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Disney Cruise Line Expands Fleet with New Ship Designs
Disney Cruise Line is set to build a fourth Wish-class ship, followed by a shift to a new class of three slightly smaller vessels. This expansion aims to access more destinations and align with environmental goals. New Fleet Details Last August, Disney contracted Meyer Werft for four new builds, marking a significant step for the company. The fourth Wish-class ship, boasting 144,000 gross tonsâŚ

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Why I think what I think will happen in Meursault.
Sigma will fight Fyodor and "win"

Fyodor has already mentioned that Sigma is the strongest of the bunch. His lack of a past and now cemented hope for the future, his anger towards Fyodor and more aside, Sigma is not a normal person. Its entirely possible that Fyodor's ability might not work on Sigma at all (if it works on other ability users in the first place).
It also makes sense from the ADA entrance exam perspective, Dazai has proven to Sigma that he will not be left behind by people like him (the ADA) and now Sigma has to prove himself worthy by taking on Fyodor.
By "winning" I dont necessarily mean Fyodor will be killed by Sigma, I think there is a higher chance of Fyodor being rescued by Gogol at some point than Sigma actually beating him but Sigma would end up with the upper hand switching his situation from the unwilling tagalong collateral damage to an active participant with agency.
Chuuya will rescue Dazai
Listen. Plot twists and unexpected scenarios while interesting are not always a good thing. Sigma cant save Dazai unless he suddenly has a hidden ability because Dazai is about 10 seconds away from bone crushing impact. Gogol while interesting and possible due to being a massive wild card would narratively make less sense. Chuuya on the other hand makes perfect sense and the rescue is being built up. Lets look at what we have.
Fyodor brings in vamped chuuya with explicit vamp markings. Dazai reacts negatively to him being involved calling it a despicable card.
Dazai's "good bye" is reminiscent of skk code for strategies but also Dazai invoking the times they connected including moments like this where they had to come up with plans on the spot and read each other's intentions on the go. Chuuya has also not shown a single physical vampiric trait since then.

Fyodor has started getting too comfortable with his belief that he had the upper hand and started gloating about skk's bond, bringing it up and foreshadowing another display of skk's team up, skk's enemies biggest threat is doubting the connection those two have. (Not to mention Fyodor committing the gravest sin against skk bond in Dazai's eyes, dehumanizing Chuuya/jk)


Chuuya can use his ability in the prison, he can use it on the walls of the elevator, he can use it on the shaft, he can use it on the mechanism. Dazai is only in contact with the floor, if abilities could not be used on the box that Dazai is in then nobody could have used their ability in the same room as Dazai.
Fyodor seems to actually believe he has won to some extent rn.

While bait and switch tactics work well in media, they tend to become an issue if they start interfering with narrative set ups and plot. Meursault has already been dragging a lot, Gogol saving Dazai would only lead to an even longer stay in the prison because the conflict set up between skk would not be resolved, Chuuya saving Fyodor from Sigma doesnt make a lot of sense right now since Sigma cannot beat Chuuya and Dazai leaving Sigma to deal with fyoya is him basically shoving Sigma to his death. Chuuya being entirely absent from the latest chapter and specifically the final page would also make more sense if he had a major role to play in the upcoming meursault chapter. There is literally no other reason for him to be in Meursault.
#soukoku#long post#not every skk speculation is a ship post btw#sometimes people forget that skk is an actual canon dynamic#and that skk is literally the name of their canon dynamic as extremely efficient partners#sigma might just try to kill Fyodor with bae energy but Fyodor responds with gay energy
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voltron: look shiro believed in keith the whole way through. thatâs adorable.
also voltron, literally 5 seconds later: look our heroes got shrunk by alien farts or something. no this episode does not have a plot.Â
also adam is such a shitty boyfriend. i think thatâs what theyâre going for. if so, shiro needs to get with... idk... maybe they will introduce a Hot Guy Squad for him. lance will not get with anyone from the Hot Girl Squad however if shiro gets with someone from a hypothetical Hot Guy Squad i will also be happy with that.
#begging this season to stick to a tone for like 5 minutes#feels like the episodes have gotten worse#looks like they've been gone a long time though#oh! helping lotor <<we just need more weird life energy so the galra empire can be efficient>> backfired???#i mean. the writers needed to up the difficulty for them somehow.#would be weird if the same ships they defeated with ease scaled like oblivion enemies#(image of early galra enemy simply 1v1ing voltron)#vld#me.txt#reactions#shortposting#shitposting
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EnergyEfficient = Lloyd x Pixal
Lloyd is the Master of Energy, and combining that with technology would give you clean energy; or, in these terms, energy efficient.


