#anteversion

[wheelie-sick]

Miserable Malalignment Syndrome

---- the disease with objectively the coolest name

I wanted to share some awareness about my limb difference, miserable malalignment syndrome (MMS) so I decided to create a post talking about it!

MMS is a rare rotational deformity affecting the legs. rotational deformities are a category of deformity in which a bone, or multiple bones, are inappropriately rotated. MMS is a condition where both the femur and tibia are rotated in opposite directions, and more specifically, where the femur rotates inwards (femoral anteversion) and the tibia rotates outwards (external tibial torsion) MMS most frequently affects a single leg but can be bilateral.

people with MMS typically appear knock kneed, bow legged, and duck footed with a squinting patella.

MMS typically causes severe pain in the hips, knees, lower back, and in the ankles. MMS is also associated with patellar instability, scoliosis, and early onset osteoarthritis. pain from miserable malalignment is often described as being similar to having knives in your knees.

MMS is most common in children as this condition sometimes naturally corrects itself. other times, MMS can be changed with a surgery called a derotational osteotomy. while many people with MMS choose to undergo this surgery many people also opt out of it.

[kaijuposting]

PSA: The g-word is a racial slur. We call her "Lady Danger" for a reason.

Pacific Rim Content & Resources Masterpost (Last Update: December 26 2023)

Pacific Rim Lore & Lore Dives

Pacific Rim kaiju biology - what do we know about it?

The Precursors: what's been said about them?

“Anteverse” and “Precursors” - why these terms exist

Drift Hangover Lore

Drifting, as conceptualized by Travis Beacham

The Downside of Drifting - It's Not Always Pleasant In Here

Details about Hermann Gottlieb's personality in the novelization that (probably) came from the bio written by Guillermo del Toro.

Information about Newt Geiszler in the novelization that (probably) comes from the bio by Guillermo del Toro.

All the Pacific Rim Character Birthdays I Could Find

The Newmann Timeline

Jaegers of Pacific Rim: What do we know about them?

Jaeger Piloting 101: How Jaegers Get Into The Thing & Other Basic Stuff

Pacific Rim Deleted Scenes

Raleigh Meets Newt - Extended Scene

Newt Does A Theft

Chuck and Hercules Hansen have an argument

All Pacific Rim deleted scenes

Pacific Rim Character Bios by Guillermo del Toro (Note that these are all slightly outdated bios)

Mako Mori

Raleigh Becket

Stacker Pentecost

Pacific Rim Speculation & Theorization

Astrology and Magic in Pacific Rim

More on Astrology and Magic in Pacific Rim

Folklore, Magic, & Psychic Abilities in the World of Pacific Rim

Ghost Drifting: Does it exist in the Pacific Rim film?

Did the Precursors/Masters get new ideas from Newt's mind?

Speculations on Precursor Government

The Pacific Rim Draft Script

Pacific Rim draft script by Travis Beacham (be forewarned, it's pretty bad and sketchy a lot.)

The kaiju of the Pacific Rim draft script

Drifting in Travis Beacham's Pacific Rim Draft

The Pacific Rim Draft Script: Who The Heck Is Newt Gotlieb?

Other

Yes, Lady Danger's original name contains a racial slur. Stop using it.

Pacific Rim concept art

Pacific Rim concept art by Guy Davis

The Pacific Rims that never were (scrapped sequel/spinoff ideas)

Pacific Rim Bonus, Featurette, Interview, Behind the Scenes playlist on YouTube

Not Pacific Rim, But Also Cool

Playlist of free-to-watch Godzilla films on YouTube

I'll continue to update this post with more stuff I find or write, so make sure to check back!

[renzybrooo]

Pacific Rim (2013) - The Precursors

[ghosthoodie]

y’all ever lean forward and ur hips pop😍

[unattainablesillygoose]

I have ADHD, and when I was little, probably like 5 or 6, I told him I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up. He asked me if I knew what that was, and I explained it to him in as much detail as a 5 or 6 year old could. He was so stunned he just nodded and said, "Okay, then."

Ps. I don't remember any of this. My mom tells me this story from time to time when I think I'm dumb or stupid because it's her favorite and makes her laugh every time

AUTISM RULES.

[daikaiju-arts]

Do you have headcanons for your tadc irl au?

YES! Bunches!!

