#pacific remains

[pacificremains]

Rooster skull with its comb. The skull was beetle cleaned, degreased, and whitened with peroxide. The sclerotic rings were glued in place. The comb was formalin fixed and dried, then glued in place. A super cool specimen done for a good friend ❤️

#rooster skull #chicken skull #skull #vulture culture #animal skull #oddities #pacific remains #comb #mummified

[precious-little-scoundrel]

Just learned that Major Mike Sadler died last week on the 4th at 103 years of age. He was the last surviving founding member of the SAS and the last survivor of the Long Range Desert Group. Rest In Peace, legendary sir.

Many of you may have been introduced to his story through Stephen Knight’s SAS: Rogue Heroes

#sad day losing these legends one by one #hardly any that I made friends with over the years remains #ww2 #wwii #world war 2 #sas: rogue heroes #rogue heroes #long range desert group #mike sadler #hbo war #tom glynn carney #band of brothers #hbo the pacific #the pacific

[snikidoodles]

aang is such a good protagonist, and obviously upbeat character + sad backstory isn’t a new archetype whatsoever but to have a pacifist main character — one who fights for his values and beliefs to be taken seriously, especially in the midst of a war he's expected to end — is just so intriguing. aang's character arc within atla is one of my favourites, actually! it's less dramatic than, say, zuko's or katara's, but watching him go from a silly kid running from his responsibilities to someone who maintains his optimism and kindness while embracing his commitments as the avatar is very endearing :)

#him keeping his joy and brightness is what makes him so interesting to me #yes i love watching how their environment changes a characters personality and outlook on life #but i also love that despite it all aang remains who he is throughout #i feel like it would've been such an easy out for him to waive his beliefs just this once for the good of humanity #but he didn't!! #he worked hard to find a solution that would adequately solve the issue (the war) while aligning with his pacifism #and ofc his beliefs are so important because he carries the burden of being the last air nomad #i just love him so much #atla #avatar the last airbender #aang

[giyuulatte]

i feel like this is a great time to announce that i am a monster movie enthusiast. i LOVE monster and mecha movies!! godzilla, king kong, transformers, pacific rim, kaiju, alien, predator…GIMME IT ALL

#i’m on spring break so i’m rewatching a bunch of movies with my mom #and i forgot how much i love this genre(?) #if y’all have any recs for me i’m all ears #the 2014 godzilla movie will always remain my favorite for some reason #but the others are good too #except godzilla vs kong bc i blocked that one out of my mind for some reason #i also really like cloverfield for some reason and my mom HATES it lmao #she just doesn’t get it like i do (she hates found footage movies) #i also love transformers age of extinction too #tho i think it’s just for the dinosaurs bc it was lowkey ass #but i wouldn’t have it any other way #i really need to watch shin godzilla and soon #OMG AND SUPER 8 I LOVE SUPER 8 #super 8 is one of my top favorite movies it’s SO good #godzilla #king kong #cloverfield 2008 #pacific rim #transformers #battleship 2012 #super 8 2011 #alien #predator #alien vs predator #monster lover #do i tag this as monster fucker or will i be normal for once #i will be ‘normal’ it seems #…for now

[coldarena]

masters of the air having the same naming scheme as band of brothers proves it is the true hbowar successor

#listen its about the cohesive titles. #gen kill and pacific remain the forgotten redhead stepchild #hbo war #masters of the air #band of brothers #the pacific

[pyr0cue]

Worst atla criticism is “aang should’ve killed ozai and his pacifism is preachy” he’s 12 and the protagonist in a show made for 12 year olds. What are you talking about

#first they set up the pacifism of the air nomads throughout the entire show #second they talk about aangs struggle to remain connected to a culture he no longer has access to beyond himself #like why are you surprised or annoyed when he doesn’t want to let go of that last bit of culture he feels connected to 😭 #they also acknowledge many times that killing him would’ve been ok for anyone BUT aang who is a 12 year kid pacifist #literally every other protagonist says we should kill him #and aang isn’t like no you are all wrong that’s evil he’s like I personally can’t live with killing him because it’s wrong for me #personally to do that’s #like hello it’s a cartoon made for children they’re not gonna brutally murder someone on screen ?? #and before anyone says shit about aang and jet #aang was brought back to life (didn’t really die) and jet didn’t die on screen. hope this helps! #atla

[hershelwidget]

I’m in an Octopod type mood so here

The official spirit design! And also what it would roughly look like in some sort of transformers situation. lmao

Here’s what the spirit looked like in life/before inhabiting the ship

Pretty !

And now. Doodles that get progressively angstier

First one is a line right before Jarvis disobeys some very important safety orders. Second one is Jarvis a while after the Octonauts abandon them and the Gups, not fully understanding cause they thought they were protecting someone. Third one is Polly noting that the Captain broke a very special promise he made. Forth one is the both of them shouting that they never killed anyone (Polly because she never tried and never would, Jarvis because she did try and failed every time).

…bah! heavy stuff! i will come with fluff soon!

