#volcano pilot

[findinglifeinwords]

“This, otherworldly scene is like so much of #Iceland, still left untouched and yet, not discoverable by any other means than from above. Up there, you also discover a lot else. Like, for instance, how the powers of the elements have shaped the land to what it is. And how it will continue to do so, long after our days are over. A photograph is the testimony of that you were there. Sharing it, a testimony of that you've lived.

Maybe, if I'm really lucky, my photographs will continue to live somewhere and somehow, long after my days. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do sharing them. Be inspired and inspire!”

Haraldur Diego, Volcano Pilot

#icelandic poet #iceland #birds eye view #from above #Arial photography #volcano pilot #photography #outdoor photoshoot #aerial view #aerial #aerial pilot #aerial photography #natural landscape #braided rivers of iceland #heima #Ísland er einnig heima #Water

[spending-life-pretending]

Remember when everyone joked supernatural had a gif for everything. Well I’m here to die on the hill that gilligan’s island could’ve fulfilled that exact same ecological internet niche

#me #suddenly adding Gilligan’s island to my list of things that are just supernatural in disguise #anyway #every episode of this admittedly bad tv show was (literally) a beach episode #and as such #it is the most accurate example of ‘putting characters in Situations’ to ever exist canonically #Gilligan’s island walked so Lost and The Society and The Wilds could run #hamlet episode most dangerous game episode surfer episode pilot episode caveman episode ghost episode mad scientist episode(s) #superhero episode volcano episode murder mystery episode spy episode evil twin episode Cinderella episode beauty pageant episode #battle of the sexes episode 3 wishes episode vampire episode Cold War episode genderbend episode like WHAT #THEY PUT THOSE 7 PEOPLE ON THAT ISLAND AND THEY SAID BY GOD WERE GONNA MAKE YALL FACE SOME SCENARIOS #jailbreak episode

[mansion-of-haunts]

cant find the post again that mentioned this but the stakes in your average octonauts episode/movie are insane

meteor shower happens and a meteor is about to hit the octopod. they cannot move it, and this meteor is about to destroy their home and livelihood. everything they hold dear will be lost and there is nothing they can do to stop it. its ok tho, fish ate the meteor lol

character gets struck by lightning and gets stranded without a working gup. he now has his paw caught in a giant clam. he cant swim or get his paw out, and is being harassed by a school of barracudas. he is slowly running out of air and if the others cant get to him in time he will die. its ok tho, he finds a stick by chance and pries his paw out lol

a character has been stranded for literal years in the arctic without a radio or any way to contact anyone else. he has been alone and afraid, and his research station is falling into a ravine, and theres nothing he can do to save his lifes work and his home. its ok tho, the octonauts just so happen to find him lol

a venomous cone snail is aboard the octopod and is attacking the crew out of fear. almost all the crew including the captain are out of commission and the only member of the crew who can save the crew and pilot the octopod is the youngest member, a medic, with no formal training in piloting the octopod, who has to try and take care of the crew and find the cone snail, all at the same time. its ok tho, he girlbosses his way through lol

the octonauts are separated, and everywhere that they are is being affected by the eruption of a ring of volcanos all around the pacific ocean known as the ring of fire. their problems range from saving other animals from a volcano to saving themselves from an underwater, flooding maintenance facility. its ok tho, they girlboss their way through lol

#mike has the mic #octonauts #like what is happening #its an educational kids show but this shit is so stressful for them for no reason #octonauts spoilers #???

[ratmanzhq]

Steam siblings AU time! Some plot ideas I've been having.

Pilot season: Nya and Kai are running the shop and Wu comes and goes. Skeletons home and go. And Kai is now a ninja. Shit stays the same, but Kais spinjitsu is red…. AND BLUE! Others are weirded out but move on. 

Same shit but when the volcano scene happens, Nya is hot-headed as Kai uses the Golden sword and it responds to her. She can use it to the fullest extent like Kai. Now Garmadon is very confused and so is Wu when he shows up. 

Wu: “How is Nya using the fire sword? She is a water elemental!”

Nay and Kai: “A what?”

Shit goes mostly the same and only when they get back to the monastery do they examine the whole situation.

So they do some tests. Kai and Nya can make and use fire. But Nya can also use water. Wu is having a great time reading scrolls and books looking for answers for days. Kai is a little jealous, but also a little relieved, because is still scared of water. But, low and behold, he is also a water elemental.

These tests are very hard on them because they are inpatient people and anytime they try to use the same power at the same time, the other can't use it.  They take that as a sign of failure. It takes them some time to figure it out.

After they realize it, they decide that Kai uses fire and Nya water as their main power. 

The serpentine season will be different and the same. Like Pythor will do the same shit, but snakes are more sympathetic and Wu is a bit snakist. The ninja will be the peacemaker between the humans and the snakes. This is inspired by No Wu AU by IdkWhereIAmWhatAmIDoing. A great fix, read it. NOW.

Lloyd is a child. Either he's the one that releases the snakes or they find him in the trash can. I like him being a menace, so he might release the snakes.

Garmadon might not help with the great devour. But he knows that Llyod is the green ninja. Misaki knew, so ain't no way that she didn't tell Garmadon this. Or Garmadon knowing the prophecy and thinking he is the great evil that Lloyd will face (spoilers, it's the overlord). But Wu doesn't, I mean why would he? Misako and Garmadon are trying to prevent the prophecy and they might think that Wu will ‘force’ Llyod to fight or train as a ninja.

The overlord saga will happened by Garmadon never teaming up with the snakes, but going to the bad Island.

So Gramaboy is trying to get power or run from the prochecy by going to the island that literal evil can't escape. That way he can keep his son safe. 

#ninjago #ninjago kai #ninjago au #ninjago nya #steam siblings au #ninjago lloyd #ninjago garmadon #ninjago wu #sensei wu #lord garmadon #lloyd garmadon #nya smith #nya jiang #kai smith #kai jiang #text post #fic ideas

[keshetchai]

So the post is now too long to want to keep reblogging but this part of the response I got was so fascinating to me:

Like this illustrates exactly what I mean when I say that a lot of christian-background atheists understand religion basically only in the shape of Christianity.

