#is that there's buncha explosions

[ludrii]

Ranboom?

Like put that guy in a situation amirite

[lillazyboithings]

The Father (periodic table), The Son (laboratory seat work about hybridization of carbon), and the Holy Spirit (multiple chemistry notebooks and papers spread out on my desk)

Truly a magical first week of classes

[theskeletonatthewritersblock]

When Catha nearly dies after an attempt on their life, they wake to the loss of sight in their left eye, and the ability to see into the oceans of Tathos, of the Seraphina galaxy, which is contained in a reality separate from their own.

Vicen falls at the hands of a rival Sea Master, but when he rises it is with sights on a city known as Palmoa, located on a world not light years away, but time lines.

Together Catha and Vicen, bound by a tether stronger then the laws of reality, must aid in their separate struggles to seek revenge on their killers, and stop a gate from opening that may see the ultimate destruction of both of their worlds.

[sodabranch]

art explosion 💥💥💥💥 wanted to test out a new brush so I drew a buncha people I see on my dash

[mischiefwife]

Barcus should be a full companion.

Baldur's Gate 3 is really cool and i like it but why do we get like 5 recruitable variations of elf and not ONE short race? Dwarves gnomes and halflings are right there guys! Barcus could be the perfect answer for a buncha reasons.

First, you can recruit him early on. He's right there in the blighted village closer than Karlach is, so it isn't like you'll get him super late. Even have a funny opportunity to totally blow it by hitting the wrong lever (like how you can fuck up saving Gale). As for his class he's admittedly not good at fighting but he makes his own explosives so maybe he could be a good skill monkey type character OR be an artificer if they add that class.

Second, he's got hits of story in all three acts that would work perfect with him there. He's arguably got more potential story beats than Karlach. Act 1 save him and rescue the others from Grymforge. Act 2 find Wulbren in Moonrise, meet the Ironhands at Last Light. Act 3 decide how to deal with the Ironhands and the Gondians. Plenty of good and bad choices.

Third, even though he's clearly got Bongle bussy on his mind, Wulbren does not feel the same. Imagine a romance where you help Barcus out and then at the end he's like why was i chasing this asshole around when YOU were right here the whole time! It sound so dumb but it'd be cute as fuck.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[tyxaar]

Also can I just say that Cub's marketing for the fireworks factory is so damn good. Like, setting up shows in peoples' bases, arming HotGuy with an explosive crossbow, and gathering a buncha hermits for a firework battle against the dragon? I haven't seen so many fireworks used since crossbows were added!!!

[ant1quarian]

anti I NEED to hear every single headcanon about the newest connected timeline dust variants.

I just imagine crimson and maroon rogue and a buncha other player OCS coming together with this this can be so much fun!

EEEEEEEEEE! *giddy screaming*

Heheheh. As you wish!

Voidface

His player got entirely fucked up and is now genuinely afraid of him.

Compared to an animal, he would be a cat of sorts (He's hunting you and you know it but you also know that he's willing to toy with you and he will catch you)

Has the third quickest speedrun

Not a big fan of knives

Always kills Grillby last. One last drink with the guy before sending a bone shattering through his SOUL

Addicted to coffee

Semi-nonverbal

Uses shorthands for text ("wyd" "hbu?" "lmao" "lol" "jk" etc)

Handwriting is pretty spaced apart, leans backwards and descends, and is actually usually pretty scratchy

Will sit in Grillby's until the reset happens and everything is rerun again

Murder

U n h i n g e d

Pretty one-track mind and it all leads back to slaughtering things

Laugh gets more manic with each LV he gets

Uses the True Knife

Knows knife tricks that he figured out himself

Has absolutely tossed himself into lethal danger mid-battle for the hell of it

Compared to an animal he's like a cornered, aggressive attack dog that is going to nearly kill itself to take you down with him

Erratic fighting style

Will do almost anything to feel things properly

Actively takes photos of his kills and sends them to the local Dusty Guys group chat to flex on how fast he's going

Current holder of the quickest genocide route speedrun

Really into photography

Cap

Chill

Mostly vibing

Listens to music mid-battle with whoever he's murdering

Seems like a soft guy. Would kill you in a heartbeat

Actively dances along to his music while he's killing people

Probably crouched down and patted his Papyrus on the head before slaughtering him

A different kind of unhinged

His air of silliness does not hide that haunted look in his eyes

If compared to an animal, it'd be a Polar Bear. He's willing to act nicely and gently with his prey, but your death will happen. You can't escape it. And you can't run for long enough to escape him, either

Demi-aroace

It's more unnerving for the monsters to be running from someone who is lazily wandering through the underground, whistling the same song on repeat

Scarf

A tad more nervous than the others (Hypervigilance go brrr)

Guilty about killing Papyrus

Wasn't sure what to do with Papyrus' dust- spread it on the stuff he loved, but not Scarf ("Let's not spread you too thin, eh?")

