The Best Thing About Being Bi

What I do is give any supe with a super power that test the capacity of the human body something to help with that. It’s to help with the strain and such. Night vision? Glasses. Heat vision? Glasses. Super vision? Glasses. Super hearing? Hearing aid. Super sonic flight? Hearing aid. Super speed? Hearing aid and muscle/knee brace. And(thinking back to The Flash here) a special diet. Super strength? Muscle brace.  Just because they have super powers, doesn’t make them completely immune to anything related to the human body. They are still, after all, human. Well…they bodies are at least. Their powers just make them a bit for resilient to it. 

It’s actually really fun. Normal powers all have a drawback because they’re super, not meant for the human body to handle. I really enjoy brainraining those. Maybe invisibility hurts the skin so they need some sort of super skin care regimen. That could lead to some superhero merch(like the underooes, lunch boxes, etc. That we have).  It’s just fun. 

Then there’s the supes with more…subtle powers. Not as extravagant or well known like super strength or flight. Empaths[1] are seen as mentally unwell. Due to their powers, they have sharp bits of rage. Mood swings. And stuff of the like. They have to take anti-depressants as well as mood-stabilisers and other pills/drugs to help with the down-sides of their powers. 

1: (chiefly in science fiction) a person with the paranormal ability to apprehend the mental or emotional state of another individual.

Happy Storyteller Saturday! Do any of your characters wear glasses? I recently got a pair, and the world is much sharper than it used to be!

I’ve been thinking that perhaps they should, as well as rethinking my “supes never get sick” rule. As it stands, there are enchanted glasses that help with eyestrain, translations, and seeing through glamours, but no one I’ve written so far needs them correctively

No. Teachers Don’t Need Guns

After this last school shooting I keep seeing people talking about how we need to arm teachers, teach them how to use guns, and require them to carry.

Honestly? What the fuck? How is that a solution?

Listen. There are two BIG things wrong with that.

1. IT IS NOT A TEACHERS JOB TO BE A COP. IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER TO BE ARMED. jfc people. A teacher is a teacher. They’re there to do their fucking job. Do you know how crazy it is that you’re saying that teachers should be responsible for the security of a school when there’s a shooter on the loose? Not only that, but now there are guns all over the school. How easy would it be for a student to take it off a teacher? Or, god forbid, for a teacher to decide they want to use it themselves.

Teachers that are anti-gun would get blamed for their students being killed in the event a shooter came into the school. Teachers would be forced to have guns, bring guns into their homes where they might have children, and expose them to those guns.

Not to mention, you’re giving newly trained/untrained people guns and putting them in a room with a bunch of kids. Yeah that sounds really safe.

Now imagine they’re in a scenario where there is an active shooter: a poorly trained teacher is supposed to shoot a gun at an agressive moving target while there are innocents around, in a high stress, possibly chaotic environment. That sounds like a horrible idea. Why would anyone think that’s a good idea??

The whole concept is like trying to soften the blow of a basball bat by putting nails in it. It makes no sense, and will only cause more damage.

2. More guns = more gun violence. It’s literally that simple.

When you say we should make teachers have guns, you’re saying you don’t respect their choice not to have one.

When you say that teachers should just get guns, you’re really saying that you want to place responsibility on victims so that you don’t have to address the root issue: gun violence.

Lastly, where would the teachers get thier guns? Who whould train them? Where would they train? How long would the training take? What are the requirements? What are the regulations and who would do it? What about teachers that dont want to? Who will supply their ammo? Who will regulate and make sure thier guns are stored, used, and working properly? Would we also supply them gun safes? How much would all that cost?

Districts can’t afford it, states would be unwilling because risk vs cost is not in their favor, and fed wants to cut funding. It’s absurd to ask for the teachers to pay for it, in fact if it’s added they should all get a hefty raise.

The other reality is, wouldn’t it be way more efficient to just hire security that are already trained, equipped, and experienced?

In this context it just makes no sense to arm teachers. None.