I’ll include the ones that actually affect the story & character dynamics:

Gangle has autism

This is connected to her dependency on her literal mask/glasses (the glasses help with avoiding eye contact), and she can only be in that “Comedy Mask” mode for a determined amount of time before she gets overwhelmed and exhausted. Her understanding of how socializing/maintaining relationships works is skewed

Gangle has Clinical Depression

This one’s a bit more obvious lol, but with my interpretation she suffers from Depression in a way that’s also reflected in her physical health, hence why she looks unkempt and is missing some teeth due to not having the strength/reason to take care of herself. This, as well as her autism, is the main component as to why she’s practically a Hikikomori

Pomni is ‘Pigeon-Toed’

This is more of an obscure one, but I’ve noticed that in the show Pomni’s neutral stance has her legs facing inward, similar to someone who has Femoral Anteversion (common in children, but can last til adulthood in some cases). This in turn alters her gait a little bit, and sometimes her joints flare up

Pomni is a workaholic

…Not because she wants to be, but because she feels like she has to be. Pomni is caught up in that mindset where she has to stay up all night to finish fixing someone else’s mistakes in their paperwork because it’ll make everyone’s jobs harder. She’s had little to no actual friends because of this, until she meets Gangle and Zooble!

Zooble is an artist

Zooble was, canonically, a tattoo artist once, and they are in my au Pre-Circus! They enjoy the visual arts but also musical arts too, and this is how they met Gangle online through an art forum years and years ago

Zooble is an Empath

Like, a legit one, and the reason they have a somewhat hard exterior is because they feel others very strongly and it can actually begin to stress them out

[driftwithme]

Hopeful Pacific Rim Headcanons!!!!

Getting exposed to the anteverse made Raleigh healthier, somehow. The theory is that the breach did something to him when it scanned his genetic code, the same as Mako.

Newt and Hermann only know about it 'cause they drifted with that kaiju brain and recognised the strange part of their blood samples. They are also currently working on their memories to see if they can learn more about the kaijus and prevent another breach from happening.

Mako, Newt, Hermann and Raleigh are not entirely human anymore? They are not sure either way.

The closing of the breach, as violent and unexpected as it was, warped Earth time frame. It took LOCCENT some hours to notice that Sttiker Eureka seemed to be floating in the ocean as if nothing had happened. It didn't cure Pentecost like it happened with Raleigh, but it kept them (Stacker and Chuck) alive.

Herc doesn't believe in miracles and he doesn't give credit to the kaijus for the good in his life. For him, getting Chuck back is entirely a product of the skill of the rangers he works with. Humanity doing the impossible time and time and time again.

As an apology for defunding the jeager program and almost dooming humanity in the process, the United Nations kept the PPDC running. There's not enough money to return the jaeger program to what it was, so they all have to adapt.

The PPDC focus is on an hypothetically second invasion now.

J-techs work on creating a new mark of jaegers, smaller, safer, cheaper, but still enough to face a kaiji and win. There are some improvements they want to make as well, like a mechanism of defense that protect the jaeger limbs, maybe spikes or something like that; new escape-pods for the pilots; a kaiju dna detector/radar; and many more.

Along with the classic studies, K-science now includes a whole side dedicated on studying the social and possibly cultural aspects of the kaijus and the anteverse. Another side is dedicated to a better use of the kaiju remins and parts, lile studies on how to regenerate skin or reverse brain damage or use the same system of the kaijus to help the decontamination of the planet.

With the experience of former jaeger pilots, the program's updating the whole cadet training. New simulations based on double and even triple events with Slattern as a possible enemy, new fight techniques for underwater and on air scenarios, a basics of kaiju anatomy and strategies... The pilots also help with the majority of the research nd development of the other areas!

The UN also granted the PPDC the right of working independently of any nation and the exclusivity of jaeger creations. Super important to avoid military forces trying to create their own jaegers to use against mankind, or companies trying to use the drift technology for cold profit, with no ethics attached.

The PPDC allow teens above 16 years old to start their studies in ares like k-science and j-tech, but to join the jaeger pilots program the person must be 18 years old and only become legal rangers after their 22th birthday. Without the kaijus threatening the world, the PPDC has the luxury of going slow with the cadets, selecting only the best and even providing a lot of experience and grow before putting them in charge of a real jaeger. That's to prevent another Scott Hansen, or to prevent teens like Chuck and Raleigh from jumping into the fire before properly maturing, since there's no need of being in such a hurry.

The wall becomes a giant memorial, with artist allowed to practice their crafts on it as they pleased. It's also a reminder: humanity is not alone, the kaijus could come back. Yet, as long as the jaeger program exists, there's always hope to cancel the apocalypse, stop the clock.

[monsterblogging]

I sometimes wonder whether the extra Mutavores and Knifeheads seen in the Anteverse are actually meant to be diagetic, or whether they just used these models to save on budget because they knew most people wouldn't be looking at this footage long enough to recognize them.

