unpopular opinions

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unpopular opinions

Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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with your characters’ unpopular and/or controversial opinion. Or share few of them at once. In person or via text. Prepare for disagreement.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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Madison Montgomery | AHS: Coven (Not updated to Apocalypse)

[crown_me]

Does it seriously matter if something's unpopular if it's true?




Fine, here's an unpopular opinion: Blow me.

[adpacempertyrannidem]

It matters if you're sitting in prison for saying it. Does that not happen where you come from, or do they just make up good enough excuses for it that nobody realises?

Though, actually, the things I said that got me put in prison in my youth turned out to be extremely popular. They just weren't popular with the people who were benefitting from the widespread injustice I called other people's attention to.

[crown_me]

[A dangerous question to ask, because Madison's worldliness amounts exactly to anything that would end up in an article on TMZ.


Which is, you know, nothing.]

Sure, if you're living in some backwater shithole somewhere. Which it sounds like you are, if you got busted just for saying something that pissed a few people off.

In the US of A you can say anything you want as long as you aren't calling Oprah fat. That'll get the shit cancelled out of you.

[adpacempertyrannidem]

The United States of America? Seriously?

Golden Age Cybertron was not a 'backwater shithole'; it was a highly technologically advanced and extremely cultured theocratic, plutocratic police state, and jailing me wasn't the worst thing they did to me...before the revolution.

I spent a few years in the USA. It was very much a 'backwater shithole' at the time, but frankly, that's always been an apt description of Earth, in general. But the USA?

I can remember when saying "Transformers" were real would get you an investigation there, and potentially a nice long sit in a quiet cell if you wouldn't shut up. Now they have the Internet and everyone knows that Cybertronians have been involved in their planet's affairs for a while now, but...why don't you ask Chelsea Manning about freedom of speech?

And while it's hardly technologically advanced, the USA is putting forth its best effort to become a plutocratic police state. Whenever and wherever money is allowed to vote, it will always win. There was a time I'd have been willing to bet they'd become a theocracy, too, but they seem to be stepping back from that particular ledge.

Of course all bets are off if their Jesus produces his own gaudy mind control jewellery collection and gets some soft-hearted activist who secretly believes in 'change from within' to let them shove it into his or her chest.

[Any country but the USA or Japan, and he probably would've just shrugged. But he's lived in those places, albeit not the same ones Madison knows, and he has Opinions.]

[crown_me]

[Megatron's saying a lot of words and making what probably adds up to a good point if she were the kind of person to respect that. But for Madison this is a lot of talking that's coming from him and not her. Worse, he's namedropping people and incidents that she has zero awareness of. Politics is a game not unlike celebrity, in her opinion, but it's not the kind of influence she cares about.]

Wow, you and brevity aren't exactly friends, are you? [She's not trying to be meanspirited (for once), she just truly doesn't care.] I don't know if Cybertronia or whatever has its own twitter, but take my advice and avoid getting an account.

[adpacempertyrannidem]

[Careful, Megatron. You don't want your optics to roll so hard they roll out of your fraggin' head.]

Let's try this again.

As far as I'm concerned, Earth is the platonic ideal of a 'backwater shithole'.

And when I was actually in the United States, you could absolutely get locked up for saying the wrong thing.

[crown_me]

Much better, [she says approvingly.]

And those are all a bunch of political dissidents or whatever. [Who cares????] I was talking about, like, Armie Hammer and people like that.

[chiaro_oscuro]

...You know, part of me agrees with you. Not the part I really want to listen to, but I can tell you're someone who has opinions and stands by them. I respect that.

But I suppose it's easier for people who don't have reputations to lose.

[crown_me]

[Someone essentially calling her principled or admirable? That's a new one.]

Yeah, so, none of that matters if you make it your brand. You're obviously nobody important, [Which is a comment that comes after she takes in the hole in his sweater and what she'd describe as a small-town DJ sense of fashion.] so I'll take you to school about this.

If you're trying to keep up your reputation, all it takes is making the right gestures in front of the right people. If everyone buys that, then in your daily life you can do or say pretty much anything you want.

[chiaro_oscuro]

You sound like an expert on these matters, don't you?

[Sarcasm, but not meant meanly. Ben's not used to people calling him "no one important", but honestly he doesn't mind these days. He would rather be no one important, and would've been happier that way. So he just rolls with it, but she'll see the light of unspoken, bitter laughter in his eyes as he notes the irony.]

