If only it had been we that invented the camera...
[There would be about 500,000,000 pictures of half-naked dudes running through the streets with bloody love-whips... and nothing else. Why take pictures of other things, after all? You already have the best pictures.]
Mm... not meaningfully. [...she pauses a moment, and gives a slightly guilty look] ...though, I admit that my knowledge of the experiences of the commonfolk isn't as complete as I'd like.
[For all that she loved them, for all that she lived and ruled for the lower classes... there were so many ways that she never did - never could have - understood them. It... hurt. Thinking that. Thinking that there was such an impossible gulf between the palace and the paupers.
...ugh NO this is no time to be getting down in the dumps, dunkass! Pull yourself up by your emotional bootstraps and mack on your Master!
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If only it had been we that invented the camera...
[There would be about 500,000,000 pictures of half-naked dudes running through the streets with bloody love-whips... and nothing else. Why take pictures of other things, after all? You already have the best pictures.]
Mm... not meaningfully. [...she pauses a moment, and gives a slightly guilty look] ...though, I admit that my knowledge of the experiences of the commonfolk isn't as complete as I'd like.
[For all that she loved them, for all that she lived and ruled for the lower classes... there were so many ways that she never did - never could have - understood them. It... hurt. Thinking that. Thinking that there was such an impossible gulf between the palace and the paupers.
...ugh NO this is no time to be getting down in the dumps, dunkass! Pull yourself up by your emotional bootstraps and mack on your Master!
...okay not actually the second part.]