#Topic: Abilities
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Imagine if Nico could learn to control when he turns into shadows.
Like, in The Blood of Olympus Nico would start fading after shadow traveling too much, and sometimes Reyna and Coach Hedge wouldn't be able to touch him, and one time he even accidentally walked through a tree. Imagine if he learned to control that intangibility.
Imagine if he could just turn parts of his body into shadows. Imagine if, in a fight, someone swings at him, and he knows he can't dodge in time, so he turns into shadows for a second so the weapon goes right through him, and while his enemy is confused he uses the distraction to land the final blow.
Imagine if he could just walk/reach through walls and doors and stuff.
I just think that, for someone with the title of ghost king (and as a child of the Underworld), he deserves more ghost-like powers.
#i might write a fic about this 🤔#we'll see#i just think itd be so cool#he would be the best at a haunted house#and it would be so useful in fights#maybe now that he's taking better care of himself post tsats he'll have enough energy to not get so tired after using his powers#so itll be safer to start experimenting with smth like this#tbh i think nico has the best potential power-wise bc the underworld is so vast so he could potentially have a lot of different abilities#hazel too tbh#like we've seen that nico can control the earth/rocks so i bet hazel has some contol over the dead and she just hasnt really tried yet#but im getting off topic lol#point is i think nico should have the ability to basically become a ghost at will (but not in the dying way)#nico di angelo#riordanverse#rick riordan#heros of olympus#pjo hoo toa
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I hate llorumi as much as everyone else, but like can we stop saying that Harumi has a canonical family dynamic with either Garmadon or Lloyd.
There’s no family dynamic there. Not in canon.
Llorumi is bad bc of the attempted murder. And the manipulation. And the kidnapping. And the resurrecting Garmadon, robbing him of his humanity and destroying the world.
I don’t even think Harumi and Garmadon have really a family dynamic. It’s definitely not a normal one.
I think I’m just tired of people saying that Harumi and Lloyd are ‘siblings :D’ after listing why they have a toxic relationship. Like all those dynamics are still toxic either way, them being siblings does not fix any of that. It’s still just as frightening and awful. And same goes for Harumi and Garmadon. Like Harumi can have other family who aren’t the people she obsessed over to the point of destroying the city.
#idk controversial topic but like Harumi and Lloyd were never raised as siblings or saw each other as such#yeah it’s a weird dynamic but it’s not the dynamic you’d think it is#it’s definitely toxic don’t get me wrong#idk#discourse#ninjago#Ninjago harumi#Ninjago Lloyd#ninjago garmadon#if Garmadon had kept all his memories and such#he would be so furious#she took away his personhood and everything he fought so hard to be#his ability to be a dad to who he loved#she took away his ability to love#that’s not a father daughter relationship that is the equivalent of taking advantage (even accidentally) of someone’s fragile mental state#in order to receive undue to care from them#not complaining she did that it’s very interesting and Ik she’s complicated#but fandom does not see it as it is
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I enjoy my mother in law but I keep being left alone with her and we have nothing in common and she keeps commenting on her allergies and the amount of mucus she’s producing and I have to insistently be like, “You have to stop, I will vomit.”
#ramblies#it’s been three or four times now#and her throat clearing has had me dry heaving about that many#childhood trauma nuked my ability to handle those sounds and this topic dear god
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Random fandom thoughts/feelings
The reblog button is turned off on this post but I think it's another incredibly important one to be thinking about. I enjoy their framing of how the profit economy of other social media sites has been bleeding into fandom spaces on both tumblr, and like this post focuses on, Ao3. It's something that I've been noticing more and more and it really rubs me the wrong way and I feel like OP's post words it perfectly in a way I've been struggling to express.
This sort of connects the previous post I reblogged on the topic talking about how fandom is not a good in road for becoming internet famous.
A facet of this that's really bamboozled me recently is that I feel like i've been seeing more and more of is the idea that a singular person has a right to call "dibs" on a specific piece of media. Which is honestly totally fucking wild to me and if I'm being totally frank kind of dumb.
Every single one of us who interacts with fandom and by extent and IP is flirting with copy right law, the consequences of which everyone should be extremely familiar with by now with the fall of LJ and various lawsuits by authors, dmca notices, etc.
We have all heard the adage "there's no such thing as an original idea"; the idea that everything we create is the amalgamation of all the things that influence us, good and bad.
