Vague Details Regarding this Person · 4:45pm Feb 20th, 2015
5 things of mild relevance:
-College sophomore of the female variety.
-Studying fancy science stuff.
-Current goal in life is to see thundersnow.
-I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF READING PROJECT HORIZONS AND REGRETTING IT IMMENSELY. SO MUCH ANGST. owww my poor heart
-I have a comma-shaped burn on my left ring finger, so I'm pretty sure my special talent is abusing punctuation.
If you wanna chat, feel free to hit up my inbox.
Hey story time:
So this one time, my high school government teacher held mock presidential elections for our class and allowed us to run through the campaign process with our "political party" (group. It was a group project.) My fellow party members and I spent ages coming up with a political platform that meshed all of our beliefs together into a moderately acceptable mess that we all disliked equally. Then we found out that the other two candidates were running as Batman and Katniss Everdeen.
There was no way we were going to win an election against Batman and the damn Mockingjay.
So at the last minute, we redid our entire project to make us the Political Coalition of Supervillains. We launched a smear campaign to turn our classmates against superheroes in general, promoted our presidential candidate as "one of the people," and then got the teacher to agree to rig the election for us just in case we didn't win.
We won without the teacher's help, and omg you should have seen the looks on their faces when we told them that we had just taken over the country because they elected a supervillain in disguise over Batman.
The end.
Pics or it didn't happen:
"Hero must not profit" highlighted.
Portfolio with evil agenda tucked into newspaper, subtly handed to teacher before presentation.
So not only can you write well, but you're an awesome person too?
2815149 Aw, stop it, you.
That is postively amazing.
That election sounds like a hoot.
That... explains a lot, actually.
Sadly, that's a perfect satire of the electoral process. Good to learn at a young age.
Hell, I'd almost say you should write an EqG story with that as the plot. I'd read it.
2815871 It was a blast!
2816041 Oh!!! I'll have to sit on that idea for a bit longer, but you might be on to something...
Have you thought of applying for a minor in Certain Kinds of Humour?
Imagine how that would look on your resume!
If you need a hint: AWESOME.
Just show them your rom-com fanfic. (What - embarrassed? Why?)
I'm pretty sure you'd get like, an honorary second degree, or something.
Hope I punctuated that correctly.
Checks hair in mirror.
2894248 Ha, I wish. My concentration in procrastination is already taking up the rest of my time, otherwise I'd totally go for it.
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Eh, more or less the same here.
When it comes to priorities, procrastination is always number one!
Seriously though, good luck with that ^^.
If you get through your degree you'll have something to be proud of :).
What, exactly, did you say to reverse the class's opinions of Everdeen and Batman?
2926980 The group putting Katniss up for the presidency was significantly smaller than the others, and essentially amounted to a third party, so we focused almost entirely on the anti-Justice League angle.
We made subtle jabs at various heroes when presenting our candidates, which got "Batman" all flustered:
i.imgur.com/KM08YHs.png
And our presentation included an official stance on superheroes:
i.imgur.com/vxGu9X7.png
Overall, we promoted ourselves as being "real" representations of the country, when in fact the portfolio we turned in held this "letter" from Supervillain headquarters:
i.imgur.com/VVOsMUB.png
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Oh, I'm so glad you responded. I was wondering, and my speculation was bugging me all day at work.
Those are really very impressive arguments, ironically owing to their unimpressive, unassuming nature.
Delightfully insidious.
Thanks for sharing this story. Got a real kick out of it.
2930019 I intended to respond as soon as I saw your comment; it just took me a while to figure out where I had the documents saved.
My pleasure! It was a fun project; I'm glad you found it as amusing as I did.