They do both, it's just that television like that doesn't work in the setting.
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also it raises a lot of questions like "who the hell is filming these and how are they reaching the UASR?" and "why the hell would the people of the UASR give a shit about the petty squabbles of random middle class white people?"
We've already got a Twilight Zone analogue in @Miss Teri 's Beyond the Horizon
Bookmark1995
Banned
Sorry. It's me projecting my OTL American values onto its socialist counterpart.
I also keep forgetting that TTL Socialist Americans are so secure about their own positions, that they don't need to make cheap swipes at their eternal enemy to maintain their control,
Forgotten Films( Traveller76)
Forgotten Films is a reference book chronicling 'Good Movies left behind by history'. It is written by Noor Trudeau , a Media Historian based in Dallas, Texas in 2019. Comrade Trudeau has covered a variety of media topics ranging from cultural studies to sociology and social theory and had a degree from Brooklyn University.
The American Girl (Amerikee Ladakee) is a remake of the Dr. Butler film Dr. Butler Goes Home (1940) for an Indian audience. It was geared to be distributed to cinemas in primarily smaller towns and rural villages to raise awareness regarding healthcare in less served communities. It would be one of the first films directed by Padma Choudhary, who would later become known for her 'family friendly' films. Many of the film's actors and actresses were minor actors and actresses at the time who declined a salary but received travel expenses and food during filming. Agni Mahinder Chaudhary would later gain fame in a variety of roles in television serials. The films would be a vehicle for Canadian-Indian actress Deepika Tucker, who later became an Indian citizen after 1980 to star in many films and television programs in a variety of roles. The film was successful but was pulled from distribution in 1979 during the Long 80s. It would not be shown until 1995 when Padma Choudhary would sponsor a film festival of 1970s films. The film is notable for a sympathetic portrayal of a American female doctor, discussions of women's health and rights along with LGBTQ issues, all these issues were rarely touched in mainstream 1970s Indian cinema.
The American Girl (Amerikee Ladakee) 1977
Directed by Padma Choudhary
Starring: Agni Mahinder Chaudhary, Deepika Tucker, Devaraj Das, Pravina Vemulakonda, Gobind Bachchan
Written by Mala Narang, Padma Choudhary, Shanta Rao
Produced by Deo Avani Mhasalkar
The film starts with doctor Abhijit Mhasalkar (Agni Mahinder Chaudhary) who just graduated medical school travelling back to his village of Abshan. With him is a American woman doctor Sushila Blythe (Deepika Tucker) who is studying in India. When he arrives in Abshan he finds out his mentor Dr. Nagendra Korrapati (Devaraj Das) is in failing health due to the strain of attending patients in a nearby village called Danlamandi, where poor economic conditions have forced the doctors there to abandon their practices. While tending to the ill Abhijit meets his mentor and his daughter/childhood friend , Minali (Pravina Vemulakonda) who is now a nurse. Minali thinks that the Sushila is dating Abhijit and is at first cool towards him. Many people refuse to be treated by Sushila because of her age, sex and her attitude. Her appearance and dress also cause problems since many of the local women think she is their to take their men and many of the boys and men attempt to 'woo' her with some hilarious results. When one of the men attempts to force himself upon her with a knife she defends herself easily.
Torn between pursuing his own career and saving his mentor's health, Abhijit conceives of the idea of establishing a community clinic where, at minimal cost and using preventive medicine, patients can avail themselves of medical services. He obtains basic medical supplies from his teaching hospital and donates them to the village clinic. However, the ignorance and prejudice of the people of village, led by the money lender Deep Vemulakonda (Gobind Bachchan), make them equally skeptical of the new clinic and modern medicine as they were of the doctors. Many women however have started to secretly visit Sushila for help and want to know how to defend themselves and need her help with 'women's problems'. She begins teaching the women general healthcare, self defense and exercise away from the village in order to improve their health and self esteem. Abhijit and Minali begin a romance when Sushila tells Minali that Abhijit did not date while in school and kept a small picture of the two of them when they were children. She also tells Minali she already engaged and has a fiancée at home.
