Being of Celestial Flares

Blep.

[absurdmageart]

First reference complete! Look at me go lol. I'm once again letting discord choose who gets done and when. So, they chose Arsenal first! I also decided to do fun wanted posters instead of ID's this time around!

Arsenal is my version of Mafiafell Gaster ❤️

I'm also going to put his headcanons below for thise that are new or didn't read the google doc. So, here you go!

Arsenal Gaster

Mafiafell Gaster

1128 Years Old

February 11, Aquarius

8’1” / 246 cm

Pansexual/Panromantic

Magical Scent: Roses

Magical Taste: Black Currant

Special Ability: Distort Reality - Arsenal can distort reality to make people see, hear, or perform certain actions with his magical signature. However, this ability is limited to Arsenal's emotions. Certain emotions will cause more negative effects than others. Anger is the most devastating.

Strengths: Devoted, Strategist, Intelligent, Honest, Charismatic, Charming

Weaknesses: Ruthless, Strict, Abrasive, Caustic, Quarrelsome, Vindictive

Arsenal is the one person you don’t want to get a punishment from. He’s the harshest Head when doling out punishments.

His contribution to the Family is taking care of the drug market. His job is to keep an eye on the prices as well as all the lower-level people they have selling drugs for them. He manages the shipments and everything in that regard. He coordinates this with Auto since the job is so large, which he finds distasteful but will do it anyway. However, he doesn’t take part in the underground fighting and gambling as it’s not his thing.

Arsenal is the scariest of the seven Heads. You do not want to piss him off. He is also the most disliked of the six Heads but he doesn’t care very much about that. As he sees it he’s there to be their boss, not their friend.

Incredibly charming individual. He is exceptionally good at getting what he wants from people and buttering people up. However, he’s also good at pissing people off. He’s a funny fellow.

The most proficient in multiple weapons. Knives, pistols, rifles, etc he can use them all

He and A.K. are nearly on par with each other in regards to intelligence. A.K. beats him by just a little in that regard.

His best friend is A.K. and actually, A.K. is his only friend in the Family. He has an incredible soft spot for A.K.

Loves the colour red and it’s his favourite colour to wear.

Loves coffee. He drinks it with a little sugar.

Has a favourite scotch and prefers that over any other. He very rarely gets drunk.

He’s blind in his lazy eye

He’s incredibly well-spoken and actually quite a polite individual when speaking to people at times.

He fights a lot with those around him. He just rubs people the wrong way, and he really doesn’t care. If he has an opinion on something you’re sure as hell going to hear about it

Arsenal is a very honest person, but brutally so. He sugar coats nothing.

He is able to think on the fly and come up with a sound strategy in a matter of seconds of accessing the danger they’re in. He’s handy to have on a mission, especially if you don’t mind being bossed around like crazy. Arsenal doesn’t take orders, you do.

Has impeccable posture. No slouching for this monster

Adores the theatre. It’s what he does to relax. It doesn’t matter what’s being performed, he just likes to go.

Has Thalassophobia, or a fear of the ocean. This came from him having a bad experience when he was younger. As such, he stays as far away as he can from the ocean. He denies being afraid of it.

The experience was that when he was younger he was caught by another rival Family who tied him up, weighed him down and threw him in the ocean. His father to teach him a lesson left him down there for 2 days until he was fished out of the ocean terrified and beside himself.

Is an incredibly generous friend. If you’re someone he cares about he’ll take care of you. Give you money, food, a home, anything you need. Underneath the snark and mean, he’s an incredibly kind individual. It’s just a secret.

Extremely loyal. He’ll go to the ends of the earth for someone he deems worthy.

He’s extremely devoted to his family, and despite being a brutal guy, he’s not overly cruel. He loves his brothers, and he’d die for them in a heartbeat.

A wonderful piano player and has a beautiful singing voice.

Can’t stand Ammo’s flippant/flaky behaviour and Auto’s unambitious procrastination. He’s constantly annoyed with the two.

He and Art have difficulties getting along and will often fight with each other to the point of yelling. They fight the most with each other of the six Heads.

He can speak multiple languages including sign language.

Calls his S/O “Angel”

Edit #1: Yes, Arsenal is 8'1" and I'm a dingus who put 8'0" and didn't realize before posting lol. He's 8'1"! My bad!

