#cas fairchild

[isyourbedroomceilingbored]

Tracing his jawline gently, a soft sunbeam peers in through the ajar window. My lover's skin becomes the colour of honey and it takes all my might to not place a gentle kiss upon it. As if having read my thoughts, he stirs and open his eyes. A quiet groan escapes him, and I chuckle, full of a warm feeling that spreads through me just as the subtle sun rays explore our room. Ever so tenderly, I bring a finger to my sweet boy's lips, and outline their contour. My eyes are starving for each detail on his breathtaking face, from the flecks of gold in his mellow brown eyes, to the shape of the little lines in between his nose and his mouth. He smiles, as if knowing what I'm thinking yet again, and we continue to lounge with joy in our hearts.

— cas fairchild · isyourbedroomceilingbored

#wanted to try out something different #let me know if you like it ig #cas writes shit #cas fairchild #isyourbedroomceilingbored #poetry #writing #writers on tumblr #prose #mlm #nblm #mlm poetry #mlm concept #mlm love #mlm post #mlm textpost #mlm thoughts #mlm yearning #gay mlm #t4t #nblm love #nblm concept #nblm thoughts #nblm yearning #nblm content #nblm things #trans mlm #achillean

[nocternalrandomness]

"Project Gunship III" by Mark Karvon

Aviation art piece depicts a Fairchild AC-119K Stinger gunship from the 18th Special Operations Squadron providing air interdiction over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Laos - 1970

#Aviation art #Fairchild #AC-119 #Stinger #gunship #Vietnam #War art #air interdiction #CAS #firpower #airpower #Military art

[bibliosims]

melanie fairchild

#she takes naps in my t-shirt pocket #mine #cas #*melanie fairchild

[caterpillarinacave]

Henry: You need to learn to love yourself!

Will: Don't you hate yourself?

Henry: I- well, yes, but this is about you!

Will:

Henry: Do try and stay focused, Will.

#he does not even begin to get the irony. #you may think this is reaching but I implore you: pause and think. I am right. this quote is accurate #I could have a doctorate in one of these characters and a bachelors degree in the other don't test me #tlh #tsc #tid #this is all ca time period fyi #the infernal devices #will herondale #Henry Fairchild #Henry branwell #incorrect TID quotes #incorrect tsc quotes

[apples-and-heartbreak]

I feel like when I’m reading or watching something, for me to like a hero, they have to

1) have ambition about anything

2) not be annoying

3) not excuse their shitty behaviour with their shitty childhood

4) not be so self-righteous they don’t see their own flaws

For these reasons I hate with a burning passion Jace Herondale, Clary Fairchild, Eli Ever, Tiberius “Cal” Calore VIII, Dean Winchester, and Legend/Dante Santos

Jace is constantly doing something shitty in every book and people don’t care and they just put up with it for some reason. In CoG he belittles Clary because he wants to push her away but keeps coming back to her. He also keeps coming onto Clary when he thought she was his sister and said that cursed sentence in CoG that I need to bleach from my brain. I know if he said that shit to me I would’ve punched him in his stupid face cuz who does he think he is? He mocks the werewolves after they lost a child in their pack, he’s just awful to Alec at times, he doesn’t seem to understand there are consequences to his actions and just does shit because he wants to. He had the emotional maturity of a dried up pinecone.

Clary also does so much shit and people don’t call her out because she’s the protagonist and she just lets Jace do whatever to her because he’s hot. Girl please get a grip. She slut shames Izzy because apparently women aren’t allowed to have a sex life or wear revealing clothing 😒 girl you kissed someone you thought was YOUR BROTHER!! She dated Simon to get over Jace and then kissed Jace in the Seelie Court, and repeatedly thought about Jace in a romantic sense WHILE she thought they were SIBLINGS! I can’t.

Eli is so self-righteous, annoying and hypocritical. He uses God and religion as an excuse to kill innocent people which is just disgusting. Like I get that he thinks being an EO changed a person because Victor became different but he is an EO himself and he just takes it on himself to murder innocent people for simply existing.

Cal has no desire to do anything, at least up to the beginning of King’s Cage he doesn’t (where I currently am). He knows how poorly the Reds are being treated and he doesn’t want to change anything because (and I’m paraphrasing) there would be outrage among the Silvers and a war would break out. Bitch you are already at war! He’s the reason why so many innocent young Reds have lost their lives fighting in a war they have no say in. He sees the Scarlet Guard killing Silvers and he doesn’t try to stop them. He sulks and whines but doesn’t take any real action, which he could if he actually wanted to. He stalks around the camp like Mare’s dog and thinks he’s better than everyone.

