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#The Paragon Foundation
evil-scientist · 4 months
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some of my favorite SCPs/canons:
SCP-3201: Well, it was Low Entropy while it Lasted (super cool and chill multidimensional creatures)
SCP-6001: Avalon (AKA the good ending of the SCP universe)
SCP-4001: Alexandria Eternal (cool library)
Project Paragon (If you like discovering ancient civilizations and events then this one’s for you)
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lovedove-valk · 7 months
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CALVIN. WHEN I CATCH YOU CALVIN. WHEN I CATCH YOU CALVIN. WHEN I CATCH YOU CALVIN,.
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CALVIN WHEN I CATCH YOU CALVIN
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potatoesandsunshine · 9 months
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“in the comics -” nothing you say to me will make me read the mass effect tie in material i will never do it it didn’t happen for me
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power-chords · 9 months
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The Daniel Boyarin book on the construct of heterosexuality and the Haskalah is both fascinating and enlightening (lol), but also really unintentionally funny at points. One of the subjects it goes into is how foundational Talmudic ideals of masculinity are completely incompatible with, in fact almost diametrically opposed to, Western romantic notions of rugged heroism. And the pre-modern texts that illustrate these paragons of Sexy Virtue, like the guys who by traditional Jewish standards would be considered both unbearably hot and S-tier marriage material, tend to amount to shit like, "Shmuel was pale and delicate and so devoted to his studies that for a whole year he did not leave his quarters except to attend services. He was sensitive and patient and known for resolving disputes with great delicacy, and as legend has it he once got the two angriest dudes in the village to stop feuding with each other and now the descendants of their families are like super tight, wouldn't you know it. His Torah reading skills were CRAZY. At the house of his betrothed he gave a detailed and penetrating analysis of this one really complicated passage and explained its meaning with unparalleled depth and subtlety. Everybody wept and fell in love with him instantly."
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gendrie · 2 months
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His lord father smiled. "Old Nan has been telling you stories again. In truth, the man was an oathbreaker, a deserter from the Night's Watch. No man is more dangerous. The deserter knows his life is forfeit if he is taken, so he will not flinch from any crime, no matter how vile." (Bran, AGOT) I should kill them myself. Whenever her father had condemned a man to death, he did the deed himself with Ice, his greatsword. "If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look him in the face and hear his last words," she'd heard him tell Robb and Jon once. (Arya, ACOK) The girl was not sorry, though. Dareon had been a deserter from the Night's Watch; he had deserved to die. (Arya, ADWD)
weird how nobody ever acknowledges that arya is following the example st. ned set for his children when she condemns a man to death lol which isnt me saying shes not desensitized to violence or on a dark path (ect ect ect). she still has things to learn about the power she wields, but these are explicitly the lessons of eddard stark who is widely regarded as a paragon of honor. ned killed A LOT of people in his position. its part of the job description. bc the power of life and death is the foundation for both rulership and arya's arc
and maybe (just maybe!) arya assuming the responsibilities of the lord of winterfell, again and again, suggests something about her endgame
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Just noticed this reply to an old post, and why are people still posting this "Eastern Mecha vs Western Mecha" bullshit?
The very foundation of the concept is simply racist (Eastern = fantastical & irrational, Western = realistic & practical) which should be reason enough to never use it.
In addition, when you look at the definitions of these terms, it becomes clear that they are being used as synonyms for the Super Robot/Real Robot categorization widely used to discuss mecha media without an inherently racist framing.
And finally, the discourse around these terms is so asinine that it should insult the intelligence of any self-respecting mecha fan. Peruse any discussion of these terms, and you'll find Japanese anime like Macross and Dougram being cited, in complete sincerity, as paragons of "Western Mecha".
