MU Peeves Thread
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I had your words in mind when I did a lurky-lurk dive of the game that’s being discussed.
I have this empowerment versus fetish question regarding people of color on that game.
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@ten The Black Body in Ecstasy is a good read on that subject. Obviously it centers Black feminism, but a lot of the discourse can be applied elsewhere.
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A book rec, thank you! 🤩
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I think it is really difficult on a game like that. Like…I glanced at it because I like sex as much as the next person, but (happily!) a lot of the canonically LGBT characters I might have wanted to play were already taken.
Under their rules, I think I could take a canonically straight character and gay them up, but that feels weird - especially on a sex-focused game.
Like, if I played the gay Scott Summers and Jean Grey showed up wanting snoo-snoo, I think I would kind of feel duty-bound, especially since they are such an iconic pairing.
Obviously, I would not be, and their rules make that clear, but I think the weight of social expectations would certainly be there, and I would feel like I was taking something away from that other player. Maybe that is a weird hangup only I have.
I am sure it is worse for anyone who would want to play a trans character because I can’t even think of one (granted, I am not a huge comics person).
I do not think it is sufficient to say, “You could play a shapeshifter character, who can be any gender,” because unless the character is also trans, it is not equivalent.
It seems like a really difficult knot that could be easily untangled by allowing OCs.
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Just all of this!
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@Pacha Part of why it stands out so glaringly here is that it is pretty commonly accepted on comic games in GENERAL that people are gonna hook up how they’re gonna hook up, and canon pairings don’t - really, CAN’T, given the myriad of logistical/interpersonal headaches it would cause - ever be assumed to stand. This includes slash-y romances: FC orientations fly pretty wildly, and for the most part nobody cares.
So to see a game in this genre that probably ought to be even more lax, more open to experimenting with orientations, relationships, and - yes, bodies, up to and including sexual characteristics/gender identities - leaves a strange taste, compounded by the flimsy nature of continuity there meaning that nothing is actually ‘lost’ long term in the sense of changing a character beyond a point of being appealing to hypothetical future appers. Opening OCs would help solve the specific issue of there being nearly no viable trans characters to app, but not the greater break with the norms of the genre or the inherent disappointment of being able to tweak a beloved FC to fit personal tastes in a dozen ways EXCEPT one fairly significant one.
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I wonder if Desire from Sandman could count as an app.
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Why not just make your own superhero smut mush, surely there is room for two lol
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@bear_necessities i mean, that’s kind of a silly response in a mu peeves thread. you could say that about any mu peeve. just make your own game!
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@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
you could say that about any mu peeve. just make your own game!
I mean yes, you could and yes, we have. We’ve also said ‘vote with your feet’ and ‘if you don’t like it you don’t have to play there’ and other such “silly” responses to a MU peeve. They are all good, viable solutions to many mu peeves.
But also it’s my personal mu peeve that there’s not enough games, so pls for the love of god make more.
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@bear_necessities Going to make a mush where you rp playing a mush. So you having peeves and dealing with it is the plot.
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time to make a mush about making a mush where the plot is coming up with all the things people can have peeves about and figuring out solutions!
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Peeve of the day is people relentlessly humblebragging on channels about how important they are at their job.
Should I create my own MU for that?
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BossMu
Everyone is the best at everything. Everyone is the Boss. Now, Everyone has been kidnapped by aliens and placed in a simulated environment to see who would win in the battle of being the best.
What is YOUR skill??
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@Pacha said in MU Peeves Thread:
Peeve of the day is people relentlessly humblebragging on channels about how important they are at their job.
For some reason, the words “as an LEO” are running through my mind.
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@Pacha make a MUSH without channels, boom.
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@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Pacha make a MUSH without channels, boom.
That just makes the ‘everyone hang out in the ooc nexus and spam chat’ worse.
@GF said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Pacha said in MU Peeves Thread:
Peeve of the day is people relentlessly humblebragging on channels about how important they are at their job.
For some reason, the words “as an LEO” are running through my mind.
Banning politics chat was a mistake, we should be allowed to bully cops.
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MU peeve – I’m not on a MU playing.
Also MU peeve – I don’t think I have the time/energy for a new game.
Additional MU peeve – Meeting new people to RP with is either really super fun or really really really stressful.That is all. Carry on. Just my weekly random comment to stay part of the community.