Dean Winchester is an abusive asshole. He locked Sam in the cellar when he was addicted to demon blood when he knew the withdrawal could kill him. He shit on Sam for being manipulated. He’s made horrible perverted jokes about women, might I remind y’all of the high school episode (he was at least 26 at the time). He guilted Sam for leaving him in Hell and Purgatory when he did THE EXACT SAME THING when Same went to the cage. He threatened Kaia, a teenager at gun point for his own selfish purposes. He abused Jack til the very end, yelling that he wasn’t family when Jack had sacrificed his soul and life for the Winchesters, and made Jack hate himself for being born. He was shitty to Cas in so many seasons and didn’t care that Cas just went through seeing his son die and wasn’t able to save him. He violated Sam’s body by tricking him into letting Gadreel in which led to the death of Kevin and had the audacity to think he was wronged.

Dante is shit. Julian, his brother, lived with him for centuries, followed him wherever he went and loved him unconditionally. All Julian asked was for Dante to love him back, which he never did. When Julian finally found someone who loved him, Dante made fun of him. And then in the next book he gives up his immortality for Tella, a girl he has known for literal months at most. He didn’t love his brother, who has been with him since the beginning, enough to give up his immortality but he loved this random girl he has known for a couple months at most to give it all up?? Tella should’ve left him in the dust just like she did Jacks and went off on adventures by herself and met someone that wasn’t a twat.

#great poison talks #anti jace herondale #anti clary fairchild #anti clary fray #anti jace lightwood #anti jace wayland #anti cal calore #anti eli ever #anti dante santos #anti legend #anti dean winchester #supernatural #spn #the mortal instruments #vicious ve schwab #caraval #dante santos

[usafphantom2]

Northrop YA-9A prototype competed against Fairchild YA-10A in the A-X CAS (Close Air Support) competition held during early 1970s. Fairchild YA-10A, “Warthog”, eventual winner. However, Northrop YA-9A remembered as classic and unique.

credit Erik Simonsen photo/Illustration

@CcibChris via X

[faithfromanewperspective]

So I am going to be asking about a character I hate right now, but it's a character that I think about frequently because of his proximity to ALL my biggest blorbos. Charles Fairchild. What brand of neurodivergent do you think he is? I have opinions, but want to see what you have to say.

I LOVE THIS QUESTION SO MUCH!!! because I get to talk about a recent interest of mine: and that's how to be properly neurodivergent affirming for all neurodivergences, especially those that are overrepresented in criminal populations and those who are also overrepresented in those who are ostracised for being seen as 'bad people' due to having and expressing non-neuronormative needs that are a result of a combination of trauma and neurobiology. and not just being able to chalk it up to the double empathy problem, either. I will say I am not an expert in this, and if there's anyone in the community reading this who thinks I've not handled it sensitively, please let me know. I like feedback, and I also like it when people say things nicely because i'm human and fragile too.

First, hate to be your stereotypical armchair diagnoser but something about Charles absolutely screams NPD. And as much as he's not a great guy I love that we actually do get to know him, we get to know not only our usual TSC boys who are bleeding with emotion and just so loveable and hungry for connection and love, but the trope that we're told exists, we see from the outside in politicians and business (usually) men (doesn't James compare Charles to one of those men with briefcases rushing about at rush hour in chain of gold?) and who never really let us in to the fact that they're human. Through Alastair's description of Charles' motivations in chain of thorns, we do actually get to know him and what drives him: fear, masked by ambition. And at this point I want to say: I don't think he has NPD because he's a dick. He just happens to be one as well, and that happens to be one of the ways it presents. It is not the only way NPD can present. Overall, in terms of NPD awareness and hey-let's-not-call-all-these-people-with-this-diagnosis-or-who-would-get-it-if-they-ever-got-help-abusers, Charles isn't the best representation. He's not the worst either; he does get sort of a redemption arc, and though we can speculate about his relationship with Alastair (and have reason to) there is very little that is canonically confirmed about it. So, at this point (and it's taken me a lot of thinking and one (1) Charles POV oneshot to get to this point) I agree with Ari that he's an interesting guy to have as a penpal, for curiosity if for nothing else.

