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Stars in the whole sky, this is going to be one of those stories, isn't it? The ones where I feel Extremely Seen even though there's barely any resemblance to my actual lived experience, and the characters spend so much time being uncomfortable...
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"There's not a single openly-gay superhero anywhere in the world."
"You mean I get to be first at something?"
🤷♀️ Maybe it's just me, but I feel like this book - with its inciting incident involving a minor going to a dating site to talk to ai chatbots - might well have been entirely different if it'd been written a few years later. (It was published in 2021.)
I do like when I can do that kind of thing.
Character gets empathy powers for a couple of minutes. They start picking up people's emotional states one by one. After the first one, I point - in a direction with basically no relation to how I'd been picturing the characters being arranged - and think a character's name, and sure enough, that's the next character that gets sensed. Then I do it again. And again.
See, this is one of the things that bother me about rl-style spy stuff. Your orders are, to your certain knowledge, harming your agent-on-the-scene's professional relationship with his team and his personal relationships with his sister and girlfriend; your plans are getting derailed by people on your side being good at their jobs; at least four uninvolved civilians have been harmed by the fallout of all of this... but you keep going "stay the course, don't read anyone in on what's going on". I doubt things'll be going even this smoothly by the midpoint of the book. At this point I'm desperately hoping none of the main characters are too high on the casualty list.
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I definitely do like the timestall/true speedster distinction.
Timestall speedsters basically pull themselves a little way outside of time, so that they can move through an all-but-frozen world. "True" speedsters just go fast, and have brains that can process inputs that quickly too.
(Because, like - Usain Bolt doesn't move through any slower of a world than you do. He just has a higher maximum speed. The world around you doesn't feel frozen when you start your car moving, you're just faster within it.)
shipping-related thoughts:
someone should write Lady Uzume femslash. (I certainly will if I get a decent idea)
are there any Golden Sun fans who are monsterfuckers? even with all the Sirens and Wolfkin and humanoids that get transmogrified into dragons and (in Dark Dawn) Beastfolk, the closest we've come is stuff with Sveta and/or Volechek?
who has OCs that aren't framed as additional party members or Isaac/Felix/Matthew replacements? The Researcher of the Rift is all that comes to mind (also it's trans femslash and that's based)
If you want ideas, I could toss you a few. (Young Uzume falls in love with a dancer from another island. Due to reasons, the dancer can't visit Izumo again, and for the life of her Uzume can't remember where she was from.)
Well now you got me wondering about vampire anatomy in a distinctly non-sexy way.
According to Wikipedia, the human stomach can hold up to ~ a liter of food. If these vampires can drink two quarts (a little under two liters) of blood without physical discomfort, and still pass for human...
They definitely can get intoxicated by drinking from an intoxicated human, so they probably need a liver. If they can eat humans' food and not have trouble with it, presumably they have something much like a human's digestive tract. Maybe they can do without a pancreas somehow, and smaller lungs?
Hang on. If the modern proliferation of superpowers seems to have been triggered by the Tunguska event, how are there teams of heroes in very much the same mold as modern superhero comics? In the real world, Superman et al weren't printed until ~30 years later. Spider-man got specifically name-dropped, and he didn't get his start until the 60s. Why would an independent evolution of ideas end up in the same place? For that matter, Sun City, Florida, where most of this book has taken place, wasn't founded until 1925. If you want to say that you've had metahumans since very early in the 20th century, and also that the intervening century-plus had a recognizable course, you should really do some justifying of that.
I mean. If you're depressed or concerned about whether you're you on the soul level, Cinderella is right there, and I don't think it's been more than a week or two since she did that literally unforgettable soul-gaze thing.
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Thank you.
"It doesn't matter what I think," Varsha said. "People will throw that Spider-man crap at you. 'With great power comes great responsibility.' It's bullshit. We don't go tell people 'you're in good shape, it's your duty to become a cop or a firefighter or a soldier.' There are plenty of people out there who would make really good first responders or doctors or whatever, but don't want to do those jobs. And there are people who become cops and firefighters and doctors and EMTs and soldiers and decide that isn't what they want to do with their life and they walk away from it. That doesn't make them bad people. "Your life is still your life. You don't want to be a superhero, don't be a superhero. Go make rocket engines. Find a pretty girl. Settle down and raise cats. Find something that makes you happy and hold onto it with both hands and to hell with anyone who tells you that isn't what you should do with your life."
