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mastersoftheair · 1 month

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"Masters of the Air details. Part 6-Bombsight and bombing.

"[...] I was brought in to Masters of the Air to teach actors how to look like they knew what they were doing, and the bombardier work would certainly be important to the series.

"[...] The Norden bombsight was being developed in the 1920’s by Carl Lucas Norden, a Swiss engineer, who worked for the US Navy. He developed this sight (eventually the Mark 15 series for the Navy and the M series for the Army) and the autopilot system that goes along with it. The autopilot was needed as it could fly the aircraft more precisely on the bomb run than the pilot could. Just don’t tell the pilot this!

"The Mk 15 Norden sight was a beautiful hand-built and fit device with an analog computer that would calculate the point in space at which to drop the bombs. The Bombardier would input information to the sight in the form of altitude, air speed and the ballistics of the bomb. On the bomb run he would pick up the target with the crosshairs in the optics and engage a motor drive that would keep the crosshairs synchronized on the target during the approach. On the run he would also make fine adjustments to be sure the crosshair stayed on the target for range and drift. When the sighting angle reached the predetermined dropping angle the sight sent an electrical signal to the intervalometer that would drop the selected bombs at the specified interval.

"The mission order would define what bombs were to be used and what the nose and tail fuses were to be used and their delay settings, if any. The order would also specify the aiming point and the interval to be set in to the intervalometer. This would space the bombs across the ground as desired. Maybe you wanted the bombs dropped quickly, right next to each other, to try and put a hole in the roof of the hardened sub pens. Or maybe you wanted to walk them down a long runway. The intervalometer would be set for your ground speed and how many feet apart you wanted the bombs to hit on the ground.

"If you wanted to drop a string of bombs all down a line, like a runway or a front line, then you would want the center bomb of the stick to hit in the middle so you would adjust the trail plate on the bombsight the right amount to drop the first bomb early and have the center bomb right in the middle. This center bomb spot would be the mean point of impact or MPI.

"When I arrived on set at MoTA they had several nose sections with varying amounts of the bombardier’s equipment and controls. They had one real Norden sight head called the hero sight in the hero fuselage. The hero label was attached to the best props where special or close up filming with lead actors might take place.

"The stabilizer is the lower half of the bombsight and contains the yaw gyro for the autopilot. The bombsight head sits on the stabilizer and pivots to keep pointed at the target.

"The hero sight was sitting on a prop stabilizer, and it needed more accessories and work to look as good as the real sight head. I asked if they had a better stabilizer around and they thought so, but where it was seemed to be uncertain. It was eventually located and cleaned up for mounting in the hero nose. It was still missing some items namely the directional panel and an Automatic Bombing Computer or ABC. The ABC was used on the bomb run so they could perform evasive maneuvers and not have to do the run and drift calculations again. I was told that a Norden Bombsight expert in the UK said that they didn’t use the ABC early in the war, if at all. I had to differ with that opinion as it was most certainly used throughout the early war and almost all the way through. Its use dropped off later in the war if anything.

"The ABC is quite visible on top of the stabilizer so I thought the hero sight should have the ABC not only for authenticity but for eye candy too. I asked my daughter, Sydney, to send out the directional panel and ABC set from our museum’s bombsight back home in California.

"[...] Like with the pilots and their own preference for hand positions on the throttles, the bombardiers were given the options of the two different hand configurations bombardiers often used to adjust the sight on the run. The more uncomfortable two-handed method or the single hand. Which eye to use while looking through the eyepiece was also their own decision as this would have been a preference item as well.

"We also taught them how to look over the sight to pick up the target then transition down to the eye piece and to uncage and adjust the gyro for leveling the optics in case this might be of interest to the directors. We went over the control sequence for the bomb bay doors, bomb select and intervalometer adjustments and the bomb run itself.

"[...] The standard procedure for the bomb run was developed early on by the 8th AF which was to navigate to a point where the bomb run would begin. This was called the Initial Point or IP. From the IP it was either a straight line into the target, or evasive maneuvers along this line to the target.

"At the IP, the bombardier would open the bomb bay doors. This would change the drag and the airspeed accordingly. It was up to the pilot to adjust power to maintaining a specific airspeed and altitude which was critical to accurate bombing. The pilot would also re-trim the aircraft so it would fly hands off at which point he would engage the servos of the autopilot and turn control of the aircraft over to the bombardier. The Bombardier would fly the aircraft through the bombsight and its connection to the autopilot.

"The main bombardier actor, Elliot Warren, portrayed James R. Douglass. Elliot was a quick learn and did a great job. He was a pleasure to work with and I really enjoyed his scenes.

"[...]Props made several Norden sights. Rubber ones and some with more detail. One was set up with squibs to detonate when the sight was shot by the actor with his 45 cal M1911 pistol. They were wired and the squibs went off with the sound of the pistol. It looked pretty good on camera.

"It was AAF policy to try and destroy the bombsight so it would not fall in to enemy hands. Some of the manuals actually discuss what should be done to destroy it. I would hope that the large gyro in the sight head was not spinning at its normal 25,000 RPM when the bullet hit the 2-pound rotor, as I would imagine that it would come apart and potentially send shrapnel back at the guy holding the gun!

