#marine major

[majorleagueupdates]

BREAKING: a witch has just cast a spell on a seagull, transforming him into a Seattle Mariners fan to teach him a lesson in humility.

#major league baseball #baseball #seattle mariners

[clouvu]

Save me french yuri... Save me

#genshin impact #arledrone #sandrone #arlecchino #haha remember when we all thought that sandrone and arlecchino would both show up in fontaine and be gay together? #good times.... good times #jk i'm ready to end it all actually #I KNOW WE HAVE LIKE ONE LAST MAJOR FRENCH PATCH BEFORE NATLAN BUT IVE JUST ABOUT LOST ALL HOPE #the way that literally every wlw arle pairing got fed so well following arle's drip marketing EXCEPT for arledrn... hate it here so bad #anyways shipping aside HOW is it possible that the frenchiest of french harbingers with heavy ties to machinery #and like two major world quests tied to specifically to her lore and is even MENTIONED of being present in fontaine #also being one of the first harbingers ever mentioned dating back all the way to the description of chode's teaser trailer #just???? doesnt show up?????? #Sandy enjoyers are stronger than any us marine because my GOD are we struggling out here #anyways ignore the fact that I completely forgot to draw sandy's wind up key it was hard drawing through the tears #(actually it was cause i half-assed this doodle but we dont talk about that)

[marisatomay]

just realized that the bidens’ dogs are named major and commander but he got commander after major which means he made the decision to have his younger dog outrank the elder…no wonder they keep biting people

#majors (army-marines-air force) are O-4 #commanders (navy-coast guard) are O-5

[helyeahmangocheese]

tbh I headcanon percy to eventually land on an environmental science major in college after a lot of experimenting around and not because of his dad but because of *grover* and his belief in finding pan, because of knowing how much the mortal and mythical world have been hurting the earth itself, and because if there's one thing that could convince percy jackson to study, it's justice. plus I think he and annabeth would totally geek out over sustainability as restorative and regenerative design. this is your "build something that lasts" couple. your "ur system is broken fix it rn" couple. if the mythical world EVER left them alone they would 100% be pursuing justice at any other stop they found themselves in anyway

#let them cause more real world trouble bffr #show me percabeth at protests and show me percy helping annabeth at her firm oh i beg #percy jackson #pjo #annabeth chase #heroes of olympus #chalice of the gods #sorry but the marine biology major for percy as a joke sucks #my boy would be at the front lines of climate justice #also while Im here ranting um annabeth wouldnt double enroll at berkley lol. they dont have an accredited architecture program #which is the only reason she would need a special degree in the mortal world #but i digress #when have we ever expected rr to do research lol

[ltwilliammowett]

Royal Marine's Dress Coat, Pattern 1782

This Royal Marines dress coat of a Major General Arthur Tooker Collins (1718-93), is constructed of red wool with cuffs and lapels faced with blue.

#naval artifacts #royal marines #dress coat #major general #18th century #age of sail

[glimblshanks]

Also l fully believe that Beckett "I have a degree in xeno-history" Mariner was a weird little kid who would dress up in historically accurate 14th century Klingon garb and pretend to fight off the Hur'q with her multiple Toby the Targ plushies or whatever while Carol and Alonzo Freeman looked on in amused, if somewhat baffled fascination. That woman has massive 'used to be a strange and off-putting little girl' energy

#lower decks #star trek lower decks #beckett mariner #also every history major I know was like this as a kid

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #502

Sergeant major!

Juveniles occasionally clean green sea turtles of old skin and parasites! Before cleaning, they inspect the sea turtles and give them a few cleaning nips to the skin and carapace.

