#Travis Beacham

[monsterblogging]

Links to Pacific Rim creator Travis Beacham's own posts on drift compatibility and drifting

Drift compatibility is psychological, not genetic

The better you know someone, the more likely you are to be drift compatible

Drift compatibility is potential, not fate

Drift compatibility can be a choice

Friendship is the foundation of drift compatibility

The drift requires trust

Trust is fundamental; also drift compatibility can be determined with anything that tests how well you can anticipate each others' moves

That even includes multiplayer video games

Many cadets wash out during Pons training when secrets come out in the drift and shatter their relationships

A lot of pilots get messed up by flinching over sexual thoughts

Trying to avoid thoughts just makes them worse

Not everything you see in the drift is always real; also the way to deal with thoughts is just let them flow by

Pilots communicate through "headspace"

Illustration of a conversation in headspace

First drifts can be very confusing, because partners don't understand each others' minds very well yet

The drift exposes pilots to each others' raw, unfiltered thoughts

Raleigh knew what Yancy was going to say

The drift doesn't let you read your partner's mind like a database, and you may not necessarily understand what you see. Also when Pentecost says he carries nothing into the drift he means he's calm and stable.

Pentecost gained this calmness through meditation

Trying to block your partner from your mind will make you lose control of the Jaeger

Pilots who fall below 90% sync will be in trouble

General information plus info on RABITs

You can chase your partner's RABIT

Another post confirming you can chase your partner's RABIT

More RABIT info

More general information

Travis Beacham defines ghost drifting

Partners' personalities can rub off on each other

Neural overload doesn't hit you all at once; it accumulates

The time a pilot can go solo varies, and it's a steep curve from fine to dead

More info on solo piloting

Being high in the drift probably makes it harder to avoid chasing the RABIT

#pacific rim #pacific rim 2013 #travis beacham #pacific rim lore #pacific rim resources #drifting #the drift #drift compatibile #drift compatibility

[adamcasey]

Gipsy Danger for Pacific Rim’s 10th anniversary

#art #illustration #pacific rim #pacrim #gipsy danger #jaeger #kaiju #guillermo del toro #Travis Beacham #movie art #fan art #screentone

[kaijuposting]

Drifting, as conceptualized by Travis Beacham

Back around 2013, Pacific Rim creator Travis Beacham answered a lot of questions about drifting on his blog. He evidently put a lot of thought into it, as he answered numerous questions with quite a lot of precision and detail. I'm not going to quote all of his words verbatim here; rather, I'm going to try and sum up what he said. For Beacham, trust is fundamental; potential partners must first and foremost trust each other in order to drift. Because your partner will be aware of whatever you are presently feeling and thinking (which can include anxieties, intrusive thoughts, and fantasies), you have to be able to trust your partner with that - otherwise, you won't be able to sync.

Beacham says that drift compatibility is merely potential; it doesn't ensure an actual bond between people. Developing a bond takes work and compromise, which is easier between people who already have established relationships. However, strangers with similar personality traits also have potential, and choice plays a role as well. Beacham states that he believes that Mako and Raleigh might have never been matched up by the PPDC, but that they matched themselves up by choosing to trust and care about each other. Beacham also says that genetics don't really play a role in drift compatibility - again, it's the psychological stuff that's important. He also clarifies that drifting doesn't allow people to find and view anything in their partner's mind as if it's a database - they're only able to see whatever they're currently thinking about. First drifts can be confusing for pilots, especially if they lack common memory reference points - it's difficult to work with someone who has an entirely different mental landscape from your own. The more familiar pilots become with each other's psyche, the easier it becomes. As pilots gain more familiarity with each others' minds, they become more efficient at communicating through the drift; spoken dialog is essentially just the tip of the iceberg in a conversation that is largely playing out through the drift. According to Beacham, this mental conversation can play out extremely quickly; he says that for experienced pilots it's essentially like pausing reality to have a conversation. He also says that new pilots are taught to "call" their moves in order to help them sync better. Experienced pilots will often continue to do it out of habit, as well as keep LOCCENT informed of what's happening. (And, presumably, to keep us in the audience informed of what's up, lol.) Beacham says that pilots can essentially exchange personality traits through the drift, though they will remain essentially themselves - in essence, it seems to work the same way that close friends or couples will inevitably rub off on each other. Beacham describes the RABIT as "a kind of drift-prompted dissociative episode." He also says that the RABIT can be a traumatic memory, but it can be literally any memory that overpowers you and pulls you out of awareness. Pilots can also chase the other person's RABIT just as easily as they can chase their own. In general, it's important that pilots don't get distracted by their own thoughts or their partner's thoughts, but instead allow them to wash over and pass by.

Drifting with an incompatible partner isn't likely to cause any damage, but it can be uncomfortable and confusing. Since pilots who aren't in sync won't have control over their jaeger, this would be disastrous in an actual fight. A jaeger can be piloted with a certain amount of dissonance between pilots, but things get risky once synchronization falls below 90%. Should one partner be pulled out of the drift, the other won't immediately go into neural overload. He says that it could happen in five minutes, or maybe twenty minutes - there's no real way to know. Additionally, neither Raleigh Becket nor Stacker Pentecost were unique in their ability to solo pilot a jaeger for a time; they were simply the only ones who ever had to. (It doesn't often happen that one pilot dies while the other survives.) Beacham also posted about ghost drifting, which he described as an persistent (albeit muted) link between partners that manifests as shared dreams. He says that it's rare, and that the mechanisms behind it have yet to be explained in-universe. So yeah, that's a summary of Travis Beacham's take on drifting. Personally, I enjoyed the way he thought this all through, especially in acknowledging that sharing a headspace with another person could go very wrong, and in coming up with ways to mitigate it. I also appreciate the way he grounded the whole thing in ways that track to how actual relationships function, rather than taking a more fantastical ~mystical fate~ kind of route that just... doesn't. Beacham's take on drifting could be summed up as "soulmates are made, not found," which is very appropriate for a story about broken people forging connections in broken world.