This is totally normal and good, actually.
For example, if I and another person both watch a TV show, see a production photograph that we really like and decide to draw it and post them one after the other it would be considered extremely bad behaviour to then turn around and make a big stink about how someone else had the gall to turn around and draw the same thing that I did. We can all look at a picture, video, lyrics to a song, become inspired and create something wildly different based on our tastes and influences--but we also are equally, if not more so, likely to create something nearly identical to our peers, especially in a fandom space where ideas are concentrated and we are all consuming each other's thoughts, opinions, and creations. More than once I've come up with an idea for a fic or a drawing that someone else had had a nearly identical execution of without us communicating or viewing each other's work. That's just the way the human brain works, we're hard wired to make connections in a fairly similar way.
You do not have a right to call dibs on any one photograph, clip of video, song lyrics or any other bit of media you might consume.
This stands for artists, writers, gif makers, AMV creators, and any other way you choose to express your love of fandom creatively.
If you are really hard pressed to focus on the numbers and work at being ~influential~ the burden is on you to distinguish yourself creatively.
There's a reason why not being able to see follower counts is so important to the way fandom and tumblr functions. The concept of ~small creators~ and ~big creators~ or BNF or whatever are all burdens you place on yourselves. No one is taking anything away from you by engaging with the same bit of media you are in a similar way. We all have a right to express ourselves creatively and emotionally through any snippet of media that sparks our interest. You do not get to "own it" just because you happened to pump something out first. There are no creative "dibs". This isn't even some sort of "fandom" etiquette thing that has gone thus unspoken. It's a strange possessive thing that I've seen crop up more and more as the idea of being a capital "C" Creator brain rots people's minds and atrophies their ability to be creative.
Sort of on a tangent, but I have a bunch of other personal random thoughts about how this push to be prolific stagnates fandom, but these are more complicated for me and I'm not as clear on how I want to express them. On one had I am completely on board with the "there is no such thing as cringe" mindset and that everyone has a right to create whatever super indulgent thing they want to without having to suffer people being snobby about it. But, on the other hand I feel very strongly that the cycle of people seeing one trope or characterization being repeated repeated over and over and gaining popularity, reading only that--writing only that--leading others to also only consume that, really stymies creativity and makes it harder to grow the fandom if people that are trying to enter aren't into That One Thing, while also ostracizing people who are already in the fandom that aren't into That One Thing. I strongly believe that people's tastes are at least 70% just what they're exposed to, and obviously not everyone is going to be into whatever weird niche concept they're exposed to through fandom, but the more they are the more opportunity they have to expand that horizon. I don't know how many times I've gotten a version of the "I wasn't sure I would like this but I gave it a shot and it turns out I really love it!" and how good that feels and how much I wish other people were emboldened to do the same instead of being so wrapped up in how their work may or may not be received.
This is mostly a subjective thing though, so it's less cut and dry. Like for example, I really struggle with engaging with transgender fic despite being transgender myself because of the way most AFAB fic is written to the point where I avoid it now almost entirely. Which, frankly, really fucking sucks but also I will be the first person to fight for other's ability to write transgender characters wether they appeal my personal feelings and taste or not.
Anyway, this is one of the reasons I'm so protective of fandom community events, especially ones that employ aspects of the fandom gift economy such as exchanges. There are one of the few wholly un self-centred places left where the focus is on gifting someone something they will love and giving back to the fandom at large by flooding it with art and opportunities appreciation and engagement with each other. It is not supposed to be an opportunity for you to think about yourself and "getting something good" in return or using it a convenient deadline. It also offers you an opportunity to engage with fic tropes and genres that you've never considered writing or reading before.
TL;DR if you've found yourself recently squabbling over how many notes your gifs, art, writing, etc. has been getting compared to other people instead of focusing on forging community ties and your own creative expression, I'm sorry to say you're doing it wrong.
#mostly word vomit but it's a topic i think a lot about since both my job and most of my hobbies are creative focused#and after coming off a nearly two year burnout (that was not caused by any of these things) but effected my ability to participate in fando#and some of my hobbies in favour of others like working out in order to focus on work and stuff that would help my brain heal#I just do not think brining a profit economy mindset is really what's going to make fandom engagement /better/#again why are you acting like capitalists on the socialism website#anyways i'm really trying hard not to go full “parade of shame down the main street” but this behaviour is so appalling to me and while#i understand it i don't understand the appeal of participating in fandom in that fashion
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Qrow’s Semblance is Fortune! 🐦⬛
I talked about this briefly before, having speculated that Clover’s pin carries on his good luck after death or that Qrow has just done a lot of training mentally and/or physically. @benevolentslut had some amazing additions as well & I want to sum up this theory for you as best as I can as we reached similar conclusions even before I had read her reblog.