#mod blizz#ninjago#lego ninjago#ninjago energyefficient#energy efficient shipping#energyefficientshipping#ninjago pixal#ninjago Lloyd
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Energy efficiency, Ecologically awesome but giant kites? Dude, that sounds like some of Elon Musk's ideas !
#ships#boats#kite#kiteboarding#energy#savings#ecology#cargo#ocean#sea#interesting#OFMD#pirates#efficiency#Elon Musk#tech bros#techbro#analog
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anyways "jackal is this all partially an excuse for jackals jumping alduin in later story arcs" yes it is đ
#jackals barks#ship: make me your deity#HJFKD i gotta work on their story More one day when I have like. Energy#i did finally decide it would be more efficient to have it be when they're facing alduin and have flashbacks#otherwise it would be. So Long. So. SO God Damn Long
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#Mars Hydro#LED grow lights#High-quality components#Spectrum options#Energy efficiency#Express shipping#Germany warehouse#UK warehouse
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Bulk carriers and containerships moving at slowest speeds
Slow steaming is a good way to save on fuel costs and meet the new IMO requirements. So ships have slowed down. But I was amazed at the graph below, showing a trend for quite a while. Slowing down is an important way of cutting CO2 emissions from fuel oil. It also implies that more ships are needed to meet planned sailings on a scheduled route. Itâs a deliberate reduction of individual shipâŚ

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#Cargo-carrying trips#Climate change mitigation#CO2 emissions#container shipping#Emissions problems#Energy Efficiency#Fuel costs#fuel efficiency#green shipping#IMO requirements#Life cycle emissions#Logistics#Low emissions power#Maritime transportation#ocean shipping#Ship productivity#Shipments#slow steaming#supply chains#Sustainable shipping#Zero emissions
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Germany was the Leader of Smart Shipping Container Market
The smart shipping container market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 18.4% in the years to come, to touch a value of USD 15,341.5 million by 2030. The development of the industry can be chiefly credited to the guideline of temperature, recover security, and instantaneous GPS tracking, which these containers allow. The sensors combined into gathering and tracking data on theâŚ
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#Artificial intelligence in logistics#Blockchain in shipping#Cargo security#Condition monitoring#Container telematics#Container tracking#Container tracking solutions#Data analytics#energy efficiency#Fleet optimization#Growth opportunities#IoT in shipping#Key players#market trends#Real-time monitoring#Remote sensing#Smart ports#Smart sensors#Smart shipping container#Supply chain management#Technological advancements
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The global food economy is massively inefficient. The need for standardized products means tons of edible food are destroyed or left to rot. This is one reason more than one-third of the global food supply is wasted or lost; for the U.S., the figure is closer to one-half. The logic of global trade results in massive quantities of identical products being simultaneously imported and exportedâa needless waste of fossil fuels and an enormous addition to greenhouse gas emissions. In a typical year, for example, the U.S. imports more than 400,000 tons of potatoes and 1 million tons of beef while exporting almost the same tonnage. The same is true of many other food commodities and countries. The same logic leads to shipping foods worldwide simply to reduce labor costs for processing. Shrimp harvested off the coast of Scotland, for example, are shipped 6,000 miles to Thailand to be peeled, then shipped 6,000 miles back to the UK to be sold to consumers. The supposed efficiency of monocultural production is based on output per unit of labor, which is maximized by replacing jobs with chemical- and energy-intensive technology. Measured by output per acre, howeverâa far more relevant metricâsmaller-scale farms are typically 8 to 20 times more productive.
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Costa Cruises makes history in amazing Dubai with LNG Refuel
During its winter cruise season in the United Arab Emirates, Costa Smeralda, the flagship of Costa Cruises, marked a historic milestone by becoming the first cruise ship to refuel with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) at the Port of Dubai. This groundbreaking operation was successfully completed on January 4, 2025, thanks to the logistical expertise of Monjasa and the support of the Dubai PortâŚ

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#Abu Dhabi UAE#advanced maritime technology#African cruise route#Arabian adventures#Arabian Gulf cruises#Arabian Gulf travel#bio-LNG#Carnival Corporation#circular economy cruise#Costa Cruises#Costa flagship#Costa Smeralda#Costa Smeralda itinerary#cruise emissions reduction#cruise innovation#cruise itinerary Dubai#cruise ship Dubai#cruise shore power#cruise sustainability#desalination system cruise#Doha Qatar#Dubai cruise departure#Dubai Port#Dubai tourism#eco-conscious travel#eco-cruise#eco-cruise ship#eco-friendly travel#Emirates cruise#energy-efficient cruise
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Eco-friendly Technologies: How to Make Your Online Business Greener
As we become more aware of the impact that humans have on the environment, many individuals and businesses are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and operate in a more sustainable way. Online businesses are no exception, and with the increasing popularity of e-commerce, itâs important to consider the environmental impact of these operations. In this article, weâll explore someâŚ

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mechanic reader who fawns over boothill's machine body with torrents of praise worthy of the sappiest romance novelsâbut doesn't even consider the man attached to all those gorgeous wires and fine pistons and elegant hydrolics and ooh, what an efficient system of dynamic pseudo-muscle memory!! you're so honoured to work with this beauty, to innovate upon it, even!
