On the second day of Hogswatch, your Seanan gave away...: seanan

On the second day of Hogswatch, your Seanan gave away...

...a copy of Velveteen vs. The Multiverse!

Welcome to the second of the Twelve Days of Hogswatch. I will be starting a new giveaway every day between now and January 6th (the day after my birthday). Each giveaway will have different rules, and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on January 9th, because I am bad at going to the post office.

This giveaway is for a shiny new copy of Velveteen vs. The Multiverse, the second volume in the adventures of Velma "Velveteen" Martinez, crankiest superheroine this side of the Mississippi. This is going to be a random number drawing with a twist, because I am silly. So...

1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate both this and your willingness to pay postage.
3. Explain your superpower. What is it? How does it work? What are your strengths and weaknesses?

I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Monday, December 30th, by randomly selecting two heroes and deciding the outcome of a fight. (Note: "my superpower is I can do anything" means you will inevitably be defeated by Squirrel Girl. That's what she's for. Remember that in the Velveteen-verse, cunning and treachery often defeats raw strength.)

Game on!

estelendur

December 27 2013, 05:51:14 UTC 3 years ago

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My superpower: animal shapeshifting, but the kind where I keep a human mind in an animal brain (because magic or something). Caveats: I can operate all bodies at about the same level of skill and with the same relative level of strength. Wounds and such are partly healed by transformation, because reassembly, but it takes more energy out of me. Communication? A signs-and-sounds language worked out with my friends and partners, optimized for non-hand limbs and varied vocal tracts.

juliansinger

December 27 2013, 06:43:05 UTC 3 years ago

My superpower is being able to find parking in improbable circumstances, like in New York City or Harvard Square in the week before Christmas, or any given area-around-a-college-campus-during-graduation.

This is not so useful in a superhero fight, but on the other hand, maybe it'd be just the thing during a spy/caper movie based around intricate timing.

mrs_norris_mous

December 27 2013, 07:27:38 UTC 3 years ago

International and happy to pay.

I generally get what I want, if I really want it. The way to defeat me is for me not to want to win.

wiredwizard

December 27 2013, 07:38:51 UTC 3 years ago

Does Canada really count as International?

I have no superpowers but a talent to McGyver together whatever's useful to get through a situation. (A swiss army knife is good to have, but I could do so much more with a sonic screwdriver... =evil cackles= )

sirfox

December 27 2013, 09:21:00 UTC 3 years ago

I'm Domestic.

Super Power Genesis:

Y'know those silica gel packets marked 'do not eat'? Never one to be told otherwise, for a young lad, this diet eventually resulted in rise of the Dehydrator. He has control over water, mostly in pulling it out of things. He moonlights as a superhero but spends the day visiting local organic produce vendors to freezedry leftover goods for a tidy but reasonable fee.

Biggest Weakness: moisturizing cream.
Second Biggest Weakness: Larry the FDA inspector wanting to see his food handling permits.

capplor

December 27 2013, 13:40:21 UTC 3 years ago

Oddly, my superpower is an ability to know that things are in the mail. I noticed it when I was originally subscribed to the ElfQuest comics (Siege at Blue Mountain or Kings of the Broken Wheel; I forget). They came out VERY irregularly, yet I got this feeling when I had a new one in the box to read. It doesn't seem to work for Christmas packages. Overload?

nlbarber

December 27 2013, 14:12:44 UTC 3 years ago

Hmmm....my superpower must be the power of procrastination. Strength: with minimum expenditure of energy, some tasks become irrelevant, some solve themselves, some induce multiple opponents to argue about thus taking them out of my way. Weakness: some tasks take the procrastination period as a chance to grow into invincibility, and possible World Domination...

$Stef: girl\\cat hair$

morningapproach

December 27 2013, 15:25:19 UTC 3 years ago

I am in Canada, and I'll pay postage as necessary :)

My super power is my ability to never stop talking. I can talk about anything for any amount of time, until people are willing to do anything to. Shut me up. My weakness is laryngitis lol

dragonflymn

December 27 2013, 16:28:02 UTC 3 years ago

1. comment
2. Oregon
3. My superpower is healing. Knowing what to do to fix injury or illness with available items. Means I can use plants to heal, but also to poison. :)) Not very useful in battle but definitely good support staff!

mearn4d10

December 27 2013, 18:02:47 UTC 3 years ago

They laughed at my power, oh they did. Until they realized that "causes fish to rain from above" included half ton Atlantic Bluefin tuna... and I can concentrate for DAYS.

kyrielle

December 27 2013, 18:07:33 UTC 3 years ago

Hi. Domestic shipping.

My super-power is detecting - and intervening in - childish hijinks. Sometimes referred to as "eyes in the back of your head" it actually is a mild precognitive power. This makes me more useful as a training coordinator than in the field, in general. The main drawback though is--

ack! excuse me! YOU, out of there now!

...um, where was I? Oh yeah. The main drawback is distractabil--

PUT THAT DOWN!

skelody

December 27 2013, 18:23:15 UTC 3 years ago

I like this entry method :D

Let's see. My superpower is... a total ripoff of Baba Yaga. Used to daydream about using umbrellas and such as flying saucers, see, so basically anything vaguely mortar-shaped, I can pilot it if I have something to be my pestle -- an open umbrella and a furled one, washbasins and long-handled scrubbers, kiddie pools and pool noodles, actual saucers and teaspoons (although those would have to expand to me-size first). I don't get any special breathing/air-retention ability, though, nor an anti-collision shield, so it's best to avoid excessive heights and also flight lanes. And I'm such a computer potato that my limp noodle arms can only work the "pestle" so long -- as long as I'm in the "mortar" and conscious, I can still nudge it wherever, but it barely goes anywhere that way, you know? Gotta put that pestle to use to get good speed.

