#dumbdown

[astralfist]

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send me a 🚩 and i'll share my unpopular rpc opinions and hot takes.

I'm not sure about "times three", but here's a hot take.

Let people write characters how they want. Let people ship what they want. Let people write how they want. Especially when it comes to the villain muses or muses who are not even villains but has had a fucked up backstory.

So I have a muse with a fucked up backstory (not Christophe this time), and he pretty much suffers from a lot of PTSD, and one of the things he does to cope with his PTSD is put on the whole playboy facade; he flirts around to cope, even makes innuendos/perverted jokes to cope. And I was in a Genshin RP server that pretty much wanted me to erase this about his character and in the end I just left cuz no. I should not dumbdown or waterddown my muse just because it makes y'all uncomfortable.

What I'm trying to say is if there's shit that a muse does that might set some triggers or make you uncomfortable, don't follow them. There are boundaries for sure. It's a-okay to set boundaries. We all have them. But if it's to the point where we're having to erase who our muses are, then that's crossing the boundary line. What are we? Fourteen? We should not have to erase who our muses are. Infact, their backstories is what tends to make them who they are sometimes.

There are characters who are just complete assholes and psychopaths. Kefka from Final Fantasy VI for example. He's kinda like the Joker of the game. He's just mad crazy. He literally wants to see the world go down. He wants to destroy the world just because. He enjoys seeing people suffer. No idea what his childhood was like because they never gave that to us (as far as I can remember), but he was never good to begin with. Does one really expect someone like Kefka to be watereddown???? Do y'all really expect somebody writing a complete psychopath to water shit down?????

TL;DR

The world is not full of rainbows, sunshine, or unicorns. We're not going to continue walking on eggshells, they say. Writing is a form of art and we should be allowed to write whatever we want. If dark and messed up content or anything else considered NSFW is too much for you, that is understandable and no one is here to judge, but please do not pin it on the mun for how fucked up their muse might be. Simply just do not follow.

[tabitha2]

You love feeling the waves of dyslexia and illiteracy and learning disorders come crashing over you, washing away anything that you thought you could think, or learn or know or read. You can accept your natural born female ignorance and inability as how you are meant to be. You can accept your true identity as a girl who never was good at school (if you even went), who never knew too much (if you even tried), and who never learned to read (if she was even taught.) #books are bad for you #school is not for girls #embrace being less #dumbdown #traditionalism kink #female inferiority kink #your proper fate #limited #born less #sexy dummy #dumb is sexy #proud not to be able

[daystarvoyage]

Have you watch Ben 10?

Hey voyager yes I did watch Ben 10 In my teenage and young adult years so much till ultimate alien (great series btw and Va cast)

Surprised that this show is still going?

i do congratulation the ben 10 series being a successful franchise aiming towards kids or teens any age willing to give the show a chance, i say they did a good job making the aliens and power system distictive along other characters fleshed out with depth & flaws, however after ultimate alien ended felt they started milking the fans with pointless live action remakes along a kiddie dumbdown show (like teen titans go, which at times is a good show when it wantsto be)

but yeah ben 10 is alright with me along how hot Kevin is who had the best depth and charcter growth,

THE ORIGINAL THEME SONG STILL SLAPS!!!

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[toasty-self-shipping]

an actual conversation between me and my mom while she was watching those lifetime movies

me eating cereal out of a cup: you watch this shit? every movie on this channel has the same story plot and everyone is dumbdown except for the main character

mom: yeah they are unrealistic but enjoyable at the same time

me fully interested in the movie: yeah but it’s still garbage 

[lonita]

No Logo

Reading Infinite Jest for a book club.

Many of the sites linked in this post no longer exist, at least not in the form they did when this was first written.

No matter where I go, or what I look at, something in my surroundings will have been appropriated by branding of one kind or another. Hell, they even use crop circles to make brand logos. I also noticed when the last phone book came out, for example, that people were so desperate to use it for adspace/visibility, that a company name was stamped on the edges of the book itself.

I have a long list of adjec(exple)tives at the ready that detail precisely what I think of this sort of rampant branding, so I've got to be honest and tell you that when I saw this article over at Jason Kottke's blog, that talked about the Metro Transit Authority in New York selling naming rights to subway stops, my anti-branding nerve twitched like a caffeine addict denied access to the only Tim Hortons in town.

In Infinite Jest we have time designated by corporate sponsorship: years with names like "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment". Companies are so desperate to gain that extra inch of mindspace from consumers, that they buy time - literally. It might seem arbitrary and confusing, but so are the numerics of years really. They follow on from one number to the next numeric in line, but they are more or less an arbitrary choice started from an equally arbitrarily chosen point in human history.

This brand ubiquity, so dominating that not even the most avid troglodyte could escape from it, reminded me of Naomi Klein's No Logo, which, amongst so many other things, discusses the effects that this sort of globalisation has on human culture. It details, in specific, how some of the more well-known brands in the consumer world do not even make their own products anymore. These companies are merely names that buy the product from unnamed manufacturers; and, as the NY Times article says in regards to the subway stops, "Once upon a time, geographic relevance determined a station's name, but now, the authority says it is open to any naming agreements that can raise revenue for its transit system, including ones not directly tied to location."