Facing criticism along with little support from the men of the community. Abhijit soon finds the clinic jeopardized, with the local village council about to vote on its future. Suspecting Deep is harboring an illness, Abhijit tricks him into a blood test, and while consulting Nagendra, Minali and Sushila, suspects Deep has contracted meningitis from daily swims in a nearby lake. After privately speaking with Deep he rejects further treatment. Certain now that the clinic will fail, the doctor waits the council's decision before he is called back to attend to Deep who has collapsed. The doctor saves him and with his support, wins over the villagers, who now realize the value of the clinic. Nagendra is able to take a long rest and agrees to allow Abhijit and Minali to marry. When another women doctor (Apoorva Gadhavi) arrives in the village six months later Sushila tells the villagers she is heading back to America to wed her fiancé and is given a present from Minali. When the nurse asks for his name, the American tells her in a whisper it is not a he but a she. The film ends.
The American Girl (Amerikee Ladakee) is a remake of the Dr. Butler film Dr. Butler Goes Home (1940) for an Indian audience. It was geared to be distributed to cinemas in primarily smaller towns and rural villages to raise awareness regarding healthcare in less served communities. It would be one of the first films directed by Padma Choudhary, who would later become known for her 'family friendly' films. Many of the film's actors and actresses were minor actors and actresses at the time who declined a salary but received travel expenses and food during filming. Agni Mahinder Chaudhary would later gain fame in a variety of roles in television serials. The films would be a vehicle for Canadian-Indian actress Deepika Tucker, who later became an Indian citizen after 1980 to star in many films and television programs in a variety of roles. The film was successful but was pulled from distribution in 1979 during the Long 80s. It would not be shown until 1995 when Padma Choudhary would sponsor a film festival of 1970s films. The film is notable for a sympathetic portrayal of a American female doctor, discussions of women's health and rights along with LGBTQ issues, all these issues were rarely touched in mainstream 1970s Indian cinema.
The American Girl (Amerikee Ladakee) 1977
Directed by Padma Choudhary
Starring: Agni Mahinder Chaudhary, Deepika Tucker, Devaraj Das, Pravina Vemulakonda, Gobind Bachchan
Written by Mala Narang, Padma Choudhary, Shanta Rao
Produced by Deo Avani Mhasalkar
The film starts with doctor Abhijit Mhasalkar (Agni Mahinder Chaudhary) who just graduated medical school travelling back to his village of Abshan. With him is a American woman doctor Sushila Blythe (Deepika Tucker) who is studying in India. When he arrives in Abshan he finds out his mentor Dr. Nagendra Korrapati (Devaraj Das) is in failing health due to the strain of attending patients in a nearby village called Danlamandi, where poor economic conditions have forced the doctors there to abandon their practices. While tending to the ill Abhijit meets his mentor and his daughter/childhood friend , Minali (Pravina Vemulakonda) who is now a nurse. Minali thinks that the Sushila is dating Abhijit and is at first cool towards him. Many people refuse to be treated by Sushila because of her age, sex and her attitude. Her appearance and dress also cause problems since many of the local women think she is their to take their men and many of the boys and men attempt to 'woo' her with some hilarious results. When one of the men attempts to force himself upon her with a knife she defends herself easily.
Torn between pursuing his own career and saving his mentor's health, Abhijit conceives of the idea of establishing a community clinic where, at minimal cost and using preventive medicine, patients can avail themselves of medical services. He obtains basic medical supplies from his teaching hospital and donates them to the village clinic. However, the ignorance and prejudice of the people of village, led by the money lender Deep Vemulakonda (Gobind Bachchan), make them equally skeptical of the new clinic and modern medicine as they were of the doctors. Many women however have started to secretly visit Sushila for help and want to know how to defend themselves and need her help with 'women's problems'. She begins teaching the women general healthcare, self defense and exercise away from the village in order to improve their health and self esteem. Abhijit and Minali begin a romance when Sushila tells Minali that Abhijit did not date while in school and kept a small picture of the two of them when they were children. She also tells Minali she already engaged and has a fiancée at home.
Facing criticism along with little support from the men of the community. Abhijit soon finds the clinic jeopardized, with the local village council about to vote on its future. Suspecting Deep is harboring an illness, Abhijit tricks him into a blood test, and while consulting Nagendra, Minali and Sushila, suspects Deep has contracted meningitis from daily swims in a nearby lake. After privately speaking with Deep he rejects further treatment. Certain now that the clinic will fail, the doctor waits the council's decision before he is called back to attend to Deep who has collapsed. The doctor saves him and with his support, wins over the villagers, who now realize the value of the clinic. Nagendra is able to take a long rest and agrees to allow Abhijit and Minali to marry. When another women doctor (Apoorva Gadhavi) arrives in the village six months later Sushila tells the villagers she is heading back to America to wed her fiancé and is given a present from Minali. When the nurse asks for his name, the American tells her in a whisper it is not a he but a she. The film ends.
