#he's gr9

[scribblescrabbledepartment]

saw frankie valli again last night & cant take my eyes off you has been stuck in my head for the last 14 hours

[ID: a collage page made of a busy jumble of pink and roses and hearts, with cut-out letters spelling the lyrics "I love you baby and if it's quite alright I need you baby."]

[shmreduplication]

Gavin newsom is running for president, not for 2024 obviously but possibly as soon as 2028 (pete buttigieg is also running for president but not until 2052 because the time between his first run for president and actually becoming president is going to be the same as it took for Biden, 32 years)

and I hope he does because he's the most republican-looking man i've ever seen. The oval face shape with that haircut and he's 6'3" and his first name is gavin and his father was a "the third" and his first wife is Don Trump Jr's fiance and after they filed for divorce he was revealed to have been sleeping with his campaign manager's wife and he's extremely dyslexic and also a San Francisco boy to the core so it will be very funny for me when you ignore the, you know, horrors of living thru another presidential election in the US

[six-six-cicada]

I am fine, I am fine, I am fine, I am fine, I just need 100 dollars, from you, and you, and you, and you, and you

[moonesq-a]

i love it when i'm listening to g.eorge e.zra songs & moon wakes up from her slumber

[schattenfanger]

he's gonna go scream at the docks for 30-60 minutes.

[mixelation]

For the ship honest opinion: For Naruto, Sakura/Ino, Sakura/Karin, and Hinata/Karin. For Yu-gi-oh, Yusei/Akiza and Mai/Serenity.

send me a ship and i'll give you my brutally honest opinion on it

InoSaku

I like this one a lot! It's actually pretty rare for a canon female relationship to be both Spicy and also genuinely caring. I don't feel like most InoSaku content actually digs into the complexity (both sweet and ugly) as much as they deserve, but I'm into the idea. (I think there's a fandom trend of treating wlw ships as.... very sanitized, which is not really the mood for these two.) There's also apparently a line in one of the novels that's along the lines of "If Ino were a man, Sakura would just marry her" so I think in any universe were Sakura knows about lesbians, this would be canon.

SakuKarin

I also like this one a lot!!! Okay, here is why this is a gr9 ship. First, delete all your toxic assumptions about their Sasuke obsessions. They're both more interesting when he's not around. Next, imagine Karin, who has been taken advantage of and abused her entire life and come out a mean bitch for it as self-defense, but undoubtedly has a softer sweeter side. Now imagine Sakura, who spends a lot of energy repressing the ugly, violent parts of her because she's desperate the outwardly appear to be a perfect demure, stereotypical kunoichi. I think Karin is someone who could deal with Inner Sakura head on, and like Sakura for those parts of herself. Karin is someone who would enjoy brining out Sakura's gremlin side, and I love that for Sakura. Meanwhile, Sakura is just sweet/kind enough for Karin to be safe around, to relax and let down the bitchy facade. Basically

Karin: (cracks knuckles) i can make her worse

Also Karin: (held safely by sakura's biceps)

Hinata/Karin

I haven't given this one a ton of thought. The aesthetic nice. I guess the duality of Hinata's shyness and Karin's louder personality could be fun, but I'm not convinced karin would be.... interested.... in anything Hinata has to offer. I'm also not sure Hinata would like someone like Karin?

Mai/Serenity

Also haven't thought much about this one! The only canon scene I can remember of them interacting is the one where they both pretend Mai is dead as a prank. Which was a lot cuter than that description made it sound LOL. So... it could be cute, I guess? I think it could be kind of a fun way to flesh out Shizuka/Serenity. Mai is pretty solidly a "strong female with a checkered past" type, and while the narrative and fandom largely treat "Shizuka/Serenity" as a sweet and innocent type, she's also had a lot of shit things happen to her (health problems from a young age, alcoholic dad, etc), so having a "darker" character like Mai unpack that could be fun.

[usafphantom2]

IMAGES: F-35B fighters in "beast mode" aboard HMS Prince of Wales

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 10/26/2023 - 11:00am in Military

On board the deck of the British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, on the east coast of the U.S., a fully loaded F-35B, to the fullest, is helping the Royal Navy's attack force develop Lightning capability.

The F-35 armed with the maximum capacity of weapons is known in aviation jargon as "bow mode": each pillar occupied by a weapon and the internal compartment of crowded bombs.

Fully charged, the F-35B can provide 22,000 pounds of destructive and defensive power: air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles and conventional and laser-guided bombs.

