#bc its interesting

[whumble-beeee]

PLEASE GIVE US MORE ON THE SUPER BRANDS!!!! I AM BEGGING WITH MY WHOLE CHEST🙏🙏🙏🙏

SORRY I've been hoarding this ask, I wanted to use it to make the official

'(Un)Official Guide' Official Super Branding Guide!

In this day and age, hero brands are all but normal in our daily lives. Despite the enormous public outcry when the policy to "systemically brand" people came to pass, nowadays it's a very socially accepted and useful tool for law enforcement, as well as the general public, to know the potential dangers of the person they're dealing with.

But how do hero brands work exactly?

Hazardous Super Brand

More colloquially known as the "Villain Brand", this brand is located on the right shoulder blade. Any super with the designation 'Latent Supervillain' or above (all except 'non-threat's) will be required to have this brand. Please refer to the helpful info-graphic below:

*For more information on Power Types, Power Levels, and Social Designations, refer to the ‘Key Information’ section near the end of this post

Power Type: Depending on a super's power type, one of the three sections of the triangle will be filled in, while the other two are left blank. On the rare occasion a super's power falls into two categories, both will be filled in.

Power Level: Scaled 1-5, 1 being the lowest power level and 5 being the highest. One black rectangle will be filled in for each power level.

Social Designation: The three main designations (excluding 'non-threat,' who will not have this brand) are helpfully color coded to be recognizable at a distance: Red for Latent Supervillains, Black for Supervillains, and a Blue background added to a super’s Power Type triangle for designation of Test Subject.

ID number: All super’s are given an ID number, and any super with the Hazardous Super Brand has it helpfully written on their brand.

General Super Brand

More colloquially known as just the "Super Brand," this brand is placed on the right bicep just above the inner elbow, intended to be semi-easily accessible for easy identification by law enforcement. It is administered to every identified super using invisible tattoo ink, so it will not interfere with the super's daily life (except for some slight permanent skin discoloration around the tattoo sight).

There are three tiers to this brand, based around the Super Social Designations:

Non-threat

Latent Supervillain or Supervillain

Test subject

In addition, some supers are prohibited from using their power entirely; there can be many different reasons for this: danger to themself, danger to  society, history of unlawful use of power. In such cases, the General Super Brand will be programmed with special ink to start glowing a bright white light if the super uses their power. Any person who sees a bright glowing arm brand has a civil duty to report it to the police immediately, and are also advised to hide from the dangerous super immediately.

*This brand is mainly meant for quick identification by law enforcement, hence the recent mandate that all people must show their right inner elbow to law enforcement if asked. Disregard the recent allegations that the skin discoloration of the tattoo makes it the invisible ink "all but useless", and that the brands have been the cause of many hate crimes against super-powered individuals. This is all hearsay and the General Super Brand has not been legally proven to be a danger to any super.

Key Information

Power Types

Manipulator– Manipulates the physical world in some way. This includes physical powers such as abilities to interact with physical matter, as well as powers that indirectly affect the physical world, such as healing powers, time manipulation, teleportation, etc. This category is the most common category of super.

Cerebral– Any power that can directly or indirectly manipulate another person’s mind, whether it be thoughts, emotions, intelligence level, etc. This category is the rarest and generally considered the be the most dangerous to another person's well-being, and is also the most common to be prohibited via a glowing General Super Brand.

Anatom– This designation simply denotes that a person’s power affects only themself and no one else, such as a physical change to their body, super eyesight, super self healing, etc. This category mainly serves to assure that anyone interacting with the super need not worry about a power directly affecting their well-being.

Power Levels

Power Level is determined mainly via testing of the super’s power. Power Level can be hard to quantify, but it is mainly measured by two metrics: How much potential it has to disrupt everyday order (regardless of intent to use it as such), and how much it could irreversibly affect a person or object who is not the super themself.

Roughly 70% of the super population will be level 1, 25% will be level 2, 4% will be level 3, 1% will be level 4, and a nearly negligible portion will be level 5.

Any super level 4 or above are not eligible to have the social designation 'non-threat.'

Social Designations:

Non-threat: The majority of supers are given this designation, meaning their power and personality have been evaluated to not be an immediate danger to the public. 

Latent Supervillain: Given to a super who has been evaluated to be a potential danger to the public, but has not committed any power-related crimes. Generally given to supers with affiliation to dangerous groups or ideals, or any super with power level 4 or above.

Supervillain: Given to any super who has been previously or currently convicted for power-related crimes.

Test subject: This special designation is given to any super who has been legally claimed by the government or other appropriate body to use for research purposes. This designation can be given concurrently with any of the other designations. Supers with this designation ahould generally not be away from their prescribed facilities or out in public without a handler.

And that's all the basics! Now you have all the knowledge necessary to be able to identify a super on sight, as well as use their various tattoo brands to understand their powers and the threats they might pose to you! Use this knowledge wisely and stay safe!

[artistotel]

hey! for todays protest, i made this little zine about palestine (holding just simple and basic information).

you can download the zine here, fold it yourself, and distribute it around.

no credit is needed. feel free to leave it around bars, protests, or wherever. simply print it (borderless) and fold it. here is a tutorial on how to do it.

dont stay silent. there is a genocide of horrendous, atrocious proportions going on. also if you are a zionist here to argue with me, i dont plan to entertain you at all, not on my art blog. fuck off, you'll be swiftly blocked. i see enough of you clowns on my main and i have no energy for you. you can skip the death threats too bc i dont give a shit.

