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Well, either of your ideas that you had written was already written before (albeit differently) by someone else a while back basically (out of the fact that I made questions similar to the ones I gave you which resulted in tumblr bloggers giving me different answers to them). 

gingerly-writing: to this ask I filled out for them. I’m pretty fucking pissed off, and I’ve had my fury checked out by uninvolved parties to make sure it was righteous. It’s righteous.

Me: Not entirely so.

gingerly-writing: First off, feel free not to send people rude-ass messages after they’ve put time and effort into coming up with a response to you? 

Me: The top comment there (the “Well, either of your ideas” comment) wasn’t really the rude comment I typed out. The other one was (which I’m sorry for) which you didn’t copy paste in your third post so other bloggers can see it as that public evidence is vital for context.

gingerly-writing: Also, I thought you were going to use my idea and have me to thank you or something for it when I came up with something like my asks I gave you and something to the equivalent of your “heroes and villains school” stuff before I replied to your ask box sometime ago. Basically, wanting me to give you undeserved credit for my very own idea. I certainly didn’t know you were going to make comments like this either.

So, I actually have a hero and villain school in my own original superhero works, and I did come up with a solution to this one. If you’re writing your own original stuff, please change this up, but if you’re writing fic I don’t mind if you nick it wholesale (as long as you tag me in it! I’d love to read it).

Y’know, for me, this was just background information, but now I kind of want to write a whole book focusing on it.

gingerly-writing: It took me a good 45 minutes to get tumblr to accept my answer to your damn ask, so you’ve just made that a waste of my time.

Me: Maybe. But, from below, you were not bettering the situation.

gingerly-writing: Also, feel free to simply not respond rudely to people’s posts, at all, ever, especially if you were the one who sent the ask in the first place. I didn’t need to know how shit my ideas are, thanks.

Me: Yeah...not really sure where you’re going with this. Are you saying your ideas were horrible because they were based on my idea and how I spread more around on tumblr? Or do you think I’m saying your ideas were horrible because you think I’m somehow saying, implying or thinking that? 

Either why, that comment of yours was not helpful for anyone. Yourself included.

gingerly-writing: Also, as a more general PSA, feel free not to send identical asks to multiple bloggers. 

Me: Not happening. As I can sent any ask at any time by my own free will. As is my right.

gingerly-writing: Seeing someone else answer the same ask really disincentivizes me to answer it, even if it’s in my queue: I worry about stepping on the other responder’s feet, 

Me: Well, to be fair, I can understand the sentiment there. Still, what you say next will lower that sentiment.

and also, it’s motherfuckin rude, you absolute assclown. 

Me: Childish name calling. So...how is it you’re any better with what you had said. What would you benefit from doing that other then venting out your anger. ...Which ironically enough I didn’t even do here and wouldn’t now just so I won’t sink to your level of rudeness. 

gingerly-writing: And if you do send multiple asks and get similar responses, maybe it’s simply because it’s a good fucking idea. If you get different answers, maybe it’s because we’re all different fucking people with awesome different ideas that I’m not sure you deserve.

Me: You know what, I’ll be upfront, and say that I should have not jumped the gun and assumed the worse and could’ve worded my comments better (or just replied privately about the whole matter), you, on the other hand, didn’t do much of anything to resolve the situation as best as you should’ve. In the end, you basically became me. But a little worse.

gingerly-writing

: feel free to block me on the way out

Me: Already did. I’m hoping you don’t treat other bloggers the way you had treated me. Especially if they were nicely bringing up stuff to your attention among other things. And especially, even, in the ‘ginning once they asked you something.

gingerly-writing: #I try to be nice on this site #but I have my limits #and now I'm in rage mode #the asks and the answers #rude #ungrateful

Me: As if you were better with your own fair share of rudeness that might be on the level of hackedmotionsensors’. 

hackedmotionsensors: THIS PERSON IS SO WEIRD!! All they ever do is send these bizarre questions about the DCEU being in MCU!

Me:  Actually, that's not ALL I do. I asked other questions too. And my qs aren't as weird as any one else's either, hacked. Best to not go by assumptions and call people weird for what they say or do. Be it in front of their faces or behind their backs. Also, don't like me or my qs? Then either block me or just blacklist my name.

See ya...never, I guess.