I also think he may (?) be autistic. I've strung this together from a very obscure bunch of observations, the first being Will and Tessa's wedding where he 'had colic and wanted everyone to know' (don't mind me botching my quotations). Not saying all autistics are fussy but you know. Differing pain feeling thresholds that come with different sensory profiles. On top of that, politics is an intense and long-lasting special interest for him. I think some of it is the power, some of it is him still trying to get his mother's attention and love by imitating her even after all of these years, but also: it's a way to exist with people that gives him a more or less scripted role. He's known for quite a few social faux pas (think his engagement announcement at james and cordelia's engagement party! that can't be completely siren power mindpuppeting), he struggles with the social-emotional reciprocity thing (especially when it comes to the being vulnerable side of things and we see Alastair suffer for that), he seems to get irritable in a way that he doesn't understand nor know how to be honest about, and when he does want to say something, he just interrupts the conversation. Overall he seems to be a shitty presentation of a shitty stereotype, many shitty stereotypes in fact (that he humanises, like I've talked about). But. Before we brush off Cassie for that, it's important to have diverse representation of any kind of neurodivergence (including what we find ugly), and I find he does actually balance out james and thomas and christopher quite well. And yes. The TLH gang, more of them are autistic than not. His parents are also Charlotte and Henry and I do know how genetics works. I'd be surprised if they had a neurotypical kid.

Speaking of my absolute faves Charlotte and Henry who we do have to admit are kind of shitty parents during the time Charlotte is Consul I can kind of see how having two flaming neurodivergent kids who they had none of the resources to know how to support, one parent is disabled and one is facing the incredible pressure of being the one to break the glass ceiling of holding an INCREDIBLY stressful job with all the scrutiny that comes with Being A Woman while also kind of unofficially being her partner's caretaker and having two kids with zero time off her fulltime plus job and also has a fair bit of her own trauma in regards to Parents--I can see how the Trauma of Many Kinds resulted in this incredibly underresourced family and we have to recognise Charles is a victim of this. Especially, as we know, how neurodivergent needs are you know--different to neurotypicals--and you've got to be super attuned as a parent to understand the unique things your kid needs. We also have to recognise that growing up with him being doubtless unpredictable did a number on Matthew, six years younger and incredibly hungry for connection.

Overall, Charles is a really well put together character in my view and the way he exists in the ecosystem of generational and lateral community trauma just is really well done. He's not a great guy. I hope he gets whatever help he needs, whatever that looks like--I am kind of optimistic for him but I also Really Think It'll Take A LONG Time and it's going to be really hard for him to make genuine connections for quite a while. I think at some point Charlotte and Henry will slowly figure things out. And grieve. A lot.

#charles fairchild #neurodivergence #neurodivergent affirming #and i mean really neurodivergent affirming #the last hours #genuinely please let me know how i've gone with this

[bigglesworld]

Fairchild AT-21 Gunner. Bomber training aircraft. Surplussed at Vail Field, CA. 1946

#Fairchild #AT-21 #Gunner #training aircraft #military aircraft #WW2 aircraft

[random-brushstrokes]

Mary Fairchild Low - Giverny Orchard (ca. 1888-1909)

#women painters #Mary Fairchild Low #american art #landscape #1880s

[saax2]

Il Velo

Vergine velata, 1850 (Presentation Convent, St. John’s, Canada) | Giovanni Strazza (1818-1875, Italia)

Sally Fairchild with blue veil, 1890 | John Singer Sargent (1865-1925, USA)

The blue veil, 1898 | Edmund Tarbell (1862-1938, USA)

Il velo azzurro (the blue veil), 1907 | Glauco Cambon (1875-1930, Italia)

Fashionable lady with feathered hat, early 20th-century | Axel Wallert (1890-1962, Sweden)

La Modestia, 1751 (Cappella Sansevero, Napoli) | Antonio Corradini (1688-1752, Italia)

La pudeur (modesty), 1937 ca. | ph., Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969, Germany-USA)

#veli #velo

[isyourbedroomceilingbored]

Perhaps my fatal flaw is that above all things, like the foolish human I am, I crave to be seen. It will not suffice for someone to wonder what my lips taste like. I need them to want to memorise all the names of my stuffed animals and their origin stories, find out why they take up so much space on our shared bed. Please do not offer me roses because it's romantic, but do buy me rose bush seeds because you know how hard I tried to grow them the way my great grandmother did when I was a child. I may have failed before, but promise that you will help me tend to them. And when you hear me stumble over my words before clenching my eyes shut, please do not hesitate to say "hey" in that soft way you do before wrapping me into my arms. You know what my tears are really about.

