voltage men as political thinkers/philosophers, with little to no explanation

Eisuke Ichinomiya: Aristotle: Jack of all trades, also master of all

Kazuomi Shido: Socrates: Plays opponents like a big bass drum

Yosuke Sagara: Plato: Ridiculously extra

Hyogo Kaga: Niccolo Machiavelli: Violent bastard

Kei Soejima: Thomas Hobbes: Traumatized by human behaviour

Taki Kozaki: John Locke: Self inserts everywhere (re: when locke said this about his own work)

Karno: Jean Jacques Rousseau: Loves humans too much

Mamoru Kishi: Karl Marx: Fuck the rich. What a hassle.

Jun Araki: John Rawls: The bare minimum (re: misogyny)



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This post is bringing out the 25% Punjaban and 25% Tamilian in me. If you get it, you get it. If you don't, you soon will (this is going to be extremely self indulgent, so bear with me)-

If the MC is indeed desi, it is a canon event that gajar ka halwa has been made for Eisuke during winters. I don't make the rules, it is the most elite winter dessert to ever exist. (To add on: the recipe that MC used was naani di recipe <33333.)

Eisuke in a black kurta - scratch that, any 2D guy in a black kurta? Hae mai mar jaawa. Bet MC does the whole "tennu kisi di nazar na lage" hand thingy and Eisuke finds it extremely adorable.

They have watched Jab We Met. MC probably fawned over Aditya Kashyap (who wouldn't tbh) and Eisuke got jealous. The rest is history.

MC has def made traditional rice dishes (sambar rice/curd rice/biryani/the good ol' daal chawal/rajma chawal). Eisuke has seen her eating with her hands and asked her to feed him the same way. (MC making those bite-sized grais and feeding it to him is the cutest shit ever.)

The mehendi bit is sending me and ending me. It's my weak spot and you found it @eisukevint. I'm here for an evening of Eisuke trying to find his initials in her mehendi which she just hid for fun. Ah also, the gang heard about the 'the darker your mehendi becomes, the deeper your love for your s/o is' lore and of course they tease MC about it every time.

Bhangra is one thing - let's imagine MC being a trained classical dancer (Kathak/Bharatanatyam/etc). Eisuke, our man here, would be smitten with her precision, grace, and elegance. So proud. He'd find the aalta beautiful and would not miss any opportunity to kiss the little red circle in the middle of her palm every time he went to grab her hand. He'd also find the sound of her ghungroos as she practiced very soothing.

Whenever Eisuke and MC travel to her home country, she makes him try the street food (much to his apparent dismay). He does end up loving the taste, but refuses to admit it.

Self indulgent: he loves helping MC with her weekly hair care. He denies it and calls it a "chore", but he loves, loves, loves running his fingers through her hair while massaging some oil into them.

Thinking about all the little ways in which he'd be involved in her culture and she'd be involved in his <3. GAH.

eisuke ichinomiya x desi!reader headcanons !!

im so bored so here are some headcanons bec i love being desi

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

• he hates it when he has to wait and initially when you started dating you tried your best to be on time whenever he paged you but as your relationship progressed, its game over. whenever u have to go out, you ALWAYS leave at the the desi time and he slowly got so used to it, the one and only time punctual eisuke was late to events.

• eisuke has a massive sweet tooth so when you first made him kheer, he absolutely loved it although his only words were ‘not bad’. He definitely asks you to make it again so you feed him other ‘mithai’ (sweets in urdu/hindi) like gulab jamun, rasgullay, JALEBI etc and he loves it so much.

• you make him desi food from time to time and actually requests it like you him ask ‘eisuke what do you want for dinner today?’ and he just says ‘you made nihari last time, it was good. make it again’ he finds it very flavourful.

• he’s very familiar with other cultures since he’s a businessman and often interacts with foreign businessmen. he knows about the clothes and customs of your country. imagine eisuke in kurta or sherwani EISUKE IN A KURTA A BLACK KURTA AT THAT (i would actually die). Whenever you go to family events, you always wear traditional clothes and once eisuke is invited to them, he initially just wears his suit but after some time he starts to indulge you and actually wears your traditional clothes.