Justice-orientated instead of broken integrity-orientated like the others

His love language has become acts of service and all he knows how to do is kill

Will Not Hesitate.

Maybe more nervous and slightly more detached than the others but do not doubt the fact that he is a Dust for a reason.

If compared to an animal he would be a hare. He can be cute, yes, but he carries a hint of something much darker- much more unnerving

His touch is the most gentle

Specs

Kind of has a crazy scientist kind of vibe

Works mostly with poisons and explosives

Poisoned Asgore with tea and then tore out his SOUL himself

Uses his bare fucking hands

Loves art. Adores it. Does a hell of a lot of art

Unhinged but in a much smoother, more suave way

Smokes to keep himself calm

Least likely to kill you unless you've pissed him off somehow

Does not care about killing anyone

He's kind of apathetic

Compared to an animal he is a viper slipping through the terrain undetected. He's sneaking up on you and when he strikes, he's going to pack one hell of a punch

Feel free to ask more questions or how they'd react in certain scenarios or whatever!

[sneezysubbyboi]

yes pls recommendations for paid snz content! ive been somewhat interested but not had a clue where to start (as someone who only rly listens to wavs on here)

of course! First off, it depends what your snz preference is (wet n messy, cute n stifled, harsh, etc.) cause tbh, that'll greatly influence your purchase decision more than anything else — but here's a buncha good ones that I like (and most of them are women sooo sorry if you're into guys 😅)

From Clips4sale: Eliza Bea — super cute and sweet alt girl with a large variety of affordable snz clips, I especially love her scenarios and pre-snz face 💕 Princ3ss Kira — beautifully thicc with strong, spraying sneezes to match. Older clips are on the pricier side, so i'd recommend getting the ones on sale on Manyvids. Her "super sick sneezes" is my fav vid of all time. Madonna Summers — gorgeous bombshell with bomb sneezes. Literally, cause they're explosive! Ama Rio — the chhinkni queen, never fails to induce a dizzying fit every time. Alexis Rain — a studio that gets a variety of girls (and a few guys!) to try vials of chhinkni! Their reactions and interactions are actually quite wholesome haha. My favourites are Tylee, Sushii, and Vanessa :) From Manyvids: Blow Mia — has uniquely powerful rapid sneezes, always knocks it out of the park, she even has a free vid up for you to sample! LuluLoe — definitely on the raunchier side, but never have I heard such desperate, breathless sneezes 😩 plus honourable mention to @debachoory 's patreon, you rock 👏 happy exploring! and some tips — on their stores there's filter buttons to search just sneezing (cause they make other content too), and your best bet is finding clips where they use chhinkni if you want the most bang for your buck. Some peeps aren't good at inducing and only sneeze a few times. You'll generally know if the content is good if they actually put effort in their previews/branding/scenario descriptions.

[norwoodx]

Pathetic Poetic Lines

I can’t stop mumbling terrible words to myself again! In the back of my mind, the taunting begins. A steady stream, mellifluous, cruel, and unkind. New waves of self-loathing, each thought at a time. 

You’ll lose their attention, hurry, keep it quick! My ugliness makes me sick! My face is distorted and asymmetric. My wants of vanity are egocentric. I want eyes that are bold and electric. I want lips that are plush and eccentric.

My lists for change are numeric— it's barbaric! Fucking rips me apart, makes me hysteric!

I’m smoking weed till I can’t focus, Drinking liquor till my body’s explosive. Doesn’t matter, these thoughts are more corrosive.

Galvanizing and pursuing with muskets. My heart pounds begging for justice! Demanding emancipation from all of us.