Edit #2: I fixed his height on the refs, so it's accurate now! Sorry about that!

[kitthenovafox]

Elevated Papyrus

Ah, @beewritesstuff, more art for you. Think the anatomy is a bit off, but super sketchy color and line art of Papyrus from your Sweet and Sugar fic. It's kinda how he comes out looking in that very end fight, crushing Riker with his hot bod. I gaze his a crown cause he's a boss monster basically, Look okay? Rainbow train indeed.

Payrus © Toby Fox

Art © myself

Sweet as Sugar © @beewritesstuff

[kitthenovafox]

Jax Outfit

So a little doodle I did of Jax back when Ep 9 came out, and wanted to try my take on a cute outfit for her. I think she looks cute!

[kitthenovafox]

W. D. GASTER..

So the amazing creator @beewritesstuff has some amazing fics that they've written and the way they describe things is.. Ugh, can't get enough.

Funny enough, a particular scene stuck with me, where Gaster stares down someone who is messing with the female reader character. He was NOT happy. So here he sits, staring that mother fucker down, a particular drink in hand.

Also, I must add that part of his facial design is a combination of my overall image of Gaster, as well as the writer/artist on AO3 and Tumblr, @absurdmageart.

I hope you like it @beewritesstuff !!

Art © myself

W.D. Gaster © Toby Fox

[dracogotgame]

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

[mindboogling]

I don’t really know how to describe this feeling other than stressful, so I decided to draw it

Please let me draw and “sketchnote”

[kingofthewilderwest]

I will never forget the day when I was drawing, in the front row, with full out colored pencils in one of my 7000 level graduate school courses. And my professor walked by, glanced down, said, “Nice artwork!” and kept lecturing. She knew. She knew it was how I focused on the course material. It was validating and made me feel comfortable, confident, and alert the entire semester.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

My math teacher in high school let me do this it was super helpful

[xxtc-96xx]

My teacher grabbed what I was drawing and tore it up

[kitthenovafox]

I know so many people who can't learn any sort of lectured thing(including myself) if they are unable to doodle while listening. I didn't have a professor actually acknowledge it was a thing until after I was out of high school.

[cruciatus-animus]

This is why I don’t tell 99% people im bisexual

[nudeparrot-deactivated20161109]

I love how gay people do it too. Just… really? You’re literally saying the same shit to bisexuals that straight people say to you, and you don’t see the hypocrisy? 

[asking-ask-deactivated20171227]

If youre biphobic or hate bisexuals, fucking unfollow me, for serious.

[cutestwarlord]

^^^

[sciencemyfiction]

If youre biphobic or hate bisexuals, fucking unfollow me, for serious.

[drudragonrose]

Why is this a thing like really? Homosextual people of ALL beings should understand that you like what you like and if the answer multiple choice then that’s just more love to go around non?

[simlyliving-deactivated20170518]

BY REBLOGGING THIS YOU ARE SAYING THAT YOUR BLOG IS COMPLETELY ACCEPTING OF BI FOLKS!!! BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE PART OF THE LGBT+ COMMUNITY AND IF YOU DISAGREE, PLEASE UNFOLLOW ME

[emortal-l-deactivated20250308]

BISEXUAL INDIVIDUALS ARE VALID AND LOVED ON THIS BLOG, PASS IT ON!

[justsaya]

BY REBLOGGING THIS YOU ARE SAYING THAT YOUR BLOG IS COMPLETELY ACCEPTING OF BI FOLKS!!! BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE PART OF THE LGBT+ COMMUNITY AND IF YOU DISAGREE, PLEASE UNFOLLOW ME

[joshuakidd]

I WILL ALWAYS ACCEPT BISEXUAL PEOPLE!!!!

[fixmesoon]

I can’t believe this is a Fucking thing if your like this don’t follow me. I was having a genuinely good day until I say this post, thus ruining my day. I’m bisexual and if you have problem fuck off

[madamemedic]

BI PRIDE

[milkisheere-deactivated20210219]

bi baby !!!!!!!!!

[eisehaus-deactivated20251110]

ALL GENDERS AND ALL SEXUALITIES WELCOME HERE!! That is all. ✌️

[snowybookworm]

^^^

[thegaygreasyboi]

If you’re biphobic, fuck off.