"people don't build identities around gravity"

I mean...don't they do this indirectly all the time? Plenty of hobbies and professions are explicitly about the relationship to gravity that someone has.

Parkour enthusiasts

Rock climbers

Pilots

Parachuters

Trapeze artists

Aerodynamics engineer

Etc

"People don't build temples to it"

Many religions do not build temples. Building a temple is not a requirement of a religion. Having a temple is not a requirement.

Take this one step further. What is a temple? How do we define it? What definition do we use? ...if that definition includes the word worship, as in "a place for public worship often of a deity or deities", what does worship mean? I see definitions refer to reverence, dedication, adoration.

So: ...Is a planetarium a dedicated place where the public can adore or revere astrophysics, develop a sense of awe and appreciation, and therefore can it be a temple to gravity? I'm not being facetious here, I think people should consider what assumptions they've made about other people's religions, and about religiousness itself.

"it doesn't give commandments" as I said, not all religions incorporate deities with commandment type injunctions for humanity. So taken in reverse, it's lacking as a definition for all religions we know to exist. Commandments don't define religions, so the lack of gravity handing out commandments is hardly an issue.

> people not having the choice of following gravity

Sorry but again, this assumes all religions have deity given commandments, that all religions believe in a totality of free will, or that religions don't generally address natural forces.

But like, look at the Hawai'ian goddess of volcanos, embodied by lava, Pele. Do you imagine that native Hawai'ians believe they could simply refuse being burned by lava if they were to touch it? Do you think people believe they could control Pele? Choose not to allow Kīlauea to erupt?

Again this doesn't seem very convincing. Especially not from a Jewish perspective when Job makes it very clear you can't simply opt out of nature. You have agency, yes. But nature is still nature.

And saying you don't think philosophy is pointless, & you do think theology is interesting from an anthropological perspective but also...don't think the question of God's existence is worth exploring intellectually and don't seem to grasp that anthropologically, there is a lot of debate about how to define the role and appearance of religion....

It's just not tracking for me.

[thunderbirds-showdown]

Which Thunderbirds Are Go episode is better?

Vote on which episode you think is better. Episode synopses below the cut.

Icarus: While the members of International Rescue attend a prestigious global airshow, a test pilot unveils an ultra-fast superjet.

Volcano!: Dr Quentin Questa has inaccurately predicted the eruption of Hrómundartinhurmindur, a volcano in Iceland, for the last decade. This time, however, he invokes a special science code of honour that brings Brains out to his location. Brains discovers that Questa is right: the volcano is gonna blow!

#thunderbirds are go #thunderbirds #thunderfam #tumblr polls #polls showdown #tournament poll #tumblr showdown

[blu3cl0v3rs]

Badly explained Ninjago Seasons

First up, Pilots and Season 1

Pilots: The Devil kidnaps Spiky's younger sister, Meow, and the guy gets taken in by Gandalf, the devil's brother, who teaches him how to make mini tornadoes. Gandalf then introduces Coal, a jaywalker, and an ice cube maker. For convenience, we'll call the jaywalker Bluejay, and the ice cube maker Freezy.

Spiky, Coal, Bluejay, and Freezy steal some gold super-powered weapons made by god. Meow gets freed by Spiky, and Gandalf goes to hell to fight the devil with one of the golden weapons. Spiky, Coal, Bluejay, and Freezy teleport using dragons, and the devil kills a skele by tricking it to hold all of the gold weapons, which kills anyone that holds all four. The skele turns into a multi-dimensional portal, and the devil goes through. Spiky, Coal, Bluejay, and Freezy become "the Ninja".

Season 1: The devil's emo son, who we will call Trauma Child, tries to take over a village, but "the Ninja" stops him, so he trips down a hole and controls the king of the bloo sneks. Spiky accidentally steals from Gandalf and finds a prophecy about the Green Ninja. Trauma Child gets kicked out by the bloo sneks and then the reb sneks, and the reb and bloo sneks team up, so Trauma Child releases porple snek. Porple snek ate all the other porple sneks, and sacrificed Trauma Child to his uncle, Gandalf. Big Fighter Mech enters the ring.

Porple Snek then decides he's gonna revive big snek who wants to om nom the entire world, and forces all of the bloo, reb, gren, and bleck sneks to gather some special knives that can free big snek. Trauma Child gets kidnapped by the sneks. Gandalf leaves to find the devil.

Freezy is actually a robot, Bluejay starts dating Meow and temporarily becomes a snake, and Coal has daddy issues and comes out as gay to his father. All three have magical girl moments. Spiky is jealous. Meow is Big Fighter Mech.

Gandalf and the devil are back to save Trauma Child, and Spiky is delusional and tries to fight the devil, thinking it'll give him his magical girl transformation. Gandalf, the devil, Big Fighter Mech, and "The Ninja" jump the sneks and Spiky saves Trauma Child from getting roasted in a volcano, which triggers his magical girl transformation. Trauma Child is the Green Ninja. Porple snek frees big snek, and he and Gandalf get eaten by big snek. "The Ninja" ties big snek into a city-wide knot, and the devil smacks it on the head with the gold weapons, then runs away. Gandalf lives, and "The Ninja" celebrate.

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#ninjago #lego ninjago #lloyd ninjago #kai ninjago #cole ninjago #zane ninjago #jay ninjago #nya ninjago #wu ninjago #ninjago rise of the snakes #ninjago rise of the serpentine #ninjago pilot #this is so funny to do #i'm sorry if i miss anything #i haven't watched season 1 in a bit #blu3 badly explains ninjago

[doverstar]

abed/annie is my community otp, so I would love to hear your essay if you’re willing to share ♥️

girl it would be my pleasure

this is going to be an absolutely enormous word-vomit, please prepare-

I want to start off by saying I actually think Abed is genuinely a little bit crazy. Yes, he might be on the spectrum or have some disorder but the show is so loose with that it never really confirms it, so I’m not going to confirm it either, I just think there’s something-something-spectrum there but I’m not educated enough to understand exactly what they’re communicating he has or is dealing with. I think the safest thing to assume is indeed that he’s insane (he said it himself; he saw literal lava when Troy was leaving) but in a small, functional, unique way that doesn’t make him dangerous except when he wants to cut people’s arms off because “Evil Abed has taken over” hello someone do something about that –

Anyway. It’s super difficult for me to understand what goes on in his head episode-to-episode, but with Annie it’s actually easier? Abed has such a specific set of needs when it comes to relationships that it’s a miracle he found the study group at all. He’s so smart and creative and he’s actually very empathetic and sweet but he doesn’t always seem to know how to express things.

