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Based on reality...ish.
After seeing this post, @elizabethgoudge wondered:
"Wasn't there a real prototype like the Hydra plane in Captain America?"
TL:DR -Yes, there was. Indeed there were several, though "real" is a bit bit up in the air (or not, considering that none of these things ever flew...)
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"Captain America: The First Avenger" based some of its hardware on four or maybe even five Nazi-era prototypes, "real" in the sense of having a nebulous existence as sketches, blueprints, or concept / wind-tunnel models.
The film's design department clearly knew their stuff. They may have used other things instead or as well (there were so MANY), so the following is just my own speculation, based on many years of making many model kits :->
The Hydra mini-sub...
...seems based on a cross between the (real) "Seehund" midget submarine...
...and the design-concept Focke-Wulf Ta 283 ramjet aircraft.
Red Skull's escape plane, though never clearly visible...
...wasn't just based on but WAS a Focke-Wulf Triebflügel ("powered wings" - meaning the ramjet-driven rotor blades around its waist).
This was a proposed tail-sitter VTOL interceptor where taking off straight up might (?) have been possible, but landing straight down and backwards would invite all sorts of unwanted excitement.
It also made a brief background appearance in "Loki".
The Valkyrie flying wing…
…was based on, and hugely upscaled from, the Horten H.XVIII, one of many pie-in-the-sky "Amerikabomber" projects.
Resemblance to a Northrop YB-35 (props) / YB-49 (jets)...
…is coincidence based on form-follows-function, since - and rather importantly - the Northrop planes were built for use by the US Air Force, not the Luftwaffe (though given the way some plotlines went, their use by Hydra is another matter…)
The flying bombs which it carried...
...seem based partly on a Messerschmitt Me 334 project fighter...
...and partly on a Sombold So 344 bomber-destroyer, which had the same detachable-bomb arrangement.
The So 344's explosive nose was meant to be launched into a formation of Allied bombers, after which - despite aerodynamics now wildly out of whack and a bunch of angry escort fighters in hot pursuit - the piloted part would land safely.
Yeah, right...
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Despite "what if...?" suggestions on the "History" Channel that one or other of these contraptions could have "won WW2", they didn't even help to lose it less severely.
IMO their probable main purpose was to keep numerous engineers and designers safe(-ish) with pencil and ruler in workshops and at drawing boards, rather than very much not safe with rifle and grenade on some bomb-and-bullet-swept front line.
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Besides the midget submarine, there's one other exception to all this based-on-paper stuff, and that's Red Skull's car...
...whose inspiration seems to have been the Mercedes Benz W31 G4 heavy staff car and a Hispano Suiza H6A limousine custom-built in 1923 for the King of Spain.
All of which goes along with my own notion, that starting with a real - or merely "real" - object is a great way to make fantasy objects look, and sound in description, more convincing.
Or, as @dduane says, "The more truth you mix with a lie, the stronger it gets..."
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#captain america the first avenger#hydra vehicles#based on reality#research#mix fact with fiction#diane duane
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from "11 POEMS—TITLES BY AZIZ SHIHAB—FROM HIS NOTEBOOKS" as featured in Naomi Shihab Nye's Transfer: Poems
#aziz shihab#naomi shihab nye#when one is so far from home life is a mix of fact and fiction#words#poetry#typography#on storytelling#palestinian literature
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I finally get it... I finally get the toxic yuri of Jordana and Sora... I am thinking many thoughts... maybe very toxic one-sided and unreciprocated feelings that Jordana mixes in with her hatred for Sora... she DESPISES this girl but every time she thinks of her her stomach churns and aches and her heart hatefully longs... I GET IT !!!
