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“His name is Lucien.”
I would like more of Elain verbally cutting a bitch down on Lucien’s behalf, please Sarah, I beg of you. I want Elain to be hissy and protective over him. It’s what he deserves.
#pro elucien#elucien#lucien x elain#elain x lucien#Last post of the night#just many thoughts about this series lmao
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Random doodles from the last 3 weeks
#last post of the night#doodle#yippee#art#turbotastic#turbo#turbo wreck it ralph#king candy#bbg#king candy wreck it ralph#king candy cybug#turbo twins#turbotime#gloyd orangeboar
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THE BEATLES. 1965.
#last post of the night#here are the bug boys themselves!#the beatles#john lennon#paul mccartney#george harrison#ringo starr#1960s#60s#1965#non edits
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If you want, and only if you want to, could you explain about making Logistics a big part of Ice's career path? Not only did fit so well with your Ice's characterization, it was just so neat I've made it my HC for Ice's career path.
yes!
I got REALLy deep into the defense policy weeds in this post so I’m putting a cut to save people’s dashboards
1. when i was rewriting chapters 8 &9 last winter i did literally the bare minimum of research about the current set of high-level officers. the commander of the pacific fleet at the time had previously been the director of pacific fleet logistics ordnance & supply. So that was easy to yoink. a proven chain of succession.
2. but also: it fit ice’s (or his alter ego admiral Kazansky’s) neat, orderly, effective, collected, strategic characterization. And as professional tactics go, there would be no better promotion for a high-level officer looking to take over the fleet than DFLOS. understand the fleet by the numbers, you comprehensively understand the fleet.
3. In terms of secret-keeping logistics, ice is supposed to be kind of the best. like, because of his logistical thinking, he & maverick get away with it. Or that’s how I would’ve written it if I were a little smarter. Obviously in practice a bunch of people find out so it’s not great. but the navy AS A WHOLE doesn’t find out.
4. The field of military logistics is rigorously bureaucratic, boring, soulsucking, selfdefeating, notoriously corrupt, and yet entirely necessary for the military to succeed at any level (in the very first draft of WWGATTAI i included a famous US marine corps maxim that most people have heard at some point: “amateurs talk tactics. professionals talk logistics.” but that was literally the only good thing about the original chapter 6 which got entirely rewritten a month after i published it). So logistics as a field of specialization fit in perfectly with my secondary character thesis that rising through the boring bureaucratic ranks of the Navy sucked all the humanity & will to live out of ice one day at a time.
a couple related interesting things that I’ve never talked about on this blog & might never get the chance to again:
a) ice canonically joins the navy as a fighter pilot & ends his career as a glorified bureaucrat. that sucks. obviously the struggle to rise in the ranks is a notoriously cutthroat, political, sleazy business (you do not get to the top of the United States Navy by being nice to people), but i would also not be the first person to say that—for exemplary officers—leadership is an EXPECTATION that can counterbalance someone’s natural drive to excel, if that makes sense. You get promoted because you’re good at something (flying), but you get promoted away from the thing you were good at. There is an extent to which you have to fight for a promotion—but there is also an extent to which commanders above you pick you for the job, suck you up along the pipeline. Loss of agency—a major major component of joining the military—does still apply to upper-level officers.
B) to that end, i am reminded of one quote from Todd Schmidt’s 2023 book “Silent Coup of the Guardians: US Military Elite Influence on National Security.” This is an Army training & doctrine commander speaking: “the military has a lot of two- and three-star senior leaders that were confident, charismatic commanders at the O-6 level. But that’s the end of the story. One in fifty, maybe one in a hundred, truly have what it takes to operate successfully at the strategic level and make a real difference for their service. The problem is that they all tend to think that, since they have stars on their shoulders, they’re the one.” —I’ve been writing ice as “The Chosen One,” the officer unicorn, for two reasons: one, it provides him cover for his illegal relationship (and also asks an interesting chicken-egg question: does he get away with his rlnship because he’s so good, or is he so good JUST to get away with his relationship?); and two, he’s “the chosen one” in canon, i.e. he already has four stars in canon: canonically he is not a mediocre officer. But most officers (cough cough maverick) are not cut out for high-level leadership.
C.) in Thomas E. Ricks’ book “The Generals,” Ricks argues that (at least in the Army) mediocrity in the general/flag officer ranks is unfortunately by design. In WWII, if you were a mediocre officer, you got relieved! You got fired! It’s part of why we won: merciless culling of the general officer ranks! But between WWII and Korea, officer relief began to be associated with shame & wasted resources. Mediocre officers got promoted anyways. The military elite pipeline sucks mediocrity up the chain of command. Ricks blames this issue for (at least the Army’s) shit leadership in every post-WWII war, including but most especially Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s no penalty for mediocrity. That in turn reflects on military strategy (mediocre strategists at the helm) & the outcome of every military foray (mediocre outcomes).