— cas fairchild · isyourbedroomceilingbored

#cas writes shit #cas fairchild #isyourbedroomceilingbored #poetry #writing #writers on tumblr #dark academia #light academia #mlm #mlm poetry #prose #mlm prose #nblm concept #nblm yearning #nblm content #nblm love #achillean #gay mlm #t4t yearning #gay yearning #trans mlm #mlm thoughts #t4t mlm #mlm concept #mlm yearning #love #love poems #love poetry #sad love poetry #chaotic academia aesthetic

[nocternalrandomness]

Shadow gunship over Vietnam circa 1968

#USAF #TAC #Special Operations #Aircraft #CAS #S&D #Fairchild #AC-119 #Shadow #Gunship #Vietnam #Combat aircraft

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Grandaddy - The Paradise, Boston, Massachusetts, August 9, 2003

Twenty years ago, my girlfriend Dulcie and I climbed aboard the Grandaddy tour bus, which was parked in front of the Paradise on Commonwealth Ave. I was just a kid, trying to get some music journalist cred; this may not have been going backstage to interview Mick at a Rolling Stones concert, but it felt like a big deal at the time!

I chatted for a while with drummer Aaron Burtch, who was a super nice dude. Dulcie (who I would soon marry!) snapped some pics afterwards (Jason Lytle was a no show, sadly). Later, we caught the show in the very very very hot Paradise. Grandaddy was a (surprisingly?) terrific live band both times I saw them — something that's on display on this excellent recording. It's available on the massive Grandaddy Live Archive, which is a wonderful resource. All bands should have a page like this!

And hey, here's the article I wrote for the long-defunct Junkmedia.org:

The execs at V2 Records were shocked earlier this year when they received the tapes for Grandaddy's new record, mysteriously titled Arm of Roger: The Ham and Its Lily. The label was expecting big things from the band, especially following the critical and commercial success of 2000's masterful The Sophtware Slump. But after almost a year of recording in frontman Jason Lytle's home studio, the Modesto, CA-based group had turned in a follow-up that was disappointing, to say the least.

In fact, the new record was terrible.

Kicking off with the sonic mayhem of "Robot Escort" and closing with an offensive, if nonsensical ditty called "The Pussy Song", Arm of Roger was nothing short of career suicide — 35 minutes of un-listenable garbage. V2 staff members spent about a week in a state of panic, thinking that one of their flagship bands had gone completely off the deep end.

Grandaddy drummer Aaron Burtch chuckles, recalling the label's reaction. "The people who didn't know us that well there, they were saying, 'We've gotta get these guys into rehab, this is a bad situation, there's absolutely no way we can put this record out.'" But finally, the band's A&R; person, Kate Hyman, left a message on Lytle's answering machine.

"OK, motherfuckers," she said. "Where's the real album?"

"There had just been one too many record label calls to Jason's house, wondering where the record was," Burtch laughingly explains, relaxing in the "smoking lounge" of Grandaddy's tour bus a few hours before the band's show at the Paradise in Boston. As "a kind of tension-breaker" at the tail-end of a long and difficult year of recording sessions, Lytle, guitarist Jim Fairchild, and keyboardist Tim Dryden concocted the Arm of Roger album in three alcohol-fueled nights. "They just got super-hammered and banged this really stupid record out really fast," Burtch says. "And then we Fed-Ex'd it right over to them. It's good to keep people on their toes. Especially record labels."

V2 must have breathed a collective sigh of relief when Grandaddy duly delivered Sumday a week later. Picking up where The Sophtware Slump left off, the "real album" is easily one of the year's best. While not as career-defining as its predecessor, Sumday refines the band's futuristic pop sound and features some of Lytle's most accomplished songwriting to date. Like all Grandaddy releases, the new album is a self-produced affair. "One hundred percent of the album was recorded at Jason's house," states Burtch proudly. "We've always, always done that. I don't think we could do it any other way."

Despite the comfortable confines of Lytle's home studio, Sumday's birthing process wasn't an easy one. "It took a long time," Burtch says. "There were five or six months of set-up time, starting with us getting a bunch of new gear in. Then we had to make sure everything worked. And then we had to make sure Jason knew how to work it all." Finally, the band commenced recording, only to hit a wall about halfway through. "We had about six songs finished, but we had to take a break so Jason could get his head back on straight. He had just been down in the dungeon for months by that point."

