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x_multiplemanThe second sentence is a joke. The first one isn't.
Here's the thing. I'm not going to be one of those people who sign up for extra self-defense classes in case more people invade. There's always going to be somebody better, no matter how good I am--and, y'know, I'm not that good. I'd say "I'm a lover, not a fighter," except a. that's a gigantic cliche, and 2. I've been living with you people long enough to know you'd immediately jump to very strange mental places involving Kitty and my dupes.
We have the X-Men for fighting. I'm never going to be an X-Man either. That's not--it's not a criticism, what it is is, imagine the X-Men are bandaids. We need bandaids. Bandaids are cool, and very helpful, and they do what they're supposed to do really well. But we need a lot more than bandaids. I'm going to be the more than bandaids, or one of them.
If we're ever not going to have to worry about people trying to kill us, we need to change the way people think. As many people as we can. We need society to change, and we aren't going to get that by fighting.
One of the best ways we can get it, I think, is to get mass media on our side. And not just documentaries like Miss Tilby did--we need to be sneakier and more ubiquitous than that. We need sitcoms, we need dramas--we need everyone who says "D'oh!" and knows what it means to be the master of their domain, everybody who thinks the White House really is all rapid-fire witticisms or thinks they know what a CBC and a Chem 7 are--we need all those people to see mutants as a normal part of their cultural landscape. I would even take a mutant American Idol, because when we get on stupid reality shows we'll know people think we're normal.
So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to write for TV shows--make my own, eventually--and movies, and probably novels--heck, comic books, why not? I can have more projects going at the same time than anybody else in the world. It's going to take a long time, and it might not work, because maybe the world isn't ready for mutants on TV yet. But like Kitty told me the other day, a lot of people didn't think the world was ready for Ellen DeGeneres to come out, either, and now we have Queer Eye. And if nobody ever tries, the world never will be ready.
That's in the future, though. What I need to do right now is find good colleges for communications and media studies, and anything else our guidance counselors (and ex-media-icons-slash-ex-guidance-counselors, huh? :)) think would be helpful for me to study. I'm halfway through my junior year of high school, here, or I would be if I'd been attending regular school all this time, I need to start thinking about this stuff.
And I want to be active before then, too. I'm not talking about a Million Mutant March, or anything--not that that wouldn't be nice--but we can do stuff on a smaller scale, sit-ins and picketing and things like that, and just talking to people. I think one of the biggest things we can do right here is to not be the weird isolationist people in the spooky mansion in the boonies. We can get to know the neighbors, which would be a great place to start to get people for activisty stuff that aren't us.
And speaking of, just as a start--hey, Kitty, are your bridges completely burned as far as socializing with your dance class outside of doing strange and painful-looking things on your toes with them, or are there a couple there who if you get them alone and promise your scary boyfriend doesn't eat people will be sane people? Because I'm pretty sure you're one of the only ones who has regular outside-the-mansion life stuff with people our age, and that would be a good place to start if we can. Otherwise all I've got right now is hanging around video arcades hoping either they have Tekken or somebody in there watches CNN.
So anybody who wants to help with any of this, let me know, and we'll get together and make cunning plans.
Here's the thing. I'm not going to be one of those people who sign up for extra self-defense classes in case more people invade. There's always going to be somebody better, no matter how good I am--and, y'know, I'm not that good. I'd say "I'm a lover, not a fighter," except a. that's a gigantic cliche, and 2. I've been living with you people long enough to know you'd immediately jump to very strange mental places involving Kitty and my dupes.
We have the X-Men for fighting. I'm never going to be an X-Man either. That's not--it's not a criticism, what it is is, imagine the X-Men are bandaids. We need bandaids. Bandaids are cool, and very helpful, and they do what they're supposed to do really well. But we need a lot more than bandaids. I'm going to be the more than bandaids, or one of them.
If we're ever not going to have to worry about people trying to kill us, we need to change the way people think. As many people as we can. We need society to change, and we aren't going to get that by fighting.
One of the best ways we can get it, I think, is to get mass media on our side. And not just documentaries like Miss Tilby did--we need to be sneakier and more ubiquitous than that. We need sitcoms, we need dramas--we need everyone who says "D'oh!" and knows what it means to be the master of their domain, everybody who thinks the White House really is all rapid-fire witticisms or thinks they know what a CBC and a Chem 7 are--we need all those people to see mutants as a normal part of their cultural landscape. I would even take a mutant American Idol, because when we get on stupid reality shows we'll know people think we're normal.
So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to write for TV shows--make my own, eventually--and movies, and probably novels--heck, comic books, why not? I can have more projects going at the same time than anybody else in the world. It's going to take a long time, and it might not work, because maybe the world isn't ready for mutants on TV yet. But like Kitty told me the other day, a lot of people didn't think the world was ready for Ellen DeGeneres to come out, either, and now we have Queer Eye. And if nobody ever tries, the world never will be ready.
That's in the future, though. What I need to do right now is find good colleges for communications and media studies, and anything else our guidance counselors (and ex-media-icons-slash-ex-guidance-counselors, huh? :)) think would be helpful for me to study. I'm halfway through my junior year of high school, here, or I would be if I'd been attending regular school all this time, I need to start thinking about this stuff.
And I want to be active before then, too. I'm not talking about a Million Mutant March, or anything--not that that wouldn't be nice--but we can do stuff on a smaller scale, sit-ins and picketing and things like that, and just talking to people. I think one of the biggest things we can do right here is to not be the weird isolationist people in the spooky mansion in the boonies. We can get to know the neighbors, which would be a great place to start to get people for activisty stuff that aren't us.
And speaking of, just as a start--hey, Kitty, are your bridges completely burned as far as socializing with your dance class outside of doing strange and painful-looking things on your toes with them, or are there a couple there who if you get them alone and promise your scary boyfriend doesn't eat people will be sane people? Because I'm pretty sure you're one of the only ones who has regular outside-the-mansion life stuff with people our age, and that would be a good place to start if we can. Otherwise all I've got right now is hanging around video arcades hoping either they have Tekken or somebody in there watches CNN.
So anybody who wants to help with any of this, let me know, and we'll get together and make cunning plans.
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Date: 2017-12-17 12:47 am (UTC)x_tarot
January 26 2004, 20:43:41
After what Doctor MacTaggart told me today, I have a thought.
The next time I am wandering around half-asleep, make me re-read this.
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x_crowdofone
January 27 2004, 00:26:12
Right. I'll print out a copy and practice lurking in secluded corners. :)
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x_tarot
January 27 2004, 00:54:05
We should get you a Bat-man shirt.
Sorry about the vagueness. I spent several hours last night with my head all attached to odd machines.
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x_crowdofone
January 27 2004, 00:57:12
Have one, actually. Except it's in neon green and purple, and I have no idea where my cousin found it.
Were any of them the Dread Machine That Goes Ping? :) (And was it about your mayonnaise dreams--and all the other ones too, just mayo dreams for short--because if it was, yay.)
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x_tarot
January 27 2004, 01:05:01
No pinging, although Dr. MacTaggart laughed when I asked about it. I had things taped to my forehead and then I took a nap. I get to do this a lot. I would say how much fun it is, but Jono has taken all the sarcasm and kept it for himself.
Yes, about the mayonnaise dreams. I am told we're going to figure out what causes them so that I can get some sleep, or at least so we know how they happen, I think.
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x_crowdofone
January 28 2004, 17:13:01
Track
Woohoo. Good luck. :)