boothill, meanwhile, is fighting for his life to be acknowledged.
exhibit A:
he's laying on a metal slab in your lab, half of his chest popped open, your fingers fiddling inside with the tubes that feed into a fuel tank. you acquired top-grade Neutrinoil(TM) and you simply HAD to deep-clean and upgrade his plumbing. so he has to watch and bear it while you're straddling him, hands in his guts, cooing about how perfectly efficient he's about to be, how much energy he'll have, how that "awesome new engine's gonna exploit every last drop, not an inkling wasted, and this beautiful machine will run for ages."
"if ya like it so much, why not drop by my ship later? i could show ya a trick or two. put that new energy to use."
you perk up with excitement, and for a glimmering instant he thinks he's got it in the bag, until you gleefully announce, "oh, no, let's do it in my workshop! i'll hook you up to the scanners first, i must collect as much data as possible!! wait, is it a physical trick or should i also plug in the peri-mental data receptors?"
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co-pilot mischief ⍠curly concerns ⍠chapter uno
captain curly x teasing!reader
curly panics when he realizes he's attracted to his co-pilot. a mixture of professionalism and fear of making you uncomfortable are keeping him from pursuing his feelings. so, when you find out that he has a thing for you, you tease him to see how long it'll take for him to give up.
directory/m.list next chapter â¨
words:Â ~3.5k
t/w: sexual references but no actual yucky (yet), reader being lowkey sadistic, cute curly <3, gn!reader/pronouns but reader wears a bra
a/n: hi. been obsessed with this video game recentlyâwell, especially with Curly (go figure. i like fictional men). i needed to make something self-indulgent bc i just like this man way too much. and because i just want to make a world where none of them have to suffer. enjoy~Â
~jambalaya does not exist in this world~
Planned Shipment Duration: 382 Days Elapsed Transit Time: 292 Days
It had been over nine months aboard this damned ship, and Curly was just short of going mad. Not the kind of madness that came with sleep deprivationâheâd conquered that particular beast long ago, his body numb to the restless nights. No, this madness was quieter, more insidious, burrowing into his mind and refusing to leave. It trailed him through the claustrophobic halls of the Tulpar, slipping into the smallest crevices of his day-to-day. The worst part was, he knew exactly what caused it.
Or rather, who.
His co-pilot. The bane of his existence. The source of his sanity slipping through his fingers like sand.
Curly groaned and scrubbed his face with his hands, his calloused palms dragging over stubble. The cockpit was bathed in the green glow of the shipâs display panels, casting long shadows over his hunched figure. For once, he was alone. His co-pilot was offâGod knows whereâand he was left to grapple with the gnawing frustration that never seemed to diminish. It wasnât the kind of irritation that burned; it simmered, steady and unyielding, until it became part of the fabric of his thoughts, melting like wax into his very being.
He could see their handwriting on the little sticky notes scattered around the console, each one an infuriatingly sweet reminder to stretch, drink water, or take a break. He tried to ignore the way those notes made him feel a little lighter, even when he wanted to crumple them up out of spite. Then there were the mealsâhot, fresh, and left beside him during the long hours he spent poring over ship diagnostics on days heâd forget to come to the main lobby for food. Like clockwork, they arrived, a silent reminder that someone out there cared. Too much, in fact.
It wasnât the fact that theyâd climbed the ranks with startling efficiency or that they were nipping at his heels for his own position. But the issue wasnât their competence. Hell, heâd been the one to recommend them to the crew. No, the problemâthe real problemâwas that he didnât mind the notes. Or the meals. Or the way their laugh lingered in his head long after the joke had ended.
That was the crux of it: he didnât mind. He cared too much.
Curly growled under his breath and pushed himself out of his chair, dropping into a push-up position before the thought could take hold again. One. Two. Three. The strain burned through his biceps and shoulders, grounding him in something tangible. In the beginning, this ritual had worked. Twenty push-ups, and heâd feel clear-headed enough to get back to work. But now? He was well into quadrupling that number, and the haze in his mind hadnât lifted.
âDamn it,â he muttered, shifting to one-armed push-ups. Sweat beaded on his brow, but his thoughts remained stubbornly fixed.
It was their fault. The way they lingered in his peripheral vision during late-night shifts, always a step ahead of him. The way their presence filled the cockpit, electric and steady, as if the entire ship ran on their quiet energy. He hated it. He needed it.
Curly collapsed onto the floor, the cool metal pressing against his flushed skin. He rolled onto his back, staring up at the dull ceiling, and exhaled sharply. But it wasnât their fault. It was all his.
Because no matter how many push-ups he did or how hard he worked, he couldnât seem to outrun the one truth he hated most: he was falling for his co-pilot, and there was no way to make it stop.
It all started so innocently.
A couple of months ago, when Curlyâs sleep was deteriorating thanks to the unholy cocktail of chronic insomnia and the Pony Express directive of âonly indulging in five hours of sleep a night,â the signs of wear were becoming impossible to hide. His dark circles deepened, hollowing out his features, and the number of minor piloting errors he made began creeping upward. He hated slipping up, especially in front of the crew. But you had been there, catching the mistakes before anyone else could notice, your tone warm and forgiving as you covered for him without a single reproach.
âHow many hours of sleep did you get last night, Captain?â you asked, glancing at him with a knowing arch of your brow. The question was less accusatory and more concerned, which somehow made it worse.
The third time you caught him in the cockpit, chugging yet another cup of bitter instant coffee, you sighed with exasperation. He barely had time to process what you were doing before you nudged him toward the door with a bottle of melatonin clutched in your hand.
âRest, Captain,â you said firmly, standing your ground in front of him with a tilt to your chin that tolerated no argument. âDonât go abusing yourselfâand caffeineâlike that. Do me a favor and take one of these with some water. Iâve got the ship tied down.â
Before he could retort, you physically pushed him through the doorway and locked the cockpit door behind him. He stared at the bottle of melatonin in his hand, blinking in confusion, his mind too fogged with exhaustion to properly argue. He barely made it to his quarters without bumping into a wall. Still, he heeded your demand.
When he woke up hours later, groggy but undeniably more refreshed than heâd felt in weeks, he returned to the cockpit to find the door unlocked and you sitting in his chair, nursing a steaming cup of water between your hands.
The smile you gave him as he walked inâsmall, gentleâmade something in his chest falter, like the ship had hit a pocket of turbulence. He ignored it, chalking the reaction up to gratitude. âThanks,â he muttered before reclaiming his chair.
That should have been it. A one-off moment. But it wasnât.
The next time was when you came bounding into the cockpit, an excited glint in your eyes, holding a bundle of old films scavenged from storage. âLook what I found!â you exclaimed, dropping them onto the console as if they were treasures unearthed from a sunken ship. The crewâs old stash of classic movies. You suggested a movie night, and by the weekend, everyone was gathered in the living area, dressed in mismatched pajamas as per your insistence.
The fake day-and-night screen in the living room had been converted into a movie screen (thanks to a favor from Swansea), and youâd somehow transformed the cramped space into a cozy theater. The crew was laughing, the air thick with the buttery aroma of popcornâsmuggled aboard in direct defiance of Pony Express regulations. Swansea lounged in a corner, throwing popcorn into his mouth with perfect aim, while Daisuke and Anya shared a bag of candy bars, their laughter ringing out during the filmâs funniest moments.
And then there was you, looking at the rest of the crew, a relieved smile on your face from seeing them having fun and relaxing.
Youâd curled up on the couch with bunny slippers, wearing an oversized t-shirt that reached down to your knees. Curly found himself staring at the way your legs curled up in front of you, the smooth skin catching the flickering light of the screen. He shook his head and willed himself to look back at the film, feeling an odd mix of discomfort and⌠something else.
It wasnât just your legs that had caught his attention. He watched your shoulders relax as you looked at the others having a good time. From your shoulders, his eyes slowly trailed up to your neck,
There was the lace halter bralette peeking out from the neckline of your shirt, delicate and intricate, its strap circling your neck like a whisper of fabric. Heâd overheard you mention it in passing to Anya once, saying how they were more comfortable than traditional bras. Cute, youâd said. Anya had agreed wholeheartedly, and the two of you had launched into an entire conversation about comfortable alternatives, leaving him both bewildered and hyper-aware of the intricacies of brassiers.
