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I grit my teeth and read the entire executive order regarding trans people, and I just want to take the opportunity to remind folks not to forget intersex people. One of the rescinded documents is “Supporting Intersex Students: A Resource for Students, Families, and Educators," and there is a huge emphasis on legally enshrining "only two sexes."

Yes, this affects trans people, but with the way intersex voices often get ignored in trans spaces, I just want to remind folks not to shut us out. Don't forget us. Don't keep talking over us. Don't act like we aren't on the front lines. Don't act like this is just about you. Please.

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Prehistoric Planet finally gives us the True Rival to the Tyrant Lizard King and it’s NOT a Dinosaur.

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God bless Deadpool.

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The rest of the series of old art I never posted, with bases by MagicalPouchOfMagic!

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Thought I'd share a "Witchhunter"/Aware OC

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I HAVE HAD IDEAS.

Blake and Rose, are born identical twins into the shitty Thorburn family. Blake eventually leaves/transitions while Rose stays. Blake experiences his usual away from home trauma conga line, with the cult and stuff. Rose starts a small buildup of trauma over time.

Eventually things get real bad back in Jacobs Bell, and Rose calls on the one person she thinks she can trust.

Blake comes to help, Rose is so desperate she goes in for a hug. In that moment. Things around them are kind of dangerous.

Each of them has their own trigger. A Cluster / Case 70. Blake from the trigger of being hugged, witch he now hates. + all the buildup of trauma, plus the current danger.

Rose from Blake reaction to her hug, her last lifeline apparently rejecting her when she thinks the world has turned against her.

Despite having two different shards connecting with them, they still apply to a Case 70 rule with the same DNA and all.

Blake gets a changer/brute form into Boogieman Blake, Rose gets a Master power to summon monsters and stuff (She can summon them fast for randomized, less controllable minions. Or Slowly craft them in her head with specific purposes powers, and most importantly, commands they must obey) And both get a Breaker power because yeah, the trigger from danger/hug/rejection/etc. does blur the line between physical and mental and we are using it for something later.

Their Case 70 ends up being defined by their breaker state. Only one can have their body out at a time. While the other ends up shunted into a "Mirror dimension" that the Entities discovered in a previous cycle and are exploring. Both end up with a case of kill/kill for the Cluster. to simulate the barber induced destined to destroy each other deal.

Eventually. Now for the plot. The two end up getting caught by a Lingering Master effect from a Villain cape. That slowly makes people around them get more and more antagonistic towards them. To simulate the bad karma. But Each time they swap it resets, and it only effects the body position. so whomever is in the mirror at the time isn't under the Lingering Master/Shaker effect. OR both are under the effect but it doesn't transfer from inside the "mirror dimension" to outside of it? idk

So the plot is them going out on quest to get rid of the Effect.

Alongside them, making up their cape team, Are:

June Burlison now a Parahuman. Called Hyperthermia, with the Shaker/Blaster power of first drawing out all heat from the surrounding area and concentrating it in a single spherical point, she can then shoot at a target. She's coming along due to having a "life debt" with Blake/Rose. (they saved her? idk)

Leonard Harlan also now reinterpreted as a parahuman, name undecided. Who is A Tinker that works with bottles/drinks/gasses. As per his Echo powers. Who also tags along from feeling he owes Blake/Rose his support after they helped him. (again, they maybe also brought him back from his lowest point?)

And Evan Matthieu who triggered from a near death experience of being perused by a Minion from a Master cape, or something. With Changer/Breaker powers to swap between an incorporeal version that looks like himself. And a Bird with shaker powers. Evan Tags along because Blake saved him from the monster he almost died to, and also the exposure.

Evan Parents are persuaded to let Evan come with blake / Evan runs away because he feels like he needs to help Blake.

The Group, whose name i have not thought about. Is somewhat affiliated with the PRT and Protectorate. Though Blake/Rose Master curse keeps most alliances from being permanent. Also they desaprove of Evan tagging along. He should be a Ward. But hey try to keep a Breaker "Ghost" contained.

Aaaaaaaand.... That's it. That's as far as i got.

They are on a quest to get rid of the Master/Shaker effect targeting the current position of their body. And they have a couple of friends tagging along to help.

That's it.