Mind, I feel like there's about an 80% chance she becomes at least an auxiliary hero by the end of the book. But the point is that Delta Vee said it, out loud. Like, it could semi-reasonably be argued that Tony Stark has a responsibility because he deliberately chose to get his "powers", but anyone else, not really.
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"...and when a new metahuman pops up as powerful as you, I get a file on my desk. A really big god damned file. I know things about you I don't want to know, but one thing that stands out is that you grew up wanting to be a hero." "I didn't want to be a hero, I wanted to be an astronaut." "Same damn thing."
I will concede that if anyone has the legal authority to draft Maggie into superheroics, it's probably the Secretary for Metahuman Affairs. But I'm not convinced that authority exists, particularly when there's no declared war or national emergency.
One thing I remember wanting to be, when I was a kid, was a painter specializing in African wildlife. Doesn't mean anyone trying to take away my computer and put a palette in my hand is in any way in the right.
Yyeah no. Astronaut ≠ superhero. Especially in a setting where supers have openly existed for who knows how long. Fundamentally different roles, responsibilities, training, authority...
In short: fuck you, Banks.
This is it. For the first time, I'm actually headcanoning a character as trans. Specifically, I choose to believe that Mercy, in the Lin Manuel Miranda/Eisa Davis musical adaptation of The Warriors, is a trans woman.
For one thing, she's the only character who's depicted in a skirt in the concept album's photos. Now, granted, all the other characters are gang members, whereas she's the girlfriend of a gang leader, but I choose to take it as an indication.
More solidly, she only says "my name is Mercy" once, when she's trying to join in the Warriors' rap introductions. But she's got a whole song called "Call me Mercy", and she reprises the title line from it in the finale.
Last but certainly not least, in "Same Train Home", the narrator tells us that
Mercy feels their judgement. Mercy feels their fear. Mercy makes herself smaller, Tucks her hair behind her ear.
Which is easy to read as a habitual shying away from attention, an attempt to be more like the other girls so that no one looks closely enough to see the ways she's not.
Thank you.
"It doesn't matter what I think," Varsha said. "People will throw that Spider-man crap at you. 'With great power comes great responsibility.' It's bullshit. We don't go tell people 'you're in good shape, it's your duty to become a cop or a firefighter or a soldier.' There are plenty of people out there who would make really good first responders or doctors or whatever, but don't want to do those jobs. And there are people who become cops and firefighters and doctors and EMTs and soldiers and decide that isn't what they want to do with their life and they walk away from it. That doesn't make them bad people. "Your life is still your life. You don't want to be a superhero, don't be a superhero. Go make rocket engines. Find a pretty girl. Settle down and raise cats. Find something that makes you happy and hold onto it with both hands and to hell with anyone who tells you that isn't what you should do with your life."
Mind, I feel like there's about an 80% chance she becomes at least an auxiliary hero by the end of the book. But the point is that Delta Vee said it, out loud. Like, it could semi-reasonably be argued that Tony Stark has a responsibility because he deliberately chose to get his "powers", but anyone else, not really.
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I mean, I get wanting to stop after you accidentally injure your friend/trainer. But like... you can run your meta senses through something without touching it. Can you bring things through a teleport without touching them? Can you "clench" a permanent object, and if so what happens if you stop and/or put it down? Can you vanish a permanent object without vanishing yourself as well?
But okay, get some r&r before you go back to experimentation.
This is someone who knows what she's writing about.
Bobbie: So, out with it. What's your username on AO3? Kelly: Why should I tell you? Bobbie: Because I promise to comment on every chapter. Kelly: Wow. Going straight for my weak spot. I see how it is. Bobbie: It worked, didn't it? Kelly: *sigh* Yes.
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I just figure, if you've got that level of genetic-based bodysculpting readily available to the rich, you've gotta have some way to provide a biological heir for the princess even though her ovaries are damaged beyond either function or repair.
Psst. This would be a great moment for one of the other people present to tell Gia (and the others, if they like) that they're trans and absolutely get what it is to be profoundly uncomfortable with their own body. I nominate Lucas.