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Here’s some context on what I was talking about on this post:

TumblrFrostbite: How would you want schools for villains' kids (for Marvel villains' kids, for DC villains' kids, etc) to be ran? And who would you want to run those schools?

gingerly-writing: This is one of those things that I’ve put way too much thought into after you sent this, because I love stuff like this. The question is, are the villains running this school for their kids, or is this something the heroes are putting on to try and rehabilitate the kids while their parents are in prison? I’ll assume the former, but the latter is also super interesting to me.

Disclaimer: this will have a strong DC bent because I have little to no interest in most Marvel villains, whereas I could yack on about DC villains for month. In fact, I might just stick to DC in its entirety because other than Loki (who would be the worst teacher ever, he would encourage so much shenanigans) most of the Marvel villains I know are Nazis or space monsters. Second disclaimer: I’ve watched a lot more animated DC movies and read a lot more fic than I ever have comics, soooooo these depictions might not be comic book accurate. Fanboys, please don’t come for me…but I also don’t really care that much tbh. I like the incarnations that I like. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Actual answer under the cut because this got hella long. Hope you like it!

Sponsor: Lex Luthor. Funds the school, shows up to speech day to give speeches and hand out prizes, gives the brightest and most stable kids scholarships to work at Lex Corp in the holidays. Absolutely 100% has his own ends, no one knows what they are. Chucks buckets of money at every problem. Likes to bring the school up at fancy soirees in front of Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen just to piss them off.

Headmaster: Deathstroke (or rather, Slade from Teen Titans). Has no idea how he wound up with this job, complains about the pay 24/7 even though it’s in the range of millions of dollars a term paid in untraceable cash from 50 different countries. Basically ends up like Gordon Ramsey: threatens to assassinate the teachers and parents all the time, has actually taken out some abusive parents, but is weirdly, gruffly nice to the younger kids. Teachers self-defence to all the non-powered kids and weapons to anyone who’s interested and has the discipline for it. Grudgingly tolerates old man jokes.

Deputy Headmistress: Talia al Ghul. Absolutely terrifies all the older kids, mothers the younger ones. In charge of who graduates and who doesn’t; will only let kids graduate if their villainy won’t critically endanger their own life. Sometimes shows up in the backs of random classes and lurks there for ‘assessments’; shows up in more than 50% of Deathstroke’s classes to harass him about his technique. Keeps a photo of Damien on her desk, refuses to acknowledge it’s there if someone asks about it.

Biology: Poison Ivy. Excellent teacher, surprises both herself and her students at how brilliant she is. Everyone wants to take biology with her even if they have no villainous interest in the subject. Litters her lectures with feminist rants, eco-warrior tirades and talks about LGBT+ rights, will gently but forcefully correct anyone who disagrees with her. Runs a vegetable outside the school and encourages the kids to get closer to nature. Just enough passing knowledge of memes to make her older students roll about with laughter: ‘Batman’s homophobic because he inconveniences me and I’m gay’. PDAs with her girlfriend in the corridors.

Women and gender studies: Harley Quinn Ivy’s girlfriend, part time teacher. Wanted to take up the psychology post, but after she seriously suggested sharing it with Jonathan Crane (Scarecrow) no one wanted to let her anywhere near it. Knows every meme. Gives great relationship advice, will kill anyone’s abusive boyfriend with no questions asked. Brings her hyenas to school in a ridiculously massive handbag. Has her own locker.

Thievery, sneaking around, Gotham safety: Catwoman. Definitely brings in her cats to act as therapy/comfort animals for the kids. Unofficial therapist; absolutely mothers anyone from Gotham, no exceptions. Brings the kids super expensive (stolen) jewellery to wear on prom night and for big dances, charges in secrets about their parents.

Business and Economics, with a side in mind control: Maxwell Lord (in the more business-orientated editions). Keeps to himself, is one of those teachers who doesn’t actually seem to like kids. Always wears a freshly pressed suit. Bit of an asshole. Selina tripped him down the stairs once.

Magic: supposedly taught by Felix Faust, but Klarion enrolled as a student just to show up in his lectures and argue. Every. Single. Point. Magic classes have turned into a magical war several times. They can only get along when someone else turns up claiming magic isn’t real. Faust has a lecture prepared for the non-believers, Klarion has a fireball. Circe often shows up in these classes, ‘borrows’ all the female students for private lessons and turns all the boys into pigs. Pig-Klarion does not appreciate this.

