Meta: Hey Hiro! Check this out!

[nerdherdchuck]

Seems Entertainment Weekly magazine picked our abilities as nominees for a Tubey award!

(Well okay, they didn't get our abilities exactly right but still...)

Link: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20219169,00.html

Comments

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Not exactly right, no. But it is nice to see someone appreciates us!

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

*smiles* Yeah, it is.

And you're currently winning, by the way! *claps*

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

I will have a gold medal to go with my silver one?

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

So far! I dunno when the voting ends, but you're like 10% ahead of Clark at the moment.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Clark should really win. After all he can fly, has x-ray and heat vision and all those powers. The only thing he has to worry about is kryptonite.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

*nods* He does have several.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

He can fly. *Hiro sighs deeply.*

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

You'd like to fly, Hiro?

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*Hiro nods.* I guess it was reading all those Superman comics when I was little. I love my ability, but sometimes I envy him being able to fly.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Well, it must be kinda fun. You're not bound by gravity or many of the boundaries that are in the way of earthbound beings.

I think everyone would kinda like to fly at some point just for the freedom of it.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*Hiro nods.* It must be so liberating to just leave the ground behind and see it all in one glance.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

*nods*

We at least got to float once in Roanoke. Wasn't quite the same though.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

No, not quite the same. *Hiro snickers a bit at the memory of the two of them throwing fairy dust all over themselves. By the end of it, they were more twinkle than flying.*

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

We must have looked so silly.

But you know...I was kinda surprised the pixie dust even worked at all.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

You and I both. I thought for certain that nothing would happen.

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

I feel so left out.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Well, if I come across a Tubey you're nominated for, I'll definitely let you know, okay? You gotta be nominated for something...

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the lines of having a superpower.

OOC: Since it's meta, might as well go all the way...

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Oh!

Well...maybe it's because there's already one Superman on the list...

ooc: Fine by me. :)

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's just wishful thinking on my part. I don't have a superpower. Not that I know of anyway.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Who knows. One just may show up one day...

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd have to get bitten by a spider or something.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Depends. Sometimes abilities are inside someone already and need to get activated or whatever.

But...there's quite a few that happen by accident...like being bit by spiders or exposed to gamma rays or whatever.

You know...if you wanted to be a superhero without the powers, you could build yourself a super suit or something. *grins*

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

Hmm, most people would think I'm crazy.

How would you even get started building a super suit anyway?

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Um...I have no idea really. It's like building a wearable robot or something...

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

Not all supersuits are like Iron Man though, right?

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

If you're designing the suit, you don't have to make yours like Iron Man's if you don't want to.

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

I don't know of any other suits that make the hero.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Well...what would you like your awesome suit to do?

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

First, I'd just like to point out that you said the word awesome.

Secondly, could it give me super strength or make me invisible?

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when Captain Awesome talks to you for awhile...you start saying 'awesome.'

Well, if you wanted it too, sure.

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

Awesome. *grins*

So what would I need to put in it to make it super? Iron Man's was an easy enough concept for protection and flight.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

I dunno...some sort of engine to power the suit. And probably some sort of stealth technology to make it invisible?

[not-a-savage.livejournal.com]

Seems like it would get kinda bulky.

[nerdherdchuck.livejournal.com]

Well, there would have to be things in it to power it to move, I think.