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zal-cryptid · 9 months
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kaftan · 6 months
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ok, these are my thoughts on interlude 11h, aka “the amy interlude,” aka “this is where things start to suck forever, right”
Abolish the nuclear family
Amy reiterating over and over that she’s not good at being a sister… god god goddddd
Up to this point, I can’t fathom feeling anything other than profound sympathy for Amy — a damaged, scared girl caving in under the weight of the unspeakable
Abolish the nuclear family
“The unspeakable” is the note dominating the story here: it’s the foundation for trauma, for abuse, for secrets that fester and explode and deal unimaginable collateral.
Fork found in kitchen, incestuous feelings found in the adopted girl deprived of any consistent, reliable definition of family
Maybe because you were safe, because you were always there.
God.
GOD!!!!!!
Abolish adoption also
Copying this from my friend who read worm: “Amy sees Victoria as an idealistic paragon and the only source of any of her happiness (this becoming very much an obsession/favorite person), and Vicky sees her as "her sister" who will absolutely never hurt her and always help her without really considering the impact on Amy herself. Tragedy for the ages.”
^ this partially in response to how Victoria was told twice (in no uncertain terms!) not to touch Amy, and ignored her — because Amy doesn’t really mean it, right? What she really needs right now is a hug from her sister, right?
There is probably a whole essay to be written on What’s In A Name, the Amy/Ames/Panacea and Victoria/Vicky/Glory Girl distinction, the way they use nicknames and aliases as a reflection of the interiority they refuse to afford each other — it all comes down to coercively assigned roles, doesn’t it
Fuck Wildbow for writing the confrontation/confession scene so homophobically it was giving me deja vu about hays code era films. FUCK OFFF!!! Just have Victoria call her a dyke and drop the farce!
I can’t stop imagining alternate realities where it didn’t happen like this. A world where Amy never became a Dallon. A world where she was never adopted at all. A world where her feelings for Victoria never morphed beyond the familial. A world where Bonesaw never showed up at her door. A world where Amy left for good and never saw Victoria again. A world where Victoria didn’t touch her after that warning.
But that’s not how the story goes.
Abolish the nuclear family.
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exeggcute · 11 months
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it's interesting seeing so much "just install firefox it's better than chrome in every way" sentiment among people with above-average tech literacy but then venturing into the more overtly achingly nerdy corners of the web and seeing people leverage a lot of criticism against the direction the mozilla foundation's taken in recent years. particularly in that the former tends to categorize firefox as an anti-chrome but the latter is unhappy that mozilla is becoming more corporate and basically more google-y, up to and including a reliance on ad revenue and search partnerships with google themselves. which is like, in my opinion just an inevitable result of market forces or whatever, since the endgame for any sufficiently large org under capitalist incentives is to Make Money, but it kind of hammers home the futility of trying to cast any given company as a shining (and unchanging) paragon of good against their decidedly more evil competitors.
and none of this is meant to be a statement on the respective user experience of each browser or the benefits of firefox itself (versus the perceived virtue of its developers), but even that is interesting because until recently chrome was seen as the golden child against the scourge of internet explorer, and then internet explorer had previously muscled its way past netscape, and the internet explorer versus netscape wars involved a lot of underhanded shit with both sides trying to set competing proprietary standards that made certain websites borderline unusable in the opposite browser. meanwhile netscape vanished for a bit but was eventually reincarnated as a company called mozilla
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bestworstcase · 1 year
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there’s also just. something about how overwhelmingly ruby identifies herself (/has been identified by everyone she knows) with summer—to such an extreme degree that her self-loathing manifests as castigating herself for not being summer—and how little ruby knows about her at the same time, and how ruby fills in the gaps of what she doesn’t know with pieces of herself. the idea of summer as a funhouse mirror alienating ruby from true self-knowledge because she cannot recognize herself except by looking for her mother. and now she’s tearing away at the foundations of that mirror (life isn’t a fairytale and here, take this, it’s the only keepsake she has of her mother’s and by extension it’s the abstracted image of herself) because she wants to escape who she is—& as this happens the narrative draws the truth of summer rose closer to the surface, no longer the flawless (inhuman) paragon of motherly and heroic virtue but the real person who was (is) both good and bad and complicated; a living breathing individual who i increasingly suspect will turn out to be not very much like ruby at all, not in the sense that she was like ruby once and is now jaded and broken but rather that she never was, because the idea of summer rose is so very strongly informed by who ruby is and the implicit pressure ruby has always felt to ‘live up to’ the memory of this fairytale character everyone says is just. like. her.