If you are trying to imagine a payload of 22,000 pounds... it is the equivalent of the heaviest bomb carried by a World War II Lancaster bomber (the Grand Slam or "earthquake" bomb).

And it is almost three times more than the last attack plane embarked on a UK aircraft carrier, the Harrier GR9, more than a decade ago.

In this case, the specially modified F-35B of the U.S. Navy Integrated Test Force was loaded with a combination of 500-pound Paveway IV laser-guided inert bombs and 1,000-pound inert Paveways in the weapons compartment.

To date, the F-35 have detaculated from the 350-foot mark on deck (approximately aligned with the end of the front island).

Depending on a number of factors (including weather, wind on deck, humidity), a fully charged Lightning may need a full run to the ski jump to take off... which means starting all the way back at the 850-foot mark... not far from the rear end of the cockpit.

It is the first time that a complete preparation has been tested on any of the aircraft carriers. And it is also the first bomb (although inert, practical models) to be launched by aircraft launched from HMS Prince of Wales.

The Captain of Flight Deck Pet Officer 1 John Etherington - who has experience in deck operations on American Nimitz-class aircraft carriers - was the sailor who gave the authorization to the pilots.

"It was impressive to launch the jet, all full of bombs, from the back of the cockpit," he said. “It's exciting to see us pushing the boundaries of UK naval aviation.”

In control of the F-35 in beast mode were the pilots of the U.S. Marine Corps, Major Paul Gucwa, and Lieutenant Colonel Mike Lippert.

This is the fourth time the latter has worked with the UK aircraft carrier force - three times helping HMS Queen Elizabeth develop its Lightning capability, now with the Prince of Wales.

“It is a pleasure to see the continuous progress in operational capacity – there has been undeniable growth and progress,” he said.

“Major Gucwa and I had great pleasure in continuing to expand the combat capability of Britain's largest warship. We were a small part of an immense multifunctional and integrated team that covered every corner of the ship, the mission control rooms of the F-35 ITF and our worldwide partnership with the F-35 Lightning II - all focused on increasing the interoperability and lethality of our frontline fighter."

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Then, the tests of the F-35 ship off the US will carry out continuous landings (instead of standard verticals), first without armaments, then with.

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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has work published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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[chososcamgirl]

chat is it normal for a gr11 boy to come up to you but youre literally in gr9 and say he has feelings for you but even tho we haven’t met before?

i’m p sure he was serious about it too..

-🪼

i think that is definitely creepy and rlly weird😭 not only abt the grade difference (i know it’s 2 years and that’s like fine but it’s about the mindset difference like esp being like 14 and like 16/17)

if he was being serious i think he needs to do something else with his life than professing his love to ppl he doesn’t even know LMFAO

[tuxedokit]

If you could relive any of your memories, which would it be?

weve been mulling this over like all day but we have so many good ones from this lifetime its hard to decide. im gonna ask around and we'll compile the best ones here - [AR] Autopilot 💾

last summer on our familys annual beach vacation we did shrooms and saw through the fabric of the universe and befriended The Horrors. that was pretty cool. id like to relive being high off my gourd stargazing in a place with such little light pollution - Starlight 🌌

im gonna say when we were in tennessee like almost 2 years ago. we had flown out to visit our friend (now qpp & partner system) seepy and heart's so small they're shorter than us and i dunno it was the first time doing something like that and she was so small in my arms and i could honestly have just held him forever. i love you seeps ◇ - Carpet ✨️

yesterday for our friend bears birthday we went to an enchanted forest escape room and it was so well put together and ethereal and it was the best 40 minutes of my life in this physical realm ive never felt so at home. there were puzzles and mushrooms and music and gnomes and my bestest friends were right there too!!! oh it was so wonderful - Sayakura 🧚‍♀️

confessing to luci. nuff said. but i wanna say more so im gonna: it was me realizing i was in love at the same time as confessing cause i kinda just asked for advice in a group server w them fdsgjsksl. we were already qpps and apparently my family thought we were already dating (i mean we called beem our soulmate like - ✨️) but like i wound up spending the whole afternoon just thinking about them and being giddy. it was nice - Luna 🌙

mine's gotta be the first time we climbed that abandoned water tower past the ravine. we had spraycans and i wrote trans rights on the side of it. the wind gave us such a thrill, it was incredible. and the view was definitely worth it - Waks 📹