#fish #fish facts #fishfact #fishblr #marine biology #marine life #marine animals #sea creatures #sea animals #sea life #biology #zoology #sergeant major #sergeant major fish

[splittergrip]

Braves at Mariners

4-30-24

#seattle mariners #mlb #major league baseball #cal raleigh #luis castillo #bryce miller

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

I must admit I always thought buggy wouldn’t want to brag about his romantic connection to shanks because people who know him see him as someone who’s worthless and tries to beg his way through life And sleeping with someone much more powerful in that situation seems like using bed to get what you want and I don’t think buggy would want to be seen this way especially when it comes to shanks

i think that's definitely something to take into consideration with a shanks/buggy get-together in buggy's pre-emperor days.

if they've been together since they were both young upstarts, well, the people who think he's a gold-digger simply can't do basic math. but if they don't get together until shanks is widely recognized as one of the most powerful pirates in the world, then... yeah, it looks suspect. same as anyone attempting to romance an emperor, if it doesn't appear to have political motives then it appears manipulative.

which... buggy is, but he's not sexually manipulative. he steals his treasures honestly, thank you very much.

#asked and answered #one piece #shuggy #ik emperors and warlords are presented as basically equally powerful politically--they're two of the three major powers in the world & all #but that's four emperors v seven warlords... i think even warlord buggy would worry about how the relationship looks #......to say nothing of whether the marines might revoke his warlordship if they learn about his relationship w shanks

[majorproblems77]

Blorbo : Legend Word : hmmm... Music ?

(taking advantage of this ask to send all my support 💜💜💜)

"Legend? I wanted to ask," The skyloftian and the veteran were on patrol the pair coming up across a small river, giving a small hum of acknowledgement in response the skyloftian continued.

"You have so many instruments, yet we never hear you play any music, I just wanted to know if there was a reason for that?" The skyloftian sat down in the grass looking at the veteran intently.

He heard the whisper of a song on the tip of his mind but didn't vocalise it, instead turning to the skyloftian and simply saying, "It holds a lot of memories for me. Bad ones"

#Lenn beloved #lu sky #lu legend #corner answers with major #ahh yes is that marin angst again? In my answer? yep #1 blorbo 1 word #ask game #linkeduniverse #linked universe #thanks for the support #i appreciate it #everyone is being so nice #its really helping

[yellowplumfruit]

this is gonna be a long one so bare with me as i ramble

i’ve realized fairly recently that doing art as a job is never going to be sustainable for me. while my hands being injured absolutely sucks and i hate it, it’s made me realize i was actually really stressed out, especially since art has been my single source of income. being a working artist means that there will be very little structure and it’s all on me to create my schedule. i can’t do that very well! and not it a “woe is me i cant do it”, but more of a “i understand my limits”.

the timing of this sucks though because i literally have one more semester left until i finish my art degree :’) but after the initial panic im actually kind of excited! i’ve actually decided that once i finish my degree, im going to get my prerequisites out of the way and then major in marine biology (nobody saw this coming)!!! i’ve always had a tough time seeing my future as a professional artist. it’s much clearer now with this new potential job:)

so once my hands get better (please please please be soon oh my god), i’m going to take less commissions and draw for myself more often 💕

#if u read this thanks for reading! i needed to get it off my chest #only thing i’m not excited for is math 😀 but i’m determined to get thru it!! #also this doesn’t mean commissions are off the table i will still be taking those lol #tbh i flip flopped between orthinology and marine biology but the b1 orcas won me over #maybe i’ll major in wildlife biology idk #my current major is illustration and sequential art! #it was supposed be to be 2 years but uh. covid #i don’t regret it at all tbh i really enjoyed all my art classes (especially art history and sketching comics) #and life drawing!!!! but the professor was kinda. rude lol #okay i’m done rambling

[majorleagueupdates]

BREAKING: the Pittsburgh Pirates have been lost at sea for 87 days total after their devastating skirmish with the Seattle Mariners, and are quickly running out of fresh water and hard tack.

#major league baseball #baseball #pittsburgh pirates #seattle mariners

[t00thpasteface]

DISSECTIONS AND DISSECTIONS ART ARE SO COOL AND IM SICK OF PRETENDING THEIR NOT

What all have you dissected what’s the funest thing you found!!

Also most important why are you dissecting like what’s your job/major

hi, i appreciate the enthusiasm but i didn't exactly have fun doing it. it was a lot to handle, especially the cat dissection, and i've been having trouble shaking the experience out of my brain because they made me very very physically sick and caused actual episodes when i was alone in my dorm afterwards. i would really appreciate it if people could treat my art and the topic with the same care and tact that i'm trying to treat it with. thanks

#i'm a marine biology major #shebbz shoutz #ask

[felixcloud6288]

The "Sanji" tag featuring a post that has nothing to do with him and doesn't even mention him in the post or tags feels so appropriate for both Tumblr and Sanji himself.

#original post #one piece #opla #sanji #for context. there's a minor running joke in One Piece where Sanji tends to get overlooked forgotten or otherwise misses out on major event #It got to the point the marines failed to get an actual photo for his wanted poster and used a badly drawn image for it instead.

[halosyuki]

angels’ game-tying home runs + shohei’s celebration

mariners vs. angels [230804]

#baseball #mlb #los angeles angels #seattle mariners #shohei ohtani #mike moustakas #mickey moniak #major league baseball #mlb american league #sportsedit #baseballedit #mlbedit #i’m just coping 😔 #the fact that we had two game-tying home runs #and still lost #angels pulling an angels #* #*.gif

[13thspectre]

Long ass ramble on Mariner and Boimler and their relationship

I think the first step in why Mariner comes to care for her purple dork is the fact that he surprised her. These two idiots knew each other for about a year by the first episode, had probably been around each other a lot being bunk mates, so Mariner probably had a confident idea of who Boimler was deep down. She saw him as a product of propaganda and social engineering. The kind of guy who would sell her and a ship of refugees out for a superior's nod of approval. Someone who saw rank as the end all be all of what Starfleet had to offer.

So, when he ends up not ratting her out on that first episode, I think that may be one of the first times since she'd become more cynical towards Starfleet that Mariner had gotten someone wrong, that they proved them to be a little bit better in her book. So from there, she becomes attached, thinking there's hope for this bootlicker. Maybe, if he turned out to be better than she pegged him for, he could be trusted. Maybe this organization where she's been listlessly dragging herself up and down the ranks in some kind of administrative limbo can really do good. And some part of her that's been questioning if she belongs here at all, doesn't even believe she could really belong on her own mom's ship, thinks that maybe she's found somewhere and someone with whom she does belong.

Boimler's side of things is... very similar. Mariner surprises him. Constantly surprises him. She breaks protocol, disregards authority, spits in the face of the Prime Directive. She's an ensign, same as Boimler himself, but Mariner is easily one of the most frustratingly amazing and impressive people he's ever met, having stories rivaling many starfleet legends, and having the skills and contacts to back them up. And she shows him that she's not just some tantruming rebel, she actually does care, wants and is willing to go the extra mile to help. To do the kind of things that Starfleet often professes to do, but so often just never gets around to.

Mariner challenges everything that Boimler thought was concrete: the infallibility of starfleet, the concrete importance of established protocol, the belief that the achievement of rank is the most certain sign of purpose and importance. She is everything he wants to be and not. She is sociable, likable, able, strong, witty, quick on her feet, and yet she also possesses none of the bigger-picture ambition to do something widespread and worthwhile with her ability. Mariner lacks some of the sensitivity and cautiousness that comes with avoiding unnecessary disaster, and the desire to achieve a higher rank to actually combat the shortfalls of Starfleet she complains so much about.

It's in that mutual challenge that their mutual importance is found: they're each other's anchor. Mariner anchors Boimler so he doesn't get swept up in monotonous idealism, and Boimler anchors Mariner so she doesn't wash away in listless despair.

And I think that's why Mariner is so angered by Boimler's leaving for Titan. It's why despite professing some kind of cool when it comes to dealing with disappointment, she is so stuck up on him that she leaves him dozens of angry messages, demanding an explanation. Why, months after he left and no chance of him returning, she still keeps onto the idea that he's still there or will be back, like keeping spaces for him in the showers. Because it wasn't just that he betrayed her, and right after professing friendship. It's that him leaving her, and so coldly, implies that she was right about him from the beginning. Boimler leaving for the Titan proved her instincts right, that other people, especially those in starfleet, couldn't be trusted. To do what really matters. You couldn't trust others to not hurt you if you trust yourself to them.

Boimler, I think, does not realize he's lost his anchor. He doesn't realize it for a while. On the Titan, trying to survive every batshit crazy operation Riker sets them on takes precedence. When he isn't screaming his lungs out in a wordless prayer to the cosmic koala for survival, he's trying to reconcile what he thought he joined Starfleet for and what he actually wants to do. Boimler isn't in this for the missions, or even the glory (mostly, he still likes to brag a bit, I mean who wouldn't). Boimler wants to be an explorer and a diplomat. Someone who wants to learn what there is to know about this insane deadly universe they're somehow prospering in (he's someone excited for anomaly consolidation duty, and sometimes has a close to encyclopedic knowledge of the things they're dealing with, like Tendi and the cube). He wants to find and learn about other cultures, wants to find and learn how to make new friends (even if his execution on that last bit is clunky and awkward at best, at least for now).

Boimler realizing how important Mariner is to him doesn't come until 2x5, when only he is able to get into Starfleet's biggest party with its biggest names. The shouting pulls through, the hurt comes back, and Boimler and Mariner go separate ways again. But when Boimler finally has his dream of rubbung elbows with the top brass, he sees the party differently. Maybe a little more like Mariner would. Boimler doesn't see people schmoozing and networking. He just sees a party, full of people enjoying the company of those they trust and love. This is where Boimler realizes some of the true weight of his leaving, and just how much it affected him in turn, not having his anchor with him.

Now I'll be honest here in that I haven't really watched much TOS, so I'm missing some of the full gravity of the comparison betwen Kirk and Spock and Mariner and Beckett. What I do know is that they were combative but also complimentary, one was the charismatic daredevil that flounced the rules, and the other was more by the book and research-oriented, though the LD dynamic duo I guess has much more in the way of neuroticism and personal dysfunction. I know I'm doing a bad job of distilling Spock and Kirk's dynamic, so please let me know if I'm off the mark, or elaborate on how this might fit into my little spiel. But the point is that here is when both realize how important they are to each other. Seeing those names carved into the counter of a bar, following perhaps a similar story of how Kirk and Spock ended up there, Mariner and Boimler now realize that they can come back from this. They have the potential to do great things together, but more importantly, they just want to be in each others' lives again.

When they get stranded, there's once again the issue of trust. Mariner still clings to that idea that she is the mentor and better of Boimler, and so she has to look out for him, whether or not he realizes or wants it. She doesn't trust hum to do well on his own or to make the best decisions. At the same time, we see Boimler stepping up a bit. He takes the douche-bot AI with them against Mariner's idea to just bury it (at first) to keep monitoring AGIMUS, he tries to climb the tree to get fruit himself because Mariner is injured, and even just shuts Mariner down a bit when she's anguished that that shithole planet's fruit somehow also tasted like black licorice. We see hints of Boimler being a bit more confident, a bit more capable and sure of himself, without empty pride being the only thing in his arsenal. And when it seems like Mariner was right all along and Boimler fell for some manipulation, it's revealed that he was playing AGIMUS, playing both of them like a fiddle. Boimler had a plan, executed it flawlessly, apologizes to Mariner for deceiving her, and gets them rescued. Now, both of them still know Mariner is far and away the more capable of the two in most areas, but Mariner now doesn't see Boimler as some hapless naive child. She'd still go out of her way to save his butt, but not because he's her self-proclaimed responsibility, rather because he's her friend.

