dragonlady7

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So the Dakota Access Pipeline thing.

I know everyone’s seen posts about it. (If you haven’t, holy fuck. Look it up.) I’ve been watching it go by in increasing disbelief.

It’s– it’s like, the very worst overdramatic fucking terrible things I was making up for pretend to happen to the planet Kes’s family is from in the Lost Kings series, but all of it is real and is happening now and it’s just– being allowed to happen. What the fuck.

I thought I was being cartoonish and overwrought. I thought, man, nobody’s going to buy that this could really have gone down like that. it would’ve been while the Republic was still in power, too. It’s just too far-out. Dogs and guns and earth-moving equipment and people chaining themselves to things and corporately-owned armed enforcers and

Oh my god.

I could have linked to direct examples of every single thing in that sentence that I thought was too far-out. And oh yeah, inappropriate use of power saws. Like, they were willing to cut a dude’s arm off if the handcuffs wouldn’t go. For real.

So. I kind of backed off referring to the folks in my story as Vanished Nations. Because not only are they still here, the stories that inspired them are still ongoing.

I just. I thought I was being unrealistic.

I was wrong.

This is the United States of America. It is 2016. Everything you grew up believing to be true was wrong.