#pacific rim 2013

[bitmeddler]

And so Pacific Rim passes from futuristic sci-fi to alternate historical fiction...

[monsterblogging]

Links to Pacific Rim creator Travis Beacham's own posts on drift compatibility and drifting

Drift compatibility is psychological, not genetic

The better you know someone, the more likely you are to be drift compatible

Drift compatibility is potential, not fate

Drift compatibility can be a choice

Friendship is the foundation of drift compatibility

The drift requires trust

Trust is fundamental; also drift compatibility can be determined with anything that tests how well you can anticipate each others' moves

That even includes multiplayer video games

Many cadets wash out during Pons training when secrets come out in the drift and shatter their relationships

A lot of pilots get messed up by flinching over sexual thoughts

Trying to avoid thoughts just makes them worse

Not everything you see in the drift is always real; also the way to deal with thoughts is just let them flow by

Pilots communicate through "headspace"

Illustration of a conversation in headspace

First drifts can be very confusing, because partners don't understand each others' minds very well yet

The drift exposes pilots to each others' raw, unfiltered thoughts

Raleigh knew what Yancy was going to say

The drift doesn't let you read your partner's mind like a database, and you may not necessarily understand what you see. Also when Pentecost says he carries nothing into the drift he means he's calm and stable.

Pentecost gained this calmness through meditation

Trying to block your partner from your mind will make you lose control of the Jaeger

Pilots who fall below 90% sync will be in trouble

General information plus info on RABITs

You can chase your partner's RABIT

Another post confirming you can chase your partner's RABIT

More RABIT info

More general information

Travis Beacham defines ghost drifting

Partners' personalities can rub off on each other

Neural overload doesn't hit you all at once; it accumulates

The time a pilot can go solo varies, and it's a steep curve from fine to dead

More info on solo piloting

Being high in the drift probably makes it harder to avoid chasing the RABIT

[raleighs-becket]

PACIFIC RIM (2013) Shatterdome Ranger Roll Call

[hydravns]

LEATHERBACK KAIJU in PACIFIC RIM (2013) Dir. Guillermo Del Toro

[satanindisguise]

a very happy "the kaiju war is over" to all who celebrate

[lastdaysofwar]

The kaiju war is officially over!

Rest in peace, Rangers.

[kathrahender]

Is there any Pacific Rim fan in this site???? I need someone to talk to about Pacific Rim :(

[drrav3nb]

CHARLIE HUNNAM and RINKO KIKUCHI | Shatterdome Ranger Roll Call

[ser-rctslcyer]

CHARLIE HUNNAM as RALEIGH BECKET

Pacific Rim (2013)

[elijah-loyal]

happy b day hermann, you funky lil guy

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ft. their matching bloody wedding ring eyes <33

[k-scinerd]

T- Minus 0 days until the end of the Kaiju War

STOP THE CLOCK!

Unfortunately, Chuck Hansen and Marshal Stacker Pentecost, as well as the Jaeger Striker Eureka, were all lost while closing the breach

Gipsy Danger was also destroyed, but her pilots, Mako Mori and Raleigh Becket, were retrieved safely.

[monsterblogging]

"I think Pacific Rim is unrealistic now because instead of everyone banding together to defeat COVID, the governments just gave up and abandoned everybody-"

Are you kidding me? Pacific Rim 100% predicted this kind of thing. That's literally what the Pacific Perimeter Program was about. Once the PPDC decided fighting kaiju was too expensive, they just gave up and chose to ignore the problem by putting it behind a big wall. Pacific Rim is literally about the people who were abandoned by the institutions that were supposed to protect them and kept on trying anyway.

[driftwithme]

Raleigh in the background drinking orange juice at 3AM before a drop will never stop being funny in the context of Yancy trying his best to not scream

[hydravns]

PACIFIC RIM (2013) Dir. Guillermo Del Toro

[souperdupes]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HIM

[lastdaysofwar]

Pacific Rim fans, this one's for you

If you, like me, are a Pacific Rim fan (big surprise, I tagged the post), then you will probably know that the in-universe timeline of the movie takes place in January 2025.

But wait, I said to myself many months ago, that's next January!

We've had some truly wonderful zines and challenges this year and last, but I wanted to put together something of my own to throw into the mix, and I came up with a simple idea that's been done a million times before: a prompt month! With no sign-up necessary, I thought it might be fun to throw together a prompt list for the month of January, set out a tumblr tag (and maybe an Ao3 collection, if I can figure out how those work) that we can all use, and have a shared little celebration of this movie we all love in our corner of the internet.

Tell me in the notes/asks/DMs/??? if you have any questions, suggestions, or anything else I can't think of to put in this category.

And because the people love polls, here's a poll: