#im teaching mav to 'line up'

[compacflt]

I hope you didn't think I was pointing out flaws with my question! I think your analysis and self reflection are commendable! I would not really have known much about security clearances except for the fact that I went through the process and only on a surface level.

As for the "fatal flaw" i understood it was necessary for the main conflict of the story. In much the same way that the original Top Gun uses the Top Gun trophy when none exists in real life and it would be a major problem if it did. If that was really how they were training the pilots then the cause of Goose's death would have prompted them to review the whole framework of how they teach. Even the second movie has a "fatal flaw" in the pulling of Rooster's paper's by Maverick which makes no sense (for starters, he'd have to ask someone higher up than him to do something unethical) but they needed a conflict. I agree Maverick seems OOC in TG:M

But, I'm reminded of a line in How to Make an American Quilt where one of the characters who is talking about breaking the rules in art says something like "sometimes you have to break the rules for the piece to come alive"

no anon you are so good!!! i just felt like it would be disingenuous of me to answer your question without acknowledging the elephant in the room which is the story’s incompatibility with nosy govt officials lol. And also i think I am just…idk, very disappointed with some aspects of the story that i know could be better, so i wanted to talk about it. because this fic is the first 50k+ thing ive ever finished i think it means disproportionately much to me and i am disproportionately disappointed that it’s not perfect, even though that was inevitable. it is insanely disappointing to be a “young writer” or whatever and know that your work is not capable of reaching your adult ambitions specifically because you lack the life experience to convincingly portray those adult ambitions, because that’s not something you can fix by reading more or taking a writing class etc. that gap between what I want to write (adults dealing with big adult problems) and what I’m actually capable of writing (not that because I’ve never been an adult with big adult problems) is still so disappointingly wide. like with “the house,” for instance, i literally had to ask my mom how “two friends” would go about buying a house, which should’ve been my first indication that I was about to Post Cringe On Main, but I just wasn’t thinking about what that commitment means because I didn’t have the experience to know that I SHOULD be thinking about it, if that makes sense. but by then it was too late, that was the last chapter i wrote & had already written 60k+ words where ice and mav had… “a house…” because they needed to be in the same place. It’s just disappointing to know that these are holes I dug for myself early early on because of a lack of care, a lack of forethought, a lack of maturity… etc.

But whatever, im learning from it, I’ll take these lessons & apply them to the next big project i work on & that’s how things get better. still disappointing tho. But thank you & sorry it took so long for me to answer ur first ask but it rly made me think & i love making story graphs

#as for breaking the rules #I do think i have an issue (this post too) with over-justifying myself & overexplaining #which I think again comes from an immature impulse to make sure no one sees me as a dumb little kid #like with the airplane one-shot in debriefing #i really hesitated posting it bc of 4 inaccuracies i knew were there #1. planes are made of aluminum & dont rust #2. no way ice & mav could just ‘fix up’ a wwii recon plane #in what amounts to their garage #3. you steer a plane with the yoke not the throttle #4. ice would get them both killed if he just flew like that with no training #& i was like should i mention these in my author’s note so ppl know that i know this & don’t think im dumb? #bc I had reasons 1. for the metaphor 2. for the metaphor 3. yoke is a hilariously unsexy word 4. for the metaphor #see what I mean #when adult top gun script writers have a fatal flaw it’s fine #when i do it it feels like im committing a war crime 😭 #edts notes #thank you for the ask ✈️ #asks

[abirddogmoment]

First session of working towards blind retrieves, I'd give it a 6/10. Lots to work on but Mav is a solid and happy little dog!

#dogblr #maverick #dog training #retrieve training #blind retrieves #okay so my issue was i didnt properly charge the bumpers #these are new and therefore fairly low value #i did like three fun retrieves and then went straight to drilling #and this is a very high distraction area! #there were like five offleash dogs in the near vicinity #which was my second downfall #i shouldve scrapped the plan when i saw how busy this place was #but i pushed through #we ended on a good note though so #in a few days we can try again #please note for those watching the video that this is foundation work for blind retrieves #im teaching mav to 'line up' #ie run in a straight line in the direction i send him #ill film from a better angle next time!

[redsasexualdisaster]

im in a writing mood again so heres my mm human au 2: electric boogaloo

continuing off right after part 1

dwn's 17-24 originally worked for both light and wily when they decided to reunite and make their newest creation, gamma. Needle man worked in the mining industry and part time selling knitwear, wily met him while clothes shopping for baby bass and decided he would be a good asset to his schemes. Magnet man is the manager of the magnet sales division of some big company that aided the gamma project.

 Gemini man is a laser scientist who is always preoccupied with beautifying himself or those around him. he can be forced to work under threat of snake man's pet 'snakey' who is always.. there. Hard man is hired as a bodyguard as he was the previous wrestling champion of 20XX. he makes sure the project is kept top secret. top man is the PR guy who makes all the shady deals regarding materials that are hard to acquire. he insisted they house his gigantic cat Tama in the lab, and if he wasnt so good at his job he mightve been fired. Snake man is a reptile scientist/veterinarian who was temporarily employed by wily when bass brought treble to him. snake's job is to keep tabs on everything and report any insubordination.

Spark man was a younger co worker of elec man who brought him along to help. spark gets along with everyone, and even after siding with wily's plan still thinks fondly of the dln's. no one knows where shadow man came from, or what he does. but he's always paid before the other dwn's.

wily convinces the third line to side with him so he can take all the credit, and give them a higher pay (they actually get a smaller paycheck because he has too many workers and a vicious child) but when Gamma is completed, something goes wrong. there are probably may injuries, and both doctors break up again. is love truly over...?

cossack and light would be good friends that dont get to talk much bc work and distance (japan and russia) cossack and kalinka are both roboticists and he's keen to teach her everything he knows. she is a child prodigy. skull man is definitely going to be a robot master, unsure about the other dcn's. might be human, might not. but there will be a big difference between the dcn's and kalinka somehow. she might be 10? but she is a genious. her and roll would be fast friends if they met.

theres not much to say about plant man or dr astil. maybe light and him are collegues? plant could be a robot master or a human,, theres nothing planned beyond the 3rd line. but plant man is well known by any gardener, as a famous mascot and maybe a botanist? (x really wants to meet him in person)

as for dr lalinde, she probably went to the same university as light and wily. that would make tempo her daughter. tempo and blues probably meet and bond over their own mental issues and become close friends. lalinde later adopts vesper woman who instantly makes friends with tempo (though its a one-sided friendship for a while). tempo would be 10 and vesper would be 11. vesper might be related to hornet man but thats a looooong way away.

before wily "adopted" zero he was violent and bloodthirsty, part of some fight club gang. some of their members included vile, alia, the 1st mav line, sigma (the big guy in charge), other x villains. everyone gets addicted to a magic drug called maverick..?

so zero's sort of a mystery nobody knows who he's related to or where he came from but he hangs around with vile and storm? he knows his lifes a mess all he does is fight and drink.but he's not about that life and when wily gives him an offer he cant refuse, he up and quits and decides to beat up machines instead of humans. alia is probably the only one he really keeps in contact with afterwards.

somewhere else, there is a games shop with an infamous d&d group; the mega man killers...

#red.txt #megaman human au