• he finds it very sexy when you talk and swear in your mother language.

• eisuke is multilingual (as its mentioned in the story) so if he doesnt know your mother langauge he would DEFINITELY learn and boy his pronunciation would be so good (thats a perfectionist for you)

• he says he hates bollywood movies because theyre so extra but thats a lie. whenever u play something like ‘kabhi khushi kabhi gham’ or ‘kal ho na ho’ he always watches it with you because he’s intrigued but ALWAYS says ‘this movie is so bad i wonder why you waste time watching this stuff’

• you go around singing bollywood songs or songs in your mother tongue around the penthouse and he just enjoys it so much but he definitely wont say it out loud

• eisuke was FLABBERGASTED when you told him or rather showed him a desi wedding like why is everyone wearing such fancy clothes ??? and he’s even more surprised when he finds out there’s actually three days to a wedding and even more pre wedding events.

• he loves it when you wear mehndi on your hands, he sees mehndi as something that adorns your hand and whenever u apply it, he brings your hand up to his face and smells it because he loves thr scent.

• when you told him about all your family and by that i mean family on your mother’s and father’s side, he has to do a double take because why the fuck do you have SO many cousins? he’s trying to keep up but there’s just so many.

• your parents love him more than you. they literally said it to your face ‘oh my, such a handsome boy, how did you ever end up with our incompetent daughter’ you cannot convince me that this wont happen.

• baba asks you to teach him bhangra and other desi dance steps and you, ota and baba have the time of your life dancing to chammak challo and nach punjaban in the penthouse lounge and eisuke just looks at you like youre comitting a crime

a little something for myself bec im a self indulgent bitch (not exactly a desi headcanon but i wanted to add this)

• every eid you spend with him, he makes sure to spoil you thoroughly. he gives you so much eidi (literally) like he straight up handed you car keys once and went ‘eid mubarak ___, i know you’ve been waiting for your eidi’ and then he just smirks while you think what did you do to deserve so much. he enjoys eid festivities with you and eid ul fitr is his favourite eid.

looking at past question papers for this discipline-specific elective and i do NOT want to give this paper anymore

no srsly ill cry - what the fk is wrong with this foreign policy paper? why does it have such a vast syllabus? why am i a political science student? WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF??????

it is exam season and i shall now be treating tumblr as my political shitposting blog

Every time I doubt myself I think about the time when John Locke remarked ‘Property I have nowhere found more clearly explained, than in a book entitled, Two Treatises of Government.’

Father of Liberalism Marketing

Aristotle: Man is by nature a political animal

Yosuke: correction - man is by nature a SEXUAL animal ;)

please don't tell me I am the only one who thinks that the way Mr. Darcy basically spits out "M... Mr. Wickham?" while his head tilts and he walks menacingly closer to Elizabeth - clearly angry - during the rain scene in Pride and Prejudice (2005) is very, very hot?

no? just me?

No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.

forever mood: tired

my toxic trait is going on omegle, using the 'politics' tag and calling all the white supremacists, racists, homophobes, transphobes, xenopobhes, misogynists, etc etc "clowns" bcs their life is a circus anyway

cheers

tbt the time when i thought watching/listening to 'Let it Go' in french on loop a day before my french exam would make me suddenly understand the language and ace the said exam

link to said video is here

oh to do anything else but this assignment on legislative procedures

okay so this conversation has inspired me to ask a few questions to you. Yes you, reading this. Feel free to answer (or don't - whatever is comfortable), because I would love to hear your thoughts. This is basically about the kind of content the MC would read and/or you would like the MC to read.

What do YOU find problematic about voltage's stories?

What genres do you see the MCs reading? (And feel free to shoot recs if you have!)

What books would you recommend to the MCs? Why? (books YOU consider good content & want them to read, not based on what you think they would like)

What are some issues YOU want the Voltage characters to address and be more vocal about?

I'll start:

Check out the link! I've got a list and this would get too long haha.

