Please help. Whenever I read about magic, I cannot help but think of its potential industrial and economic applications.
In a world of superpowers, you are the anomaly. After years of being bullied and being called ‘freak’, you finally can’t take it anymore and reveal your immensely powerful superpower
I looked at him as he picked up the phone. This hadn’t been the first time I’d used my powers, and it wouldn’t be the last, but usually I’d used them sparingly, it at all.
“What have you done, boy?” A man’s voice cracked out of the phone.
“What- Dad, what happened?” The boy asked.
“The house, boy! The house is gone! Big fence around the whole lot, they won’t even let us in, they’re saying the city has rezoned it as a toxic waste dump! Who did you piss off, son?” The man said.
The boy looked back at me.
Junior Municipal Master. The city itself - its concrete, its steel, its trees, and its zoning ordinances, bent to my will as easily as other people could throw fire or fly.
And he knew. The few who could knit the cities back together into something approximating housing and industry, after all the combat tore them up each day, well. The government needed them more than just another boy who could fight.
Anonymous asked:
writing-prompt-s answered:
You fall in love with a snail. Write about your sex life.
“Ugggh, you’re not getting it. Adam and I are in love-”
“But he looks like a snail! Why can’t you go back to dating that nice man with the horns? At least he had arms and legs. I’m not against this cyborg thing, but-”
“Mom, no ‘buts’, it’s my life, and if I want to date a gastropodoid then I will. Why are you judging me? Why are you like this?”
“Well, it’s just so unnatural-”
I was running out of time to create my Anime Expo cosplays (one week before con!) And I knew I wanted to do something challenging but manageable. I remembered that Monster Musume has a bunch of characters with unique features, so I latched on to Miia as my one week challenge!
Bringing it to life was comprised of running around in a panicked frenzy, hoping it would all turn out. I trekked to a faraway discount fabric outlet because I knew I would need a LOT of fabric. The tail from waist to tip is 17 feet long! Constructing it involved tediously repetitive sewing and hot glueing to make the whole tail look uniform and reptillian. I was relieved to finish it on time with a day to spare!
Wearing it to the convention was a whole new nightmare. Not only was it the busiest day Anime Expo had ever seen, but my mobility was extremely limited. Shuffling at a snail’s pace through packed hallways had me sweating and exhausted before I even made it to my destination (the most popular photo of this cosplay was taken just after bunny-hopping up a long staircase!)
When I finally arrived, I was completely overwhelmed with the response I got. I have cosplayed a lot over the last decade, but nothing I’ve done has been as popular as Miia! I’m so thankful for all the encouraging comments both in person and online that made this project worth it.
— @NikkiMoxxi
Snake girls are p. great
@collapsedsquid @xhxhxhx I went to reply to this thread, but when I opened up my draft it was already filled with this discourse from the future.Contra @fakecollapsedsquid2066’s post regarding the high-end prosthetics industry, @mecha-cyborg-xhxhxhx2066’s quick assessment is largely correct.
The development of the high-end monstergirl, monsterboy, and sex-variant full prosthetic bodies does ultimately result in lower costs for the standard bodies purchased by the middle class and for accessories and general implants available under the North American Cybernetics Subsidy Program. The key here is that these benefits are from the mass production models, and not the custom individual models, such as the gold-plated mecha scorpion body built for Ivanka Trump III.
For the custom models, they just use more material, but for the mass production models, the increase in power requirements and weight requires research into battery and materials technology which eventually filters down into the mainline models.
For example, the DSI6 Fault-Tolerant Power Control System in my body (even though I know neither of you guys have it because I’m way more paranoid than either of you) is actually a derivative of the DSI5X originally developed for the high margin DS-56 Rachnera Special, which was high margin, certainly, but sold 10,000 units, in order to increase its operational time from 76 hours to one week without violating the nuclear materials refined arms control act.
Likewise, the Modular Limb System now so commonly used by firefighters and other emergency personnel on more-or-less standard humanoid bodies was originally developed for the Broseidon Systems T-209, which as anyone on this website will remind you, is widely considered incredibly fetishistic and “deeply unnatural”!
Now of course, a lot of this could maybe come from military research, and there’s some argument whether the wealthy rebuilding themselves as fetishized versions of mythological creatures is really a good use of resources, but honestly I doubt that without it we get the same rate of progress.
so when are they going to throw the asexuals out of the military
“Never distracted by the baser instincts of lust or love, asexual aromantics are the perfect potential soldiers,” the man said to the gathered audience, activating his next presentation slide. “My company has developed a new generation three training program based on the analysis of double-A characteristics, and so far our test subjects have had great success.”
“But where will we get these asexual aromantics?” Asked a suited man in the audience.
“My company has arranged to purchase an old web 2.0 company, called Tumblr…”
corollary to “japanese people draw other japanese people with big eyes because they envy the white race”
I have it on good authority that the Japanese are, in fact, the only white people on Earth.
The year is 2068. The forces of global Neoreaction have been defeated by the armies of the Islamo-Progressive Earth Congress. The final survivors retreat to Japan, the last bastion of the white ethnic identity on Earth…
please. please i am fucking begging you. just leave the house. go outside. see the world. look at nature. eat some grass. i dont care just. please. for gods sake. get off of tumblr.
Okay, but fandom historians are so fucking cyberpunk.
I can imagine it now,
Juniper Twelve,
A mixed race woman living in the Bronx,
Patreon-supported fandom historian and blogger-journalist,
her side-shaved aqua-streaked hair coming down to the back of her shoulders
against her black jacket.
She witnesses the murder of a Chinese man who was stealing data from a prestigious lawfirm,
and is pulled into a web of intrigue, deceit, and violence…
Anonymous asked:
I have three hearts, anon-san - a primary heart, a secondary backup heart, and an emergency oxygen recirc system for my braincase. My combat software can continue fighting in excess of 30 minutes even in the event of total loss of consciousness, with a banshee switch in the event of brain death. (And yes, I know that firmware modification is illegal.)
Besides, to even get the K-band neurotype designation, my brain is mostly human, I just have a few specialized submodules. Partial-synthetic, not full, and so only subject to limited sanctions under the Human Dignity Act.
Don’t be so worried, Anon. I’ll be fine.
fuckin’ millennials at it again
👋Redistribute👋avocados👋to👋millennials👋
the👋claps👋only👋go👋between👋the👋words👋mum
“The ‘Emoji Death Front’, first known as the ‘Death to Emoji Working Group’ and then ‘Emoji Extinction Dot Net’, is a distributed terrorist group which first emerged in Sydney, Australia, in 2033, coming to prominence in an attack on the Pyongyang Olympics in 2036. The stated aim of the group is the removal of emoji from Unicode, a goal for which it is willing to-”
- excerpt, Google Automatic Summary for “emoji death”, May 2, 2038
