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stxnerredxx · 4 days

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shinobicyrus · 1 year

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One thing my brain keeps going back to about Pacific Rim (besides the rad giant robots) is the whole existence of kaiju organ harvesters and their implications.

Like, you have Hannibal Chau, a bizarre and interesting character, but we’re presented with a black market operation that seems mostly interested in the “alternative medicine” uses of kaiju parts.

But my brain demands to know: what does the corporate kaiju harvesting industry look like? Sure kaiju blood is toxic, but there are plenty of toxic materials that have useful applications. Are there chemical companies studying kaiju organs? Big-Pharma jumping on the kaiju bone-powder bandwagon? Are bio-tech firms studying kaiju hide to make tougher materials? Agribusinesses clamoring to acquire kaiju crap for fertilizer?

I’m picturing something like the age of whaling, when humans hunted giant animals and carved them up to feed insatiable industries. Whale-oil lighting lanterns for entire cities, whale-bone being used in everything from knick-knacks, tools, umbrellas, and corsets. Ambergris alone was used in perfumes, medicines, cooking. It was even added to wine as an aphrodisiac.

We glimpsed how kaiju affected pop-culture. Now picture a kaiju smashing a city, but the stock market going up for construction companies (rebuilding the cities), vulture real estate (buying the destroyed land cheap), and all the other corporations that profit from the systematic dismantling of a kaiju corpse and making money off of its parts. Sure, a city was roughed up and who knows how many thousands are dead, but it’s a better windfall when a kaiju makes landfall. It’s always less profitable when jaegers kill them too quickly; sea-based extractions are so much more expensive.

Imagine entire industries, entire economies that don’t just make money from the devastation of kaiju attacks, but grow dependent on them. And then the laws, the squabbles over those valuable, resource-rich kaiju corpses. If a kaiju attacks one country but keeps rampaging and is killed in the country next door, who has claim over the body? The party who was damaged more by it or the country where the corpse physically is? Bidding wars over “cleanup” contracts that cut corners and are only interested in collecting those sweet, sweet, kaiju parts as fast as possible, even if their official mandate is supposed to be the safe removal and cleanup of a toxic substance.

Once jaegers started getting efficient at killing kaiju, the people with all the money became less interested in solving the problem of kaiju attacks and switched to merely managing the industries that kaiju-killing feeds.

What? You want to put more resources into R&D to try and close the Breach? Whatever for? The kaiju comes out, jaegers kill it, and the “host country” gets the proceeds from the kaiju’s body. It’s a win-win for everyone. Why waste time, money, and effort solving a problem that isn’t a problem anymore?

Everything is under control.

#Sorry Long Post #Nerd Rant #Pacific Rim #Kaiju #Hannibal Chau #Kaiju Harvesters #Worldbuilding #Capitalism #an entire kaiju-industrial complex #DARPA tech and military budgets build the jaegers #don't try to tell me that there isn't a entire cabal of corporations profiting off of kaijus beyond just simple toys and marketing #(though that also leads me to wonder WHO exactly has the patent on kaiju?#are they public domain or does the PPDC and the UN have an IP on the kaiju they identify and name???#there's nothing wrong with me I'm normal I swear

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littlecutiexox · 8 months

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Okay the intrusive thoughts won, I ordered a lightsaber dildo

#if anyone wants to buy any videos i have available lmk im out 200 dollars because my dumb ass whats to see if this will glow through me #i did indeed let the wookie win #nerd in the streets #sith in the sheets #this is now my second most expensive toy #after the fuckey wuckey 3000

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ladys-toychest · 10 months

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1980s Nerd Plush

#toys #toycore #plush #nerds candy #sweets #vintage toys #1980s

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giri-idiot · 10 months

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random plushies …

# not mine

#aesthetic #cute #png #stuffed animals #plushies #stim #plush #plush toy #ebay #vintage #dog #nerds #jellycat #kidwave #kidcore #nostalgia

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nerdasaurus1200 · 18 days

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All the Easter Coloring pages I could find!

#disney #nerd talks #rapunzel #pascal #tiana #101 dalmatians #toy story #winnie the pooh #zootopia #goofy #minnie mouse #pluto #mickey mouse #donald duck #pete #daisy duck

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chaosprincess404 · 5 months

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Come play ♡ if you dare

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stxnerredxx · 5 days

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if only you could feel how wet i am at the thought of you breeding me deep in my womb.

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just-some-normal-jessica · 2 years

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au concept

other lords in black having a mentor/imaginary friend/companion role, like webby is to hannah, but to Other hatchetfield characters. whether their intentions are good is... Dubious

picked based off of like 19% logic 80% vibes & 1% excuse to doodle hatchetfield characters as little kids

pokotho - prof. henry hidgens

wiggog y'wrath - frank

nibblenephilim - linda

t'noy karaxis - ms. holloway

bliklotep - emma

#my art #starkid #hatchetfield #lords in black #pokotho #wiggog y'wrath #nibblenephim #t'noy karaxis #bliklotep #professor hidgens #frank pricely #(look at him nerding out about toys :) )#linda monroe #(or should i say linda murray since she's a kid here. long before her marriage and nose job)#(realizing this beast makes as good of a playmate as roman a father)#miss holloway #emma perkins #(yes it's based off of her becoming Aware of the audience in tgwdlm whatever it's all just for fun)