Another disturbing development was Modesto's burgeoning reputation in the media as a hotbed for shady activities. "It's become the capital of young missing women, which is kind of scary," Burtch says of the central California tract-housing sprawl Grandaddy calls home. "There were the Yosemite Murders four years ago, and then the whole Laci Peterson thing happened. It's terrible, but if you live there, you just think, 'That fuckin' figures'." Still, he has no plans to relocate. "It's a weird place, for sure," he admits. "But I'm not gonna move, as far as I know. That's because we've all kind of built our own little oasis there that's separate from everything else."

Not that the band will be spending much time stoking the homefires in the coming months. With a tour itinerary that began in April and stretches well into December, they'll be lucky to spend more than a weekend off of the road. "This," says Burtch, pausing to gesture towards the cramped confines of the band's tour bus, "is not what we do. We make music, and we'd like to play shows, but we don't want to play a show a night for a year and a half. Radiohead has it down. They put out their record, play forty shows and then they go home. It'd be neat to be afforded a luxury like that. That would be the ideal. Big records, not so big tours."

Grandaddy isn't at this level yet — not by a long shot. Still, the band is selling out most of their club dates, and is greeted rapturously by fans. Upcoming shows in the UK and the US with Super Furry Animals will see the band reaching an even larger audience. "That'll be really cool," says Burtch. "Super Furry Animals had us come out and open for them in the UK in 1998, before anyone knew who we were out there. We've been friends with them since then. And that was the first time we'd played big places, with proper sound equipment and all that. So we owe them a huge debt."

Of course, the current tour was almost over before it began. During the band's spring stint as the opening act for Pete Yorn, guitarist Fairchild was literally run over by a tour bus carrying production equipment. After a few too many post-concert libations, he stumbled down some stairs and found himself beneath the wheels of the 18-wheeler. Miraculously, Fairchild only broke some small bones under his shoulder, and was onstage performing (with his arm in a sling) a few days later. "Hey, shit happens," says Burtch of the incident. "Sometimes you almost die, sometimes you don't. You put a bunch of skateboarders in a bus and tell 'em 'You can't do this and you can't do that, and you have to be back here at one o'clock' — you're fuckin' asking for it. Shit happens..."

#grandaddy

[pointlookout]

phoebe fairchild ♡

had a go at making phoebe in cas and i think she turned out pretty good :)

#modern au pheebs ig! #phoebe #ts4 vanilla #ts4 screenies

[lonestarflight]

Space Shuttle Construction and Subcontractors

To build the Space Shuttle Orbiter Vehicle, Rockwell International subcontracted out several parts of the Space Shuttle to several other companies. Here's a list of the individual major part manufacturers and where it was constructed:

Center fuselage: General Dynamics Corporation (San Diego, CA)

Forward fuselage: Rockwell International (Downey, CA)

Rear fuselage: Rockwell International (Downey, CA)

Crew Module: Rockwell International (Downey, CA)

Auxiliary Motorization Pods (OMS): McDonnell Douglas (St. Louis, Missouri)

Main Engines (SSME): Rocketdyne (Canoga Park, CA)

Auxiliary Engines (OMS): Aerojet General (Sacramento, CA)

Wings: Grumman Aerospace Corporation (Bethpage, New York)

Elevons: Grumman Aerospace Corporation (Bethpage, New York)

Landing gear doors: Grumman Aerospace Corporation (Bethpage, New York)

Vertical tail: Fairchild Republic Company (Farmingdale, New York)

Cargo doors: North American Rockwell divisions (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

Fuselage flap: Columbus Aircraft Division of Rockwell International (Columbus, Ohio)

Tricycle Landing Gear: Menasco Manufacturing Company (Burbank, CA)

Wheels: BF Goodrich (Troy, Ohio)

Brakes: BF Goodrich (Troy, Ohio)

Tires: BF Goodrich (Troy, Ohio)

source, source, source, source, source, source

#Space Shuttle #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #Construction #Rockwell International #Palmdale #California #my post

[vastpotato]

Friend and I got into magnus AIs and so we made (she drew) ocs! On the left is mine- Cas (Casca hurst) who eventually becomes an Avatar of the Vast (thank you Simon Fairchild /s). On the right is hers- Freya who has an interesting backstory involving the distortion and Micheal. (I think she becomes an avatar but not sure)

You wanna know more, then ask away! Their stories are actually funny in a magnus sorta way.

#magnuspod #the archivist #jonah magnus #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #Michael #tma distortion #the vast #the distortion #the spiral #doors #the sky