And I'm not sure whether to be afraid or not that you got me to see beauty and magic in the explosion as opposed to destruction and death.
Well, I hope this isn't too controversial a thing to say, but I think it's possible to recognize the significance and really, I mean, awe-inspiring indication of human technology and human progress that they represent--and acknowledge the personal significance they would have to America, aside from just their raw destructive power, but as a symbol that he was, very suddenly, THE most powerful country in the world that nobody else could even compete with, and that would be kind of an amazing feeling, regardless of what it came from...I think you can appreciate and acknowledge all of that without diminishing, in any way, the inherent evil these things represent. That was really what I was trying to do with this fic. Like, they're awful. Of course they are. But there's something amazing about them, too, and they offered something absolutely unprecedented to America.
I haven't read the rest of this yet, but I think I might have to, now.
Oh, gosh, I'd be delighted if you decided to have a look at TCE! =D Wizard and I have put a lot of work into it, and it means a lot to us both. I sort of like to hope that it has something to offer people even if they're not interested in Russia/America as a pairing.
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Well, I hope this isn't too controversial a thing to say, but I think it's possible to recognize the significance and really, I mean, awe-inspiring indication of human technology and human progress that they represent--and acknowledge the personal significance they would have to America, aside from just their raw destructive power, but as a symbol that he was, very suddenly, THE most powerful country in the world that nobody else could even compete with, and that would be kind of an amazing feeling, regardless of what it came from...I think you can appreciate and acknowledge all of that without diminishing, in any way, the inherent evil these things represent. That was really what I was trying to do with this fic. Like, they're awful. Of course they are. But there's something amazing about them, too, and they offered something absolutely unprecedented to America.
I haven't read the rest of this yet, but I think I might have to, now.
Oh, gosh, I'd be delighted if you decided to have a look at TCE! =D Wizard and I have put a lot of work into it, and it means a lot to us both. I sort of like to hope that it has something to offer people even if they're not interested in Russia/America as a pairing.