#fun fact mixing in your own yearning with fictional characters! it helps !!!#ninjago#ninjago dragons rising#raine's rambles#they need a shipname stat !!!#raspberryshipping#bc thats what ajax calls them
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hi I really love your spec bio hornet designs it’s amazing how much detail goes into this
:O!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Hornet's designs are some of my favorites to workshop and refine, and I'm really glad you like them! Like I said before, the possibilties for her are endless, both for her external and internal structures. Capturing details that are both logical from what we know about her and real life spider while then fitting that knowledge into her design is something I'll always love about the process A small collect of roughs for the eyes:
Again, thank you so much for send this, it's really sweet to hear :}
#hollow knight#hornet hk#ask#needlebeetles#my art#thank you#That being said I how much I have to say about Hornet's possible biology OMGA; I shall save it for now...#Though I will say the reason I like bio spec-ing Hornet so much because she's just the right blend of real bio and fictional bio#Since we know she's a spider we have a real life reference to go off of#However with her beinng part Wyrm now have to take what we know about them into amount#So while we disect what makes a Wyrm a Wyrm we also have a reference a thing to contrast that biology#In short: There's hard facts about spiders and speculations with Wyrms; mixing the two is incredibly fun
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#mixed feelings about liam attending louis’ show#i do love when the boys support each other#and god knows how loyal these two have been to each other#liam has been the most supportive of louis and vice versa#and as louis has said: they’re the only ones who know what they went through in the band and that’s something that will always tie them to#*together#but i read maya’s article about her book#and listen. i know it’s written as fiction. but i know for a fact fiction is a way to process things#she was what? 18? she was very young#a lot of what she describes is heartbreaking#i don’t like the way some people are painting her as a money hungry villain (literally what the fuck???)#y’all like it or not these men aren’t perfect#they’ve fucked up in the past and have hurt people#there is nothing wrong with acknowledging that#dismissing maya’s experience just because you love him won’t change anything#he’s louis’ friend but just because he’s HIS friend doesn’t mean i owe him loyalty#i also want to clarify i don’t hate him#just putting my thoughts out there#actually prepared to get attacked for this but it’s okay#logan.txt
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yesterday star sent me a tweet she saw where someone was like "the gayz choosing their fated path of becoming a himejoshi or a fujoshi in 2016" with the two anime at that divergent point being flip flappers and yuri on ice, and i still haven't stopped thinking about that. i want that tweet framed on my wall forever.
#yet another moment in my life when i did NOT realize i was at the precipice of a point of no return but at least the outcome here was fun#though truthfully i would Not call myself a himejoshi. tho if himedanshi is like the equivalent (like fudanshi for fujoshi)#fun fact abt me is that i mixed up himejoshi and yumejoshi for a very long time tho#anyway. i do enjoy reading abt fictional women. this is known#花話
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#the fact that this needs to be said#cerebral palsy and#all two dozen disabilities#from my facebook group#spasticity#mixed cerebral palsy#my oc has my disabilities#writing fictional entities who represent my neuropsychology
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Can I have 17, 28 and 30 for the label game?
Thank you so much 🥰
Sure! I'll just continue with KnB. :D
17. Wished had less screentime: Hmm. I don't have an easy answer for this, so I'm going to look at it another way: Sakurai. (Listen, everyone, before you get ready to knock me cold.) I wish he had less of the kind of screentime he has. I wish he was portrayed differently, and not as a joke, because he's clearly very traumatized, and it's not hard to picture what kind of past and/or present he would have. It really irks me that he's basically just a comic relief, I find it a really tasteless kind of joke. It's really like a slap in the face for people who've been through certain kinds of abuse.
28. I would be besties with them: Uughh, noo, I don't want to be friends with any of these characters, I just want to write them. This is getting too personal for me. How about I put it this way: I would welcome any real person in my life who closely resembled Kagami, Furihata, Momoi, Kise, Takao, Izuki or Murasakibara. They all have qualities my current or past close friends already have, so it would seem like a good match.
30. Straight up enemies with this character: Same logic as before. I'm sure I would be enemies with someone who used the tactics of Hanamiya, Haizaki or for heaven's sake, Akashi's father.
Sorry I butchered all the questions, V. It seems that I have already used my tolerance for blurring reality and fiction for today. (It's a low tolerance.)
#thanks V#sorry i'm a bore#it's my literal brain#i also have a deep dislike for mixing fact and fiction in a way that isn't distinguishable#like historical fiction about a historical figure really gets on my nerves#i just want reality and fiction to remain separate#i love clarity#these are probably at least in part the things that make it so hard for me to put myself in a fictional setting
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Jay "The Crow" Finch ability: Crow Network
If you feed crows enough, they eventually become your friends and start bringing you little gifts, and sometimes if someone is giving you grief, they'll give that person grief. Crows are smart and recognize faces.
Sometimes the little gifts they bring Jay are clues, whether on purpose or on accident, its hard to tell. And if they know he's hunting for someone, they'll find his target for him and essentially guide him towards them.
Crows can also mimic sounds, so they can occasionally confuse or fool targets.