Names no longer stand for anything but names.

I feel trapped by this globalisation of brand. I feel trapped in such a way that I cannot breath. Everything is being packaged, logoed, and shipped by a brand. (I once had to transcribe some conference speeches that dealt specifically with branding, and inspiring consumer confidence in a product by branding everything right down to the method of shipping.) I feel trapped by the idea that no matter what human creation comes to the fore, someone is going to brand it, corporatise it, turn it into some shiny Web 2.0 feature-pretty-fest that looks like community but is really just a thinly veiled attempt at homogeneity or population dumbdown. Remember, kids - a stupid populace is a controllable one.

If you're old enough you remember the plaid bondage-style gear that some of the old-skool punks would sport back in the day; stuff they picked up at junk shops, made themselves, stole, but in no fashion did they head down to the mall to purchase this gear from the local Wal-Mart. These days, you can. I saw a kid just a couple of weeks ago wearing what looked to be a very expensive pair of plaid trousers with punk slogans embroidered on them in shiny metallic lettering. Mommy did not knock that together for you during your early-80s Mohawk phase when you were heading out for a night's skanking to The Specials. (See, once upon a time skank was a dance popular amongst those into ska and two-tone music. It was not synonymous with "ho". And damn it, I could skank in a pair of Docs right along with the best of 'em.)

Everything can be packaged, and is being packaged, even the things that would have once railed against it with the most force.

The over-branding, the globalisation, the pre-packaging of human culture, in some quarters at least, is helping to create a very incapable populace, one that may not be capable of choosing even the simplest things for itself without a little nudge from the outside. If you think I'm overreacting, take a look at this. It looks like help, but it's someone else making choices for you. You could so easily slip some extremely pointed suggestions into the answer queue on that one.

Addendum:

Can't decide if this is another one of those sites that merely looks like help, but is just another way to coddle a lazy populace, or if it might have some useful purpose. Must say that it smells an awful lot like a quiz show lifeline.

Yet another site that might only look like help.

2025 05 24: For the record, I loathed Infinite Jest.

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[thejudahite]

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[wack-ashimself]

Daylight savings, 2021.

THAT HAPPENED ALREADY?

<seriously, in 1 year, I have seen people's short and long term memory go to shit. lockdown was a dumbdown>

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[few-more]

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[mydelusionpanda]

You’re definitely right but it is obvious that powerless Ozai was a more convenient opposition for Zuko (as senseless as it is) than the smart little sister with prodigious firebender skills who happened to be the war-hero of the Fire Nation. You know the sibling who didn’t switch side depending of how convenient it was to her; I’m sure loyalty is a highly respected value in the Fire Nation.

Anyway seeing how the comics tackled that conflict (and pratically everything else) I think it’s for the better that they didn’t dwelve in the politcs of the Fire Nation, they would have managed to fuck it up like everything they touched post-ATLA.

Don't you think it's weird how the fire nation just accepted Zuko as their ruler even though he was a traitor? Especially after overthrowing Princess Azula who conquered Ba Sing Se and who was the pride of the Fire Nation. Logically there should be protests and stuff right?

I think they address that in the comics iirc but offscreen. Zuko did look a lot more haggard one year later before the assassination attempt (I find it pretty funny how that character didn’t get any punishment at all lol). But yes, there definitely should’ve been protests, attempts of coups etc (which there was from Mai’s father but it wasn’t executed well IMO). The comics don’t really delve into the politics of the Fire Nation but just the characters’ morality when it comes to the world’s greatest balance.

Realistically there really should’ve been uprisings that would’ve made the siblings be pit against each other. Ozai’s more worthless as Fire Lord now considering the position historically requires one to be a fire bender so Azula would’ve been the better choice, not to mention her greater accomplishments. It’s ridiculous how there’s so many better plots they could’ve done yet they went with what Promise was, and the characters were all mostly so ooc.

[alkalineleak]

this fucking file goes "oh too big ! no the fuck its not. uraraka costume redesign

i made her costume something shed like. Actually like. and not something that made her oncomfortable while also keeping in ,ind the knowledge of whats happened (im only caught up to s4 and honestly probs staying that way lol)

btw this is for future fic. thumbs up. this isnt like "OHHH SHE HAS THIS COSTUME FIRST" btu instead the end result costume bc its easier to dumbdown and remove than to keep gong from this

i cant draw grappling hooks </3

other hero name changes could be "okiko" (girl who gets up/relentless girl, also a nod to her first name) and urakyuu (nod to her family name, and has nine at the end as a nod to all might since this is purely for the fic where she gets ofa lmao) and then titles r like. "the gravity hero," "the defiant hero," "the starstruck hero," and "the featherlight hero"

thumbs up

[gilly-psycho-journal]

More of this is my class, please?

[scjlifestrategist]

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