I’m starting to understand suicide— shame that’s bottled up, sealed and tied. This truth shouldn’t be spoken; I’m an idiot to try. It would just sound like a buncha pathetic poetic lines.

[j-hauke]

So I tried to write a chat fic for cod, I'm not a very good writer so I gave up but I thought maybe someone would think it was funny so here you all go have fun with this mess (let me know if the Spanish is right, I had to use google translate)

Soap created a group chat Added Ghost, added Price, added Gaz, added Alejandro, added Rudy, added Laswell, added Graves, added König

Soap: how come penguins can be gay but cows can’t be lesbian?

Ghost: what the fuck

Price: did you create a group chat just for this?

Gaz: I set the microwave on fire

Laswell: YOU DID WHAT!?

Rudy: how?

Gaz: I wanted ice cream but it was frozen so I warmed up the spoon

Graves: dumbass

Alejandro: cállate gilipollas puñaladas por la espalda!

Graves: I don’t speak Taco Bell

Alejandro: TACO BELL!??!

Rudy: calm down

König: what is happening

Soap: beautiful chaos

Price: cut it out

Gaz: yes dad

Price: I’m not your father

Soap: already know your lines

Rudy: Hermano, are you ok?

König: I’m not

Ghost: we know

Soap: I’m good

Soap changed Rudy to mother hen

Mother hen: I’ll accept it

Laswell: get back to work boys and Kyle we are going to have a talk later

Ghost: who ate my soup

Ghost: smart you knew I’d never forgive you

Price: it’s 2 am why are you eating soup

Ghost: someone ate my soup, I’ll find them and kill them

Soap: I’ll buy you more just go to bed

Ghost: it was you wasn’t it

Soap: unless it’s chicken noodle I’m not touching it

Price: bed both of you

Soap changed price to Daddy

Daddy: no

Ghost: fits

Gaz: some people are trying to get their beauty rest

Soap: you need it

Laswell: bed

Soap: alright alright going to bed

Graves: one time in a dream I dreamed that I was gay

Alejandro: you like fingers in your ass

Mother hen: so do you

Gaz: L

Soap: buncha hoes

Laswell: keep it tactical boys

Daddy: I’m the backbone of this household

Laswell: you have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair

König: What is an eclair?

Soap: frozen dessert thing, it’s French I think

Graves: it’s a bread thing filled with custard with a frosting on top

König: I’ve never had one

Mother hen: I’ll look for them next time I’m at the store

Gaz: I’m so good looking

Soap: hello 999, this bitch is on fire

Alejandro: damn there was no reason to kill him

Ghost: he’s not wrong

Daddy: behave

Soap: sorry dad

Gaz added Alex

Alex: hi

Daddy: hey Alex

Alex: wtf

Gaz: it’s price

Alex: that’s even more concerning

Daddy: soap changed it and I’ve no idea how to change it

Ghost: it doesn’t need to be changed

Alex changed soap to lil shit

Lil shit: hey!

Gaz: he’s not wrong

Daddy: what happened

Alex: HE SET MY MUSTACHE ON FIRE

Lil shit: it was funny!

Daddy: soap

Lil shit: I can feel your disappointment

Daddy: room now and no explosions for a month

Lil shit: but what about on a mission

Ghost: I’ll do it

[kfkr1ze]

[002-B02] A Scary Sentai World is too Excessive!

Summary — ✈︎ Akuta confidently announces his concept for their first tour, but the other students are confused by how incoherent the proposal is.

Characters — ✈︎ Akuta, Kiroku, Nanaki, Muneuji, Ushio, Sakujiro

Location: HAMA Tours Meeting Room

Kaede: Umm, what is this…?

Akuta: EHHH!? What’s with that reaction!? No matter how you look at it, that’s clearly our tour concept!

Kaede: R-Right…

Nanaki: This is the concept proposal, right? There’s something like a crab…? Drawn on the corner of it.

Akuta: It’s not “something like a crab”, it’s the Monstrous Ultra Smooth Meat Bun Crab! Stop it guuuys, now I’m worried it’s too vague!

Kiroku: I… like this… drawing…

Ushio: Well this isn’t an art exhibit, so.

Sakujiro: Let us move on from the topic of the art. Rather, the real problem is the content of the proposal.

Akuta: ‘Kayyy, then I’ll get on with my explanation. Let’s turn to page one!