Annie is clearly Abed’s second-best friend in the show (it helps that the actor/actress are best friends too). When he can’t turn to Troy, he can always turn to Annie. She understands him and there’s never been a point where we see that start or end—it just naturally happened and they’re both used to it. Abed is always touching her, always sitting by her, always making eye contact with her, and if you pay close attention to even background scenes, he’s measuring her reactions to things more often than anyone else’s. If I had to guess, I think she’s the group member he understood faster than any of the others. Abed (this is, from what I’m told, part of being on the spectrum? but like I said I am uneducated and don’t want to definitively say something the show decided not to be clear about) needs certain things to be a certain way, or he can’t operate normally. He panics, or gets angry, or tries to mutilate Jeff Wingers. He genuinely thinks he is crazy, and he genuinely thinks no one he meets will be able to deal with him for an extended amount of time. (Let’s begin at the beginning from his POV.) Abed meets Annie (and the group), and she seems like the typical Molly Ringwald girl-next-door; pretty, smart, wants popularity, ambitious. That’s why he chose her when he created the study group. Annie is all of these cliched things, but hey, quickly it’s pretty clear Annie needs things to be a certain way. Annie needs structure and lists and good grades. So she gets it when Abed needs that, what a pleasant surprise! And part of that is that Annie empathizes with everyone around her, without even trying, so much so that she’s depicted often as the heart of the whole study group. She gets Abed, both because they’re the same in lots of ways and they’re the opposite. She can crush easily, explode easily, cry easily, laugh easily. Everything Abed has no idea how to emote. Annie is a volcano of emotions, and they’re triggered most when she’s feeling because of or on behalf of other people.

So here’s this girl near his own age who is orderly and structured, and knows how other people feel and can enter in with them emotionally, including Abed. She’s so nice, and tries so hard. She’s even good at playing pretend (Mixology Certification, party of one?). What a perfect leading lady for the life-movie Abed sees everywhere he goes (because that’s how he makes sense of the world). Annie is the ideal female star he’d want in any story: the girl full of passion and drive.

But then there’s Jeff—the study group’s Judd Nelson—presumably the perfect leading man. When Abed first handpicks the group in the pilot and first season, Jeff wants Britta. Hey, that makes sense, Britta seems to be the leading lady type, actually! She’s nice, she’s strong, she’s beautiful. Works perfectly. And look, Annie wants Troy—the brainy bubbly girl wants the dumb jock, that makes sense too. Everything works. Then things start changing within the dynamic. Troy is actually not that dumb, and not that sports-obsessed—he’s fun, and he’s the ideal bro for Abed, but he doesn’t work with Annie. Britta is not that nice, and not that strong—she’s bad at everything, and she doesn’t understand people, she just wants to and is constantly trying to portray (and then hopefully become) the kind of person that does. And Jeff is a stunted jerk who needs reformation.

Oh, Annie is Abed’s friend now too. She said it herself, and that’s rare in Abed’s life. She called them really good friends, and that’s so important to him that he’ll sit in a room for 26 straight hours with nothing to do because Annie asked him to do it. Troy is not the only character Abed would give up control for. There’s one other from the start, because the moment she told him with all her earnest doe-eyedness they were friends, she had him hook line and sinker.

Season 1 progresses. Jeff and Britta might still work, and Abed seems mildly interested in that if only for the cliches—maybe Britta can make him better. No, wait, Britta is bad at that too. Actually, they’re not good for each other. Actually, they’re bad for each other—they’re bad for everyone. But they have similar terrible flaws and habits, so maybe they do make a good pair. Still fine leads. Still works. And besides, Annie has filled in the place of Troy with hippie Vaughn, which is also fine. Doesn’t really work long-term, but Jeff and Britta drive the plot forward more anyway, so the focus should be on them, right? The group is working. The group is thriving. The TV of life moves along.

(Except Jeff kissed Annie to win the Man Is Good/Evil debate. And Abed predicted it. Which means he was thinking about that as a possibility, because he operates on variables and tries to understand outcomes so that he’s not surprised by anything and can keep his friends for longer by relating to and reacting to them better. Jeff has leading man vibes, Annie has leading lady vibes, that’s one potential outcome. And though he insists he’s just making hypotheses based on what he’s learned about his friends so far, when it does happen right in front of them in real life, they kiss, Abed is just as shocked as the others—he literally can’t take his eyes off them until the debate is won. Then afterward, he tells Shirley he can’t predict the future and uses his plans for Pierce being discovered as a genius next in his home-movies as an example, which he believes would never happen—then Britta calls Pierce a genius right in front of him and Abed looks visibly concerned. Maybe what he predicts about his friends will keep happening, even the things he thinks are the least likely of the potential outcomes. Maybe even Jeff and Annie as the two leads. But that doesn’t make sense, does it? Jeff and Britta are endgame, aren’t they? Annie is too young for a leading man like Jeff. Annie is too nice; Jeff is too selfish. Annie is gorgeous and driven, Jeff is handsome and needs fixing, that would work, no, it would change things too much, it’s too unlikely, back to Jeff and Britta, back to playing with Troy and studying film, don’t give it a second thought—)

Transfer dance happens. Annie is going away for the summer with Vaughn. Classic Annie, has his back, always doing the better thing for the plot, bringing a good end-of-Season twist, but it’s okay, as far as he knows she’ll be back in the fall and besides, Abed’s got to-roomie-or-not-roomie with Troy issues to deal with.

