#technoscience

[librarycards]

ok, has anyone / when was the first time you learned about "disability pronouns" (if ever?) this is becoming more common in the circles i run in, and basically means the preferred terminology (disabled, crip, Mad, ND, autistic, mentally disabled, chronically ill...) you use when it comes to your bodymind. weird to me that they're not called disability adjectives but okay. anyway, has anyone else heard of these??

[queercripintersex]

Crip and Cripple are different words

So this might be opening up a CAN OF WORMS but as a physically disabled person I just wanna throw out a clarification that I personally think is useful to have explicitly articulated. These two words are DIFFERENT:

Crip: a reference to crip theory and its friends. Refers to ALL disabilities (not just mobility/physical). Similar to queer, it's a way of seeing the world: disability is socially constructed, fuck eugenics, fuck capitalism, fuck colonialism, being disabled means you HAVE to be creative to navigate a world not built for you, disabled people are the OG makers/hackers, and so on. "Crip" is used as a verb to apply to this way of seeing the world to analyse different facets of society (e.g. cripping the arts, crip technoscience). Seen in academic terms like cripistemology and eco-crip theory but also nonacademic contexts like krip-hop and crip time.

Cripple: refers to physically disabled people ONLY. Seen in terms like cripplepunk, which is exclusive to physical disabilities. (Punks with other disabilities are encouraged to use other terms like dyspunktional.)

Yes, "crip" was coined as a shortening of "cripple". Yes, they are both reclamations of the same slur. But I think it is productive for us to understand these two words as distinct, and to be mindful of the difference.

Crip at this point has a very well established usage that is pan-disability, while at the same time we physically disabled we need space to talk about cripple-specific stuff.

I hope this clarification is helpful! I know the two words sound similar and share a root but I think it's a nuance that matters. <3

[transmutationisms]

hello! im just finishing up my read of structures of scientific revolutions, which has genuinely been very useful and shifted my understanding of science in a way being around people doing scientific research all day really didn't! i don't have a liberal arts education so i would love to get a sense of (a) what else of the philosophy / history of science canon is worth reading in the original (b) standard review papers or introductory textbooks and (c) critiques of the canon. i understand this is a big ask ofc, so feel free to point me to good depts / syllabi from good courses. thanks :)

yessss such a fun question >:) so, the thing that was so great about 'the structure of scientific revolutions', which i'm sure you've picked up on, is that kuhn pushed historians and philosophers of science to challenge the positivist model of science as a linearly progressive search to 'accumulate knowledge'. the idea of a 'paradigm shift' was itself a paradigm shift at the time; it was an early example of a language for talking about radical change in science without giving into the assumption that change necessarily = 'progress' (defined by national interests, mathematisation, and so forth). this is still an approach that's foundational to history and philosophy of science; it's now taken as so axiomatic that few academics even bother to gloss or defend it in monographs (which raises its own issue with public communication, lol).

where kuhn falls apart more (and this was typical for a philosopher of his era, training, and academic milieu) is in the fact that he never developed any kind of rigorous sociological analysis of science (despite alluding to such a thing being necessary) and you probably also noticed that he makes a few major leaps that indicate he's not fully committed to thinking through the relationship between science and politics. so for example, we might ask, can a paradigm shift ever occur for a reason other than a discovered 'anomaly' that the previous paradigm can't account for? for instance, how do political investments in science and scientific theories affect what's accepted as 'normal science' in a kuhnian sense? are there historical or present cases where a paradigm didn't change even though it persistently failed to explain certain empirical observations or data? what about the opposite, where a paradigm did change, but it wasn't necessarily or exclusively because the new paradigm was a 'better' explanation scientifically? how do we determine what makes an explanation 'better', anyway, especially given that kuhn himself was very much invested in moving beyond the naïve realist position? and on the more sociological side, we can raise issues like: say you're a scientist and you legitimately have discovered an 'anomaly'. how do you communicate that to other scientists? what mechanisms of knowledge production and publication enable you to circulate that information and to be taken seriously? what modes of communication must you use and what credentials or interpersonal connections must you have? what factors cause theories and discoveries to be taken more or less seriously, or adopted more or less quickly, besides just their 'scientific utility' (again, assuming we can even define such a thing)?

again, this is not to shit on kuhn, but to point out that both history and philosophy of science have had a lot of avenues to explore since his work. note that there are a few major disciplinary distinctions here, each with many sub-schools of thought. a 'science and technology studies' or STS program tends to be a mix of sociological and philosophical analysis of science, often with an emphasis on 'technoscience' and much less on historical analysis. a philosophy of science department will be anchored more firmly in the philosophical approach, so you'll find a lot of methodological critique, and a lot of scholarship that seeks to tackle current aporias in science using various philosophical frameworks. a history of science program is fundamentally just a sub-discipline of history, and scholarship in this area asks about the development of science over time, how various forms of thinking came into and out of favour, and so forth. often a department will do both history and philosophy of science (HPS). historians of medicine, technology, and mathematics will sometimes (for arcane scholastic reasons varying by field, training, and country) be anchored in departments of medicine / technology / mathematics, rather than with other faculty of histsci / HPS. but, increasingly in the anglosphere you'll see departments that cover history of science, technology, and mathematics (HSTM) together. obviously, all of these distinctions say more about professional qualifications and university bureaucracy than they do about the actual subject matter; in actuality, a good history of science should virtually always include attention to some philosophical and sociological dimensions, and vice versa.

anyway—reading recs:

there are two general reference texts i would recommend here if you just want to get some compilations of major / 'canonical' works in this field. both are edited volumes, so you can skip around in them as much as you want. both are also very limited in focus to, again, a very particular 'western canon' defined largely by trends in anglo academia over the past half-century or so.

philosophy of science: the central issues (1998 [2013], ed. martin curd & j. a. cover). this is an anthology of older readings in philsci. it's a good introduction to many of the methodological questions and problems that the field has grown around; most of these readings have little to no historical grounding and aren't pretending otherwise.

the cambridge history of science (8 vols., 2008–2020, gen. eds. david c. lindberg & ron numbers). no one reads this entire set because it's long as shit. however, each volume has its own temporal / topical focus, and the essays function as a crash-course in historical methodology in addition to whatever value you derive from the case studies in their own right. i like these vols much more than the curd & cover, but if you really want to dig into the philosophical issues and not the histories, curd & cover might be more fun.

besides those, here are some readings in histsci / philsci that i'd recommend if you're interested. for consistency i ordered these by publication date, but bolded a few i would recommend as actual starting points lol. again some of these focus on specific historical cases, but are also useful imo methodologically, regardless of how much you care about the specific topic being discussed.

Robert M. Young. 1969. "Malthus and the Evolutionists: The Common Context of Biological and Social Theory." Past & Present 43: 109–145.

David Bloor. 1976 [1991]. Knowledge and Social Imagery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (here is a really useful extract that covers the main points of this text).

Ian Hacking. 1983. Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Steven Shapin. 1988. “Understanding the Merton Thesis.” Isis 79 (4): 594–605.

Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer. 1989. Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Mario Biagioli. 1993. Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bruno Latour. 1993. The Pasteurization of France. Translated by Alan Sheridan and John Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Margaret W. Rossiter. 1993. “The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science.” Social Studies of Science 23 (2): 325–41.

Andrew Pickering. 1995. The Mangle of Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Porter, Theodore M. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton University Press, 1996.

Peter Galison. 1997. “Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief.” In The Science Studies Reader, edited by Mario Biagioli, 137–60. New York: Routledge.

Crosbie Smith. 1998. The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chambers, David Wade, and Richard Gillespie. “Locality in the History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge.” Osiris 15 (2000): 221–40.

Kuriyama, Shigehisa. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine. Zone Books, 2002.

Timothy Mitchell. 2002. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

James A. Secord. 2003. Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.

Sheila Jasanoff. 2006. “Biotechnology and Empire: The Global Power of Seeds and Science.” Osiris 21 (1): 273–92.

Murphy, Michelle. Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers. Duke University Press, 2006.

Kapil Raj. 2007. Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Schiebinger, Londa L. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Harvard University Press, 2007.

Galison, Peter. “Ten Problems in History and Philosophy of Science.” Isis 99, no. 1 (2008): 111–24.

Daston, Lorraine, and Peter Galison. Objectivity. Zone Books, 2010.

Dipesh Chakrabarty. 2011. “The Muddle of Modernity.” American Historical Review 116 (3): 663–75.

Forman, Paul. “On the Historical Forms of Knowledge Production and Curation: Modernity Entailed Disciplinarity, Postmodernity Entails Antidisciplinarity.” Osiris 27, no. 1 (2012): 56–97.

Ashworth, William J. 2014. "The British Industrial Revolution and the the Ideological Revolution: Science, Neoliberalism, and History." History of Science 52 (2): 178–199.

Mavhunga, Clapperton. 2014. Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lynn Nyhart. 2016. “Historiography of the History of Science.” In A Companion to the History of Science, edited by Bernard Lightman, 7–22. Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell.

Rana Hogarth. 2017. Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Suman Seth. 2018. Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Aro Velmet. 2020. Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, its Colonies, and the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

i would also say, as a general rule, these books are generally all so well-known that there are very good book reviews and review essays on them, which you can find through jstor / your library's database. these can be invaluable both because your reading list would otherwise just mushroom out forever, and because a good review can help you decide whether you even need / want to sit down with the book itself in the first place. literally zero shame in reading an academic text secondhand via reviews.

[phoebepheebsphibs]

Double-Mutated Mikey

Chapter 41: Technoscience

Continued from the short story written by @boots-with-the-fur-club

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Leo still doesn't know how he managed to wriggle himself away from Raph's mother hen-ing, but here he is now -- wandering the halls alone, looking for that Honey-doctor-whoever.

Maybe he should have stayed with Mikey.... he can't help but worry about him. Yes, he has his ninpo back, but still... This place is a bad place. Leo's not sure how to explain it beyond that. It's like being inside a house you know is the location for a horror movie. It reeks of evil.

Besides, he still has the 'epipen' Mikey handed him tucked safely away in his fanny pack.

Leo wonders what Mikey will do with it. After their whole conversation concerning how Mikey is changed now, and how Leo has been adamant that they've accepted him no matter what... he wonders what Mikey's decision will be. He could still take it and change back into his old self. Get back to 'normal'. Become the person he used to be, become the version of himself he's been fighting so hard to get back to.

Or, he could refuse it. Stay like this, with claws and a giant tail and fangs.

What would life be like after that?

Honestly, Leo hadn't even considered that option until the morning when Donnie said he couldn't figure out a retro-mutagen on his own. He said it was impossible. It was a blow to the stomach back then, a dagger in the heart to think of that. To think of Mikey forever trapped in a body that could barely speak and not yet walk upright, a body tormented by thoughts from another voice, a body broken and pieced back together crudely. At the time, it felt like giving up. But now...?

Now, Mikey can convey himself perfectly and speak clearly. Now, Mikey can walk on two legs with very little assistance. Now, Mikey's head is clear of torment.

Now, Mikey is Mikey again.

So what exactly is his choice?