Has anyone written a Blake/Rose case 70 fic? They’re already pretty much magical case 70s it’s the most intuitive way to get them into parahumans while keeping their relationship.

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Neat. AI use aside.

One criticism though. Blake should look way more disheveled, beaten up, bloody, dirty and messed up.

He looks too cool in this. He looks too put together. His clothes are too nice. Etc.

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love tinkers because theyre one of the areas where the shards having separate agency is most obvious and its REALLY FUNNY

kenzie: can i make a microphone

her shard: no

kenzie: ...can i make a sound camera?

her shard: here are the specs

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She does feel like someone that would end up attracting a Spren for bonding.

Unless the Shard is already filling in those trauma caused spirit web cracks.

Just a matter of what order she'd fall into.

I'm tempted to go with Windrunner, not just because of protagonism bias. But because...

Well have you seen how she acts in her most "heroic" moments? Shanking Leviathan to save the shelter despite the temptation to leave those that abandoned her.

The "Skitter Panopticon of violent protection" deal she had in her territory. Enough so she doesn't even remember half the stuff she got thanked for in the cafeteria scene.

The S9 arc, the mad dash to warn everyone and then go fight mannequin?

The woman has a "i will Protect" heroic complex (despite being a villain for a whole lot of the story). That carries over even when full khepri.

I mean it's more of a "aversion to bystander syndrome" complex. But it fits the bill right.

Cosmere Parahumans combinations #1

Taylor Hebert on Roshar. She would be able to control not only the cremelings but also the chasm fiends. If you have any other ideas let me know.

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The Allomantic Economy is in shambles because one alien can just grow infinite metal. They don't even have to worry about generated material degrading cause the entire point is the metal is consumed.

Cosmere parahumans combination #2

Golem on Scadrial. Considering the amount of infrastructure made of metal he would be able to destroy a large amount of building if he wanted to.

If you have any more ideas let me know

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One only needs one Parahuman triggering from Cops Being Bastards, in order to get a cape that mainlines hard into fighting Police corruption.

Victoria speaks the truth!

Although, does this imply that Vic and New Wave had to deal with racist cops in Brockton Bay? It must have happened at least once, considering E88 influence over the years. Wonder if New Wave has had to arrest cops…

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Inb4 she's actually an Oni from the Otherverse, who ended up crossing over. /not serious

Let me tell you who I think is the most mysterious Parahuman in Ward is!

It's not Sleeper

It's not Torso

It's not Deader and Goner

It's this girl:

Mortari Oni-Girl!!!

What makes her interesting you might ask? Nothing. As in, we know nothing about her! She shows up to help Breakthrough attack Teacher, gets this awesome costume description and vanishes from the story!

What are her powers? Why go with the Oni theme? Where did she disappear to???

I headcanon that her powers are Fear oriented, maybe inducing short-term nightmare mirages on people, but I could also be totally off-base! It keeps me up at night....

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Taylor goes hard on the "Maybe i could learn to be ok" sentiment, and is attracted to beach city on account of the potent "there is therapy happening in this place" energies emanating from it. On account of Steven being there.

No badass action. Just retired civilian watching the weird stuff going on in the background. Just Some singing, crying, and singing while crying, as she works trough her issues.

Post Future, and she and Steven are on the same boat of learning how to be ok.

Okay wormfic idea. Dimensionally marooned Post-GM Taylor Hebert as a Steven Universe Townie. Work with me. Work with me here. This is something  

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For a fic, One way to get past Jack Shard bullshit, would to have Lisa's Negotiator/Inference/etc shard actually despise Broadcast.

You know how Lisa hates people thinking she's not smart.

Same dynamic between Broadcast and Negotiator/Inference/whatever the fuck her shard name is.

Jack Slash and Taylor have parallels, but I find a few between Lisa and him as well. Like, Lisa enjoys picking at people’s weak points in a similar way to Jack, and their powers are slightly similar in how it affects their interactions with people. Lisa makes people angry and Jack tries to break them. What do you think?

I think that that is a brilliant idea for a fanfiction.....The idea of them both being defacto backline leaders and chessmaster types pitted against each other is definitely an interesting one to explore, the visceral horror of what the Slaughterhouse Nine are being juxtaposed against something more Cerebral.