(And by this I mean, "I wish we had an official answer." Because there's reasons to think it was for budget, but also not enough reason to be entirely certain.)

[pacificrimthemovie]

Humanity faces its ultimate threat as the Precursors unleash a new wave of devastating Kaiju assaults on Earth in Pacific Rim: Final Breach! After years of failed attempts to enter the Anteverse, the trans-dimensional realm from which all Kaiju emerge, Jake Pentecost and Hermann Gottlieb conceive a daring last-ditch plan whose success hinges on finding legendary Jaeger pilot Raleigh Becket—the only human being to ever survive behind enemy lines. Living in exile off the grid, Raleigh must choose assured annihilation or confront his past and team up with a new generation to pilot the brand-new Gipsy Destroyer, the last Jaeger standing. Tensions escalate and old wounds reopen as the PPDC finally crosses the breach to confront what lies on the other side… It’s time for humanity to meet its true enemy and cancel the apocalypse once and for all.

Pacific Rim: Final Breach is a three (3) volume graphic novel sequel to Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim Uprising that will pick up on the franchise storyline and take it in bold new directions. The Pacific Rim: Final Breach collection will be written by Joshua Fialkov (Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender) with art by EJ Su (Transformers)!

Details on the graphic novels:

Graphic novels sized at 7.5"x11".

Approximately 120 full-color pages per graphic novel.

Three (3) covers to choose from (standard and Kickstarter-exclusive variants).

All cover versions are available in both softcover and hardcover formats.

Through this Kickstarter, you will be able to pre-order all three (3) volumes of the graphic novel, which will ship as they are released, tentatively in October 2025 (Volume 1), Fall 2026 (Volume 2), and Fall 2027 (Volume 3).

[wheelie-sick]

Growing up disabled without growing up disabled

---growing up with an undiagnosed congenital limb difference

I am congenitally physically disabled. I was born with a limb difference called miserable malalignment syndrome, a rotational deformity causing the femurs and tibias in both of my legs to twist in opposite directions.

my limb difference is obvious to anyone and everyone. my legs bow and appear "off," I walk with my feet one in front of the other as if I was on a balance beam, my feet stick out at 90° angles, and I don't bend my knees. people have been commenting on my legs for all of my life, my brother's physical therapist noted the way I sat, other children used to mock me for them. there was never a point in my life where I could say that my disability was invisible, where I wasn't being treated as a freak for my legs and my gait, where I wasn't affected by the pain and balance problems asking many other issues.

..... yet somehow my disability was invisible to the people whose job was to spot it.

my congenital and visible disability went undiagnosed until I was 16 years old. it was only then, when my pain was so severe I couldn't walk, that a doctor finally decided to send me to an orthopedist for what they had apparently known all along.

for 16 years I was living my life as a disabled person completely unaware of my disability. perhaps it was my autism that led to my lack of awareness of my own body. when other people would ask what was wrong with my legs I was confused because nothing was. my legs just were. I didn't even realize they were all that different. regardless of why, I was completely oblivious to my own status as being disabled.

this lack of knowledge of my own status as physically disabled sets in a weird in-between among congenitally physically disabled people. I share so many of the experiences that they've had. I've been a target in elementary school for my disability, I've been left out of class activities, and yet my experience feels so different. I was, objectively, disabled at the time but I was completely unaware of it. I don't share the same experiences with children's hospitals and treatment at a young age. I was pressured into treatment to try to "correct" my limb difference but it was at an age where I could say no. I don't share the experience of growing up knowing that my physical disability made me different.

I often want to connect with other people who grew up visibly disabled but I just feel out of place, like my experiences are so similar but not quite the same.

it's difficult.

[image ID: a banner with the disability flag saying "this post is about physical disability do not derail."]

[kaijuposting]

The Pacific Rim draft script has some... rather interesting worldbuilding; the Precursors are revealed to be advanced beings that created our universe. But wouldn't you know it, the one planet they really had their hearts set on it developed some pesky lifeforms:

So yeah - this is how the Precursors and the Anteverse got their names!

