roane72:

Honestly, I think the whole “don’t pay the writers” thing boils down to the notion that everybody thinks they can write. It’s the old saw about the novelist at a cocktail party having to hear someone say, for the millionth time, “I’d love to write a book someday.”

Someone–Stephen King? Pretty sure I saw this in a Stephen King foreword–once said they’d like to say to a brain surgeon, “Boy, I’d love to do brain surgery someday.”

We treat “the ability to put words into a sentence” like it’s just the same as “the ability to form a coherent narrative that engenders a variety of emotions within the reader and puts them in a scene and shows them what they didn’t see before”.

And that’s like me drawing a stick figure and saying I’m an artist.

Writers are constantly devalued because everyone thinks they have a book in them and don’t realize the level of skill and commitment it takes to finish even a short story, much less a whole book. 

This goes well beyond fandom, but man, I would’ve hoped fandom would know better.

thewritershandbook:

Air/Wind

• Aerokinesis -manipulate the air, wind, and gas.
• Aeroportation – teleport using air/wind currents.
• Air Mimicry – transform into a cloud of gas, fog, or mist.
• Atmokinesis – manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
• Deoxygenation – suck up all the oxygen from a place.
• Lung Adaptation – breath anywhere
• Wind Generation – create blasts of air.
• Divine Winds Manipulation – create and control heavenly winds.
• Dark Wind Manipulation – create and control eerie winds.

Earth

• Geokinesis – control, manipulate, and reshape the earth at will.
• Atmokinesis – control and manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
• Crystallokinesis – manipulate minerals and crystals.
• Ferrokinesis… manipulate metal at will.
• Fraxikinesis – manipulate burnt matter.
• Geo-Thermokinesis – manipulate, control, and create lava, magma and volcanoes.
• Golem Creation – make golems out of inanimate materials like rocks, wood, plants, magma, etc.
• Granulation… can turn things into sand.
• Halokinesis – control and manipulate salt.
• Hyalokinesis – control and manipulate glass.
• Koniokinesis – manipulate and control dust particles.
• Plassikinesis – manipulate and control all forms of plastic.
• Psammokinesis – can control and manipulate sand.
• Terrakinesis – control, manipulate and alter/reshape the surrounding terrain and landscape at will.
• Terraportation – teleport via the earth and earth-based materials.
• Sacred Earth Manipulation – Create, manipulate, control, reshape divine earth minerals.
• Black Earth Manipulation – Create, manipulate and control tainted and evil earth minerals.

Fire

• Pyrokinesis – create, control and manipulate fire, flame and heat.
• Atmokinesis – control and manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
• Fire Breath – breathe out flames.
• Geo-Thermokinesis – manipulate lava, magma and volcanoes.
• Heliokinesis – manipulate and control the sun and sunlight.
• Hell-Fire Manipulation – Generate and control flames of hell.
• Holy Fire Manipulation – Generate and control flames of Heaven.
• Inflammation – burn things.
• Melting – heat molecules to melt things.
• Plasmakinesis – can control plasma.
• Pyrotechnics – create fireworks.
• Self-Detonation – explode self and reform.
• Thermokinesis – create, control and manipulate heat.

Water

• Hydrokinesis – manipulate and control liquid water and mold it into any desired shape or form.
• Aquatic Adaptation – adapted to underwater living.
• Aquatic Respiration – breathe underwater.
• Atmokinesis– control and manipulate the various aspects of the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
• Dehydration – absorb water.
• Hydroportation – teleport across short or long distances through liquid water.
• Water Mimicry – turn into liquid water.
• Holy Water Manipulation – create, manipulate and control graceful waters.
• Dark Water Manipulation – create, manipulate and control evil and dangerous waters.

Darkness

• Umbrakinesis – can manipulate and control darkness or shadows.
• Animated Shadow – Animate one’s shadow.
• Light Absorption – block out light in an area.
• Night Vision – see in the dark.
• Sacred Darkness – create holy darkness.
• Shadow Camouflage – be unseen in shadows.
• Shadow Mimicry – become a shadow.
• Umbrageous Teleportation – teleport via the shadows and darkness.

Electricity/Lightning

• Quintessence Force -Can generate whitish-blue lightning that also contains pure life energy.
• Electrokinesis – control, generate or absorb electric fields and shoot lightning bolts.
• Activation & Deactivation – turn stuff on and off.
• Positron Manipulation – control positrons, the antimatter counterpart to electrons.
• Electrical Absorption – absorb electricity.
• Electric Mimicry -transform entire body into a lightning-like being of pure electrical energy
• Electrical Transportation – teleport with lightning.
• Divine Lightning Manipulation – create and control the brightest lightning.
• Black Lightning Manipulation – create and control the darkest lightning.

Energy

• Dynamokinesis – manipulate existing energy.
• Energy Blast – create blasts of energy.
• Energy Emission – release energy.
• Quintessence Force – create and manipulate unique form of electrical and life energy.
• Mana Manipulation
• Chi Manipulation
• Electricity Manipulation
• Energy Manipulation

Ice

• Cryokinesis – control ice, snow and other forms of frozen water.
• Freeze Breath – freeze things in solid ice.
• Freezing – lower the temperature in kinetic atoms to freezing temperatures.
• Frigokinesis – control snow either as precipitation or already on the ground.
• Ice Beam – shoot beams of freezing energy.
• Ice Generation

Light

• Dark Light Manipulation – create the darkest light in existence.
• White Light Manipulation– create sacred light from the divine.
• Photokinesis – create and manipulate pure light.
• Force-Field Generation – create protective shields of solid photons.
• Invisibility – be unseen.
• Laser Emission – bend light wavelengths to create lasers.
• Light Absorption -absorb the light around you.
• Light Generation – emit blinding light or glow in the dark.
• Light Mimicry – take on the traits of light.
• Photoportation – Teleport by using photons.
• Projective Invisibility – turn other things invisible.
• Evil Banish – Rid and banish all spirits of evil and black magic.
• Light Manipulation

Weather

• Atmokinesis – manipulate the various aspects of the weather by using water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
• Atmokinetic Resistance – immunity to all weather-based abilities and effects.
• Atmokinetic Sensing – sense the future weather patterns.

Other

• Aether Manipulation
• Cosmic Manipulation
• Gravity Manipulation
• Nether Manipulation
• Space-Time Manipulation

From Superpower Wikia. See their complete list of superpowers HERE.