This is such a weird framing
Nov. 14th, 2025 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly"Along the journey she discovers that her and her family were never actually slaves at all but the original royal family and the original slaves usurped the throne and took over due to constantly being oppressed and treated unfairly."
I really want to ask this person if they understand how the concepts of "slavery" and "royalty" work. This girl was definitely a slave because she was enslaved, you can be a slave and also be from a royal family since both these concepts are societal concepts, the word "usurp" suggests that this revolution was invalid and bad, and by the way, if she was born as part of the royal family she's probably lucky she wasn't killed, except that then the book would've been very short and grim, with no happy ending. Well, no happy ending for her, all the happy endings for the people who killed her family and secured their freedom.
(Somebody suggested this may be The Claidi Journals, which is what I was thinking.)
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This is weird.
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I really want to ask this person if they understand how the concepts of "slavery" and "royalty" work. This girl was definitely a slave because she was enslaved, you can be a slave and also be from a royal family since both these concepts are societal concepts, the word "usurp" suggests that this revolution was invalid and bad, and by the way, if she was born as part of the royal family she's probably lucky she wasn't killed, except that then the book would've been very short and grim, with no happy ending. Well, no happy ending for her, all the happy endings for the people who killed her family and secured their freedom.
(Somebody suggested this may be The Claidi Journals, which is what I was thinking.)
This is weird.
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Date: 2025-11-15 03:24 am (UTC)that billionaire was a slave/was enslaved for that 5 years, former-billionaire status not withstanding.
At some times and places slavery has been hereditary (parent is enslaved, so child is enslaved), at other times and places (eg Viking-era Norway/Sweden) it has been fixed-term eg 7 years as a punishment for crimes or debts and not hereditary, but the one constant is
a) labour is unpaid;
b) the person is not allowed to leave or refuse to work.
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Date: 2025-11-17 02:58 pm (UTC)*does full routine of Nathan Fillion gif where he opens his mouth, closes it, and despondently puts his chin in his hand*