Dayle Dermatis

December 27 2013, 19:05:18 UTC 3 years ago

My superpower is antigrav boobs that don't bounce uncomfortably when I run and don't get in the way when I'm doing yoga or taking down megavillains. My strength is that people underestimate me. My weakness is that, as always, my clothes still never fit right.

klwilliams

December 27 2013, 19:54:58 UTC 3 years ago

Yay! I have Velveteen #1.

My superpower: I can identify secrets. I can walk into a room and know who is sleeping with whom in secrets just by looking at body language. My strengths are in drawing people to me (without actually doing anything) who will then tell me their deepest, darkest secrets (that nobody else knows). My weakness is that people know I know their secrets, and come after me.

nicachick007

December 27 2013, 20:24:36 UTC 3 years ago

Velveteen!!!!!!!

jjloa

December 27 2013, 20:29:27 UTC 3 years ago

Canadian will pay postage.
My superpower is getting shit done. Seriously, I got called 'she who gets it done' in a blog post praising a conference I worked, so I get to claim it. I'm half tempted to tattoo it I love it so much. The strengths are getting shit done. The weaknesses are people throwing more shit on the pile because they figure you can handle it when you instead want to throw things at them. Except apparently throwing things at them is not part of the superpower. Which is a pity, because a girl needs an offensive tactic.

jjmcgaffey

December 27 2013, 20:32:36 UTC 3 years ago

My actual superpowers include the ability to translate between English and Tech (both ways), very fast reading, and a near-edetic memory for the written word only. Weaknesses include total lack of memory for "when did that happen?", unless I can tire it to a place.
I don't know what my fictional superpower would be. My head is full of people with powers of various sorts, but none of them are me. Ok, my power is the ability to turn into the person with the correct power for the situation; my weakness is the time necessary to determine what the correct power is and sift through those available (hmmm, wolf shifter? no, ice powers? No, confusion inducement?, ...)

moxiesix

December 27 2013, 20:47:54 UTC 3 years ago

My superpower is that I can recreate any nonliving object as long as the chemical components are within a twenty meter radius. The weakness is that I very little control over what source I take the building blocks from, often destabilizing the original form.

antinomic

December 27 2013, 20:59:52 UTC 3 years ago

My super power is control of sprinklers. All sprinklers. Do battle with me, and you will be wet, inside, fire sprinklers. Outside, of course, lawn sprinklers. Blinded by spraying water, you will be unable to defeat me. Weakness (don't tell anyone) swim masks. Curse them all!

the_crazy_lady

December 27 2013, 21:22:34 UTC 3 years ago

My superpower is worry. I can (and will) worry about every. Little. Thing. The check I mailed hasn't been cashed yet? Probably stolen, I should call my bank and have a hold put on it. Friend not answering my text? T-Mobile probably ate it and I should send them six more just in case. That weird rumbling noise? Probably a giant robot crashing through the next town over.

Weaknesses: Most of the time, I don't actually need to worry about whatever it is I'm worrying about, so I waste a lot of time and energy that way. Fortunately the law of averages is on my side so EVENTUALLY I'm going to be right about that giant robot and I'll end up saving the world. The rest of the time, though, it's pretty easy to distract me just by giving me something mundane to agonize over.

marykaykare

December 27 2013, 21:48:47 UTC 3 years ago

My superpower is shoes. I can always find gorgeous, interesting, good shoes. Obviously this give me lots of shoes in the closet to choose from. This is both good and bad. Sometimes they go unworn...

MKK

elialshadowpine

December 27 2013, 22:20:53 UTC 3 years ago

I don't think I have a super power but my partner insists it is my ability to find whatever I am looking for on Google in about five seconds flat. At this point, my partner doesn't bother Googling for themselves if it is something at all complex -- they just ask me, and I usually find it far quicker than they would. >_>

tsgeisel

December 27 2013, 23:04:15 UTC 3 years ago

Commenting.

My superpower is that if I get lost going someplace, the next time I go, I can get lost in *exactly* the same way. (In practical terms, if I don't get lost the first time, I don't get lost ever again.)

wendyzski

December 28 2013, 00:32:36 UTC 3 years ago

In the US.

My superpower is memorizing song lyrics. As in "hear a song once or twice and can now sing it from memory". Which freaks the hell out of my bandmates. However, the dark side to this power is that while I can still sing songs we sang in third-grade choir, I have several sets of spare keys because I can never remember where I left them. Alas, my mailbox has yet to open when I sing "One Little Candle" at it...

deire

December 28 2013, 00:57:45 UTC 3 years ago

I am a US superhero. My secret powers include the ability to make the equivalent of the Luggage from Discworld, all loyal to me. I and my fleet of Samsonite will take over the continent and then spread by airplane. No security checkpoint can stop a truly determined sentient suitcase with teeth.

December 28 2013, 01:02:09 UTC 3 years ago

Forgot the weakness. Primarily, sentient luggage is not inconspicuous or fireproof. Also, while loyal, the baggage has a mind of its own. Intelligence is variable.

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