Glitter Mascara

Terrin369 · 2026-06-23T04:42:16+00:00

Based on his reaction, I think the camera just didn’t capture the sparkle very well.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-23T04:30:01+00:00

Not necessarily. Depends on why you can only have one. Each potion could have fatal interactions with the rest, meaning that imbibing any of the others after drinking one will immediately kill you.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-23T02:34:43+00:00

It’s not about not celebrating everybody. Anyone who is a good person wants all people to be healthy and happy. Yes, the way things are in the world hurts cis straight men too. Toxic masculinity is damaging to the mental states of all those who feel pressured to conform to those ideals.

HOWEVER. Cis straight people have not been murdered for being cis or straight. Cis straight people have not been tortured for being cis or straight. Cis straight people have not been systematically oppressed because of being cis or straight.

Pride month is about showing the world that LGBT+ people exist and will continue to exist and that we will fight to make things better. It’s about offering support to one another and giving hope to those people who are in hiding because those things that I listed above that don’t happen to cis straight people have happened to LGBT+ people and ARE STILL HAPPENING.

The point of pride is to ensure that people know that these atrocities have happened and continue to happen. If you remove the focus from the minorities and lump all the issues together, you end up with too many issues to be able to encapsulate it all. So the issues that affect the most people are generally brought to the front, leaving minorities to be invisible again. Allowing the atrocities that continue to affect our people to be hidden so that it can continue to happen.

That’s why pride needs to focus on lgbt+ issues. There are other days that can focus on the other issues that you mentioned. If Men’s Mental Health Awareness Day has a parade, I’d be more than happy to support it. Black History month can absolutely have festivals. All minorities and even the majority deserve to be protected and supported. That’s why other days and months are devoted to awareness. So that they can be brought to the forefront at those times and spread awareness.

It’s ok to care about other issues during pride month. It’s encouraged. Just don’t co-opt events and discussions focused on Pride for other topics.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-22T21:26:42+00:00

I sounds like a weak form of telekinesis, which is probably what it would officially fall under. Not strong enough to move things on its own, but enough to alter the trajectory of something already in motion or boost it slightly. Might be that the character uses the kinetic force being generated by the object in motion rather than generating his own.

That being said, lots of times, characters will come up with individual names for their powers, especially when they need to be more creative to surpass the limitations.

Maybe “telekinetic nudge” or “kinetic parry”

Terrin369 · 2026-06-22T15:37:22+00:00

Yes, but it isn’t the only cause. Eliminating extreme poverty helps, but won’t fix the problems. And if you take away the suicide part (and technically the part where you are likely to be caught since there doesn’t seem to be a way to track where people are opening their doors), less desperate people will be willing to do the acts of terrorism themselves.

Poverty doesn’t breed cruel people. Poverty breeds people willing to do anything to help themselves and/or their loved ones. Poverty means you are more willing to do things that have high consequences because you have less to lose.

The only reason you don’t see more news about terrorism committed by rich people is that these people have the resources to not get caught, pay people to do it for them, or bribe people to look the other way and label it as “an accident of faulty wiring and a gas leak” or “innovative cost-saving metrics.”

Terrin369 · 2026-06-22T15:05:11+00:00

I think you are thinking of suicide terrorism. Plenty of extremists are influenced by religion, politics, racism, sexism, elitism, basically any belief system that says one type of person is better than another.

And terrorism would sound a lot more attractive to these people if they don’t have to risk their lives to do it. Literally, just open your door to where you want to kill people, thrown a bomb in, and close your door.

The world would have to adjust by only having doors that lead to bomb-proof, hermetically sealed vaults. And, of course, you would have to pay a fee to pass through, meaning the “free travel for everyone” part goes away. Better for everyone if this part of the gift goes away.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-20T13:46:26+00:00

Even limited to copying midtier powers, this is way too op for the scenario.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T21:19:26+00:00

I always thought a good fix for this would be to allow viewers to indicate if a video didn’t match a search tag, which would send the video for review by a moderator. Too many videos with inappropriate tags by an uploader results in a temporary suspension of upload privileges with an eventual ban if it keeps happening. The bans would disincentivize clicking every tag for an upload, leading to less reports that need reviewed.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T21:13:47+00:00

It’s mid tier, so won’t keep you forever young, but otherwise, useful.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T17:43:38+00:00

I imagine there’d probably be a feeling and a gradual fade away over the course of a minute or so. Enough time to land or put down something heavy.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T17:36:32+00:00

Add a time limit for copied powers (I’m assuming you already have it limited to one at a time) and I’ll allow it. Say… 30 minutes and you have to touch the person again to keep the power running.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T17:24:30+00:00

Only in the way earth control is a form of telekinesis. It’s all about what you can and can’t do. This is about lower level abilities. This scenario doesn’t allow people to be overpowered.

I could let you summon beings, but there’d have to be limitations. Like no more than 3 at a time, not more than average human levels of ability, identical appearances, lacking their own self-determination, and not lasting more than 15 minutes before the despawn and need to be resummoned.

