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The Legion [Mods] ([personal profile] letsgolegion) wrote in [community profile] legionclubhouse2016-11-20 07:25 pm
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IC ANON MEME

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.

Re: MASTER CHIEF/FREELANCER

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
FreeChief.

Re: ART THREAD

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ A poster responds with a lovingly detailed drawing of the entire current Legion as mermaids and a link to the artist's dimblr account. ]

This is my new favorite AU!

Re: Murderworld

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
It must have been hard for him and Nova Prime to get separated like that. Going through the arena not knowing if their bro was still alive...

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
the new question then is who do we want to cuddle him and tell him to sshhh

UNPOPULAR OPINIONS

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:39 am (UTC)(link)

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
what are we seeing here...

Re: UNPOPULAR OPINIONS

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
brainiac 5 is a good and noble sentie-

ahahahahha sorry i couldn't take myself seriously!

Re: UNPOPULAR OPINIONS

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
brainiac 5 isn't secretly a supervillain and the legionnaires vanishing really was just an accident

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
when is the galactic sentinel going to admit that its behind the times and finally join us in the 31st century?

no one wants to read boring news articles about some bank robbery. i want to be able to scratch my holos of Timberwolf and smell his foxxxy colon!

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
quick someone give me an au where he said yes

+1

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
timberpack represent!
captainbuzzkill: (055)

Re: I'm Captain Mystery, AMA

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-11-21 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
You -- you don't know what it's like being stuck in a situation like that. We were having those things thrown at us and being shot at and one wrong move meant getting blown up or shot with bullets or whatever.

Stuff was exploding and bullets were bouncing off everything and it was hard to even think during all the chaos. I was lucky I could even knock stuff back and hit anything at all while ducking around like that.

[Now he's angry.]

You think you have the right to judge but you're probably, like, sitting at home all safe and you have no idea what it's like to have to try to stay alive when horrible things are trying to kill you.

Just staying alive during that stuff is hard. And we didn't know if help was coming anytime soon so that those people could be arrested. Not killing them meant they were still alive to try and kill or hurt us.

Maybe you think getting through horribleness like that is so easy that you can just control things however you want super easily. But guess what? It's not.
captainbuzzkill: (096)

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-11-21 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Grossssss.

Re: GENERAL LEGION GOSSIP

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
bgztlian here! i got to see great saiyawoman in person a while back! i hope she didn't see me staring i tried really hard.

Re: NEWEST RECRUITS

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
aight like assuming you're also a teenager

I'm on the janitorial staff and long story short, you've mistaken a cinnamon roll for a sinnamon roll. The boy is to pure for this universe.

Re: I'm Captain Mystery, AMA

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
You're a Legionnaire. You're supposed to be better than them. Better than us.

Instead, you let them drag you down to their level and now you're hiding behind semantics rather than admit it.

Re: MASTER CHIEF/FREELANCER

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
I've been tagging it "brothers in armor".

Re: NEWEST RECRUITS

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
um old enough excuse me

Re: NEWEST RECRUITS

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
i want to feed him soup

Re: ART THREAD

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Someone has drawn Reaper giving Casey a piggyback ride, captioned Reaper Family in curly and cheerful letters. ]
captainbuzzkill: (099)

Re: I'm Captain Mystery, AMA

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-11-21 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I also can't do anything for the UP unless I'm still alive. Being better than the bad guys isn't worth it if it means you die.

Levels of force, man. Circumstance dictates what levels are appropriate. That's how a lot of law enforcement works. If this had been just a normal life or death situation, like one of our normal superhero fights, it'd be different because there'd be way more options. In that case, taking the high road is important because of the example it sets.

But being trapped somewhere under duress is totally different. We weren't law enforcement in that situation, we were victims of a ridiculous number of crimes.

[A pause.]

[He holds up a finger and then corrects anon like the pedantic nerd he is.]

Also, semantics is a branch of linguistics that deals with interpreting the meaning of words. This is actually really an ethics argument. People get them confused all the time but they're not the same thing.
bachido: (resent)

[personal profile] bachido 2016-11-21 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
That's not fair at all. People who don't have anything to hide still have painful memories they're not ready to talk about.

People aren't always ready to tell all of their own stories, but they should be allowed to do that. Where I'm from we aren't able to look into another's past unless we're speaking to them face to face.

Re: UNPOPULAR OPINIONS

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
There's no way Nova Prime isn't hiding something.

Re: I'm Captain Mystery, AMA

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
You had options, you didn't take them. You think the Legion's never been in hellish situations before, surrounded by people who wanted to kill them with no way out? They always found another way, a path to contain, deflect, or evade their enemies rather than kill them.

The fact that you're arguing this just proves that your membership is a stain upon the team that means so much to us.

And now you're trying to deflect by focusing on words and meanings. In any case, semantics still applies because you're hiding behind your murders with titles like "justified homicide" and "manslaughter" and arguing definitions. So stop mansplaining ethics and start answering for what you've done

Re: SUPERNOVA VS. PRIMETIGHTS

(Anonymous) 2016-11-21 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Primetights is probably a better name, since Supernova sounds like it could also be Superboy/Nova.