IC ANON MEME

[letsgolegion]

THE IC ANON MEME RULES AND INFO ✦ Everything must be from an IC in-world perspective. The meme is specifically a Legion fandom meme. UP citizens, Legion World Staff, and Legionnaires all have access to the meme. While this meme is in the meme comm, it is real in the game universe and all the Legionnaires and the public can see it ICly. Rather than other ic anon memes where characters post starters to the meme, this meme operates like real world memes like rpanons. ✦ There are 3 ways to post. When posting as non-Legionnaires, do it anon. When posting as Legionnaires that unwisely comment unanon, just do it logged in. If posting as Legionnaires going anon, do it logged in, but mark "anon" in the subject, so we know it's anon, but can have a laugh over which Legionnaires are secretly stanning or shitposting. ✦ Not necessarily a rule, but keep in mind that attitudes in the UP are different than our world. Most people are referred to generally as "people" or "sentients" instead of species-specific terms like "humans." Most racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, and other "ist" attitudes are now uncommon among most species in the UP. Many sexual orientations exist, polyamory and polygamy are considered acceptable, and gender identity is very flexible. Species-based xenophobia tends to be the bigger social ill and even with that, many are against it. The species that are most disliked and distrusted are Durlans, Daxamites, and Roboticans. If you want to use them for fun, common UP cursewords are on the Legion Basics page. ✦ Beyond sticking to those basics, don't worry about getting anything "wrong." It's a meme and people tend to say stupid things on memes. You can even make up fake species and planets and details about them. The UP is huge and has lots of planets and species not mentioned in the game info. ✦ You can pretend to write things from the POV of Legion staff sharing the deets on the Legionnaires. However, they wouldn't share tactical info on the Legionnaires that could get them hurt in battle, only juicy gossip. Also, if someone is writing from the POV of Legion staff and writes something about your character that your character doesn't actually do, keep in mind that half the time people make shit up. It'll just be false gossip. ✦ Try to keep anything that can't be put behind a link sfw. While you can write someone sharing the start of their steamy slash fanfic, try to keep it limited to just part of it. Linking to fanart as if it was made in universe is a-okay, but just make sure to put it under a link and warn if it it's nsfw. Please check character ages before posting any nsfw stuff to make sure they're over 18. ✦ Feel free to get really crazy. Fandom gets crazy and fandom is no different in the glorious robot future. There are normal posters, shitposters, trolls, rpf ficcers, stans, slashers, all the same things our time has. There are macros and gifs and ongoing fake memes you can make up. There will be a few preposted topics but you can make up new ones or just have anons create new topics or troll. ✦ The meme is generally modless and has no thread-freezing. Fandom plays it dangerous in the future and the ic mod rarely intervenes, though anons sometimes try to get them to. Anon comments can be deleted by the real mods at the request of players (like say if they made a formatting mistake and want to repost) but there should be no need to delete anything beyond that since it's all IC.

Comments

Re: ALL THE NEW WARRIORS

[(Anonymous)]

Oops sorry. Yeah, I meant the sprogling shouldn't be shipped with the older Warriors.

[whyarewehere]

You got it. But it's gonna be weird without the ham, I'm warning you already.

[(Anonymous)]

blah blah blah, my friends from home came back from the dead

well, guess what

this isn't your home

you and your friends aren't from here

don't you dare try to lessen the heroic deaths of our heroes by saying 'oh, well, they're probably coming back anyway'

Anon -- Again, mostly.

[sir_vancelot]

With all due respect, anon...even if the original Legion had been here, you probably would have still lost people. People would have died on Naltor and in other disasters. Because the original Legion couldn't be everywhere at once, just like WE can't be everywhere at once.

I've looked over the information about the original Legion. They seem to be a great bunch of people and I'm sorry that we haven't gotten a chance to know them. But the one thing I can be confident in from what I know of them? They would be absolutely ashamed of all of you for taking the blame for this out on one person. One person who is their FRIEND, who is working as hard on getting them back as he is on making certain that we can get home. On making certain that the rest of the UP is protected at the same time.

Now. If I were him and came under this much ridicule and general nastiness on a regular basis? I'm not at all certain I could manage it. He could have walked away at any time. I probably would have, myself. God knows you guys would blame him no matter what his choice, but if he walked away he could at least ignore all of you. The fact that he hasn't shows he's a better person than any of you give him credit for. The fact that he keeps going day after day when this is out there waiting for him is proof that he's a better person than I am, certainly.

I am sorry for your loss. Truly I am. And I understand that, when things like that happen, when you lose people in something that should have been preventable, it's easy to look for a scapegoat, to find somebody you can point at and say that this wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been for this thing or this person. Having that person or thing to blame is easier than thinking that it might have happened anyway, no matter what other factors were in play. I get it. But I also feel that your anger, while understandable, is also unhelpful.

[walkingballpit]

[ Robbie doesn't immediately start speaking. He's thinking about floods, about how small people look in the second before the wall of water hits them, when it clicks that he will never reach them in time.

He knows how sick it made him, to look for that shirt on the survivors. On the floating bodies. To know that one family may never get closure.

