#failed pilots

[ghastlythespookytrash]

I was watching more Thom Cat and I realized something. So, when he blinks or looks half asleep (uses his upper eyelids) his irises to it as if his eyes were dots.

Well, why doesn’t that apply when he uses his lower eyelids???

I swear some character designs make no sense sometimes and I’m all in for it

[couchpilotspodcast]

S40 EP400 Part 4 Part 1

S40 ‌EP10 “PART 4 of EP400”‌

COUCHPILOTSPODCAST.COM‌‌ ‌ ‌*‌ ‌‌PATREON‌ ‌ ‌

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Here we are. The final installment of the Couch Pilots saga. It’s a two parter so make sure you check out Part 1 and Part 2. We have a huge marathon of a show in store for you. We have laughs, tears, and everything in between. We also have Matt, Kevin, Dustin, and Big E with their full episode of the show. Yep they are flying the plane to bring you their version on Couch Pilots and reviewing our first ever failed pilot, BAFFLED!. Jason and I want to thank you all for everything. The support, the downloads, the feedback, the participation, it means so much to us. 

  **‌THE END**‌

Check out the latest episode!

[tiredandoptimistic]

So, we know that Abed is the one who invited Annie, Shirley, Pierce, and Troy to join the study group. Annie and Shirley make a lot of sense; they're both relatively friendly and clearly intelligent, it's easy to imagine either of them having brief positive interactions with Abed that would lead him to thinking of them. Pierce, while not someone I think Abed would seek out, is 100% down for inserting himself into situations. I bet he overheard Abed talking to Shirley or someone and invited himself from there. Troy, though? Troy is a little more complicated. I know that Troy and Abed are the iconic duo of all time, but it took time for that to develop. I have trouble believing that they just somehow had a good chat or something before the pilot, because in the episode Troy refers to Abed as "slumdog millionaire," which makes Shirley call him racist. I know that Troy was leaning hard into his asshole jock behavior during the beginning of season one, but I truly do not think he would say something like that if he had actually interacted with Abed. We know that Troy thinks incredibly highly of Abed once he gets to know him, and that his adoration is what pulls Troy out of his shitty high school persona. Even if he wasn't immediately able to acknowledge that he aspired to be more like Abed, he wouldn't be casually dismissing him like that if they'd ever really interacted. So, this leads me to the only possible conclusion: Abed just had a stupid crush on Troy from day one and wanted an excuse to spend more time with him outside of class. Abed might pride himself on his objective observational powers, but even he isn't perfectly logical. He'd probably tell himself that it's because a jock archetype would round out the ensemble cast dynamic, but in reality Abed is not in fact immune to Pretty Boy.

[bookshelfdreams]

how does anyone not love the pilot

[dykedvonte]

I think it says something that you got to see everyone’s dead body and were forced to be a participant to Curly’s torture at the hands of Jimmy but we don’t get to see him dead.

You don’t get to see the satisfaction of seeing the true cause of all the pain everyone went through get a single consequence and it’s so hollow. You don’t get a panning shot of his body, you don’t get splatter to show you it was messy. It just happens and then you’re just left there with all the remnants of what happened and unable to do anything because it’s over. It’s done and you don’t get to do anything about. It’s how Curly feels about what he didn’t do. It’s how you feel as you pilot Jimmy and can do nothing to stop him.

It’s how those affected by people like Jimmy feel after it’s all done. Seen some sort of due process or justice after every painful little thing. It doesn’t feel like enough after every, cause maybe it wasn’t enough. Or rather, it wasn’t done soon enough.

[floq]

~ swallowed by the vignette ~

[ID and stills under the cut]

[Video ID: Animated video of a drawing of the character Clancy from the fictional universe created by the band Twenty One Pilots, the video has a distorted version of the song “Vignette” as background music and an effect on top that makes it look like a shaky recording of a footage from an old CRT monitor; the lyrics for Vignette are synced to the song and can be read bellow in yellow text. The video starts with an unfocused shaky camera which then focuses on a bust shot of Clancy, who can be seen wearing the mask and outfit from the music video for the song “Overcompensate”, these being a gray balaclava mask with a burgundy stripe around the middle and a black jacket with red duck tape in each shoulder. His black stained hands are covering his face while leaving room between the fingers to see the eyes, which are looking directly at the viewer and glowing an unnatural and bright yellow hue; this glow becomes brighter and dimmer during different times of the video. Around his left eye, circles a yellow halo of straight lines becoming ever so slightly bigger and smaller throughout the video. The video ends with the camera unfocusing and the whole scene becoming blurry once again. End of ID]

Stills and Close Ups

[ID in alt text]

[escyn]

A continuation of these: more cocoon prompted thoughts to the theme of dominance/wxb’s worst nightmare (id in alt)

Oh also some au accurate wxb/ayu below the cut to the theme of roleplay (and erectile disfunction if you read into it) more or less

Full version on ao3, thank you to @deaddove for the persistent brainworms

[revrads]

Some self-indulgent doodles, please don’t mind this

Since Faith chapter 1 is set in September 21 1987 (a week before the pilot episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” aired) and John was born in 1953, then it is within the realm of possibilities that John saw Star Trek when it first aired

