people"
Spider
2026-02-11 15:11:55 +0000 UTCIs Jaer Gefendur? Also my first time noticing he has sunset eyes like Lem!
Clay Jones
2026-02-11 14:00:05 +0000 UTCYeah, it's so unfair to Jaer, Tree should apologize :<
Luuuuuuu
2026-02-11 05:53:34 +0000 UTCOh, maybe some Bokononist advice from Cat's Cradle also qualifies: "My God - life! Who can understand even one little minute of it." "Don't try. Just pretend you understand."
Josh
2026-02-11 05:33:53 +0000 UTCI'm impressed by Tree's command of metaphor. Also, "pick who to blame and get on with your life." Wow. I don't know if I've ever seen anything else that's so cynical it circles back around to being optimistic before.
Josh
2026-02-11 05:20:38 +0000 UTCSure, blame the victim...
Rob N
2026-02-11 05:14:24 +0000 UTCDecided that abused human laborers were uncouth so instead of re-evaluating power roles, we made a dummy that couldn't speak for itself and told ourselves it couldn't feel
Fitzy
2026-02-11 05:14:05 +0000 UTCPanel 3 plod is pretty rough. WOG and in-universe experts have stated that the plods don't have a conscience, but does that mean the cruelty is justified and unfelt by the plod?
Fitzy
2026-02-11 05:11:35 +0000 UTCYeah, they're just kinda chilling in their foreman chairs and supervising. At least no one's throwing paving stones at them yet.
Ashley
2026-02-11 04:52:24 +0000 UTCThey have absolutely no consciousness, if that helps :)
Ashley
2026-02-11 04:51:03 +0000 UTCHe's killed a lot of people but never anyone younger than a teenager.
Ashley
2026-02-11 04:50:14 +0000 UTCLove the down to earth back and forth between them on if the plodman loved his kid or not, masterful coping skills on display from Tree. Reminds me of my own post-assassination ponderings with friends. I'm loving our badmen and their banter more and more each page we see them!! Are the plods handled by plat mooks? Kind of a shitty assignment ngl
Suppy
2026-02-11 04:49:53 +0000 UTCI feel bad for the plods :(
jaaama
2026-02-11 04:49:22 +0000 UTChas jaer never killed a child before? maybe i'm cynical, but i assumed this wasn't something new to him.
cydonia
2026-02-11 04:46:09 +0000 UTC