[dreamboatdani]

YEEEEEEEEE

[noir-ish-bee]

dude what the fuck is wrong with these people

[catgirl-greatsword]

as a bi person, biphobes fuck off. we dont want you here.

[woodesnake]

if you are biphobic, you are disowned from the community :)

[huachengslastbraincell]

If youre biphobic or hate bisexuals, fucking unfollow me, for serious.

[archivedacountdni]

[afragileline]

Tonight (March 17 2021) in Atlanta, at least eight workers are dead after a series of targeted shootings in massage spas. The shooting is the latest in escalating Anti-Asian hate crimes, which have increased nearly 150% over the past year alone.

Below are a few links to organizations to consider supporting, all of whom are fighting for the rights of AAPI, as always feel free to add on any (credible) links or updates:

Gofundme for the AAPI Community Fund

Stop AAPI Hate

Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Red Canary Song

[illnessfaker]

( thread link )

link to the fund: https://www.gendergp.com/the-gendergp-fund/

[kitthenovafox]

As someone with a trans person as their partner, this is unacceptable and so scary. I can't donate, but please, if you can, offer something! Get this info out!

[politicalsci]

Find them here: https://waronwant.org/McStrike-near-me 

#McStrike

[the-space-ferret]

It’s McDonald’s, it’s not supposed to be a high paying job

[jabberwockypie]

People deserve to make enough to live on. That’s not up for debate. This idea that some jobs aren’t “supposed to” pay enough for people to get their needs met is bullshit. Nobody should be living in poverty.

[the-space-ferret]

Yes, but it’s McDonald’s. It’s not meant to be a job to support a family, it’s mainly for support for teens or side jobs.

[aeliad]

No, it’s not. 

There is no such thing as a job “for teens” (and even if there was, they deserve a fair wage for their labor, too.) Nobody should get paid so little that they need “side jobs.” 

If your business model relies on paying people a wage that keeps them trapped in poverty, your business should not continue to exist. McDonald’s can afford to pay their workers a better wage, they’re choosing not to. 

[acestuckwithahimbo]

Funny story- I am a manager at a Mc Donald’s. Do you know? We have a set limit of minors- teenagers- we can employ. It’s barely over a dozen. Most locations open at 6am… guess what, on week days minors cannot work before they are out of school, or before 730am if they are out of school (GED and the like) also 730am on weekends. Minors cannot work after 10pm on weekdays, and after Midnight on weekends. My location closes at 11pm Sunday to Thursday, and 1am on Friday and Saturday. Because of labor laws here, they may not have more than 20 hours a week, and cannot work more than 5 hours in a single day.

So no. This is absolutely not a job just for teens. We have a giant compactor that crushes and crushes our trash. If you’re not 18 you’re not allowed to operate it. Anything sharp? Are you 18? Can’t touch it. Being a manger? Are you out of high school and at least 18? Forget it.

And honestly, I wouldn’t make any of the kids at my job deal with our customers when they’re going feral. Do you know how bat shit y’all are?? I had a woman start crying because we ran out of the Mc Rib and caused a scene in my drive-thru for 10 minutes. I’ve had old men cussing me out because Corp decided to bump a senior coffee from .99 to 1.09. Though if you sit inside, which they all do for well over two hours every morning… refills are free.

We have a lady here who we call “Princess Diamond” because she’s so fucking entitled she gave us a bad review on the McVoice because we served a homeless man and he sat to close to her… which was across the entire goddamn lobby. Would you really want a teen trying to deal with this woman??

I sure as shit don’t. I don’t allow her to deal with most of my Crew, actually. I’m as nice as freaking sugar in your tea to her face but if she gets rude I start slamming her order down on the tray. And as my Crew knows, the sweeter my voice gets the more trouble your in. She doesn’t stay long on days were I start getting aggressive with her food.

Side tracked- but no. We have so many things that need to be done all day long that we can’t legally let a minor do. A sister location was just fined over $5,000.00 because of labor violations pertaining to minors.

Just pay us so we can live. Please. A lot of these teens are trying to move out and get into apartments. But if an apartment costs 800.00 in rent and that’s usually one of the two checks a month an adult gets. Maybe. That’s a struggle even for myself, and it’s just my roommate, our dumb cat, and me. No children. He has a worse paying job.