"The lighting folks would control the instruments and lights throughout the fuselages, like the bomb bay door open light on the bombardier’s panel. We put in a lag between the bomb door handle operation and the door open light coming on. Not an accurate lag as we obviously will not be filming for the actual 20 seconds or so needed to open the electric bomb bay doors. It was a delight to work with the lighting crew and they did magical work especially with the custom made instrumentation.

"[...] Here is a full-on rant about the Norden so you might want to skip out!

"Keep in mind that this is my own opinion. An American who is discussing the Norden sight. Your mileage may vary.

"Recently there has been, what I call a ‘revisionist historians’ view of the Norden Bombsight. In short, this modern interpretation, pretty much lead by Malcolm Gladwell’s TED Talk on YouTube and his book Bomber Mafia, calls in to question the usefulness of the Norden. Basically, saying it was not effective and some of his followers have even been using the term ‘useless’ recently.

"Just keep a few thoughts of this rant in mind.

"The bomb sighting systems we had going into WWII were based on technology left over from WWI. They were simple sights with wires to sight down. They were meant for aircraft speeds and altitudes from WWI. Now skip ahead to the new bombers flying two to three times as fast and at altitudes up to 30,000 feet instead of 3000 feet.

"An all-new system was needed to solve this new complex bombing problem. Sperry was working on it and Norden, who had left employment at Sperry, started his own effort.

"The Sperry and Norden sights were the leaders of synchronous sights going in to WWII. They both were good sights which were constantly being improved. They had each also developed a highly advanced autopilot that the bombardier used to fly the aircraft on the bomb run.

"These were visual sights, so it was necessary to see the target in order to be effective. Not so easy in Europe all year long. Radar and other methods were coming online to help with all weather bombing but there were many limitations in play.

"Results would certainly vary from target to target, and it was a brand new technology made up of gyros to keep the optics level, a mechanical computer to make the calculations, motors to drive the optics. Lots of parts needed to be able to work at 200 degrees F to 50 below, not to mention the complex autopilot system.

"So, my main question is: If this new technology was so bad then what exactly was it that brought the German war effort to its knees?

"The RAF was going after cities and targets at night and the AAF was trying to hit specific strategic targets like submarine production, aircraft and weapons plants, fuel and machine parts to make the weapons work. The very things the Germans needed to wage war.

"What brought this production essentially to a halt?

"I submit that it was the bombing campaign.

"If it was the bombing campaign, then it was likely the Norden and Sperry sights that made it possible. Mostly the Norden as it was chosen as the primary system and the Sperry S-1 sight was discontinued.

"The invasion of fortress Europe was certainly needed to push the Germans all the way back to Berlin, but I would also submit that these efforts were made easier by the results of the bombing campaign.

"There were certainly mistakes and errors all throughout this campaign as there was a massive learning curve in doing something that had never been accomplished on such a scale before. How to amass hundreds to a thousand plus bombers to rally together to attack a target effectively and then get home. The attrition was unbelievably steep in the early years as so beautifully depicted in Master’s.

"Just how do you get back in that bomber the next day and face near certain death once again like they did. Again, as seen in Master’s. Just a few of the wonderful aspects of this series and the history behind it.

"Having a PR campaign about the weapon that would help win the war, like Harold T. Barth created for Norden, was not such a bad thing. If it rallied the troops and home front to keep up morale, then I think it was a good thing. Just open any wartime magazine and look at the full page ads all throughout. Each ad promoting the companies contribution to winning the war effort. BF Goodrich with their new Rivnut or Seeger Refrigerator building bomb racks and feed chutes for the 50's. It was a nationwide industrial and personal team effort to wage this war against the Axis. Norden was one of them.

"Barth said that the sight could hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet. When the press asked if this was true Norden replied ‘sure if you tell me which pickle you want me to hit’. Some folks nowadays are taking this literally and complaining that it really couldn’t hit a specific pickle. No kidding. Say it isn’t so. Those bastards!

"To Mr. Gladwell and his followers, I'll ask again: What was it, in your mind, that allowed all of those bombs to take out the German AND the Japanese war efforts? If it wasn’t Sperry’s S-1 and Norden’s M series bombsights, then just exactly what was it?

"Rant over. Flak vest, with crotch protector, and helmet, on."

