#flight card

[unladyboss]

CARMY'S FLIGHT DETAILS: SEASON 3 THE BEAR BTS

The script

The plane

The airline name

Means place of abode or oasis

Carmy's seatbelt

CARMY sitting

CARMY looks out the window

Carmy's tag

The flight safety information

[themissingmango]

[alphamecha-mkii]

Customs Blockade by Mariusz Gandzel

[choochooboss]

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[lord-squiggletits]

Pharma's place in a Functionist society (headcanon)

So I've talked in some previous posts about all the reasons that Pharma isn't a functionist because canon never showed him espousing functionist ideals + he's actually in a place to be a victim of functionism. And I've been working on a Pharma-centric oneshot that made me put into words the best metaphor I can think of for Pharma's relationship with Functionism:

He doesn't support Functionism, but is simultaneously a beneficiary of it and also marginalized by it, because his position of being forged both a doctor and a jet basically turns him into a "token minority" of sorts.

I know that sounds kind of silly or maybe like a clumsy political allegory, but hear me out. There are a couple facts about Pharma and the circumstances of his forging that put him at the crossroads between privilege and marginalization within Functionism:

Tyrest says that Pharma was "famous for being forged." Not famous for being a forged medic-- otherwise surely Ratchet would be just as noteworthy-- but famous for being FORGED. But also, note that this is an opinion that SOCIETY had about Pharma, not something that Pharma espouses about himself. (For the sake of an example, Pharma isn't Starscream, who has an explicit, deep-seated need for others' love and approval. Pharma himself doesn't express any opinions on his own popularity or convey that fame/adoration is something he wants.)

Functionism on Cybertron held that if someone was born with a certain alt-mode, they can/should only have certain jobs. For people born with flight alt-modes, those people were almost always regulated to military or transportation/courier jobs

SIMULTANEOUSLY, Pharma was forged with medic hands, which under a Functionist society were viewed as the peak of medical care and all the best doctors were forged or at least had a "special something" that non-forged hands lacked (according to Ratchet).

So taken in combination, this means that from the moment of Pharma's birth, he straddled a line of Functionism between two different "predestined" paths for him, where he was simultaneously forged to be a doctor and also forged to fly, fitting into BOTH of these categories despite norms of Functionism which say you're one or the other. And I speculate that the reason Pharma is "famous for being forged" is precisely because of those lines he straddles: his very existence is a contradiction, but he was also FORGED that way. The same creed that dictated the two different functions of "hands" and "alt-mode" also says that Pharma should be what he was born to be. What he was born to be was a forged medic jet.

In my opinion, I think that being "famous for being forged" is sort of like a token-minority situation for Pharma, where perhaps Pharma was seen as a curiosity or even something exotic, not just as a person. Maybe because he was a jet and people assumed jets were only soldiers/transportation, a lot of his achievements were put in the light of "Oh, he's a really amazing doctor, for a jet" or "It's crazy that he's a doctor AND a jet at the same time". The attention Pharma received for the unique circumstances of his birth WAS positive, but it would've likely been framed in a bit of a condescending way, as if Pharma is noteworthy and famous not for being a good doctor, but for being a good doctor despite being born a jet.

So I would say that as far as Pharma's personal experience with Functionism, he simultaneously experienced privilege and marginalization. He enjoyed the privileges of being a medic while avoiding the restrictions of being a flight frame. However, a lot of the idolization and attention he received would have also come from a place of tokenizing Pharma: he's "famous for being forged," because in this society he's defying expectations merely for existing as himself. That is to say, Pharma in a Functionist society wasn't treated as remarkable because of who he is as a person and how hard he worked to be a good doctor; he was treated as remarkable for the circumstances of his forging, something he had no control over and can't change, and apparently Pharma being a forged medic jet is such a noteworthy origin that he's "famous" for it.

The above paragraph is purely headcanon, of course, but I like to imagine that part of Pharma's reason for having a big ego isn't out of simple vanity or insecurity, but because of a sort of "gifted student" syndrome, in a sense. From the moment he was forged he was treated as a rarity and an incredible phenomenon, and he would have had to work incredibly hard to be seen as "an incredible doctor" in his own right rather than just "that forged medic jet." Maybe, as a jet, he also had something to prove; he had to show to a Functionist society that being a jet doesn't make him an inferior doctor and that his alt-mode has nothing to do with his skills at his profession.