[reyskitchensink]

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

not to make angst out of a fucking gag but also thinking about the silly au rei in the final episode makes me think about how different rei would be if she didn’t have literally the worst dad ever. like, no, she probably wouldn’t have been the upbeat adhd whirlwind in the high school au lmao. but it does just make me think. because while all the pilots lives are incredibly marked by trauma, rei's the only one to have never had access to any sort of normal life. her entire personality and worldview is shaped from being isolated, groomed, and taught to see herself as a tool and not a person. and then i just get so sad that she never had any chance of a normal life where she could discover herself and what she is. she went from being abused and manipulated by gendō (which is made even worse with the implications certain scenes leave about their relationship) to becoming god. she never had any chance of living a normal life. and just like. fuck.

[showtoonzfan]

So let me get this straight:

- Eve the original woman is a villain who wants to break up Lucifer’s relationship with his wife to get back at being blamed for taking the apple, so she disguises herself as Lilith and somehow Charlie and Lucifer don’t know this apparently.

- Alastor is no longer an interesting character with mysterious motives that are twisted/morally grey, but is just a good guy who all along was working with the real Lilith to protect Charlie

- Rosie is Lilith in disguise for some reason

- The big bad other than Eve is the “Root of all evil”- aka “Roo”, who looks like some random cowgirl

Viv is really something, I need to know what she’s on to come up with these dumbass ideas.

[couchpilotspodcast]

S40 EP400 Part 4 Part 2

S40 ‌EP10 “PART 4 of EP400”‌

COUCHPILOTSPODCAST.COM‌‌ ‌ ‌*‌ ‌‌PATREON‌ ‌ ‌

‌

Here we are. The final installment of the Couch Pilots saga. It’s a two parter so make sure you check out Part 1 and Part 2. We have a huge marathon of a show in store for you. We have laughs, tears, and everything in between. We also have Matt, Kevin, Dustin, and Big E with their full episode of the show. Yep they are flying the plane to bring you their version on Couch Pilots and reviewing our first ever failed pilot, BAFFLED!. Jason and I want to thank you all for everything. The support, the downloads, the feedback, the participation, it means so much to us. 

  **‌THE END**‌

Check out the latest episode!

[balaurbondoc316]

So I've Been Rotating Metal Sonic In My Head For Weeks

And I came up with something that's probably not the dumbest theory you've ever heard

So is this anything???????

[thatsrightice]

Photos of Harry Crosby at Air Corps Navigation School in Santa Ana, California

[for-the-sake-of-color]

LAAt Pilot Howler and former Construct Detritus, who would really prefer if he would stop getting them shot out of the skies

"As if it is my fault we have to fly directly into artillery fire!" Howler would reply Wooo I love this peace and these two who managed to find their way to eachother in a universe that has predestined them to die in the name of others since the dawn of their creation. They refuse to be the shadows of others they were always meant to be, and will instead forge their own path forwards as individuals, as people, with their own hopes and dreams and ambitions. And they're going to do it together.

[holocene-sims]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to simblrs whose sims you adore ✨️

thank you so much for sending this to me!! ✨️💜 i really appreciate it!! and i'm so sorry for letting this sit in my inbox a long time 😭

i may talk about him a lot, but it's never enough, so here are five new facts about the king of my blog aka grant 👑

when grant wants to feel something, he'll watch videos of the curiosity rover on mars singing happy birthday to itself 🎂 it's so incredibly sad but cute to him, so it immediately turns on the waterworks lolol 🥲

objectively, grant is NOT a car guy; he's 110% an airplane guy. however, he owns a car that makes him look like a car guy and gets him approached ALL THE TIME by people who want to talk cars. it's a 1960 ford galaxie and it looks like this, except i think it would be a nice shade of light, almost minty green or maybe blue (no, i haven't decided, and probably won't because there's no cc version of this car for the sims 4, so we'll never see it lol) 💚💙

why is that his car? 🚗 well, it was his grandparents' car, which he bought off them when they wanted to replace it; they have never had a garage or a carport in their entire life, so the car was exposed to the elements for fifty years, and it was, thus, fucked up. they were also tired of fixing it. however, it's a sentimental car because aoife and joseph met working on the same production line at a ford auto factory, and this car was the first one they bought as a couple in their marriage (even though aoife ironically does not know how to drive lmao). they wanted it gone but also didn't, you know, so grant bought it because he also didn't want to see it gone; he'd spent his whole life sandwiching into that backseat with 8 billion of his cousins. oh, aaandddd he bought it even though the necessary repairs were extensive, which he did all by himself with help from his grandparents and uncle (aka people who know shit about cars)

a shorter fun fact: he smokes luckies 🫢

grant has been on TV before! it was very brief, for like five seconds, but he was interviewed by his hometown news station after his high school hockey team won the state championship game one year and he was granted the MVP title. he was very nervous, and his friends ended up nicknaming him "mr. team effort" because his entire interview was him just saying things like, "oh, um, well, it was a team effort, and we worked really hard...together...as a team..."