finally got around to reading the new unjust depths chapter. still great! i love elena and homa so this arc focusing on them is a special treat for cromalin in her time of need
i love elena, her proletarification worked
“Communists don’t think that anyone is a ‘drain on resources’! It’s not a matter of whether they deserve resources, or whether they have earned them– everyone is given what they need! The crew would never think that about anyone. Sure, maybe I could take up less because I do less, and I try not to bother anyone– but when I haven’t eaten in a while Minardo berates me and makes me eat. If I’m cooped up in my room too much then the Captain or the Commissar might pop in to ask how my reading is going. And the sailors have gotten to used to having me around, and they wave at me every day. No– I don’t think anyone hates me. And if they do, it’s not because I ask for food and shelter.
I am trying to learn and change. I want to see the communist’s hopes blossom and I want to do what I can to help. I want to fight for that hope just like my new companions. Nobody who helps me now is waiting on me; nobody who feeds me is paying obeisances; nobody who protects me is fighting for royalty. I am their comrade; a soldier without a name.”
also this is me
"Stupid, libidinal, dependent and bratty. Her brain practically boiling in a soup of hormones. Wants to bark and beg and submit and have filthy lesbian sex with her peers to a shameful degree."