That is to say, I don't think Pharma would have been openly anti-Functionist, or had many opinions about it at all. I actually lean towards the interpretation that Pharma basically saw himself as getting lucky with the way he was forged and being content with the fact that he'd managed to carve out a reputation for himself as being incredibly skilled. However, Pharma not getting involved politically in Functionism doesn't change the fact that he WOULD have had a very complicated relationship with Functionism, in that alt-mode discrimination would have had an effect on him even though he was in the scientific/medical class and supposedly privileged.

[welivetodream]

Every valentine's day Chuuya gets desperate, passionate love letters from someone whom he doesn't know. It's full of poetic lines and cryptic messages about how they are fated to be together and are soulmates. He wonders who this secret admirer is and decides to write back to them and ask them out on a date.

He goes to the restaurant they decide to meet at and takes a U-turn back to the receptionist and cancels his reservation when he sees Dazai sitting there waiting for him. Because Chuuya.exe has stopped working.

[amber-tortoiseshell]

I know next to nothing about WC despite reading like maybe five of the books when they first came out years ago. Anyway, is there any cat you have like a vary convoluted genetics head canon for? I would love to hear about it

Hmm, I think I'll take this opportunity to talk about Moth Flight, because her case was a tricky one, and because I love her. (sue me. she was wrong about so many things, but i love her.)

Moth Flight is pure white in canon. Full white is dominant, so she should have at least one white parent, but they are "brown" and "grey tabby" (they don't even have any white spotting). She has white, white spotted and no-white children.

I solved this mess by throwing out the full white and making Moth Flight pointed instead. Close enough, especially if I add tabby and dilution. (Everyone in this family is a tabby anyway.)

The orange/black situation is not better. Her parents, Wind Runner and Gorse Fur are both black-based, and all of Moth Flight's kits are yellows, which i almost always interpret as cream. So my best solution was to make both Wind and Moth torties.

I don't have a family tree, but i'll describe her whole family now:

Wind Runner: black tortoiseshell ticked tabby (heterozygous ticked)

Gorse Fur: blue mackerel tabby with white (low white, heterozygous)

Emberkit and Morning Whisker: black tabby with white

Dust Muzzle: blue tabby

Moth Flight: blue tortoiseshell tabby point with white

Micah and Honey Pelt: cream tabby

Blue Whisker: cream tabby with white

Bubbling Stream: cream tabby point

Spider Paw: cream tabby point with white

Wind Runner and Gorse Fur

Moth Flight (this color becomes darker as she ages, but she has white nose and paws, so only the upper part of the mask and the legs)

Moth Flight's kits

(warrior cats genetics ask game)

[expederest]

It's been a week since I got back from Tokyo, and I'm still disappointed by the Kingdom Hearts Ichiban Kuji. It was supposed to start the 31st of May, the day I was flying home. But I checked like a dozen participating 7/11 stores before I went to the airport, and none of them had started it yet. Sigh...

As a silver lining, I did find a 7/11 that had those chocolate wafers out early, so I grabbed a few.

Came with that Missing Link pre-registration and everything. Wonder what's going on with that... And while I'm showing stuff off, here's the other KH merch I bought in my limited time!

[thefaeriecreek]

Continuing my series of botw redesigns, I'm working on my boyfriend Revali!

[lunafish-artz]

dk which variation looks best but I’ll post both out, ik this is very Chinese new year coded but too late now (I feel they’ll get along real well if they meet in game)

[stormlore]

would u let them play games on ur phone y/n

[fr-melodyhoward]

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: The Card Game - Red Three by ameeeeba

[gaolerdeathmetal]

wig

[cinematicnomad]

i gotta fly to delhi today on my own from chennai and the way i am already preparing for the security check to pull my carry on bag into secondary inspection...

[halfthebrain]

Okay am I the only one who likes the suggar daddy AU for Mike and Harvey? It’s canon that Harvey loves to spoil the people he cares for. It’s specifically made for these two.