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Chapter One: Samus Aran is a Transgender Woman. Deal With It. People don't like headcanons for some reason. People like fan theories, but they don't like headcanons. "But wait!" you may shout as you emerge from your birdbath of Mountain Dew Baja Blast (TM), "Headcanons are the same as fan theories! 'Headcanon' is just a more personalized approach to them!" Well, you're right - headcanons are fan theories tailor-made for you - but the Internet has collectively decided that headcanons are worse than fan theories. Entertaining the incredibly niche possibility that the buff space bounty hunter woman from Metroid 's "newhalf" nature might not just refer to her unique mix of Chozo and human DNA but also her gender identity is somehow worse than those theories that propose that all the kids in Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy  were dead this entire time and that Peach Creek is merely a purgatory that happens to resemble an incom

The Greater Good: An Analysis of Vigilantism and (Implied) Allostatic Load Chapter One: You See What Vigilantism Does? (spoilers for Hot Fuzz , Zootopia , Irreversible , Stranger Things , and The 'Burbs  below) TW: discussion of sexual assault, rape, violence, toxic masculinity, police brutality, vigilante justice, and a lot of problematic people (including Woody Allen and John McCain). The thing that society implicitly lives by, the Greater Good drives some to be kind to their fellow men and, in certain cases, others to be calloused and cruel. The idea is that if society as a whole sees some sort of ill towards somebody, be it a minority (racial, sexual, gender-based, disabled, or religious) or an individual, people will do anything to right the wrong. In most cases, people work within the confines of the law in order to achieve some form of justice - in other cases, people will resort to vigilante justice in order to set an example to others who might enact the