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Brave New World (Bookmark1995)
Bookmark1995
Banned
I read more about Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, and found him to be an interesting guy.
In his later years, he publicly stated many times that his dreamed his dystopian nightmare was coming true much more quickly than he expected.
I really wonder what he would've thought off the UASR.
And this eventually popped out of my brain.
Cultureclash.UASR
How Brave New World Became A Reactionary Dogwhistle Against Communism (And How These Pundits Miss the Point of the Book Entirely)
March 10, 2015
Vevgeny Pavlovich
Reactionary fascism is nothing, if not adaptable. Like a microbe that has evolved to resist antibiotics, fascism and its ideals can take new forms in new environments, waiting until it finds a weak human to invade and parasitize. While almost all of those fortunate to have been born in the dictatorship of proletariat can easily recognize the illness no matter its form, in the captalist world, many bourgeoise are still weak in brain due to capitalist indoctrination and subjugation, and are still suggestible enough to not see the monster once it wears whatever the mask of sincerity and wholesomeness is at the time.
Among their many tactics is to misappropriate the rhetoric of the very proletariat they despise. They claim to offer a pretension of revolution and change, while in fact preserving the bourgeous imperialist agenda of stamping on the face of the worker. My American comrades have a term for this phenomenon: "edgy".
Hitler's bout of race madness was officially labeled "National Socialist German Worker's Party," and in his fiery propaganda, Hitler directed seemingly anticapitalist propaganda against the supposed "Jewish-Bolshevik" elite, which somehow could be blamed for the both the excesses of capitalism and the horror of the workers' state. He did this while making alliances with the Junker elite, who were happy to make a Faustian bargain with this madman and help him build his machine of conquest and terror in exchange for keeping their wealth and power.
In the modern day, this manipulative misapropriation of subversive language continues among the sham bourgeois democracies in Western Europe and the capitalist perversion occupying the island of Cuba.
Terms such as Red Pill, Steppingford Wife [1], and Christian Identity [2] are supposed to be used as resistance to reaction, but have been misused by reactionaires to present themselves as seemingly heroic figures standing up against communist scabs through a combination of feigned outrage and sham populism, while enjoying ill-gotten wealth and privelege.
Alan James and The Epilson Conspiracy
Alan James is perhaps emblematic of the victimhood, duplicity, and hypocrisy that characterizes fascism.
He has built a large media empire centered around a radio show labeled The Real Story. The very title is deeply, deeply misleading, considering he spends hours blaming communism for everything from the decline of the dollar to a global genocide through the use of flouride. Yes this man blames communism for the contamination of precious bodily fluids, and believes Bolshevik Jewish spy satelites are to blame for climate change [3] caused forest fires.
His banter might seem harmless and amusing, but he also incited violence against others, and believes "MacArthur had the right idea" when it came to dealing with Reds, showing he would happily wear an SS uniform and murder others if he had the chance to fight in the Great Patriotic War. And his views on marriage are not exactly the most enlightened. He does not believe rape within a marriage should count as rape, saying, "By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape." [4]
I could write about all the deranged things this bourgeois pigdog has written about, but by the time I'm finished, the universe would've suffered heat death.
But his other ventures are the creation of these deranged documentaries, in which he blames every evil plot to destroy the world on "Da Reds."
They have titles like the Blueprint for Global Collectivization and The Sanders Murders. But among his most poisonous endeavors is the Epilson Plot. In this 90 minutes of capitalist hogwash, he alleges that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World to warn humanity of the dangers of "socialist collectivization."
As proof that fascists are defined by a shallow understanding of UASR society, they claim the "pleasure-seeking hedonism of Bolshevik America" is the society that Aldous Huxley imagined in his book: a nation of mindless hedonists who reduce man to nothing seeking pleasure, who have destroyed the family, and yet are still capable of destroying humanity despite their supposed hedonism. [5]
Once again, fascists seem to misinterpret the meaning of Free Love : it is not about mindless pleasure, but allowing male and female comrades to explore their desires without judgement. Free love has freed women from misogynist chains that forced them to be nothing but baby factories and toys for a corrupt capitalist elite, and men are freed from the pressures of living up to a hypermasculine identity build around the bullying and exploitation of woman.
