#especially their downsides

[iamrizaka]

Apollo is a god of many domains, and his children, obviously, inherit some of his traits and control of them. They are divided into talents and gifts.

Talents, like singing, playing an instrument, nursing, and archery, require no magic. The demigod has a tendency to a certain skill from the beginning and can train without a nonmortal's help.

Gifts, on the other hand, are magic-enforceable. Healing and truth sensory, along with prophecy powers, are some of them. Some gifts need to be "allowed" by a higher being to take action, and energy for some gifts comes from the very soul of the demigod.

Some talents and gifts are mixed, but it depends on the individual. It's mostly noticeable in archery-specialized demigods, with their ability to shoot one arrow but leave more than one mark behind on the target.

Gifts, as powerful as they might be, have a disadvantage. While talent doesn't majorly affect your health, gifts may harm you. A lot.

Overuse of healing leaves burns on the skin of your arms, and for as long as you don't take a break, their numbers will continue to grow. The will spread from your fingers to your hands, to your forearms and shoulders, up until they reach your heart. Once they're here, your heart can't support you anymore.

Plague powers are extremely rare, but most of the time when they're discovered, it's the healers who use them. It doesn't affect the bearers as much as it affects those around them; but the mental "it's my fault" is always there. It is deeply connected to the emotions of the demigod and is hard to practice — one false move and another epidemic will start. Unfortunately, that is one of many reasons why so many children of Apollo with plague powers are never welcomed back in the Greek world.

Truth sensory is more dangerous for your mental health. Every child of Apollo has this trait, but some of them carry the much more enhanced version of it. All children of Apollo have an allergy reaction to lying, but some of them can feel tings of pain in the back of their necks once they hear another person lie. Once wrong people learn about this, it can easily turn into another torture practice.

Light powers are unusual. Demigods emit the light of their own and have to recharge, absorbing the daylight. The trouble comes when they can't adjust the amount of light and its brightness while glowing, as it may blind people and creatures near them. One of the light powers' forms is temperature control. The demigods only partly glow, and their light isn't as bright, but the temperature of their bodies rises greatly and can melt anything around them. The difference between the temperatures of their different body parts can be disorienting and result in melting or burning the "cooler" organs. A quick temp rise can be harmful as well and destroy the tissues of the demigods' limbs.

Prophecy powers are extremely rare and vary in types. Some prophecy powers are minor, being just your "gut feeling" and "just a hitch"; some are controlled by your will and appear when you want them to appear; and some will catch you off guard and leave you heaving for breath, phantom pain in your head. The visions put pressure on your mind and eyes. You'll see the future until you can't recognize the difference between reality and a dream, and until you can't recognize shapes before you. They are rare for a reason, after all.

The archery is an interesting case, since it can happen to be both a talent and a gift. It doesn't have any side effects as a talent, but once you learn to do more, to connect your power and heart and soul with the arrow and the bow in your hands, it can become risky very fast. It presses down on your arms and shoulders, and as you focus on your targets, you can feel the lenses of your eyes take shape they have never taken before. It's nothing major at first, but as you grow older and improve at this skill, you tend to notice the differences in your body and health.

All of Apollo's gifts are blessing, but you can never forget the dangers they carry if you are not careful. There's a reason why only a few get them.

[imliterallyjustsittinghere]

does anyone else thinks it would be super funny if anya's classmates/friend group find out she can read minds but her parents + other adults never do? i mean, they're currently young enough that even someone OUTRIGHT SAYING "Anya can read minds" to a teacher or parent would be assumed to be playing pretend, and even as they get older it can be passed off as an inside joke about her occasional uncanny perceptiveness.

[ckret2]

You know all I want to see his a show down between Evil Ford and Canon Ford after seeing the last post with annon. I just imagine it to be funny for some reason, like who would even win? I know evil Ford can't kill cannon Ford because it would wipe him out to? Well, at least that's how I think it would work-

lol who says Evil Ford can't kill Canon Ford? He's not some kind of magical doppelgänger tied to his existence.

We as the audience see the character concept of Evil Ford as a modified copy of the character concept of the original Canon Ford. But from their perspectives, they're not "characters," Canon Ford isn't "the original," and Evil Ford isn't a "copy." They're simply two guys from independently existent parallel universes who are both named Stanford Pines, one of whom said "I've got to stop Bill from taking over Earth" and one of whom said "helping Bill take over Earth sounds fun."

For the most part, I figure they'd be evenly matched; although Evil Ford has at least one physical advantage over Canon Ford.

Which I shall demonstrate with the help of a t-shirt.

"Hey," said nobody, "since Evil Ford was always on Bill's side, does that mean Bill didn't turn him into gold during Weirdmageddon—?" No, no, Bill still did that. Just in a different way.

On the other hand, Evil Ford lacks two advantages that Canon Ford has: he never built a quantum destabilizer (although Canon Ford's is out of fuel, so it's not terribly useful); and he doesn't have a pack of Pines ready to back him up in a fight.

