My friend, who is a CW superhero: <stomps into she shed> Penelope I just had the weirdest encounter Me: <waves iPad> says here you got strange matter particles on you Friend: ...How do you just know how to check for that Me: when you're a superhero's one friend it just happens
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Friend: but you're just like a twitter shitposter. How do you design all these special gadgets and stuff Me: I have no agency other than to occupy the negative space delineated by your need for plot devices to solve your problem du jour. And be unthreateningly socially awkward.
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Me: besides do you even really KNOW I shitpost on twitter Friend: ...what Me: Like you've been INFORMED that I'm in the business of shitposting but when's the last time you ever really saw any of my posts—much less those of them that are shit Friend: ... Me: it's illusory
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I'm not even the superhero's original science friend, at first it was this crew-cutted ex-Navy silver fox who was stern and straightforward but with a loving heart He got butterflied out of existence as a result of a crossover event the superhero was only marginally involved in
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Friend: Pen, this is bad. We got a metahuman dying of an unstable mutation and the only man who knows how to synthesize the vaccine has been kidnapped Me: ugh fine I'll whip up a vaccine for you Friend: ...since when do you do that Me: just since your dedicated med guy poofed
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
The nerdy guy on Flash went from being just "good with computers" to making and maintaining all their equipment to somehow having the power to create portals to the dreamtime
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah in the typical vein of CW Nerd Escalation, within four seasons I'd wind up becoming Inque or something
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Of course you'd be a less sexy more "grounded" version of the character and it'd be all controversial
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Also I'd never actually wind up fighting Batwoman to the point of fans saying a perfectly good Batverse villain got hijacked for no reason only for the writers to suddenly whip it out in a crossover years after anyone even remembered I was Inque
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Yeah you'd have stopped being Inque for a while only for a cosmic being to just suddenly appear and reactivate your powers for his amusement
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