#pacific rim #pacrim #drifting #the drift #travis beacham #pacific rim lore #ghost drifting

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Impact Winter #1

#impact winter #travis beacham #stephen green #image comics #comics

[kmalexander]

Raunch Review: Carnival Row

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[graphicpolicy]

Get a look at Impact Winter #1 from Skybound coming this July

Get a look at Impact Winter #1 from Skybound coming this July #comics #comicbooks

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#andworld design #comic books #Comics #image comics #impact winter #matt hollingsworth #skybound #stephen green #travis beacham

[holisticwolf95]

Darcy

Impact winter by Travis Beacham.

Audible

#Impact winter #travis beacham #audible #audible original #watchmegrow #vampire #selfteaching #digital media #help me learn

[monsterblogging]

(Image Source: Tales From Year Zero)

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[thesundaytea]

@keepcalmandeattoast so I am confusion:

American explaaaaaaaaaain!

#sooo many questiooooons #pacific rim #newton geiszler #travis*sighs* beacham #from my understanding Travis created Newt #and gave him his back story; not Guillermo

[summersnow82]

This was shared on a FB SeaQuest fan page. The whole Season 1 main cast minus Jonathan Brandis. Look how adorable Ted is! 🥰

Sept. 7, 1994.

NBC TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, CA.

#seaquest 2032 #seaquest dsv #SeaQuest season 1 #ted raimi #lt tim o’neill #Tim O’Neill #travis hackett #jonathan brandis #roy scheider #marco sanchez #ben krieg #Katherine Hitchcock #stephanie beacham #Jonathan ford #chief Crocker #miguel ortiz #don franklin #captain nathan bridger #Lucas wolenzak

[kaijuposting]

PSA: The g-word is a racial slur. We call her "Lady Danger" for a reason.

Pacific Rim Content & Resources Masterpost (Last Update: December 26 2023)

Pacific Rim Lore & Lore Dives

Pacific Rim kaiju biology - what do we know about it?

The Precursors: what's been said about them?

“Anteverse” and “Precursors” - why these terms exist

Drift Hangover Lore

Drifting, as conceptualized by Travis Beacham

The Downside of Drifting - It's Not Always Pleasant In Here

Details about Hermann Gottlieb's personality in the novelization that (probably) came from the bio written by Guillermo del Toro.

Information about Newt Geiszler in the novelization that (probably) comes from the bio by Guillermo del Toro.

All the Pacific Rim Character Birthdays I Could Find

The Newmann Timeline

Jaegers of Pacific Rim: What do we know about them?

Jaeger Piloting 101: How Jaegers Get Into The Thing & Other Basic Stuff

Pacific Rim Deleted Scenes

Raleigh Meets Newt - Extended Scene

Newt Does A Theft

Chuck and Hercules Hansen have an argument

All Pacific Rim deleted scenes

Pacific Rim Character Bios by Guillermo del Toro (Note that these are all slightly outdated bios)

Mako Mori

Raleigh Becket

Stacker Pentecost

Pacific Rim Speculation & Theorization

Astrology and Magic in Pacific Rim

More on Astrology and Magic in Pacific Rim

Folklore, Magic, & Psychic Abilities in the World of Pacific Rim

Ghost Drifting: Does it exist in the Pacific Rim film?

Did the Precursors/Masters get new ideas from Newt's mind?

Speculations on Precursor Government

The Pacific Rim Draft Script

Pacific Rim draft script by Travis Beacham (be forewarned, it's pretty bad and sketchy a lot.)

The kaiju of the Pacific Rim draft script

Drifting in Travis Beacham's Pacific Rim Draft

The Pacific Rim Draft Script: Who The Heck Is Newt Gotlieb?

Other

Yes, Lady Danger's original name contains a racial slur. Stop using it.

Pacific Rim concept art

Pacific Rim concept art by Guy Davis

The Pacific Rims that never were (scrapped sequel/spinoff ideas)

Pacific Rim Bonus, Featurette, Interview, Behind the Scenes playlist on YouTube

Not Pacific Rim, But Also Cool

Playlist of free-to-watch Godzilla films on YouTube

I'll continue to update this post with more stuff I find or write, so make sure to check back!

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[jameszmaguire]

Remember, it's about compatibility. It's a dialogue, not a fight. But I'm not gonna dial down my moves. Okay. Then neither will I.

dynamics I could watch forever Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori & Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket PACIFIC RIM (2013) directed by Guillermo del Toro written by Travis Beacham & Guillermo del Toro

#pacificrimedit #Pacific Rim #Maleigh #Mako Mori #Raleigh Becket #Rinko Kikuchi #Charlie Hunnam #my gifs #userbbelcher #1k