Leo thinks he might know what his brother's choice will be. But he's not sure if it's the right one...

In any case, now's not the time to worry over it. He's on a search and rescue mission. Leo hobbles his way up the stairs until he feels something in his gut. It's soft, small, gentle. A light pulling sensation he can only describe as a knowing, a connection, or maybe even a reconnection, if that makes sense.

Ninpo.

A few minutes later, he gets a message from Donnie that he's found their weapons.

"Ah, so that's what that was," Leo sighs to himself.

He wishes he had his swords with him now. He usually doesn't mind searching the old fashioned way, but with the injuries he has and the time they're losing... Every extra minute in this place makes him more and more nervous.

Leo starts to heave and pant as he climbs yet another flight of stairs. He figures he's almost at the top of the whole place by now...

He gasps for breath as he leans against a door in the stairwell, which leads to yet another floor.

"Oh... Pizza supreme... I need to work out more... or not get electrocuted so much..."

Leo notices the door he's leaning against has a keypad by the handle. Huh. That's strange, none of the other doors have that...

It's either a really good sign or a really bad sign.

Leo wishes yet again that he had his portal swords... it would make things so much easier...

He glances to the side and notes the stairwell railing. Oh well. He'll have to improvise...

He grips the railing and starts shaking it, testing it for weak points. Raph would be better at this next part, but Leo can manage on his own. He pulls on one end and kicks at the other, yanking as hard as he can. It starts to come loose.

"Almost there... almost... come on, baby...!" Leo groans, wrenching the metal bar as hard as he can.

Finally, it starts to break apart! Leo just needs one good shove... He grips the thing as tightly as he can and pushes it as far as it can go. He hears a crunch of metal. One more go ought to do it! Leo revs up, takes a few steps back, rushes forwards and grips the rail with all his might before jumping over and yanking it down with him. The bar snaps off the rail and falls along with the slider turtle.

Leo concentrates, gripping the rail close to his chest as he falls down the center of the stairwell. The metal bar glows blue, and transforms into a sword.

"Man oh man, do I love my ninpo," Leo chuckles to himself, before slicing a hole in space beneath him.

He ends up tumbling right in front of the door at the top floor again, skidding to a halt as he pants for breath again. He may love his ninpo, but transforming random objects into swords like that takes it out of him. Especially when he already has his own swords... made from garden spades....

The sword flickers softly. Leo has to hurry before he exhausts his ninpo... He remembers what happened the last time he did this -- he portalled himself and Mikey out of their bedroom and into Dee's lab after having a nightmare and promptly passed out from the exertion of transforming a metal ruler into a sword. Not his best moment...

Leo holds the sword steady and prays he doesn't pass out this time...

The runes and markings on the blade shimmer before he slices the air once again. Leo limps and lumbers through the portal, tripping slightly before landing on his hands and knees at the other side of the door. The sword fizzles under his palms and reverts to its former state.

"Well... at least I didn't... faint..." he chuckles airily to himself. "....Yet."

Leonardo stumbles through the hallway, placing all his weight on the walls to support him. He's awfully dizzy, and the pins-and-needles numbing pains that occupy his chest hasn't left either. Leo makes a mental note to get revenge on all tasers and cattle prods in the future...

Maybe he should have had Raph come along with him after all.

But he said he was fine, and he saw how badly Raph wanted to stay with Mikey this time around. He knows that Mikey forgave Raph and absolved him of any mistakes from the past, but even so. This mission hits a little too close to home....... for all of them.

Leo starts to notice that the walls are beginning to have doors. Was that always happening? How long has he been zoned out? Okay, he needs to find Dr. Honeycomb as fast as he can and get back to the guys as soon as possible. The adrenaline rush he got from having his ninpo restored and escaping is beginning to wear off.

Door after door after door... name after name after name. Leo isn't sure if it's the dyslexia acting up, or the injuries he sustained, but with every door he passes, it's getting harder to distinguish the words...

Vitcro Flaco... Rublolhp Crobato... Tlyod O'Foole... Ztayon Hnoyectut...

Wait, what was that last one?

Leo does a double take and stares at the nameplate on the door. Despite his headache flaring up the dyslexia, he deciphers the strange code as Zayton Honeycutt.

"Bingo," he chuckles to himself before kicking the door down with all the might he can manage. He secretly makes yet another mental note to thank Draxum for whatever he put in the ooze that made him and his brothers so freaking strong...

There's a loud yipe from inside as the door falls to the ground. Leo rushes in and finds a fidgety, nervous old man sitting on a pathetic cot in the middle of what looks like a mini lab or workspace. It's even smaller than Dee's traincar bedroom... The man on the bed has a long and frizzy white beard, accompanied by even frizzier white tufts of hair on his balding head. There are deep circles under his eyes, and his thin frame shakes terribly.

"W-who are -- what are --" he stammers, adjusting the glasses perched on his nose.

"No time," Leo grunts, tripping slightly as he runs up to the old guy. "You're Honeycutt, right? Friend of Casey Jones Jr. and Agent Bishop?"

"Bishop?" Honeycutt whimpers, standing to his feet immediately. "Is he okay? And C-Casey, the boy, did the EPF find him or --"

"Casey's fine, he's here actually," Leo says, grabbing the old man's hand. "We're getting you guys out of here."

Honeycutt nods softly before eyeing the rest of the teenager.

"You look terrible."

"How shocking," Leo jokes.

"That sounds like a very poignant joke..." Honeycutt trembles, quickly inspecting the marks on Leo's plastron. "I'm guessing the wordplay has some truth to it?"

"I'll be fine. C'mon, we're heading to the roof --"

"Wait!" Honeycutt interjects, pulling away quickly and running to the other side of the room. "I need to get some things first..."

"What--?! We're kind of on a deadline here!" Leo gripes.

"I know, I understand, but I have to take SAL with me."

"Who's Sal?" Leo asks, glancing around the room carefully. "A pet goldfish or something?"

"No, SAL is my life's work," Honeycutt chuckles. "You see, I've been working to create artificial intelligence -- an artificial lifeform, if you will. A mechanical body with a genuine mind... and maybe even a soul. But that's for the philosophers to work out, I'm interested in seeing if it's possible to create consciousness within a machine!"

"Wait, you mean AI?" Leo clarifies, somewhat taken aback. "Doesn't that usually result in like... killer robots that destroy humanity?"

"Well... Yes," Honeycutt sighs. "My last attempt was quite... violent, to be truthful. I assume you've met Ms. Campbell by now?"

"Not yet, who's she?" Leo asks, looking over his shoulder to make sure no one is in the hall. He thought he heard something...

"Well, she was my last attempt at creating artificial intelligence," Honeycutt explains, as he packs up several irreplaceable-looking tools and gadgets. "But I got impatient with the code and morality matrixes, and I may have borrowed some data from... unfriendly sources."

"Sounds riveting," Leo says impatiently as he goes to push the old man and his oversized tin toy through the door, "You and Donnie should schedule a brunch meetup or something. But we got to go, NOW."

Honeycutt gasps and freezes as Leo tries to shove him again. He hears a click.

Leo looks up and sees a woman standing in the doorway, holding what Leo pathetically hopes is a toy blaster, and not the real thing.

"A-Abigail," Honeycutt gasps, smiling nervously as his entire body starts trembling with fear. "W-what a surprise!"

"Yeah," the woman says, sounding almost as nervous as him. "It really is. What are you doing, Zayton?"

"W-well, there was an evacuation going on, wasn't there--?"

"Don't play dumb with me, we both know you're too smart for that to work," Abigail growls. She slowly trains the blaster at the two of them, eyes darting back and forth, unsure of who to glare at. "...How could you betray us like this?!"

"B-betray?" Honeycutt stutters.

"Look, maybe we can continue this confrontation at a later date, or maybe never --" Leo attempts.

"You were going to sell us out!" Abigail yells, stomping forward and forcing Professor Honeycutt to take several steps back, along with Leo behind him. "Chaplin told us EVERYTHING! You and that rogue agent were going to go to the police?! With all our work?! All of MY work, Zayton?!"

"I-I'm sorry, Abigail," Honeycutt stammers. "But it was getting out of hand..."

"You don't even understand the meaning of the word!" she screams in his face. "OUT OF HAND?! You were right alongside us, performing your own experiments on the monster! You were using the funding, just like we were! You got your share, and you thought you could just run away?!"

Leo takes several steps to distance himself from Honeycutt, staring in shock. He knew that he worked here, knew he was involved, but... is what she saying true? Did he do things to Mikey??

Honeycutt flinches when he feels Leo move away. He glances back at him, trying to study his expression. Leo figures he must look terrified, because when the old man sees him, he looks remorseful, guilty, and hurt.

"I... I never wanted to... I didn't know what they were..."

Abigail laughs haughtily, tears in her eyes as her hands shake with pure burning rage.

"You didn't know?!" she sneers. "You were the one building the mechs, the training simulators, the ice gun, the extra-strength cattle prods and tasers, the robots -- you built us killing machines, and you DIDN'T KNOW?!"

Honeycutt trembles, shrinking under her accusations.

"And then you have the audacity to switch sides?! Turn Benedict Arnold on us and sell out your associates and friends?!" she screams, bringing the tricked-out laser gun closer to her face and pointing it at the two of them. "You... you traitor. I trusted you. Believe it or not, I trusted you. More than Chaplin, more than Timothy. I always pegged you as the level-headed one, the one person here I could count on not to lose his mind --"

"That's what I'm trying to say!" Honeycutt cries out, throwing his hands in the air. "I joined the EPF because I had a dream! Like you! Probably like most of the people who got sucked into the corporation! But it's not a corporation, it's a #%?!&@$ CULT! It's an insane asylum where the patients are running the show and the only people who have any real thoughts left are the ones in a cage!! Do you have any idea what my existence was like after Chaplin got here?! I was a prisoner loooong before he locked me in my room! And yes, I did what I was told -- because I saw what happened to people who stepped out of line! You know exactly what I'm talking about!! Remember that one guard who assaulted Mikey with the taser?! Do you know, do you remember what happened to him?!"

"Yes I do," Dr. Finn snarls. "His brain is in a jar in my lab."

Honeycutt goes pale.

"Oh. Well, last I heard, he had been mutated and caged... um, but it still proves my point! Anyone who goes against Chaplin or the TCRI --"

"That's different!" Abigail Finn defends. "He attacked the subject and almost damaged the brain --"

"And that justifies experimentation and execution?!" Honeycutt shouts back. "Chaplin is not the law, he's neither judge nor jury! He has no right to do the things he's been doing!! Can't you see how insane this is?!"

Honeycutt sighs and lowers his arms, hanging his head.

"Please... Abigail... You have to see this for what it is. I never wanted to betray anyone, but this has gone on long enough. People are getting hurt. I just... I wanted to leave."

Honeycutt slowly looks back up at her. Her hands shake softly, her eyes burn red with tears. She grits her teeth and grips the gun tighter.

"...Why do you think I came up here?" she growls. "I came to get you out."

Honeycutt's eyes go wide.