#this is easily the longest (due to words) post i've seen from taigh. i'm getting schooled!#masters of the air #hbo war #behind the scenes #history #history isn't enough tho. i feel like i should have an 'engineering' tag bc damn!#long post #elliot warren #james douglass #i added ellipses to skip over more of the 'fluffy' bits related to the acting stuff. and it still remains sooooo long!#i even added a 'keep reading' line break bc of the norden rant...and it's still SOOOOOO LOOOOONG!!#the link is included so anyone can read that if they're so inclined #but i just know some nerds on here wanna read this lol

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keungking · 6 months

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watching people shamelessly admit that they just skip over every only friends scene that isn't firstkhao

#don't get me wrong the eclipse is good but i thought we were watching a movie #like for the plot #not for the memory of another movie #only friends is so good too! i didn't expect it to but it's queer cinema fr like i love queer cinema #''the other characters are boring and uninteresting'' this might be presumptuous of me but that might be bc you skip all their scenes #the amount of people i saw both on here and on twitter say they might drop the whole show when raymew happened was flabbergasting #it's such an interesting story to me! all these life situations and fates and experiences and how they intersect and bring different things #to light #and you're just watching to get to see akk and ayan kiss again?#i was gonna say no judgement but that is exactly what i'm doing i am judging HOWEVER you do you tho like keep it up! if that makes you happ #i'm just surprised at the state of things #only friends #keung talks

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that-was-anticlimactic · 1 month

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hottake but r.enee r.app actually wasn't that good in the new m.ean girls movie musical - y'all are just attracted to her

#not syaing she can't sing bc she can but i hate how much she changed r.egina #and i hate just. pretty much everything about this movie other than the guy playing d.amien. he was good.#what's with the weird shots during w.orld burn???#wHY CHANGE SO MUCH GOD #just film the actual broadway musical #also like idk why everyone says r.enee is the best r.egina like. i mean i respect y'all's opinions she does have a beautiful voice but #everypne's out here acting liek r.enee is THE r.egina and there was no one before or after her #sorry i just need to know that SOMEONE agrees with me pls the whole movie was one awful disaster #i need someone to validate me pls i'm begging no one ever agrees with me on my movie musical critiques even tho i am a HUGE theatre fan😭#anyways #corey talks:)#idk i may delete this later it just. it BAFFLES me.#just watched the r.evenge party scene and hated every second of it #they changed SO MUCH and FOR WHAT #and they skipped ahead a LOT #and r.enee wasn't even that good in it??? all she did was like try to pose sexily or whatever and THAT ISN'T R.EGINA #not even going to get started on c.ady or g.retchen or the weird... idk whatever the beginning of that was #okay i'm done now again sorry

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twicethetrouble · 7 months

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Writing Family Web Daily: Day 8

“Tranquilizer gun.”

“I’m not using an unfinished tranquilizer on you.”

“But the darts are done,” April interrupted. “That’s what Donnie said a few days ago, right? That the darts are done, just not the gun part.”

“Not you too.”

“I’m just saying, if we have to do this, it’s an option.”

“No it’s not! Tranquilizers aren’t the same as anesthesia!”

“Close enough,” Donnie signed. “Do it.”

“No! I’m not carving you like a damn pumpkin! I don’t-“

“Time out,” April called before things could get more heated. She grabbed Leo’s arm and lead him away towards the door. “We’re gonna talk.”

“But Donnie-“

“Is fine for two minutes. We’re not going far anyways,” She replied. Once the two of them were firmly in the hallway she spoke again. “Look, I know this isn’t the best idea but I don’t see us having much of a choice right now.”

“We can come up with something else.”

“What, Leo?”

“I don’t know. Something. Anything is better than having to use a knife on my brother,” Leo stressed, his nails digging into his palms as he clenched his fists enough that he swore he felt the bones creak.

April sighed, pulling him down some so she could wrap him in a proper hug. He relented, resting his forehead on her shoulder but not reciprocating. Instead, he just stood there, trying to focus on the comforting feel of his big sister’s embrace and not the conversation they were having.

“I know this is hard,” she said softly.

“I’m the medic,” he muttered back. “I’m supposed to help, not hurt.”

“I know.”

“I don’t want to hurt him.”

“He’s already hurting,” April stated. “And this is the fastest way to make it stop.”

“I don’t want to do it,” Leo said even quieter.

“We don’t have much of a choice right now,” April said back, rubbing circles against his shell. “Even if we could find someone in the Hidden City that would do it right now, they wouldn’t know the first thing about your guys’s anatomy. You are the leading expert in mutated turtles, and the one most likely to do this properly.”

“Dad knows more,” Leo tried to argue.

“I highly doubt that,” April stated. “Plus he doesn’t have nearly as steady of a hand as you.”

“All that eyeliner practice comes in clutch, huh?” Leo joked quietly.

“Exactly,” April answered with a chuckle. “It can’t be much worse than doing a perfect wing tip on a squirming Mikey, and I’ve seen you pull that off. You can do this too. And I’m going to be right here helping you. Ok?”

Leo was silent for a long moment. He knew this was necessary. Deep down he knew as soon as Donnie had requested it. There wasn’t anything else he could do, besides letting it work itself out. But considering how much pain that would cause him, and the risks that went along with it, that really wasn’t an option either. But that didn’t stop his stomach churning at the mere thought of it.

“Ok?” April prompted again.

“Fine,” he relented, straightening up out of the hug with a sigh.

“Where are we doing this?” she asked, immediately switching into business mode.

“Don’s lab. It’s the closest to a sterile work environment we have around these parts,” Leo stated. “This is the one time I’ll say this, thank Pizza for Donnie’s inherent need to de-germ everything in the place.”