HMM. I think it depends on the MC, but I have a feeling they would like Rom-Coms, Fantasy, and Mystery largely. Some of them might even be into Sci-Fi and non-fiction (biographies and memoirs). So... it's all over the place haha. Idk why but I can see 'Six of Crows', 'The Devotion of Suspect X', 'Book Lovers' and maybe 'Becoming' coming my way as recs. Maybe some spicier stuff too?

I would want the MCs to read the following, so that we could talk about it later HAHA: - The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) - for the women supporting women, the intersectionality of racism and gender, apart from the soft and comforting style. - A Man Called Ove/Anxious People (Fredrik Backman) - no real reason, but it was so good. Bittersweet and heartwarming. - Heartstopper Series (Alice Oseman) - for how it addresses various physical and mental issues, its diverse representation, its sensitive narrative and just wholesomeness. - Animal Farm (George Orwell) - because of how disturbingly timeless it is, especially in today's time. - The Confession (John Grisham) - because of how it deals with racism and the very real failure of judicial machinery. - Circe (Madeline Miller) - To me, this was a story of a woman becoming her own institution, becoming her own empowered machinery

The issues I want the voltage characters to be more vocal about are those bare minimums that happen in our daily lives or affect the lives of the people around us. - The patriarchy that exists everywhere (including the ways in which it represses non-heterosexual, male identities such as women, LGBTQ+, etc) - How the state/govt machinery is functioning - Environmental debates - Discrimination and discriminatory practices around them (religious, sexual, gender-based, region-based, class-based, casteist, racist, etc) ^off the top of my head. What about you? 👀

THIS! Exactly.

The problem with not just Voltage Inc games, but a LOT of romance-centric media we consume such as popular rom-com novels, movies, Wattpad stories, and even Choice and Episode games. The commonalities include the main characters (both FMC and MMC) looking a certain way, acting a certain way [FMC is 'shy', 'not like other girls', 'gets embarrassed easily', is a klutz/falls in problems and the MMC saves her, the MMC is 'tall', 'built', 'dominant', 'rude' etc etc], and their attributes in general.

Unfortunately with voltage, there is also a certain strain of conservative beliefs that reinforce gender and sex roles in a relationship. With the (rare) appearance of any diverse caste, such as homosexual characters, or persons of colour, their personality is also highly stereotyped.

THAT ASIDE, you're absolutely correct! As of now, most of the rom-com content out there (not all) focuses on romance and just unconditional romance while pushing aside very real opinions, as if they don't matter to the story. Which is kind of ironic, since this media DOES itself inherently contain a lot of political beliefs just by the sheer way the characters behave (for example, Voltage has this trend of glorifying/heroifying the MMC's deeds and over-romanticising the bare minimum. You'll also notice that women dress a certain way, are almost always of a particular weight range - unless they have a plus-size FMC or MMC. In cases of harassment, a male figure is the one stepping in to have a conversation with the harasser; basically the idea of men only willing to listen/see what the problem is if a MAN is the one telling it to them, and so much more).

Every story, if read critically enough, will show such problematic behaviour on both FMC and MMC's end, which is concerning because so many young adults consume this media without realising how it influences them. I've read a lot of their titles and I notice some of these common trends in MCs (both male and female) across the stories. Even Kings of Paradise (one of my would-be favourite titles), where these rich men indirectly, subtly use their monetary power to make an emotionally and financially vulnerable MC do their bidding. More or less. LOL. But yeah i've got so many opinions and this post is already longass enough, so maybe I'll save them for the future.

Thank you for reposting/commenting! I loved hearing your thoughts. Feel free to add more if you feel like! This convo is super fun. <3

3am thoughts but imagine if any of the voltage games had an mc who was really passionate about any issue in a really in-depth way, i'd love to sit and have convos with them no but a feminist mc who was well read and addressed very-real wage gaps, invisible labour, traditional roles, consent (or its problematic lack thereof), problematic depiction and reinforcement of stereotypes in novels/other media, intersectionalities, etc (before anyone tells me these games are for "fun" and "lighthearted" - these are the bare minimum conversations that CAN be made lighter and that can be normalised - in fact, they need to be)