Qrow has only been in the negative all his life, mentally and emotionally.
This man has had barely any positivity in his life.
"His whole life he's been the epitome of cynicism and pessimism." - @benevolentslut
Qrow grew up under constant stress & threat of those around him.
Needless to say, but I don't think he could trust anyone he grew up around except maybe Raven.
Then he has to constantly worry about being found out by the other huntsmen! Also growing up with the threat of huntsmen and Grimm the entire time!
Then Oz drops the whole Salem problem on him & I'm sure that didn't help his mental health in the slightest!
"His sister leaves him and their team, and then summer disappears." - @benevolentslut Yeahhhh he is losing everyone close to him in one way or another! That cannot be a fun experience!
This look like the face of a guy that's doing okay?
I'm just going to copy paste this here as I hadn't noticed it & it feels worth noting that the intensity of his misfortune seems to increase with the increasing mental strain.
While we don't know for sure that all of these things are a byproduct of Qrow's misfortune semblance, it certainly isn't out of the realm of possibility. Notice the worsening of his mental health resulting in potentially more disastrous outcomes. 😰
"we see him blaming himself constantly for everything that goes wrong, and it only causes that to become more true." - @benevolentslut
She lists a lot more examples of where Qrow's semblance has potentially worked this way in the original post. Clover comes along & starts lifting him up, giving him actual hope. He now has a little seed of hope planted in him. 🍀
Wow, Qrow is doing so good for himself lately! I sure hope nothing-
Oh... oh no. From his perspective Ruby & Yang could literally be dead. He is stricken with grief as he watches it all unfold & probably sunk back down into a negative spot mentally. He may even blame himself in some way.
When you're this low, there's a saying that goes "nowhere to go but up."
I firmly believe that Qrow would see things that way, especially after reaching his lowest point. He can only do his best to help those around him. Though he's the most alone he's ever been, he's becoming a part of a new community where people help one another. In that sense, it's impossible to be alone. In spite of it all, he slowly finds his mental health improving! Ruby's message to the world is bringing people together! 🌹
"and we see him take up clover's role, both in terms of how he's helping out around shade, and more literally, in the unmissable parallel where he catches the guy who trips." - @benevolentslut
Ruby & Clover have both filled him with hope & he's more optimistic than he's ever been, which results in bursts good fortune! ✨
There's also already a premise for shifts in mental health and trauma resulting in semblance evolution.
Cinder betrayed Neo & so she winds up in the Ever After & through her form changes is showing us that she now has negative feelings towards Cinder.
She's so upset that her semblance starts to make multiple clones of her which it has never been able to do before. Her Overactive Imagination semblance has evolved due to the state of her mental health.
Her semblance begins to evolve so much to where she can create entire architectural structures and buildings out of it!
She can even use it to talk through the people she recreates, something she's not physically capable of herself.
While we do have to take into account that the Ever After plays by rules that are a little bit different at times; this absolutely confirms that semblances, much like people, can change & grow! 💪
My conclusion: Volume 10 & beyond will show Qrow's personal semblance evolution as he finds out that his power is actually Fortune itself & the ability to control it, good and the bad.
