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.
genuinely obsessed w class of 09 bc wdym nicole
- actively, in canon, hates all men
- only builds any semblance of emotional connection with women
- states in text that shes never liked a guy enough to call him a "boyfriend"
- wishes multiple times that she was a lesbian
- only goes out of her way to help jecka
- IS IN A LESBIAN RELATIONSHIP
and then when the audience interpreted her as lesbian the creator went "YOURE ALL CRAZY" like this is the funniest shit in the world
rotten yuri on my mind
Just thinking about how pretty the horizon is, especially when the sun is either rising or setting. Something beautiful about the world getting bathed in orange but only briefly. Also just the broader concept of the horizon is alluring, a sight ahead of you that you can never catch up with. By the time you get there the sight has changed and the space around you has changed as well. There's probably a metaphor in there.
Just a little fandom rant-
For some reason a lot of wormfic seems to feature a trope or piece of fanon centered around a "Dragontech cell phone/computer/whatever" and it bugs me. Doesn't Dragon's power explicitly prevent mass production? And wouldn't her breaking into the tech sphere with Tinker-made cell phones have issues with NEPEA-5 or whatever? And being Tinker-tech, wouldn't it be impossible to be commercially viable due to maintenance? I know it's a convenient way to handwave the lack of visible tech companies or recognizable products, but it feels like a lazy workaround. Earth Bet can have a little Steve Wozniak, as a treat. Or a Bill Gates, or whomever. And like it's *always* Dragon, there's never another Tinker who specializes in telecommunications and commercial touchscreen devices.
Just a little irksome thing.
It's truly tragic that ao3 authors who use AI aren't subject to the author curse, seeing as they would have to actually write for that to be the case.
enjoying elden ring for the first time. it's pretty fun, I picked samurai, killed a dog that had an axe. doing alright.
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