it’s less about detangling ruby’s sense of self from summer’s legacy than it is ruby discovering that so much of what she thought she received from her mother was actually just her, all along, projected onto the blank (dehumanized) mannequin of someone she couldn’t remember except as the proverbial knight in shining armor. crescent rose stands apart as the one piece of ruby that has no connection to summer, whether real or imagined, because it carries forward something real—qrow was not a mythic paragon in ruby’s life, he was her uncle, for better and worse, the mentor who trained her and supported her but also the unreliable alcoholic she had to take care of, and from the complicated messiness of genuine connection with another person ruby was able to take inspiration and synthesize it with her personal style and personality to arrive at something that is both proud of its heritage and fully and uniquely her—which is why it’s missing now, because it symbolizes the idea of ruby rose that she wants to escape. (but can’t escape, because so much of what she sees as summer is actually ruby.)
the brooch goes in the other direction; it might be the only thing ruby has that is truly and unambiguously summer’s, so narratively of course she had to give it away. only by sacrificing the one piece of herself that really did belong to summer first can ruby begin to smooth out the funhouse mirror of everything else—she needs to sever the true connection to summer before she can cut through the gordian knot of every illusory connection and discover that she was looking at distortions of herself all along, and only then can she return to the question of summer’s legacy (her real legacy, not the legacy of the paragon) and decide what she wants to carry forward. which is to say, she’s getting the brooch back, but she has to get crescent rose back first—because finding crescent rose means vanquishing the alienation that has made her a stranger to herself, and she can’t truly choose or cherish the things she received from her mother until she really knows herself.
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tanadrin · 8 months
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i've kind of gotten sucked into the back catalogue of the podcast Mormon Stories, specifically the episodes where they have like honest-to-god egyptologists and archeologists and such on and they take apart mormon apologia piece by piece. because it would be fairly easy (and fairly accurate) to simply ignore this particular subgenre of apologism--not only are the foundational myths of mormonism patently absurd to almost everybody who grew up outside the faith, mormon apologists specifically have only the tiniest little wisps or shreds of reassurance to offer their fellow believers.
like, mainstream christian apologism has been working for two thousand years to produce a parallel body of knowledge--hell, it didn't even used to be "parallel," it was simply the default assumption in most of christendom for most of that period--and can not only draw on a much longer history, but does so in the defensive interpretation of what are (in part) much older events. and the debunked mythology of abrahamic religions accreted gradually, heavily steeped in a local geographic context. there actually were persians and egyptians and babylonians and stuff! nobody got basic facts about what food crops were available in the region wrong, because the people who wrote this stuff had lived there for centuries! you can't dig a posthole in the middle east without turning up artifacts suggestive of that history, because that history is (while false) authentically local.
the book of mormon isn't like that. the book of mormon is insane. it's what you get talking to a guy you met in a bar at 2 am who wants to tell you about the stuff he half-remembers from history channel ancient aliens specials he saw ten years ago, because that guy occupies approximately the same social niche joseph smith did, and also people knew even less about archeology (to say nothing of the archeology of the americas) back in the 1830s. and yet these guys like hugh nibley and kerry muhlestein get up and try to defend this account, writing stuff that makes your average christian fundamentalist apologist look like a paragon of scientific integrity.