And it is hypocritical for this man to defend the family unit when he has been married four times, with numerous counts of adultery [6]. Adultery is distinguished from free love in that his dalliances are done without his significant other in mind, proving that James is the true hedonist, seeking pleasure at the expense of others.
But Alan James won't let silly things like facts get in the way of his writing.
James claims that the UASR is the "one true World State" (the name of the evil dystopia in the book), and that Aldous was trying to save us from becoming "Epilson slaves to the Bolshevik machine". In the book, Epilson is a name to describe people who have been designated through genetic engineering as a lowly caste meant to exist in eternal servitude.
Soon, on social media, terms such as #Epilson and #WorldState became fascist buzzwords used to take swipes at the UASR.
What Aldous Huxley Actually Believed
It is clear that James probably hasn't even opened a copy of Brave New World. Or he blatantly misinterpreting it.
Because Brave New World was not intended as a satire of socialism, but a swipe at bourgeois utopian fantasies of the early 20th century. In the book, men and women live in a society that celebrates capitalist consumerism and desire. In what proves to be disturbingly presicent, the people of the World State worship Henry Ford as their god and savior, even beginning their calender in 1908, with the invention of the Model T. The dictatorship of the World State is one that manipulates society through applying Fordist manufacturing tactics in the reproduction of children, and then uses various pleasures like commercial goods and a drug called soma to keep people in line through making them not question the emptiness of their existence.
Aldous Huxley, in interviews and articles he published in later years, believed his dystopian nightmare could come true in a capitalist society, like his native England.
"The great threat to democracy are the sensationalists of Fleet Street [7]," Huxley wrote in his article, Brave New World Revisited [8]. "A future dictatorship will be one hawking Maggie's Pies and Cadbury cream eggs." [9]
Huxley himself saw the UASR system as a good, if imperfect, means of deterring the rise of Huxley's dreaded dystopia of consumerism, and his last book, the 1962 book Island, he imagines what he feels would be a perfect society: a fusion of UASR political and social norms, plus Indian-style philosophy. [10]
Huxley, however, wasn't exactly perfect. In the above pamphlet, he feels the chaos that could produce a demagogue would be caused by Malthusian population pressures, and seemingly pushes the myth that resource depletion is caused by a rapacious and fertile underclass, not a corrupt elite seeking to keep its loot for itself, such as in colonial India or British-ruled Ireland, in which surpluses that could've helped starving people were sold at a high cost by a corrupt bourgeois hierarchy that saw its wealth and power more important then the elite.
James shallow and manipulative interpretation of Huxley proves that facsism is in the end an ideology of power-hungry men who seek to manipulate the weak and those devoid of connections which will crumble under the scrutiny and resistence of stronger men. Those of us in the Third International, endowed with the love of the people and our comrades, can easily push away such shallow manipulation, and so will those trapped under the pseudo-democracies of capitalism once they also come to understand the cruelties of their supposedly benevolent bourgeois overlords whose oppression may not be as overt as the past fascist horrors, but as Huxley observed, oppression through bread and circuses is still oppression.
[1] TTL Stepford Wives.
[2] I wish I was joking, but that's the name of a white supremacist that tries to deny the role of Judaism in the formation of Christianity.
[3] Another actual conspiracy that is becoming a mainstream political view.
[4] This is a quote from Phyllis Schlafly, I kid you not.
[5] The unseen enemy in fascism is always at once weak, but still dangerous enough to require destruction.
[6] There are tons of pundits who have personal lives that one would not ascribe to someone living a wholesome Christian existence.
[7] Fleet Street is a metonym for British tabloids.
[8] This was an actual OTL publication by Huxley.
[9] This was based off a quote from Huxley's publication, in which he describes the Mad Men of Madison Avenue as the greatest danger to democracy.
[10] Huxley actually embraced Eastern philosophy and meditation in his later years.
In his later years, he publicly stated many times that his dreamed his dystopian nightmare was coming true much more quickly than he expected.
I really wonder what he would've thought off the UASR.
And this eventually popped out of my brain.