It hurts, and it's on him. ]

I'm sorry for your loss. I know you'll think that's meaningless, because I wasn't here. I had to say it anyway.

I know how hard it is to lose people that you love. I'm going to do my best to make sure no one - as few people learn how it feels as possible. I'm not conceited enough to promise you no one, but that - it's always going to be my goal.

[ He knows he's about to get raked over the coals. He thinks the Legionnaires who were around for the flood were doing their best. There's no nice way to say "we're fallible." ]

I know what I signed up for - here and home. If I was one of the missing, I wouldn't blame Querl Dox. If I could blame anyone, I'd blame myself. I chose this life.

[(Anonymous)]

They're from over a thousand years in the past. They still don't see how eating meat is cruel, use water to bathe, their ideas on physics are laughable, they don't have antigrav or interstellar travel...

They ARE primitive. I bet some of them don't even use emissions-free vehicles back home! Most of their societies are still inventing the wood that the building blocks of our modern civilization is built on.

I'm Justice, AMA

[sir_vancelot]

[To be perfectly honest, this is probably the worst idea that Vance has had in a while. But...well. It's not exactly like being at one of the Avengers' press conferences, but it's relatively close.]

[Which is why he has a sign held up, with the date and his symbol at the bottom. Because that's a thing the Legion does, apparently.]

I've only got a few hours and I'm doing a few other things, but I'll try to get to any questions that you guys have for me.

[walkingballpit]

I'm not. They're brave individuals all to themselves, and I'm not taking away any of their deeds.

I'm trying to tell you there's hope. There always has to be hope.

[ He pauses for a moment, tries to maintain an even tone. ]

They're only back because we're here. please don't lessen that for me, either.

[(Anonymous)]

Right.

If I look up snootler, will I get porn?

Re: I'm Justice, AMA

[(Anonymous)]

how super are those tights

Re: I'm Justice, AMA

[(Anonymous)]

what is your favorite creative use of tk

Re: I'm Justice, AMA

[(Anonymous)]

What Is Your Spirit Animal

Re: I'm Justice, AMA

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever used your powers to create a body mold of Nova Prime and just cuddle it?

Or step into it and feel his form pressing tightly against you from every direction?

Re: Hi, I'm Niels, AMA

[(Anonymous)]

I bet he purrs in response to some questions

[(Anonymous)]

13!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and we as sentient beings, emerged fully-formed and enlightened from our cocoons, eggs, wombs, and birthing chambers, right?

Wrong. We were taught everything we believe, in a world where all of those things were already provided for us.

It's easy to take the high ground on eating meat when we live in a society with universal healthcare, where the government takes care of all our needs.

But even people in the UP have resorted to eating meat during times of great unrest. Remember when the Blight attacked Earth? With everything trashed, people scavenged for food in the wreckage but they also had to resort to eating what wildlife they could catch.

Just because their societies haven't evolved to the point of universally being able to produce alternate protein sources, doesn't mean they're backwards or savage.

Also water is...weird, but exposure to low levels of bacteria are scientifically proven to help in the healthy development of the immune systems of most sentients. With the sanitized existence we all live, after years of our immune systems not having to reckon with any major diseases, I bet they could out-survive pathogens that could sweep out most of the rest of us.

And it's not like our society is free of flaws. Look at the xenophobia against Durlans, for instance. None of these supposed "primitives" have seemed to even bat a eyeflap at working with or protecting totally alien species that don't even exist in their home universes.

Re: Spider-Woman here, AMA

[(Anonymous)]

So, who's the cutest Legionnaire and why are you about to make my Inahime/Spider-Woman headcanon canon

Re: Anon -- Again, mostly.

[(Anonymous)]

Sprock off, Legionnaire. Why are you even going anon when it's obvious you're one of the brainwashed displacees kissing his green behind?

It's not scapegoating when the person you're angry at is actually responsible for the hardship and pain they caused. And maybe I still would've lost family if the original Legion was here, since that's up to chance if no one has a vision that can change it, but even if I did, other Naltorians out there still would've lost less.

Re: Hi, I'm Niels, AMA

[(Anonymous)]

i didn't know you had a kitty! he's so cute! :D

Re: Hi, I'm Niels, AMA

[(Anonymous)]

You don't deserve to get dumped on like this, so how about I ask something a little more lighthearted?

Whose stuff does Niels like knocking off counters, tables, and shelves the most?

[(Anonymous)]

we struck the gold mine didn't we?

quick we gotta ask them all about all these other people! for fic accuracy!

[(Anonymous)]

You don't get it. You're right that the missing Legionnaires probably wouldn't blame him for it, just like you wouldn't.

I do and I get to blame him for what their loss caused, and you feeling all the loss in the world doesn't take that right away from me.

[(Anonymous)]

Abso-sprocking-lutely.

[whyarewehere]

And no aliens, alien babies, talking bombs, or knock knock jokes?

[ He counts them off on his fingers, trying to cover all the bases. ]

Re: Hi, I'm Niels, AMA

[walkingballpit]

Don't we all, anon?

[ A wink and a very cheeky smile. ]