inkedsprite:

helioscentrifuge:

Helios has been known to spit fireballs from his mouth against multiple combatants. Also, he possesses the power to spin like a whirlwind, however doing so makes him obscenely tired for one hour. Helios has mastered the ability to edit the memories of others and he has learned to confuse the strategies of a foe. He has the power to force salamanders to flee. Tragically, Helios is especially vulnerable to steel-based attacks.

Oh hell yes.

Sarah developed the talent to spin like a whirlwind. She also rides a wondrous tank into battle and she is able to view distant locations with her mind, however she must speak words of power to do so. Sarah possesses the power to transform her body into air and she has the ability to teleport through time using an unimaginable sport-utility vehicle, but only while thinking hard. She has mastered the ability to steal any one power of her enemies and use it against them. Tragically, Sarah suffers from being unlucky.

I accept this.

Anne developed the talent to transform any bee into a jellyfish. She also has the power to sculpt and mold all string with a thought and she has been known to block fireballs and deflect them toward a single antagonist. Anne is able to create corbomite out of thin air, but only while in pain. She has mastered the ability to make duplicates of herself and she is protected from damage by a magic shield. Tragically, Anne is notorious for being clumsy.

HOW DID THEY KNOW?

(Source: jimbomauidownhill)

anticapitalist:

Our real first gay president

The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.

The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.

There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.

Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:

I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.