We just want to be able to live.

[aeliad]

This goes for any minimum wage job. 

The minimum wage, when it was set in 1938 as the United States was coming out of the Depression, was intended to be the minimum you needed to be able to pay your bills and raise a family on a single income. Not this bullshit we have today. It’s as low as it is because it hasn’t kept up with inflation.

Like, not only is working in fast food one of the hardest fucking jobs because it’s hot, it’s dangerous, and it’s full of the worst customers, but it’s also disrespected constantly, and people don’t think you deserve to be able to pay your bills. 

Fuck that. 

Pay workers enough to live on with a single full time job. 

Any business that can’t? Shouldn’t exist. 

[siphersaysstuff]

If you don’t support raising minimum wage to a living wage, MAKE YOUR OWN FUCKING MCMUFFIN AT 6AM YOU CANCEROUS CHUDLUMP

[silverhawk]

honestly tho that scene in the incredibles where mr. incredible sees the names of all the old super heroes that used to be his friends / that he knew from Back in the Day and how every one of them has been killed by syndrome is such a chilling scene for so many reasons 

like for one, everyone he knew is dead at this point and has been killed on the same island he’s at now and two, its heartbreaking bc that means that almost every hero wanted to try out being a hero again despite the laws against it and wanted to try and help someone out and relive their glory days, only to be straight up murdered like fuck that scene is just so fuckin intense

[allthesebees-deactivated2019070]

[marisatomay]

[theladyspanishes]

I think the core of that scene for me is, when you’re insane like me and you go through it frame by frame, you can work out that Gazerbeam defeated the omnidroid twice - the only super we have enough information to confirm did so. I always wondered about his body in the cave, how and why he got the password… But it makes sense. This thing goes haywire, gets an upgrade, and goes haywire again? He must have been hella suspicious! So he does what any good superhero would do - tries to get to the bottom of what’s really happening on Nomanisan Island. During the process he’s clearly caught and wounded but has just enough time to get himself somewhere he can leave a final message, just praying that the next super to come along will find it and break the cycle. Gazerbeam is my hero.

[xxxtictacion]

Incredibles 2 has a lot to live up to

[thatgirlwithanopinion-deactivat]

All of this and…

I’m just realizing that the name is No Man Is An Island???? As in, everyone needs someone to depend on and connect with, no one is ever completely alone or should act all on their own.

[swan2swan]

Also Gazerbeam probably has X-ray vision–so he not only survived long enough to defeat the Omnidroid, he had the ability to see Syndrome entering the password.

[animagix101]

Holy guacamole! I should pay more attention, I don’t think I got any of that stuff!

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

does anyone think about the fact that now mr. incredibles has to live w/ the fact that all his friends getting killed by syndrome could have been avoided if he had just been nicer to syndrome from the beginning

[breefolk-hates-staff]

^I was thinking that from the beginning reading this and was shocked it went through so many comments before anyone pointed that out.

Syndrome waited until his machine was almost ready to go before asking Bob to come to Nomanisan. He also was surprised to find out that he was married to “Elastigirl”, which means he likely built his list and went through everyone else before finally deciding it was time to kill Bob.

[gay-jesus-probably]

Also, Syndrome literally didn’t find Bob until the start of the movie. He found Frozone and was stalking him. If Lucius hadn’t hung out with Bob, then Frozone was going to be the next one lured. There’s literally a scene of Mirage realizing that the guy in the car with her target is Mr. Incredible. He wasn’t going through the list, he was stalking and finding every former Super he could, luring them to the island, and then killing them, for the sake of improving his robot. Finding Bob was just a happy accident, and Syndromes obsession with him meant that upon finding a bot that could beat Bob, he figured he’d hit perfection and was ready.

and like, let’s be real here in the intro Buddy was crossing the line the second he showed up, Mr. Incredible mentioned he’d been very nice to Buddy, via signing a ridiculous amount of autographs and doing pictures and stuff, and that he was not going to risk a childs life as a sidekick (albeit in less words). Buddy literally showed up by breaking into his car, and then stalked him all evening until he was arrested. That’s disturbingly obsessive behavior, there’s no amount of niceness that would stop Syndrome, it was an impossible situation. No amount of nice was going to appease Syndrome, the second he faced any sort of rejection from Mr. Incredible he was going to lose it and go supervillain. After his arrest he should have gotten put into therapy, but yknow, set in like. the 50′s. so it makes sense he fell through the cracks when the cracks were a goddamn canyon. Don’t victim blame Mr. Incredible.