Physics and advanced thermodynamics: Killer Frost. Gets on really well with the Gotham City Sirens; they have cocktail parties in the staff lounge every second Thursday. Is paid by other villains kidnapping Firestorm so she can feed. Absolutely has favourite students and students she hates with a passion; has been known to freeze some students to their chairs in lieu of detention.

Other random villains that show up from time to time: - Flash’s Rogues Gallery. Created the infamous ‘Rogues week’ at the end of the year where every single one of them shows up and helps the students wreak absolute chaos across the school. Can never be stopped from showing up and starting this. Captain Cold comes grudgingly, sits in Slade’s office and has a drink with him; the rest of the Rogues join in with the chaos a bit too enthusiastically. Best week for the seniors. The younger rogues would totally be students and help to smuggle the older ones in for Rogues week.

- Black Manta: shows up sometimes, teaches a few lectures, leaves. Always on super random topics, often tangentially related to his latest evil scheme. The students have a betting pool that reawakens after each visit on how his talk will relate to his next scheme. Literally no one understands why he shows up. Doesn’t get paid, doesn’t seem to enjoy it. ?????? Has great on-land fashion sense though. A lot of the older students have lowkey crushes on him

- Cheetah takes advanced genetics and many other complex of aspects of science. Only shows up to teach special classes for the seniors. High fives Ivy in the corridors.

- Deadshot. Sometimes shows up and interrupts Deathstroke’s guns lessons (poor guy can never teach a lesson in peace), always gets chased out of the school. Gets teary eyed over the young female students kicking ass. Doesn’t seem to do anything useful but somehow gets paid a salary. Sleeps in the gym when he’s on the run from Amanda Wakker/Batman.

- Hugo Strange keeps showing up in disguises and trying to get the psychology job. Last time it was just a fake moustache. What is he even hoping to achieve.

- Merlyn shows up when he’s bored to host archery competitions on the front lawn. Mostly does this when Oliver Queen is in town. Keeps saying he’s going to pick a protégé out of the best archers and never does because the Arrow Clan kids annoy him so much he’s wound up thinking he hates kids. Actually loves kids, pretends to be snooty and above them though. 100% has to prove he’s still the best archer at every competition, even the one for 12 year olds.

TumblrFrostbite: If the super villain academy children, by the time they hit twenty, had to do some VERY impressive villainous in order to graduate, what type of villainous stuff would you have the rookies villains do to not only graduate, but also to be considered as full fledged villains?

gingerly-writing: So, I actually have a hero and villain school in my own original superhero works, and I did come up with a solution to this one. If you’re writing your own original stuff, please change this up, but if you’re writing fic I don’t mind if you nick it wholesale (as long as you tag me in it! I’d love to read it).

My thought was: all villains are going to be different, with different strengths and gifts. Sending them all to, I don’t know, infiltrate an island or fight Black Canary (which no one would win, let’s be honest) doesn’t seem fair on those it doesn’t suit. I was really struggling to come up with something that could work for everyone that didn’t force them to work in a team, because, well…villainous teams never work so well. Too many egos and whatnot.

My solution was: have the kids pick their own challenges. Make it their end of final year project. They submit a fully researched plan, all the way from the developmental stages to the final polished article. Plans like ‘killing Batman’ or ‘blowing up the planet’ are swiftly vetoed, but as long as they’re convincing enough the plan can get as elaborate and dangerous as they like. Half the marks come from the plan itself, and half for execution. Sometimes, my particularly vindictive kiddos make their plan to screw over their nemesis’ plan; I particularly enjoy when their plans are both to screw over each others’ plans. That gets entertaining.

They’re assigned a teacher whose knowledge base best fits with the plan the kid wants to execute, and they submit and resubmit and re-resubmit it to improve and refine their scheme until it’s as perfect as it’s going to get. Then, with no further outside help, they have to execute it.

This method lets you titivate the grand finale to best suit your plot needs. Your character has a serious nemesis? Pitch them against each other. Parental grudge? Make their aim to foil their parent’s plans. Hero that they hate? Plan to ruin their day. Plus, you can shove in bureaucratic nightmares and whatever other problems you can dream up (sabotage, indecision, dreams too grand to execute) into the planning stages.

