Water Dogs|Paperback

When blobs from between universes devour everything in their paths, adults are useless. The only hope for survival is a small group of midwest kids who refuse to follow the rules. Moving from middle school to high school, the whole world is changing in 1979: music, clothes, school.... In fact...

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Okay, so try to follow me on this:
Instead of Walmart doing a recall of their radioactive shrimp, why don't they just advertise it as being for people who want the super powers that eating it could give them.
Imagine it: Shrimp Men and Shrimp Women with amazing capabilities and the comic book universes that would tell those tales.
#RadioactiveShrimp #Walmart #ProductRecall #SuperPowers #SpiderMan #TuckersBalls

Is This Anything?

A tragedy about a man whose superpower is permanently gaining the powers of anyone he touches. Two possible endings:

1. He meets someone whose power is immunity to superpowers. He touches them, loses everything, and is finally free.

2. He absorbs the power of someone cursed with uncontrollable invisibility. He descends into madness, slowly forgotten by everyone he loves, until even he isn’t sure he still exists.

#iTA #isThisAnything #superpowers #tragicstory #speculativefiction #storyidea #powerswap #worldbuilding #darksuperhero #writingprompt

For the one-page RPG jam, I made ASaSyns, inspired by acquired #savant syndrome - a black-ops game with mental #superpowers.

https://ranarh.itch.io/asasyns

#1prpgjam #ttrpg #onepage #blackops #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

#blaugust2025 #blogging #blog #blogpost #superpowers

Superpowers

https://marisabel.nl/public/blog/Superpower

Short and sweet. What was your superpower? 🦸‍♀️

And to make up for the shortness of it, the draft for tomorrow's post might be longer than I wanted. 😅

Is #Fant4stic a good movie? No, but it does some interesting things with #superpowers and #bodyhorror... and it wasn't as bad as advertised:

https://www.tumblr.com/litcityblues/789419674093944832/is-it-time-to-reconsider-fant4stic?source=share

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Would #China invading #Taiwan spark #Russian attack on #NATO? Experts say it’s ‘plausible’

Such a scenario would for all intents and purposes amount to a #global #war between #nuclear #superpowers, yet many experts agree that this scenario is not too far from reality.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-striking-nato-while-china-invades-taiwan-plausible-scenario-experts-say-06-2025/

#ChineseAggression #RussianAggression #invasion

NATO caught with its 'pants down' if China, Russia try two-front war, experts say

If Beijing moves against Taiwan, NATO might soon find itself in a two-front war with China and Russia — or so the alliance's secretary general believes. "If Xi Jinping would attack Taiwan, he would first make sure that he makes a call to his very junior partner in all of this, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin… and telling him, 'Hey, I’m going to do this, and I need you to to keep them busy in Europe by attacking NATO territory,'" Secretary General Mark Rutte said in a July 5 interview with the New

The Kyiv Independent

Friendgineers: There are lots of superpowers you want as a developer. One of the best ways to get them is to have options. That means doing the hard work up front so you have optionality.

#friendgineers #optionality #superpowers

https://friendgineers.rosenshein.org/posts/2025/06/18/

Superpowers And Optionality

One of the biggest superpowers you can give your code is optionality. You can do that by making sure you have clean boundaries between components. And that the components themselves stay that way.

Links to some short stories I wrote a little while ago (free to read, but on my ko-fi page because I kind of use it as a blog):

A Little More Than Time (Involving a clueless mad scientist):
https://ko-fi.com/post/A-Little-More-Than-Time-X8X7N98QR

Everyone's Favourite Super Villain (Rambling tale of someone who suddenly got super powers):
https://ko-fi.com/post/Everyones-Favourite-Super-Villain-C0C0LJWKL

The Lucky One (post-apocolyptic diary):
https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Lucky-One-Y8Y22G059

#Author #Fiction #ShortStory #SciFi #SuperPowers #ZombieApocolypse

A Little More Than Time

Lisa Milne published a post on Ko-fi

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@EmilyMoranBarwick @BernieDoesIt @filmfreak75 @actuallyautistic

Because our "less than" can often be "more than." I learned yesterday that GCHQ (UK intelligence, cyber, and security agency ) employs seven times as many #neurodivergent people as the population average. And one fav fact@ People who are dyslexic can find patterns in enormous chunks of text (like code, phone numbers, texts) precisely because it's hard for them to discern all the words and understand the meaning.

#Superpowers