#octonauts #the octopod #but also im not done. *cracks knuckles* #polly and jarvis were a sea otter and a seal respectively in their first life #after they both died the first time they somehow managed to both be reborn #as the exact same entity #now it was two minds in one body (the great pacific octopus) #then they died AGAIN and their souls remained attached. wowza #also for context reincarnation is a thing in the octonauts universe here #when you reincarnate you remember the full 1 hour leading up to your death #part of the reason why jarvis is antagonistic towards the octonauts is because they had something to do with the first death #polly may have moved on but jarvis didnt :( #also the someone they are both trying to protect is Inkling! for reasons i’ll probably never mention lmao #last note: they’re both incredibly protective of the gup spirits despite how many of their interactions go #hershel’s octonauts au

[fideidefenswhore]

Part of what I find... ironic, if I may say so: Henry VIII's contemporaries praised how Jane Seymour was more discreet and submissive (obviously comparing Anne), but that's what makes her such a mystery today. No one knows what she was really like as a person, because she had to play all this role to keep herself as queen. This is why she is considered the least favorite of wives (and don't help some works try sell her as a sweet angel).

Well, that praise has been translated very much at face-value, very literally, so many would argue that there's no enigma. Jane was not so much a constant as a new constant and an unknown quantity; and the sense of stability was to some extent merely this extension of the former status quo (Princess Mary was not reinstated, in contrast to the usual narrative, it's Jane's ascendancy that sees Mary's supporters interrogated and/or arrested, and even soon after, sees Mary's chamberlain executed, this is the second marriage in as many years whose legitimacy and issue is affirmed by Parliament, without sanction, nor even this time, dispensations from the Pope); but the very nature of the praise (Jane as anodyne, Jane as gentle and sweet) is testament to the toothlessness of her tenure.

Measured approaches are going to help with that (people don't like being spoon-fed, nor about-faces, The Tudors actually does give us the blueprint of her usual historical narrative) but unfortunately there aren't many. So like, Retha Warnicke is one of the only historians to mention the dissonance of the report of her plea for the restoration of the abbeys versus the evidence that Jane and her family owned properties of the Dissolution. Unfortunately, she also just completely discredits that report, claiming that it was from Chapuys and thus cannot be trusted (it's definitely not, he never in his life referred to Mary as anything other than 'the princess', not 'Madame Marie'), despite that it turns up twice by two different sources; so actually what she does there is deny any dissonance when it's dissonance that makes historic people compelling (I usually just see the reverse of this from fandom, Jane was an angel without agency nor autonomy and thus every single thing she did or accepted she was 'forced' to do by Henry, including her own inventory inclusive of the above, including marrying him, etc...)

#anon #'angel without autonomy' is. tbf. a frustrating hallmark of the AB standom as well #but i can't take criticism of those facets of that fandom seriously when it comes from those that trumpet the same for coa and jane and etc #when you look at who the praise comes from as well...reginald pole and john russel etc #and the timing #it seems clear that the praise was lavished with this expectation attached #ushering in the restoration of papal authority in england and princess mary #then that does not happen and so it sort of . ends #so it's very conditional in that sense #no more 'the pacific' from chapuys ; instead he's hoping to restore mary without her in the hope she doesn't have children #thus taking a very mercenary view of her #similar altho not as explicitly hostile to that he took of AB #it was all done to 'put right' but what was put right? #chapuys and the 'marian faction' as lauren johnson named it #had not conspired for so long for the paltry achievement of. the achievement of boleyn hopes (mary's oath-taking) #and mary being given her own (still much reduced) staff again. #the dispensation 'loophole' elizabeth cited remains. hilar #she really Well Actuallyed an ambassador... her genetic inheritance iyw.

[scattered-winter]

gen:LOCK really said "while your trauma can change you, sometimes in irreversible and irrevocable ways, it doesn't have to restrict you from growing and loving" and "fighting for a better world means nothing if you don't have hope that things can be better" and "family isn't defined by blood it's the people you love and fight alongside" and "nobody ever stands alone" and and and and

#OUGHHOGUHGOUGHHH #im in A State #gen:lock #it's such a good show such a shame it was cancelled after season 1 :')) #(this is a joke) #season 2 sucked so bad it wasn't even the same SHOW anymore so it. does not exist <3 to me <3 #but god. god #it's THE found family robot show of all time. #like. pacific rim is GREAT but gen:lock basically takes the concept and runs even farther with it #and oughoughoughoughough #i'm back in my FEELS and i will remain here until i get all this out of my system #when i get gathered thoughts about the 911 gen:lock au it's all over for you hoes #winter speaks

[echthr0s]

the Late August Megastorm is a Me thing

it doesn't happen every year but around here there often will be a real fucky week weather-wise in late August that will culminate in a huge storm. that's the circumstance by which I arrived/awakened/whatever so now I strongly associate with it

anyway this year's was last night and that and the days preceding have really reminded me how attuned with earth's weather I/we are. as in, our internal weather and the external weather are so often uncannily in sync. I don't know what that's about, but the same mechanism that enables me to feel such comfort and joy on a heavy humid day that ends in a violent storm is the same one that forces me to be chronically suicidal when it's not warm and/or sunny enough so it's definitely the worst kind of double-edged sword if you live somewhere with a 7 to 8 month long cold season

