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I need to stop being so illiterate, I’m missing out on so many puns and wordplay because I can’t reading enough hanzi or kanji for the life of me. I could be out here having fun with radicals, but I can’t READ.
#the dream is to one day#have a lot of fun mixing English and Chinese wordplay#together in a fic#no entirely sure how to pull it off in a comprehensible way#but if I’m gonna go insane over Naruto seals later#I HAVE to have weird puns#on the dark side of the moon
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Okay, as much as I’m having all this fun scribbling down random ideas for the Raccoon Empire fic verse, I’m gonna need to start laying down guard rails so this doesn’t sprawl out into a massive decades long project in universe (and irl tbh).
Because as much as I want to talk about the evolution of food security and supply lines into the city that has to increasingly plan for interruptions from villains attacks or the encroachment of organized crime into the commercial waste industry or the fucked up state of real estate in Gotham thanks to Everything - the full scope of talking about these fictional issues drawing parallels from real life honestly takes years and years of grinding work and effort to get somewhere. Systems take years to change, hopefully for the better. It takes us years to react to developing issues, to realize there are issues, and work as community to solve those issues.
At the same time, I still want character development and character interactions to fundamentally drive this verse. So it’s not like I can toss down a pile of outsider POV one shots connected together like a conspiracy board.
Idk. Might take the trope of the Wayne’s daylight personas’ involvement in philanthropy and make that the vehicle of the verse. Like, how does that actually work, how does that interact with vigilante work, how is it improved and hurt by the unavoidable time, effort, and resources hero/vigilante work eats up - there’s a lot of inherent tension in this dynamic.
#raccoon empire#joking and unhinged behavior aside#I do actually want this to be sincere commentary#about service for your community and with your community#community is so important#it’s foundational#safety - health - quality of life - opportunities - fundamental hope#that’s all community#idk. just feels like not enough fic talk about crime and philanthropy seriously#I get that these are niche interests#and it’s easier to write character driven narratives rather than institution driven stories#idk. have a lot of thoughts. going to have a lot of cited links#and links to resources for receiving help and providing help
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Every year I spend within the age range of rounding to 30 when you round to the nearest 10, the more and more I go, “wow, these guys running around in these stories are all really young.”
#sometimes I miss that feeling#of being eleven and thinking that 20 year olds were Full Grown Adults#I have such a different approach to writing characters now#than when I was in high school#like duh of course#but also#I mean this in the sense of having license#for characters doing highly specific early-mid-20s dumb shit#that I never knew about as a kid
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Man, looking at when some of these shows came out, I keep thinking about how different my media diet growing up would have been if my brother hadn’t staged a boycott on anything other than the Science Channel or Discovery on the TV when we were kids.
And I mean literally sprint into the room and fling his body in front of our tiny TV screen and screaming over the sound if ANY cartoons or shows that weren’t Tom and Jerry was playing.
#raccoon empire#then the kid had the gall to binge watch everything we missed out anyway#after successfully canceling our entire cable subscription#years before people seriously talked about cable cutting in the news#this is probably partially why I still have so much trouble finishing tv shows#ANYWAYS ALL TO SAY#slowly crawling through adaptions because there are only so many minutes of animation#versus A NEAR?? CENTURY??? OF COMICS#THERE IS SO FUCKING MUCH
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A) reading these comics on a tablet is so much better than on the phone, I’m gonna do this from now on. the phone experience is kind of painful, for understandable reasons.
B) I’m so glad work is giving me an excuse for parallel research:
#raccoon empire#there’s research on animals as vectors for environmental contaminants#im gonna cite them#you know I am#this isn’t what I’m researching for work - thats urban transportation#but I keep thinking about subway rats
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Me printing out articles from annual review and other academic journals for fic research: fuck, do I remember how to cite stuff in APA style anymore
#raccoon empire#time to test the character limit on AO3’s note section#I’m not joking about citations and footnotes#I’ll fucking do it#I have all my downloaded research on eminent domain use in NY from college#still saved on my laptop#I will pull them out
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I’ve fucked up. This should have been all comic nonsense. Instead, all the leftover mania from my bnha obsession are leaking into these dc thoughts. The worldbuilding dumb shit keeps accumulating.
You can’t dangle east coast I-95 corridor chicanery in front of me, I will respond, I fucking miss the northeast.