#oh god I have to compress the gifs so much because of tumblr's gif size limit 😩#thank you for the theory fuel & the supporting points you gave!#maybe I'll do a youtube video on this topic when I come off of my semi-hiatus#wow I told myself I'd keep it brief but here we are; I'm procrastinating packing my bags & making rwby theories#I just think Qrow is a very fascinating character & if we are right about this; he will be an important player in volume 10 & onward#imagine having a guy who can manipulate fortunate on your team; that's actually so powerful as an ability if he can master it#It's not so much that the Clover ebi pin is good luck; but that Qrow himself is becoming a beacon of good fortune#Fair Game lives on in his heart & the hope he's been given even if Clover isn't here to see it#please let me know what you think in the replies; reblogs; whatever; if you have anything to add I'd love to hear all about it!#rwby theory#rwby volume 10#rwby volume 9#fair game#qrow x clover#rwby#qrow branwen#greenlight volume 10#mine#op
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come closer. this is a fate/stay night blog. [the five star stories cube hangs overhead]
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Some of yall do not know the difference between "media that glorifies Bad Thing" and "media that portrays Bad Thing and the audience has to use critical thinking skills" and its actually concerning
#for a bunch of ''burnt out gifted kids 🥺'' yall don't use those gifts of critical thinking much huh#media that contains uncomfortable topics (especially horror) is not glorifying said topic by default#killing stalking is the first example that comes to my head. it was just a horror series that had gay people.#wasnt glorifying the horrors at all. in fact it actually portrays the horrors as Bad and Not Okay At All#seeing our mc rationalizing the behaviours of his abuser due to stockholm syndrome is upsetting to us as the audience.#and yall were like ''it glorifies abuse and murder 🥺🥺🥺'' no babygirl. it contains abuse and murder as a subject.#you are just incapable of critical thought and you assume the portrayal of any subject is glorification. touch grass.#thats like watching hannibal and being like ''this show glorifies cannibalism 🥺'' it very much is not.#there was also the manga Star Lover that y'all were canceling for ''glorifying pedophilia'' and when you read it it's about A VICTIM OF CSA#like its literally about a character who is sexually abused by her uncle and this is an integral part to the story. its not fanservice.#sometimes media is created with the belief that the audience has the ability to think for themselves#and therefore should not have to a Explicitly State "hey this morally bankrupt concept is bad!''#because you should be able to come to that conclusion on your own <3#media consumption#a.txt#media and information literacy#media analysis
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Do you know anywhere I can read about parchment practices of the middle ages?
raymond clemens + timothy graham's introduction to manuscript studies starts with a section about writing supports that covers parchment manufacture and other writing surfaces before going on to talk more about how manuscripts and books were constructed and assembled
the irish hand by t. o'neill is a nice introduction to irish manuscripts but to be honest it's more focused on specific books rather than their production and on writing systems more widely. it's a nice one for seeing glimpses of marginalia and notes written inside books though
here's a blog post about decorating flaws in parchment to make them part of the page. the BL has a number of posts on their conservation blog about working with medieval parchment and the various preservation challenges it can pose. this is however mostly looking at them from a modern conservation perspective rather than a medieval creative perspective
here's a useful overview of parchment with close-up pictures. the other pages on this site look like a good place to start with learning about making and using manuscripts in general.
unfortunately this is primarily not a topic i learned from books/written sources so my reading recommendations are a bit thin on the ground
#i'm a triple threat of former calligrapher former librarian and former academic medievalist lmao i've learned shit from practice#probably the only topic where my knowledge significantly outweighs my ability to give book recommendations ngl#answered#dagmarsverker#parchment problems
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fyodor did NOT deserve to wear bram's fit what the actual fuck
#IM SOBBING#THAT WAS CRAZY????#LISTEN I HAVE MORE TO SAY BUT THATS FOR ANOTHER TIME#WHAT DID I JUST READ#ALSO I HAVE AN IDEA ABT HOW FYODOR'S ABILITY IS ACTUALLY CONNECTED TO THE BOOK#BUT IM A DUMBASS SO IDK IF I WANNA SHARE THAT#slightly off topic but thise facial expressions were amazing#was fr freaking out#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bungo stray dogs#bsd fyodor#bsd bram
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he's lying to himself he's very much also a dumb virgin
#art#my art#apr 2023#persona#p5#goro akechi#royal trio#hes also lying to himself in the sense that he loves them really /p#(/p intent w sumi as always but tag how you like)#on the topic of greentexts do you think he would use 4/ch/an. not on like... /pol/ or whatever but just to argue about shit#reddit yeah sure but i do think the ability to send anonymous death threats without getting banned would b very alluring to him#edit: im entering this into my Internal Akechi Lore now actually i think he leaks info about shidos campaign on 4chan#and gets brushed off as a conspiracy theorist but it blows up after shidos arrested
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all i want is tails hugging knuckles or at least one person... pleaseee paramount
He deserves all of the hugs ❤️🥹❤️
#And the ability to turn the garage into this mad scientist laboratory. Let him build crazy shit#mystery anon#off topic
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Something I love to think about are how Mikey and Leo’s mystic abilities (+ how those abilities affect their respective selves) parallel each other.