#i often wonder what about my internal weather would change if i lived somewhere with a much different climate #like how southern california is so sunny all the time. what would that do to my moods #i'm pretty sure i'd just kms in the pacific northwest as beautiful as it may well be #oh and also the sun has something directly to do with this too. like how the ocean is manipulated by the moon #i am very clearly manipulated by the amount of sunlight #so i think MAYBE if i lived in a place that got very cold in the winter BUT remained sunny......... it MIGHT even out? #like the cold would still have an effect but i think the combination of cold AND grey is what makes the depression quite so debilitating #like this has been a less sunny summer than usual/than i'd expect and i definitely felt that even though the heat was nice #singularity.txt

[pacificremains]

Dusky shrew skull

#shrew skull #teeth #vulture culture #oddities #animal skull #pacific remains

[ssaalexblake]

13′s Ugh Humanity is Awful moment is hilarious bc many other doctors have been super dramatic about it but she’s like ‘i don’t know why i bother with the lot of you’ and Mary Seacole tells her to get over it and. She does. The end. 

the power of women in history the doctor has starry eyes for >>>>>> the doctor’s disgust at humanity 

#dw shit #nothing like a timely reminder lollll #again i find that ep super interesting for morals taught tho #13's disgusted by what's happening in the past #but in the future people are fighting for Meaning and that's good #13's pacifism bs remains bs #show not tell shows us actually. don't roll over. #don't do violence for violence's sake #one day i will write out how war of the sontarans echoes ryan's arc on the whole #one day

[xamaxenta]

There is just something about a hot guy (Ace who else) wrapped up in skin tight armour, wounded, struggling to control a short circuiting mecha of epic size, that powers itself on nuclear cores + the mental link between pilot couples and taking the entire brunt of that mental link himself because he can’t die like this

Muah chef kiss

#pacific rim remains to this day one of the best pieces of media for alt universe ship stuff #bLESS UP #xam screams #:)c #feeling particularly feral #you know how cats get zoomies #and big eye mode?? thats me for this rn

[giriduck]

Finally getting around to watching Gravity Falls and it’s so good! I wasn’t expecting a legit mystery box style show.

#gravity falls #it’s so the Oregon Vortex lol #the Pacific Northwest is a spoopy place #apparently it’s a whole genre #what remains of edith finch #oxenfree #alan wake #twin peaks #twilight lol

[purfectprincessgirl]

“Let’s go to the beach, each~ Lets go get a wave-“ 🎶

W o o o, at last thanks to some Amazon sales & coupons, I've finally collected the last two Pacific Coast dolls I've been eyeing since forever, Simone Summers & Margot De Perla~ ❤️ Margot was an especially interesting case 'cause it seems like not alot of people were digging her tinsel hair awhile back (and upon first opening her/feeling through said hair... yeaaaah I can see what they mean now lol .x.)

Luckily I found a neat lil tutorial to help pluck out those rougher tinsel bits so her locks are all silky smooth now~ 😊 Kinda hard to really pick my "top" fave now that I'm comparing all four ngl .3.

#Rainbow High #Pacific Coast High #Doll Collecting #Purfy Dolls #My Pics #Phaedra Westward #Simone Summers #Bella Parker #Margot De Perla #(*Dunno if I'll be collecting any of the remaining three Pacific Coast dolls 'cause Im pretty set with these four rn .3.*) #(*Maaaybe I might snag Harper Dune a lil later if her price drops more/I collect more of my bigger faves?*) #(*Dunno about Hali or Finn though they havent really caught my eye compared to the others fljkk But I see why others like 'em!*) #(*And I liked Hali's chemistry with Margot in the show soooo idk we'll see lol*)

[sketchingtons]

For the ask game! 4 and 14?

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

It’s the way I love Pacific Rim with my whole soul and have never done a scrap of fanart for it because I can’t draw mechanical subject matter/robots to save my life-my greatest sin, my biggest regret (；ω；)

Also, the way I was in the MCU pit for years and only drew Iron Man once-for a school assignment no less-for much the same reason,,,

14. Any favorite motifs

SPACE! STARS!! CELESTIAL BODIES!!! THE NIGHT SKY!!!! 🌌 ⭐️ 💫 ✨

I love anything and everything space/galaxy themed and if I ever have an excuse to, in even the tiniest ways, shoehorn in a star theme or sprinkle in some kind of sparkly night sky pattern into a design then by golly!! I’m gunna do it!! 💫 ✨

(Ask game is here!)

#weirdly specific artist ask game #ask game #asked and answered #sometimes-me #iron man and pacific rim my beloveds you deserve better than me 😭 😭 😭 #the way this has also caused my iron man/pacific rim crossover idea to remain forever in my brain never to be seen on paper 😔 #I just live vicariously through all the other fan creators for these franchises since I can’t contribute anything myself akshsjs #also yes I love space and space themed motifs-it was probably very obvious looking at my art 😂