"Wait, what? Really? Then what are we even doing here; put the gun down and let's get --"

"NO," Abigail Finn growls, readjusting her stance. "Not yet."

Leo suddenly realizes that the gun isn't pointed at Prof. Honeycutt. It was never pointed at the professor. It was pointed at him.

Leo's hands slowly raise up, and he takes another step back. Dr. Finn takes one step forward.

"Abigail, what are you..?" Honeycutt asks, head bouncing back and forth as he looks between the two of them. "Abby... Abigail, s-stop!"

"You're coming with me, Honeycutt," she growls low. "We're getting out of here. But him?" Her face contorts into a snarl. "He's not going anywhere."

"You're not actually gonna shoot me, are you?" Leo laughs nervously. "You wouldn't -- I'm unarmed!"

"But we both know that you're still a living weapon," Abigail sneers. "Just like Chaplin always said about your brother..."

"Abby, stop! Please! What would you have to gain from this?!" Honeycutt pleads.

"I have everything to lose," she says, voice cracking as she steps closer. "Those turtles will destroy everything I've ever worked for. I'm not about to lose my life's work over a few sewer monsters!"

She points the gun straight at Leo, staring him point-blank in the face. He knows he can't escape, not with the condition he's in. There's no way out of here. Abigail's finger traces over the trigger...

"Just stay out of my way..."

Honeycutt steps in between the two.

"No."

Abigail's brow furrows as she glares at her former coworker.

"Zayton? What are you... get out of my way! This doesn't concern you --"

"Yes it does," Honeycutt says defiantly. "You can't hurt him."

"Watch me."

"No," he says again, guarding Leo.

Leo, who happens to find this whole scenario ironic. Shouldn't he be the one guarding Honeycutt?? But Here he is, watching in fear as a frail old man protects his life from this nutty lady.

"No, I won't move. I'm done being afraid, I'm done pretending like my absence of a choice isn't a choice in and of itself. I've been hiding for too long, letting you get away with everything. No more. I'm taking a stand for once in my life. I can't let you do this, Abby."

"Stay out of this," she seethes, gripping the magazine and handle of the blaster with all her might.

Honeycutt shakes his head.

"I'm done staying out of it."

Bang!

Leo instinctively ducks as soon as he hears the blast, before looking up in shock as the old man defending him doubles over in pain, gripping his chest as Abigail Finn panics and runs away in terror.

"What... no... No! No, no, no!" Leo screams, grabbing the old man by the shoulders and trying desperately to help him. "S-stay with me, okay?! Stay, stay here, I-I'll..."

Honeycutt gasps and gags, choking on his own blood. There's a small but deep hole where a lung is located. Leo guesses that Dr. Finn meant to shoot through the doctor and hit him... but it doesn't even matter now; Leo has to act fast. His hands are already stained red as he attempts to apply pressure to the wound...

Honeycutt grips Leo's fingers with his own, pulling him close as he gasps and fights for air.

"P-please... there's not much time," he wheezes hoarsely. "You... you n-need to get out of h-here. F-find Bishop, g-g-get the... the proof... get it out, s-so n-nothing will ha-happen t-to... to your.... y-your brother... I-I'm sorry for the p-part I played in... in it all..... but... h-hopef-fully this m-makes up for... for everything...... g..go, now......"

"No, I'm not leaving you here!" Leo growls, gritting his teeth. "I'm saving you, I'm getting you out of this mess!"

"I'm already dead," Honeycutt chuckles, before choking and hacking up blood. "I'm lost, kid... just... just go, qu-quick..."

"NO, there's gotta be someway I can save you!"

Leo glances around the room frantically, searching for something, anything he can use --

His eyes fall on the robot laying on the floor by his side. SAL.

"...You said you were trying to put consciousness into a robot, right?" Leo tries, tears streaking down his face in desperation as he runs out of options. "How??"

"The... the port..." Honeycutt manages, his voice fading as he struggles to keep his eyes open. "The... there's a cable... o-on the t...table..... blue ssssstripes..."

Leo sets him down carefully and grabs the large blue cord from the table. The end of said cable has several metal prongs connected inside of it, matching a port opening. Leo finally sticks it in after three tries, then turns to the doctor.

"O-okay, what now?!" he begs. "What do I do?!"

"The... the hel.... th'helmet..." Honeycutt exhales, his finger weakly lifting, falling, and shaking as he attempts to point to a corner cabinet.

Leo jumps into action, practically pouncing on the cabinet and shoveling supplies out as he frantically searches for the device. He eventually finds what looks like a metal bike helmet, complete with blinky lights and switches.

"Okay, okay, I think I've got it, now what?"

Honeycutt doesn't respond. Leo whirls around to look at him. His chest is starting to fall.

"No... No! No, not yet! Not when I can -- NO!"

Leo moves. Fast, desperate, swift, and with very little thinking involved.

"Really wish Donnie was here!" he gripes as he snatches the cable from the desk and shoves it into the helmet. A three-pronged needle sticks out from the other side where the porthole would be. Leo grimaces as he thinks of the pain that will follow. "Sorry, doc, but this is probably gonna sting..."

Leo drops to his knees by the professor and drives the helmet onto his head. The needles click into the nape of the neck. The lights flash, and the old man suddenly screams, his body convulsing on the ground as the device does its work.

Leo has to force himself to keep from covering his mouth at the screams; his hands are still bloody and he doesn't want to get the Professor's blood anywhere it shouldn't be. The professor shrieks in pain as the cable brightens up and blue light flows from the helmet to the little robot laying on the floor beside them. His body jerks, back and forth, the robot begins to tremble and jerk as well. A garbled, staticy shriek starts to emanate from the speakers where its mouth would be.

Suddenly, both bodies freeze and fall limp. The professor goes silent, his skin pale and shirt soaked with blood. His chest falls, his breathing ceases.

He's dead.

"...D-doc?" Leo whimpers. "Hello? Did... did it work? Please, tell me I didn't just --"

Leo hears groaning. It's robotic, staticy, almost like autotune. It slowly starts to refocus, becoming clearer and easier to understand. It sounds like... like...

"...Professor?" Leo whispers, hovering over the metal body with baited breath.

The robot -- SAL -- stirs, before slowly sitting up and placing a mechanical hand to its head.

"ᴜɢʜʜ… ᴡᴇʟʟ, ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴀꜱ ᴀɴ ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴘᴇᴀᴛ."

Leo reels backwards from the robot half his size, as it slowly starts to stand.

"ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅɪᴅ… ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅɪᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ᴅᴏ…?" it asks, in Honeycutt's voice. "ᴡʜʏ ɪꜱ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ꜱᴏ ᴍᴜᴄʜ ᴛᴀʟʟᴇʀ? ᴀɴᴅ ᴡʜʏ ᴅᴏ ɪ --"

The robot Honeycutt halts, staring down at the new body it he has acquired.

"ᴏʜ. ᴏʜ. ᴏʜʜʜʜ -- ᴏʜ ᴍʏ ɢᴏᴅ, ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴᴇ?! ɪ -- ɪ --"

"You're welcome?" Leo tries, slowly getting off the floor and to his feet as he watches the Professor come to terms with his new form. "If that really is you... Right? Doc?"

"ɪᴛ… ɪᴛ'ꜱ ᴍᴇ, ɪ… ᴏᴏᴏᴏᴏᴏʜ ᴅᴇᴀʀ, ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴀ��ᴇ ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ɢᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢ ᴜꜱᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ…"

"Can you walk?" Leo asks nervously.

"ɪ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇ ꜱᴏ," he replies slowly. "ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ'ꜱ ᴀ ᴜꜱᴇʀ ᴍᴀɴᴜᴀʟ ᴅᴏᴡɴʟᴏᴀᴅᴇᴅ ɪɴ ʜᴇʀᴇ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴡʜᴇʀᴇ…"

"Well, read it on the way, okay?" Leo sighs with relief, taking the robot's hand and dragging him away. "We got to GO."

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[campgender]

hey! I'm currently writing a paper discussing experiences of disabled and neurodivergent students at my uni (spoiler alert: it's not great lmao), and while I have a couple references so far (mostly Lund and Pearlstein) about the larger Disabled Student ExperienceTM I'm struggling to find academic papers talking about this, particularly since my field of study is psychology rather than disability theory/disability justice. are there any texts regarding this that you would reccommend? doing my best to lean on crip theory for this essay and you were the first person i thought of! no worries if you don't have the energy to answer this rn ofc, i hope you're having a good day ✨

omg what a fabulous & vital project! i’d love to hear more about your work both out of interest & to potentially refine my recommendations because this is such a complex, multifaceted area of experience + research + activism — i tried to draw from a variety of perspectives so you can dig deeper into what seems most relevant!

my number one recommendation is the book Academic Ableism by Jay Dolmage, i still need to read most of it rip but it’s absolutely considered foundational in this topic. the rest i’m gonna put under a cut because it got super long lol, i’ll also reblog to my disability sideblog @crippleprophet in case anyone else has suggestions!

best of luck with your work, i hope some of this is helpful! feel free to reach out for more recommendations, input, or encouragement❣️💖

on the built environment – eg, the physical campus & how it impacts students

if you’re in the US, this summary of colleges’ responsibilities under the ADA has been helpful for me (link).

Building Access by Aimi Hamraie

Accessibility for Historic Buildings: A Field Guide, 2nd Edition (link to pdf)

written by David Provost and revised by Joseph Hoefferle, Jr. as part of the University of Vermont Graduate Program in Historic Preservation

back in 2020 i used the first edition of this document in a project arguing my undergraduate university should make its historic buildings more accessible

lays out policies & options in tables with photo examples from their campus

Aimi Hamraie & Kelly Fritsch’s Crip Technoscience Manifesto (2019)

Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 5(1), pp1-34.

this piece is honestly just incredibly life-giving for me in general so i highly recommend giving it a full read when you have time. specific parts that i thought might resonate with the experiences of students at your uni:

“user-initiated design” (Hendren & Lynch, cited p9)

“access as friction” (p10):

Emerging out of historical fights for disability rights, the terms accessibility and access are usually taken to mean disabled inclusion and assimilation into normative able-bodied relations and built environments. […] However, the etymology of the word access reveals two frictional meanings: access as “an opportunity enabling contact,” as well as “a kind of attack” (2016, p. 23). Taking access as a kind of attack reveals access-making as a site of political friction and contestation. While historically central to the fights for disability access, crip technoscience is nevertheless committed to pushing beyond liberal and assimilation-based approaches to accessibility, which emphasize inclusion in mainstream society, to pursue access as friction, particularly paying attention to access-making as disabled peoples’ acts of non-compliance and protest.

noncompliant users and assistive technology as friction (p11):

Lifchez and Winslow offer the concept of “non-compliant users,” illustrating this with an image of a powerchair user wheeling against traffic on a street without curb cuts (1979, p. 153). This technology-enabled movement against the flow of traffic marks anti-assimilationist crip mobility: not an attempt to integrate (as in the liberal approach to disability rights), but rather to use technology as a friction against an inaccessible environment.

collaborative mapping of (in)accessibility, something i know happens more informally among disabled students on many campuses (p15):

