I always find the “warhammer/40k is fascist propaganda”-discussion fascinating.
On one side there are acctual fascists seeing this horrible and depraved world and going: “Goals!”
On the other there are people saying its indeed fascist propaganda and glorifying its abuses. “Just look at the former group and how they act”
And im just sitting here in the corner going “its a cautionary tale, sometimes handled not very well since they have like 400 different authors and a lack of cohesion.
I’m being screamed at from both sides, and im starting to actually doubt my own reading and comprehension abilities, is satire truly dead? And am I beating its dead horse?
So I went and checked out the biggest BL authors twitter pages, its editors, game developers and lore experts too.
Pretty much every single one of them reblog or post about social issues, are anti-royalist and pro free healthcare and feminist issues. They genuinely seem like good guys, very unlike the “fans” in the first group.
I find is so bizarre that this discussion even exists when social media makes it so easy to reach out and just go “Hey, what are the allegory and moral behind this story?” and its author actually answers.
And still, people misconstrue things, claims it isn’t satire, and just make things up that aren’t there. When the truth is so easy to find with just a few minutes of research.