what baffles me isn't the rank and file mormons raised in the religion who might know little else. what baffles me are the people who are thoughtful enough to engage with real archeology, to understand the nuances of just how completely nonsensical the mormon version of ancient history is and how indistinguishable recent mormon history is from, like, scientology-level cult shenanigans, and yet who still consider themselves mormons and affiliate with the religion. like i get that religion isn't all about truth claims. there's social and cultural and emotional and all kinds of other elements that bind members of a religious community together. but "mormon" isn't an ethnic group. so far as mormons have a unique culture outside the religion itself it is, as far as i can tell, 1) the shared misery of the mission experience, 2) giving your kids slightly goofy names, 3) getting married really young, and 4) not drinking or smoking. and clearly you care to a certain extent about the truth claims, or you wouldn't have these (very interesting!) discussions on your podcast with archeologists about those claims.
anyway, it's a very weird phenomenon!
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apatheticlexicographer · 11 months
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i'm about to get mauled ALIVE for saying this but here goes:
i think m'leven's relationship should be based on a mutually requited crush. both the implications it would have on their personal development as characters and the message it would send to the audience would be substantially more impactful, healthy, and progressive than if they only dated out of obligation. in fact, the thematic message of their relationship SIMPLY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE without a foundation of genuine romantic attraction.
still with me??? okay, good.
when shows deal with romance they tend to fall into the categories of either having pretty much every character shipped with every other character at some point, or of having the endgame ships be the most obviously pushed from the start. byler has definitely been built up from the start, but the majority of the show's audience didn't consider it as an option for canon until s4, when they started making it blatant. hell, a lot of people didn't even realize WILL was queer until s3 (again, when the show started to place heavy emphasis on it), and even then a lot of people thought he might be ace rather than gay.
mike and el, on the other hand, were practically the show's flagship couple for the first 2 seasons at least. it wasn't until s3 that their popularity started to dip and their relationship began to receive a lot more criticism. which makes sense, considering they hadn't actually been IN said relationship in the previous seasons. they had a couple of romantic interactions, sure, but we didn't see how they would interact *as a couple*. people obviously couldn't predict how their dynamic would actually pan out!!! that isn't to say that the negative aspects of their relationship were a bait-and switch, though: red flags were visible since at least s2, but they were far from being the focal point and a lot of shippers interpreted them as being cute (like el's jealousy over max).
having a show acknowledge the fact that the first person you get a crush on (because correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure they're canonically each other's first crush???) isn't necessarily your ~soulmate~ is a great thing. even better when they go a step further, and play with the concept!!! the text of stranger things doesn't actually push m'leven as a paragon of romantic love. if you listen to what the other characters say about their (romantic) relationship, their opinions are entirely neutral/negative???
lucas teases mike about his crush in s1, but calls him hopeless in s3. hopper is out of line with how agressively he acts about their relationship, but the resolution of that character arc for him is about him acknowledging that he's been overbearing and accepting that he needs to let el grow up, and NOT some hammy realization that "what they have is true love, i was wrong to interfere!!!" max thinks their clinginess is sweet at first in s3, but she isn't very close with either of them. once she and el start to bond AND SHE LEARNS THAT EL HAS NO EXPERIENCE WITH ROMANTIC ATTRACTION OUTSIDE OF MIKE she encourages el to assert her own self-worth and dump him. [which... actually mirrors the progression of opinions in a lot of audience members??? 🤔🤔]
and those are just a few examples!!! i won't go on an exhaustive list, because honestly we'd be here all day.
furthermore, m'leven's steady downward trajectory is not the only instance of the show basically dunking on the trite expectation that a character's first love interest is automatically their happily-ever-after, AND the recurring motif that any relationships a character explores before their endgame ship are wrong because the alternate love interest is Bad.
dustin has his first crush (onscreen, anyway) on max in s2, but ends the season happy despite his sadness over rejection and later gets together with a girl who's basically his perfect match. in s3, robin confides to steve about how she was so far gone for tammy that she would cry into her pillow. in s4 she's able to laugh over just how bad her singing is without denying it, and is tentatively flirting with vickie. joyce was genuinely really happy with bob, but after having time to heal from the tragedy of what happened to him she's ready to move on with hopper.