Unlike mainstream disability technoscience “crowdsourcing” projects, which invoke a charity model of disability wherein non-disabled people collect data but do not engage in disability culture or politics, emerging projects such as Mapping Access are making participatory access-making the basis of a kind of technoscientific “access intimacy” (Mingus, 2017) through practices such as “critical crowdsourcing” of accessibility data (Hamraie, 2018). […] Collaborative mapping visualizes the evidence of inaccessibility while creating opportunities for collective response. Crip cartographic technoscience thus enables more critical design, and interrogation of the everyday built environment.

access to education

the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes the right to inclusive education (Article 24). scholarship in this area is about primary & secondary education, not postsecondary / university education, but a lot of the concepts can be applied

in addition to inclusive education, “universal design for learning” (UDL) might be a helpful keyword but it definitely trends toward the liberal as a whole

“Hidden contradictions and conditionality: conceptualisations of inclusive education in international human rights law” (2013) by Bronagh Byrne (link)

references the importance of identifying barriers as a step in the process of accessible education, which depending on your work may be a nice succinct justification of its necessity (p234):

Inclusion ‘necessitates the removal of the material, ideological, political and economic barriers that legitimate and reproduce in equality and discrimination in the lives of disabled people’ (Barton and Armstrong 2001, 214). According to this view, an identification of barriers within the school’s environment, teaching and learning strategies, and attitudes that prevent the full participation of children with disabilities, will also be required.

argues for a focus on inability of schools to meet students’ needs rather than students’ inability to conform to an ableist environment (for example, p242):

International human rights law has conditionalised the right to inclusive education for children with disabilities by making inclusion contingent upon the extent of individual rather than institutional or structural deficits.

psychological/emotional impact on disabled students

“psycho-emotional disablism” may be a useful search term for you, with the disclaimer that a substantial portion of scholars in feminist disability studies are TERFs / express “gender critical” beliefs / etc. so like i’m listing one paper i came across that looked relevant + two from my grad program’s recommended reading, but i haven’t read these & suggest vetting authors before citing them:

“The psycho-emotionally disabling impact of academic landscapes of exclusion: experiences of a disabled postgraduate in perpetual lockdown” (2023) by Joanne Hunt (link)

Reeve, D (2004). Psycho-emotional dimensions of disability and the social model. In C Barnes & G Mercer (eds), Implementing the social model of disability: theory and research. The Disability Press, Leeds, pp. 83-100. http://donnareeve.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ReeveChapter2004b.pdf

Reeve, D. (2014) 'Psycho-emotional disablism and internalised oppression', in J. Swain, S. French, C. Barnes and C. Thomas (eds) Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments, 3rd Edition, London: Sage, pp. 92-98. http://donnareeve.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ReeveChapter2014a.pdf

[digitalfemanimalities]

Critical posthumanism

Published in 2013 and written by cultural and media studies theorist/ postacademic, Stefan Herbrechter, the book ‘Critical Posthumanism’ proposed a less conventional way of thinking posthumanism, which was dialectically was synonymous with transhumanism thus his theory distinguished and cemented more clearly posthumanism as a way of questioning what it means to be human, the meanings of the interactions between humanism and technology on one another, and the possibility, necessity, and desirability of postanthrocentricism.

Key concepts and contextualisations:

‘Remaining ‘critical’ in the sense of developing reading techniques, forms of conceptualisations and subjectivities that are both self-reflexive and aware of their own genealogies (i.e. able to stay ‘critically’ connected with humanist traditions and esp. ‘literal’, ‘literary’ and ‘textual’ approaches)’

→ Within ‘girl media’ there have often been undertones of regressive behaviours and values, such as glamorisations of abuse and mental illness, reiterations of white supremacist ideals (particularly via beauty standards), and reiterations of the trad wife cunningly convincing women of their lesser status and more subtlety suppressing them under the patriarchy. The, especially young, girl online is understandably sometimes the friend who is not always woke enough.. so to speak, as supported by theorist, Alex Quicho, who raises concerns of ‘a decline in critical thinking’.

What it means to be human under the conditions of globalisation, technoscience, late capitalism and climate change (often, very problematically, by deliberately blurring the distinctions between science fiction and science fact)

→ Digital escapism in a politically, socially, financially declining but digitally advancing world? Deer girl is on it!

‘Transhumanism and biomedia’ 

Reference: 

Herbrechter, S. (2017). Critical PosthumanismCritical Posthumanism Network

[flynncorvus]

New Species Maybe-

(Under the Cut is some Details)

This might be a Species, this might be just a story. Who knows, I'll encourage making OCs of your own either way (Read under the cut if you do want to make something) >:3

Just a Q's I think I should answer:

• What is the gold for? - Probably going to be blood, or maybe these cats have magic that'll do something with? - Might also be toe bean colour, undecided

Some (Looks) Details I can come up with Now:

• ’Mask’ is darker colour than Pelt ~The mask looks like it has a strap, but it's built into them ~It's techy! A tech mask >:3 • Pelt is almost always a dark colour ~There are certain cases where their fur is light, but I haven't figured that out yet x.x • The Marking on their chest matches their pupil ~Yes, pupils can be different shapes!!! ~Mine is like a plus sign without the middle bit :3 • The same Neon is applied to certain areas ~The neon is the colour they 'glow' in, and they also have the same 'colour' for the other details. (Ie; purple glow, purple pelt) ~I might change so they can be duotone or smth later     -Eyes+Eyebrow+Whiskers     -Tail     -Inside Ears     -Fade on Paws     -Fade on tail     -Antennae     -Symbol on Chest • Whiskers should be normal whisker rules for cats ~As in they help with determining where cats can fit in spaces n stuff ~They do regrow if they are chopped/cut! • No Mouths! They all talk with speakers or electronic connection ~Speakers might be in the mask or maybe the ears, I don't know yet ~This Species needs to do a connection on BOTH ENDS to have 'telepathy' together. It's like a constant video call, and one can 'block' the other as well. • Tail is around the same as body length, no matter the species they are based on ~Tail is pretty much always tapered, thicker at the base and pointy at the end ~The end of the tail, the fur, also glows! The entire cat is like a night light >.< ~The cat can be based on pretty much any species in real life! It doesn't really matter, it's just so we can get a large variety of body shapes, fur types, etc. • Antennae are any length and any ‘fur’ amount ~ANY length. They can be so long that they reach the floor, or so short that only some fur shows. They do have to be there though. ~The fur can be around the entire thing, at the very end, at the base, I don't care! Have fun with the fur (Until I change something) :3

Some (Lore) Details I can come up with Now:

• Meet Your Maker ~Yes, they were made by humans from the past (Humans are called The Others) ~These 'cats' don't worship The Others per say, they just have a high respect for such a species; especially since they made them. ~The Others disappeared mysteriously (I don't know how yet) • Setting/Time Era? ~Taking inspo from Final Fantasy (My dad is playing it), the time period will probably be something 'Future Past' ? ~These cats can live pretty much ANYWHERE ~Although they will need 'modifications' to their design based on where they live (IE; ocean, wider tail or rainforest more prehensile tail) ~This cat here probably lives somewhere in one of the Abandoned sectors, I'm thinking a city or a village somewhere with normal-ish weather (Basically the base setting x.x) • Why Were they Made? ~Uhhh The Others were screwing with AI ~And what better to put revolutionary no-human-required AI in, than a cat! (Who already acts like they're better than us) ~The Others are epic for choosing cats B) • Can they Die? ~Yes! They can die! ~I'm sure that they can die by bleeding out or by having all three of their antenne cut (the ones on the top of their head and their tail) ~The antenne cut cannot be solved so far. Once cut, death is certain ~Viruses are like colds and stuff to them, while not common, they do happen

[chris-wonder]

Here is a lovely essay shared with me by one of the lovely disabled people I met today! She is so cool and loves disability theory.

I absolutely love the idea of transmobility and cripborg. My disabilities cause me to use a wide variety of aids and to use my aids in unconventional ways all the time. I really encourage everyone to read this piece!

[professeur-stump]

Sixième principe

Sixième principe. L'histoire des technosciences est en grande partie l'histoire des ressources rassemblées le long de réseaux pour accélérer l'inscription, la mobilité, la fiabilité, la capacité de combinaison et la cohésion des traces qui rendent possible l'action à distance.

(Bruno Latour, La science en action)

[thomas-querqy]

france.tv permet de revoir 5 ans après cette mini-série d'anticipation, et force est de constater que Russell T Davies avait à peine forcé le trait. 😍😍

disponible jusqu'au 6 décembre 2024

Years and years écrit et réalisé par Russell T Davies (le créateur de Queer as Folk)

apporté par ma sœur pour nous distraire de la pluie de Toussaint : MERCI Bérénice

L’empathie est l’avenir de l’homme dans les NGT

[librarycards]

hi sarah, appreciate the work you do (it is so important and compelling, i virtually discovered the concept of anti-psychiatry through your blog). i was wondering whether you could recommend some texts (of any kind: books, articles, etc) specifically focused on autism and the autistic experience from a neuroqueer/transMad perspective. thanks so much

thank you so much for the kind words!!

i've written about this in a few places:

The Queer Aut of Failure: Cripistemic Openings for Postgraduate Life

Social Skills: a transdyke autie-biography

Mel Baggs Will Never Leave Us

Some other pieces and books of note:

Mel Baggs's oeuvre. (Blog) (Another blog)

M. Remi Yergeau, Wandering Rhetoric, Rhetoric Wandering and Clinically Significant Disturbance: On Theorists Who Theorize Theory of Mind and all of their work!

Jake Pyne, Autistic Disruptions, Trans Temporalities (Pyne has a bunch of excellent work on neuroqueerness and (imo) transMadness!)

J. Logan Smilges, Crip Negativity and Queer Silence (and other works!)

Jess Rauchberg, Imagining a Neuroqueer Technoscience.

*You may notice that this list is very white and TME. Yes, and that's a massive problem. If anyone has recommendations that break this mold, I am begging you to let me know, as there are so many gaps in the still-nascent theorization around autism from a critical Mad perspective.

[violetsandshrikes]

“Celia” and her narrative have become a product of the chapter in the ungulate’s life where she is as an endling, a clone, and then the world’s only double extinction. In this story, Celia is unlucky, tragic, lost, alone, la última of her kind. (An endling of this trope is very strong in David Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo, where he asks the readers to imagine the last, lonely, little old lady dodo bird at the end of her species.) In this sort of telling, an endling like Celia draws heavily in popular imagination and prevention to what environmental scholar Ursula Heise calls a “gender fiction” involving “elegiac tropes of the bereaved mother and wife, as well as that of the elderly lady with health problems.” It’s much more tragic, it invokes so much more pathos, for the story of an endling to be told as a sad old lady ibex who died, alone, without family to mourn her.

“Laña,” on the other hand, was the name and persona that people in Torla had ascribed to the bucardo in her life and memorialized after her death. The bucardo museum was founded in April 2013, admist a whirlwind of discussion about possibly trying to clone Celia- that is, Laña- again. The museum, which successfully fought to curate Laña’s taxidermied remains, was emphatic in its commitment to the last bucardo being remembered in situ. That she should be “home” and visible to the community. “Being here, in Torla, meant that the bucardo could find new meanings outside of the realm of technoscience,” Searle notes. “Laña lives on.”

- Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene, by Lydia Pyne

[mudaship39]

Character Bio of the Asian Pasifika demigod and Afro Latine Native alien hybrid main character: Part 7

Powers: 

Superhuman and supernatural: strength, agility, dexterity, reflexes, speed, durability, instincts, accuracy, perception, metabolism, senses, endurance, intelligence, memory, healing, flexibility, & stamina, lifespan, longevity, self sustenance, & condition.  

Flight: 

Capable of flight in the air when growing wings. Capable of flying in space as an alien hybrid. 

Underwater: 

Capable of living underwater as a hydrokinetic demigod 

Capable of deep sea diving when growing tail, fins, & gills when transformed as a wereshark, merfolk, or Atlantean. 

Abilities: 

He/she/they were enhanced and augmented on a cellular, microscopic, nanoscopic, & subatomic level during an unethical intergalactic compartmentalized deep black project on a giant black site planet when captured by the Earth government to create metahuman and superhuman child soldiers. 

He/she/they were experimented on as a child giving them the ability to grow teeth, canines, saber teeth, fangs, claws, talons, horns, & tusks that can rip apart the strongest materials. 

Bionic/Cyborg: 

Bionic Surrogacy, Body Transcendence Bodily Attribute Augmentation, Condition Augmentation, Bio Augmentation, Potential Augmentation, Power Augmentation, Technology Augmentation 

Cybernetic Aging, Cybernetic Life Force, Cybernetic Nanite Force, Cybernetic Resurrection 

Technology Manipulation, Bio Tech Manipulation, Data Manipulation 

Tech Flight

Bio-Metal Mimicry

Technological Psionics

Cybernetic Strength, Speed, Durability, Constitution, Endurance, Stamina, Flexibility, Reflexes, or Agility 

Robotic Body Parts, BioMechanical Human Skin, Cybernetic Organs, Cybernetic Muscles, Cybernetic Metal Skeleton, High Tech Exoskeleton, Cybernetic Spine, Electronic Eyes, Robot Arm, Robot Leg, Cyber Mind, Cybernetic Subdermal armor 

BioMechanical Constructs

Artificially Enhanced Physiology, Bionic Physiology, Superior Human Physiology, Techno Organic Physiology, 

Genetically Engineered Sentient Weapon

Technoscience 

Cyber Mind

Psionics, Telepathy, Techno empathy, Electropathy, Mechanopathy, Technopathy, Cyberpathy

Cyberspace Manipulation, Internet Manipulation, Computer Manipulation, Robotic Manipulation

Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Interaction

Electronic Communication, Omni-Communication (with all kinds of tech and machines), Electronic Communication

Mechanical Mastery, Robotics Mastery

Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Inventing

Gadget Proficiency

Mechanics Creation

Cyber lingualism

Pattern Sense

Psionic Technology

Extrasensory Perception

Psychic Scanning

Techno formation (Technokinesis), Direct/Remote Techno formation

Activation/Deactivation

Programming

Robotization

Technological Constructs, Technology Transmutation, Technology Augmentation

Cyborgification

Upgrading

Zinc Positive

Electromagnetic Pulse Emission, Neutrino Whitewash Emission

Hologram Interaction, Computer Interaction

Psychic Technology Manipulation, Cyberspace Manipulation, Virtual Reality Manipulation

Psychic Lightning

Radio Frequency Detection

Technological Force Manipulation, Technological Possession, Technology Empowerment

Virtual Reality Lordship

Digital Symbiosis

Fixing Mastery

Nanite Artificial Intelligence

Data Manipulation, Internet Manipulation, Virtual Particle Manipulation, Phone Manipulation

Technical Power Replication

Virtual Connecting

Phone Signal Transmission

Techno-Empathy

Organism-Artificial Intelligence Synergy

Undead Technology

Artificial Godhood

Cyberpotence

Direct Techno forming

Electronic-Media Jumping

Cyber presence

Holo-Technology, Alien Technology, Entity Technology

Digital Interaction

Technological Illusion

Interface Manipulation, Device Manipulation, FTL Transmission Manipulation, GPS Manipulation

Transcendent Artificial Intelligence Physiology

Remote Techno formation

Computer Operation Mastery

Electric Charging

Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision:

He/she/they were given the ability to see the entire electromagnetic spectrum such as x-ray vision, thermal vision, night vision, & ultraviolet vision, including the ability to sense gamma radiation, the ability to see microscopic vision, binocular vision, & nanoscopic vision. 

He/she/they were experimented on and had his/her/their body implanted with bionic and cybernetic implants as a young adult to become an adult super soldier for the Terran Confederacy. 

Telepathy and empathy (ability to summon and command terrestrial, avian, aquatic, angelic, demonic, magical, divine, mystical, & extraterrestrial animals, monsters, creatures, & humanoids). 

Telepathic and empathic resistance: Ability to resist mind control and resist empaths and telepaths

Demigod physiology: 

Child of an Asian Pasifika who is an Asian Indigenous Pasifika demigod. Child of Akio Kato.

Descendent of Namaka a Polynesian Hawaiian water goddess, Polynesian Hawaiian Pele goddess of fire and volcanos, Chinese goddess Nu Wa, Chinese god Hou Yi, Chinese goddess Chang’E, an unknown Tongan god (rediscovered after reconnecting after post cultural genocide), Japanese god Fujin, Japanese god Susanoo, Japanese god Inari, Japanese goddess Izanami, Japanese god Izanagi, and Amaterasu a Japanese sky goddess.

For the demigod side. Their elemental divine powers come from natural energy around them and spiritual energy inside them. Meaning their divine potential works best when they’re in sync with mind, heart, body, soul, aura, and mana. This is why he/she/they went through an introspection trial. Of why they meet with the god. Their mana, chi, or chakra was out of sync. Making the gods and goddesses worried.

He/she/they have several powers such as: 

Transcendent demigod physiology, Demigod physiology, Lesser divinity, Decelerated aging, Semi immorality, Mythic physiology, Nature spirit physiology, Transcendent physiology, Authority, Guardianship

He/she/they later also gain the demigod powers of being able to use more powerful fusion elemental powers like Acid/Poison-Fire manipulation, Acid/Poison fire manipulation, Cyro(Water/Ice)-Electricity (Lightning/Thunder), Electro-Earth manipulation, Electro-Plant manipulation, Electric (thunder/lightning)-fire(magma/lava/fire) manipulation, Electric (lightning/thunder)-water(ice/water/frost) manipulation, 

Fire (Fire/Magma/Lava)-Earth (Earth/Stone/Rock/Sand/Metal) Manipulation, Fire (Fire/Lava/Magma)-Plant(Wood/Nature/Plant) Manipulation, 

Fire(Fire/Lava/Magma/Autumn)-Water(Water/Ice/Frost/Winter) Manipulation,

Ice(Water/Frost/Ice)-Earth(Earth/Stone/Rock/Metal) Manipulation, 

Ice (Water/Ice/Frost)-Fire(Fire/Magma/Lava) Manipulation, Light (Light/Life)-Darkness (Dark/Shadows/Death) Manipulation, Fire (Magma/Lava/Fire)-Metal (Earth/Rock/Stone/Metal) Manipulation,

Magnetic-Gravity Manipulation, Air (Smoke/Air/Steam/Fog-Fire(Magma/Lava/Fire) Manipulation, Water (Water/Ice/Frost)-Earth (Earth/Rock/Stone/Metal) Mud Manipulation. 

He/she/they are trained by their Asian Pasifika demigod father.

Water embodiment, Water Manipulation, Water empowerment, Water energy manipulation 

Elemental artillery, Elemental weapons, Elemental constructs, Elemental bow construction

Ocean deity physiology, Oceanic deity physiology, Ocean communication, Ocean ruler, Ocean embodiment, Ocean manipulation, Ocean Magic, Ocean Lordship

Surfing intuition, Swimming intuition, Swimming manipulation, Swimming negation

Weather attacks, Weather embodiment, Weather immunity, Weather manipulation, Weather mode, Weather weaponry, Weatherly presence, 

Whirlpool generation, Hurricane generation, Disaster manipulation, Sea Destruction 

Storm deity physiology 

Rain manipulation, Cloud generation, Sub zero rain, Rain manipulation, Storm manipulation, Climate manipulation, Flood manipulation, Drought creation, Air manipulation, Tidal wave generation 

Amphibian physiology, Amphibian adaptation, Sea monster physiology, Were shark physiology, Tail manifestation, Swimming tail, Webbed Appendages, Gill Manifestation, Fin Manifestation, Shark physiology, Fish physiology, Scale manifestation, Marine biology manipulation, Sea monster manipulation, Shark manipulation. 

Merfolk physiology, Merfolk lord physiology, Merfolk magic, Merfolk manipulation, Merfolk sorcerer physiology 

Mystic atlantean physiology, Mana Manipulation, Magic weaponry, Trident proficiency, Atlantean physiology, Triton physiology, Nymph physiology 

Submerged attacks, Aquatic breathing, Speed swimming, Underwater senses, Enhanced swimming, Water maneuverability, Underwater invulnerability, Trident proficiency 

Arctic mode, Arctic creation, Arctic magic, Arctic manipulation 

Hydrokinesis, Aquatic adaptation, Hydromancy, Hydromancer, Water augmentation 

Water aura, Water cutting, Water defense, Water boundary, Water exoskeleton, Water shield construction, Water body creation, Water augmentation, Water hair, Water generation, Water flotation, Water immunity, Water infusion, Water imprisonment, Water limb generation, Water mimicry, Water mode, Water negation, Water pillar projection, Water platform creation, Water portal creation, Water purification, Water sealing, Water separation, Water solidification, Water spike projection, Water soul, Water symbiosis, Water teleportation, Watercraft manipulation, Water transformation, Water transmutation, Water vortex creation, Water walking, Water wall generation, Water wave emission, Water weaponry, Water attacks

Hydrokinetic combat, Hydrokinetic polearm spear construction, Hydrokinetic blade construction, Hydrokinetic claws, Hydrokinetic whip generation, Hydrokinetic cloning, Hydrokinetic constructs, Hydrokinetic creature creation, Hydrokinetic shapeshifting, Hydrokinetic regeneration, Hydrokinetic intangibility, Hydrokinetic invisibility, Hydrokinetic flight, Hydrokinetic wing manifestation, Hydrokinetic surfing

Healing water 

Aquatic breathing, Aquatic empathy, Aquatic telepathy, Aquatic mode, Aquatic life embodiment, Aquatic life lordship 

Blood absorption, Blood magic, Blood manipulation 

Cryomancer, Snow manipulation, Snow magic, Snow generation, Snow shield construction, Blizzard creation, Ice magic, Ice manipulation, Ice exoskeleton, Ice absorption, Ice generation, Ice aura, Ice Weaponry, Ice attacks, Ice wall generation, Ice mimicry, Ice mode, ice age manipulation, Unmeltable Ice, Winter embodiment, Winter magic, Winter manipulation  

