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tell me about sweetheart. i see you tagging them a lot

SWEETHEART gets tagged so frequently because she is SOOO funny and also bc so many of the posts on my blog fit her theming so well its hilarious. its freaky. i think youd like her what with the robots and such tee hee. oh god this got long i summarize the entirety of the rp campaign she was for and its way way way longer than what ive got down even

art by lazer god i hope that loads!

i posted her recently in the context of her being an au of lawrie where she was made for a friends roleplay campaign and world (westal bay), so shes tweaked from the lawrie formula just slightly but keeps the core concepts- shes a robot, but unlike lawrie who was commissioned to be a son, she was created by a lonely little freak who wanted a robot girlfriend (unfortunately for him, she is male. she/her mlm winning 24/7. so now hes gay.), however the technology to make a sapient person from scrap metal got the attention of the jeff bezos of westal bay and sweetheart was taken from him and instead placed in the hands of a couple of terrible lawyers with her memory wiped. shes told now that shes human and their son despite her rampant memory loss, and even with all the holes in her brain all she can remember is vague impressions of nathan her creator- of course not knowing shes a robot, she assumes these are not memories but premonitions and that hes her soulmate and she goes A Little bit crazy as her parents neglect her and she is allowed to sink fully into delusions and fantasies about her beloved boyfriend

art by apotheoseity, dm of westal bay and writer of nathan. so swart (i call her swart mostly sorry) starts off the campaign as goofy, ditzy, real stupid. shes rich, she knows capitalism is a scam but cant do much to change it though she wants to, shes overly kind and naive and just helpless, she desperately desperately DESPERATELY wishes to assist people because she is so delusional she believes shes some sort of divine beast sent upon the earth to save everyone, because she does not identify with humans. she along w the other player characters are hired to investigate various strange and upsetting happenings around their city (westal bay) WHERE she nearly immediately gets dragged into a cult. because of course shes prone to religions indoctrination, shes very very lonely and she thinks everything in her brain is so much realer than the depressing and cruel reality around her and they tell her SHE!! can be their savior. she is manipulated into drinking the blood of a desecrated and juiced god, which is a procedure that SHOULD kill her horribly, overabundance of magic tends to do that. but. because shes a robot, she can handle it well and gains magic powers :) this further influences her terrible delusions and everything quickly goes downhill- the rest of the team are disgusted by the cult and swarts support of it, swart doesnt have it in her to refuse the cult now because shes already drank the koolaid as it were, she NEEDS to help people as they learn that the city is so much more corrupt than they thought- major labs working with the cults and experiments to try and create new gods are abundant. DURING one of these excursions into a lab shes told straight up that she is a robot, not a person, and in fact just a prototype as the jeff bezos is forcing (unknown to her) her boyfriend to make more of her as companions like theyre fucking furbies, so she just goes full fucking tilt. sooo much anguish around her and everything she tries to investigate or helps with just gets worse, her teammates dont really like her, at most they feel bad for her, and eventually their investigation leads her back to nathan finally where thats like. thats where its cemented that she is Fully fucked up bc she and nathan will do aaaanything for each other, they love each other desperately. even kill :) final conflict of the campaign as all the terrors have been uncovered is that nathan steps up to the plate on fixing it, AT SWARTS SUGGESTIONS, by killing everyone in their way so that he can uplift swart as god and remake society !! makes a big murder robot, murders mr jeff bezos, tries to murder the prime minister but the team finally bands together to stop him as his robot begins malfunctioning and trying to suck his soul up- everyone has to drag swart around and make emotional calls to her to stop trying to help nathan as he fully fucks people up it was so. so good.

im really really obsessed with her, i could go on and on and on about her characterization and every little interaction she was in but ofc theres little context bc, private rp haha. but god... she asked nathan once why he made her and he just said, i dont know, i wanted to see if i could. imagine that! her lifes so much of being dragged around, set up on a pedestal and ascribed traits- this is a cool robot i could make! this is a cool boyfriend who has to love me because im all he knows! this is my son who will look and act exactly like us! this is our new savior! this is the prototype for our new project! shes subject to so much scrutiny and she cant even do anything, its everyone around her deciding what she should be and what she should do, she'll listen to any suggestion because she feels so hopeless- its why she keeps doing evil shit, she literally just wants to help people and being told maiming others does so shes like yeah that might be true, i cant do literally anything else! shes so peppy and sweet and optimistic, she knows everyone deserves better but by the end shes so tired and broken up she just wants to kill people so that the obstacles in the road from her big happy ending get out of the way- she thinks life is like a fairy tale and there ought to be one big bad guy to be killed in a glorious just manner. in the end though, everythings ok. nathan gets therapy or something and her parents are arrested so she owns their big stupid mansion, and she invites all of her new friends to live with her, so shes probably learning how to act like a human right about now XD. heres some more of my favorite art of her!

aaaand heres her toyhouse with a more full and properly written description of her story- i dont think its been edited since the last session though hmm https://toyhou.se/14625750.sweetheart?key=2jaB07sEHwA2coD

#ask #THANKU.

