Lúthien in Rewind
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"No.

 

 

We could just say here's a planet we are its co-Empresses and hope people get the point?"

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"That only works if only the right people get the point and everyone else is oblivious."

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"Which might happen. People are pretty quick not to assume something that awful about people they respect."

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"That awful."

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"You know I don't think so."

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Sigh. "Yeah."

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"But it wouldn't occur to people to - assume - of anyone they liked and thought was good and sensible. And you're so good."

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"Thanks," sighs Bella. "Do you think all the gay Elves who we want reading between the lines here will be sufficiently sorted out about it in their heads to assume differently? Self-hating gay people are a thing for humans..."

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"...probably not. I wouldn't have been.

 

 

We could ask the ones we know about. Only I worry it's vaguely threatening to raise it with them too often, because it's reminding them that we could destroy their lives if we wanted to, even if we know we wouldn't..."

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"I definitely don't want to go around sounding like I'm threatening to destroy people's lives."

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"I know. It's not that I think it'd sound that way, exactly, just that ordinarily if you know someone's secret you don't casually raise it with them too often, lest they think you're treating it casually in general..."

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"Maybe the princes would have an idea. Not that they're in the target audience per se because I'm assuming they like being in charge of stuff, but they know we know and that we don't mind..."

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"Good idea."

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"I don't want to have secret laws so it will definitely be accessible information that homosexuality is not even slightly illegal... dunno how many people will be reading the entire legal code."

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"The Noldor probably will, and have big public debates over it. So that's something.

 

I wonder why the princes keep those laws. If they're in charge and could have, just, not done that."

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"Maybe that'd be conspicuous."

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"Oh, yeah, probably.

Want to go talk to them? I will pop us nice and outside."

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"Yeah, s'pose."

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Pop, nice and outside. They ask for an audience and are told the prince has gone home but they can speak with the lord Maedhros in a few minutes.

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That's going to be sort of interesting now that we know he probably thinks we're a hallucination.

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He was very polite about it.

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Yeah, he was. I guess he has practice.

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Someone sends them in a few minutes later. 

Lúthien! Bella. Congratulations on your progress so far, it's been astonishingly rapid. How can I help you?

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Writing up a constitution for our planet and wondering what balance to strike between merely not having homosexuality be illegal versus actively trying to find people who'd find that a selling point.

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At least among the Noldor the cluster of people who'd find it a selling point tend to also have political opinions on lots of historically related things, which you might or might not endorse or want - plural marriage, divorce, adultery, sacrilege, efforts to find non-Valar forms of resurrection...

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