again, not an exhaustive list. why??? because outside of m'leven, the only relationships where the characters ARE each other's first love interest are: lumax, whose entire arc together is about growing up as a couple (you know, the exact arc m'leven shippers pin on mike and el, as if it would make sense for 2 couples to have the same format and message...); stancy, which is only one prong of Love Triangle Hell and the controversy around it speaks for itself; and TED AND KAREN. WHO ARE POINTED OUT EXPLICITLY BY THE TEXT OF THE SHOW IN S1 NO LESS, TO BE AN EXAMPLE OF A WORST TIMELINE FUTURE THAT CHARACTERS DO NOT WANT TO REPEAT.
but if you're reading this, you already know all of that.
the point i'm trying to make is that stranger things shows a consistent palette of themes across all the relationships it portrays. i've obviously been going over the romantic ones, but this applies at least as much to the plationic bonds as well. those themes are of GROWING AND MATURING, of SHIFTING DYNAMICS, and of BECOMING SECURE IN YOUR PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE.
i'm sorry but to present a pair of characters with apparent mutual feelings; to elaborate on how dysfunctional their relationship is; and to ultimately reveal to the audience that actually they were both just confused, they never had feelings for one another in the first place and that's why their relationship didn't work out; sends an extremely mediocre message, to put it nicely. all the characters learn from that lived experience is "don't date people you don't have feelings for, and if you were unsure about how real those feelings were... get good???" meanwhile, all the audience learns from that VIEWED experience is "if the relationship doesn't work, it's because the people involved don't like each other enough." if byler goes on to be canon and is immediately much healthier, that only enforces that shitty message. in that situation the only reason THEIR relationship works while mike and el's didn't is that they actually have feelings for one another!!!
from a show which has explored complex arcs and messages with *LITERALLY EVERY OTHER RELATIONSHIP* they touch on, this would be beyond disappointing. particularly as the central message for the arc of 2 of the mainest main characters in the whole show!!!
on the other hand, to present a pair of young characters at the start of the show and flag them as having an obvious mutual crush; to allow them to explore that crush as a serious prospect; to have them realize that their relationship is dysfunctional; and to have them move on as friends; sends???
a great???
fucking???
message???
they both get to progress and move on as more enriched people than they would have been without their time in a relationship, and that is fucking wonderful.
el has a deeper understanding of romantic interactions based on actual lived experience and not just TV shows. she's able to develop into her fledgeling sense of identity more securely with the knowledge that relationships can change, and that's okay. not everything has to be forever.
mike understands how to process and manage his own feelings much better, and is equipped with a firsthand understanding of how a relationship can become emotionally dysfunctional without proper communication, making him ready to enter a new, healthier relationship. he has displayed the same overprotective behaviours towards will as he has to el, but he's begun to learn how to manage them so that he doesn't stifle his partner. after previously failing to communicate his feelings to both el and will in s3 when he fought with them, he's been making a deliberate point of doing so in s4. this didn't work with el when he tried to open up about his own experience with bullying, but it DID work with will when he admitted to his failings in balancing relationships.
are either of them finished in their personal arcs??? no, of course not!!! they're not even fifteen!!! but they have both grown as people, not in spite of their romantic relationship, but BECAUSE of it. you don't change as you grow up, so much as you start to understand yourself better. but self-discovery and subsequent self-acceptance CANNOT come without self-explaration.
it's okay to try things out, and it's okay if they don't end up being right for you.
meanwhile, the broader message about relationships that this imparts on the audience is an extremely important one. one which gets overlooked continually by storytellers in every industry. one which the show itself has brushed on, but not explored in depth.
one which fandom, in particular, likes to ignore.
ATTRACTION ≠ COMPATIBILITY
(...and that's okay!!!)
