#stealth powers

[eleanornicholemiller]

“Soccer practice beats lifeguard duties! I am SO HAPPY TO BE BACK!”

“Unfortunately, I still had to add my name to the attendance sheet for 3 classes because I wasn’t already on it.”

“My stealth powers are great…and they suck.”

[turtleblogatlast]

I think a lot about Leo’s tendency to push his way into the spotlight despite clearly being a natural in the shadows. Hell, you could argue that his worst moments are when he’s forcing himself onstage, and his best are when he does things no one notices until it’s already been done.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

this has been a roller coaster of a design journey but finally I can present you: class swap artificer!adaine and rogue!fabian

[moongothic]

Quick point to re: is Croc openly trans or not

So Ivankov's ability to change someone's biological sex is kind of a "myth" in the OP world, right? The way Bon-chan talked about Ivankov was with an aura of legend, how they had heard all these incredible things about Ivankov but couldn't even be entirely sure the person truly even existed until they got to meet face-to-face, because the stories told about Ivankov were just so incredible

Of course, between Iva-chan's imprisonment 6-5 years ago and the actual difficulty people would have genuinely finding them to begin with (being a Rev and travelling around the world sometimes and othertimes just hanging around in the Calm Belt on Momoiro Island), the word about their deeds would turn into Stuff of Legend as few would be able to actually verify it, see it for themselves and tell others all about it, but those stories had to start somewhere, right?

And we do have an interesting note here, as this prince mentioned his mother visiting Kamabakka Queendom 15 years ago (pre-timeskip)

Now one could think that hey, maybe this is where The Legends about Ivankov's miraculous abilities began, but think really about it for a moment; Why would some ruler of a kingdom go out of their way to travel to Kamabakka Queendom, ruled by a member for the Revolutionary Army (=potentially dangerous for a monarch), if they hadn't heard about Ivankov's ability from somewhere else first?

And that's where the timeline mention gets interesting. Because guess who was born just two years before this prince's mother made her brave journey to see Iva-chan?

I'm just saying, if Crocodile went missing for like 4-9 months and then came back fully transitioned out of nowhere, and Morgans made a huge god damn deal about it on the news, letting the whole world know about the Warlord magically having become a man, yeah, that would start some rumors about who what where and how this even happened. And needless to say, this could easily send a lot of people out to the seas to try to find the Miracle Worker who transed Crocodile's gender, including some monarchs who have the resources to both verify the legends but also actually make the journey to find Ivankov (Also, if the inciting incident that started the legends about Ivankov happened due to Crocodile like 17-19 years ago, that would add to that aura of myth Ivankov has around them, as it would've been a long ass time ago when the first rumors about Emporio Ivankov would've gotten out there)

[britcision]

Okay no spoilers but Barbie was the funniest movie I have ever seen in my life and I’m genuinely mildly surprised Mattel approved it

Laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe which has never happened in a theatre before

Also they’re fucking cowards for only putting the happy version of Lizzo’s song on the album and I’d kill for the full version

[cyanbugremix]

Stealths but in theatre. Like, they'd go invisible and they could do the coolest special effects and set moving stuff.

Stealths but as testing proctors (the people that check for cheating). You know that they are in the room, it has to be disclosed to the students, but you never know if they are right behind you or looking out the window.

[jabber-wock]

Drew Hayes question: Is Fred worth it? I read and loved Super Powereds, Villains' Code (although I haven't gotten Chilling Reflections yet, so no spoilers), and NPCs!! but I read book one (and maybe 2? I'm not positive tbh) of Fred and it was just kind of meh. It felt so episodic in a way that I didn't find that engaging and I also didn't fall in love with any of the characters that much. Should I give it another shot? Does it get better? Will I become A Normal Amount of Interested™️ about yet another of this man's series?

[irkedisaac]

prey is so funny. yes one of my completely ordinary and normal human abilities is to move at 300% speed while being totally unable to tire

[cedarart]

ladies and gentlemen we have put handcuffs on the dnd boogeyman

[sainthowlzon]

Shoutout to my favorite power couple, the current reigning March Redactedness champs

[graveyard-guardian]

slutch era

[yzafre]

The thing about TMNT 2012 is that while I like Rise more on an as-is basis, '12 gives me more creative inspiration.