“What are we going to need?”

“Most of it should be in the lab, but I’ll probably need the spare gauze and saline bottles from my room.”

“I’ll get them. You get a space ready, yeah?”

“Yeah, let’s just… get this over with.”

#daily writing #tmnt #rottmnt #family web au #brought to you by the new fidget toy that got delivered today #which was a big help to writing #april is the best big sister #and no one can convince me otherwise #forcing myself to stop here #b/c otherwise i'd probably write the next scene too #which i'm very excited about #(i'm skipping the 'surgery' bit b/c i don't feel like writing it)#(so no worries there)#(i'm more excited for the 'after surgery' bit)#(and what comes after that.)#(we're getting so close to Leon's my dudes!)#(so close!)#also pretty close to done with this chapter #just that one last scene and it's done

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whoslaurapalmer · 2 years

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i swear i’m gonna put these in an actual legitimate proper fic. i swear!!!!!! but until then!!! it’s klaus’ turn to hang out with lemony and get emotional about grief and stuff

so. i think klaus as an adult does not form very many attachments. he has the very few and very specific things he has -- his sisters and beatrice -- and that’s all he needs. nothing else is necessary. and then beatrice shows up with lemony, and she looks at him like she looks at violet and klaus and sunny, like he’s necessary too. and klaus is not happy about this, but beatrice likes lemony, so he stays in the baudelaire home. this random stranger, who creates as many questions as he answers, who, sure, helps around the house but isn’t necessary. he doesn’t need to be there.

so klaus doesn’t trust him. he keeps an eye on him, because that’s what you do with adults you don’t trust, who you aren’t supposed to trust at all, who could do anything and just get away with it. and beatrice is a child, younger than sunny, even, and sunny barely even trusts lemony. she lets him in the kitchen but keeps him in one spot on the other side of the counter from her and has him relegated to handing her ingredients, which she takes and still scrutinizes, looking back and forth between him and the ingredient with a raised eyebrow while lemony snicket stands there with what looks like endless patience. klaus knows violet doesn’t mind him, but he doesn’t think she’s entirely okay with him, either. violet is just so endlessly kind, she wouldn’t say anything bad if it mattered to beatrice. and, the point is, beatrice could be wrong to trust him. so klaus just has to keep an eye on him.

klaus doesn’t sleep very much, so he spends most of his time at night outside of lemony snicket’s room, making sure he doesn’t go anywhere he’s not supposed to. if lemony snicket notices, he doesn’t say anything about it. he takes beatrice to school, he helps violet with her car, sunny lets him roll out a pie crust one day. klaus throws questions at him, about everything. innocuous things, things klaus already knows, just to see how lemony snicket will answer. lemony snicket takes it in stride, with that endless patience. klaus doesn’t know where it comes from, how lemony snicket can stand there, awkward and out of place and not necessary at all, and take the things that happen to him. he looks like he looks forward to klaus pestering him (because klaus is aware that’s what he’s doing). klaus does not look forward to it. he is checking on lemony snicket to make -- to make sure he doesn’t do anything.

one night klaus falls asleep, in the hallway outside of lemony’s room. and when klaus wakes up, and the shadows filtering through the little window at the end of the hall have shifted farther than he usually sees them, he is terrified. if he was asleep, lemony could’ve done anything. if he was asleep, anything could’ve happened to lemony. and that’s not supposed to happen. klaus is right here, and nothing is supposed to happen to anyone, not anyone he knows, he’s right here and he’s supposed to pay attention and he’s supposed to do the right things and he’s supposed to help, he’s supposed to call back the taxi driver to uncle monty’s house he’s supposed to convince mr. poe about olaf being captain sham he’s supposed to not get hypnotized at the mill he’s supposed to stand up for his sisters against nero he’s supposed to be home and not at briny beach -- anything could’ve happened, olaf could’ve -- and it wasn’t only olaf, of course klaus never forgot the mill, you could’ve -- and klaus would’ve done it again, he would’ve let everyone down, he would’ve lost --

klaus did this once, twice, too many times, losing parents and guardians and friends and enemies and people he never knew at all. all those people in the hotel, dying for children they didn’t even know. and he was always supposed to do better, and it keeps him up at night with the weight of it. you can’t get anyone else. you can’t lose anyone else. you never get your parents back.

he scrambles to his feet, stumbles across to lemony’s door and shoves it open.

and lemony is still there. he looks up from his desk, by the window, with the side lamp turned on, illuminating the sheet of paper in his typewriter. for a moment he looks so startled, so frozen, klaus thinks something has gone terribly wrong anyway.

“what can i help you with?” lemony asks.

and how is klaus supposed to answer that? lemony is alive and klaus is, relieved and upset and scared and not supposed to be. he’s not supposed to trust lemony. he still doesn’t, he thinks insistently. but lemony is still alive, but he’s not the right person who’s supposed to be alive, but. but klaus can’t let go of the thought. he wavers in the doorway.

“what are you writing?” klaus asks. he’s never asked this before, because klaus does not know the answer. but he needs to talk about something.