3am thoughts but imagine if any of the voltage games had an mc who was really passionate about any issue in a really in-depth way, i'd love to sit and have convos with them no but a feminist mc who was well read and addressed very-real wage gaps, invisible labour, traditional roles, consent (or its problematic lack thereof), problematic depiction and reinforcement of stereotypes in novels/other media, intersectionalities, etc (before anyone tells me these games are for "fun" and "lighthearted" - these are the bare minimum conversations that CAN be made lighter and that can be normalised - in fact, they need to be)

What political issue would the KoP guys be particularly passionate about? (PART 1 - TAKI KOZAKI)

welcome to another edition of me using my degree in all the ways i shouldnt heh (edit: i should be working on the assignment i have to submit tomorrow but oh what the hell) (edit#2: this ended up being a long post because I have opinions, so I divided it into one post for each guy. I have tried to explain some of the terminologies that might not be familiar as well. hopefully this gets you interested in some of the issues i think about! I'll continue this series if y'all like it! so let me know <3) p.s. : I picked two for each guy because why not

Taki Kozaki

Sustainable Development vis-à-vis Economy The age-old question has always been - development, but at the cost of what? How far are we willing to go? What all are we willing to destroy to become 'developed'? That's where the concept of 'sustainable' development comes in, i.e. development in such a way that not only do they meet and fulfil current needs, but also don't compromise the ability of the FUTURE generations to fulfil their needs. Sadly, there is little doubt about how despite nearly every country in the world claiming to advocate for sustainable development, it never materializes in actions. A simple reason for this is that sustainable development is not economically feasible. After all, how do you develop in a 'sustainable' way without compromising on the economy of your country? How do you produce at a similar or increased capacity, export oil, gas, or other resources that your economy practically survives/depends on without indulging in the exploitation or use of those resources that need to be preserved? This is exactly what Taki would like to spend his time considering. Since he's into real estate and development, I'm sure he has seen his fair share of environment being harmed, trees being chopped, people being displaced and dislocated, resources being abused and over-exploited to build cities, amusement parks, and 'up-scale' areas. But since he also has a very rational and human side to him, I can see him trying to figure out ways to promote sustainable development without compromising a lot on the revenue/economic output generated. He'd spend his free time reading up articles and journals before bed, looking at the data, figuring out alternatives. I'd honestly love to sit down and have this talk with him. He'd be very well-versed in the opinion, even if he wouldn't have a concrete way forward.

Capitalism vs Subsistence Theory of Wages Let's connect the dots one by one. To begin with, 'Capitalism' is that economic and political system where a country's trade and market are controlled by private owners. It is highly profit-driven. The private entities, who are not controlled by the government, have complete power over the market. They decide the prices at which products are sold, the number of items produced, where the products get sold, and so on. To earn maximum profit, private owners would always sell their products at prices way higher than the cost of producing them. In addition to low production costs, if they got even the labour - who would work to increase their production - for cheap prices, wouldn't their profit margins be insane? Pay less to the workers, pay less cost of production, and earn 10 times what went into making that product. So much money. This is where the Subsistence Theory of Wages comes in. Since we have established why a producer would want cheap labour - to cut their costs even more - let us try and understand exactly how much would an owner be willing to pay the labour. It must be an amount that is not too much (because the owner wants little cost) and not too little (because why else would the worker agree to work?). The Subsistence Theory of Wages states that wages given to a worker should just be sufficient enough to sustain them. It should be just enough to pay for a day's meal, a day's shelter, and a day's clothing. Because only then, to pay for the next day's necessities, would the worker come BACK and work and earn that next day's wage. With Taki's history of issues with money and his otherwise humane and ethical side too, I can see him advocating for fair pay. I mean, of course, he's into real estate and otherwise too supports capitalism by all means, he loves his profits, but not at the cost of someone's life and basic living standard. He'd want his workers paid worth their work, and he'd figure out a way to maximize his profits while not compromising on the pay for his workers. He's someone who, at the end of the day, wants as many people as possible to receive joy out of his work - even if that's utopian because people are poor can't afford these things - but that makes me believe his ethics would want everyone's growth, not just his own. He'd strive to do things in his power to ensure not just the company improves, but so do the lives of people who make it successful.

