This... really doesn't belong here, in this journal, but there's nowhere this does belong except for the discord I originally posted it in -- which, being discord, is not as permanent/as easily findable, even though I mod the discord in question -- or a FFN review, which... might have a wordcount limit and afaik won't take markdown OR html, so even if it does fit wordcount-wise it would be ugly and unformatted as sin.

The essay in question is written is about the fanfic Vanguard, which is the most recent entry in kitsunerei88's Revolutionary Arc fanfic series (this last link goes to the AO3 version, but Vanguard is currently only on FFN), and also drawing from Liar Liar and From America With Love, two other entries in that series. The Revolutionary Arc itself is a fanfic-of-fanfic, specifically of murkybluematter's Pureblood Pretense series, also known as the Rigel Black Chronicles.

As such, this essay has a very niche audience, and... since I expect said audience to be in the RBC Discord or in Vanguard's review section, and not on this journal unless I direct them to it, I'm mostly just posting this here for posterity and my own personal satisfaction. Cut for length.

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