“beatrice,” lemony says, “has expressed an interest in music.”

this is true. beatrice has flitted from one interest to the next, with sharp but brief intensities that have worried all of them at one point or another -- like she’s trying to define herself by them and doesn’t know what to do when they can’t. right now it is music, and it seems the thing she is most comfortable with so far.

klaus stares at him, waiting for lemony to continue.

“i thought i would write her a story,” lemony continues. “would you like to hear it?”

klaus waits. when nothing else happens, he sits on the floor by the door, and waits again. and lemony tells him about composers, and how you play their music, what survives and what doesn’t. what does. lemony talks for a long time, until klaus gets tired and asks him to stop, and he does. klaus has had enough.

klaus comes back, the next night, just to check. then he asks lemony about the composers again.

#lulu talks about the sad lemon man #ANOTHER NIGHT ANOTHER 'LULU THINKS ABOUT THE ADULT BAUDELAIRES GOING THROUGH IT' POST #it's honestly v weird to put them all in the same scene though. don't always feel like lemony turns out right. feel like i skipped over #all the awkwardness of 'a family can be four orphans and the middle aged writer they adopt as a sort of but not really dad #and the five of them existing in one house is just a bunch of '??????????????' directed at everyone constantly'#BUT I'M JUST WORKING THINGS OUT #yes ideally this would like. go in sunny fic. sunny fic is gonna have to do a lot #but i just. wanted to think more about them all interacting #so here is this now #look. they were SUPPOSED to talk about the composer is dead. but the conversation was going somewhere WILDLY DIFFERENT #THAN WHERE I WANTED THIS TO GO AND IT WAS TOO MUCH AND I'VE STAYED UP TOO LATE FOR THIS

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liebelesbe · 5 months

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rehearsal started almost 2 hours ago. we still haven't reached a single scene where I have to do anything. 😐

#at least before rehearsal started I could chill #during rehearsal I gotta be Ready™ all the time in case we reach/skip to a scene where I have to do something #but we haven't. so I'm just here. for no reason.#doddie redet #oh I had to do one lil thing before rehearsal! We need a text message sound at some point #& we've always done it over the speakers. but now they wanted to try it with an actual phone.#and they wanted me to call the phone?#so I was like 'ok sure. but don't we need a text message? and not a call? also reception here sucks so it's not reliable. we were planning #on putting a small speaker in the phone where the phone noise is supposed to come from anyways'#and they were like 'noo no let's try it anyways!'#and then it sucked bc it was a phone call and not a message and also reception here sucks. Hmmm who could have guessed #*bag where the phone is supposed to be. not phone where the phone is supposed to be.

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humanmorph · 7 months

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my millie+leap friendship thoughts except it's actually mostly about millie. i tried to make this readable (coherency-wise)... and it's not even everything i have in my head about them. just a few words:

I looove Millie+Leap friendship (in my head it's Millie'n'Leap like one word. It's fun to say) I think they are besties.

I also think that „Leap has my back as long as it's convenient for him.“ sure is A belief to have about your best friend!!! & I really like that!! (We are not even talking about LEAP’S Millie beliefs. Those are only like, borderline positive or negative. And I also like that. He’s kind of a bitch. This isn't about him though honestly mostly Millie & though I THINK I could write more, it would be wayyyy extrapolating than even this.) I mean like, those beliefs aren't/don't have to be the whole descriptor of/the characters whole relationship, but they are there for a reason! So. I’m simply thinking about it and turning it around in my head.

And it’s just good Millie characterization too for me (also for Leap, as the other person in this relationship, but I simply have thought about Millie more on account of She's My Favourite & can speak better to how I interpret this from her perspective). It's the first close friendship she's made after being on the run from everything she's ever known (which sucked. GLORY was bad but she did also have friends & people she cared about then... See Si’dra) & then she gets captured and forced to do the same shit AGAIN? Under someone like Clementine Kesh? This is a bonding experience. It's a bad one but it is nontheless. And they have similiar goals too (get the fuck out of there).

(An aside, but I really loved during the Post Mortem when Austin talked about something he’d do differently if he had the chance: asking the prisoner-PCs to get drives that weren’t about them escaping, and rather something where escaping would be a step towards that other drive. And how both Keith and Sylvi talked about the Being a prisoner and wanting to get out being very important to Leap and Millie’s characterization to the point they would’ve been played completely differently if that wasn’t the case. It was a cool discussion. That was a very good Post Mortem. Everyone should take notes for PALISADE Post Mortem questions-wise.)

And then they do get out. And they join Millenium Break. And then aside from wanting to leave prison and hating the people they work under they’re just also kind of different people with different motivations and wishes and it shows during the Kingdom Game and after… Like Millie is someone who throughout the Kingdom Game starts to believe that she can change something and help people (and not just via violence, the Strand Semaphore project is so important). And she makes more friends on Fort Icebreaker. She meets Si’dra again and that relationship is ALSO an important one (I like them I should think about them more. There is a bit where Millie describes them traveling together to set up the Strand stuff...). And she gets closer to Broun by working with them. Etc etc. People like her because She Is A Delight, and she hangs out with different people but Leap’s still there as a person that’s important to her even as they probably see each other way less due to Millenium Break business and having different missions and whatnot.

