{"id":3309,"date":"2012-12-07T09:11:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T17:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2012-12-07T09:11:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T17:11:31","slug":"on-starting-a-supervillain-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/on-starting-a-supervillain-society\/","title":{"rendered":"on starting a supervillain society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google+ has opened up communities. There aren’t any supervillain guilds. I kinda want to start one – but I don’t have a name yet.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to reuse The Guild of Calamitous Intent – that’s an epic tag, but let’s have something new. (Plus, I want to keep my Guild membership.) And it can’t be generic.<\/p>\n

But ‘Guild’? I like Guild. That’s a nice word. So I’ve been playing with that. Guild of Strategic Interventionists isn’t bad, but isn’t right yet. Infelicitous Action Guild is a little too Silver Age DC if you keep the “Guild” part – even morseo if you swap out “Guild” for “League.”<\/p>\n

Society of Superpowered (not<\/em> superhuman<\/em>, thanks) Instigators isn’t terrible, but isn’t there. Fellowship of Felons sounds like a bunch of hobbits and says nothing<\/em> about lulz, mad, or<\/em> science. Supervillainy United has plusses, except for sounding a bit much like a football team; Fiends Unlimited is a little too 1990s Marvel; Confederated Criminality just sounds like the mob, with pretensions. (Still, it’s better than – lol – “Intergang.”)<\/p>\n

You can see the difficulty here.<\/p>\n

Infelicitous Action, though. It’s kind of hanging out in my head. Infelicitous Action…<\/p>\n

…Alliance?<\/em><\/p>\n

Internally contradictory, as all such organisations tend to be so let’s get that right out there. Implies subversion – always fun – and has the word “action” which expresses dynamism. Kind of keeps the spirit of the Guild. Leaves room for non-superpowered non-mad-scientist actors such as agents of SPECTRE.<\/p>\n

Most of all, does not exclude lulz.<\/p>\n

hmmmmmmm.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have to think on this some more. But… hmm<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PS: This is what a link from The Old New Thing<\/i> does to your stats:<\/p>\n


No, those weren’t all zeroes before. It was quite bumpy.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…makes them utterly useless. Yay! HI NEW PEOPLE! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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