Muneuji: There’s only one sheet of paper.

Akuta: First up is the concept. I wanted to do a heart racing action scene with a buncha fwooms and bwaams! That kinda feeling is fine, right?

And all the guests can be action stars too! You get it? See? Everytime I think about it, I get too excited!

Akuta: That’s why the title is “The Touring Sentai Kankou[1] Rangers!〜 Revenge of the Monstrous Ultra Smooth Meat Bun Crab〜” Opening scene〜!

Ushio: Rangers…?

Muneuji: Now that I think about it, the other day he was making a big deal about us watching some Tokusatsu Sentai series. I believe he bought a subscription?

Akuta: So at Asu High, the HUUUGE Monstrous Ultra Smooth Meat Bun Crab makes his attack! His favorite snack is the brains and flesh of tourists!

Kaede: (This worldview of his is way too excessive…!)

Akuta: He’ll crush the school building! There are explosions! The students and parents are trying to escape. And, when all hope seems lost, someone calls out for help!

And that’s when we, “The Touring Sentai Kankou Rangers”, appear in a flash and save everyone!

I already got our colors down. I’m gonna be Kankou Orange! Kiroku is Purple and Nanaki is Turquoise! Pink is Muneuji and then Ushio is Lime!

Oh right, in the debut scene, when the explosion goes off, the smoke that comes out is gonna be in our five image colors. Like your stereotypical Sentai scene!

So after that, we defeat the Monstrous Ultra Smooth Meat Bun Crab, and then peace will return to Asu High for another day… BUTーー

Kaede: Wait um, before we continue, what’s with the Hishio-don thing right here?

Akuta: The ones we had the other day were SOOO good, so I drew it there as a bonus.

Nanaki: That literally has nothing to do with the concept.

Akuta: Alrighty, I’m continuing on with the explanation!

Akuta: So at the end, we’ll do the BEST LIVE EVER with us rangers and the Monstrous Ultra Smooth Manjuu Crab and then we review aannd that’s the・end!

Well? What’dya think〜!?

Kaede: To summarize… is it fine to say the overall concept is a “Sentai Action”?

Akuta: That’s OKAY!

Nanaki: How long did it take you to think of this?

Akuta: Seconds?

Sakujiro: I believe the fact that you conjured this all up within seconds is somewhat praiseworthy, however… It is quite incoherent.

Akuta: Incoherent! YAYYAYY!!

Kaede: Sakujiro-san, Akuta-kun takes “incoherent” as a compliment…

Sakujiro: How insolent.

Ushio: Its favorite food being brains is too gross so that has to get changed. And why are there so many explosions? Why do you want everything to explode so much? I don’t get the point at all.

Akuta: ‘Cuz explosions are a piece of art〜

Kiroku: ……How will… you make… an explosion…?

Akuta: Isn’t that obvious? Clearly we’ll use the egg!

Muneuji: But it has already returned to the sea.

Kaede: An egg?

Nanaki: Ah uhーー It’s not a regular egg… It’s an egg shaped bomb . We saw something like that on dazzle.

Ushio: It’s just useless anime talk, so don’t worry about it. ‘Cuz we’re all dumb kids.

Kaede: (Even so, I wasn’t expecting a plan that flew this off the rails… I was too careless.)

(I should’ve checked in on him more… Maybe I could’ve caught this earlier on and kept him in check.)

Ushio: So? What’s our team name?

Akuta: I already said it! The Touring Sentai Kankou Rangers!

Ushio: T-That’s so fucking lame… I’m at a loss for words.

Kaede: (This is my responsibility. First, I got to get us out of this mess and get things sortedーー)

Nanaki: …Yeah, there’s no way we can go with this.

Kiroku: ………

Nanaki: First up, there’s no way we can make a gigantic ultra smooth crab. Not just that, but we can’t damage the school…

Akuta: Nonono, we’re not gonna ACTUALLY do it, it’s just an act!

Ushio: First day back and being forced to act in a show like this… Hell no.

Muneuji: Putting the willingness to act aside, will every person who comes to the school enjoy this concept?

People from all age and gender groups are gathering. Why not find a broader concept that they will all enjoy?

Ushio: How can you be sure that no one will get injured from the explosion? We won’t just be outcasted this time, our entire social lives will die.