If they actually fought, I think Canon Ford would probably win; not due to any particular skills or weaponry, but due to the fact that they're Disney characters and evil is always doomed to lose.

[aquamarinebling]

I LOVE MAKING OC ART TAILORED TO ME AND ME ALONE🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️‼️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[jorvikzelda]

nothing matches wired in-ear headphones man. i am getting this music channeled straight into my brain via a physical cable. like god intended

[cent-scratchnsniff]

l-o-v-e l-o-v-e

[pushing500]

Drama in the colony! What in the world could be causing problems for the Jones "twins"?

I'm not sure how Mechi would feel about being called Kwahu's duplicate, but that's beside the point. It looks like there really are consequences for everything that happens on the rim!

Mechi only just met his new "twin", and now we have to choose one to die so one can live?

Haha, sike. Randy can try all he wants, but the joke's on him. We won't be saying goodbye to either of the Jones boys for as long as we can manage. Melissa, the creepjoiner from a while back, will finally get the chance to put her mystical healing powers to good use...

Hopefully, there are no consequences from that. I'm sure there won't be. The void giving us two events with consequences? That would be ridiculous.

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Also, for what it's worth, Mechi and Kwahu aren't sharing a bed. I just forgot to put a bedside table in between while I was drawing. Accidentally made it look like my misanthropic mechanitor was way too comfortable sleeping side-by-side with his equally misanthropic clone lmao.

Aren't Mechi's "cube" sculptures adorable? I feel like a proud parent watching a child make horrendous macaroni and fingerprint art.

[dixidin]

I USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THESE

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

nobody follows me for dolls but this has been weighing on me

left side is every double jointed bjd ever. ive seen, rarely, single jointed dolls with the hip attached like top right and theyre never like mobility oriented theyre usually little fat fantasy dolls with stylized joints and minimal posing. but ive Never seen a double jointed doll with the hip attached like that with a second joint in either direction. does this exist

[mintymemesandrpshop]

Please don't forget this new view previous reblog button! Very useful for reblogging memes from sources! Don't forget to send out stuff sometimes, too!

[unitchiefs-blackbirdphoenix]

I really really hope that we’ll actually get to see JJ deal with the deepfake issue and that it won’t get brushed aside or just used to fuel another storyline (e.g. Emily’s/BAU VS Voit).

Yeah same here. I hope they handle this storyline with grace and caution bc it’s such a scary thing that’s already happening in the world today and probably the most disturbing storyline CM has ever done.

But I’m also afraid that some part of the storyline might be linked to Emily’s storyline bc she’s dealing with her leadership failures and her relationships with the team falling apart. I actually was about to make a separate post about this “theory” but I think you gave me a good prompt haha.

So far into the three eps, JJ was the only person in the team that talked highly and positively of Emily as a leader despite everything (other than Penelope but like she’s got her own shit with Tyler lol). And it was before she found out about the website. In the car scene with Luke, JJ talks about how Emily’s “practicing discretion isn’t lying… that’s good leadership.” She could’ve easily said that Luke was simply following orders and not have the whole thing be about Emily’s leadership for a quick second. This would’ve been setting up for how JJ might doubt Emily later on aside from her knowing about the site right now.

But of what we should know about JJ’s storyline now is that there will be some “not so happy agents”, according to AJ, and it deal with “vulnerability… [and] compartmentalizing”, as Aisha and RJ said about JJ’s storyline bc AJ didn’t know how to talk about it while not giving everything away lol.

So far season 17 has been great and got me hooked but I am nervous of how they’ll handle JJ’s storyline bc it’s such a serious matter and shouldn’t be brushed aside so easily. This isn’t her getting injured on the job. This will stick with her for the rest of her life and will resurface whenever, however many times, and in whatever way by whoever many has seen or contributed to the site. That coupled with the fact that JJ’s family won’t be in this season, so she’s really just dealing with the discovery alone :(

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

[galactic-feelins]

Due to an error on my part I posted this to the wrong blog at first. But!!!

Finally, the sequel! A Runaway City AU Sora to match Roxas!

For anyone unaware, I gave Sora a new outfit because I don't know how to draw his kh2 outfit very well. Yes he's wearing a binder here and no I don't actually know what binders look like, and I almost put straps on the back because I was thinking of a corset. He may be a Heartless now, but that doesn't mean he knows how to change his appearance at will.

He is as he remembers, and he remembers he is Sora :3

[young--just-us]

Highkey I could go on and on about how much I adore X-Men Evolution #9, like the art style, the actual changes in outfit for the characters, great palettes, the super fun paneling and overlaps, and did I mention the outfits? Anyways I love it sm, and honestly just love all of the Evo tie-in comics, if you like the show I highly recommend them, there aren't many but they're fun :3

[arundolyn]

working in IT has never made me believe anything more than people really and truly should absolutely never do some shit they don't remotely understand oh my god

[cesium-sheep]

I'm feeling a little under the weather today probably because my uterus is up to some bullshit because they're taking so long to refill my birth control (I guess the ablation has officially failed), but I think he assumed it was cuz I miss arin.