#superpower

[nekopuff]

You've been randomly selected by the government to fight space aliens. Spin this wheel twice to see the two weird/niche superpowers assigned to you!

Interpret your results any way you like!

Inspiration from @miggylol

[babyanimalgifs]

The superpowers you gain to become an effortless weirdo, just from the presence of a friend

(Source)

[innominaterifter]

"Oh, you can kind of predict the future! Come on, surprise me!"

"Well... I see a woman with a mane of hair down to her waist... I can't tell if she's blonde or brunette..."

"Wow, I like this already! Blonde or dark - it doesn't matter. The main thing is that she's hot, haha. What is she wearing?"

"She's completely naked."

"You're damn good at working with clients! What's around, where are we?"

"Some dark place... Lots of space, brick walls, high ceilings."

"Looks like some kind of cool loft, not bad! What is she doing?"

"She's smiling at you..."

"I'm not surprised, I'm really good with women one-on-one! And me?"

"You give her everything she wants."

"Cool!"

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I was testing a new, interesting location for filming the Siberian. It was very cold, and I was practically naked, so we didn't film much, but it turned out very atmospheric.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was a bright red haired boy with some sort of superpower that I used for evil. I was made to do customer service at some sort of cafe or restaurant to atone for any crimes I had done, but eventually I got sick of working so I left to continue doing crimes like stealing newspapers from some lady’s outdoor picnic table.

[yeesiine]

Going at your own pace in a world that's always rushing is a superpower.

[sweetvoidstuff]

A Normal Life is Just a Dream- Gravity and Gold

Jungkook x Reader

Summary: (Y/N) wants a normal university life, hiding her gravity powers, while Jungkook strives to be a perfect hero. When villains attack their campus, she is forced to make a choice—stay hidden or fight. Their encounter changes everything.

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Wordcount: ~550

A/N: Thank you for reading! If you enjoyed it, please let me know—I’d love to hear your thoughts. I plan to publish one chapter per week, so stay tuned for more!

Chapter 1: A Normal Life is Just a Dream

The campus was bustling with life, a sea of students moving from one class to another, laughing, chatting, and stressing over assignments. You gripped the straps of your backpack tightly, keeping your head down as you weaved through the crowd going to the library. You had spent years mastering the art of invisibility—not literal invisibility, but blending in, keeping your powers a secret, and living like an ordinary student.

Because in this world, people with supernatural abilities were feared. Watched. Controlled.

And you wanted none of that.

Gravity bent to your will, the air itself lighter when you focused, objects drawn to your fingertips like celestial bodies obeying a hidden force - a force of nature, something untouchable and unseen. Yet, for you, it was something to be controlled, manipulated—something dangerous. But you refused to use it. You didn’t want dangerous. You wanted normal.

Which was why you sat at the farthest table in the university’s library, surrounded by the mundane sounds of shuffling papers and the quiet hum of whispered conversations. A physics textbook lay open before you, but your mind drifted, fingers absently spinning your pen in weightless defiance of the laws of motion. A small, personal rebellion. As long as no one noticed, it didn’t count as using your powers, right?

Across campus, however, someone had a very different philosophy about their abilities.

Jungkook lived for control.

Golden lightning crackled along his fingertips as he stood in the middle of an empty training hall, exhaling through clenched teeth. The air around him shimmered with electricity, the overhead lights flickering in response to the charge building within him. He stretched out his hand, watching the arcs of energy snap and curl around his palm. It still wasn’t perfect. He needed more precision, more mastery.

Heroes weren’t born—they were made. He was determined to become the best.

“Jungkook, you’re going to short-circuit the building again.”

The voice belonged to Namjoon, who leaned against the doorway with arms crossed, watching him with the exasperated patience of an older brother. Behind him, the rest of their team—Jin, Jimin, Yoongi, Taehyung, and Hoseok—lingered, varying degrees of amusement and concern on their faces.

Jungkook smirked. “Not this time.”

A single bolt shot from his hand, striking the metal dummy in the center of the room. It hit with a resounding crack, but instead of scattering wildly like before, it coiled around the target and dissipated into controlled sparks. Satisfaction curled in his chest.

Hoseok let out a low whistle. “Show-off.”

Jimin elbowed him. “He has to be. How else is he gonna be the ‘Golden Hero’?”

Jungkook rolled his eyes. “It’s not about showing off. It’s about being ready.”

“Ready for what?” Yoongi drawled, looking unimpressed. “The exams are still months away.”