I’m not sure you could do anything in a school situation to make the outside world consider them ‘real villains’: that would take time, money, and a body count, all things a school probably can’t afford to have on their books, villainous or not. But a huge, large-scale, dramatic graduating plan probably wouldn’t hurt any young villain’s rep!

Y’know, for me, this was just background information, but now I kind of want to write a whole book focusing on it. xx

[temporaryexpert-nyu]

(Above: Rania Fawaz, one of the most popular Dubai-based influencers)

Topic 2 Proposal: Social Media Influencers in the UAE

(I got very carried away you don't have to read all of this, just brainstorming stream-of-consciousness style)

I'm really interested in studying social media culture in the UAE. In particular, I'm thinking of female beauty/lifestyle 'influencers' based in this region. These are girls whose job is to use their influence (follower count) on social media (usually Instagram) to promote products and are thus paid for this (either in real money, store credit, or being given the product(s) for free).  

My older sister is one (@Hkouture on Instagram) and I'm in charge of scanning the contracts she gets. And it's so strange: they way they tell her exactly what to write, the way the caption is made to look authentic, ec

It’s a huge business now, companies have shifted from advertising on billboards and commercials to collaborating with influencers. It has its own lingo, algorithms, terminology. These people have so much power, the power of an individual can now be measured with a number and it's displayed on your profile next to the words "follower count".

What I've found, although this is just from my experience and not quantitative research, is that followers, especially the more 'active' ones, are young girls. By active I mean the ones who comment, the ones who like the photos, the ones who buy the merchandise.

I know that the biggest purchaser of merchandise demographically is girls from the age of 9 - 13, so there are instances of older women acting in a way to appeal to this particular demographic. This gets kind of creepy after 10+ years.

 UAE based Influencers:

-HudaBeauty

-Rania

-Dima

-Ola

-MoeVlogs and Lana

-BinBaz

I think that there are aspects to it that are insidious. I think that airbrushing being so easily accessible and commonly used is terrifying. Snapchat dysmorphia is so scary. These filters are put over your face so that when you see your actual face without filters you are taken aback, it looks uglier to you. Snapchat filters generally do these things: increase the size of your eyes, narrow your face/nose/lips, lighten your skin tone, blur out pigmentation/acne, erase dark circles and winkles, and lighten the color of your iris. Most filters make your eyes blue. I think it was fine when it was 'joke' filters (the dog, the rainbow) which were really obvious to see. But now there are filters that don't look like filters. They just adjust your face to fit this standard that influencers are pushing too.

Things that scare the shit out of me: CLINICS in Dubai ask influencers to come in, get WHATEVER operations they want as long for free as long as they post about it on social media. I've literally watched a girl get her lips done while she was filming on snapchat. It's all warm and friendly, the influencer, who you perceive as your friend, gushes about how easy/painless the operation was and how she's ALWAYS wanted it and how everyone should get it, oh and she has a 15% discount code you can use!

Modes of research

ethnographic work (lol)

Interviews

There are scholarly articles already in sociology and psychology about the impact of this

Points:

-Contrived authenticity

-lilmiquela = a ROBOT AVATAR created by this L.A based start up that is basically an instagram influencer. She has over a million followers and an elaborate backstory. She's…not a real person..

-People airbrush their photos beyond recognition. All influencers are beginning to look like clones of each other.

-Racism, cultural appropriation for likes, classist

-Consumerist culture. Buy this discount for that you need this

-Promoting products that are proven to be ineffective or harmful. Products that the influencer doesn't actually use. Laxative tea and waist trainers and hunger suppressing lollypops and "special" hair vitamins and collegen-infused water

-Influencer Idolization culture!! There are people who revolve their lives around a influencer, making fan accounts and fan art.

 UAE SPECIFIC:

-As usual, the UAE takes everything and hyper exaggerates it. Influencer culture is worse here than anywhere else. The surgery thing is pretty specific to here. There isn't that same backlash or distrust of influencers.

-Every girl I've spoken to who has lived in the UAE personally knows an influencer or has some degree of connection to one.

Think critically about what this is, what it means, and what we are consuming.

 Disclaimer: I don't want to be one of those 'oh technology is evil fire is bad thomas edison is a witch' people. I think social media is really cool and gives voices to people who couldn't before. It's really cool how information and awareness spreads. I like vines and ASMR videos. But theres's a difference between 'social media bad' and 'these aspects are particularly damaging to a group that are already under a lot of pressure - young girls, especially young women of color'.