Fog generation

Air Deity Physiology 

Celestial manipulation, Cosmic manipulation, Stellar manipulation, Solar manipulation 

Heaven lordship 

Sky embodiment, Sky lordship, Sky manipulation, Sky mimicry 

Weather empowerment, Weather manipulation, Weather Soul, Esoteric weather manipulation, Divine weather manipulation, Omni weather manipulation 

Atmospheric adaptation 

Lightning manipulation 

Fire Manipulation 

Absolute Burning, Self Combustion, Combustion Inducement, Energetic Combustion, Personal heat, Pyro Kinetic Flight, Pyro Kinetic Surfing, Flammable Blood, Flammable Body Fluids, Nova Flame, Pyro Science, Omni Combustion, Thermal Resistance, Pyro Kinetic human Physiology, Healing Fire, Flame Shield, Pyrotic Communication 

Fire Augmentation, Fire Absorption, Fire Armor, Fire Attacks, Fire Artillery, Fire Aura, fire boundary, fire defense, Fire Detection, fire embodiment, fire empowerment, Fire Generation, fire hair, Fire Immunity, fire infusion, fir magic, fire mimicry, Fire Negation, fire portal creation, fire sealing, Fire Soul, Fire teleportation, Fire Transformation, Fire Transmutation, Fire Weaponry 

Bio-Fire Manipulation, Conceptual Fire Manipulation, Cosmic Fire Manipulation, Dark Fire Manipulation, Esoteric Flame Manipulation, Eternal Flame Manipulation, Explosive Fire Manipulation, Grand Flame Manipulation, Holy Fire Manipulation, Invisible Flame Manipulation, Liquid Fire Manipulation, Nuclear Fire Manipulation, Omni Fire Manipulation, Pure Fire Manipulation, Rainbow Fire Manipulation, Solid Fire Manipulation, Underwater-Fire Manipulation

Acid-Fire Manipulation, Electric-Fire Manipulation, Fire-Plant Manipulation, Ice-Fire Manipulation, Magma Fire Manipulation, Plasma Fire Manipulation, Poison-Fire Manipulation

Pyro kinetic cloning, pyro kinetic combat, pyro kinetic enhanced condition, pyro kinetic invisibility, pyro kinetic regeneration, pyro kinetic tears

Ash Manipulation, Chaos Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Fuel Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Ionic Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Magma Manipulation, Methane Manipulation, Molecular Manipulation, Nuclear Manipulation, Oxygen Manipulation, Radiation Manipulation, Smoke manipulation, Spark Manipulation, Soot Manipulation, Solar Manipulation, Summer Manipulation, Thermal Chemistry Manipulation

Later given full immortality when made a full god after they died and were rewarded as a hero and champion of Asian and Pasifika gods 

Divine Resurrection Death Transformation, Death Transcendence, Almighty Ascension, Ethereal Body, Higher Consciousness, Ethereal manipulation, Supernatural condition, Energy perception, Extra Sensory Perception, Divine magic, Conjuration, Transmutation, Divine Aura, Deity Soul, Divine Form, Divine Powers, Divine Presence, Domain Warping, Divine Force manipulation, Divine Energy manipulation, Dimensional manipulation, Elemental manipulation, Energy manipulation, Healing, Telekinesis, Essence reading, Astral Projection, Telepathy, Empathy, Teleportation, Omni Psionics, Cosmic Awareness, Clairvoyance, Precognition, Omniscience 

Alien hybrid physiology: 

Child of a Latine Native alien hybrid who is a South American Latinx Colombian, South American Baniwa and Embera Indigenous Ameridian  of Colombia, and an Iuyamian alien extraterrestrial hybrid.

Energy Projection: As an alien hybrid he/she/they can fire optic blasts from their eyes, breath blasts from mouth, energy blasts from the palms of hands, rocket like fire from palms of feet.

Energy Absorption, Optic Blasts, Breath attacks, Beam Emission, Energy Beam Emission, Hand Blasts, Ball Projection, Bolt Projection, Bullet Projection, Cutting Wave, Omnidirectional Beams, Omnidirectional Blasts, Omnidirectional waves, Wave Emission, Wave motion Blast

Their power of flight. Power of breath blasts from their mouth, energy blasts from their palms of their clawed hands and soles of their clawed feet, and optic blasts from their eyes as an alien hybrid comes from lunar rays, solar radiation, and cosmic energy.

His/her/their true alien form has several eyes. So he/she/they have optic blasts like cyclops, Superman, or darkseid. His/her/their optic blasts from his/her/their two eyes are crimson. His/her/their optic blasts from his/her/their main two eyes he/she/they use to see are one directional like Superman or Cyclops. These optic blasts are more concentrated and focused. 

His/her/their optic blasts from his/her/their other eyes are omnidirectional like darkseid. These optic blasts are not as accurate. These optic blasts are gold. Capable of redirecting itself if the target moves but won’t hit them as powerful. 

His/her/their true alien form has several eyes. He/she/they uses two to see. The other two or three eyes are more supportive or extra sensory. Letting him/her/them sense throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. Like ultraviolet, x-ray, radio, or thermal vision. Think of it like the eyes of a spider or any multi eyed organism.

They can fire overcharged oversized optic blasts from the eyes, energy blasts from the palms of their hands, & breath blasts from their mouth after absorbing extra solar radiation, lunar rays, or cosmic energy. 

Their eyes can fire chi vision, ectoplasm vision, freeze vision, ionic vision, laser vision, magic vision, plasma vision, radiation vision, & solar energy vision.

Mutant: 

He/she/they got their mutant powers of shapeshifting from coming into contact with a serum. The serum was a pink ooze that he/she/they accidentally came into contact with when he/she/they was stopping a mad scientist.

Ability Creation

Power Bestowal

Mutated Human, Mutant Alien

Atavism

Body Modification

DNA Overwrite

Enhancing Mutation, Multiple Mutation Immunity, 

Evolution

Genetic Access, Gene-Splicing, Genetic Evolution, Genetics

Mutagen Empowerment, Mutation Empowerment

Secondary Mutation, Multiple Mutations

Superhumanization, Transhumanization

DNA Manipulation, Mutation Manipulation 

Mutant Physiology, Superior Human Physiology, Science Attuned Physiology, Artificially Enhanced Physiology, Superior Mutant Physiology, Transcendent Mutant Physiology

Unique Physiology:

He/she/they were born with teeth that can rip through orichalcum, canines and saber teeth that can rip through adamantium and vibranium, claws that can rip through mithril and adamant, & a prehensile chimera tail (with a mouth that has fangs) that can rip through diamonds. 

He/she/they got their mutant powers of shapeshifting from coming into contact with a serum. The serum was a pink ooze that he/she/they accidentally came into contact with when he/she/they was stopping a mad scientist.

Metamorph: 

Their powers of shapeshifting are innate and have unlimited potential throughout their long lifespan. It is their own mutation as a mutant as a metahuman and superhuman.

Changeling, metamorph, or shapeshifter with unlimited forms (potential limitless). 

He/she/they were born with his/her/their superhuman and supernatural control over transfiguration and shapeshifting.

Mimicry: 

He/she/they can psionically modify the configuration of his/her/their organic cells at will on a cellular, microscopic, atomic, subatomic level, & nanoscopic level. So, he/she/they can cause himself/herself/themselves to sound, act, & appear as a precise carbon copy of any of any human or humanoid. That is regular, divine, mythical, mythological, magical, discovered, undiscovered, extinct, living, aquatic, avian, terrestrial, extraterrestrial, demonic, imaginary, mythical, fictional, magical, futuristic, mystical, science fiction, & fantasy. So, he/she/they can shapeshift into any human, humanoid, semi-humanoid, beast, creature, monster, & animal regardless of any sex, any gender, any race, height, weight, body type, hair style, hair color, eye color, skin tone. He/she/they gained this ability as a teenager. 

He/she/they can transfigure into anything whether or not they are super powered or unpowered, any species, wearing or not wearing clothes, wearing armor or not wearing armor, & or whether they have or don’t have cybernetic or bionic enhancements. He/she/they can shapeshift into anything whether or not they have: scales, fur, feathers, horns, and wings. He/she/they can precisely imitate someone’s retinal pattern, finger prints, vocal patterns and copy their memories, mental thought patterns, finger palm patterns, skin pore patterns, skin, smell, vocal cords, emotional patterns, & repeating behaviors to fool anyone including the most powerful empaths and the most powerful telepaths. He/she/they gained this capability as a young adult. 

With the Prime the primordial force of the cosmos that he/she/they are avatar, champion, & embodiment of he/she/they are the defender and protector of all sentient life. He/she/they were gifted with dragon lord physiology, dragon god physiology, transcendent dragon physiology, werebeast lord physiology, transcendent werebeast physiology, true vampire physiology, vampire lord physiology, transcendent vampire physiology, vaewolf physiology, werepire physiology, werepire lord physiology, transcendent werepire physiology, vaewolf lord physiology, & alpha vaewolf physiology (fusion of a werebeast lord physiology and a vampire lord physiology)

He/she/they with their absolute adaptation he/she/they can transform into any being living or dead, organic or inorganic, real or fictional. He/she/they reach the zenith of his/her/their shapeshifting in the 40th to the 60th century. This gave them so many shapeshifting abilities. 

This includes plants with the power of plant morphing, natural weaponry (where they can shapeshift or transfigure parts of their body into weaponry), desire form (where they can take the form of someone’s greatest desire), perfect doppelganger morphing (where they can take the appearance, powers, capabilities, memories, life-force, & personality on such a level that they replicate even fingerprints), disguise mastery, empathic shapeshifting (where they can shapeshift based on their emotions), environmental shapeshifting (where they can transform based on the environment), dimensional transformation (where they can transform based on dimensions or realities), 

temporal transformation (where they can transform based on points in history), evolution or enhancing themselves via accelerated evolution, gender transformation (or the ability of altering their own gender based on their current gender and gender identity), god morphing (or the ability to morph into a deity which is how he/she/they became the Celestial and Stellar Entity and Divine and Heavenly Being in the 60th century), 

inorganic mimicry (or the ability transform physically into an inorganic life form), inorganic shape shifting (or the ability to manipulate their own inorganic body which is how they manipulate their bionic and cybernetic implants), malleable anatomy (or the ability rearrange the physiological features of themselves), mimicry form (or the ability mimic look and powers of other beings), mythic physiology (or the ability transform into mythical beings), 

organic mimicry (or the ability to transform physically into an organic form), organic shape shifting (or the ability manipulate their own organic body), post mortem shapeshifting (where they can shapeshift into anyone they just killed), 

reactive adaptation (where they develop adaptation to combat threats or combat changes),  regenerative healing factor (where they can shape their own body and cells to their optimal state healing rapidly from injuries and even maintain eternal youth if they choose to), self-particle manipulation where they can manipulate their own particle structure on a cellular, molecular, microscopic, atomic, subatomic, & nanoscopic level), size manipulation (where they can shapeshift their own size or just select parts of their body), soul shapeshifting (where they can shapeshift their own soul to another person's), & species shifting (where they can shapeshift into other humanoid species). He/she/they are the strongest metamorph, changeling, & shapeshifter throughout the universe, multiverse, & omniverse.