Jungkook didn’t answer. They all knew why he pushed himself harder than the rest. Villains didn’t wait for exams. They didn’t follow rules. The stronger he became, the better he could protect those who couldn’t protect themselves.

“Come on, we’re grabbing food,” Jin said, slinging an arm over Jungkook’s shoulder. “You can be broody and heroic after you eat.”

Jungkook huffed but allowed himself to be dragged along. He could always train more later.

[reachartwork]

unrelated news but i have begun a quest to categorize a bajillion different forms of phenomena that could exist in a setting with... phenomena. this isn't designed to be comprehensive, but moreso to give you ideas on abilities you hadn't considered before like uhhhh *rolls dice*

Neurothermy: The ability to control the temperature of neural tissues, such as warming or cooling the brain or nervous system to affect its functioning.

or...

Teleesthesia: The ability to perceive sensations or gather sensory information from a distance, like feeling textures or temperatures remotely.

comments are open so that other people can contribute prefixes and suffixes to the table. cheers. feel free to reblog this resource if it's useful for you. and you should read chum. which has a lot of fun superpowers.

[richellegoodrich]

"Yes, love is a superpower. It is the ultimate superpower."

― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

[innominaterifter]

The Siberian trial cosplay

I couldn’t resist and did a test photo shoot of Siberian cosplay today. I expected to do a photos in another place, but it turned out to be a closed area. So I had to choose from what was available.

It's funny that I plan to replace literally all the things that are currently in the photo:

1. I like the look of the suit, but it is too small for me, and I will replace it with a larger one since the seams react with a menacing crackle to any careless movement.

And yes, this version of the pattern on the suit is also not the only one I’m considering. I like the look of this one, but I imagine Siberia with other patterns as well. For example, with an asymmetrical pattern or a pattern that does not follow anatomical lines, thus making the image less human.

2. Gloves and socks are purely a test version to see how it all together will look with a suit. This is not noticeable in the photographs, but they were taken very quickly and carelessly: the gloves are medical latex gloves, and the socks are regular white cotton socks painted with acrylic.

I put insoles inside the socks so that it would not be so cold to stand on concrete slabs, but in the future I will think about how best to solve the issue with the appearance of the feet.

I don't like the visible transition and folds between the suit and the socks/gloves. So maybe I'll sew socks and gloves onto the costume, making it one piece.

3. The wig was simply taken from the supplies that I had. This is an unwanted old wig that I dyed some of the strands black. For Siberian, I need a much longer wig (according to the descriptions, she has straight black and white hair down to her tailbone).

4. I didn't do any makeup for this photo shoot, so all the photos are from the back. It was too cold to do makeup outside, and doing it in advance would have been a bad idea since the photoshoot was done at the end of a five-hour walk.

Also, I don’t have a specific makeup concept for this cosplay yet. I'm trying different pattern options, but I have not yet found one that suits me 100%.

5. Lenses.

I didn't wear them for this photo shoot either, but they are really nice. I went through three different options for yellow lenses (not all lenses give the right shade for my eye color), and the one really looks great.

6. I'm debating whether to add small fangs and pointed nails. As far as I remember, Siberian had ordinary human-looking nails, and I don’t remember if she had fangs, most likely ordinary teeth.

[avics-anarchy]

Next up in my superhero introductions is "Flora" that is NOT his name, I just never came up with a better one. If you have any better ones PLEASE suggest one, I can't call him Plant Boy forever.

PB doesn't have any innate powers, he just found a cool green rock once which he used as a guitar pick for years, later discovering it allowed him to grow plants from his body.

[artobrando]

A Scarlet Witch drawing I did in Adobe Photoshop. I used a DAZ model off to the side as a reference for the pose.

[random-conspiracy]

Ok, I'm entering my villain (& heroes!) arch aajshashasa. This stupid fixation of superpowers and fiction comic stories.

WELL, HOT TAKE OF THE DAY:

The majority of superpowers in fiction and oc's are boring because they're straightforward. Picture it, there's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalways someone with the power of:

Mimic someone's power

Invisivility

Steel skin

Puppeteer or any variation of body and mind manipulation (because *wink wink* we're all edgys and saw creepypastas a lot hashas)

Perhaps fly

Ultra speed

And shit like that ajshashasa. Don't get me wrong, those are amazing superpowers. Even just one person in a normal-esque world is a fucking anomaly and represents a game changer.

