Today has been a lot of musings on the nature of community and villainy.
The communities we build will always start as a reflection of the society that we were brought up in, they mirror the way that we exist in the world. For better or for worse that means that any community we begin will inherently be ableist, it will be racist, it will be transphobic - because we carry those things with us in how we were socialised. It doesn't matter if you are in those groups and you think you've dealt with it, you almost certainly haven't.
It's up to us to listen. We have to work harder, and do better, than the people who we have a responsibility to accomodate, or our communities are not fair to them. And, while some places do better at this than others, I don't think it's ever going to be work that we should consider finished.
For me this is the essence of what I would call villainy. We're pulling down the status quo, because we know people shouldn't want it. That means we're going to be the bad guys, because even people who think of themselves as good beans are probably clinging to some fragment of how the world is now, some core of how society is that they can hold on to. But we can't stop there, we can't just destroy the social norm.
It's up to us, not just to break down society, not just to smash the people who hold up that society, but to demolish our selves, so we can build ourselves into the shape of people who know what it means to ensure everyone gets to truly live. To impose our will upon the world is to impose the people's will onto everything and we have to fucking mean it.