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A guy at a site I play at talks with me about forming a grouped of masked vigilantes to go up against the slave trade going on in the city that the game is set in. My character would be up for that, and she has a job that puts her at a somewhat 'inside' position already, so she'd be happy for the aid from a character who has the resources and power to actually do something. He compares his character to going about this "like the Green Hornet". I don't know anything about the Green Hornet except that he's a superhero, and since we're gonna be 'masked vigilantes' with secret identities and stuff, I figure the superhero comparision makes plenty of sense.
And then he starts the sign-up list for people who want to be on his side, and his character's codename actually is The Green Hornet. This is NOT a fandom game, it is an original setting. And then he suggests that my character be called The Crimson Wasp...which I find out is also a Green Hornet character. And then he talks to a girl about signing up her char, whom she says was based on the Marvel superheroine Black Widow (and uses screenshots of her from iron Man 2 as her PB), and she takes the codename of...Black Cat, another Marvel superheroine.
He also then makes a character called Eris who is indeed supposed to be THE Eris...and can't stop comparing her to Jinx from Teen Titans. He gives her the same powers, which makes sense for Eris, but also makes reference to her liking Jinx from The Teen Titans, being Jinx, yadda yadda YES I GET IT, ERIS = JINX. And then someone else makes an adoptive daughter for Eris named Raven Darkholmes, which is almost identical to the name Raven Darkholme, better know as Mystique from the X-Men comics.
You know, when that one kid had a character named Sebastian Shaw, I didn't think he got it from Marvel, because the character had no similarities to the Marvel one, the kid never made any comparisions, and Marvel's Shaw is not a well-known guy unless you're actually in the X-Men comics fandom. But the rest of this? is kind of ridiculous. If you want to be canon superheroes/villains, find a fandom game. If not, can we PLEASE GET SOME ORIGINALITY UP IN THIS BIYATCH???
Also, this (written by the first dude mentioned) drives me nuts to an irrational point, probably because I'm an English major. IDK, it's so petty but it makes me crazy, and I have to know, am I the only one?
Anger. Fury. Wrath.These three things could bring about the fall of the mightiest nations on earth, and had done so many times in the past. Athens, Sparta, Persia, Rome, Germany, Czarist Russia, and even the mighty Soviet Union had eventually fallen apart and crumbled, and at the heart of it all was Anger, fury, and wrath. If those three little things could bring about the fall of such mighty empires, imagine what they could do to simple companies and places of work - especially if they were fueling the heart of a woman scorned at that. Hell had no greater fury to unleash upon the Earth than a woman who had been scorned, especially by her lover.
Anger, fury, wrath = ALL THE SAME THINGS. Those are NOT three things! That is ONE thing! If you wanted to get super into semantics I'm sure one could come up with justifications for minute differences between them, but...you couldn't come up with something like, oh, say, greed too? Or how about lust, given the last sentence and how Troy supposedly fell? I just want to go through it with a little red marker pointing that out. Like I said, it drives me way more nuts than it legitimately should, and I'm sure ranting about something so tedious has made me look a little more nuts and less credible in the rest of my post, but I had to get it off my chest. I just had to.
Oh, and we don't need any more submissive slave girls. We actually have a surplus of female slaves already, but we ESPECIALLY do not need any more super sub types. There must be some other profession you can think up besides making your character a slave; I don't think we have any dentists, for instance. And the bodies of some of the female characters in general are really confusing to me--most of the time the description given leaves me baffled as to whether I'm reading about a super-voluptous curvy porn-goddess or a rail-thin childlike little waif. And phrases like "a body any man would lust after" get on my nerves--what about gay men? Asexual men? Pedophiles? Gerontophiles? Men who just actually like, gasp, a body type other than your girl is described as having? I know this is hard to accept, but not every guy is going to think one girl is the epitome of beauty.
And as one more thing, almost all of our gay males seem to have 'feminine' body types (I personally do not like the term 'feminine/female body type' but that's how they were described). Now, I realize that even without the aid of hormones or surgery, people can have body types that deviate from what is stereotypically expected of their biological sex, . But when so many gay men (the straight ones seem oddly immune) have bodies described as at least somewhat similiar to that of women (stereotypically speaking) to the point where an otherwise thin one has CHILDBEARING HIPS (actual term used--that and 'curvy'. alot. the guy is not trans either) then I think something must be in the water. Maybe the same stuff that made all the aforementioned ladies able to have at least two, often three, body types at once?