HOWEVER it's quite boring and honestly quite lazy. Because oh yes! The evil twisted villain of the wee has the power of... mind control. OH BOY! I fucking wonder what is gonna happen! (sacarsm). Or shadow control powers or super force and you know the rest. WHAT a twist! (/s).

And the same goes for the heroes that GOD forbid they're not teenagers or young adults in well shaped bodies BECAUSE UUUUUUFFFFFFFFFF. Call me crazy but if you can fly I doubt you're using at all your muscles the same way a common person does ahshasa. But why fucking not, we can never have enough twinks and women in spandex, can we? ahshahsa.

There's no twist and creative work in a superheroe or a villain or whatever that has JUST that exact power that conveniently works.

I'm a slut for the characters with random and incoherent powers!

That's where this shit goes hard. Beacuse it's so easy to be a superhero whn you can walk through walls or move at high speed. But what happens when you have the power to deconstruct objetcs? Fly just 50 cm off the groud? Exact knowledge of the pupulation in Taiwan (while you live in Argentina)?

What happens to them??? I wanna see the shenanigans, the creative solutions to abnormal problems! And what happens to the powers that become a burden or that straight up are incompatible with the common society. What happens if you're born without bones? If TV signals sometimes cross without way to evade it into your mind?

I wanna see creative villains. With powers like super healing and bubblegum madness. Concidental induction and urbomancy. Hhahshahsas

The thing is not actually that the pwoers are common or simple, the thing is for me that the weaponization in battle is the number one thought. Like, yeah, I bet turning sound waves into lethal blades is powerful but out of battle, does it matter? It means somethig? Can you cut a frozen pizza for dinner or you destroy your whole kitchen?

(Tbf, a story a bout a character struggling to see beyond his powers shapped to battle could be interesting BUT that's another story ahsahsas).

And I'm also bored of the god-like powers. You can fly and you can control minds! For free I guess and with no real consequences. Bceause let's be serious, Spidermand and Superman as archetypes of the hero had their own limitation (not precisely linked to their powers by themselves BUT WHATEVER). They're more or less the exception to this.

I Wanna See Limits

LIMITS. I care 0 if the character can eat the fucking Sun. What I want to see is that power in personal impact and relativity. Sometimes the right (or wrong!) word has more power that destroying the Earth. And a lot of it comes from the limitations. How easy is everything when you have all the power, but the limitations are what shape the plausibility, the humanity and the imagination around it. For example Magneto. It's because of his clear limitations that he scaping from the plastic underground prison in the movies is so fantastic. He uses a creative solution to work around his limits. Amazing!

Idk man, Brandon Sanderson said this shit already. Go see him go see him.

[hyperfixed-owl]

Have you ever had an example where being hyperfixated on something helped you in the real world?

Back when I was in high school we read To Kill a Mockingbird for English class and I fell in love with it.

We had six lessons of English a week, with three of them being on a Friday. Therefore, my teacher decided Friday would be ‘Mockingbird’ day, so we’d do nothing else but read and analyse the book. I was in heaven. I’d already annotated it myself, bought the revision textbooks, watched the film. You name it, I’d done it.

Some of my only fondest memories of high school were in those English classes. One week, for revision, we were put into teams and had to make up a quiz about the book for another group. Needless to say, our groups quiz was the hardest, because I put in pretty…complex questions.

Then, when it came to our exam, I was actually sad because it meant no more Mockingbird lessons! I even opted for the ‘harder’ question on the exam paper where you had to write in the style of a character and their thoughts and feelings. We hadn’t covered how to tackle these questions in class because the teacher told us to just stick with the simple theme questions instead .

Oh no, not me. I was into reading and writing fan fiction at this point, so being able to write as Atticus as part of a school exam is pretty cool if you ask me!

I got a A+ in that exam and it harboured a love for literature and writing which has stuck with me after all this time. As a teenager, I of course dealt with people mocking me for being such a “nerd” and enjoying “learning” but now I can look back with a more positive, confident outlook on those hard times and just remember the joy I had when I had a chance to be passionate and express myself.

[futurebird]

Dubious superpowers. Pick one.

A. Sleep like a cuckoo bee. Simply bite on to a branch or parapet of a building & get a solid seven hours in all weather & conditions.

B. Live on nectar. Feel fully energized & get excellent nutrition on a diet of nothing but sugared drinks.

C. Diapause your life. Slow down aging, & metabolism at will during the winter months. You could sleep for days & eat very little with no ill effects.

D. Powerful sting. Sting people you don't like. Boy will it hurt 'em!