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onewingedsparrow · 4 months

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I JUST LEARNED ABOUT THE NYCC FIRST EDITION TFP BUMBLEBEE AND ARCEE

THE TOYS CAME TOGETHER ⚠️ Do not separate the Cee Bee Siblings. ‼️

Also Arcee was pink and Bumblebee was a taxi back then, lol. Okay but do you also see THIS ⬆️ on the back of the box? "Arcee is an accomplished, street smart and powerful fighter with little patience for those who don't know their way around the battlefield. "Luckily, Bumblebee is as skilled as any other warrior in the Autobot army. "Set loose on the streets of the big city with their human partners Raf and Jack, they're an unstoppable team in the defense of the planet." ⬇️ Bumblebee: Hey, I heard you're going to New York! I wanna roll with you if that's cool. ♪(^∇^*) Arcee: Leave me alone, kid. Do I look like I have time to babysit rookies? (¬_¬") Bumblebee: Listen, I may be a Scout for now, but I can take on any Warrior. ┗|｀O′|┛ Arcee: Oh yeah? Prove your mettle to me, and then I'll think about it. (¬‿¬) Bumblebee: You're on. o(*^▽^*)┛ ~ (More pics of the toy at the source)

#cee bee siblings #sparrow nerds about transformers #arcee #bumblebee #tfp #transformers toys #tfp arcee #tfp bumblebee #i love them so much aaaaaahhhh #please do not tag as ship...i just wanna talk gen here <3

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vizreef · 2 years

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Tomy Armatron // Robotic Toy (1984)

#tomy #vintage toy #robotics #that lil ginger nerd on the right is too adorable #teal and orange #1984 $85 = $242 in 2022

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bolithesenate · 3 days

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The origin of Sifo's hair loopies?

"Jo, what are you doing?," Sifo tried to peer at her busy fingers doing... something with a section of hair at the side of his forehead.

"Hush, hold still." She sent him a cautionary jab over the Force, concentrated solely on her little project. "I just learned how to do this, so don't fuck this up."

What 'this' was got revealed to Sifo-Dyas about half an hour later as he peered curiously into a reflective bit of a spoon (due to grievous lack of mirrors in the Archives). He tilted his head, shaking it a bit, the movement sending Jocasta's hairdresserial masterworks (?) swaying.

"And what are they?," he asked again, looking at his very proud looking friend.

"It's a Knight-braid," Jocasta said proudly, "I learned about them when I visited Jedha. Apparently they fell out of fashion already back in Grandmaster Sunrider's time, but there's still records of how to do them."

Sifo looked back into the spoon. Shook the braids some more. "Knight braids, huh," he murmured, "I've never heard of those. You sure that was a real thing that existed?"

She shrugged, already going back to her half-finished kaf she'd gotten before their little pause mid mission-prep. It must have been ice cold by now, Sifo would never understand how she could still drink it like that.

"Does it matter if they did?," she quipped back, before downing the contents of the cup. "They're cute and they suit you. Way better than that stupid beard Yan has been growing out."

Oh, so this was about the beard.

Sifo should have known.

"Maybe if it grows long enough you can braid that too?," he couldn't help but tease her, "You know, get some old traditions up and going again? Maybe start a new trend while you're at it?"

All he got was a look that could have shock-frozen Mustafar twice over. "Do not," she mocked throwing the kf cup at him, "even joke about that, Sifo. I'd rather personally shave down Master Tyvokka before touching that... thing."

Sifo laughed, fingers already reaching to play with the new braids. They were fun. "Oh, don't act like that. You can't fault him for trying to hide his babyface. There's been talks of him getting offered a Council Seat, you know. He's been stressing out over it all month."

"And his solutions to that was to grow a beard over it?" Jocasta sounded dubious. "I don't know. Sounds like a case for the mind healer to me."

"Oh shut it," he flicked her though the Force, "I think it looks stately."

"Of course you do." Her defiant murmur was barely audible, buried behind the datapad she'd pulled out. "Suckup."

"Not everyone is on a crusade against all facial hair like you are," Sifo singsonged happily, ignoring her dramatic mood (it was mostly an act anyways). "A bit of self expression won't do our dear Yan any harm."

Jocasta's face darkened further. "Not him maybe, but just see how you'll feel about it when it gives you beard-burn. That shit sucks."

Sifo snickered. "Advice taken."

"I'm serious, Sy."

"And I'll keep it in mind, Jo." He scooted over to her, flinging one of the newly installed braids against her cheek. "Plus, you've given me the weapons to defend myself now, haven't you?"

With an annoyed groan, Jocasta simply reached out, quick as lightning, and grabbed Sy's entire face, pushing him away. "Stop that you little kriffer," she complained, "I'm already regretting this, just so you know."

Sifo let himself be pushed away. Then he waited a few moments, before immediately diving back in, tackling his smaller friend in a hug. "Nahh," he said happily, rubing his face against her side, "You love me. You love the braids. Show me how to do them myself?"

"You're gonna keep them?," she asked, peering down on him. It was evident that she was flattered by the idea. Flattered that he'd liked them.

Sifo grinned up at her. "Of course. As I said, I gotta be able to beat back Yan's beard-attacks, don't I."

"Hmm." She looked off, clearly fighting down a smile. "I'll see what I can do."

#lol i wasn't sure if this was a prompt or not #but i took it as one bc i had a sudden epiphany #tbh ive thought about the origin of the loopies before #and theres many ideas ive been toying with #but them being smt that my favorite history nerd jocasta dug out from somewhere and then just installed on him is my fave one #sometimes you gotta let your friends do stuff to your hair #random boli thoughts #star wars #jocasta nu #sifo dyas #me writing #answering asks #⛏️⛏️⛏️#also yes i hc jocasta to be an absolute beard hater #why? because my mom is and it's a constant source of jokes in my family

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mrkapao · 1 month

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Had a wonderful time at TFCon Los Angeles (Transformers Convention) 2024!

Click here to check out more pics from the event!

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