[dissociacrip]

this is okay to rb i think, especially if you have anything to add or any insight. idk. i'm tagging this the way that i am because i'm seeking community/connection(tm) or something

hypotonia is not like. a rare thing. not really. but i do remember my OT googling what it was.

low muscle tone/hypotonia may technically be a symptom rather than a diagnosis (barring benign congenital hypotonia, which afaik is controversial) but it's the closest thing to a "diagnosis" i've been given for some of this stuff because the potential cause of it hasn't been investigated and i guess it's not exactly urgent since my particular case isn't severe and doesn't seem progressive (hypotonia can be progressive & is involved in some progressive and degenerative conditions.)

but i wish it was talked about more and i wish more was known about it works and how it affects bodily function and i wish what we DO know about it was more accessible to the public when it comes to those who suffer from it. it's also kinda hard whether to KNOW you have it or not since its "signs" have so much overlap with other conditions that aren't related to muscle tone. it ranges a lot in severity too. and there's two different types (central and peripheral.) it's linked to dozens of diagnoses too which is why i say it's not uncommon.

but also i guess due to the complexity of how it affects the body and its lack of distinctiveness with most of its symptoms makes it kinda...hard to talk about? and i imagine w/ some people it's hard to distinguish the effects of hypotonia vs. their other problems. issues with chewing, writing, breathing, speaking, posture, coordination, etc. can be due to so many different things ranging from mental to physical. but it's not always something that can be lumped together w/ those other things because there's "my muscles don't work" in a terms of chronic muscular pain vs. "my muscles don't work" in terms of, like, they lack the ability to adequately support the body and bodily movement. if that makes any sense.

which ranges from someone like me where having to hold myself up sucks + mild motor skill/coordination impairments and mild developmental milestone delays, but others never meet those milestones or need assistance with things like breathing and ingesting food.

it's not a diagnosis but it can affect the body in complex ways like muscle shortening and stiffness due to our bodies having to compensate in weird ways for the lack of adequate tone (esp those of us who grew up with it), tibial torsion and femoral anteversion, flatfoot and knock-knees, reduced cervical lordosis sometimes leading to bruxism and occipital headaches, etc. PT centered around muscle strengthening to correct my "improper" movement and stuff.

and there's other stuff that can come with it that people like to consider """gross""" like drooling, constipation and other gastric, and pelvic floor dysfunction which can result in incontinence/problems with bladder control. muscles are involved in a lot of things. wild.

i'm rambling but i just wish more people talked about it. all i really have is that one interview that surestep did with meagan veracha, who has hypotonic cerebral palsy, about living with hypotonia as an adult.

maybe i wouldn't care all that much if i had a diagnosis that would "explain it" but "i might have gHSD/hEDS" doesn't rly do that for me because ppl in those communities obviously focus a lot on the joint dysfunction aspect (because those 2 conditions center around hypermobile joints so that's just natural, it's not a bad thing per-se, barring other problems that those communities have) but for me my case of symptomatic generalized hypermobility is secondary in how it impacts me vs. my muscles being bad at their job and my hypermobility might even be secondary to my hypotonia anyway.

dyspraxia/DCD (some people with it have hypotonia but not all - i thought i had it before i was told i was identified as having hypotonia when i was a kid...over two decades late) is another guess but again that centers more around coordination than things like "anything other than lying in bed is hard on me because my muscles don't support my body like they're supposed to."

maybe muscle tone is a complex medical concept that shouldn't really enter the public lexicon but i have no other language for it.

[bohemiandeer]

Day 2: Brace

The sun was almost ruthless as it was beating down on the pair as they took to the street on their way back to the lab. The young men had known it was going to be a hot afternoon unobscured by the thick quilt of clouds that threaten to wring its contents out onto the earth any moment now but, Viktor knew it wouldn't be long until they were back. If anything, the heat and slight bout of humidity was nothing but an indicator really that they were building up to release their rain just before the evening. But still, at least if it was raining, there was still a small probability that someone would at least remember to organise transportation for them. Quite literally almost anything to replace the long, uncomfortable walk from the Academy to the new lab Ms. Medarda had arranged for them to further their research. At least on the days he had to wear the dreaded cage around his affected leg as per doctor's orders. 

Bloody hell, why can't you just be normal and behave for one day? 

His femoral anteversion has been acting up again, slowly growing worse as it became increasingly painful to walk around like he once had before. He knew it wouldn't be long until it started getting to his spine too and in addition to the new and ever so irritating leg brace he had to wear now to correct it, surely, a new, suffocating spine brace were to follow. The question was when, as he looked down at his feet to watch his steps as he tried to keep up with Jayce, not just in pace but in chatter. His golden eyes all but scrunched up in a glare as he watched the metal flex as he walked. 

Viktor didn't legitimately know what was worse. The mild, throbbing, ever present pain, the bloody cage in itself, or the stares the now visible leg brace brought. He hated it, ever since he had to wear his new brace it was as if almost all eyes were on him now, whether it be pity, curiosity or some semblance of distaste and unease. It was bad enough that almost every Piltovan and their mother, or child it feels like, would stare if they bothered to look at him long enough, it was even worse however that it was with lingering gazes. 