That's it for the first installment! Let me know what you think~ Final note: Look, at the end of the day, this guy is fictional. And so is the hope that such ideas GENUINELY exist. It's idealistic of me, I know, but we're talking hypothetically anyway.

What political issue would the KoP guys be particularly passionate about? (PART 1 - TAKI KOZAKI)

welcome to another edition of me using my degree in all the ways i shouldnt heh (edit: i should be working on the assignment i have to submit tomorrow but oh what the hell) (edit#2: this ended up being a long post because I have opinions, so I divided it into one post for each guy. I have tried to explain some of the terminologies that might not be familiar as well. hopefully this gets you interested in some of the issues i think about! I'll continue this series if y'all like it! so let me know <3) p.s. : I picked two for each guy because why not

Taki Kozaki

Sustainable Development vis-à-vis Economy The age-old question has always been - development, but at the cost of what? How far are we willing to go? What all are we willing to destroy to become 'developed'? That's where the concept of 'sustainable' development comes in, i.e. development in such a way that not only do they meet and fulfil current needs, but also don't compromise the ability of the FUTURE generations to fulfil their needs. Sadly, there is little doubt about how despite nearly every country in the world claiming to advocate for sustainable development, it never materializes in actions. A simple reason for this is that sustainable development is not economically feasible. After all, how do you develop in a 'sustainable' way without compromising on the economy of your country? How do you produce at a similar or increased capacity, export oil, gas, or other resources that your economy practically survives/depends on without indulging in the exploitation or use of those resources that need to be preserved? This is exactly what Taki would like to spend his time considering. Since he's into real estate and development, I'm sure he has seen his fair share of environment being harmed, trees being chopped, people being displaced and dislocated, resources being abused and over-exploited to build cities, amusement parks, and 'up-scale' areas. But since he also has a very rational and human side to him, I can see him trying to figure out ways to promote sustainable development without compromising a lot on the revenue/economic output generated. He'd spend his free time reading up articles and journals before bed, looking at the data, figuring out alternatives. I'd honestly love to sit down and have this talk with him. He'd be very well-versed in the opinion, even if he wouldn't have a concrete way forward.

Capitalism vs Subsistence Theory of Wages Let's connect the dots one by one. To begin with, 'Capitalism' is that economic and political system where a country's trade and market are controlled by private owners. It is highly profit-driven. The private entities, who are not controlled by the government, have complete power over the market. They decide the prices at which products are sold, the number of items produced, where the products get sold, and so on. To earn maximum profit, private owners would always sell their products at prices way higher than the cost of producing them. In addition to low production costs, if they got even the labour - who would work to increase their production - for cheap prices, wouldn't their profit margins be insane? Pay less to the workers, pay less cost of production, and earn 10 times what went into making that product. So much money. This is where the Subsistence Theory of Wages comes in. Since we have established why a producer would want cheap labour - to cut their costs even more - let us try and understand exactly how much would an owner be willing to pay the labour. It must be an amount that is not too much (because the owner wants little cost) and not too little (because why else would the worker agree to work?). The Subsistence Theory of Wages states that wages given to a worker should just be sufficient enough to sustain them. It should be just enough to pay for a day's meal, a day's shelter, and a day's clothing. Because only then, to pay for the next day's necessities, would the worker come BACK and work and earn that next day's wage. With Taki's history of issues with money and his otherwise humane and ethical side too, I can see him advocating for fair pay. I mean, of course, he's into real estate and otherwise too supports capitalism by all means, he loves his profits, but not at the cost of someone's life and basic living standard. He'd want his workers paid worth their work, and he'd figure out a way to maximize his profits while not compromising on the pay for his workers. He's someone who, at the end of the day, wants as many people as possible to receive joy out of his work - even if that's utopian because people are poor can't afford these things - but that makes me believe his ethics would want everyone's growth, not just his own. He'd strive to do things in his power to ensure not just the company improves, but so do the lives of people who make it successful.

That's it for the first installment! Let me know what you think~ Final note: Look, at the end of the day, this guy is fictional. And so is the hope that such ideas GENUINELY exist. It's idealistic of me, I know, but we're talking hypothetically anyway.