im claiming that time in grade 11 when our gr9 science teacher + gr11-12 bio teacher mr coulter approached me and asked if i wanted to go on a field trip to the science centre that was intended for the grade 12 kids. i didnt know anyone but i didnt care bc mr coulter was there and i wore my new animaniacs shirt and i got to run around the science centre itself during the lunch break and play with genetics stuff (i was such a nerd about punett squares and all that its no wonder he asked me specifically). i think the best part was the feeling i had when i was sitting next to mr coulter on the bus ride there and back. he let me take a selfie with him.... mr coulter was like a father to me, so it meant a lot. - Quinn ✉️

i wanna relive when we were playing with shanny and teagsi and we climbed the big tree near the ice rink by our school. i used to read up there too :) - Little One 👾

the body's nanna flew us out to grenada in march... i would like to relive swimming at that beach, on that little island in carriacou. the water was clear and a such beautiful blue, the air was just a little too warm and humid, and sitting on that beach reminded me of my old home - Riku/Shore ⚔️

mine's gotta be the second year we went to camp mini yo we! specifically, reading the letters mom wrote me for each day of the week. she wrote a little story about me; i was the doctor's daughter but i didnt know it, and i had powers that warped me through space and time seemingly at random. she wrote that i found a place and led a revolution against tyrannical oppressive overlords. not single-handedly taking down the villains, but helping empower the people so they could fight for themselves. by the end of the week we had found a crowd of invested listeners in the other girls at camp. it was nice... i think about those letters a lot - Secret 🧩

we were bodily sitting alone in the grass at a local park, it was right as we were discovering our plurality. i could see all of us all over the park, as if we were all there. the kids were playing tag, some were poking around in the forest right there, quinn was in that big tree we like to sit under... scrooge and quinslap were off smoking a joint, sitting on a tree trunk that had grown a little horizontal before it remembered to grow up. it wasnt in our view but we know the path and it was in the area enough that they could be there while our body simply sat in the grass. it was a fascinating and beautiful feeling. like a family picnic, but with only one person present. - [AR] Autopilot 💾

might add more later

[agirlwithachakram]

madame web was fine. kinda interesting. I like the concept of a super whose powers aren't punchkickincinerate. paramedic is a great superhero alter ego job. the spider stuff is a lil silly but that's okay! I like campy stuff. and gruff awkward loner who is SO not interested in children falling face first into a situation where they have to protect teenage girl(s) is gr9 and I'm glad to see it being a woman this time. (yeah, birds of prey, but Harley isn't gruff. or particularly a loner, even if she's lonely.)

some of the dialogue needed a few more passes, and dakota johnson isn't a super strong actor, but she does okay. it helps that the guy playing the villain is uh. weird. his acting style is weird, I'm not really sure what he's doing there. anyway, it works fine, unlike mismatched morbius where Matt Smith is giving it all she's got cap'n and Jared Leto is like "wait what's acting? I'm too pretty for that."

it's on netflix. it's not bad!

[illwynd]

sdcc 2023 highlights (for me)

marco checchetto thor sketch <3<3<3 i'm still not over it. He was lovely in general, and the care and time he put into that drawing i'm just jashdgjklahsjlkdghajkd

hearing JMS utterly drag the whole concept of AI writing. Very heartening.

honestly both the JMS panels i saw were gr9, he's just really fun and enlightening to listen to

meeting chuck tingle

actually the horror panel Dr. Tingle was on was a lot of fun. among other things, a point was made about the similarities of horror, humor, and erotica writing in that they're all considered low-brow and generally disrespected but they're also all very visceral and dealing with deep emotional stuff and, yeah.

finally getting to debut the brand-new AoA Loki trio, result of literally months of work largely by me, and also getting to take out the amazing scepter prop gifted to me recently by @lady-of-misrule

a handful of lovely thor cosplayers to our lokis. (why is it that big dudes joyfully cosplaying Fat Thor do more justice to the character than Hemsworth in the worst fat suit that anyone has ever created? forget I asked, we know why.)

some good photo shoots in general, gotta share some of those pics at some point

hearing from the folks at the TORn booth that there is a Rohirrim show in the works that will be NOT Amazon-made and will have PJ's involvement in some capacity, so... some hope there I guess?

running into several friends and acquaintances. which seems to happen way more often than it should given how huge an event it is?

and lowlights:

IF ONE MORE FUCKIN PERSON REFERS TO MY OBVIOUSLY CAREFULLY CRAFTED COMICS LOKI COSPLAYS AS "VARIANTS" I'M CRACKING SKULLS. This goes double to the people with the TVA display setup who tried to get us to come take pics at their booth and were so shocked and appalled when we turned on our heels and said absolutely fucking not. sorry not sorry that i told them to read some damn comics.

the cops kicked out the taco truck that always used to set up behind the convention center. they took away my cheap and tasty california burritos and left me with overpriced mediocre convention pizza. fuckin bastards. I swear, the security lady who told us why the taco truck wasn't there was right: it was probably because they were offering an affordable alternative.

just about sweating to death before the weather finally cooled down a bit, but even then it was muggy as hell and actually rained in San Diego in July like wut

[shmreduplication]

Why didn't Stephen Fry get to guest star on House?

I would've really liked a Wilson POV episode where House's college roommate visits and needs treatment from him and he's like a proto-Wilson and House treats him with disdain the whole time and Wilson can't figure it out but it terrifies him. If House stopped liking Fry, maybe he'll stop liking him too

There's dialogue that Fry and House used to prank each other, like Wilson and House do now. There's also jokes that you can't tell if they're truthful or not about how people thought Fry and House were gay for each other, and more jokes about how Fry beat up House

Meanwhile Wilson and Fry are getting along gr9, partly because Wilson gets along with everyone but partly he's ramping it up to try to bother House, who seems unfazed

And part one of the reveal is Fry joined a frat, so Wilson thinks "oh yeah, wanting to be liked by people who aren't House is a mortal sin to House"

And part two of the reveal is Fry participated in a gay bashing as part of the hazing to get in the frat

Then Wilson has a genuine moment of Is House Gay? And Cuddy is like "well you're the longest and most meaningful relationship he's ever had" and someone on the team says " the women he's been with are exactly like him, which just proves he's an egomaniac but not necessarily heterosexual" and 13 says "bi people exist" (i mean, remember what show we're talking about)

Fry gets cured so the medical part is over so finally Wilson confronts House in House's office, "how come you hate him but like me? We're exactly alike!"

And House says "you want people to like you so much that you became a doctor, you decided to literally save people's lives to ensure people would always like you. Fry wanted people to like him so much that he beat up a poor kid for no other reason" then he stands up and walks to the door while Wilson stands there, not moving. Right before House exits, he pauses and says " oh and I've been having a hard time figuring out how to tell you this" his voice wavers "you're my best friend so you should know" pause and audible swallow "I'm not gay" he leaves. Wilson smiles that smile he always has when he realizes House was pranking him

[tantai-jin]

5 “no-skip” albums

okay i have to preface this by saying that i will almost always have the potential to skip songs just based on my mood. i don’t think i have any albums that i would truly never skip any of the tracks of, bc a good album encompasses most of the spectrum of emotion but often times i only want to feel a certain subset of emotions so i skip songs even though i think they are good. maybe this is very normal and i don’t need to explain this. but just in case. sorry

thank u beloved @englishsub for the tag 💓

shinee - the shinee world - 2008

obv i had to put a shinee album in here somewhere… so hard to pick but i went w their first one bc it’s the most ~timeless~ despite the clear retro-y sounds.. the past few years i find myself coming back to it a lot even when i think some songs on different albums are a lot stronger. who else (in korea) in the last 10 yrs has been putting out debut albums like this? no one

yoga lin - fiction - 2012

i started listening to this album in 2014-2016? not sure exactly, but it’s had a grip on me ever since. the range between tracks is so good, and 浪费 (unrequited) and 傻子 (fool) are two of my songs of all time. this was only solidified when i finally got to see him in concert a month ago - really artistic and beautiful and so so cathartic to have the whole audience sing along together for like every other song :,)

kenshi yonezu - stray sheep - 2020

i don’t have a v deep backstory for this one or whatever tbh… adding this one in here for a little more genre variety but also i do rly like his music. i heard lemon in 2019, got obsessed w it, and then started listening to his discography in like 2020 after the pandemic started and i needed more upbeat music i didn’t understand to listen to while working. the vibes in his songs are always gr9 and also great driving music