I don’t think we should be exploding things so casually. For our own sake too.

Kiroku: …I feel like……you might’ve… forgotten……to think about… our budget.

Akuta: Uu……

Nanaki: As a concept, it’s not related to Asu High or HAMA in the first place.

Ushio: Don’t just come up with something on the fly. Take the time to actually think of a better concept.

Akuta: …T-This whole time you’ve all just been criticizing me! Even JJ Park will add a “but” to the end of his criticisms and actually praise people! Praise me more!

Muneuji: I’ve been trying to think of something praiseworthy this entire time, but I have not found anything yet.

Akuta: Whaaat…

Kiroku: ……I think… your drawings… were… really good……

Akuta: ………

Bathroom.

Kaede: A-Akuta-kun…!

(Akuta-kun’s expression looked unusually tense there… Maybe it’s best if we get a bit of fresh air before meeting again.)

ーーEveryone! It’s a bit early, but let’s take a lunch break.

Location: HAMA Tours Office Floor

Kaede: (What are you doing right now, Akuta-kun…)

Nanaki: ………

Kaede: Nanaki-kun, do you know if Akuta-kun’s in the conference room?

Nanaki: Uh… I don’t know.

Kaede: I see… Thanks anyways.

Nanaki: …Yeah.

Kaede: (I’ll just buy a bento box for him downstairs and try calling for him… I hope he cheers up.)

Location: HAMA Tours Back Wharf

Akuta: ………

Nanaki: Whaaat are you spacing out for?

Akuta: Woaooh!? Nanaki, you scared me!

Nanaki: Got you. …Can I sit on this elephant?

Akuta: Go right ahead〜 It’s not like I own it or anything.

Nanaki: …I thought you might be feeling a bit down after what happened earlier. You got criticized pretty badly.

Akuta: …Aah〜

Nanaki: I make music myself, so I can get it a bitーー

Anything you make yourself is like seeing your bare self. It can get scary exposing yourself like that to the public.

But y’know… Even if it’s not a perfect piece, you’ll never get anywhere unless you do expose yourself like that.

We became Ward Mayors in order to start all kinds of new things like that.

There’s bound to be tough spots along the way, and there definitely will be people who criticize you. Actually, it’s the overwhelming majority who do at firstーー

But no matter what, I think to myself, “I have to start somewhere” …It’s the same for you too.

Akuta: Heh.

Nanaki: ?

Akuta: Thank you! Nanaki, you're like some kinda kindness expert. But don’t worry, I’m not depressed at ALL!

In the first place, if people don’t get my good points at all, they’re the ones who are gonna make my charisma go awayーー

So I just gotta say bye bye to those people! Right? Isn’t it simple?

In this world, we have “the freedom to not understand each other.” That’s what my Uncle told me.

Nanaki: ….....

Pff… Hahahaha…! I was just worried for nothing. Of course you’re the stubborn type. How interesting.

Akuta: Buu・uut.

…This time, I don’t wanna say goodbye to you guys. It’s the easy way out, so I don’t wanna do that.

Nanaki: ………

Akuta: Oh, you want some? It’s super good. Kiroku came by earlier to give me some. He didn’t say anything, though.

Nanaki: Baby cookies… It’s very Kiroku-esque huh. Then, I’ll take some. Munch munch…

Akuta: Munch munch… By the way, you’re the one who’s gonna write our song for the Hospitality Live, right Nanaki?

Nanaki: Eh?

Akuta: Your music is literally THE BEST! I always wanted you to be the one who makes it!

Nanaki: Ahー…… Yeah, or wait no, I don’t…really care but… Nah, I have to think about it a bit more.

‘Cuz the truth is, I’m not really making music right now.

Akuta: EH!?? WHY!??

Nanaki: …‘Cuz I… lo…

Nanaki: I… I keep making… Love songs…

Akuta: Hahh〜!?

Nanaki: I wanna stop making them too, but like, I keep getting stuck in this loop, so I’ve been trying to keep my feelings in control, but…

Akuta: Wha〜t? I can’t hear what you mumbling, but we don’t need love songs y’know? Just make normal ones.

Nanaki: I know. Butーー Don’t you have something that you can’t help but think about, no matter if you’re awake or asleep?

Akuta: ………

Nanaki: That’s just what I feel like right now. But I could say the same thing about you…

The concept you came up with was just a mess that was filled with a buncha stuff you liked all over the place, right?