And then he starts the sign-up list for people who want to be on his side, and his character's codename actually is The Green Hornet. This is NOT a fandom game, it is an original setting. And then he suggests that my character be called The Crimson Wasp...which I find out is also a Green Hornet character. And then he talks to a girl about signing up her char, whom she says was based on the Marvel superheroine Black Widow (and uses screenshots of her from iron Man 2 as her PB), and she takes the codename of...Black Cat, another Marvel superheroine.
He also then makes a character called Eris who is indeed supposed to be THE Eris...and can't stop comparing her to Jinx from Teen Titans. He gives her the same powers, which makes sense for Eris, but also makes reference to her liking Jinx from The Teen Titans, being Jinx, yadda yadda YES I GET IT, ERIS = JINX. And then someone else makes an adoptive daughter for Eris named Raven Darkholmes, which is almost identical to the name Raven Darkholme, better know as Mystique from the X-Men comics.
You know, when that one kid had a character named Sebastian Shaw, I didn't think he got it from Marvel, because the character had no similarities to the Marvel one, the kid never made any comparisions, and Marvel's Shaw is not a well-known guy unless you're actually in the X-Men comics fandom. But the rest of this? is kind of ridiculous. If you want to be canon superheroes/villains, find a fandom game. If not, can we PLEASE GET SOME ORIGINALITY UP IN THIS BIYATCH???
Also, this (written by the first dude mentioned) drives me nuts to an irrational point, probably because I'm an English major. IDK, it's so petty but it makes me crazy, and I have to know, am I the only one?
Anger. Fury. Wrath.These three things could bring about the fall of the mightiest nations on earth, and had done so many times in the past. Athens, Sparta, Persia, Rome, Germany, Czarist Russia, and even the mighty Soviet Union had eventually fallen apart and crumbled, and at the heart of it all was Anger, fury, and wrath. If those three little things could bring about the fall of such mighty empires, imagine what they could do to simple companies and places of work - especially if they were fueling the heart of a woman scorned at that. Hell had no greater fury to unleash upon the Earth than a woman who had been scorned, especially by her lover.
Anger, fury, wrath = ALL THE SAME THINGS. Those are NOT three things! That is ONE thing! If you wanted to get super into semantics I'm sure one could come up with justifications for minute differences between them, but...you couldn't come up with something like, oh, say, greed too? Or how about lust, given the last sentence and how Troy supposedly fell? I just want to go through it with a little red marker pointing that out. Like I said, it drives me way more nuts than it legitimately should, and I'm sure ranting about something so tedious has made me look a little more nuts and less credible in the rest of my post, but I had to get it off my chest. I just had to.
Oh, and we don't need any more submissive slave girls. We actually have a surplus of female slaves already, but we ESPECIALLY do not need any more super sub types. There must be some other profession you can think up besides making your character a slave; I don't think we have any dentists, for instance. And the bodies of some of the female characters in general are really confusing to me--most of the time the description given leaves me baffled as to whether I'm reading about a super-voluptous curvy porn-goddess or a rail-thin childlike little waif. And phrases like "a body any man would lust after" get on my nerves--what about gay men? Asexual men? Pedophiles? Gerontophiles? Men who just actually like, gasp, a body type other than your girl is described as having? I know this is hard to accept, but not every guy is going to think one girl is the epitome of beauty.
And as one more thing, almost all of our gay males seem to have 'feminine' body types (I personally do not like the term 'feminine/female body type' but that's how they were described). Now, I realize that even without the aid of hormones or surgery, people can have body types that deviate from what is stereotypically expected of their biological sex, . But when so many gay men (the straight ones seem oddly immune) have bodies described as at least somewhat similiar to that of women (stereotypically speaking) to the point where an otherwise thin one has CHILDBEARING HIPS (actual term used--that and 'curvy'. alot. the guy is not trans either) then I think something must be in the water. Maybe the same stuff that made all the aforementioned ladies able to have at least two, often three, body types at once?