D) additionally. There’s a whole neverending debate in the field of civil-military relations (an extremely interesting field of study btw) about the corporatization of the military—lots of high-level talk over the years of “running the military like a business.” If you get kinda into defense policy like me (am i still antimilitary? Idk! but i CAN easily tell you i am against the navy’s littoral combat ship program! It sucks!) then you will know that the navy is struggling right now on a lot of different fronts (procurement [shipbuilding esp. is a disaster—ford-class carriers are under budget though 👍🏽], recruitment, theatre prioritization, general preparedness, readiness against major adversaries [China in particular]). Simply, the navy is pretty mediocre at the minute. I talk a big game about ice being COMPACFLT & SECNAV, but if those are true, & if he “exists” in our current timeline, or even canon timeline (COMPACFLT in 2020), then he’s complicit in a lot of why the navy is sucking ass right now. He didn’t do his job very well. LOL. So, because I love (especially my version of) ice too much to see his legacy suffer, I am stating for the record that my timeline is a different timeline where ice saves the navy from itself and fixes all its issues & solves all its problems & makes it the pride of the armed forces & the tip of the spear of American defense :) because I said so
E.) unrelated but important. It sounds obvious but it must be said. Ice dies on the job in TGM canon. To the extent that in earlier drafts of the script, not-his-sister-Sarah even points out to maverick that ice is still active duty, in the same breath as she tells him ice is sick again. (A wise move to remove that line.) ice does not resign his commission. Ice does not retire to spend time with his family at the end of his life. Ice dies as commander of the pacific fleet. He dies on the job; he dies FOR the job, bureaucratic as it is. If you were wondering why I wrote ice so dormantly suicidal, it’s because canon (i argue) has made it clear that—since the second ice signed up to be a fighter pilot during the Cold War to the second he died active duty—ice has ALWAYS been ready and willing to die for his honorable Navy career.
#so imagine what would have happened had he been publicly dishonored 😶#It’s also why i interrupted his SECNAV tenure with his cancer#to pay respects to compacflt Ice having the same thing happen to him#my Ice is built different tho. it doesn’t kill him#he retires to spend time with his family ☺️#unlike selfish asshole canon ice ‼️🤬#/s#this post gets DEEP into it but i find this stuff sooo interesting#got really into defense policy & missing the forest for the trees#i will admit that#military bad? yes but.#but defense policy so interesting anyway.#tom iceman kazansky#top gun#top gun maverick#icemav#edts notes#asks#last post of the night
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MJF, the model.
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I've been trans since 4th grade and my mom still thinks I'm just a "tomboy".
(Vent under cut)
She says, "because I think you might still be attracted to guys, not that it has anything to do with it..." IT CLEARLY DOES. COME ON DUDE.(and yes, I do like guys. *pulls up picture of all of my fictional (and real) 'crushes')*I want them as father figures*
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no but the way deni$e kept trying to talk to orym about dorian (and aimee confirmed this was her fishing for dorym) i have this clear image in my head of deni$e finding the crownkeepers, IMMEDIATELY bitching out dariax, and then pulling a dumbstruck dorian aside and saying, "orym says he misses you a lot and between you and me i think he's sweet on you"
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I feel like i missed this one, and that is very upsetting because damn! 👁🫦👁
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Maybe the real speaker of the house was the feeinds we made along the way
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@cxffeeshxp X
Oh. That was an outside thought. That was meant to be an inside thought. Fuck, the lack of sleep is gonna get him in trouble.
“I…I mean, uh…”
His brain stalled on what to say, Kit just staring at them doesn’t help.
#and the cards read as such {ic}#had to have high high hopes for a living {muse: miles tails prower}#cxffeeshxp#I thought I replied awhile ago but apparently not lmao#last post of the night
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I passed the exam I mentioned in my Wednesday prompt! Now I only have one semester left to survive!!!
amazing!! good job and actually perfect timing because i just posted a response with the fic! i hope you enjoy and also give yourself a well deserved rest
you can make it through your last semester!
lumine
#lumine talks to ppl#lumine answers asks#last post of the night#lumine is a tired disaster who can't type atm lol
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ChildBurger fact #1
The owner's name is Charlotte and she doesn't like humans :3
She herself is not a human. She calls herself a "concept" and will refuse to explain further. She's definitely ah, different.
#ChildBurger!#CBAU?!#Also she has one arm (missing left one) and glowing white eyes because why wouldn't she#She uses she/it hehe#You'll see her someday :3#last post of the night#I've made like 6 posts today jeez#I need to get a life#I MEAN IT WHEN I SAY THIS'LL BE EDGY AND DUMB
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The Daily Show | Nov. 6 2024
#if you reblog this post and add your commentary to it#disagreeing with the sentiment expressed in it I will block you#<3#m*#desi lydic#the daily show#us politics#american politics#us elections#donald trump#kamala harris#tvedit#userstream#userbbelcher#filmtvtoday#filmtvedit#filmtvdaily#tvsource#smallscreensource#dailytelevision#dailytvfilmgifs#dailytvgifs#comedygifs#btw the last time trump won I got really into american late#night television as a coping mechanism#1k#2k#4k#6k#8k
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Bruce Wayne except he texts like an ominous boomer
wdym you can't tell if he's threatening them?
Based on this post by @mysterycitrus :)
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Happy birthday, Tim 🥰
#duke thought for a minute he was gonna become the protagonist of get out#u can interpret this as bruce suddenly deciding to text like this#or his children just never getting used to it even after 10+ years of knowing him#bruce: i dont understand why my children are so paranoid#clark: last night you texted me ''see you soon...'' and i wasnt sure if you were threatening me or not#social media au#batfam#batfamily#dc comics#bruce wayne#dick grayson#cassandra cain#jason todd#stephanie brown#tim drake#duke thomas#damian wayne#incorrect quotes#tweets#texts#twitter#batdad#batkids#batman#fanatical posting#crack
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