[kiokushitakaa]

reblogging for the last comment because blaming mr incredible for the deaths of his comrades is honestly such a weird take and i dislike how it’s framed as “fact” when it’s not. it’s syndrome’s fault and syndrome’s fault alone. full stop. he murdered them because he was selfish, entitled, and obsessed with mr incredible to a fanatical degree.

[link-the-feral-anon]

You know what’s really great

In the beginning when Mr. Incredible says, “Go home, Buddy. I work alone.” He’s holding up Bomb Voyage

In Syndrome’s flashback, he’s looking down on him, no bad guy in sight

Do with that info what you will

[torskunj]

oh 

damn

[the-trinket-fairy]

This is such good analysis, but it’s also worth mentioning the difference between these two scenes which, supposedly depict the same thing. In the first, Bob is clearly busy, trying to keep his eyes on Bomb Voyage (a fantastic supervillain name!!!), so he is distractedly telling Buddy that he is busy and that he doesn’t need help. The lighting is realistic, and although he is CLEARLY fed up with dealing with this obsessive and toxic fan, he keeps an even tone and doesn’t snap at him.

In the flashback, it’s a different scenario completely!! The lighting is all focused on Bob as if he’s under a spotlight and it is only the two of them. Bob’s pose here is also ridiculously condescending. He has his hands on his hips like a superhero and is looking down at Buddy with contempt and scorn. In addition, when he turns to leave, he dismissively waves his hand as if saying “Get out of here.”

It’s also interesting to note Buddy’s position here. His arms are extended either in worship or as an expression of all he has to offer in this relationship. He sees himself as a victim because he thinks he gave all of himself to Mr Incredible, just got him to reject him.

It’s also amazing to me how much Buddy’s suit is a reflection of himself. Everything from the black and white color scheme representing his black and white way of thinking, to the huge S because here only thinks of himself.

Bob’s suit, however, is blue. In addition to being associated with a calming and rational thought process, I think it’s also to represent that he’s on the side of the police. He’s not here for his own glory, he’s essentially working as an extension of the police force

[littlewitchlingrowan]

Also, let’s not forget when Bob is catching Bomb Voyage and trying to keep Buddy from yeeting himself towards almost certain death, he’s on his way to his own wedding.

That makes two things abundantly clear:

Bob doesn’t have an aversion to working with other people. Remember when he runs into Elastigirl earlier in the day? She reminds him not to “forget”, and he promises he won’t. They were standing over a thief they ended up accidentally nabbing together, or so we thought. They bantered back and forth about working alone, yet they nabbed that thief so seamlessly, you’d think they’d done it before. Then you find out later, Elastigirl is the woman at the altar. Making it clear that they had to have worked together, very frequently, enough to end up trusting each other to the point that they revealed their secret identities and had a romantic relationship outside of Super work, culminating in literally marrying each other. Bob is more than fine with a partner because he married his.

The other is that, Bob is trying to protect Helen. She may be more than capable of handling herself, as she flirtatiously reminds Bob on the rooftop just hours before their nuptials. But the one thing that’s priceless to the Supers are their secret identities. With Syndrome following Bob begging to partner with him, it puts Helen in danger. A fanatical fan like that can end up possessive, meaning once Syndrome discovers her, could see her as a direct threat stealing “his” position working with Bob. And because he obviously has a knack for following people undetected (he was right on Bob’s heels all over a huge metropolitan city for literal hours), he could very well stalk Helen, discover her secret identity and expose her in order to eliminate her, putting her directly in danger. Bob isn’t an idiot, he knows working with this kid doesn’t just put this child in danger, but also his own wife and their identities. It’s better to say he works alone and let this kid down as gently as possible, hoping to finally shake him off for good so he can work in safety and peace.