That night, youâd tied your hair up, sweeping it off your face and revealing the curve of your neck. He hated how his eyes kept trailing there, lingering too long on the strap of your bralette before snapping back to the screen.
What was wrong with him?
The laughter of the crew filled the room, but Curlyâs focus was elsewhere. He watched the way your shoulders relaxed as you leaned back, your smile warm and unguarded as you looked at the others enjoying themselves. It had been a rough couple of weeks, but in that moment, you looked so at ease, like you were carrying everyoneâs joy on your shoulders and doing it gladly.
His gaze drifted again, following the line of your neck up to your jaw and almost to your lips before he froze, his chest tightening with realization. He was staring. Stop it, you creep. His heart thudded in his chest, the weight of his guilt sinking in. The last thing he ever wanted was to make you uncomfortable, to let you see just how hopelessly he was starting to lose control of his own feelings.
And yet, even as he looked away, forcing his attention back to the film, the memory of your smile lingered in his mind, burning as brightly as a star in space.
Later that night, after the crew had dispersed to their quarters, Curly lingered in the living area. The faint smell of popcorn still hung in the air, and empty mugs cluttered the low table, remnants of the impromptu movie night.
He hadnât planned to stay, but you were still there, stacking empty bowls with practiced efficiency. You hummed softly as you worked, the sound low and content.
âYou donât have to clean up,â he said, his voice startlingly loud in the quiet.
You glanced at him over your shoulder, an easy smile spreading across your face. âNeither do you, Captain. Yet here you are.â
Curly looked so charming, sweeping up the crumbs from the ground with a bashful smile. He rubbed the back of his neck. âForce of habit, I guess.â
He stepped forward and started gathering stray candy wrappers. You didnât protest, and the two of you worked in companionable silence. The only sounds were the soft clink of mugs and the occasional hum from the shipâs systems.
âThanks for tonight,â he said suddenly, his voice quieter. He kept his eyes on the mug in his hand, turning it absently. âI think⌠the crew needed it.â
You paused, a little surprised. âNeeded what?â
âA break. A reminder that things arenât always soâŚâ He trailed off, searching for the word. âMechanical.â
You laughed softly, and the sound was warm enough to make his chest ache. âEven machines need downtime, Captain. And so do you.â
He glanced at you, his resolve faltering as you met his gaze head-on. Your eyes were steady, soft, and full of something he couldnât quite name. For a moment, the ship felt too small, the air too thin.
âI guess Iâll work on that,â he said, forcing a crooked smile and dropping his gaze.
As the months passed, his little problem only got worse.
It started as little things.
The way Curlyâs voice would soften when he said your name, like he was tasting it before letting it leave his mouth. How he always seemed to position himself between you and anything remotely dangerous during routine checks, even if the âdangerâ was just a loose panel or a slightly sparking wire. You noticed those things before, but they hadnât meant much to you at the time.
But lately, youâve started picking up on more.
Like how he fidgets whenever you lean over his chair to point something out on the cockpit screen. Or how his ears turn red if your hand brushes his when passing tools or data tablets. At first, you think itâs funnyâhow someone so competent and in control can get so flustered over little things. But then, thereâs the moment in the Main Lobby.
Youâre digging through one of the upper cabinets, on the hunt for something sweet, when you hear his boots scuff against the floor behind you.
âYouâre always after the chocolate in the vending machine,â he says, leaning casually against the counter like he isnât watching you a little too closely.
âAnd youâre always after the coffee,â you quip, holding up a ration bar triumphantly.
âTouchĂŠ.â His lips twitch into a smile, and you canât help but notice how his eyes linger on you just a moment too long before he turns to grab his mug from the shelf.
Itâs not unusualâthis kind of back-and-forthâbut as you open the bar and break off a piece, you catch him glancing at you again, almost like heâs about to say something. He doesnât, though, and the moment stretches long enough to feel... significant.
Thatâs when it starts clicking.
The lingering looks. The slight hesitation in his voice when he talks to you. The way he goes out of his way to make sure youâre comfortable, even when he doesnât have to. The realization settles in your chest, warm and a little thrilling.
Does Curly like me?
Your mind starts replaying recent moments with a new lens. The way he always pulls you aside first to explain changes to the schedule. How he always offers to carry extra supplies during inspections, even when you insist youâre fine. That time he casually gave you his jacket when the living quarters were colder than usual, like it was no big deal.