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tripsonflatground · 3 years

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People conflate profit with hard work and importance. I’m not saying people don’t understand what those terms mean, but I am saying that they find a connection that simply isn’t there - and they don’t find it on their own, they are led to it by the upper echelons of society in order to keep capitalism and the social classes that they’ve invented intact.

Entertainment industry employees (the select few famous ones, not the lighting staff and the video crew and the sound tech and everyone else in the credits no one really cares about, even Marvel fans - yes, I’m a Marvel fan, I know, you don’t watch until the end for the people, you wait for the bonus content), major league professional athletes (usually the male ones), and CEOS & company founders have something in common: they get high paychecks because businessmen make a lot of profit from the products and events that us in the masses consume. And because they make so much money, people believe that they earned it all. Entertainment industry employees and athletes certainly can work hard. But if you look at work and what people get paid for is as the sheer worth of people’s hours the question remains: what makes one person’s hour worth more than another person’s hour? Why is an actor’s or musician’s or athlete’s hour worth more than a doctor’s or a teacher’s or a firefighter’s? What makes a director’s hour worth more than any other office manager or creative project manager? I’m not saying entertainment industry employees and athletes aren’t working as hard. But the misconception from culture is that the more money you make, the harder you must be working or the more worthwhile the work you’re doing must be. And this is a misconception, it simply doesn’t have any merit. Frankly, they aren’t working harder than someone who works 40+ hours a week and also spends an average of 10 hours just commuting to and from work, outside of a pandemic. Even if you argue that celebrities and athletes should get paid decently because of the way their work takes a toll on their bodies, for one, CEOs and other 1% business people don’t apply here, and secondly, if it was about the risk to people’s bodies we’d be seeing factory workers, first responders, the military, construction workers, security guards, surgeons who perform 30+ hour surgeries or birth doctors who help with 20+ hour labors, people who work with or in areas that have predatory wild animals or toxic chemicals, people whose work leaves them exposed to the elements, etc. all making equivalent money to celebrities and athletes, and that’s not the case. We all know that’s not how it is. Right now during the pandemic our “essential workers” are all putting themselves at risk of semi or permanent damage to their bodies or death because of Corona and everyone knows they’re not getting paid enough for that risk. Celebrities and athletes should make money for their time just like any other employee, but as it stands they make a disproportionate amount of money, and this money pushes them into the top 10%, if not the top 1%. Plus, they don’t pay taxes because they’re rich enough to be exempt, so they don’t pay for the resources they use, whether that’s the roads they drive on, the water they use, the buildings or outdoor locations where they work, etc.