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c-53 · 11 months
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Harlan Guthrie loves to write characters who are terribly flawed with a mixed bag of good and bad intentions, good and bad actions, and crushing guilt and blood on their hands, who hurt they ones they love by mistake and because sometimes they want to and OH MY GOD IS IT SO FUCKING COMPELLING EVERY DAMN TIME.
Dad from Deviser is so resoundingly good, he’s a fantastic person, and a good ai, and his pursuits are noble and full of love, and in any other setting, he would be such a good person. But here, he is built off such a flawed foundation that his love is torture, and he doesn’t realize how much pain he is causing despite all the corpses and monsters of his own making that surround him. But oh, in another time and place, he could be a fucking paragon
And then John from Malevolent is a manipulative cruel asshole who doesn’t fully relate to or understand humans aside from how he can use them, but despite this, he doesn’t lack compassion and empathy entirely. He forms attachments and cares about people but intentionally hurts them if they get too close. He pursues good thanks to being chained to a decent guy, who he ends up caring about down the line, but only because the power dynamic he’s granted. he’s motivated only by self preservation and pride. And he’s the protagonist.
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deathly-nymph · 7 months
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abel :) (7376 version)
-This mf never sleeps, it looks like he does but in reality he's just laying there eyes closed praying that someone manages to permanently kill Cain one of these days
-Is being watched over by several different gods, Yaldabaoth is one of these gods, so is the Scarlet king and the Gate Guardian pops in once in a while
-^ They feel a slight obligation to help him due to the whole torturous existence thing. And they've actually made progress on reversing the whole issue of his original body being kinda fucked up, they'll probably have the body fixed up and the main anomaly relocated to the og body in the next 2 or so years.
-^They can't really do anything about Ion's current state of "blood pool" by Abel is probably going to pull the "you let me suffer for thousands and hundreds of years" card to gaslight them
-^ it works because they owe him a lot of favours
-Really really sharp teeth, he can bite through Tungsten like water, also has a tendency to bite anything within reach if irritated, as you can expect, that level of bite force and the biting habit spelt disaster for approximately 21 different foundation staff before they finally posted a sign reading "no hands near entity's face" in the entrance
-Literally paragon of etiquette, partly because he isn't foolish enough to doubt his mother's ability to crawl out the grave and lecture him, partly because Cain forgot it and it's a death-less way of spiting him
-Mentally very well, despite the death and torture existence he is actually very mentally stable and well, the anger simply festered over time
-Speaks without even the slightest hint of cruelty until you look back and realize he just called you a slur and proclaimed he's going to murder your entire family whilst you sleep
-"Wakes Up" at 2:00 on the dot, forces everyone to adapt to this by stealing pens, paper, and generally literally everything needed for working there, meaning they have to wake before 2 just to make sure he doesn't steal their stuff (they don't even know how he's achieving this either)
-Thrives on chaos, murder, and enough sugar to destroy existence as a concept
-Yawns like a cat, baseline reality tends to warp around him whenever this happens (people who look too closely at him in that time tend to go mad). Once made half the Foundation aware of 055's existence on accident as a result of this
-Passes out the first day of Autumn and stays that way till the first day of Spring, artificially heating the place led to them (those that heated the place) being sent straight into the jaws of 682. They didn't try again after that
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vamp-domme · 4 months
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Would you forcibly hyper feminize and humiliate a butch trans woman and make her really girly and use feminine products?
You're asking me to do something I would absolutely adore. Don't you want to be my good girl, darling? Wouldn't you love it if I held you down and showed you just how beautiful you could be? Some foundation here, some mascara and eyeliner there, a bit of blush and eyeshadow. Perhaps a nice backless dress and some heels too, no? But you don't have a choice, my dear. Once I have you in my embrace, you'll be wrapped around my finger. You'll do anything I say. I can take you in my hands and mold you into the most beautiful, feminine woman you could ever be, a paragon among your peers, and my obedient little slave. You'll always be mine, darling - once I have my hooks in you, there won't be any question of that.