(Edit: added some from one of my additions to this post)

Please Reblog the hell out of this, I want the people saying this ridiculous shit to see it

Wish I had this years ago. Could’ve saved me my mental health. 

the suffering never ends

TOM HIDDLESTON

    Art of Villainy - Jaguar

Apps For Writers I Wish I Had

So, as a writer who’s more lazy than my cats, I spend many a sleepless night thinking up apps for me to use to make the process much easier. These are a few of those. 

One: A app where you can enter a name and click ‘search’ and it will tell you if it’s okay to use in a project. You can specify wether it’s a person name, an establishment name, a place name, etc. to refine your search.  A possible name would be ‘Name Check’ or some variant.  Two: a face claim app. You can specify the basics of your character and it will pull up pictures/face claims matching the description. Eg. ‘hazel eyes’ ‘black hair’ ‘male’ ‘freckles’ and so on getting more and more specific. 

Three: an app for job research. You type in the job you have for your character and it pulls up real life accounts of people with that job. It would explain what the basics are, day to day routine, schooling necessary, hazards, time, etc. Note that this only applies to real life jobs, not fantasy

Four: a music app. You give the browser the themes, feelings, etc. of your project and it pulls up music that fits that. Also can define by genre. Also applicable for characters. 

Five: kind of goes along with face claim. A scene reference app. You give the feeling, genre, what you know about it, etc. and it pulls up pictures that match that for you to reference. To see it in front of you. 

Six: This one is sort of like three. Need to write a scene you’ve never experienced? This gives you kind of like a guideline Do’s and Don’ts, if you will. Someone who’s experienced it explains(to the best of their abilities) what they were feeling. You have to know your character well enough to change those feelings to fit your character.  Not for fantasy.   Seven: Character name checking. It’s a fucking pain to have to figure out if this awesome name is available to use in a book or anything that’s going to be written by you. With this, all you have to do is type in the name and if it turns green, it’s safe to use. 

Didn’t want to derail the last post I reblogged (about Serbia), so I’m making my own)

! I know only like 8 people follow me but like if 8 people find out about an issue they didnt know about then I think that’s great tbh

OK SO

another country with a heap of problems right now is Belarus. I’ve reblogged posts about it before and yes I’m refusing to stop cause I see nothing about it anywhere.

Belarus has had the same president since 1994. Since he came into power, the country hasn’t had a SINGLE FAIR ELECTION.

Covid-19 has caused many problems there. The country still hasn’t imposed any official measures. The president has been quoted as saying ‘I don’t see any viruses here’ and the country has had horrendous amounts of cases, I’m not even sure if the figures are accurate, they could be fabricated.

There is an election this year. Protests broke out in Belarus because of the imprisonment of the president’s strongest competitors in the election. Random people have been arrested off the streets and the police have been violent.

The worst part is that there’s very little media coverage.

Please reblog this, or at least research the topic it would mean a LOT

You know, just because you’re male doesn’t mean you can treat women like they don’t matter

10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger

“like blowing bubbles”

That’s gay. 

do magical kids get yearbooks??? this was such a great excuse to draw 16 portraits

You know what’s fucked up to me? That I feel the need—now want, but in the beginning it was a feeling that it was my onus to fight. I grew up too fast, faced and burdened by the cruelties of the world. As a kid, I never wanted anything more than simplicity. Now? I feel it’s my duty—a chore, it seems at times—to worry myself to insanity over people I don’t know. I turn on the news and you know what I see? Chaos. Not controlled chaos. No. Pure, unrelenting, pain-fuelled chaos. My aspirations are now to go to law school instead of become a teacher or something simple that I’d enjoy. Not because of the money, no that’s not why I want to be a lawyer, but because I feel I owe it to the people who take the hate and violence I’m too scared to admit I should be shouldering too. These people came out and, even though there was the chance—almost guarantee—that they’d face violence, prejudice, hate, and be stripped of basic human rights. I should still be able to be a kid. Not because of my age or immaturity. But because I should be able to enjoy life; not fear it.

Beautiful words but WHAT IS THAT PEN? I WANT THAT PEN!

Did some writing today :) these are not my words ! The author is unknown (yes, i researched and came up with nothing) so I’m not trying to take away from their work!

I need to start journaling again 🌙🌞