Which leads me to my next point. Blaming Bob for all his friends getting killed is buying directly into Syndrome’s revisionist history of Bob “rejecting” him. Remember, if Syndrome hadn’t shown up to Mr. Incredible busting Bomb Voyage, none of the ensuing chaos with the bomb on the rocket boots getting dropped on the train tracks and blowing them up, causing Bob to lose Bomb Voyage, then forced to stop a speeding train, resulting in the passengers getting injured, the attempted suicide being thwarted which injured the guy, and everybody suing Bob for it, ultimately culminating in the Super’s fall from public grace and forced retirement. All of those consequences are because Syndrome refused to listen to Bob and meddled in dangerous affairs, making everything indescribably worse. If he had never showed up, none of the above would have happened and Supers would have never been forced into retirement, meaning none of Bob’s friends would have been lured from said retirement by Mirage and Syndrome’s private contract offers which resulted in their deaths.

[fuck-philip-banks]

this post got SO much longer AND better

[khyann]

Not sure if this matters by now but

[korben600]

A couple of things:

- The reason Syndrome found all the other supers first (including Frozone) was because Bob kept getting fired from his jobs, forcing the government to wipe his existence from multiple companies and forcing his family to move each time that happened. He unintentionally saved his family by forcing them to relocate so often.

- Two of the biggest differences between the two versions of “go home, Buddy” is the focus, and length. In Mr Incredible’s version, “Go Home, Buddy” is a midpoint, a random event that just happened to stick because it was weirdly specific, and it was right before the important parts. The attempted suicide, train crash, and wedding are much more important because those were more important to Mr Incredible (since the first two ended the superhero movement, and the last was his wedding). Buddy, on the other hand, only flashes back to “Go home, Buddy”. Which is weird because Buddy almost died later that night from a bomb on his cape, and he almost killed dozens of people on a train by dropping a bomb on them, and because of that, he was indirectly responsible for the death of supers. All three of those things should be much more important to Buddy, but it’s a sign of his psychosis that the one thing he remembers is not Mr Incredible saving his life, or his life being in danger, but instead Mr Incredible rejecting him. Buddy was unstable, and an extremely unreliable narrator who edited out massive chunks of his own story to better justify his hero syndrome.

- Also, on a more sobering note, some have brought up how Incredibles 2 seems a step down from Incredibles 1, and while that’s arguable, there’s some related bits in there I’d like to mention. You know how there were a slew of superhero’s in the movie for when they made superhero-ing legal again?

Notice anything funny about that lineup? Anything at all? Okay, here’s a hint then. How many of these heroes were working before heroes got banned? How many of these new heroes are from Mr Incredible’s era?

Answer: None.

Frozone, Elastigirl, and Mr Incredible are the only ones who were active before the ban, or more specifically, were left from those active before the ban.

Think about it, Elastigirl was on the news basically continuously, there was a UN declaration on supers, any super left who had even been five degrees of separation away from Elastigirl back in their heyday would’ve come up to talk to her and her movement. But when Elastigirl was brought in to meet other supers, she didn’t know any of them.

And it’s not like she and Bob were loners who never interacted with anyone, look at their wedding day, it’s packed to the gills with capes (and possibly some secret identities too):

So…what happened?

Syndrome happened. This isn’t just some serial killer picking people at random, Syndrome systematically wiped out an entire community of people, arguably, an entire generation of supers, since Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack seem to be the only kid-supers in existence.

That’s why Elastigirl is so emotional when she’s introduced to these new supers, she thought her people, barring her family and Frozone, were wiped out by Syndrome. And in a way…they were.

Nobody’s left from her era of superheroics. None of her old friends survived. It’s just her, Bob, and Frozone left out of what was once a thriving, vibrant community. All those bright lights snuffed out because some kid couldn’t handle being rejected but his hero.

- Honestly, this allegory kind of brings to mind the AIDS crisis and the gay community. A “syndrome” almost specifically targeting a subset of the population with a flair for dramatic outfits and superheroics, picking off members one by one until the population is decimated. The members of the community have to intervene themselves to slow/stop this “syndrome” because the government, which was supposed to protect them, is unaware of, or is blatantly ignoring the crisis until it starts hurting the “normal” community. Because of this “syndrome” there’s just this gap in this community, where an entire generation is just…missing…with the few survivors having to counsel the new, untouched generation, and helping them achieve widespread support and acceptance they could only dream of.