Maybe it’d be a good idea for you to take the idea you think about the most and use it as a base for the concept.

But not like movies or anything. Something a bit more internal, or personalーー

Akuta: Internal… Like what?

Nanaki: Likeーー L-Love troubles, or something…

Kaede: Ah, Akuta-kun and Nanaki-kun, there you are.

Nanaki: Ah……!?

Akuta: Ohh, Sensei!

Nanaki: T-That’s all I wanted to say, so I’m going now! Bye!

Kaede: …Nanaki-kun just left.

Akuta: Yeah. …Hm…

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Notes — ✈︎

For "The Touring Sentai Kankou Rangers" He says “Kankou” twice, once in kanji (観光) and once in katakana. It means tourism, so I decided to keep the “Kankou” in katakana as just kankou instead of trying to translate it twice, since afterwards he’s like I’m kankou orange ! For Enstars fans (sorry.) it’s kindaaa how people will say “ryuusei red” instead of “meteor red”

[whilomm]

these are claims from a different whistleblower than the one that was totally not murdered by boeing

(disclaimer, im not an expert and this article doesnt go into a ton of detail on the specific issues, so i could be a lil off, these are very much non-expert speculation rambles. anyone who understands better, feel free to correct me/add more deets).

if im reading it right these claims get into the way boeing has been outsourcing more and more manufacturing of parts to other companies, such as for the fuselage (the plane body as a whole, big tube u sit in). if those parts dont quite fit together right (and keep in mind the margins of error on these things can be VERY small in some cases, though im not sure exactly how much wiggle room they got here), that can lead to too much stress on certain parts.

like, for example, if one part of the fuselage is just baaaarely too big for the next part it connects to, it might all seem to fit together perfectly fine, but every time it takes off and lands or goes thru compression cycles (that is when they take off and land, going from low pressure-high pressure-low pressure), it just puts a BIT too much pressure on where they join. and over the years, that pressure just adds up until theres microscopic stress fractures, which become slightly larger stress fractures, until they get big enough that once a plane reaches a high enough altitude theres a midair disentegration, which is. exactly as bad as it sounds.

(sidenote: compression cycles can be more important for determining an airplanes lifespan than flight hours. the usual metaphor is bending a paperclip back and forth until it breaks, how many times can you bend it before metal fatigue sets in and it just snaps. holding it in a more bent position however will take a lot longer to snap it generally.)

now to be clear, every single plane has an intended service life, and its well known that planes can only take so many compression cycles before they start to get really hard to maintain without going kablooey. a plane may be rated for like, idk, 50k compression cycles (so, taking off and landing 50k times before its retired, because after that its no longer worth the maintenance vs just making a new plane). but if it turns out that plane has some flaw in its build that means itll develop fatal stress factures at only 20k cycles, well. thats bad. not sure exactly how the schedule on looking for stress factures looks like for maintenece crews (do they do it regularly for all planes on a set schedule? do they only do it occasionally for new planes, and start to ramp up checks as the plane gets older? dunno!) but well. generally speaking, a plane having a fatal flaw that gives it an explosive midlife crisis is Bad. i would hope theyd catch it! but i dont know enough about the deets of fuselage maintenence to know the specifics.

and OH YAY COMPOSITE MATERIALS. now, before anyone gets too freaked out thinking about the uh. submarine. use of composite materials is actually far more common on planes than on subs for a buncha reasons. one, planes just generally undergo a lot less in terms of pressure (that futurama joke, "this spaceship can handle between one and zero atmospheres", vs subs that have to deal with tens to potentially hundreds of atmospheres) but also because apparently, for complicated material engineering reasons, composite materials work much better under tension (high pressure INSIDE pushing OUT, like airplane) than under compression (high pressure OUTSIDE pushing IN, like submarine). heres a vid from someone who wrote their masters on composite materials under compression if you wanna hear from someone slightly smarter on the subject. im not gonna pretend like i understand the full deets, but "composites do OKAY with tension" is enough for me, go read the fancy scientific papers if you want more.

now, so that people do freak out at least a little bit: hm. dont like that they are using Way More Composite Than Usual on this plane. how much is the usual? idk, i assume composites are much more popular with low altitude small aircraft (bc well, weight and less pressure worries), dunno whats considered normal for high altitude longhaul crafts. but, apparently, the dreamliner is "more than usual". which, yeah cool, lighter weight airplanes use less fuel which is better for longhaul flights. is it. well tested enough though???