hua chenyu - new world - 2020

found huahua some time in 2020 as part of my newfound chinese renaissance exploration or whatever haha. before then i wasn’t very familiar w a lot of chinese music beyond a handful of more famous artists, bc i didn’t Grow Up listening to that in my household and i didn’t have a great idea of where to explore online apart from youtube, but i found this album on spotify and became even more obsessed when i started watching all his tv performances. some people don’t rly like him bc of his ~scandal~ w zhang bichen which i understand n agree w to some extent but artistically he is really special and i’m always blown away by his live performances even tho i watch through a screen. he’s like kind of a crazy artist and i respect the way he channels it so much. his music is so good and this album was like, part of a Shift for me! wao

jonghyun - the collection story op. 2 - 2017

putting this one last bc it’s the most significant to me. i can’t listen to poet | artist often but i come back to this album more frequently. comforting and feels like a hug. and i’m always, always grateful that i was in seoul in summer 2017 and was able to go to two of his final solo concerts in july and see these songs live. 덕분에 내 평생이 따뜻해 💙

[trickster-whim]

So.... um.... did I mention that I'm back on my transformers bullshit? Because I am... unwell.

(Thundercracker and the kittens for distraction because I didn't take photos but I will be talking a lot lol)

So, this morning we got up at 7am (I usually sleep til 10, my sister til 2pm) and drove into Phoenix to get our covid and flu vaccines. Ever since the pandemic ""ended"" it's been really hard to get vaccines without insurance. But we did that, and then came drive back home to see Transformers One in the theatre, and fuuuuuuuuuuuck is it so extremely my thing. I didn't know anything about it going in; I haven't kept up with the franchise, but holy slagging Primus was this movie gr9! (I was trying to explain to my sister about the different continuities and the various origin stories I remember, but when someone doesn't share your hyperfixation, you gotta make sure not to infodump enough that the only person who talks to you murders you. I also haven't really read anything since MTMTE, so...)

It's also the first movie I've seen in a proper theatre since... Detective Pikachu? I did see FNaF at the dollar cinema, but other than that it's been... a while. I brought Rodimus to keep my company (read: keep me quiet), and I loved the fuck out of it. It was so hard not talking the whole time, and that did not stop me from thumbs-downing Sentinel when he showed up for the first time (eternal hater, yo), and squeeing embarrassingly when things got tense or they said a line from the comics/show I remembered, and pointing at the background Bots when I saw one I recognized (I see you, Wheeljack and Coneheads and my girl Arcee). Basically I am the worst person to see a Transformers movie with, but I really, really liked it.

I could literally talk about this movie for hours, but my sister, even though she liked it too, isn't as... fanatically obsessed with the franchise as I am, although she did buy me this Thundercracker! He's always been my favorite, and I'm all for any of the elite trine 🫨

He's... a little shorter than Roddi... Also yes there is a boob and a dick in that photo, wow. I'm safe for work.

I do plan on repainting him a little (I found some of my old repaints, including when I made Prime Starscream his trinemates, since again, TC is bae), but for now he's a nice souvenir of free vaccines and not free movies. And mental illness 🥰🥰🥰

Anyway, about the babies: they got neutered this week! It's the last thing they're in for until a checkup in a couple months, so now we just need to keep them calm and not jumping and scratching and fucking fighting each other all the time. Ahem.

So yeah. As I said: my bullshit, I am on it. I've been reading my decade old fanfics, and some of them are actually pretty fun to reread (and some are so cringe my eyes start bleeding. Cringe is dead, but so am I). I also kinda want to get back into drawing these fraggers. I was doodling at breakfast and ended up with a Seeker, so it's still in there. Anyway, bai~~~

[chososcamgirl]

my older friend warned me about highschool boys but i ignored her and i ended up getting ghosted by a guy i became friends with last year😭

we started talking last year when i was in gr8 and he was gr9 and we met at a park and we didn’t talk much during summer but began talking again last week and he literally started ignoring me this week??😞😞

omg i typed this fast so please ignore how there no punctuation💀

he was even helping me find my classes last week since i was new to highschool and it was my first year💔

-🪼

what a cunt of a guy ew

yes ur friend was totally right😭😭 highschool guys specifically older ones r just so…. they’re something ill say that but mostly immature and move weird but it’s okay bc we ball. that sucks i’m sorry that happened to u nonnie :( i know the feeling sucked and it sucks getting ghosted in general. don’t worry think about it too much tho just keep on moving on w life and you’ll b fine <333

[minetowalkonglass]

Dean w kids? Great. Dean w hunters' kids? Gr9!!! He knows all of the tricks and he leaves 0 room for bull yeah yeah hand me your lockpick i can tell you're scared you are NOT going in there I'm the adult and I say you could go to college