Not everybody's as good at that as you are. Or if you already have a reputation for one thing, earned it, and are trying to change it.

[crown_me]

One of the best. Every time I've been in rehab I've partied and still walked out with everyone thinking I'd cleaned up my act. Gestures impress people, and if you know the right moves to make, it's not hard to have your cake and eat it too. [She flicks a few strands of her long blond hair over her shoulder in a casually self-important gesture.]

Look, you're gonna have to be more straight up with me, dude. What'd you do? Play the Sound of Music soundtrack during a rave, or something?

[chiaro_oscuro]

I...can't say I've ever been to rehab. But it was more than playing the sound of music during a rave, though I figure music's to be expected at a rave. Is that something from your planet?

[Ben figures he'll tell her the truth, assuming she believes him. In this outfit he doesn't look particularly threatening.]

You're going to find this unbelievable, I'm sure, but I used to be a space tyrant in another galaxy, with all that implies.

[crown_me]

[She sighs, annoyed.]

Jesus, dude. If you don't know that then you need so much more help than I can give you. You'd better stay in your own world before some gay guy on Rodeo Drive instagram blasts you for not knowing what the Sound of Music is.

[And well that's interesting. She hikes an eyebrow curiously in his direction.]

Yeah? How far did you make it?

[coldsong]

No. It also doesn't matter if it's true, if it gets the response you want.

I'll pass on the offer, though, thanks.

[crown_me]

[She really only has one immediate response to that.

She shrugs.] Your loss, Dracula.

[coldsong]

[His eyes narrow suspiciously.] Wait.

How did you know my name? Who sent you?

[crown_me]

[Hell, literally. Or whatever coming back from the dead twice counts as in this space. In her opinion, given all of the guts and blood she choked up after being brought back each time, it's Hell.]

You don't want to know. [She crosses her arms over her chest and takes one loud, moody step in overly high heels to emphasize her point.]

Look bro, here's the deal about lying. Strategically useful, yeah. But I don't have any time for that. If you have enough power, you can say whatever you want and nobody can do anything about it. That's my game.

[coldsong]

[Oh, yes. He's been there, done that! Although his version of Hell is...Hel, and therefore not quite the same thing.]

Well, yes, obviously strategy is pointless if you can simply run roughshod over everyone with mere power. Lies, diplomacy, manners, even kindness are pointless exercises in that light.

The only thing you have to ask yourself is whether you're as strong as you think you are. And if not, how are you going to get there, if not with strategy?

When the powerful do lie, that's when you know they are afraid of something. Especially when they lie to themselves.

[crown_me]

[She thinks he's a little wordy, but she can appreciate some of the sentiments going on here.]

You get there by killing the other bitches in your way. Even powerful people make mistakes or take their eyes off their prize for a second. [And then you can slit their throats or bury them alive in a graveyard. It's playing dirty, and it works.]

All that matters is being powerful enough to be able to make the moves people aren't expecting at the right time. [She flutters the boa in her hand in a flourish, and then flops it over her shoulder.] And to build your own power any way you can along the way. And I will.

[A lot of people hesitate in their willingness to capitalize on moments of weaknesses or misplaced decency, and she sees that as a fatal weakness.]

not threadjacking--just silently laughing his ass off :p

[adpacempertyrannidem]

[Insert popcorn.gif ruststicks.gif here, also a wink and a slow blink at the sweetspark.]

[apocalypsejack]

Truth is usually unpopular.

Sure. How much are you paying?

[crown_me]

You've got to be shitting me. [She laughs in disbelief, and then a slow smirk crawls across her face.] David Bowie.

At least something good comes out of this cracked out multiversal wasteland sometimes.

[apocalypsejack]

[Jack gives her a very strange look over the name... or maybe it is a slang term related to someone he just doesn't recognize.]

Are you cracked out? What are you talking about?

[crown_me]

Not today. [But it's only noon.]

Are you serious about your offer? Because I'm totally down. Normally I wouldn't pay for anyone --celebrity should recognize celebrity and all of that-- but under the circumstances I'll make an exception for you.

[apocalypsejack]

[He still thinks she's high or drunk and mistaking him for someone else.]

You pay or I don't work. No one gets my time for free.