It would work a lot better if Tattletale were the one to figure out Jack's Thinker power

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Something that could happen is that over the course of the story the presentation starts to get really confused about it. Or something.

Sometimes the PRT/heroes are doing some unquestionably heroic act, and it's put in the "bad/grim light/framing"

While conversely. Sometimes their worse actions are put under the propaganda filter to make them look heroic.

I’ve been wondering how you’d handle the visual language of the PRT and Protectorate in a TV adaptation of Worm. The Boys doesn’t have this problem with Vought and the seven because they have a very clear understanding of what they are (bad, corporate) and what side of the fight the viewers should be on (not theirs.) And so the visual direction for the group is really clear- you put them in muted MCU-pastiche costumes, you show them doing fucked up things interspersed with genre-typical glamour shots, you throw in the weird religious imagery surrounding Homelander at capes for Christ to hammer it home. You don’t actually need any room to engender positive feelings about these characters.

The PRT, though, is significantly more complicated in terms of the role it plays in the narrative. It’s an all-consuming authoritarian power bloc, but that was a deliberate utilitarian tradeoff made as a holding action, not anyone’s idea of an ideal society. It’s run by kindhearted social workers who deserve the world. It’s run by bellicose swiss-genocide-enactors. It’s run by secret mobsters. It’s run by secret superheroes. It’s run by marketing wonks and publicity freaks and machine politicians. It’s got a seat at the table for world-running conspiracies. It’s often the voice of reason and morality in those meetings. It’s apathetic and inept at protecting people. It’s stretched thin because of how everyone working there is breaking their backs to protect people. It’s the worlds best hope. It’s an outdated, powermongering institution more concerned with stability than justice, and it’s own power over actual solutions. But it exists in a world where some stability would be reeeaaaaal nice.

And of course, the protagonist doesn’t even have a consistent and unchanging view on the PRT. Skitter “fights” the PRT and the Protectorate, first as a mole, and then in earnest because she thinks they’re ineffective- not because she’s anti-authoritarian, but because she thinks that she’s either a more competent authoritarian or at least complementary authoritarian. And then she joins it, and does some incredible capacity-building for it, and even when her view of it is at it’s lowest she’s still one of the deciding voices calling for everyone to protect the organization’s dirty secrets because she feels something like it needs to exist. And this is while she’s still actively fighting the organization in her backyard!

So part of my thinking is that depending on current POV character and point in the narrative, you’d do a lot of fucking around with the lighting, maybe? Frame the PRT troopers like jackbooted, inhuman thugs in one scene, knights in shining armor in another. Cut between shots of the heroes doing genuinely cool shit in the field, and switch to the grim-and-grimy lighting when they’re off the clock and suddenly Assault is harrassing Battery and Velocity is drinking himself to death (this isn’t canon, but it’d be a good shorthand for how boxed in he feels.) Starship-troopers-style propoganda shots interspersed with PRT troopers brutally and unceremoniously beating down Uber and Leet. 

Worm not having a decisive answer about how we’re supposed to feel about these institutions would make this a much harder needle to thread in a visual adaptation- in the book you can have the characters debate this internally in a way that makes it clear that the narrative is aware of the issues it’s tackling, but in animation or live action, it’s hard!.

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Yeah. If you are talking about Amy brainwashing Vicktoria. You might want to edit your post to specify it (and the other cases too for that matter).

That fanon is kind of pervasive. And it's best to avoid misunderstandimgs.

If I had a nickel for every time a character in a wildbow work was magically compelled into incestual feelings via the power/magic system of said book I would have 3 nickels. Which is enough to warrant this being discussed more.

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One biggest disappointment i had with Worm/Ward is when i learned that Legend's lasers were only light-blue colored.

And not like... a whole bullet-hell barrage of a multicolored lightshow. (Each laser having a different color, basically)

Do you think there’s Capes at Pride discourse in-universe?

Oh 100%. I mean in-universe gay rights are a bit further ahead than our 2010 in large part because Legend was out and proud in the early '90s, right? He'd be an absolute fixture in NYC's, and he's also the world's number 3 supercop.

At absolute minimum after the whole Echidna thing there was at least one blowup when a queer Case 53 tried to egg/tackle/murder him.