Cultureclash.UASR
How Brave New World Became A Reactionary Dogwhistle Against Communism (And How These Pundits Miss the Point of the Book Entirely)
March 10, 2015
Vevgeny Pavlovich
Reactionary fascism is nothing, if not adaptable. Like a microbe that has evolved to resist antibiotics, fascism and its ideals can take new forms in new environments, waiting until it finds a weak human to invade and parasitize. While almost all of those fortunate to have been born in the dictatorship of proletariat can easily recognize the illness no matter its form, in the captalist world, many bourgeoise are still weak in brain due to capitalist indoctrination and subjugation, and are still suggestible enough to not see the monster once it wears whatever the mask of sincerity and wholesomeness is at the time.
Among their many tactics is to misappropriate the rhetoric of the very proletariat they despise. They claim to offer a pretension of revolution and change, while in fact preserving the bourgeous imperialist agenda of stamping on the face of the worker. My American comrades have a term for this phenomenon: "edgy".
Hitler's bout of race madness was officially labeled "National Socialist German Worker's Party," and in his fiery propaganda, Hitler directed seemingly anticapitalist propaganda against the supposed "Jewish-Bolshevik" elite, which somehow could be blamed for the both the excesses of capitalism and the horror of the workers' state. He did this while making alliances with the Junker elite, who were happy to make a Faustian bargain with this madman and help him build his machine of conquest and terror in exchange for keeping their wealth and power.
In the modern day, this manipulative misapropriation of subversive language continues among the sham bourgeois democracies in Western Europe and the capitalist perversion occupying the island of Cuba.
Terms such as Red Pill, Steppingford Wife [1], and Christian Identity [2] are supposed to be used as resistance to reaction, but have been misused by reactionaires to present themselves as seemingly heroic figures standing up against communist scabs through a combination of feigned outrage and sham populism, while enjoying ill-gotten wealth and privelege.
Alan James and The Epilson Conspiracy
Alan James is perhaps emblematic of the victimhood, duplicity, and hypocrisy that characterizes fascism.
He has built a large media empire centered around a radio show labeled The Real Story. The very title is deeply, deeply misleading, considering he spends hours blaming communism for everything from the decline of the dollar to a global genocide through the use of flouride. Yes this man blames communism for the contamination of precious bodily fluids, and believes Bolshevik Jewish spy satelites are to blame for climate change [3] caused forest fires.
His banter might seem harmless and amusing, but he also incited violence against others, and believes "MacArthur had the right idea" when it came to dealing with Reds, showing he would happily wear an SS uniform and murder others if he had the chance to fight in the Great Patriotic War. And his views on marriage are not exactly the most enlightened. He does not believe rape within a marriage should count as rape, saying, "By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape." [4]
I could write about all the deranged things this bourgeois pigdog has written about, but by the time I'm finished, the universe would've suffered heat death.
But his other ventures are the creation of these deranged documentaries, in which he blames every evil plot to destroy the world on "Da Reds."
They have titles like the Blueprint for Global Collectivization and The Sanders Murders. But among his most poisonous endeavors is the Epilson Plot. In this 90 minutes of capitalist hogwash, he alleges that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World to warn humanity of the dangers of "socialist collectivization."
As proof that fascists are defined by a shallow understanding of UASR society, they claim the "pleasure-seeking hedonism of Bolshevik America" is the society that Aldous Huxley imagined in his book: a nation of mindless hedonists who reduce man to nothing seeking pleasure, who have destroyed the family, and yet are still capable of destroying humanity despite their supposed hedonism. [5]
Once again, fascists seem to misinterpret the meaning of Free Love : it is not about mindless pleasure, but allowing male and female comrades to explore their desires without judgement. Free love has freed women from misogynist chains that forced them to be nothing but baby factories and toys for a corrupt capitalist elite, and men are freed from the pressures of living up to a hypermasculine identity build around the bullying and exploitation of woman.
And it is hypocritical for this man to defend the family unit when he has been married four times, with numerous counts of adultery [6]. Adultery is distinguished from free love in that his dalliances are done without his significant other in mind, proving that James is the true hedonist, seeking pleasure at the expense of others.
But Alan James won't let silly things like facts get in the way of his writing.
James claims that the UASR is the "one true World State" (the name of the evil dystopia in the book), and that Aldous was trying to save us from becoming "Epilson slaves to the Bolshevik machine". In the book, Epilson is a name to describe people who have been designated through genetic engineering as a lowly caste meant to exist in eternal servitude.
