Two separate fic searches. Neither are actually fanfiction, but I didn't have much luck on SB or SV's fiction search threads and this is the closest I know of on QQ.
#1
I'm looking for what I think was a web comic I saw many years ago.
It had somebody shooting a pistol at a super-heroine who just shrugged off the bullets similar to
George Reeve's Superman while she made a snide comment about it being a waste of ammunition since she's bullet proof.
Then the shooter throws the empty gun at her, and she gets knocked over and makes a comment of "Gah! You've found my weakness! A thrown empty gun" while the guy looks shocked that it worked.
Then the final panel has her get up and mock him about how stupid it was to think throwing the gun would have any effect after she shrugged off the bullets and she was just making fun of him by taking a dive.
I can't recall where I saw it, but I'd like to find the link.
#2I'm not sure if this is the right place since I don't think it was actually a fanfic, just an original short story I read somewhere.
I am looking for a short story that may have been original fiction, and
might have been posted to Usenet, or an author's web page (as was common in the '90s before Fanfiction.net and Livejournal, or at least before it started being trendy to post prose fiction to Livejournal) decades ago. Or it could be newer than I recall and posted somewhere else like fictionpress.
I'm honestly not sure where I saw it.
In it a school adopts a camera system and an AI computer to monitor for bullying and end the "he said/she said" situations along with getting all those attention seeking liars who make up stories to get other good students in trouble on camera so they can be debased of their lies. Also to have proof of the troublemakers who keep antagonizing good students.
Except that the "wrong" students keep getting flagged by the AI for punishment. Sports stars, and students who get good grades in class with no disciplinary records but lots of false accusations against them are being flagged for tormenting the "attention seeking liars" who had previously been punished for making false accusations. Worse, not one of those liars are caught out in a lie. Instead the cameras are showing videos to support their version of events, while the ones with witnesses backing them up as being innocent are showing to be bullying or harassing the people in question, and the witnesses either helped block, corral or isolate the victim, while people who claimed to have seen nothing were clearly there watching the incident.
Including a nerd known to like to work with computers who has constantly been making up stories about harassment since he started, but never has any witnesses willing to testify and the people he complains about always have a witness or two (usually the same witnesses) to say the nerd started everything while they were minding their own business.
So the guy accuses the nerd of hacking the system and somehow doctoring the cameras to show the people who have had scores of "false" accusations engaging in harassment of the "attention seeking liars", rather than admit there is a bullying situation and the victims were NOT lying.
Does this story sound familiar to anyone? Eventually it comes out the computers and cameras were not tampered with, and it was virtually impossible to doctor the videos the way the guy was accusing him of, and the principal who refused to see reality got fired.
I'm not sure when I read it, other than it was quite some time ago, it might have only been a decade, but something tells me it was late '90s or early 2000's.
I'd kind of like to find it again, but I can't recall what it was called or even where or when I read it. Just that a system was put in place in a school, but the "wrong" students were being caught bullying, so they accused a computer nerd of tampering with the system rather than admit the "attention seeking liars" were telling the truth all along and that the "model students" were the problem.
I read something in a Worm fic with Taylor giving video proof and it makes me want to read it again where a camera system is installed and the bullies start getting caught where previously the school had been denying that it was even happening and calling the victims "attention seeking liars" who "keep making false accusations so they can play the victim", only for the school to be like "wait a minute, the wrong students are being flagged. "
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