âEarth to you,â Curly says, snapping you out of your thoughts. Heâs holding out a water pouch, his brow slightly furrowed. âYou zoned out there for a second. You okay?â
You take the pouch and give him a smile. âYeah. Just thinking.â
âAbout what?â
You tilt your head, studying him, and your smile widens when he shifts under your gaze. âNothing important.â
Itâs a lie, of course. Youâre thinking about himâabout how he looks at you when he thinks youâre not paying attention, about how he tries so hard to act unaffected when youâre around.
And for the first time, you feel a little wicked. If Curly likes you, why not have a little fun with it?
Curly knew something was off the moment you walked into the cockpit.
It wasnât just the way you greeted him, your voice light and playful as always. It was the way your smile lingered, like you were holding onto a secret you couldnât wait to let out.
âYouâre up early,â you said, dropping into your seat beside him.
âCould say the same for you,â Curly muttered, keeping his eyes on the console. He was grateful for the excuse to look busy, though the screen in front of him was just a diagnostic report heâd already read three times.
âYouâre always so serious, Captain.â Your tone was teasing, but there was something else beneath it, something that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.
He didnât respond, didnât trust himself to.
The silence stretched, and just when he thought youâd moved on, you leaned closerâclose enough for him to catch the faint scent of whatever soap you used.
âHey, Curly?â
His stomach flipped. âYeah?â
You paused, drawing it out, like you were savoring his anticipation. Then, with a sly grin, you said, âYouâre staring.â
âIâm notââ He froze, his heart skipping a beat. âWhat?â
âYou are,â you insisted, your grin widening. âYouâve been staring at that same report for the last ten minutes. Whatâs so interesting about it?â
Curlyâs mouth went dry. He scrambled for an answer, but his mind betrayed him, replaying every fleeting glance heâd stolen of you earlier that morning. How long had you noticed?
When he didnât respond, you leaned back in your chair, smug satisfaction written all over your face. âRelax, Captain. Iâm just messing with you.â
But you werenât. Not entirely.
Because as you watched the tips of his ears turn pink and saw how his jaw tightened, you realized something. Something that made your pulse quicken and your lips curl into a wicked smile.
He likes me.
And now that you knew, you couldnât help yourself.
Curly swore the shipâs cockpit had never felt this small before.
You were now hovering just over his shoulder, leaning in to inspect a blinking diagnostic alert on the screen. The proximity was maddeningâhe could feel the warmth radiating off you, the sleeve of your Pony Express jumpsuit brushing against his arm every time you moved.
âHmm,â you mused, tilting your head. âLooks like a minor power fluctuation. Nothing to worry about, but we should log it for the next maintenance check.â
He nodded stiffly, trying to focus on your words instead of the fact that your hair was so close it tickled his cheek. âRight. Iâll, uh, take care of it.â
But when he reached for the keyboard, so did you. Your fingers grazed his, and you both froze.
âSorry,â you said, pulling back just enough to meet his eyes. A playful smile tugged at your lips, and he didnât trust it for a second. âDidnât mean to get in your way, Captain.â
âItâs fine,â he muttered, turning back to the screen. But his fingers trembled slightly as he typed, and he cursed himself for it.
âYou know,â you said, leaning against the edge of the console, your voice deceptively casual. âYou look good when youâre focused like that.â
He nearly choked. âWhat?â
âI said you look good when youâre focused.â You shrugged, like it was the most normal, casual thing in the world. âItâs kind of intimidating, actually. In a good way.â
His face burned, and he fought the urge to bury it in his hands. âIâuhâthanks, I guess...â
The smile you gave him was nothing short of devilish. âYouâre welcome.â
You stayed there, watching him a little too closely, and he could feel his pulse thudding in his ears. Finally, he risked a glance at you, only to find you tilting your head with mock innocence.
âEverything okay, Captain?â
âYeah,â he said quickly, focusing hard on the screen. âWhy wouldnât it be?â
âOh, no reason.â Your voice was light, teasing. âYou just seem a little... tense.â
He stiffened, embarrassed and confused as to what you were doing but powerless to stop it.
âYou know,â you continued, leaning a little closer again, âyou really should loosen up. Itâs not good for your health to be so serious all the time.â
âIâm notââ He cleared his throat. âIâm fine.â
âHmm.â You studied him for a moment, and then, with a mischievous glint in your eyes, you added, âIf you ever need help relaxing, Captain, just let me know.â
He froze, his brain short-circuiting at the double meaning behind your words.
Before he could stammer out a response, you straightened up, patting him lightly on the shoulder. âAnyway, Iâll leave you to it. Donât work too hard, okay?â
And just like that, you were gone, leaving him alone in the cockpit, his heart racing and his mind a chaotic mess.
He groaned, burying his face in his hands. He was doomed. Absolutely doomed.