And in my head there's something special too about Leap really pushing for the attack on Vigil City to help that Equiaxed community and Millie backing him up bc 1) duh but 2) something vulnerable about it because he gets actually emotional about it (unusual for him). And do they talk about THAT ever I wonder? If they did it would've had to been before the mission because after. Well that attack is the one where Millie loses the squad she's been pretty much training & hanging around with. And like shuts herself off again except from a few people, one of which IS Leap (and then Si'dra and Broun and that's it). (Such a good Millie Moment btw. One of my favourites). But I would say that's much more of a 'let's get away from everything for a bit' kind of hangout not a 'hash out your grief' hangout. (Another aside but I am like. I mentioned this above but imagine if Leap had had a drive about this equiaxed community or something or even just the time to contact them (I think it just got lost with so much stuff going on. I know players can't follow every thread they are given and make choices but. Ooohhh well I'm just thinking about it).)

Like I really don’t think they’re the type of friends to talk about shit. There's since scene where Millie is like „Hey I'm bad at this stuff, but are we like, cool?“ that I love a lot. I love youuuu Millieeee. So they either don't do this OR it's very Rare and honestly mostly uncomfortable when they try (fun to me : D). And neither likes it all that much. So they‘re fine. It‘s fine. There’s so much going on all the time I’d rather just hang out with you and shoot the shit than get into Stuff. That type of deal.

So it's all of this BUT like... They're best friends. They DO care about each other (in whatever way they do or don't show that) & also continue to, I just think its complicated and weird, and that they grow apart a bit too! Expecially when Leap leaves and Millie stays, and then gets disillusioned with MB leadership, and then SHE leaves...

And I think. Well I'm of two minds on Leap asking Millie to come with when he leaves bc it's nice to think. Saying hey you have a place with me. Look I drew a comic about it once. I like that. But for me in the end the weird tension option wins out. And like she's a bit bitter about it. She wouldn't have come, not at the point that he left, before Valence died, before they got really fucked up in that Auspice mission and there was this kind of ideological split in the MB leadership. But he didn't offer in the first place, so it wasn't an option after she wanted to leave, either...

(There’s a line that’s like „I haven't been getting any better offers“ in PZN36 when Millie is agrees to leave with Broun et al and it made me go OH? (delighted). Like that has to be about MB generally too but. Well I can spin this. As a headcanon I do like to think maybe Millie visited Leap after leaving Oxbridge and then kind of wanted him to offer again & he didn't.) Because I think Leap is 1) practical type of guy and 2) just thoughtless sometimes and didn't ask because he thought well she's not coming we each have our own shit going on. Which makes sense then but also. Man!

(Just about Millie now) And after all that. The the whole shit in the finale. And her at the end of PARTIZAN... How much are you changed as a person after being kind of melded with the one True Divine and also being there when your rival (also a god) dissolves/comes as close to death as a divine possibly can? AND when someone you if not were expecially close to but worked with and got along and maybe admired died to help you get out? There’s a reason she left everything behind and ran and never stopped(well we don't know that. But. Well she's off somewhere doing something). Auh... Millie....

ALSO addition I don't wanna bother working in anywhere I think I'm jumping around too much already: I listened to Millies Pusher episode a while ago and Sylvi talked about Millie had trust issues briefly and I was so happy. Expecially when she & Austin were referring to Leap leaving Millie behind in the DESERT SQUIRE arc. And it's so fun because Millie clearly is mad at him for a bit after that but she just kind of chooses to get over it? (That's the scene where she approaches him like hey are we cool I mentioned earlier. And like wants assurance that they have each others backs, and she brings up Clem, etc.). That's where that belief I mentioned at the start comes from too, and it stays, since... I don't think THAT many beliefs get challenged in general, but Millie and Leap don't get there. And it's like... OK I actually still can't form a coherent sentence about this specific thing because the thing is Millie SAYS multiple times that Leap & she have each others backs and she acts like it, too (backing Leap up) and still with this in the back of her head. Millie as someone who wants better things for herself and isn't used to getting them in her life. There's something in my head I can't quite grasp & articulate. I don't know. It makes me think. It's why I wrote roughly 1900 words total here. I love her & anyways trust issues make sooo much sense for Millie in general ouhh I love to think about it. That's why Gucci et al (MB leadership) fucking up and letting the team down like that after the Auspce mission / Valence's sacrifice hits so hard and she goes back to leaving, just wanting to live a quiet life, claw your way out...

so. TL;DR

besties

it's weird and they're close in certain ways but not others and they like to hang out and relax around each other and/or cheer each other up but also dont open up to each other

I love fraying and/or complicated friendships. I think fraying and/or complicated friendships are soooo fun

Millie💙💙💙💙

a little picture : )

and lastly some fun stuff too. since you read everything else.