#raccoon empire#WHO THE FUCK WANTS A GOTHAM FIC ABOUT THE WAR OVER IMPLEMENTING ADA COMPLIANCE IN THAT HELL CITY#I WORK TOO MANY HOURS#I CANT FINISH ALL THIS RESEARCH#NO ONE WANTS CONTENT THIS DEPENDENT ON BACKGROUND OCS#bnha naturally controlled me because there’s only so much I can dig into on Japan#THERE ARE NO CONTROLS WITH US BASED SETTINGS#I’ve been chasing down too many government contracts#and filing too many information requests recently for work#this is fucking up my brain#I’m so tired
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Me: we’re just trying to have a good time here, we’re just trying to have fun, this is gonna be just good nonse—
This hell brain: what, you don’t want to talk about the horror of systemic invasions of privacy in the name of law and order via mass surveillance pulling together camera networks, social media feeds, geo data sold by data brokers, and everything else in modern life that the state is already aggregating together on all of us? really?
#raccoon empire#the ongoing saga of navi's niche interests#fucking hate how this mind works sometimes#but yeah#so much for my fun little tim drake and oracle shenanigans#we’re gonna break the constitution all over our knees I guess#this isn’t gonna cause anyone any troubles#we’re already screaming after the owl fuckers in this mess of a fic verse#and I finally get to unload about municipal solid waste in the US
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Like, it sucks that both Zuko and Azula Do Not Care about the real actual functioning of the armed forces and how to keep them running because they’re both never going to talk about it.
BUT I WANT TO.
On one hand, there’s canonically coinage in ATLA.
On the other hand, I’m still going to pay everyone in daily allotments of rice.
#Zuko: completely fucks off on personal quests#Azula: does not care at all about ordinary people#or much of reality on the ground tbh#me: BUT SOMEONE NEEDS TO TALK ABOUT CONTRACTING VS USING LABOR AS TAXES#FOR GETTING ALL THE LABORERS AND SUPPORT STAFF AN ARMY ON CAMPAIGN NEEDS#WHO DO YOU THINK IS CARRYING THE RICE AND REPAIRING THE WEAPONS AND ARMOR#I already spared you all the escalating hysteria over coaling ships#but the well is dry#smashed your bones#no such thing as heaven#ah fuck#this fits with#spite fic folder#as well because all these STUPID fire nation democracy fics do NOT KNOW WHAT THEYRE TALKING ABOUT
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On one hand, there’s canonically coinage in ATLA.
On the other hand, I’m still going to pay everyone in daily allotments of rice.
#the ongoing saga of navi's niche interests#scraping together time to read more research papers#and constantly sighing over military logistics
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…. I was happy forgetting that the whole female character back breaking art style trend existed….
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Sometimes bored at the office thoughts mean contemplating how to type an entire report with an Xbox controller slapped into JoyToKey.
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Meanwhile Absolute Batman is uh.
Hmm.
He sure does exist!
#just this first issue is wild as fuck already#might kick him to the side so I can have fun#with whatever the hell is in these previews#of Martian manhunter#the visuals look REALLY fun
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[holds up this traumatized child] “oh we’re gonna have fun.”
#look at him#he’s so cute#and so tragic like good grief. my god. wow.#it’s one thing to be a baby and jettisoned off into space#poor kid#also. do NOT appreciate the implication that the dog could be dead#n o
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[squinting at the absolute world or universe or whatever] I still don’t understand enough due to jumping around scattershot through random comics so this is all confusing to me, but not gonna lie that Superman’s messy ass hair in this version isn’t amusing.
#reading the wiki to try getting ANY answers feels like a fever dream#over 80 years of comics is just. so much. good grief.
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Love having to rip out pages of written content due to abruptly realizing that healthcare costs in other countries aren’t as diabolical as in the US.
#going through posts and research on Japan surgical costs#and lemme just say#ugh this fucking country#anyways. there goes that entire plot thread!!#it doesn’t fucking matter anymore!!!!!#if this was set in the US then I COULD get away with horrid angst and trauma#with having flowers wrecking your internal organs and poisoning your blood#and not being able to afford removing them safely#BUT GUESS I CANT HAVE THE SAME HORROR STORY OF MEDICAL DEBT OUTSIDE THE STATES
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I’m coming for you, you owl freaks.
#raccoon empire#not gonna lie a bunch of this nonsense#directly points back to all the buttons smashed hard by ca:tws when I was in high school#there’s a specific set of tropes I’ll always be down for#I’m a dumb bitch and my tastes haven’t changed an inch in the last decade
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