Likewise, I believe that Donnie and Raph’s mystic abilities do the same with each other.
#non au#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt headcanons#listen I have a whole red string pepe silvia theory on this topic#one little snippet is how both Mikey and Leo’s mystics turn their bodies into mystic particles#the difference is that Mikey’s mystics are more powerful but have more fatal drawbacks#whereas Leo can casually pretty much atomize his entire being at will just without a super strong attack or spell to go with it#one thing I think of is how Mikey’s mystic ability aligns more with versatility whereas Leo’s aligns more with adaptability#and YES those are two different things#*shuts up before I go off on Tangents*
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I don't even go here I’m an alkakureiP but midoyuzu is like. So canon to me. At this point. The way you draw them reminds me how cute they are and how much potential they have together. You've gained a fan hello ^_^
thank you so much!! i think their dynamic is fun to explore and rly good for them both regardless of platonic or romantic setting and im making that everyone elses problem
#and on the topic of alkakurei ive been listening to i love love nonstop. such a good solo ily aira#been super busy and burnt out lately i havent been able to draw as much as i like.... maybe a few bursts of creative ability and then back#to 0 for a week or two orz get me out#i have. So many things i want to draw but also i have to shift gears to focus on actually graduating _(:з)∠)_ im in danger#asks#niicookie#doodles
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Hear me out hear me out
What if
Some of your welcome home fusions were greyscale
Ohh! I wonder what sort of punishments they’d hafta go through…
#I know for sure the librarian/bookworm would have little to no ability to read/write/ and generally communicate#because that’s kinda his whole thing and just generally being knowledgeable on the vast majority of topics#he’d end up so forgetful and confused#AH that aside though I wouldn’t wanna go into this idea too much but it’s a fun thought!
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Leg: *wakes up from noise* hylia fuc- wars what the hell are you doing its 2 in morning go the fuck to sleep
Wars: you don't understand leg, I'm mewing rn
Leg: so are you like a furry??
Wars: you comman beta BITCH everyone knows what mewing is! What color is your bugatii hm???
Leg: wars this is like the medieval 1300s what the fuck is a bugati-
Wars: I said WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BUGATII BITCH????
Leg: why tf is there sigma music playing-OH SHIT WARS WHAT THE FUCK
The chain later discovered that wars ran away that night, after they found legends fucking dead ass body, after a bag check was conducted they found various podcast equipment and a text from his buddies Aiden Ross and Andreinie Tateweine, they were all 3 going to have a podcast together called "The art of masculinity, how to be a chad" once tateweine escaped Romania. But they knew he would be back soon, after all an Alpha can't last without they're podcast equipment for long. And the chain knew one thing that Adien Ross and Adreninie Tateweine didn't
Wars was a closeted homosexual
(PART 2??)
I am not a man who can be rendered speechless easily but oh my god
I have tears streaming down my face and my ribs hurt so bad from laughing I cannot for the life of me fight out if you are /j or /srs with this holy shit
the ‘PART 2??’ actually killed me
#is this you ‘dont forget to mew’ anon because everyone in my life knows you#your ability to talk about heavy topics in the most :3 way is flabbergasting#linked universe#jes talks#jes ask
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Joining the war on vampires on the side of the vampires
#bungou stray dogs#bsd bram#I’m a big fan of Dracula (the book) so Imma spill my theories here#(spoiler alert: they have next to nothing to do with the book)#anyways I bet his daughter was named something goofy like Mina#if we can have Naomi and Gin I don’t see why she couldn’t also be named after a book character#also considering irl Bram worked at a theater/as a play critic#do you think that’s why bsd Bram likes music so much#and craves entertainment#speaking of which Dracula is very much about defeating an old evil with new technology#so maybe that’s why technology played such a big role in him switching sides#doubt it but it could be#anyway off topic but I bet Fyodor’s freak out is a reference to irl Dostoyevsky’s epilepsy#and in turn Raskolnikov’s nervous breakdowns#also Rodya did write a whole essay about how he believes there are certain chosen people who are above the law#and those people have the right to punish others by murder if necessary#which seems to be a sentiment bsd Fyodor also agrees with#along with maybe that possibly being an aspect of his ability#who knows! not me#sorry for the long tags bye
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