Millie sleeps at Leap's room sometimes either for a sleepover hangout type deal or when he's somewhere else & she just wants to sleep somewhere that's not... hm. In my mind she's sleeping in like a bunks-type situation you know like. How bedrooms for soldiers on a military vessel would probably be like. I'm not sure that's canon though. But you get the picture there it's a bit of peace and quiet

I dont know. the chost where Keith says Leap drinks any hot tea because she shows off by drinking boiling water keeps making me go show off to WHO. WHO is impressed by this and I'm not sure the answer is Millie but she'd probably at least think it's funny. So they do dumb bullshit. Like that's just canon I think they never stop throwing food but I think they get a lot better about it (not as in it's less annoying for everyone else but as in it's like a stupid party trick because they get really good at it)

re: that (showing off), they do the thing where you put your hand flat on a table and stab a knife between the fingers getting faster each time (I feel like this has to have a specific name?! Wikipedia just says knife game. alright) but to each other. And I think it goes almost very bad at least one or two times expecially because they also do this when they get drunk

Idk how good a job either does but they do wingman type stuff for each other for sure. I don't think Millie even needs it (she is a delight. And hot) but she probably also gets awkward and nervous sometimes & I'm going back to the same scene as before again sorry but after being like we're cool? she asks leap hey I'm about to talk to someone & I need you to pull me out if I start being strange. Which isn't quite the same as wingman-ing but it could get there. And I think Leap is confident that he says he doesn't need that but I also think he won't pass up a chance to by hyped up either. his ego...

#i wrote two thirds of this over 4 months ago and then the rest a few days back and then cleaned it up. a little.#i always say idk if this is coherent bc ill just skip writing stuff down thats obvious to me bc ive thought it so much. and not notice.#so i dont know. maybe youre missing a key detail i have in my head. i hope not #rosa rambles #partizanposting #weirdly enough i have the most thoughts on kingdom game time... even though leap is in the bg for most of it #they have good scenes there. theres also more freedom to think about bc they are. not in prison & we have this wide timeframe #so there's definitly more to say about them becoming friends in the first place that i don't say here p much at all #(also just Millie in general but I'm sure other ppl have been millieposting I should go look for posts sometime. She's soooo 💙)#some other time perhaps.#this isnt a tag on my blog. it is for this post though!

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ace-malarky · 1 year

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oh my god whyyyyy did I make the romance here like. a romance. Why is it a focus. What have I done to myself

#talkin' malarky #I have been sitting here for most of an hour #I have not written much #I'm just - I keep restarting this scene and actually I've skipped some but it's fine #It's the confession/start dating of Kari and Jade and I. wow. I do not know what's going on #it's highly possible this is because I don't know Jade that well yet #but uh. yeah. romance.#I'll get there it's fine #can't edit an empty page etc #but jfc this empty page is. intimidating.

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leaphia · 9 months

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I just wrote around 1k words for which could be the ending of a possible book 1 of project: thaumaturgy. (I haven't written a single sentence for it since... months) and I'm feeling very emotional right now

#leaphia writes #project: thaumaturgy #I never post about my writing on here but maybe I should do so sometimes...#btw I skipped a few scenes to write the ending because I randomly felt like doing so #I'm almost at 50k words now (which really is a lot for me)#I just got so many ideas for the plot and I love how it's slowly evolving ;w;#GOSH I LOVE ASTRID AND TRISTAN SO MUCH #with Sookie and Noah they are my most developed OCs <3 #(btw I'm also working on a new artwork with them which I'm excited to finish soon hehe <3)#ok I'll shut up now

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gamebunny-advance · 2 years

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Why Did I Do This?

So I've spent practically the last 2 days writing some wholesome NSR fanfic (well, I think it's wholesome), and as I'm reading over it for typos, I just can't help but wonder why I've done this.

It doesn't really fit into canonish or DSYNC except in broad strokes, and fanfic isn't really my area of interest or what I usually post, so I doubt any of y'all will even be into it.

But... I suppose writing it has made me somewhat happy, so that's reason enough, I guess.

#i will post it here when it's done #it's about how Yinu and 1010 met for the first time and the hijinks that happened that day #it's basically just fluff though #but i like it #i like robot-human bond stories<3 (if you couldn't tell by spending even one moment on this blog)#but i'm thinking about cutting out the entire last half of it #there's some cute moments in it but it's not really accomplishing anything that the first two parts didn't cover #i could just cut that part and imply the events after the time skip #and the writing really deteriorates the longer it goes on #i felt like i did a pretty good job at the beginning but it becomes really dialogue heavy in the middle #and i feel like it meanders too much at the end just so I can get to the scene that really inspired the whole fic #maybe i'll post the 'deleted scenes' by themselves once it's 'finished'#hah. it's a joke because i never finish anything.#but it is actually basically done #i just need write the small time skip scene and decide if I want to edit out the last half of the final act

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diseasedcube · 2 years

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With every episode of Edgerunners I watch, the more insane I get

