-Got his start as a teenager. He was supposed to by lying low in the basement under the club where his Uncle worked, but he had access to an electric guitar, sound equipment, and alcohol, and stuff happened. Finding himself surprisingly popular, Megamind decides to roll with it. Destiny is weird sometimes.
-Metro Man is wildly jealous, but he can’t admit it, because that’s Not Done among Superheroes. You can’t just say you’d rather be a Rockstar.
-Minion is his manager, and also sometimes roadie and bodyguard
-Legendary special effects at concerts. LEGENDARY
-It is generally believed that the whole “alien” thing is a costume/gimmick
-Various fans and groupies have come forward claiming to know aaalllll about what Megamind’s REALLY like under the leathers and paint. However, they disagree on his skin-color, hair (or lack there of), and contact-lenses (or lack there of). This has led to a LOT of rumors.
-Megamind is having a blast. Roar of crowds, music, custom-made robots, lasers, smoke-machines…
-His entrances are universally dramatic, and also legendary.
-Confusion about why they want the music video for that one song to indicate a narrative of unfaithfulness in a relationship. The lyrics we’re CLEARLY about fighting dirty in the school-yard and rebelling against unfair policies set by the teacher! How is that not Obvious?!
-Roxanne is either a reporter, or a fellow Music Star
-She has been dramatically rescued by Metro Man at least once, and they are widely believes to be a couple.
-They meet at some event directly related to their jobs, and much of it is caught in camera.
-They meet again when he is avoiding paparazzi via a Very Creative Route. She sees humor in the situation.
-He doesn’t know what to do with these sudden new feelings, so he decides to shout/scream/sing about them on stage. His next tour and album are a big hit.
-Despite this, it takes afes for them to realize that the attraction and interest/feelings are mutual
-ROCKSTAR AU
*chanting* <I> do it do it Do IT<i>
“So, how did you start?”
“I picked up a guitar, figured out what noises the different strings made, then played my favorite Ozzy song. That guitar was out of tune, by the way, which has been SO much trouble since it’s what I first learned on…”
“I noticed the different harmonics you use.”
“Yeah, I just sort of calm-pen-SAted. I didn’t even SING forever, didn’t see the point.
Anyway, at first I was just playing around. And then the sound system at my Uncle’s club – HAPPENED to – blow up – and anyway, he dragged me on stage since I had the only instrument that both worked and could project at that point.”
“Oh, you’d already started customizing them?”
“But of course! Anyway, it took three songs before I could actually PLAY, but once I DID, well…”
I WOULD PAY TEN TIMES AS MUCH FOR CHOCOLATE IF IT MEANT REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF SLAVES IN THE WORLD? HOW IS THIS ANY KIND OF PROBLEM.
good news, you can! the company’s called Tony’s Chocolonely and their entire purpose is to make slave-free chocolate and reform the chocolate industry.
Whole Foods carries it. If you don’t want to support an Amazon-owned company, World Market carries it. You can also buy it directly from the company.
It’s the best chocolate I’ve ever had and it’s 100% slave free. Tony’s Chocolonely works really hard to push for transparency within the chocolate industry and actually has and is following an action plan to eliminate slavery within cocoa production. They’re good people who make good chocolate.
the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making
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