In 3x1, Mariner is depressed and angry. Her mother's in custody, in a public trial, and she can't do anything, except apparently trust the system. Despite empty assurances from her father, Mariner is unable to find hope for her mother. So she goes to her anchor, Boimler, to try and find hope where none exists. And here, we see the growth of their bond. Even stuck planetside, they find each other. They're anchors, in a sense. Through Boimler, Mariner is able to find some kind of hope thst she can save her mom. Through Marjner, Boimler finds a new purpose so doesn't waste away at his family's vineyard. Hell, Boimler is so ride or die at this point that he helps Mariner steal a fucking amusement park starship and board a locked down Cerritos!

During the season two finale when Mariner is about to go down in cetacean ops to release the final panel, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler all talk sense into Mariner, convincing her to make up with her mom before they all die or never see Captain Freeman again in what I think is a very satisfying intervention. But something I want to point out is what Boimler tells Mariner. Boimler says they'll all either die soon, or Mariner's mom will get promoted and the two may never speak again, and he asks Mariner if this is how she wants things to end. It makes me think that Boimler's talking about when he left. He left without clearing the air, without saying goodbye, without anything. He knows in retrospec how painful that actually was, how much it hurt both of them to never really try and reconcile things until the party, and he doesn't want Mariner to go through that again with her mom.

In 3x5, Boimler tries his best to keep Mariner calm and out of trouble, but he loses it, throttling conspiracy weirdos' necks like Mariner would, despite attempts by Mariner to try and calm him down. And while that is fun, something that really catches my attention is how once people start coming to their tent in genuine interest, impressed by Boimler's confidence and defense of Starfleet, Mariner actually seems genuinely interested in finding ways that people could join Starfleet. It's some kind of inversion of their roles, with Boimler being the impressive act of violence that wows everyone, and Mariner being the eager one to bring it all up to protocol.

Crisis Point 2 comes around, and even without knowing what's up, Mariner still tries to stick things through with Boimler for a while, knowing Tendi and Rutherford are off actually having fun on something with Boimler's holomovie, something she had just been teasing him about earlier. She can easily tell that he's going off his own script, but she still goes with him, not yet realizing that she's watching her friend go through an existential spiral. When she does learn about William's death, Mariner immediately goes to Boimler to be his friend. She tells him that the story may not be a good one, but it is a Starfleet story, so it's worth telling, and so they should try to find the ending they're after. This brings up two ideas: one is that Mariner hopes the holodeck can provide the same kind of therapeutic realization it gave her. The other is that she's telling Boimler that his story, irrevocably a Starfleet story, may not be glamorous or exciting the way others' are or the way he wanted it to be, but it's still important.

When Mariner leaves, things apparently get a little weird. By Rutherford's own admission, Boimler loses grasp of reality without Mariner around. He's lost his anchor, and he's a bit adrift. For Mariner, things are going well. It's honestly a bit like the Titan all over again, with Mariner having her own adventures. But something still feels off. She tries to find reason to distrust Petra and this new purpose, but it's just Mariner trying to find a reason to return. Back to Starfleet, back to the Cerritos, back to her friends and family, back to her mom, back to her anchor. In saving the Cerritos, Mariner brings back every California-class ship. In one act, she demonstrates her faith and trust in Starfleet, or at least the people in it. She finds the others that had been given up on and gives them another chance. Similar I think to the way Boimler did for her in not reporting her that first episode, and again when she welcomed him back to the ship. When she comes back on board, the first thing she does is rush and hug Boimler, finding her anchor. And what Boimler does is own up to his own lack of trust and action, apologizes, and promises to make up for it. Afterward, Mariner changes direction and wants to try her hand at making her way in Starfleet again, finding hope in her purpose in the same way she did when Boimler first decided to trust her.

*edited a bunch of typos and some weird wording

#star trek #lower decks #long post #star trek lower decks #beckett mariner #brad boimler #spoilers #i guess for the whole series? #marinler #that last one isnt necessarily a hard fact of this post #i do ship them #but i wrote with with the intention of them being platonic soulmates #sorry if you finished this #i hope it makes half sense #i watched all of lower decks in the past 4 days and wrote this with on like 2 hours of sleep #most use ive put my english major to all summer #please tell me if i remembered events wrong