(i'm off to get ready for a surgery now, i just wanted to post it before this. if you need anything, i might take a bit to reply)

[ink-the-artist]

Found some sculptures from a few years ago that I forgot to sell! A couple snails and a creature named Kefir. I'll be listing these for auction on ebay soon :)

[stil-lindigo]

recently, Israel sent down hellfire missiles near a hospital in Gaza, which are missiles that explode into blades that slam down and cut through anything in their way. (link)

There is a video of a man with his legs newly amputated, screaming in a pool of his own blood. I won’t share the video, because it made me vomit into a toilet, but either trust me it exists or go look for it yourselves.

There is another video of a young girl, crying silently after her legs were blown off in an explosion. She explains tonelessly to the camera man that she doesn’t want fake legs because they’ll just remind her of her real ones. She is 13. (link)

A hospital is told to evacuate and they do, all the while waving white flags in a show of surrender. The IDF shoot at them anyway. (link)

Meanwhile in Israel - they begin to enforce one of the most draconian anti-free-speech laws in history.

1.link | 2.link | 3.link

Israel also claims to be the “only democracy in the Middle East”.

Israel has bombed hospitals, fishing boats, schools, refugee camps, power sources, water tanks, evacuation routes. They have killed 80% of Palestinian journalists, they have killed 100 UN workers, they have murdered over 4,000 children in 34 days. Because of the lack of food and water, Palestinians have begun to die from starvation, cholera.

If you still support Israel after all this, I believe you’re completely lost. Utterly without any humanity. Nothing could ever excuse this.

In Australia, there is an ongoing list of protests planned, as well as a permanent camp out being set up in Naarm/Melbourne to block Israeli transport company ZIM from shipping weapons. Congressional staffers in the US are finally being gotten through to - in spite of their rampant greed and long-suffering inhumanity, even they can recognise when their phones won't stop ringing with people saying flat out they'll never vote for them again.

Find resources to help Palestine globally at Ceasefiretoday.com

[hattersarts]

drew some book!husbands. they feel like they've taken more traits from each other than the show.

[hinamie]

wonder if they know what he's on about

[dillyt]

Great news for uninsured adults in the USA who want a COVID-19 booster! It now appears that ALL CVS locations are now active participants in the Bridge Access Program. The Bridge Access Program gives out free Covid-19 vaccinations to 18+ adults who otherwise can't afford one, so if you have a CVS near you, please go get one! For others who don't have a CVS near them, please go to vaccines.gov, click on "Find Covid-19 vaccines", fill out which vaccines you prefer (you can mix different vaccines if you have to so i reccomend just marking all of them for the age groups you need), and when the next page loads mark the "Bridge Access Program Participant" option to see only locations that are Bridge Access Program participants. Hopefully, other places that aren't CVS will start participating soon, so just check back every so often to see if there are any updates. The CDC Bridge Access Program website also has more details on what locations will be participating, but only CVS is appearing as an active participant on the vaccines.gov location finder at the moment.

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

[rubyfunkey]

The Rehabilitation of Death by @bamsara

didnt have time to clean this like i wanted but i needed to get this scene out of my head desperately. im good now

[choccy-milky]

@foundthatoldzeppelinshirt what did u do to me...what in the wattpad is this... i only planned to do a few doodles but then i kept getting more brainrotted and things got out of hand LMAOO (and ofc i HAD to draw hockey player seb at SOME POINT bc its my duty as a canadian citizen🫡🍁🍁 O CANADA!!!)

[gingerswagfreckles]

It's also a little bit funny that other people are calling the guy who shot a healthcare CEO with bullets that said "deny defend depose" and was carrying a manifesto about how corporate America is evil a "Nikki Haley Republican" or part of the "center right." I guess based on the fact that he went to an expensive private school was messing around in Hawaii pretending to develop a video game as work until recently? Like. This guy left a goodreads review about how the Unibomber was an "extreme political revolutionary." While also traveling around the world on the money his parents made off of real estate and owning a chain of senior rehabilitation facilities.

I think a lot of you are really uncomfortable with how common champagne socialism is and frankly I think a lot of this is projection. This guy is very obviously someone who considers themselves a leftist revolutionary, and yet everyone is kind of re-framing him as a "Nikki Haley Republican" because they're uncomfortable with acknowledging that far leftists are often very privileged and hypocritical people. I've been talking about this for a long time, but a lot of the left (at least on the internet) is quite in denial about the fact that a lot of their beliefs aren't widely shared by the working class. That often, the loudest voices in the movement are those belonging to the wealthy, who are at the end of the day cosplaying and are more interested in acting out heroic fantasies than improving life for the working class.

[dreamsy990]

drew some of my fav ody designs! wasnt originally meant to be also replicating the styles but thats sort of just how my brain works. except i didnt copy the lineart styles of anyone here so its DEFINITELY a bit uncanny for a couple of these (LOOKING AT YOU QINNY IM SO SORRY) but whatever

the designs featured here (from left to right) belong to: me, @gigizetz, @neal-illustrator, @irunaki, @bigidiotenergytm, @qinnyanimation, and @foopsie-daisy

[twinkubus]

Bound Man by John Singer Sargent, c. 1917-21

[fee-phy-fo-fum]

A primrose. A four-petaled flower said to symbolise youth and young love. Giving it to someone sends a message saying "I cannot live without you".

replaying isat to appreciate some conversations id previously overlooked because theres so many little things here and there to appreciate. this was one of them.

(made minor edits to make euphrasie glitchy + clean up mira's hair)

on four petaled flowers:

[creekfiend]

when items which claim to be made of linen are like "hand wash gentle only do not use machines" it's soooo. guys linen is like. the durable fiber. I should be able to fucking boil this and hit it with rocks biweekly. you are doing something wrong

[possiblycringe]

Sometimes I wonder how Akechi felt being on the other end of the encounter with a cornered animal.