- Side note: I just realized something. Take a look at Syndrome’s kill list:

And take a look at that wedding shot again.

Anyone look familiar?

If it’s to hard to tell, at least four of the people Syndrome killed were at Bob’s wedding.

Mr Incredible wasn’t watching supers getting killed, he was watching his friends getting killed. People he trusted enough to share his secret identity with people he trusted enough to share his wife’s secret identity with. Hell, our poor boy Gazerbeam got a front row seat with Edna and their NSA agent that’s usually reserved for family only.

And that’s bad enough, but something else occurred to me, Bob and Helen clearly haven’t been keeping in close contact with their superheroic friends, Bob asks Frozone if he’s been keeping in contact with Gazerbeam, implying they haven’t talked in a while.

Additionally, Bob’s life, and the superhero community’s life, went tits up basically immediately after his wedding night. So if there was any point for them to stop talking with other supers, it’d be then.

So what does that mean?

It means, in all likelihood that when Mr Incredible looked at that list of dead friends and superheroes, he realized with growing horror that, his wedding?

The happiest point of his life?

That was the last time Mr Incredible saw his friends alive.

[isa-ghost]

[razzleberryjam]

Also like to point out that in the scene where he’s seeing all of his friend’s and their identities exposed and that they’ve been killed, he IMMEDIATELY in shock and horror realizes that elastagirl could be a target and SEARCHES her super identity. The relief on his face when he sees that she’s unknown is honestly so raw. Incredibles, both of them, are just absolutely stunning films.

[lilyrose225writes]

*blinks*  I…need to rewatch this movie.  I think I missed out on uh, just a few things when I was like 12.

[totesmgoats01-published-author]

this post has Too Long But Also Good Post disorder.

[astrelle]

Hey guys,

I’ll make this short. Today a racist idiot burned our car completely. It can only be sold for scrap because the motor, brain and sensors are fried.

We’re a family of black latine immigrants. we did not get any stimulus checks. I was forced to drop out cause I can’t pay for college so I’m using my shop to sustain my family, and without a car this is just so, so much more difficult.

I beg of you. If you’ve ever used these:

Please. please consider boosting and/or donating. I’m in complete shambles over this. 

http://paypal.me/mothcharm  http://ko-fi.com/swordknight  https://mothcharm.bigcartel.com

Thank you ♥

[actualbird]

The Philippines just got hit by the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in history

Yesterday, November 1, 2020, Typhoon Rolly (international name Goni) hit the central part of Luzon, Philippines. 

source: https://twitter.com/DrJeffMasters/status/1322676688002625536?s=20

Like the tweet said, it is the most powerful tropical cyclone to hit landfall in recorded history. 

The typhoon has now passed, but the aftermath is bad. Houses destroyed, farmlands flooded, and many, many evacuees. If you would like to see what’s going on, check the hashtag #RollyPH on Twitter, there’s a lot, which brings me to the most important point

how you can help

You can donate to help relief operations. 

There are many donation drives currently being circulated on Twitter, and you can find them by searching the #ReliefPH hashtag, here are just a few that I’ve found that have an option to donate through PayPal.

source: https://twitter.com/MovePH/status/1323104274335719425?s=20

source: https://twitter.com/MovePH/status/1323104255750799361?s=20

source: https://twitter.com/MovePH/status/1323104250612756481?s=20

source: https://twitter.com/MovePH/status/1323104238461878273?s=20

source: https://twitter.com/KayaNatinPH/status/1322819406578155520?s=20

And there are many many more. 

This is just the tip of the iceberg, a lot of people in my country are trying their absolute best to chip in and help those affected, but help from outside would definitely be something that could go a long way. 

If you can’t donate, maybe a reblog could bring this post to people who could. 

Thank you for reading. Stay safe and healthy, everybody.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

to my fellow black folk: we lost an actual superhero, and it feels like it. It's perfectly okay to feel distraught, sadness, emotional at that loss. I know being black is hard when it comes to what feels like consistent, communal trauma. it's okay to take a breather and feel- you don't have to always feel "strong". We're all here. ✊🏾❤️

(you can, and please, share if you're not black, but don't dare start no discourse in my comments)

[lesserjoke]

Two years ago today, a gunman opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 Jews gathered there for Shabbat services. It was the deadliest act of domestic antisemitism in American history, and it was *DIRECTLY* inspired by President Trump's xenophobic scaremongering about immigrants seeking refuge in our country, a cause that my religion has traditionally supported.