And then the new semester starts after the transfer dance. And Anthropology 101 happens (again, one of my favorite episodes for the group fight at the end when it comes to my lil ships). I’M GONNA TALK ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGY 101 NOW. For A CHUNK of time. Jeff and Britta are doing relationship-drama stuff Abed doesn’t quite care about, until Shirley suggests he’s being selfish and that a real friend would enter into Jeff and Britta’s [incredibly fake and nasty] “happiness” and Abed thinks that could work. Actually, progressing Jeff and Britta’s relationship is a goal he can definitely work with. In fact, if you pay attention to the show, whenever there is an opportunity to advance or out Jeff/Britta, Abed takes that opportunity. And whenever there is an opportunity to put JeffAnnie in an uncomfortable or inevitable, c’est la vie light (which two independence-heavy freaks like Jeff and Annie would consider negatively) he takes that too.

Abed urges Jeff/Britta to get married right there in the library before the fight, gives them the ring, because he thinks that’s the next logical step in their grossness. Special episode, all about Jeff/Britta, endgame endgame endgame! He can work with that. In fact, he’s happy to control that. He leaves the room to inexplicably get an Irish singer, dead-ringer Clooney, and a transportable wedding set.

When he comes back and tries to prep the group for the special wedding episode, everyone is tense and Jeff is bleeding from the nose, and Abed does not notice; he’s intent on advancing the plot and the endgame. Then Troy says, “Abed. Jeff made out with Annie.” And Abed’s immediate reaction is “What? Where? When?” And he looks unhappy, like the rest of them. Jeff made out with Annie, and that means everything Abed thought he understood is incorrect. (And I think it bothers the crap out of him and he doesn’t have the ability to unpack why that is the way most people do because he’s different. Surely he’s just angry for the same reasons the rest of the group is? That must be it. That must be why he’s angry specifically with Jeff, not Britta in any tangible way, or even Annie in a tangible way—until later, which I’ll talk about eventually.) Annie tells him they kissed after the transfer dance in a guilty voice, which is a sheepishness she does not respond with to any of the other members of the group. It’s almost like she’s picking up on Abed’s emotion specifically this time. And while everyone else in the group explodes, and Jeff reduces his kiss with Annie to something he should be ashamed of (accurate) because men are monsters who crave young flesh and Annie looks absolutely crushed like a deer in the headlights, Abed starts packing up to leave. And we only see how angry he is right then—he doesn’t enter into anyone else’s problems. We see him react to “Jeff made out with Annie”, and then this is the next time we see him react. Jeff asks where he’s going and Abed throws out a quippy “I now pronounce you cancelled” with a bounce of his eyebrows in an angry way, at Jeff, and when he tries to leave Jeff hurls insults at his back and Abed stops in the doorway, in a normal-person—again, angry—way and turns around and drops one of the sickest burns of the whole show, that TV makes sense and has “likeable leading men”, and says “In life, we have this. We have you.” And walks out. His anger is not directed at anybody else. He doesn’t help Troy with the Pierce situation. He doesn’t try to fix any of it. It’s like he heard “Jeff made out with Annie”, learned the specifics, and was standing there reeling until eventually he decided he couldn’t deal and went to leave, and wouldn’t have shown just how angry he was with Jeff unless Jeff had provoked him, which he did.

IT'S ALMOST LIKE HE’S MAD JEFF KISSED ANNIE, JUSSAYIN’-

let me pretend I’m a 14-year-old shippy fangirl in my reasoning, okay-

Abed likes logic, and as Season 2 continues, Jeff/Annie gets more and more logical. In fact, even though he has noticed that Jeff and Britta are secretly hooking up in the background of the Season, he is not surprised in Paradigms of Human Memory when Annie calls Jeff out for the will-they-won’t-they he’s been enacting with her, and even says there is something between the two of them, matter-of-factly, which Jeff refuses to own up to. But Abed and Annie are getting closer and closer, too. It’s subtle, but it’s clear they’re 100% comfortable around each other. That becomes super clear by Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas, when, besides Troy, Annie is the only other character to enter into Abed’s way of thinking and play with him, because it’s genuinely important to him and she recognizes that this is what he needs, when everyone else kind of drops off. She helps Abed and Troy stop Duncan from dealing with Abed in a practical, normal way, because she sees that Abed is dealing with something and can only deal with it his way to get through it. That’s incredibly rare for Abed, we see. He’s very attached to her—like I said, often touching her, often sitting by her, often reacting to her.

(I mean hi, in English As A Second Language, Abed thinks he won’t be affected by Annie’s Disney Face; when everyone else obeys Jeff in closing their eyes to it, Abed doesn’t. “Oh don’t worry about me, I can only connect to people through...movies...” literally stops in his tracks when he sees her Disney Face with the cutest wistful twitch of a smile. Jeff has to Indiana-Jones-reference him to make him look away. He doesn’t only connect to people through movies—at least, Annie can get through to him without the need of movies; he’s not a quirky lil robot, he can have normal feelings, but boy does it seem like Annie is the one bringing them out of him more often than most. she gets under his skin ajhzsdkejdb-)

Abed definitely has a crush on Annie. But he doesn’t know how to deal with that or portray it. To his mind, Annie should be with a leading man. Any time he flirts with her, he is pretending to be a leading man from a movie or show. (For a Few Paintballs More, anyone?) Because that’s who she should be paired off with. And that’s what she wants, right? She loooves Jeff Winger now. Britta’s not the leading lady, she never was, that role was always Annie’s, and it makes sense she wants Jeff, and it makes even more sense that Abed is observing the love story, not part of it. Abed is not the leading man, he’s the computer. He watches, analyzes, does not get involved or get the girl.

