To my politically disinterested readers, this "little" side-note is not of relevance to the crackfic. Read on at your own risk!

SO a very informative review was left by a Guest by the name of "Cycles", which I would have loved to reach out to, but unfortunately can't, because, well, they're a guest, and I thought I'd reply with my own totally-not-disclaimers.

As a Modern Historian myself, I totally agree with all of Cycles' points.

I definitely appreciate the ambiguity of the term "conservative" and the stereotypes associated with right-wing politics. As they've said, conservatism is the protection of certain values as opposed to revolution, and once even a revolutionary has enforced their ideologies, they may become conservative as a means of protecting their values.

And, of course, conservatism comes from both the right and left wings, even though conservatism is more generally associated with right and revolution associated with left. And the only reason this is so is because right-wing political ideas have been prominent in many of the world's industrial cultures through monarchy/fascism*/dictatorship, as Cycles has stated, and the people in power in these societies have of course protected their values as a means of staying in power - which has had conservatism manifest as a stereotype of the right-wing.

(*though, of course, fascism is more of a subset of dictatorship.)

Because this is a crackfic, of course I've largely simplified these ideas and stuck to stereotypes for a more humorous effect, but I greatly appreciate Cycles' input. Political awareness is becoming of increasing importance in our world and I thank them for ensuring my readers are not left ignorant!

There was also another reader on AO3 who got a little upset at my parodied generalisations of politics in my "condemning" of right-wing. Definitely, the NSDAP used socialism as a mask with which they took over the German state and enforced the Volksgemeinschaft ("national community") and I fully recognise that socialism/communism/left-wing ideologies can become corrupt and evolve into ogliarchies. . . which is. . . strange, that people like Stalin (USSR) and Jinping (China) have enforced Communist states with ultimately turn out to be autocratic and repressive. So, uh, I guess there is an argument that technically autocracies (which are generally right-wing of nature) are the cause of many political problems, uh. . . but that left-wing ideas can definitely become corrupt. . . heheh. . .

I would also like to address the issue of Pearl's actually being subservient to the Authority/Pink/Rose for so long. In my view, that's more of a obsessive love thing to me than a courtier/loyal subject thing. As for Pearl's silence, of course, Sugar has already stated that Pink's silencing hold over Pearl was a result of physical owner/Pearl bonds. And I'd also like to think that since Pearl has grown so much in her character and has actually become more independent of Rose and come to terms with her mistakes, she can even more wholeheartedly embrace the idea of revolution/anarchy/opposing autocracy.

Also - the Gems and humans! I feel like Pearl definitely dislikes human politics but, as Cycles has said, the Gems' sticking to a "backwater" like Beach City sort of supports my idea of their unsaid law: staying out of human affairs as best as they can unless they're somehow tied to Gem issues.

Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk.