#ic (jet)

[bassclarinetfan]

(Posting this here because it counts as fanart) Though I know nothing about hockey I was disappointed when I found out that the Winnipeg Jets’s mascot wasn’t an aeromorph jet so I made an unofficial mascot for them myself

[jetboots]

i gave in and made a sth sideblog.... here's the sillies. wish we could've seen sonic falling on his face in sonic prime lmfao

[bearforceone3]

(tomodachi) guytora doodle of the day

[thesilicontribesman]

Replica of the Poltalloch Bronze Age Jet Necklace (2200 to 2000 BCE), Kilmartin Museum, Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland

[lesson-b]

[kevinvoncrastenburg]

Yet another Urbz x Sims photoset. ✨

Did you know the Urbz turned 20 this year? Feel free to share your favourite memories and thoughts of it. I'd love to hear them!

[hughesybear]

does it ever drive you crazy

just how fast the night changes

(2021 -> 2025)

[sunderwight]

Headcanon/Theory/Concept/Etc Concerning Dragons in the World of Ice and Fire:

The ancient Valyrian blood magic system for taming dragons does increase the general affinity of those of Valyrian descent for dragons. In this case, the general affinity is non-specific. Because Valyria was a slave empire and most menial tasks were handled by members of the lower classes, a lot of dragon handling and care (feeding, cleaning the pits, assisting in training, etc) like what we see the servants of the Dragon Pits in canon doing, would have still been handled by slaves and servants in Valyria itself. If you don't want to be constantly replacing staff all the time, and losing experienced/skilled personnel to random fits of dragon temper, it's best if all if your people have some affinity for dragon handling regardless of rank. So whatever the Valyrian blood mages did, they did it to the whole populace.

But then, how to ensure that only your upper classes are actually taming and riding dragons? After all, you're a slave owning prick who doesn't want your staff stealing dragon eggs to raise in secret and use as part of some violent uprising against you. You'll want some kind of security measure to make that less feasible.

Enter the weird and (in the future) inscrutable "dragon affinity" system. The blood mages find a way to basically encode certain types of dragons so that they will strongly favor specific bloodlines. This system, in turn, is passed among the dragons themselves via their bloodlines. Which basically binds certain lineages of dragons to certain lineages of Valyrian houses. Like say you have Ancient Targaryens living in their Valyrian holdings, and they have Balerion's grandma in their dragon stables. They want to make sure that none of their slaves can steal any of her eggs and eventually become a dragon rider. There's no 100% foolproof method of doing that, since dragons are still somewhat inscrutable. But, you can drastically decrease the odds of success by making Targaryen blood significantly more appealing to Dragon Meemaw and her offspring. As a bonus, this also makes it less likely for the rival dragon riding houses to claim another house's dragons, too.

But there's a bit of a flaw in this system (which is probably the only solution that can be deployed by use of blood-related magics): noble houses tend to intermarry. Obviously, there are a distinct lack of political advantages to marrying commoners, so the Valyrian dragon riding houses would have preferred to marry among themselves and/or powerful foreign rulers. But this means that after a certain point, everyone is related. The magic doesn't care about surnames or paperwork, it cares about blood. So let's say you're Ancient Dragon Lord Targaryen and you marry one of your younger kids off to a different dragon rider house. Their kids are, genetically, still as Targaryen as your direct heir's kids.

So after a while you're still locking out the slaves and servants from being able to tame dragons, but you're not locking out your rival houses. You're losing that perk. Which may not seem all that important at first, but as we witnessed with the Dance, civil wars between dragon riders can get extremely messy, and a lot of it can often come down to posturing about who has the most and/or strongest dragons. So it probably wouldn't take long before various dragon riding houses were wanting to ensure that their dragons were restricted to their actual house, and that their rivals couldn't sneak in and reduce their dragon numbers by claiming dragons from their stock. (You'd think containing the dragons might solve that, but dragons are a bit hard to contain, really.)

Hence, the rise of inbreeding. You try and make sure your house's main lines especially have a higher percentage of "Targaryen" blood, and that none of your rivals have any of it either. The downsides of incest are perhaps mitigated by the same blood mages who have been influencing things from the beginning, perhaps magically tweaking your genetics to reduce the odds of complications, and researching more ways to refine this blood-based system of locking others out of ever accessing your power.

But I imagine that the system required maintaining. There are still going to be times when it's more advantageous to form alliances than to keep your dragons strictly controlled, after all, not to mention limits to how much inbreeding you can do even with magical intervention before shit's getting very Habsburg on you. Not to mention the dragons themselves can be tricky to control, and are less liable to understand the political motivations for not mixing their bloodlines with the perfectly attractive dragons several caves over, who belong to your rivals. Luckily, with Valyrian blood mages still around, you probably just need to pay through the nose to get someone to swing by every few generations and update the blood-based security codes. So to speak. Renew the magic binding your people to your dragons to account for all the drifting genetic nuances. So you don't necessarily need to be wedding siblings to one another every generation.

Except, after the Doom, all those blood mages are gone.

So on the one hand, the Targaryens no longer need to worry about rival dragon riders. Because they're (mostly) all dead. But on the other hand, there's no way to update the bloodline passwords on your dragons now. With each passing generation, you're going to lose some of your advantages for controlling them, unless you're inbreeding at a level that is going to severely limit your ability to make alliances and is going to, you know, completely fuck with your family dynamics for all foreseeable generations. Plus, since you're not a blood mage and this situation is kind of unprecedented, you probably don't really know how long the magic will be able to hold out against the variables of increased genetic diversity over the years. If you "thin" your bloodline too much, how long before you've got basically zero advantages in taming dragons compared to everyone else? Conversely, if the magic is really strong and remains true even through dozens of generations, does that mean you're granting the same advantages to every house you marry your extraneous kids out to over the years? Does a Baratheon have the exact same capacity to tame a dragon as a Targaryen?

So your choices are basically to let it go, to try and retain control over the dragons via culture and influence and knowledge instead of blood purity and incest, or, double down and prioritize power and control above all else and retain whatever you can from the old blood magics by committing to an unhinged level of inbreeding. And then just tell everyone else that it's totally normal for Valyrians and you're an exception to all the usual rules against marrying your siblings, it's a cultural thing, and totally sell that because 1) it's kind of true and 2) anybody with the authority to call you out on exaggerating has just met a mysterious-yet-fiery end via the Doom.

Basically, you consign your descendants to generations of dysfunction and insularity that is guaranteed to alienate them from any of the nearby cultures they might assimilate into, in exchange for increased (but not total!) control over all hypothetical future dragons. Then you destroy a lot of information about dragons so that it can never be stolen, so that no one else can ever learn that taming dragons without your blood is still entirely possible, just harder and more dangerous. (Then you spend the Century of Blood embroiled in a civil war where you kill off most of your dragons, but uh that part wasn't planned, probably.)

Anyway that's why I think the Targaryens are Like That, and why the dragons of the Dance get tamed in the way that they do. Seasmoke likes Addam because he's kin to Laenor, even without the Targaryen blood, there's enough Velaryon blood in the current Targaryens to make him familiar regardless. Sheepstealer and Nettles (should that happen at all like it did in Fire and Blood) just bonded the normal way, without the blood magic advantage. Generations later, Targaryen blood still yields an edge in interacting with Dany's dragons, but it's just that -- an advantage, not a requirement.

[smithebrini]

So i got a new laptop today. As soon as i login to tiktok, this is the first video that plays. Its a sign, ladies ans gentlemen.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Republic IC F-105G Thunderchief 62-4427 USAF by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: Republic IC F-105G Thunderchief 62-4427 USAF Photo taken at Pima Air & Space Museum Tucson Arizona USA May 2025 HAA_4552

[puckdrunklove]

Ahead of the Stanley Cup playoffs, here's my proposal for new NHL divisions, based on (of course) vibe only:

Corporations

Nashville Predators

LA Kings

Carolina Hurricanes

Tampa Bay Lightning

Utah Hockey Club

Winnipeg Jets

Minnesota Wild

Ottawa Senators

Cops

Florida Panthers

Boston Bruins

Washington Capitals

NY Rangers

St Louis Blues

Columbus Blue Jackets

Chicago Blackhawks

Vegas Golden Knights

Clowns

Dallas Stars

Montreal Canadiens

Philadelphia Flyers

San Jose Sharks

New Jersey Devils

Toronto Maple Leafs

NY Islanders

Calgary Flames

Curmudgeons

Pittsburgh Penguins

Colorado Avalanche

Edmonton Oilers

Vancouver Canucks

Detroit Red Wings

Anaheim Ducks

Seattle Kraken

Buffalo Sabres

[thesilicontribesman]

Prehistoric Jet Necklace, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

[strangledwires]

THE URBZ: SIMS IN THE CITY | ENDING

[dragonpyre]

Jet lag is literally just “hey what if you were sleep deprived and stressed and nauseous all at once. Also you owe me $500” and there’s no winning

[mcu-and-buckybarnes-things]

Rooster, while falling down: Fuck fuck fuck, I have a big problem!

Phoenix through radio: No shit. Didn't Maverick teach you what to do in this situation?

Rooster: "Vibe!" Apparently.

Phoenix: ......OK then, say hello to your Dad.

Rooster: Wait wait wait! I vaguely remember Iceman once told me how to handle this......

Phoenix: Well?

Rooster: I also clearly remember I didn't listen.

[p4rtypoison1]

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