Life manipulation, Absolute adaptation, Ultimate shapeshifting, Multi shapeshifting, Empathetic shapeshifting, Environmental transformation, Reactive adaptation, Dimensional transformation, Temporal transformation, Biomorphing, Omnifarious, Evolution, Metamorphosis, Overclocking, Self particle manipulation, Self subatomic manipulation, Self molecular manipulation, Gender transformation, Essence manipulation, Form manipulation, Form creation, Age shifting, Organic constructs, Power shifting, Self Supremacy, Mind Shifting, Body Supremacy, All Out Mode, Almighty Ascension, Body transference, Legendary Form, Meta Transcendence, Omni mode, Origin Transcendence, Self Transcendence, Transformation mastery, Energy Resistance, 

Immortality, Intangibility, Invisibility, Invulnerability, Reality anchoring, Body recreation, Mind anchoring, Omni motion, Pain Suppression, Precondition Bypassing, Reality Condition, Reforming Scattering, Superpower manipulation, Self sustenance, Omni Replication, Avatar Creation, Energy manipulation, Transcendent hybrid physiology, Omni Genetic Archiving, Remaking, Selective unity, Mind Shifting, Power Replication, Total mimicry, Soul morph, Soul Conversion, Mental manipulation, Interior mimicry, Meta Ability Creation, Human morphing, 

God morphing, Demon morphing, Mythic morphing, Mythic physiology, Plant morphing, Battle shifting, Shapeshifting Combat, Elemental shapeshifting, Species Shifting, Soul shapeshifting, Body manipulation, Appendage Generation, Auxiliary Organs, Transformation, Partial transformation, Natural Weaponry, Shapeshifting Weaponry, Shapeshifting Combat, Shapeshifting negation, Shapeshifting Awareness, Shapeshifting inducement, Swarm Form, Base Form, 

Desire Form, Nemesis Form, Digestive Shapeshifting, Doppelgänger morphing, Perfect Doppelgänger, Disguise mastery, Size manipulation, Elasticity, Limb extension, Limb expansion, Adaptive Appearance, Clothing Generation, Wing manifestation, Tentacle manifestation, Voice manipulation, Organic Shapeshifting, Inorganic mimicry, Inorganic Shapeshifting, Possessive transformation, Post mortem shapeshifting, Mimicry Form, Mixed shapeshifting, Bilocation morphing 

Animal kingdom embodiment, Animal manipulation, Animal companionship, Animal morphing, Animal emerging, Animal empathy, Animal telepathy, Animal morphing, Animal magic, Animal intuition, Animal Attacks, Animal Combat, Animalistic Combat, Animal exoskeleton, Animal mode, Animal Scrying, Animal Augmentation, Animal Weaponry 

Transformation, Fauna Energy manipulation, Human manipulation, Zoolingualism 

Beast creation, Beast morphing, Beast Transmutation, Beast master, Monster Lordship, Beast Lord Physiology, Alpha monster Physiology, Beast Lordship, Monster Empowerment, Mythical beast manipulation, Giant monster manipulation 

Natural Weaponry, Tusk Protrusion, Spike Protrusion, Horn Protrusion, Sharp Body, Natural Weaponry Projection, Weaponized Body, Skin hardening, Bone Spike Projection, Needle Projection, Spike Projection 

Organic combat, Organic weaponry, Organic constructs 

Claw retraction, Clawed hands With Opposable Thumbs, Enhanced mauling, Enhanced clawmanship, Ergokinetic claws, Elemental claws,Venomous Claws

Sharp Tongue, Barbed Tongue, Elastic jaws, Enhanced Bite, Prehensile Tongue, Venomous Tongue, Unbreakable Teeth, Fang Retraction, Venomous fangs Elemental fangs, Saber teeth, Elemental saber teeth, Venomous saber teeth, Prehensility, Prehensile arm parts, Prehensile Feet, Clawed Feet with Opposable Toes, Prehensile legs, Prehensile toes, Prehensile tail 

Tail extension, Multiple tails, Weaponized tail, Clubbed tail, Sharp tail, Strong tail, 

Stinger tail, Stinger protrusion, Retractable Stinger, Venom Secretion, 

Mind Link, Taming, Mind Control 

Enhanced roar, Ballistic Scream, Concussive Roar, Supernatural roar, Ultra Roar, Fearful scream, Sonic scream, Deafness Inducement, Paralysis Inducement, Fear Inducement, Dimensional distortion, Sound manipulation, Wave manipulation, Vibration manipulation 

They are a Cosmic Titan of Love/War/heroism, justice/Peace. 

Bestowed upon them by Greco Roman gods and goddesses Mars, Bellona, Ares, Athena, & Enyo.

Titan killer slayer of Greco Roman titans Cronus and Saturn 

God inheritance, Dark divinity, War deity, Destroyer deity, War deity physiology 

Omega physiology, Alpha physiology, Absolute existence, Cosmic entity physiology, Self transcendence, Prime being, Prime source, Meta transcendence, Singularity, World manipulation, Cosmic manipulation, Hyper cosmic awareness, Power manifestation, Creation, Destruction, Ability creation, Leadership intuition, Empathic conversion, Absolute command, Endless development, Limitation transcendence, Transcendent connection, Omni competence, Self adaptation, Zenith,

Predator instinct, Feral mind, Berserker, Berserker combat, Human manipulation, Rage manipulation, Anger empowerment, Anger manipulation, Violence aura, Destroyer deity physiology, Violence embodiment, Absolute violence, Violence manipulation, Killing intuition, Bloodlust aura, Inhibition release, 

Opportunity sense, War god, Conquest empowerment, 

Counter strategy intuition, Countering intuition, Close quarters combat intuition, 

War embodiment, War and peace manipulation, War manipulation 

Summoning, Personal army, Meta army manipulation 

Biotic artillery, Biotic weaponry 

War cry, Battle cry

War magic, Battlefield magic 

Forge manipulation, Customization, Divine technology manipulation 

Blade shifting, Blade storm generation, Blade construction 

Bow construction, Bow manipulation, Armor manipulation, Weapon manipulation 

Protection embodiment 

Calvary combat 

Blocking intuition 

Damage amplification, Damage reduction, Damaging aura, Damaging field projection 

Deflection, Defense break, Defensive damage, Defense ignoring, Defense prediction, Defense replication 

Evading intuition, Evasion manipulation, 

Hyper fleeing, Hyper evasion, Hyper sense, Hyper interception 

Homing effect 

Internal reinforcement 

Combat adaptation, Combat augmentation, Combat creation, Combat embodiment, Combat empowerment, Combat inducement, Combat magic, Combat specialist, Combat manipulation, Combat merging, Combat modification, Combat opposition, Combat perception, Combative evolution, Combative transcendence 

Kinetic energy combat, Kinetic strike 

Fighting instinct 

Limit break, Limitation defiance, Maximum bodily capacity 

After image creation, After image manipulation 

Hyper combos, Synchronization, Hyper connection, Combined artillery, Combined attacks, Combined ball projection, Combined blade construction, Combined breath, Combined combat, Combined infusion, Combined weaponry, Combo empowerment, 

Complete body strike, Extra sensory combat, Heavy strike 

Strength accumulation, Strength concentration, Strength defiance 

Concealed weapons proficiency, Sheathed blade proficiency, Flexible weapon proficiency 

Compressed weaponry, Compressed artillery, 

Concussive blast, 

Consecutive attacks, Consecutive moves, 

Controlled combat, Assassin intuition, Combat empowerment, One man army, Fighting instinct 

Enhanced combat, Enhanced unarmed combat, Enhanced violence, Enhanced weaponry, Enhanced muscle usage, Enhanced reach, Enhanced bodily capacity, 

Endless attack 

Absolute combat, Absolute unarmed combat, Absolute attack, Absolute weapon proficiency 

Rifle proficiency, Pistol proficiency, Omni gun proficiency, Supernatural gunmanship, Lock on tracking, Multi targeting, Enhanced quick draw, Bullet hell, Bullet redirection, 

Enhanced archery, Supernatural archery, Super speed combat archery, Bow manipulation, 

Blunt weapon proficiency, Melee weapon proficiency, Sword proficiency, Club proficiency, Spear Proficiency, Axe proficiency, Knife proficiency, Martial arts intuition 

Absolute counter, Absolute evasion, Absolute explosion, Absolute invincibility, Absolute slicing, Absolute Violence, Absolute Weapon Proficiency, Absolute swordsmanship, Absolute Weaponry, 

Multi weapon wielding, Dual wielding, Dual sword proficiency, Multi sword proficiency, Supernatural swordsmanship, 

Giant weapon proficiency, Giant sword proficiency, Giant gun proficiency, 

Accelerated Perception, Action Adaptation, Automatic Attack, Auto reflexes, Selective Limb Empowerment, Selective Damage, Autopilot, Rapid fire moves, Reflective attacks, Autonomous combat, Auxiliary condition 

Alien artillery, Alien blade construction, Alien Bow Construction, Alien combat, Alien weaponry

Ammunition generation, Ammunition manipulation, Adaptive Artillery, Sword Proficiency, Shield Proficiency, Absolute Swordsmanship, Ranged Weapon Proficiency, Enhanced Ammunition, Enhanced Accuracy, Weapon proficiency, Weapon manipulation, Weapon Transformation, Weapon Creation, 

Absolute Artillery, Projectile Enhancement, Tactical analysis, Tactical genius, Enhanced Combat, War manipulation, War Inducement, Military manipulation, Military Intuition, Army manipulation, Army annihilation, Summoning arts, Summon Weaponry, Summoning Combat, Summoning Defense, Summoning Attacks, Team manipulation, Team Wipe, Combat manipulation, Battlefield manipulation, Battlefield magic, Strategy manipulation, Defeat manipulation, Transcendent Warrior Physiology, Victory Deity Physiology, Victory manipulation 

Dimensional destruction, Dimensional constructs, Dimensional slicing 

Divine Alien Physiology, Alien Divinity, Alien Lord Physiology, Divine Technology manipulation, Mythic technology, Transcendental Element manipulation, Transcendental Energy manipulation 

God/Goddess of Love and Sexuality

Desire Embodiment, Desire Manipulation, Supernatural beauty, Absolute beauty, Seductive magnetism, Attraction manipulation, Beauty manipulation, Desire manipulation, Emotion manipulation, Passion Manipulation, Love manipulation, Love inducement, Relationship manipulation, Indomitable sexuality, Passion manipulation, Romance embodiment, Passion Embodiment, Pheromone Generation, Lust Negation, Lust Inducement, Lust manipulation, Pleasure manipulation, Relationship manipulation, Sex specialist, Sex Intuition, Sexuality manipulation, Indomitable love 

Warning: SSSS rank superhero

Expert combatant. Master martial artist. Weapons master. 

Expert marksman.