From the moment you saw Curlyâs ears turn red, his fate was sealed. Youâd never imagined the stoic, dependable captain could be reduced to such an adorable mess, and now that youâd seen it, there was no going back. It was just too cuteâthe way his bravado would falter, his words stumbling over themselves as he tried and failed to maintain composure.
Normally, Curly was all broad shoulders and easy charm, his commanding presence impossible to ignore. But youâd discovered a crack in that armor, a secret button that turned him from the ever-confident leader into a flustered, helpless schoolboy. And oh, what a delightful button it was to press.
Youâd always found him attractiveâhow could you not? He was responsible, dependable, and unfairly handsome. But for the longest time, you assumed heâd only ever see you as his co-pilot, someone to rely on professionally but never personally. Yet now, the way his gaze lingered a moment too long, the subtle flush on his cheeks whenever you got a little too close, told you a very different story.
It gave you a strange, heady sense of power, and you had absolutely no intention of letting it go to waste.
A small, wicked thrill ran through you whenever you imagined the possibilities. What if you teased him just enough to make that carefully controlled exterior crumble? What if you pushed him to the edge, until he couldnât hold it in any longer? Your mind wandered to a particularly wonderful thought: Curly, unable to take it anymore, bending you over the console with a heated, desperate confession.
You shivered, the fantasy almost too delicious to bear.
And so, your mission beganânot to reject him, but to push him. To tease and torment, to watch his resolve unravel thread by thread. You werenât cruel, not really. You knew heâd crack eventually, and you planned to reward him handsomely when he did. But until then?
Until then, youâd savor every stolen glance, every stammered reply, every moment he tries and fails to hold himself together.
After all, what was a little mischief between co-pilots?
a/n: let me know what y'all think! biggest thank yous to those who have written curly x reader fics thus far, y'all fueled me lmfao.
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Concept: most aliens can get anxious, can get scared, can get fight-or-flight. What most aliens do not get, however, is stress. Stress is a weird thing even by human standards. It can build up over time or be something tied to a very limited situation. It can be caused by a lot of things, and it comes in a lot of different ways. But it's a core human reaction, when a situation is wrong, it causes stress until it is righted. And it even affects different people differently!
Cue Human Cassandra, on a ship with her friend and co-worker Human Pauline. The ship is crewed with a mix of species. It's a cargo ship - load up in a space port, unload in another, get news and supplies during their stops, and live as an ever-shifting family as some of the two dozen crew members, give or take, get replaced. Some leave come payday, and new ones come looking for the thrill of low-level adventure, experiencing warp drives across the safer roads of the known universe.
But getting the supplies you need, or want, in stops is never so easy. Humans are new to the galactic community, and their needs misunderstood. Most broad-edibility food is bland for them, but that's okay. A big enough bag of their condiments can last them years. But ADHD meds... now that's less easy to get, the further from Earth you are. And a contract too big for their captain to pass on came up, much farther than the two humans expected.
Cassandra's mood deteriorated, her work priorities out of order, her sleep schedule in disarray. Little by little, she grew restless, shifting moods and gears unpredictably. A few weeks in and she was a mess, barely able to keep up with the minimum her job doing maintenance and running safety diagnostics for the route charting team required of her. While Pauline could help with the mechanical aspects of keeping the ship running, picking up the "slack", the safety had to be double-checked by the charting and pilot teams. When the curves of asteroid probability reached beyond a certain level, several hundred simulations had to be run, time-consuming processes had to be used, to avoid any collision at speeds beyond speed c. Some truly exotic things happened to ships that experienced those, but none of them contained the words "surviving crew." A safe route avoided any probability of collision over .1% and when going faster than light, any choice of course required thinking in 3 dimensions plus relative time to navigate dangerous probability fields in one piece, finding time-specific corridors and accounting for a dozen variables at once.
After she had a breakdown over a path she would normally have been able to find in under a minute, Pauline spoke to a concerned pilot team member:
"You have to understand her, this is a stressful situation and she's doing her best..."
"What do you mean by 'stressful'?" Gabalt asked. The furry little creature stood on two arched legs, and barely reached up to Pauline's shoulder, opening three wide eyes with curiosity and concern in equal parts.
"Things are... getting difficult for her, and keep getting more difficult because she does not have medication to help her brain be efficient. It makes her tired, and inefficient, and as it goes on, she's less and less able to cope with the situation. The longer this goes on, the worse it gets, and that is stress. Getting more tired because it takes more energy to deal with the situation, and less efficient because she's more tired, and things get harder because she's less efficient, on and on until something can solve the problem and the stress goes away."