But he still wants her around, and he can have that much—in fact, when he moves in with Troy and Annie tells him she loves their place, Abed instantly suggests she move in. Not Abed and Troy. Just Abed, and he does not discuss it with his roommate. And Troy seems confused and surprised and gives Abed such an interesting look right after. Annie moves in, Abed agrees to sacrifice some of his routine for her (blanket fort for he and Troy, full bedroom for Annie), things are happy. Things are fine. She puts away his buttered noodles when he’s not finished with them, but she adapts to his needs when he expresses he doesn’t want her to do that; she breaks his Batman DVD but he adapts by forgiving her in a role he can express that in—Batman himself, plus, bonus, he gets to flirt with her as that leading man—and things are better. But then Annie starts trying to control things. Annie starts trying to make life go according to the movie in her head. She tries to get Britta and Troy together, which not only robs Abed of his best friend for a day and disrupts his routine, it makes him angry with Annie. And not just because she tampered with the group’s dynamic, which he doesn’t want anyone else but him to do. okay we’re caught up NOW I get to talk about Virtual Systems Analysis, which is my FAVORITE COMMUNITY EPISODE-

Throughout that episode, Annie is trying to speak in Abed’s language in the Dreamatorium in order to teach him empathy. In the past, she’s had success in communicating with him on his level, but this seems extra hard for some reason. She sees somehow through his expressionless face right away and sees he is angry with her, and though he tries to deflect by saying she’s going to ruin the group by meddling, she eventually does recognize what the problem is. At first she’s convinced Abed just wants Abed’s way and that he needs to be taught how to think of others first (she’s right), but he hears her say that to Troy and it spirals him right into the worry he always has—that he’s crazy, that he’s a problem, that he’ll never fit in because of that, and that when Annie (and anyone else) tries to deal with or fix him, they will get sick of it, give up, and toss him aside. He was already angry with her for a different reason, not just wanting his way again—but now he’s sure she’s done with Abed, too. So he becomes someone else, everyone else, to make his point: that she’s just messing with Britta and Troy so that nothing will stand in the way of her and Jeff.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS WHEN HE IS PRETENDING TO BE JEFF TO HER? He says, “With Abed gone, and Troy and Britta together, there’s nothing standing in the way of us.” With Abed gone. Why did he say that? Because with Abed gone, Annie gets to be in control of everyone? Obviously not. Or is it because out of everyone, every variable, the only other match that makes sense for Britta is Troy and the only other match that makes sense for Annie is-

Oops, Freudian slip. Oh, she’s not falling for it. And Abed is mad at her because he thinks she set up Britta and Troy so she could be with Jeff. Abed is mad that that’s what she wants. And when she tries to argue it’s not, he literally pretends he is her, logicking it out at her, trying to convince her that that is what she wants, because that’s what he thinks she wants, and her controlling things to cause JeffAnnie makes him mad. But c’est la vie, it’s inevitable anyway, right? Why isn’t she seeing that? Why is she trying to talk about him, he doesn’t want to talk about him, especially not after what she said about him— Then she fights back and tells him that she does not love Jeff, she loves the idea of being loved and if she can teach a guy like Jeff to love her, she’ll never be alone. And then she finds out that’s what Abed is afraid of, too. No—that’s what Abed is used to. “I’ve run the simulations, Annie. I don’t get married. [Why is that the first thing he said?] I don’t etc. etc.”

He’s afraid he’ll be alone, and people will always be getting tired of him and throwing him away. Didn’t Annie get tired of him? But she doesn’t, she’s not—in fact, she understands him. She shows him other members of the group understand that feeling, too. She uses his language to explain to him that he’s wrong, and that neither of them should be trying to make life go according to a script in their heads. Abed sees that she does understand, and if she can get into his head and understand him, she really can do it with anyone, and if she can do it, maybe he can too. Annie helps him and makes him a better person, because she reminds him to empathize, which is something Abed didn’t think he could do. Okay I just spent a long time talking about Abed’s perspective. A tiny bit of Annie now, because this is going on too long. As for Annie, she is afraid of being alone and unloved. She’s “psycho”, she’s crazy too, because someone who empathizes that much and can exude that much emotion does seem crazy to other people. She’s a different crazy than Abed, but her brand of psycho lends itself well to getting and communicating with him, because his crazy is escapism and her crazy is confrontation. His crazy is emotionless, her crazy is emotional. His crazy is control, her crazy is compassion. Her parents cut her off, her high school shunned her, Troy never noticed her, of course she’s scared of being ditched. Of being unimportant. Annie’s need to be perfect comes from the need to feel valued. And doesn’t Abed understand the need to not feel left alone? Doesn’t he understand everything needing to be just so, doesn’t he understand wanting to feel important but never expecting it? Just the computer. Just the observer. Wait. Didn’t he invite her to live with him, voluntarily? Doesn’t he always seem to be choosing her to sit by, don’t they always seem to be reassuring one another with a look or a touch? He gets how she feels about Jeff and Britta and their monopolization (hi Basic Sandwich), he gets when she’s feeling insecure, he gets when she needs to escape, just for a second, to pretend to be someone else in any given scenario so that she can take a risk or get out of her comfort zone, and he excels at that so they often do it together. They don’t have to be alone, they have each other. Annie doesn’t have to be perfect, Abed doesn’t have to be normal, and neither of them have to be in control. But nobody listens to me and instead we have Jeff kissing Annie and Brie Larson in a sweater. And don’t get me started on VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing and why Abed and Annie are individually trying so hard to fight each other’s third-roommate preferences-

#THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU READ ALL OF THAT #abedison #abed nadir #annie edison #abed #annie #abedannie #annieabed #annie x abed #abed x annie #danny pudi #community tv show #community nbc #community #community show #opinion piece #doverstar's thoughts #ask #empress-of-snark #ask doverstar #answered #ship #otp

[gumnut-logic]

“Scott! Talk to me!”

Virgil sunk his boot into the mud only to have the water well up and over its brim.

Warm, slimy, and god forbid full of things that would be quite happy to either gnaw on him or curse him with a deadly disease.

Thank goodness for his watertight, airtight and everythingtight uniform in situations like these.

That hopefully never happened again.

“Scott, I know you’re there.” He clambered over the remains of a wooden house, now buried in mud and slime, at the very edge of a lahar that had swept most of the village away.

And trapped his brother.

“Goddamnit, Scott, answer me!” He had to be there. Two’s scans had pinpointed him!

There was a moan, barely heard over comms.

