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nine slaughter houses? in this economy? preposterous.

Back at it again with another Parahumans fandom question.

Just thinking about something for a fic I'm writing that sort of applies to the setting at large, did Columbine happen on Earth Bet? Because from what I can tell it didn't. The Columbine shooting was the catalyst in the US to get increased surveillance and security in the school system which led to all the security cameras in the hallways and on campus in schools of all levels.

The reason I think this didn't happen on Earth Bet because if schools like Winslow were using security cameras then the extensive bullying campaign Taylor was on the receiving end of would have stopped way sooner. But even if it hadn't, she was shoved into her locker, objectively, and hallways in schools are generally where cameras are most frequently, so if there was a camera in that hallway then it could've been easily determined who put Taylor into the hospital. I guess the fact that that doesn't happen means that either 1. School shootings such as Columbine never got national attention like in our timeline or 2. Winslow is so corrupt and underfunded that it can't meet DOE security standards in a public high school.

I know there's some fanon about how corrupt and evil Principal Blackwell is, but security cameras provide a certain objectivity to events that theoretically should have been easy to obtain during the investigation as to what happened? I dunno, thoughts just spiraling.

Why go for one person in your head when you can have fourteen? Go big or go home, I wanna know what the Butcher experience is like.

I’m wondering what character from worm or ward (someday I need to read pact, pale or the other one) would be the best to be a voice in your head. I’m thinking this cause I’ve been playing a lot of cyberpunk recently. But trying to pick a mix of “I wouldn’t mind what they have to say or the might be fun to have around in my brain” and “their not the shittest person in the world who would tell me to do nothing but the worst things possible.” I want to know some people’s ideas about this, I’m still on the fence about who’d I pick.

I think a lot of people are forgetting that on tumblr fandom used to be practiced very differently. now everyone fucks off to their discords or tumblr groups to discuss everything with a select few, making tags be nearly only used for posting some finished fanworks or not at all

a decade ago people didn't have tumblr groups. people didn't even have dms. if you wanted to talk to anyone about anything you had to make a post, or send an ask (which more often than not would get published and thereby become a post in the end too)

so next time you think "I have a fandom thought but I have to find a small group of hyperspecifically like-minded people to share it with in private" remember all the freaks you could be missing out on meeting by keeping the tags dead. use tags, make friends. fuck discord.

I see a lot of that attitude in comments on wormfics. Tons of "if i had that kind of power, I would absolutely murder and harm everyone who upset me", people gots issues and seem to misunderstand that 'protagonist who murders people wantonly' is pretty boring outside of crackfics.

I was looking at old Ward comments about how people wanted Victoria to stop feeling so bad about hurting people and to start killing villains.

It reminded me of that one Batman post about how him saying he’s not comfortable with committing murder shouldn’t be controversial lol

I feel like a lot of this is also people from the worm fandom thinking that Taylor had no issues killing people, when that is literally the furthest thing from the truth. It actually took a lot for Taylor to personally kill someone (though she did have Sundancer murder several dozen people, it’s easier because she wasn’t pulling the trigger), and it clearly took extraordinary circumstances to get that far in the first place.

The S9000 involved a lot of depersonalization of the clones and the stakes to be world ending for her to causally kill them.

Make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it!

(Poll submitted by @megacorpo-hyperreality)

That's you, dear viewer. Yes, you. Without any powers either. And you have to fight one. Which one would you be best able to take (in a fight)?

Make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it!

How refreshing it is to talk to people who share my interests and my desire to engage in deep conversation.

Friends and a social life really ought to be up there with other human needs like food, water, and shelter. It only feels like a half-life, cursed and forsaken, when going without.

You know I've really come all the way around on the "should worm be more large scale popular" and mostly think "we don't need any more people writing pre Leviathan alt power Taylors" without the optimism more readers would do anything else

But I have to admit every time Tumblr has that poorly constructed soccer yaoi web serial trending I get a little mad. That Valor should be Worm's!

Do I eat because I'm hungry? No.

I eat because my brain finds writing fanfic easier on a full stomach.