Soon, on social media, terms such as #Epilson and #WorldState became fascist buzzwords used to take swipes at the UASR.
What Aldous Huxley Actually Believed
It is clear that James probably hasn't even opened a copy of Brave New World. Or he blatantly misinterpreting it.
Because Brave New World was not intended as a satire of socialism, but a swipe at bourgeois utopian fantasies of the early 20th century. In the book, men and women live in a society that celebrates capitalist consumerism and desire. In what proves to be disturbingly presicent, the people of the World State worship Henry Ford as their god and savior, even beginning their calender in 1908, with the invention of the Model T. The dictatorship of the World State is one that manipulates society through applying Fordist manufacturing tactics in the reproduction of children, and then uses various pleasures like commercial goods and a drug called soma to keep people in line through making them not question the emptiness of their existence.
Aldous Huxley, in interviews and articles he published in later years, believed his dystopian nightmare could come true in a capitalist society, like his native England.
"The great threat to democracy are the sensationalists of Fleet Street [7]," Huxley wrote in his article, Brave New World Revisited [8]. "A future dictatorship will be one hawking Maggie's Pies and Cadbury cream eggs." [9]
Huxley himself saw the UASR system as a good, if imperfect, means of deterring the rise of Huxley's dreaded dystopia of consumerism, and his last book, the 1962 book Island, he imagines what he feels would be a perfect society: a fusion of UASR political and social norms, plus Indian-style philosophy. [10]
Huxley, however, wasn't exactly perfect. In the above pamphlet, he feels the chaos that could produce a demagogue would be caused by Malthusian population pressures, and seemingly pushes the myth that resource depletion is caused by a rapacious and fertile underclass, not a corrupt elite seeking to keep its loot for itself, such as in colonial India or British-ruled Ireland, in which surpluses that could've helped starving people were sold at a high cost by a corrupt bourgeois hierarchy that saw its wealth and power more important then the elite.
James shallow and manipulative interpretation of Huxley proves that facsism is in the end an ideology of power-hungry men who seek to manipulate the weak and those devoid of connections which will crumble under the scrutiny and resistence of stronger men. Those of us in the Third International, endowed with the love of the people and our comrades, can easily push away such shallow manipulation, and so will those trapped under the pseudo-democracies of capitalism once they also come to understand the cruelties of their supposedly benevolent bourgeois overlords whose oppression may not be as overt as the past fascist horrors, but as Huxley observed, oppression through bread and circuses is still oppression.
[1] TTL Stepford Wives.
[2] I wish I was joking, but that's the name of a white supremacist that tries to deny the role of Judaism in the formation of Christianity.
[3] Another actual conspiracy that is becoming a mainstream political view.
[4] This is a quote from Phyllis Schlafly, I kid you not.
[5] The unseen enemy in fascism is always at once weak, but still dangerous enough to require destruction.
[6] There are tons of pundits who have personal lives that one would not ascribe to someone living a wholesome Christian existence.
[7] Fleet Street is a metonym for British tabloids.
[8] This was an actual OTL publication by Huxley.
[9] This was based off a quote from Huxley's publication, in which he describes the Mad Men of Madison Avenue as the greatest danger to democracy.
[10] Huxley actually embraced Eastern philosophy and meditation in his later years.
This update seems way too close to OTL 2021, in my opinion. I've soured a tiny bit on Reds! after leaving the socialist left, but I can still respect the effort put into the detailed world and culture, while this feels too close to just normal discourse painted red.
It's still a good piece by Bookmark (ignoring the parallelistic stuff to IOTL, and the Russian American writer that writes more like a Trump-era Resistance liberal radical from IOTL rather than as a Reds! commie).
Read about the SEU @Bookmark1995 so that you can get a contemporary feel.
Read about the SEU @Bookmark1995 so that you can get a contemporary feel.
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You know SV is free, right? It's very easy to get an account.
And even if you don't have one, I think the Reds thread is viewable for non-members.
You don't need to apologize. But as Teri said, as a suggestion, you can easily start reading the SV version to catch up and there is also a fanfic thread there where you can post.
Bookmark1995
Banned
I've tried to create an SV account, but they keep rejecting my application for having "too much spam."
You'll have to go on their discord and message the moderators directly.