“C’mon, Scotty, I’m nearly there. Please talk to me.” His words came out more as gasps as he forced his way through the massive pile of debris. There was only one life sign and it was his brother.

Didn’t mean his was the only body in the mud. Virgil grit his teeth and pushed himself forward.

“V…irg?” Barely a whisper.

Breath rushed out of his lungs. “Good to hear your voice.” He yanked aside the remains of a thatched roof.

Damn.

His brother was caught in a natural gathering point, where the wave of water and mud had pushed some of the village’s buildings into a corner and piled them there. It was clear on scans, but seeing it in reality hurt.

Scott was in that?

He refused to acknowledge the task ahead and the horrible possibilities.

He had Two, her pods, and he was going to get his brother out of…that.

Water filled up his boots as he sunk further into the mud.

“Scott, can you give me a status report?”

He received another groan in answer.

“Report, Thunderbird One.”

“Virg, god…I’m stuck.” There was a sudden edge of hysteria in his wavering voice. “Can’t see. Underwater!”

Shit.

“I’m coming.” He poked hurriedly at his wrist control and directed the module back on Two to assemble a pod and to grab his exosuit.

He missed Gordon. Missed his help, missed his co-pilot, but Gordon was stuck at home recovering and Alan and John were out fishing a tourist liner out of the asteroid belt.

It came down to Virgil.

He dragged himself through grey slush.

The incoherent sounds on the commline, raised his hackles as the pod approached.

“Scott, talk to me.”

A very uncharacteristic whimper was his only reply.

“Scott?”

He clambered into the pod and, throwing up a holographic scan of the pile of debris, began removing the pick-up sticks one by one.

“Virg?” Barely a whisper.

The terror in his name froze Virgil’s heart.

But fortunately his heart wasn’t in his emergency response procedure. He moved without thought, the pod an extension of his body.

“I’m coming.”

He needed to get to his brother.

Water and mud continued to slosh in the distance as the dregs of the lahar continued to drain down the mountain. His failure to shore up the crater lake at the top of the volcano was something he couldn’t face right now.

Save Scott.

Blame later.

The harsh breath on the other end of the commline…

“Scott, count for me.”

“Virgil, I-“

“Count by prime.” The pod claws carefully lifted the remains of another roof off the pile.

“2.” The number was shaky. “3, 5, 7, 11…”

Virgil grunted as the pod strained under the weight of too much. He had to slow down.

Slow down.

“…37, 41, 43, …47,…” His brother’s voice faded on 53.

“Scott! Root of 49?!”

Even injured, there was a slight huff of derision over comms. “7.”

The pod claws lifted off another pile, dripping with mud and water.

“Root 125.”

There was silence a moment, followed by a gasp, and a stronger voice. “11.2.”

One word. “Pi.”

And the numbers rattled across comms, sometimes breathless, but there.

Virgil used the time to climb out of the pod and don his exosuit. He was getting closer, so he needed to be more precise. His heads-up display marked the stressors, the support beams and the outline of his brother buried in muck and water.

I’m coming.

Time became a blur of numbers, mud, and broken buildings.

And problems. “How fast can Thunderbird One make it from Tracy Island to London carrying Thunderbird Four?”

Scott sputtered and drew in a harsh breath.

But the numbers came.

“Three to the moon and back, slingshot trajectory?” These were things his big brother calculated automatically in his head every time they were called out. Sure, they had the computing power, but Virgil knew his brother.

He liked to test himself.

And by this time, Virgil was chanting his own math in his head. Time, structural weight, probabilities of collapse, time, severity of injury, time…

Time was always the most crucial factor.

Scott’s voice began to fade again in the middle of spouting re-entry trajectories.

Nearly there.

Nearly there.

He threw a chunk of child’s bedroom across the sullen grey landscape.

“Scott? Zero point nine to infinity does not equal one.”

“Virgil!” It was gasped out. “Goddamnit!” As expected there was much more life in that voice now. “It’s been proven!”

“I don’t care.” A grunt as he finally removed the last of the wooden and palm thatched roofing off the space holding his brother.

And his heart stopped.

Only the very top of Scott’s helmet was visible above water-clogged mud, one gloved hand weakly waving about seeking purchase.

Virgil scrambled to gently lift off the beam holding his brother under.

Hydraulics hissed as Virgil lifted with everything he had.

The beam was airborne and Scott was clawing to the surface, faceplate still covered in mud.

Virgil shed his exosuit, not even acknowledging the crack of wood and wet splat as it dropped behind him. Stepping as lightly as the sucking mud would let him, he slipped over the broken remains of someone’s home and finally reached his brother.

“Sit still.” He gently gripped Scott’s shoulders. The man was gasping as Virgil dragged the underside of his uniform sleeve across his brother’s faceplate, letting light in on a pale face.

Wide blue terrified eyes stared back at him.

Virgil fumbled for his mediscanner, mud in and on everything. The flickering yellow light lit up brightly against the grey sludge.

But numbers bounced back to him. A severe concussion, extensive bruising…he let out a thankful if amazed breath…most of the numbers were good numbers. His brother was in one piece. He didn’t know how the hell that was possible but he thanked whatever fate or deity had shone down favourably on them this time.

In gratitude, he flipped the catches on Scott’s dented helmet and gently slipped it off.

“Virgil.” It was said with breath and no shortage of love.

Virgil responded by pulling him close and they sat there in the mud and slime for a whole second or two.

Relief leaked out of the corner of Virgil’s eyes.

The rush of water and creaking wood were the only sounds.

But they were enough.

The yellow of the pod he had discarded behind him was a single bright spot in the grey haze of post-apocalyptic hell. Two, in the distance beyond, faded into the greenery as much as One’s silver hull did into the haze.

“C’mon, let’s get you out of here.” Virgil’s mud-caked uniform dripped as he stood up and planted his boots as securely as he could.

Scott stared up at him, a single flick of mud on one sweaty cheekbone.

“I’m going to carry you to the pod.” He waited for Scott’s acknowledgement.

“Okay.” Those blue eyes stared up at him, Scott’s lack of decisive movement or even objection so uncharacteristic, Virgil had to hold back pulling out the scanner again.

