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On this mega I shall take the opportunity to rant about one of my favorite things: the Webnovel UNJUST DEPTHS!
Do you love transgenders?
Do you love communism?
Do you love queer romance?
Do you love killing fascists in a giant fucking mech?
Would a plotline with all of these things happening in a underwater retro-futuristic gundam setting intrigue you?
Especially if its actually really well written with good characters, rich worldbuilding, and a marxist leninist transfem author?
All of the answers should be: YES I DO or else I WILL BAN YOU
Since you obviously love all of those things then Unjust Depths is perfect for YOU yes YOU! It is DESTINY
The Imbrian Ocean is at a time of severe instability. The monarch of the vast Empire that spans its unjust depths (:3) is sick and nearing death, every territory of the ocean now vying to carve their own Destiny out of the chaos. From the Volk fascists 
, Zionists 
(they literally will not die why are they still here oh my god), The ‘Anarchists’ (social chauvanists) 
in Bosporus, and the monarchs 
of each vast noble domain, each vies for power and prestige no matter who they crush underfoot, but it would be a pretty depressing story without a bright light in the dark.
On the edge of the Empire sits the glorious Union! The (Soviet) Union 
is a socialist federation of three states (and one anarchist mountain 
)that were formerly slave colonies under the Imbrian Empire until they broke away in a fierce liberation war. They have spent the last 20 years since then building themselves up. Whether they be Human 
, Shimmi 
(Catgirls who usually follow a religion closely related to modern Islam), and Kattaran 
(a hybrid humanoid species with characteristics of sea life ranging from sharks to cuttlefish)building socialism side by side.
First lead under the revolutionary leader Dashka Kansal, then the Idealist Ahwalia who lead the country to near ruin in pursuit of building a utopia on pillars of sand, then under the scientific socialist 
leadership of the Grand Marshall of the Union, Bhavani Jayanskar (I love Jayanskar so much shes basically as if Stalin, Lenin, and Zhukov were rolled into the same person but was a black lesbian badass who wore the uniform REALLY WELL)(she aint the main character at all tho shes only in very few scenes i just love her so much). Under Jayanskar, the Union has been growing their economy to both eliminate hunger and give everyone a home 
, but also growing their military capabilities for the inevitable return of the Empire. The Union is alone, but with the people by its side nothing, not even Destiny, can snuff out true freedoms light. 
As war wages between the Empire and Republic (basically underwater USA) once more over the lands between them, the facade begins to finally crack…
And a border conflict between the Empire and Union escalate, and the dreaded reconquest begins.
Amidst this turmoil, lives our main characters (yes there are multiple and all of them are lovely). Each of whom I personally love dearly, and are very well characterized. Many are soldiers of the Union, some are scientists, some are divers (mech pilots), some are lost strands finding new meaning after joining this band of Brigands
All are Communists 
All serve the Union 
All would gladly give their lives to defending socialism 
but even they would have little inkling of the adventure set in store for them as the lands beneath the waves erupt in fire, fury, and revolt
Can these transgender badasses kick fascist ass?
Can they kiss? (oh my god please kiss ISTG THERE IS SO MUCH SHIPPING AHHHH ITS GLORIOUS)
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(I miss her, she was a real one)
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And now to why I hate mechas: They represent individualism.
A submarine, for example, or a tank, is piloted by multiple people. Collectivism. Together strong. A mecha being stronger than a submarine is Great Man Theory personified.
Oh did I mention that the villains have shitty cannon fodder mechas that can’t do shit? It’s power levels again. The important main character mechas can kill dozens of cannon fodder mechas, and they’ll never get hit by cannon fodder mechas, only by the important main character ones of course.
yeah but have you considered that they’re big cool robots
Droidekas are (ultra cool) robots
Mechas aren’t even robots and they look super boring and inefficient
I liked the mechas in Avatar because they represent the inefficient and individualistic ideology of the yanks perfectly
still lame take
This is a better take
still shit but at least this has some albiet nonsensical reason to it
It does strike me as a little pithy to complain that the bads all have dogshit mechs when stuff like the Jagdkaiser or that new big Volker successor exist. Even disregarding GREAT MAN THEORY PERSONIFIED I think the battlefield is reasonably level.
especially since its just literally about having characters that do things
thats what happens in a story lol, you can write about a whole ships experience but thats not the point of the story???
i think they might be coping about the anarchism thing
and even though in most instances they only barely escape, and killing all targets is only due to a wholesale advantage of tech, tactics, and intel
Also the webnovel features large swathes of ship combat. Murati and the rest of the Diver crew need the Brigand, no great man here. They are a collective force.
It did strike me as slightly eyerolling, that. Like okay, I dig that we are killing racist chauvinist imperialist fucks, like the whole Book 5 where those guys get roasted is rad, fuck em. I was saying
and shit. But uh, it’s weird that every single anarchist in this universe is a racist, Idk. I asked if it was sectarianism at the time and got no reply.
its literally talked about all the time how divers are nothing without the crew of the brigand, this individualist vs collectivism rant hold little water. Reminds me of that random person who hated on ‘leaderism’ just to start an argument in hexbear last month or so. Very annoying.
i mean i just see it as realistic, its not like they respect borders and shit, and then they start attacking the shimii because they’re a conservative statist force in the way of anarchist liberation or some shit.
i dont think we’ve run into anarchist characters tho, and some aren’t racist like that one diplomat, but this is what happens when you dont have a force to actually deal with systemic hatred of a people and just let them do whatever.
the author is big time Marxist Leninist who takes the line of ‘anarchists are as much our enemy as the white army’ which i dont think is necessarily incorrect. gotta have firm beliefs people or they will break.
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fine fine fine
ive taken a shower, eaten some girlfood, taken my pills, and yadda yadda. Time to actually talk about the whole anarchism in unjust depths situation.
First of all, the anarchists are either neutral or active antagonists. This is obviously influenced by the authors ideology, and admittedly it gets excessive at different points. The author is both trying to write a story while also building the plot with anarchists around their criticism of anarchism.
But it semi-accurately portrays any kind of left unity in a real situation. Left Unity only lasts so long, as when the capitalists are bashed and the fascists are gone, who is left? Ideologically uncompromising marxists and ideologically uncompromising anarchists. With the union we see a delicate balance struck. The mountain anarchists get their mountain, the Union gets the rest and they both dont tough each other, ignoring each other.
wait before that have you gotten toward the United Front discussions, this is important for the whole thing. The whole anarchist-mordecai-ist beef is fleshed out historically, as well as the classic ideological beefs.
Did the soviets not have aircraft carriers because fighter jets are great man theory personified?
your take is shitty sorry
i like reading hot trans girls piloting cool mechs to blow up fascists
sorry that a story with characters focuses on the characters, which is individualism ig