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foundationhq · 2 months
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EMPLOYEE ID 5027-0983-1; 𝐴𝑈 𝐹𝐴𝐼𝑇.
𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 Vivien Huifen Jiāng 𝐀𝐠𝐞 31 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫/𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬 cis woman, she/her 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 Stephanie Hsu 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 closed
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PROFILE.
The prudent and perceptive [𝐴𝑈 𝐹𝐴𝐼𝑇] understands better than anyone that there is no secret that should be shielded from the Committee’s watchful eyes. They proved their commitment to maintaining the integrity of the Foundation when they cut ties with their very own father, a Foundation Administrator at the Decommissioning Department, by blowing the whistle on an underhanded deal he had with Andersen Robotics and Prometheus Labs for the sale of anomalous objects slated for decommissioning. Their part in that bombshell exposé earned them the credibility they needed to shed the accusations that their advancement through the ranks was due to the efforts of family and friends in high places. It certainly was enough for the Foundation to heed their call to preemptively apprehend [𝐾𝐼𝑁𝐺'𝑆 𝐺𝐴𝑀𝐵𝐼𝑇], a prior mentor, on charges of [REDACTED]. If it were anyone other than [𝐴𝑈 𝐹𝐴𝐼𝑇], many would have suspected personal resentments were behind their damning report. However, there is no doubt that they have been a useful, if self-appointed, asset to the Committee’s efforts. Now they will serve this purpose in an official capacity, imbued with exceptional powers despite being a rather junior member within the Broken Scales of Themis. If the agents assembled to form MTF Chi-00 disappoint their mandate, [𝐴𝑈 𝐹𝐴𝐼𝑇] can be counted upon to drag their indiscretions to light. — Internal Memo from the Ethics Committee.
LAST ASSIGNMENT.
JR. ARCHIVIST;  Site-7,  Recordkeeping  and  Information  Security  Administration  (RAISA). Preservation of digital archives, amending and updating SCiPNET pages, providing ticket support, and catching cybersecurity leaks and potential infohazards.
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INTERRELATIONS OF NOTE.
𝑂𝐿𝐷 𝑆𝑃𝑂𝑅𝑇. You’ve heard of the agent with the “perfect record” but this will be the first time you get to meet with them 1-on-1 — and you must admit, you’re dying to talk to them. Any tips and tricks they’d be willing to give a junior member of Chi-00 are bound to come in handy for your future career at the Foundation. Unless, of course, the good 𝑂𝐿𝐷 𝑆𝑃𝑂𝑅𝑇 turns out to be less than the absolute paragon of protocol they make themselves out to be. In which case, your sense of justice always comes first.
𝐹𝐿𝐼𝑀𝐹𝐿𝐴𝑀. You observed this star’s meteoric rise, and while some questioned their success story you could not disagree more. How could anyone doubt them when they come from such a brilliant legacy, and were mentored by the esteemed 𝑅𝐸𝑉𝐸𝑅𝑆𝐸 𝐸𝑁𝐺𝐼𝑁𝐸𝐸𝑅? Yes, their ostentatious self-obsession grates a little, but you just know in your heart the two of you are birds of a feather. This certainly isn’t motivated by anything so humiliating as projection, but maybe they just need a little help to outgrow their inheritance — like you did.
𝑄𝑈𝑂𝑇𝐸 𝑈𝑁𝑄𝑈𝑂𝑇𝐸. You were the first human to notice this hacker within the Foundation’s cyberspace so the fact that you are on a team with them is… intriguing, to say the least. After the special briefing you received regarding this new acquisition, you’ve found yourself in the position of their private warden, not that the newly minted “𝑄𝑈𝑂𝑇𝐸 𝑈𝑁𝑄𝑈𝑂𝑇𝐸” is aware of this fact. In any case, you’ll take on this secret assignment with the same dedication you put into all your work — because while it was never said outright, you’re well aware that the consequences of a poor peer review will be… final.
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