Master interrogator trained in torture and interrogation 

Expert driver in all forms of transportation of vehicles including spaceships and hovercraft

Master spy. Expert in stealth, infiltration, disguise, espionage, & sabotage thanks to a past as an intelligence officer trained in paramilitary operations for the Sol System military.  

Crime fighting mastery 

Hacking

Lockpicking

Extremely athletic and extremely acrobatic. 

Multi Languages: Ability to speak most if not all Earth, alien, divine, demonic, mystical, mythical, magical, & fantasy languages because of superhuman memory and intelligence.

Skillset of a A class private soldier, mercenary, & bounty hunter

Skillset of a highly skilled S rank contract killer, hitman, & kunoichi or shinobi assassin

Weaknesses: 

Before being given divinity and transcending to a titan their weakness being born a demigod and alien hybrid. Their weaknesses as a metahuman and superhuman were:

They are susceptible to enemies with illusion powers

They are resistant but not immune to enemies with teleportation powers 

They are susceptible to enemies with time travel or time control powers 

They are resistant but not immune to enemies with telekinesis powers

Being injured by weapons that negates superhuman or supernatural healing.  

Being wounded by a material stronger than adamantine, celestial steel, divine iron, etherium, heavenly bronze, mithril, nth metal, orichalcum, stellar titanium, uru, vibranium. 

Being killed by a substance more dangerous than aether, chronoton, dark metal, element zero, inertron, nether, tachyon, timonium, & xirang. 

Cuz of their alien hybrid/demigod physiology:

Resistant but not immune to corruption by devils and higher ranked demons as a demigod.

Later gains immunity to corruption by devils and higher ranked demons as a transcended deity.

Resistant but not immune to assimilation by synthetic organic mechanical alien humanoids as a bionic and cyborg. 

Immune to infestation by alien swarm species like Zerg, Flood, or Tyranids as an alien hybrid. 

Resistant but not immune to zombie necromancy by a Lich King or higher level necromancer.

Regular Forms: 

Beast/Primal/Feral:  

2.5 Meters. Basic form. But strong enough to go toe to toe with Gorilla Grodd, King Shark, Giganta, Killer Croc, Orca, Bane, Wolverine, Sabertooth, & Monsieur Mallah.

Hybrid/Chimera: 3 Meters

Fallen Angel/Archdemon/Archangel Form: Has a pair of white archangel wings, a pair of red archdemon wings, & a pair of black fallen angel wings. Has horns and a halo. Has a prehensile demonic tail. 

Berserker Juggernaut: 5 Meters

Prime: 6 Meters

Dragon Monster: 200 meters long. 300 meter wingspan. 100 Meters tall

Behemoth:

Is avian and mammalian in nature. Has clawed hands with opposable thumbs and clawed feet with opposable toes and a prehensile tail. Has three heads each with its own separate brain. Has five rows of giant dorsal plates made out of alien crystals protruding from its head to its tail that glow  silver, gold, & obsidian when firing breath blasts from its mouth, optic blasts from its eyes, & energy blasts from its hands. Is bipedal. It is empowered by natural energy and spiritual energy. Its entire body is covered in metal plate armor made from alien elements. 400 meters long. 600 meter wingspan. 200 Meters tall. 150,000 tons.

Leviathan: 

Is amphibian and reptilian in nature. Has clawed hands with opposable thumbs and clawed feet with opposable toes and a prehensile tail. Has five heads each with its own separate brain. Has five rows of giant dorsal plates made out of alien crystals protruding from its head to its tail that glow sapphire, amethyst, & emerald when firing breath blasts from its mouth, optic blasts from its eyes, & energy blasts from its hands. It is both bipedal and quadrupedal. Is empowered by solar radiation, magic, & lunar rays. Its entire body is covered in metal plates made from alien metals. 1000 meters long. 1200 meter wingspan. 500 Meters tall. 200,000 tons

Zenith Forms: 

Titan of War: 

Has a pair of gold divine wings, a pair of obsidian devil wings, and a pair of cardinal fallen god wings.

Divine or Heavenly Being: 

Summons a clone that has ethereal armor and is armed with ethereal weaponry. Has four arms wielding an ethereal shortsword, a longsword, a broadsword, & a great sword. This clone has a pair of divine eyes and a third inner devil eye. These three eyes have the powers of absolute vision. 

These eyes are armed with accelerated eyesight, astral vision, atomic vision, aura reading, augmented reality vision, binocular vision, blindness immunity, blood flow vision, burning vision, cartomancy, catoptromancy, causality perception, chaotic vision, chemo vision, chi vision, chrono vision, clairvoyance, clear sight, color vision, compound eyes,  computer perception, dark vision, depowering vision, destructive vision, divine sight, DNA vision, dragon vision, raining vision, dream observation, ectoplasmic vision, electromagnetic vision, electronic eyes, 

elemental scrying, empathic retrocognition, empowering vision, enhanced reading, enhanced synesthesia, energy perception, esoteric vision, evil eye, explosion vision, explosive glare, eye attacks, eye color manipulation, eye color shifting, eye magic, eye manifestation, eye manipulation, eyewear manipulation, field perception, fire vision, fog vision, freeze vision, freezing gaze, gamma vision, gaze powers, glowing eyes, graphic vision, genesis tears, heads up display, healing vision, heat vision, hypnotic sight, hypnotic vision, identity concealment, illusory vision, ionic vision, killing eyes, kinetic vision, laser vision, life vision, light vision, lightning lunar vision, magic vision, mind’s eye, magical tears, merging vision, microscopic vision, 

microwave vision, movement vision, nanoscopic vision, nature perception, negation vision, negative vision, neon vision, night vision, ocular techniques, orbital optic array, radio vision, radioactive vision, recognition inhibition, retrocognition, scanner vision, scent sight, sense augmentation, sensory inducement, shared vision, slime vision, solar vision, soul staring, soundwave perception, spatial perception, supercolor vision, syn cognition, syn science, supernatural eye, supernatural vision, telekinetic vision, telescopic vision, thermal vision, 

transformation vision, timeline vision sharing, ultimate vision, ultraviolet perception, underground vision, unhindered vision, vacuum vision, and x- ray vision. These eyes can fire ballistic heat vision, ballistic optic blasts, and ultraviolet optic blasts with transitional phasing beams that can disintegrate anything on a cellular, molecular, atomic, and subatomic level. 

Celestial or Stellar Entity: Giant ethereal being made out of spiritual and natural energy. It radiates cardinal, gold, silver, emerald, cobalt, amethyst or obsidian divine light. It appears behind them and acts as an avatar and fights on their behalf with their thoughts and emotions as an extension of their will. They are nigh invulnerable against all attacks in this form. It has giant ethereal weapons such as giant swords, spears, axes, or sledge hammers and is protected by ethereal armor. It has three faces and six arms similar to Asura of Buddhist mythology. It is surrounded by giant orbs, diamonds, & octahedrons of the elements of fire, ice, water, acid, poison, earth, stone, metal, nature, lava, air, lightning, etc that fire at the enemy. 

[sinterhinde]

Haraway, 2003

The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in “significant otherness.” In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not just surrogates for theory, she says; they are not here just to think with. Neither are they just an alibi for other themes; dogs are fleshly material-semiotic presences in the body of technoscience. They are here to live with. Partners in the crime of human evolution, they are in the garden from the get-go, wily as Coyote. This pamphlet is Haraway’s answer to her own Cyborg Manifesto, where the slogan for living on the edge of global war has to be not just “cyborgs for earthly survival” but also, in a more doggish idiom, “shut up and train.”

(press.uchicago.edu)

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Interdependence, Access Intimacy, and Crip Technoscience: Disabled people do really cool things with language if people would pay attention.

Crip languaging incorporates practices of access intimacy, adaptions of technology, and relationality. To sum up, disabled people do really cool things with language if people would pay attention. View of Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: A Crip Linguistics Manifesto We updated “Crip Linguistics”, “Written Communication Is the Great Social Equalizer”, “Interdependence”, and “Access…

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Digital Masks or Mirrors? How Beauty Algorithms Fracture & Unite Communities

Scroll through Instagram and TikTok, you’ll find faces smoothed into poreless mannequins, eyes widened to anime proportions, and skin bleached to ethereal glow—all thanks to AR filters like “Bold Glamour”. These digital masks aren’t just fun; they’re rewriting the rules of selfhood. Let’s unpack how AR filters shape communities, fuel brand power, and deepen the rift between authenticity and algorithmic aspiration.

1. Filters as the New Platform Vernacular

AR filters are today’s lingua franca - a visual slang shaping our communication. Instagram’s “Crying Makeup” filter, which aestheticises distress, or Snapchat’s “Gender Swap”, which reinforces binary norms, creates shared cultural codes (Goetz 2021). Yet, as Duffy & Meisner (2022) note, marginalized users often hack these tools: Queer creators subvert beauty filters to celebrate androgeny (#FilterFluidity), while disability advocates use AR to visualize accessible futures (#A11yFilters).  

2. Brands: Beauty Gatekeepers or Allies?

Brands like Gucci and Fenty Beauty deploy AR try-ons to gamify consumption, blurring shopping and selfie culture. But when Dove launched the #NoDigitalDistortion campaign, pledging to ban retouching in ads, critics called it hypocrisy - their parent company Unilever still sells skin-lightening creams.

3. The Dysmorphia Feedback Loop

Filters don’t just reflect beauty standards - they “set” them. A survey found that over 70% of young people use AR beauty filters and applications to enhance their photos (Šiđanin et al. 2023). This trend is linked to increased body image dissatisfaction and anxiety, potentially exacerbating body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) symptoms and leading to the pursuit of cosmetic procedures (Laughter et al. 2023)

4. Rewriting the Code: Grassroots AR  

Resistance blooms in niche corners. Artist “Ars Electronica” crafts filters that distort faces into abstract art, rejecting beauty algorithms. On TikTok, #FilterFreeFriday trends challenge influencer culture, while indie devs create filters celebrating acne, scars, and aging. These acts reclaim digital citizenship - proving self-expression can defy platformization (Šiđanin et al. 2023).  

Are AR filters the ultimate tool of self-empowerment - or just Silicon Valley’s new beauty industrial complex? Slide into the comments with your most unfiltered takes.

Reference:

Goetz, T 2021, ‘Swapping Gender is a Snap(chat)’, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, vol. 7, University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL, no. 2.

Duffy, BE & Meisner, C 2022, ‘Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility’, Media Culture & Society, vol. 45, SAGE Publishing, no. 2, pp. 285–304.

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‌Šiđanin, I, Milić, B, Mitrović, K & Spajić, J 2023, ‘USE OF BEAUTY APPLICATIONS AND AR BEAUTY FILTERS AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES’, 19th International Scientific Conference on Industrial Systems, Faculty of Technical Sciences, pp. 299–303.

Laughter, MR, Anderson, JB, Maymone, MBC & Kroumpouzos, G 2023, ‘Psychology of aesthetics: Beauty, social media, and body dysmorphic disorder’, Clinics in Dermatology, vol. 41, Elsevier BV, no. 1, pp. 28–32.