Virgil reached down and, bending at his knees, slid his arms into the mud and under his brother, scooping him up as carefully as he could.

Scott was a tall man, but he was more lanky than weighty, and while John received all the taunts for being the noodle of the family, honestly Scott was pretty much the same kind of pasta. He just hid it behind big brotherhood.

Virgil stabilised the weight in his arms and Scott let his likely aching head drop onto Virgil’s mostly mud free shoulder.

Mostly.

Holding his brother close, Virgil made his way out of the slush and grief towards the yellow beacon on the shore.

“Virg?”

“Yeah?” He yanked a boot from the suckering mud.

“It does equal one.” Quiet and breathless.

“What?”

“Zero point nine nine to infinity.”

Virgil didn’t have the spare brainpower to roll his eyes. “Does not.’

“It does. Been proven.”

“As I have said on many an occasion, big brother, I don’t care.”

“It does.”

“Doesn’t.”

“Does.”

“Doesn’t.”

“It’s logical.”

“Don’t care.”

“The math is right.”

“Your math is weird.”

“My math is right.”

“You have a concussion.”

“I know.” Scott swallowed, his head almost buried in the crook of Virgil’s neck. “Still right.”

“Yeah, whatever.”

-o-o-o-

#thunderbirds are go #thunderbirds #thunderbirds fanfiction #virgil tracy #scott tracy #nuttyfic reblog #I am writing but it is taking ages #work and migraines keep getting in the way

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 4 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

The Pilot

Synopsis

The Twelfth Doctor — now living and teaching at St Luke's University on Earth — convinces dinner lady Bill Potts to be his private student. The Time Lord and his companion Nardole soon discover that their new friend has unwittingly made a deal with a prospective girlfriend that threatens their safety in a way that even the TARDIS can't outrun.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

Fires of Pompeii

Synopsis

The Tenth Doctor tries taking Donna Noble to ancient Rome for her first trip in the TARDIS, but seems to have miscalculated. Instead of seven hills, they find a single mountain billowing smoke — Vesuvius. They're in Pompeii, 23 August 79 AD: the day before "Volcano Day". However, something else is horribly wrong. The Soothsayers' predictions seem to always be correct... so why can't they see tomorrow's disastrous events, the eruption of Vesuvius, the death of their city? What is blocking their perception, and will the TARDIS team be able to walk away from a fixed point in time, saving no one from certain doom? Well, Donna has something to say about that!

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

#round 4

[findinglifeinwords]

Instead of hearing the sound of our laughter. I hear the sound of my tears as I am reminded you are no longer here.

#echos of grief #grief poem #grief/mourning #saddness #volcano pilot

[sirfrogsworth]

"End Wokeness" seems to think that these airmen look "soft" and would not scare the armies of China and Russia.

I mean, currently, a winter storm and consumer DJI Mavic drones with small grenades attached to them are scaring Russia.

And the Chinese military propaganda displays resemble more of a choreographed Rockettes routine rather than competence in battle.

Apparently everyone in the military needs to look like a roided-out bodybuilder or else the enemies of the US will think we are weak and easily defeated.

Forget the fact that most Air Force personnel (aside from the Stargate teams) are not engaged in much hand-to-hand combat.

Forget that modern warfare often involves firing heavy artillery from far away or piloting a drone like a Playstation game.

Forget that all branches of the military have thousands and thousands of non-combat roles to fill.

Forget all that.

Let's look at a real Delta Force operator from the 80s--the same era that the Predator actors are from.

Meet Sgt. Major Mike Vining.

This dude looks like he should be teaching junior high science and is very disappointed that you didn't complete your baking soda volcano on time.

In reality, he was the Delta Force's first explosive ordinance dude. (That's what the D in EOD stands for, right?) He has 4 bronze stars for heroic action.

He was a special forces badass, through and through.

When you have a significant force multiplier like, say, a firearm, giant muscles and tall statures are less important. Stamina, endurance, grit, willpower, skill, and competence are much more important.

Combat personnel come in many shapes and sizes.

And some of them look like they want that report on covalent bonds by Monday.

[tofautisawa]

I'm REALLY curious on what you mean by TLG giving ass backwards treatment to Jasiri and her pack

I like Jasiri, don't get me wrong. It's nice to have a hyena character in The Lion King franchise that isn't just a stupid cackling villain. She has a cute design, and I always enjoyed the episodes she appeared it. Don't Judge A Hyena By It's Spots being one of my top favorite episodes of season 1.

However, she is only "good" by the narrative because she and her clan live by the Pride Land's specific "Circle Of Life" ideology. A ideology that in my opinion, doesn't benefit her, her clan, or her species AT ALL. She and spotted hyenas in general are still subjected to living in a barren wasteland with little to no resources. (The Lion Guard even one ups this by saying even TERMITES don't live in the Outlands just to get the Aardwolves to come back. Continuity be damned.) They only got one water source to call their own. They live near an active volcano with open lava pits that one can easily fall into ( and one that she and the cubs nearly died in). There is absolutely no bitterness from any innocent hyenas, and they basically just accepted that this is how they must live. Jasiri can sing Kwetu Ni Kwetu all she wants, the melody will go real great with the sound of her homies sizzling at the bottom of a lava pit next to Ushari.

It's actually really bad that Makucha ( a reoccurring villain) is subjected to live in a much better environment filled with prey, water, and plenty of vegetation where even the zebras are happier.

And I say subjected because I never got the vibe that these animals live where they do out of their own volition, more like they are assigned. Aside from the hyenas not being allowed in the Pride Lands, I never got that vibe from the movies. It really makes me wish Fuli's quote from the pilot about "Always the Lions lording over the Pride Lands" was expanded on and explored. Anyways.... The show also never really addresses what she even eats, because I doubt much prey ventures into the out lands. BUT DON'T WORRY- Jasiri states that hyenas are clean up crews and eat what lions leave behind. Further reinforcing that outdated belief that spotted hyenas are primarily scavengers (which Ono even states in a later episode because he has to be the "educational mouthpiece" even when he's blatantly wrong). I can appreciate the show trying to show the benefits of scavengers- but it really should have been saved for animals like the vultures. So the show couldn't even make her and her clan respectable hunters that only hunt specifically what they need ( Probably because there is nothing TO hunt and whenever Janja is shown hunting on his own damn lands, he is stopped but I digress). I can't even help but wonder how she even CAN scavenge if all the lions live in the Pride Lands, and the alarm is sounded whenever a hyena sets a toe within Pride Land territory- unless the lions are just dumping corpses into the Outlands. This is probably why they had the show outright lie to you and pretend that Aardwolves are no way related to Spotted Hyenas because they can't have the children asking why they are allowed in the pride lands and not a friend of our protagonists, Jasiri.