#rave ramblees #so is it still airing or is it just 10 episodes?#I'm HOPING it's only 10 so i can be done with it #it had such a strong start but with every episode i get more and more confused #like is there a coherent story here? are they skipping scenes? am i just too stupid?#like one episode David is a twink and Maine is getting a little crazy #and the next David is the leader and he's buff af and Maine is apparently dead and Lucy quit????#WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN #did i miss something or am i really that oblivious #and while i love Lucy #is there even a point if Kiwi fulfills the same fucking role #can the side characters get any development #they die before i even learn their names #if i didn't think Rebecca was cute i wouldn't even know who she is #sad lack of Rebecca scenes btw #good god this show sucks i have no clue what's going on at any given time #it's a gorgeously animated piece of nonsense #i couldn't find any fansubs so maybe I'm getting screwed up by the awful Netflix dubbing cc #perhaps it'd make more sense in German?#anyways akudama drive > edgerunners #just two more episodes to go and i can drop it

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zincbot · 1 month

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(hearing law talk) smh why this guy sound like matt mercer

#one piece #you'll never guess who his va is #GET OUTTA HERE MERCER #after watching the ravening war i thought i cld go watch one piece in well. peace. but here he is again #i'm only joking nothing against mercer but i just found it funny i skipped so many law scenes that it took till the end of punk hazard #for me to realize where i recognized him from

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welivefast-dieyoung · 7 months

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Hold on bitches, I think we're entering our Adam Driver era 😩.

#scribblesbyc #never a dull moment around here I'm afraid #But I stayed up skipping through those Star Wars films (which I haven't seen any of before btw) just to see his scenes #Didn't have a fucking clue what was going on 🙂#i dipped my toe in a few years ago but rn yeah we in this bitch #adam sackler nation rise up 🗣️

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lackadaisycats · 3 months

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I hope you know that literally nobody is going to be able to live up to the standard you, V*v, and Glitch have set and your arrogance and exploitation of your fanbase and connections has screwed millions of creatives out of their dreams because Hollywood is a joke that isn't worth telling and wealthy e-celebs like yourself have claimed the indie scene all to yourselves and moved the goalposts into the stratosphere.

Nope. This isn't a zero sum game. There is not some limited, prescribed number of indie trophy slots that a few studios greedily filled up, blocking everyone else out. That is not how it works. Nothing any other creator is doing - short of personally sending hired goons to your doorstep or stealing your credit cards - is taking anything away from you or preventing your success. In fact if an indie creator can manage to demonstrate that they've got something viable going, it may help to map out a pathway for others.

I think I'm not going to bother trying to address whether or not cartoons in return for support from fans - an entirely voluntary exchange - constitutes exploitation. And I'm living in the Midwest driving a 2007 economy car with 200k+ miles on it, but let's just skip past the assumptions that I'm wealthy and connected too.

Instead, let's get to the weirdly myopic notion that the indie scene is held captive by three studios. Maybe YouTube algorithms or Twitter bubbles are somewhat to blame, but in actuality there are so, so many individual people, friend groups, and small production houses out there making independent animation, I cannot possibly name them all.

Here are some anyway:

Far-Fetched Worthikids Satina | Scumhouse Noodle and Bun Punch Punch Forever Ramshackle Noodle Papajoolia | Pipi Angel Hare | The East Patch Jonni Peppers Salad Fingers Monkey Wrench Studio Heartbreak Felix Colgrave JelloApocalypse Odd1sout (started indie, got picked up by Netflix) Allie Mehner JaidenAnimations Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy Cloudrise | The Worlds Divide Telepurte RubberRoss James Lee ENA Godspeed | Olan Rogers Ollie and Scoops Meat Canyon Port by the Sea Kekeflipnote Boxtown Kevin Temmer Weebl Joel Haver CircleToons Long Gone Gulch Atlas and the Stars Animist Skibidi Toilet A Fox in Space Alex Henderson Talon Toniko Pantoja Sr. Pelo Hullabaloo Kane Pixels (started indie, picked up by A24) Homestar Runner Fennah Gods' School Alan Becker Dungeon Flippers JazLyte Psychicpebbles (started indie, Smiling Friends picked up by AS) Piemations vewn Metal Family Dead Sound chluaid Jacknjellify Betsy Lee | No Evil My Pride Cranbersher GeoExe | Gwain Saga Horatio the Vampire Mech West Playground | Rodrigo Sousa The Brave Locomotive Finchwing (+ many other Warrior Cats animators) Quazies SamBakZa Kamikaze: Trial by Fire

By no means a full list. That's just YouTube, and mostly just English language stuff, and I didn't even get to the multitudes of Warrior Cats animation collabs.

The point is, the indie landscape is vast and populated by creators new and old, making all kinds of animated media from skits, to shows, to ARGs, to films. Audience sizes vary as much as the content, stylistic approaches, subject matter, and budgets do. There are no compliance standards, no gateways to entry, no goalposts. There's not even any preset definition of success except what you decide for yourself.

Anyway, instead of nurturing your resentments, consider making something. I assure you, it's a far more rewarding use of your time and energy, and pretty much no one can stop you. ------------- EDIT- Made some additions to the list based on comments. Thanks!

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #animation #indie animation #this is not a list of moral endorsements #please don't come at me with your internet dramas

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