Even as they were walking now, he could catch a few looks, even a curious child pointing him out, looking up at their mother to ask questions as she chided and slapped the little hand away from pointing. The scene, even if innocuous enough, was in itself enough for Viktor to go silent almost entirely. It was obvious Jayce had come to pick up on his discomfort. He saw it in not just in how Viktor was slowing down from the dull, ever growing pain of a exhausted limb being forced to twist into place, but also the way Viktor went from bantering to sparse responses to his enthusiastic prattling that slowly went from matching Jayce's enthusiasm to exasperation. 

It was then they both fell into a silence as Jayce slowed in pace and wrapped Viktor up carefully in an arm, hand on the small of his back like where he usually put it when he helped Viktor stand up these days. 

“Viktor? Are you okay?”

For the first time that entire walk, Viktor looked up into his partner's eyes as he quietly asked the question. Even if a part of him didn't want to, and wanted instead to remain glued with venom onto his feet and the steel tipped contraption that adorned one of them. He didn't know what was even worse than his body’s failings, the stares and lingering gazes of the occasional stranger or the way Jayce's eyebrows would knit in concern as he’d look at him. Even if it came from someone who understood him and his predicament. Jayce knew already about Viktor's condition, from snippets of benevolent curiosity and timid inquiries spoken out loud in caution out of fear of treading lines he didn't want to tread if it meant causing hurt or offence to his friend. He already knew that, sometimes, Viktor would wear a leg brace, even if it was the thin yet sturdy structure he could easily hide under his clothes. 

He was there for Viktor the whole way through, even on the first day Viktor fell and the string of appointments that followed. Yet still, he did not want to concern his friend, not even more than he already has. 

“Oh. I-I’m fine.”

He uttered out pensively with a slight strained smile as he leaned a little on his cane, trying to give his right leg a bit of reprieve. If Jayce wasn’t concerned enough already, VIktor’s words really did not to seem to help matters with how his partner’s brow furrowed so thoroughly that they made as well have part of one unit.  

“Are you sure? You look like you’re in-”

Was all Viktor heard in a voice that had not even a few minutes previously used to be so enthusiastic and full of life as he caught Jayce catching a glance at his brace before he took to looking away. It was small but something that made Viktor want to curl up into himself and hide in that moment. Yet, outside of a quiet sigh, and the sensation of a supportive hand letting go to rather wrap him up almost protectively into an arm as Jayce ushered him to a bench, there was nothing more that followed that. Other than warm words as Jayce gave him a soft slight smile and a gentle pace as he tried to be as careful as possible yet vigilant over maintaining his friend’s boundaries.

“Come on. Let's sit down for a bit.”

Was all Jayce said, suggesting it as if was on the same caliber as offering to take him to lunch in his gentle casualty over it all. In that moment Viktor looked up again to see him smile, his furrowed brows giving way rather to little creases that reached Jayce’s eyes as he regarded him back and made the tension Viktor held within body and soul gradually fall away. He could rest at ease now for the first time that afternoon as they sat down together, not just due to the relief from taking off his weight off his leg but also in how everything else around them fade to just a scene of two friends, prattling about how to utilize their newest discovery on a bench. All the while Viktor relieved his discomfort by placing his leg on the bench and working at the joints with a pocket wrench he had since taken to carrying. It eased the ache of the entire walk off, even if he could still feel it in his leg, there was simply something about it that made things feel- easier. But then again, that was one of the many reasons they were partners to begin with wasn’t it? With Jayce by his side there was a innate strength and understanding between them. He only wished he wasn’t such a burden on him at times even when he knew he wasn’t. 

Yet even then he couldn’t be helped but reminded of that train of thought as they were interrupted by a pair of boys running down the street, laughing as they trundled a bronze hoop down the street with a stick. It was a scene that reminded him of the water hole in his childhood. Even if, to a degree as he sat there, gazing up to watch them run by from his work of loosening up a joint screw too tight, he also felt reminded of what in childhood, stopped him from doing the same. He wondered what it was like to be free. 

[thechaosgods]

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[midnightdemonhunter]

Raleigh comes back from the Anteverse with a recurring headache, sore eyes, and a perception of the world that's just slightly off.

Fortunetly, or unfortunetly, he's not the only one.

Rewatched the pacrim movies normally, so now I'm giving some wips from my Google Docs another chance! Read the first chapter for unlikely connections, bad dreams and a sun that never stops watching.

[corviddusk]

Small pet peeve: I don't like people calling my deformities "leg differences" it feels patronizing. I know they're different my KNEES GO THE WRONG WAY they turn inward. I have genu valgum, flat feet, and femoral anteversion. My legs are fucked beyond belief. They're deformed and that's okay. I live with it and I still find ways to love my body.