...anyway. im not an engineer, idk the full Deets, but well. havin lotsa fun hearing the engineers talk about how the parts of the giant metal skybirds dont fit together quite right and theyre using materials that fail more catastrophically than metal with less warning, experimentally, and we dont quiiiite have the data to know if. its a problem. thats really fun! LOVE hearing about how much theyre outsourcing parts, given how bad quality control of things as tiny as the titanium in some bolts or a little bit of the engine blades being not properly vacuum forged has lead to catastrophic failure in the past, and knowing how important sourcing of parts in airplanes is. all VERY yay!

[garlicboyart]

buncha oc things !!! from my ancient passion worldbuilding project. its a collab with my bestie @sawtheyellowsign ! shoutout

details for my fellers under the readmore (long and rambly warning because i am so normal)

the guy with red hair in mostly green is my main guy! his name is haidan (no last name bc. i dont know yet) i guess you could say he's the protagonist, but there's not really a set story so he's just kind of the one i've thought the most about lmao. he's something like a beastkin... human with animal features! in his case he's mammalian, specifically a squirrel or pine marten. he's got magic too, which is a bit rare for where he's from, and his especially is explosive and hot, which does not mix well with his temper. his main struggle is controlling it, which he is not good at doing, even with guidance from his mentor- who teaches him bad coping mechanisms and makes him worse. fun

shveknja or nja (pronounced NEEa or nya) is one of haidan's closest friends! she's the one in the first two pictures. she's known him since he was seven and moved to her village to escape the war. her family is from the north, but she was born in a southern village and has lived there all her life. she has the reputation of the crazy bird lady because of her love for avian things, especially the mistrusted species of vulture known to be wards of a particularly dangerous spirit/goddess. she befriended one and named it rhannik. i love her a lot!! shes pookie

last but not least we have mirko, the fur-collar-coat guy. hes pretty terrible.. and yet. he's also from the north, born and raised, and came down to fight in the war. he has a past of warfare knowledge and did a lot of hijacking shipping lines and ambushing infantry groups. he met haidan and saw a lot of potential in his residual anger and explosiveness (literally) and offered to teach him what he already knew from experience. essentially, he brought strategy and calculated fighting to someone who was throwing himself into fighting with no direction other than anger. this helped and hurt on many different levels! 

the world itself is a complicated one, but for minor context/vibes it’s in a sort of medieval-smashed-with-steampunk era on a not-earth set of continents. the year is somewhere in the 500s last i checked. i might go into it more in some other post but this is mostly about my main 3 characters!! thank you for reading<3 

[pkmnathlete]

What's up?

元気? It's your soon-to-be Pokéathlon Medalist Extraordinaire, Haruto (that's 陽翔, for you kanji fanatics)! Out on the field, they also call me Helios, the shining sun. Choose as you wish! I'm 23, and I go by he/him!

This soaring star's origin story all begins in Johto's Goldenrod City! I stuck around the home rather than journeying to take care of my old man after he got injured at sea, but I spent a buncha time in the National Park, running circles around those local Beedrill!

Since then, my accomplishments include serving as a Gym Trainer for Gym Leader Bugsy, studying Sports Psychology at Naranja-Uva Academy all the way out in Paldea, and now starting my journey as a Pokéathlete!

My main team is full of little guys I've met full of fightin' spirit: Sunny, the Sunkern who's gonna go all the way, Peepy, my hardboiled little Togepi, and Ommy, my cool, calm, and collected Meditite!

I've also got my old gym team with me: Slicey-Dicey, who's really sweet once you get past the scissor hands, Pewwy, who's a bit explosive, and Stabby, who's got, like... zero chill. She's hella fast though!

Looking forward to seeing you all on the training field! Later, rivals! (OOC below cut.)

General warning for unreality of the Pokémon variety!

Hello, it's Ace of @aceoflilies (she/he) out here with yet another Pokéblog! Both mod (21) and muse are adult, if uncomfortable with that feel free to block!