Massacre is not new to the Jewish people. But there are places we have traditionally felt safe, and for a long time, the temple sanctuary was one of them. For a long time, America was one of them. But for the past two years, I have not once been able to gather for worship without looking down at my precious family and wondering if today is the day our time will be up.

(The switch to streaming services from home during the pandemic this president continues to mismanage, while awful for alienation from community, is at least a reassurance that today won't be the day. And I hate that I almost feel thankful for it.)

We're not the only marginalized group who have suffered under Trump, I know. He has stoked animosity against the peaceful cry that Black Lives Matter. He has installed under-qualified crony judges set on abolishing marriage equality and reproductive freedoms. He has ripped children from their parents, tossed them into cages, and thrown away the paperwork. Even now, as COVID-19 kills hundreds of thousands of Americans but gets nothing but his shrug and his determination to keep personally spreading the virus at campaign rallies across the country, his administration is striving to dump millions of us off our existing healthcare with no plan at all for what will take its place.

Nothing can bring back those lives we've lost. Even with Trump out of office, the damage he's wrought will take years to amend. But the first step is to deny him this second term, and to do so by such a landslide margin that the rigged courts can't stop it and the whole world sees us voice an American mandate against Trumpism.

Vote Joe Biden. Vote early if you can, by absentee ballot dropped off in person if you can. Vote for a compassionate and experienced leader with a commitment to progressive principles and a willingness to form policy based on the input of experts. He will staff an executive branch that's competent and not corrupt, he will listen and compromise when the situation calls for it, and he will make families like mine safer. Vote Joe Biden / Kamala Harris 2020. [EDIT: And a downballot congress to enact their agenda.]

But spare a moment, when you can, for the Tree of Life congregation, who didn't ask to be martyrs and should still be here to vote in next week's election alongside us. Zichronam livracha; may their memories be always for a blessing.

[fuckyeahdrugpolicy]

[justice4mikebrown]

Download and learn more about the app here.

[imoverallofit]

BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS

[lividlovers]

This is so fucking amazing!

Some solutions may seem so small but this is a greater impact.

[hate-police]

BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS GUYS

[2lf]

REBLOG AND DOWNLOAD APP

[dinah-myles]

@yenneferofvengerbergg Look, Darling, maybe this will help you understand the importance of the matter.

[enbundad]

IMPORTANT NOTE: the app link in the article is for the California one.

There’s one for every state.

(From the looks of it, I haven’t looked to see if there’s 50 apps.)

[Edit: nope. There’s not one for every state.]

States with apps: California, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, New Jersey, Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona, Maryland, Oklahoma, Mississippi, New Mexico, DC, Nebraska

[purplelittlemermaid]

Reblogging because it’s still a greaaaat idea.

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Please reblog, this is so important.

[notoriousthuggg]

I needed this

[amuseinherfeels]

Is this foreal?

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Yes it’s a real service. I do volunteer work for a rape crisis support service in my city and texting is one of the features we provide as well. But just to boost its credibility, I tried it myself:

[thatdiva]

reblog to save lives!

[if-i-onlyhadabrain]

REBLOG

😭 Thank you.

[dandelionkicker]

Wow. Thanks

[its-allgoodbabybaby]

I’m a crisis counselor with this service. It is for real and we do care.

Please know we want to help and you are NOT alone.

Feel free to DM me here too anonymous or not.

[magpie-69]

And for the UK….

[thornsnthistles-deactivated2024]

❤ Please share ☝️

[chocolate1721]

If I ever stop sharing this. It means I am in exam week or my family is demanding my presence for “socialization”

[daisy-mooon]

@bitchass-slytheriny-snake 

[bitchassslytherinsnakery]

I don’t wanna worry anyone

[inhumane-screaming--noises-deac]

Ah, but your worth more than you think

[pisss-offf-ghostt]

I hate talking on the phone but sometimes I just need to know someone is there. This is truly a life saver

[safe-haven-system-deactivated20]

I used this and it really did help, they are there until you calm back down and then as soon as you feel ready to stop talking all you have to do is say so