"That sounds... hard. Do all humans have to deal with this?"
"Well, everyone has sources of stress, but she's got a disability. Without her meds, she gets stressed all the time. Not a lot all at once, but it always adds up."
"Oh no! So she'll be stuck like that until we get closer to Earth?"
"Most likely, yes."
But the most momentous thing to happen this day was not her breakdown. Not an hour later, alarms blared up. The simulation holograms all displayed blinking red masses - the less-travelled "safe route" was not as well protected! An asteroid range had been detected cutting through the border field, and it was in their way!
Pauline froze up, not knowing what to do. Gabalt was too surprised to act fast. All the courses from the ship's library of regular manoeuvres suggested a crash chance of over 60%, and mere seconds to act before entering the field!
Before anyone could react, Cassandra came in running from her corner to the front of the bridge, slamming the warp drive shutdown button. Most holograms stuttered and collapsed, the exit from FTL essentially dividing one or several of their dimensions by zero.
Looking quickly at the few remaining ones and gazing at the screens showing the current outside situation like a large window would have - plus a few critical extra points of data - she adjusted the angles manually while everyone still shuddered from the gravitational and temporal whiplash of suddenly coming back into normal time. Unblinkingly, she spotted the asteroids on the route while the ship was still going, if not at relativistic speeds, still fast enough for a single pebble they met to vaporise the Whipple shields, the outer hull, the inner hull, the crew members, and the hull again coming out if they but grazed it. Confirming the angles visually, she played with the reaction wheels, the thrusters, the gravity drives, to divert the ship's course just enough to miss a collision while not risking any grave injury on board. There was no time to react - if anything showed up straight ahead on the "unaugmented" outside view screens, it was too late to not get splatted. After half the crew had had the time to get thrown to the side or on the ground due to the rough handling, she'd managed to avoid any crash.
Gabalt was reeling. While it was surely not impossible, these was the kind of moves experienced veterans would never wish to attempt, and the margins for error were ridiculously low! She'd saved the ship and everyone on it, whereas she'd been unable to do a simple safety run so soon before?
Pauline was white as a sheet, but this was nothing compared to Cassandra, shaking violently and breathing unevenly.
"Pauline? What is she doing?"
"That's... probably the adrenaline."
"What's it for?"
"It's from stress. When it comes it overcharges the body. It's like the traditional, 'fight or flight' instinct from survival in prey-predator paradigms, it lets you move fast but paralyses thought... it feels pretty bad after a lot of it is released though. Now she's crashing down, must be harrowing."
"How did she do that? And you said her thoughts were paralysed for precision manoeuvres?"
Cassandra's voice came, nearly a mutter: "I just... had to. do it."
Gabalt needed to understand what happened.
"What do you mean you had to? Someone had to do it, but why you?"
"It- it was very stressful, I saw you freeze, and so."
"But... but HOW did you do all that? That was extremely complicated, few pilots -whose main craft is directly piloting- would want to even try doing that when given a choice!?"
"I had to. do it, so I did. I couldn't. couldn't make a mistake."
"This makes absolutely no sense."
Pauline interrupted. "She just works like that. Lots of stress and when people freeze up, humans with her condition... sometimes, surprisingly, function better in the moment than others can."
"Ah. So it's a human thing. of course, it's a human thing. NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE WITH YOUR ACCURSED SPECIES" the diminutive pilot pouted.
And so one more story of the humans doing the impossible spread around. Humans of a subtype, more easily harmed, sometimes unstable and needing help for the simplest things... accomplishing odd, unthinkable, borderline heroic feats under duress none could be expected to withstand - but only then. Cursed, blessed? No story-teller seemed too certain. But the "magical" species never stopped surprising all others. And a new proverb developed: "it's not over until the human says it is".
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Wrecker Appreciation Post!
In S1Ep4 âCornered,â we see Tech explaining to Wrecker the inner workings of the Marauder, and Wrecker dismisses him with an impatient âJust tell me what to rip out!â

Only in season 2 do we get to know that Wrecker is a skilled mechanic himself (unless he is bored, hot, and starving đ). There's his famous repurposing of a cannon, of course. And later in the show, when the squad retrieves the ship, it is Wrecker to whom Tech delegates to reinstall hyperdrive. And, of course âşď¸:

Damn, not only sweet and hot, but also a very skilful man đĽ!
I imagine that Wrecker is a lazy energy-efficient type. Unlike Echo or Tech, he won't volunteer for the work if there's another who can do it. But as the need aroseâand no longer having GAR providing for them should have been a major factorâwe saw our man shine âď¸.
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