Part of that is the "they dropped all these interesting, weird character beats then refused to do anything more than surface-level writing with them, if that", which makes me want to pull them apart and put them back together and write out what I was wanting from the character writing the whole time. That instinct to say "okay but what if they did this. focused on this. developed this. did this better." Which... is a thing I might eventually write out. It does exist rent free in my head, like... minimum 20% of the time lately. ((a problem when I need that space to finish my kh fic I've only got 5 chapters left to draft I'm so close))

But also it's like. I tell my self stories with a little enemy-to-ally OC guy in my head while driving or trying to sleep (as one does) and the next thing I know I'm thinking about like. The internal operations of the Foot clan. Shredder's branch in Japan vs Bradford's US branch. Like I think Shredder's was referred to as a crime family at some point, but was Bradford's? He wasn't just recruiting soldiers then making train and stay in waiting, was he?

And like, I assume he was recruiting through his martial arts classes, and I got the feeling his dojos were like a chain thing? Were they all across the country? What happened if he recruited from somewhere in California? Did he make them move to New York? Did he have, like... HR people to help him get situated?

What about Xever and Bradford's rivalry that supposedly pre-dates the show. Was Bradford just recruitment while Xever was doing jobs? Was Bradford also doing, like... missions or jobs? Were they usually tapped for different types of jobs? Were they, like, trying to improve their reputation and putting in bids so Shredder would send them more jobs over the other guy?

Bradford also had a TV show. So he had, like... businesses? With departments, maybe? Were those kept separate, or were they part of the whole crime family.... thing. Were anyone used for money laundering? Did the people working for them know what Bradford was up to? Were they staffed with Foot clan recruits? Who was in charge of Finances?

And like if they were doing actual crime things... what were they? Do I need to look up how crime families work to see how all they earn money? Was it really mundane or were they doing more complicated ninja stuff? ((I bet you could do crazy insider training if you could break into any company in the world. Also if you could sabotage companies to control the market. I don't know, the most I know about crime is what you see in Leverage.))

Also, like... equipment. The uniforms, and the weapons, and the gear, for all those recruits, that's gotta come from somewhere. How is that.. handled? Do they have free rein? Get a certain amount per year but have to pay if they lose it? Always have to buy it themselves? Where does it come from? Do they own the manufacturers through, like, shell companies? Do they have an R&D department that doesn't do combat? Information and logistics?

And suddenly I'm so many layers deep in it and I turn around and I don't just have one guy living in my head, I've got like - 6 at minimum.

[xycuro-illuminati]

Go ahead and explain your reasoning in the tags if you like!

[currentlyonstandbi]

forever going to be bitter about the fact we didn't get more of anakin displaying absolutely insane levels of Force power in canon material

like i'm talking 'jean grey in x-men 2 holding back the floods after the dam burst' style displays of power

[mistress-light]

According to Robian's notes on the use of the torana it requires a ton of energy (or enormous as he describes). And the further you want to go, the more energy it takes, let alone traveling to another world. And this takes me back to that whole built up where Cinta sends Frey to earth.

She's been suffering Susurrus corruption for perhaps a few months. She'd just given birth (which took a lot of trauma on her body). Then conjured up a torana to transport as many people as she could to Cipal. And as a final act out of desperation, transports Frey to earth.

I mean, if you think about it, how much power did Cinta posses? Because that's just damn incredible. Poor boo was legit like a squeezed out balloon at the end.

I have so MANY feels about this.

And I cannot help but wonder if Cinta made the phenomenon or that it was some kind of ancient magic, that only she was able to master in recent years? Call it: unique signature magic.

[biscuitboxer]

Noir's age is a bit of a devisive topic (mainly bc he's va'd by nic cage and is a teen in his only other appearance) so i TRIED to calculate his age using. actual numbers

Base facts and assumptions: SV Noir got bitten at 17 years old. The Great Depression for Noir's world began in 1929. Noir becomes Spider-Man after the Depression began. Noir's universe is in the year 1933 (ITSV) and 1934 (ATSV/BTSV).

The comics are set during the great depression and begin with Noir at 17 years old. I couldn't find an exact year the comics were set in, but for Spider-Verse Noir we know it can't be any later than 1933 in ITSV and 1934 in the ATSV/BTSV

I'll give an uncertainty of +/- ½ a year for each number/age given

Possibility A: Noir got bitten at 17 years old in 1929, the year the Depression started. This makes his birth year 1912, and Noir 21 years old in ITSV and 22 in ATSV/BTSV.

Possibility B: Noir is 19 in ITSV and 20 in ATSV/BTSV, making his birth year 1914 (the year ww1 ended) and the year he got bit 1931.

Conclusion: Noir is a maximum of 22 years old and a minimum of 20 years old in Across The Spider-Verse, ditto but -1 year for Into The Spider-Verse.

edit: 1914 is the year ww1 began, not the year it ended. Noir wouldve been either 2 years old or a newborn when ww1 began and either 6 years old or 4 years old when it ended