OKAY SO THAT’S THE PROBLEM, which my project has to be a response to:

-I'm thinking of a comic or set of illustrations that points to this problem and sort of exposes it or forces people to think about it.

- I know that there is a lot of media that looks at parts of this, such as the airbrushing. But those focus on campaigns and corporations and brands, which we expect this from, not on the individual level. Or it’s just an annoying piece of ‘social media...bad...kids ?? dont go outside?..read book? nEVER” that some older white man who doesn’t know how to turn on a computer made.

-Inspiration: This very recently published comic called Snotgirl which is about the life of a fashion blogger, and while it has its own narrative, there are some panels that subtly point to the topics I discussed above:  

(The different hands retouching her all at once) 

(The choice of the teeth whitening machine is important, as its a very common product that influencers advertise.) 

(I just think the coloring is so smart here. The inking and coloring are done by two different people. Look at how, on the phones, the food is filtered to look brighter and more appealing than what it actually is.)

(The first panel is really interesting to me. They didn’t have to include all those notifications from strangers to further the narrative but it is saying something about real/artificial engagement and connection.) 

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People ain’t isht…

Plus-Size Fashion Blogger Says Man Asked Her On A Date “As A Dare”

A plus-size fashion blogger is going viral for exposing a cruel date she went on with a man.

Stephanie Yeboah posted a story on Twitter explaining a situation where she was subjected to a “#PullAPig” date from a white man who asked her out only on a dare from her friends.

She’s since elaborated on the story on Refinery29  and explained how she met the man named “Robert” on Bumble and agreed to go on a date with him. Mind you this was her first date in two years.

Stephanie says Robert seemed to prefer that she was plus-size and noted that sometimes on dating profiles she felt obligated to mention her weight.

“It seems a bit silly to have to declare something as trivial as one’s weight on an app, but due to how a large percentage of plus-size women are treated in the dating world, some of us choose to add a note about our weight to our profiles, almost as some kind of ‘disclaimer’. It’s even worse when your weight intersects with something such as race or gender.”

When their date night finally came Stephanie posted a picture on Twitter noting that she was “terrified” but ready to go meet the man for drinks.

Last minute selfie before a first date.

You can literally see the terror in my face. I’m not used to this life. pic.twitter.com/TfKn2mDIYn

— Stephanie Yeboah (@NerdAboutTown) December 12, 2018

Stephanie said the date went well and they enjoyed each other’s company with Robert even giving her a small gift and kissing her at the end of the night.

Then on their second date, Robert came over for dinner and they had sex. He then went completely ghost on her and THAT’s when things went left.

A friend of Robert reached out and told Stephanie that Robert stopped contacted her because he’d been “dared to pull a fat chick” and successfully did so even winning a sum of money his friends had pooled. The term for a cruel joke like that is “pull a pig”; a dating prank that involves either pulling an unattractive or plus-size person.

Stephanie recapped the humiliation she felt on Refinery29 and said she was mortified.

“I felt sick. A wave of embarrassment and humiliation washed over me, and I went into my bathroom and cried. I had been terrified of meeting and talking to men for fear of them judging my appearance. As much as I know that I am an awesome person, I’m blindingly aware that the way I look is not what mainstream society considers to be ‘beautiful’, and that’s something I always have to think about and carry with me.”

She also added that she shared her story to raise awareness about the dip-sh***d dummies targeting plus-size women. She says however that men, in particular, are trolling her about it and suggesting that she lose weight to be treated like an actual human being.

“Luckily (or maybe unluckily?) I had already deleted Robert’s number from my phone after not hearing from him for a couple of weeks, so I have no way to contact and chastise him for what he did. I decided to ignore the friend’s email and used Twitter to tell my story, in the hope of opening up the conversation about the way plus-size women are treated. My aim was to raise awareness, and while I received some amazing, positive feedback, it also came with its share of trolling and horrible comments – almost all from men, who were either laughing at the situation or suggesting I change my appearance in order to be treated better next time.”

Wow, people are disgusting. There’s some bad karma coming “Robert’s” way and the way of the messy miserables trolling her over her experience.

Have you ever heard of #PullAPig??? What do YOU think about Stephanie’s story???

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