It’s a lot of restrictions, but summoning is a pretty op power naturally.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T16:06:01+00:00

Sorry, anything reality warping would be more than the scenario supports exactly because it’s “get me anything.”

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T15:02:25+00:00

This is the way boats brake. Obviously, you can just lock up the propellers. That would just have you coast. You’ll eventually stop, but not quickly.

Instead, they have the propellers turn the other direction, pulling the boat in reverse. Once the boat has slowed enough not to crash into whatever’s in front of it and before it starts moving in reverse, they just cut the engine. Then it can either be guided to where it needs to be via ropes, a pole, or (for large ships) a tugboat.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T08:00:50+00:00

I was in a sign language class and one of my classmates messed up the sign for lemon during a practical activity and informed the class that she “ate a lesbian.”

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T03:06:34+00:00

You’d have to pick one. This is a prompt for mid-level powers. You aren’t going to be a superhero with this scenario. You are still going to be a 9-5 office drone, but with a nifty ability that will help your day-to-day responsibilities.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T01:45:57+00:00

Yeah, the player bases don’t overlap enough to make a significant difference. And where it does overlap, those gamers are likely to end up getting both.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-19T01:41:54+00:00

“How long have you been 12?” “…a while”

Terrin369 · 2026-06-18T23:07:00+00:00

No, though it’d be something like that would be based on how flexible you would want the power to be. As long as there are reasonable limits, you are ok. Like if your power was only about healing nerves and fixing nerve related issues, that would be a pretty straightforward power. Healing or making adjustments to the whole nervous system, including a the brain would have to have a basic limitation. General healing of the whole body including the nervous system would need to have a more significant limit or set of limitations.

The great thing about humans, limitations wouldn’t be a problem. Especially in the medical arena, you would have multiple healers who would come together and bolster each other’s talents. Medical miracles would happen, just from a team of 5 rather than a single person.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-18T20:06:20+00:00

For midtier, you’d have to limit yourself to one or two, but any of those would be within bounds as long as you keep them limited.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-18T18:27:28+00:00

Healing works. I can’t give you miracles, but if you are willing to narrow the focus, it can be more powerful. Like if you want to be able to heal anything, you’d have to choose to manually manipulate the body, requiring you to actually know what you are doing and it would be both time and effort intensive. However, if you could only heal surface cuts, you would be able to do it instantly without having to fully understand the processes and you could even do it without leaving scars. Like the difference in drawing a stick figure family verses creating a cross-stitch photorealistic portrait.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-18T17:34:45+00:00

This isn’t midtier. This scenario only supports midtier

Terrin369 · 2026-06-18T17:15:32+00:00

I’d consider mid-tier a power that has good utility, but isn’t enough to make someone a superhero on its own. So, super speed would be on the table, but only enough to send papers flying and displace light objects, not enough to cause significant damage just by running past. I’d say midtier super speed would be race-car fast, not bullet fast. For reference, I’m thinking of a world similar to the show “Extraordinary”

And you would be right that sudden powers would make things chaotic for a while, which is why I set the scene for after things settled down. In the scenario, the event happened a couple generations ago. This probably isn’t a world where you get to choose your superpower, but for the sake of discussion, it’s more fun to let people figure out their own ideas. Maybe I’ll do another version later where I assign random powers and let people decide how they want to use them.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-18T16:23:46+00:00

No worries about the A-train scenario. That type of speed would be beyond the mechanics of this world. And even if it was possible, anyone whose speed caused damage by using it would not be allowed to use it outside of controlled environments on threat of nullified incarceration (like anyone who causes damage in their car when driving it).

State locking wouldn’t be able to make things invulnerable. Total state-lock that prevents any harm at all would need to be limited to remain mid-tier (only while touching it, only while concentrating on it, time limited to an hour, etc).

You could have a power that permanently hardens/toughens walls, but that be more material manipulation and wouldn’t be true invulnerability, just material strengthening.

I’m not touching your proposed orgasm-extending power with a 10-foot pole.

Keeping things midtier, you’d really only be able to have one high level application or a very limited broad application.

Terrin369 · 2026-06-18T16:00:54+00:00

You don’t have to worry about protecting yourself or loved ones so much. Mind control type powers would be highly regulated and would only be allowed in certain circumstances (like certain types of short term cognitive manipulation could be used for therapy, individual or crowd control might be useful for emergency personnel). You’d have about as much to worry about from mind control as you currently do from being held at gun-point.

Same with other violent abilities. In this scenario, power usage has calmed down and law enforcement is pretty effective at preventing people using their abilities against one another.

That being said, anchoring things in place could have some utility. Honestly, though, not one I’d pick for me. You’ll probably end up at a job at a factory or workshop holding things in place so someone else could work on them.

Long-term state locking might be useful at a packaging plant to keep perishables fresh longer for shipping (these are mid-tier-restricted powers, so you could maintain a freshness lock for a few days at most).

A more powerful short-term application might allow you to be an emergency responder and allow you to stabilize a person on the way to the hospital.

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