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Recent Alex Turner
#recent of Alex and L in New York#posted 29/12/2023#apparently he took her to nyc as a birthday present#alex turner#via Louise’s insta#miles only liking the second post 😅#for some reason Kirsten O‘malleys ‘’boy did good’’ on the previous post really gets me#I really wanna know if Miles texted Alex something along the lines of nice hat or you look cold after seeing the pic#why does his hat look like AM merch 😭#is he fr hiding with a hat with the name of his band#it’s the same cap he wore in the paparazzi pics from Italy this year#during the bands time off between continents#the cap says Larry sanders show it’s ’a satire on Showbusiness that mixes fact with fiction’#one account replied to am Japan posting the pic that they hate that people take pictures of Alex out in public without his permission#‘bro looks so annoyed looking at the camera’ 🤣 he does somewhat forget to smile often when pictured with her
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Wanted to read this book about the German navy before my trip to Norway this year so I'd already know a bit when visiting museums but have completely forgotten about it until now ... guess I'll have to catch up on the entirety of German naval actions 1939-1945 in two days huh
#also the book is such a weird mix of historical facts and short fictional episodes#like the author describing dönitz's exact reaction to england's war declaration. yeah sure buddy guess you were there in the room with him#»Verdammt! Also wieder gegen England. Daß mir das noch mal passieren muß« yeah sure. of course he said that. and did everyone clap too?#⚓
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you ever just be saying shit and suddenly realize that 13yo you was actually kinda really goin through it?
#personal;#was bitching about the shitty adoptive narrative that so often shows up in books to the (adopted) gf#(aka the moment they find out they decide the family they loved and cherished until that moment was just lying and manipulating them)#and it shifted to the fact that Eve's adopted and never ONCE did I consider her NOT thinking of her family as her FAMILY#even when it's dysfunctional (their Original Fiction had parental abuse I've since scrapped)#And just realized This Evening that I was trying to explore like three different traumas all at once#with a complexity I did not know or comprehend at that age#and I can suddenly understand why I never managed to write much of it at all ever#it's STILL hard for me to write anything to do with my Issues from being mixed race-#I've had a blank gdoc for it with Eve in ffxiv for 2.5 years now and every time I try to open it I get a lump in my throat#and 13yo me didn't even know I had that issue. I didn't know until today that I had that issue by then#I was writing a narrative where I could damn myself but at least there was someone who refused to give up no matter what#even if they damned themselves in the end#damn no WONDER i kin Homura#I've made myself feel things I think it'd bedtime
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I will admit upfront that this is just 100% me being bitter, and probably a bit petty, not to mention basically just repeating myself since I’ve said stuff like this before in previous posts, but as a biracial person, I really wish that there was more representation/recognition of biracial people, and the mixed-race experience, not only in canon media, but in more fandom circles.
#rhys-ravenfeather signing on#mixedpeople#mixedheritage#earlier today i was thinking about a CERTAIN popular headcanon from a certain popular series again and like...#look putting everything else aside#looking at that particular character and what they happen to be i...kind of see another take#and not just them but honestly half-human/hybrid characters in general#i may have mentioned right now that i've been rewatching trollhunters and i'm ngl...i feel a certain kinship with the changelings...#look full disclaimer--it's 2023 if you want to see fictional characters as having a certain sexuality and/or gender identity go for it!#i'm just...i don't know; i guess i just KIND OF wish my experience was more universal?#that certain character views/headcanons didn't drown others out?#again this isn't to dump on anyone or any group of people#but on the other hand; like i mentioned some time back the character i related to most for a while as a kid was a hecking WOLFDOG#and let me tell you--as a fair-skinned mixed-race girl who grew up in the tropics#and constantly thought about the fact that she didn't look like most of the other people around her that was pretty dang CATHARTIC to me#yeah again sorry i know this is dumb and it got long this is just kind of something i had to vent about#also sorry if i stepped on anyone's toes--all of you are wonderful and valid
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Truly TRULY not everything requires you to write fan fiction about it. I swear to god you people have toxic waste between your ears or something....
#i literally just saw under the banner of heaven fic...#like i dont care if they made a mix of fact and fiction for the mini series#do you understand the severity of what surrounds the entire thing? like hello???#like just cause Andrew Garfield is in the thing doesnt mean you need to write fic about it GET A FUCKING GRIP
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literally the dream chapter in Crime and Punishment
#is it real and something the increasingly debilitated Nietzsche (who had read and loved Dostoevsky at that point) did?#is it posthumous biographers mixing up fact and fiction? maybe even a wikipedia editor?
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*shows this image to anyone who wants to understand what my mental state has been this year*
#out of the 11 aubreyad books i've read 7 of them were this year#i might get in an 8th one before the year is out don't discount me#i literally have no clue what happened i think they just clicked for me this year#the first few books are a strange mix of literary and non-literary fiction so they were kind of hard to parse for me#but now the plots are much less obtuse and so i can just eat them like candy#i might have done this in 2019 but i only had one or two with me and i was in catalonia so i couldn't get any others#and then i was in school#also i have in fact written over 80000 words to do with The Creative Endeavor#so that adds a bit#anyways the goal for 2023 is to finish the series which as this rate i'm pretty sure i have in the bag#aubreyad#The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense#perce rambles
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