I decided to make Haruto since I realized there's not much coverage of Pokéathlons here, and I recently spent several months in the Kansai region of Japan, where Johto is based off of! As such, Haruto will sometimes use "Kantonian" (Japanese). I'll put translations in the tags. (I should mention, I am NOT Japanese myself. Let me know if I absolutely mess something up, I'll fix it.)

Haruto is mostly going to be low-stakes, but has some (moderate) darker aspects to his background that might be explored in mini-arcs. Any specifics would be warned and tagged, of course! (I'm also open to involving him in medium-to-high-stakes Johto events!)

He's also more than a bit of a flirt. I won't direct that on other blogs that aren't my own without asking first though! And though I'll generally avoid explicit content, if something is suggestive it'll be tagged as such (#suggestive).

Anyways, that aside, I use the usual tags: #pkmn irl and #pokeblogging. Asks will be tagged as #haruto answers. OOC notes will be tagged as #//(content).

Hope you enjoy him!

[aggrus]

Theme: Plasma

Setting: Western Sea

"D'you hear what happened? Apparently one of baron Tess' lightning engines went all super critical or something. Ain't got any cause for it."

I was there. And I'll tell ya what happened. Someone got a lil too big for their britches and started messin' with things they shouldn't of been.

"Hosswash you was there. How'd you make it outta there without dyin' or gettin' burned? You could see that smoke cloud from Sugardew or, hell, even from Tulson."

That's cause I weren't a stupid cuss who went messin' with nature how it shouldn't be. You ever wonder how they make them lightning engines? It ain't just through engineerin' and manpower. You gotta get somethin' to make that energy for you to use. They all got these bluey crystals in 'em hooked up to a buncha pipes and wires and clamps to keep 'em steady. They bleed out power like a stuck pig. But it don't last forever.

"Whatcha mean? They toss 'em?"

Yeah. Drain 'em dry then chuck 'em in the sand. Of course I don't think they're too happy about that if'n they really think at all. All I know is that this time, right when they were about to swap it out for a new one, a whole bunch a sirens started blarin'. They were loud enough for me to hear out on a dingy siftin' the sands. Now I don't know what went on in there but I saw the faces of the fellows and ladies that made it outta that explosion. All streaked in blue and shellshocked lookin'. The sounds that machine was lettin' out I ain't too surprised. Even with the sirens I could hear metal scrapin' and bendin' before the whole thing went up in smoke. A big bolt a lightning shot up into the sky and turned the whole thing white. I ain't never seen anythin' like it.

And that sound it let out? Well I'd swear the lightning were alive.

[gotmyass2marz]

most strangely terrifying dream ive had in a while:

i was on some kinda vacation with my grandparents (wasnt clear where we actually were, but it kinda switched between staying at a house and camping) and it was getting near 4th of july, so there was bound to be a ton of fireworks. we drove out somewhere to look at them all, while it was still daytime, and we went somewhere where everything was just. inexplicably dark outside. even when it was still daytime. at first i thought there was some weird solar eclipse-ish thing going on i never heard about, but i looked up and saw there was just. No Fucking Sun And Moon. they were just Gone. but what DID i see? i saw this weird fuckin thing in the sky that looked kinda like the moon, only shrouded with what looked like the shadow of a button. my first instinct was to just point at and yell “HOLY SHIT CORALINE REFERENCE” and not too long afterward it just kinda,,,,,,,, fell out of the sky with a buncha weird colorful sparkles trailing behind it. and made this huge fucking BOOM. not like a loud explosive one you have to cover yr ears for, but like. one that makes your organs shake. and is associated with like. nuclear bullshit. so we drove back all thinking “huh. that was fuckin weird huh” AND EVERYTHING WAS JUST GOING DOWN IN FUCKING FLAMES. and thats when it all fell together. someone just set off the most dangerous firework known to man. one that shrouds everything around it in darkness when it launches into the sky. one thats powerful enough to set an Entire Fucking Neighborhood on fire. also it was revealed near the end that the people who made + set off the firework were a bunch of Cool Engineer Dudes who were working on a bunch of other projects nearby. and everyone was super hyped for those projects like they DIDNT FUCKIN LEARN WHAT THEYRE CAPABLE OF FROM THAT FIREWORK

tl;dr: i was traumatized by the most terrifying physically impossible firework just for everyone to shrug it off like it was a normal occurrence