Nobility and the use of noble titles was banned in the US Constitution. Yet, I would argue that celebrities and politicians have become the USA’s nobility and royalty - and the ultra-rich are definitely a part of that as well. Hunger Games got this right - “pay attention to these shiny individuals, not your friends and neighbors and coworkers who don’t have the same privileges and suffer for it”. Most celebrities were born as average as you and me. But when they began making extreme amounts of money and got the fame, they were boosted in a new social class and this social class allows people within it to be treated as though they are above the average citizen. This is also exactly how systems of power take otherwise effective martyrs and twist and manipulate the story so the story either benefits the system or appears to be an isolated incident of individual heroism/bravery/success (Hunger Games got this right too, with the Victors, and Peeta). Some people *appear* to handle their rank gracefully, and others clearly have become twisted by it. But for people in this special class, all publicity is good publicity. It is commonplace for celebrities and politicians to have scandals brought to light and yet receive no real punishment for it. In fact, they make more money, because of all of the interviews they get to do trying to claim either they didn’t do anything wrong or they did and they’re so very sorry get counted as part of their job. The average person who goes to court to do the same thing is far more likely to be saddled with court costs then to get paid to defend themselves. Our cultural norms say that for most people, any public behavior reflects on you and your family and also could be seen by those who are impressionable, so you should be sure to be on your best behavior. But for those who enjoy celebrity AKA American Nobility, even though you would think they would be under even more pressure and scrutiny, they actually are given more grace and forgiveness and allowed to get away with more because there are no consequences for their actions. People like me can complain about what people do, they can have a less comfortable time on social media because of cancel culture, but on the other hand, cancel culture isn’t actually effective and it’s probably naive to think that a celebrity is actually managing their own social media account all by themselves, but unless they stop getting work which means they stop getting paid, they don’t face any real consequences for their actions. Which is the interesting thing about nobility, because in traditional understandings of the nobility, the noble class was supposed to use their money and resources to care for the areas they had been “entrusted” with, including providing protection and law enforcement/governing, providing aid after natural disasters, helping to fund public schools and public hospitals, protecting places of worship, attending to public infrastructure, etc. Sure, today’s celebrities occasionally donate to charities, especially if it can give them good media coverage, like the Ice Bucket Challenge a few years back for ALS, but come on. Jeff Bezos runs his company like it’s 1900. How many celebrities are going into their communities and helping renovate schools and hospitals and community centers, or spending more than a couple thousand on a scholarship here and there, or helping fund more grocery stores and community gardens to fight food deserts, or putting pressure on their friends in politics to put out legislation that actually benefits the people, or putting money towards protecting natural areas, or buying medical supplies and food for their communities after they’re ravished from a natural disaster, or helping to provide affordable housing for the homeless, or paying off student lunch debt to help with child hunger, or any other number of things they could use their resources for? They get the benefits of nobility - the wealth, the status, the renown, the expensive clothes and oversized homes and affordable top-quality medical care and other status symbols - without taking up any of the responsibilities of giving back to the communities that got them there in the first place, namely average citizens. If the average citizen didn’t stan people, didn’t buy in to the celebrity status, they wouldn’t have near the same amount of power that they do.

And all of this is true and will remains this way because it benefits the wealthy class and the nobility. It keeps them in power. Because people accept the justification that this work is more important or this work is worth more, they can continue making amounts of money that are unfathomable to the average person. And thus they can continue to hoard resources like dragons while other people die of starvation or from the elements or because their insulin and medicine is too expensive. And as mentioned earlier, since they are rich enough to get out of paying taxes, they don’t contribute to the infrastructure, leaving that to the people who have less they can even offer let alone what’s actually taken from them. And they benefit off of the average citizen’s work. They wouldn’t be so beautiful without their army of stylists and makeup artists and seamstresses. Their homes wouldn’t be so extravagant without their garbage workers and landscapers and construction workers and renovators. They wouldn’t find it so easy to manage their lives without their nannies and personal assistants and agents and PR teams and housekeepers and personal chefs. Do you honestly think any of these people are getting paid fairly, or even close to what they’re getting? To paraphrase the song Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog, they’re feeding on the powerless when their cups are already overfilled. And because they’re positioned as more or less the American nobility, they’re seen as better than the average citizen, so how could anyone possibly justify questioning their social standing or their privilege? This is The Way Things Are, so what does it matter? Like most major problems and inequalities in the world, this only works because people are convinced to buy into the fact that some people are just better than other people. And who has the authority to decide that? The people in power. Who are the same people as the people who benefit from and profit off of the American Nobility AKA celebrity. Average citizens never even stood a chance. This is just a situation of that iconic line that goes “I don’t know how to convince you that you should care about other people”. The outcome of this case was decided before it was even brought to trial.

And I know that nothing I say here will make a difference. The capitalist machine will keep turning and no one will think to introduce a bill that would create salary caps or redistribute wealth and no one actually involved with the industry will read this and think “wow, maybe we need to do something about the growing sociocultural and economic gap between us and the rest of society” because being rich and famous gives them the privilege to put themselves above these concerns. If this gets any notes, I’m more likely to get anon hate or upfront disagreements because I implicated their smol sons or their celebrity crush or whatever than anyone who actually thinks I might be onto something. I’m only taking the time to type this out because releasing the thoughts into the void makes me feel better.

TL;DR: Celebrities get disproportionate amounts of admiration from other citizens and money in their paycheck because their work is given more importance because the wealthy class that controls business makes ridiculous amounts of money off of the projects, events, and products they are a part of and so the unequal distribution of wealth and status elevates celebrities into the 1% and the American Nobility so they no longer have consequences for their actions or have to contribute towards their communities in any meaningful way and that is a Problem.

#celebrity #ultra-rich #capitalism #nobility #power #power imbalance #inequality

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