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fandomhigh2023-10-25 06:56 am
somethingwithturquoise) wrote in fandomhigh2023-10-25 06:56 am
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The Multiverse is F'd, Y'all; Wednesday, Second Period [10/25].
"Right. So."
Summer was leaning on the desk at the front of the classroom sim in the Danger Shop, in part because it was still hilarious, but mostly just because in a sim, she could project a Fandom outside the windows of the classroom that hadn't become....well...
You've all seen it by now, surely. So the Fandom outside was idyllic and unscathed by billboards and gas stations and living YouTube ads that you couldn't just skip because they were real life, and it was nice, goddammit, and she regretted every single Starbucks she'd had since they started popping up, and, in fact, had briefly popped over to another dimension and pointedly returned with some Harbucks, just to prove a point.
And, well, because it was topical to the lecture.
"You guys have probably noticed that the island has, for some reason, decided to turn itself into an absolute corporate hellscape, which means two things: one, I'm really worried that it's going through another thing, like, do not even get me started about the summer it tried to find itself and took us all along for the ride, but, you know what? We all go through a capitalist whore phase, I'm sure it'll pass, and two....let's talk brands. Because when you start getting into different dimensions and universes, you find weird little details and differences that are just slight enough to freak you out.
"Which I know isn't much of a lesson, but things are really weird this week, we're just going to take the chill road today and talk about stuff like that. I mean, even just things like this," she held up her cup as an example, "or the fact that, in some dimensions, Shoneys is actually more popular than Denny's. Where, because 9/11 didn't happen, McDonald's still has Szechuan dipping sauce on their menus. Where you have Strawberry Smiggles instead of Lucky Charms, and it is way darker. One of my favorite alternate dimensions is my favorite because they have a whole movie franchise of an IP I like that doesn't even exist in my dimension. Going off of our trip to New Zealand, there's even some dimensions where they call King of the Bracelets Lord of the Rings, which, I know, right? Mind blowing."
Oh, no, they'd entered the Meta Ouroboros now.
"So," she said, "that's it, that's the whole class. We're going to talk about brands and how they might vary between different universes and maybe all this talk about lame corporate bullshit will be overheard by the island and it'll realize that we really.....Lords of PSL forgive me for saying this, but....don't need a gazillion Starbucks and dropping the Donuts was a really dumb idea, because now you sound like the IT nerd I used to pick on back at my old high school, Dunkin."
Summer was leaning on the desk at the front of the classroom sim in the Danger Shop, in part because it was still hilarious, but mostly just because in a sim, she could project a Fandom outside the windows of the classroom that hadn't become....well...
You've all seen it by now, surely. So the Fandom outside was idyllic and unscathed by billboards and gas stations and living YouTube ads that you couldn't just skip because they were real life, and it was nice, goddammit, and she regretted every single Starbucks she'd had since they started popping up, and, in fact, had briefly popped over to another dimension and pointedly returned with some Harbucks, just to prove a point.
And, well, because it was topical to the lecture.
"You guys have probably noticed that the island has, for some reason, decided to turn itself into an absolute corporate hellscape, which means two things: one, I'm really worried that it's going through another thing, like, do not even get me started about the summer it tried to find itself and took us all along for the ride, but, you know what? We all go through a capitalist whore phase, I'm sure it'll pass, and two....let's talk brands. Because when you start getting into different dimensions and universes, you find weird little details and differences that are just slight enough to freak you out.
"Which I know isn't much of a lesson, but things are really weird this week, we're just going to take the chill road today and talk about stuff like that. I mean, even just things like this," she held up her cup as an example, "or the fact that, in some dimensions, Shoneys is actually more popular than Denny's. Where, because 9/11 didn't happen, McDonald's still has Szechuan dipping sauce on their menus. Where you have Strawberry Smiggles instead of Lucky Charms, and it is way darker. One of my favorite alternate dimensions is my favorite because they have a whole movie franchise of an IP I like that doesn't even exist in my dimension. Going off of our trip to New Zealand, there's even some dimensions where they call King of the Bracelets Lord of the Rings, which, I know, right? Mind blowing."
Oh, no, they'd entered the Meta Ouroboros now.
"So," she said, "that's it, that's the whole class. We're going to talk about brands and how they might vary between different universes and maybe all this talk about lame corporate bullshit will be overheard by the island and it'll realize that we really.....Lords of PSL forgive me for saying this, but....don't need a gazillion Starbucks and dropping the Donuts was a really dumb idea, because now you sound like the IT nerd I used to pick on back at my old high school, Dunkin."
Re: Class Activity: All Hail the Corporate Overlords - Multiverse, 10/25.
Jon hated this week.