Also, The hyenas specifically are only treated as "good" the very second they don't hunt for food and instead scavenge, and ONLY scavenge. (Not by their own choice) Compare this to Fuli who has been shown hunting, and it's treated as a bad thing that her hunts got interrupted and she doesn't get to eat. BUT WHATEVER, YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO THINK ABOUT IT MUCH! LOOK AT THE FUNNY HONEY BADGER!!!

I honestly wouldn't even be complaining about any of this if it turned out Jasiri secretly lived in a oasis within or in the outskirts of the Outlands, or even the Backlands where she had access to prey or even later got a better land for her own in the end.

Keep in mind, this is all just my opinion. And you are free to disagree with me. And it's been a hot minute since I watched The Lion Guard so my details might be off here and there. Just don't try to pull the whole "It's a preschool show" argument, because that really doesn't matter to me.

#ask #off topic ask #long post

[kyratittyfish]

POV: you’re Shepard and your pilot/boyfriend finally got his drink with two umbrellas.

The t-shirt is a birthday gift from Tali cause he never shuts up about saving everyone from “the great Therum explosion of 2183”, as he calls it (he says that since he was there to save everyone from the volcano, he gets to name the event.).

The back of the shirt says “I pulled everyone’s ass out of literal fire and all I got was this t-shirt”.

#my art #mass effect #jeff joker moreau #shoker #mass effect fanart #joker mass effect #mass effect joker #best pilot in the galaxy #and a rockstar

[destinysbounty]

I don't think we talk enough about how confused Nya must've been during the pilots. Some old guys shows up, makes fun of your brother, then you get kidnapped by some weird skeleton thingies for unknown reasons, they tie you up in a volcano, then your brother shows up wearing weird clothes and is apparently on a first-name basis with the mysterious shadow guy who ordered for your abduction, then your brother turns into a fiery tornado??????? And that same weird guy who made fun of your brother pops up out of nowhere to fight the bad guy using shadow-hand-puppets, a dragon shows up, beard guy falls down a lava-fall while drinking tea and apparently your brother is at last mildly devastated by this for some reason, and then three OTHER color-coded weirdos ALSO show up out of nowhere wearing outfits that match your brother's. Like, you get kidnapped for two weeks and somehow in that time your brother wound up in a polycule.

For what it's worth, Nya really took it all in stride. To be honest, I'm a little surprised it took her five whole seasons to go apeshit because with the amount of unexplained mystical bullshit happening around her I'd have lost my cool by episode 1.

#ninjago #nya smith #nya jiang #nya ninjago #destiny post

[mybodyfails]

han - recap 2023

(tumblr user @mybodyfails' ramblings under the read more)

jan

230120 manila: stay with bench - fanmeet

blue jeans, dress shirt AND beret?! we're off to a great start.

he was hitting the dougie too. of course.

feb

230213 skz-record: volcano

definitely my soty! when the drums come in and the song explodes? literally erupting like a volcano? 🫠

honorary mention:

230226 chan's room ep. 199

i keep coming back to this stream whenever i feel down, they were just so hyper and giggly!

mar

230311 manila: maniac world tour - day 1

the one where he had to sit out bc he was sick. who knew you could slay a performance like that. in the end all of us were seated i think.

also gave us this beautiful moment: beethoven who

april

230401&230402 los angeles: maniac world tour encore

toddling around in his gigantic dungarees and adorable hat, han quokka clipped to him. all i need tbh.

may

230523 bbl: life advice

tape the blanket to yourself and you won't catch a cold, apparently.

but also, not a specific month - but i'm putting this on behalf of all the mini concerts he did for us on bubble, taking suggestions for covers or writing songs on the fly 🥰

june

release: topline mv feat. tiger jk

aka the day where jisung got adopted but was too shy to get his number. 🥺 LOOK AT HIM! elated hamster! fanning himself w his fake money!

jul

230701&230702 3rd fanmeeting pilot for 5star

the life-size skzoos and their interactions were such a cute surprise 😭 rmbr when he kept gently smoothing down han quokka's velvety fur 😭

230722 paris: lollapalooza

he was on fire that day. HOTTER THAN HOT.

aug

230816 fukuoka: 5star dome tour begins

and with it came his 'don't say' solo stage and him playing the fucking guitar. wasn't just me, we all lost our marbles over this.. right?

honorary mention:

august was also the month were han didn't open an individual ig account 😸

sep

230924 new york: global citizen festival

they were five members short but 3racha gave it their all. i am a big fan of the hoop earrings, personally.

oct

231013 lil durk release: all my life (skz remix)

they took that song and gave it a very distinct flavour, especially jisung.

231015 skz-record: want so bad

minsung and their gay little song, didn't expect anything less from thems two.

nov

231111 mbc show! music core & mini fanmeeting

life-altering duality, wearing that CROPTOP on stage and turning into the sweetest babushka right before our very eyes immediately after..

dec

231214 manila: asia artist awards

what's with jisung and his best moments happening in the philippines?! that's the third time this year! petition for skz to move there. 🙏

3racha winning the best creator award was already a highlight, but hannie en route to the bathroom.. running back.. having to hold his pee for the acceptance speech - a classic.

now please come to me and tell me your fave jisung/your bias/skz moments of 2023!

#han jisung #stray kids #skz #mp #there were heaps more moments of course #but mostly there was one (or two 😸) that stood out to me each month #please do talk to me about the best memories YOU made with skz this year i'm curious!