#wingsuiter

[raycatzdraws]

Link with the wingsuit. He's a skykid now!

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Lukas Loibl 24 ans et Filip Kubica 31 ans ont traversé l'Aiguille Percée à Tignes 🇫🇷 en wingsuit. Le saut à été réalisé depuis un hélicoptère ils l'ont traversé à plus de 240 km/h. Précédemment, Candide Thovex l'avait fait en sautant à ski.

[duskyashe]

NaNoWriMo Day #30

[masterlist] [part one] [part two] [part four]

Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry about that accidental posting everyone (⁠;⁠ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠) I was just too excited...

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"Don't do anything stupid," Ellie mumbled into his chest, her arms wrapped around him like an octopus. "I just got back to you, so you have to come back to us, got it?"

Danny held his clone just as tightly. "I promise I'll do my best, okay?"

Ellie sniffed and let go of him. "That'll have to do. If you get the chance, could you maybe tell Starling I love her suit? The purple really works for her," she said, discreetly wiping away tears. Danny smirked and ruffled her hair, earning a disgruntled, "Hey!"

"Yeah, I'll tell her if I see her. If not, then I'll ask one of the others to pass along the message." Danny looked over at Sam and Tucker, Jazz behind them with a grounding hand on each of their shoulders. "If everything goes to plan, I'll be back by morning. If not, well, you know what to do." Four resolute nods saw him off as he headed to his chosen shrine of the night. For last night's offering of tithe, he'd picked a more well kept and easily accessible shrine, something anyone could have gotten to and reasonably close to their apartment. Tonight, he was flying to one of the shrines furthest away from their apartment, one that was still visible, still reachable, but not as readily available for the common shrine goer. Danny chose the one closest to Wayne Tower. He wasn't sure what was going to happen when he offered his help tonight, but he wanted to keep as many civilians as possible out of the potential crossfire. He didn't think Batman was the kind of guardian deity that would willingly put his people into harm's way, but you never know, especially if he didn't know they were his in the first place.

As he neared his chosen shrine, Danny let himself become visible. He flew a slow circuit around the rooftop before settling down. He'd announced his location and intention, now all he had to do was wait.

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As soon as Phantom appeared near one of the harder to reach rooftop shrines, Dick was on comms. "I've got eyes on Phantom, he just circled a shrine before sitting next to it like he was last night. B, permission to engage?"

"Questions only, keep comms open. This might be today's feeling, it might not, so be careful, understood?" Bruce replied. "He might have some useful information, he might have a question. Either way, trust your instincts, and keep us posted."

"Copy that, B, comms will be wide open." Dick grabbed the hand grips hidden near his utility belt and tugged them to prep the release mechanism. "Engaging now," he said before taking a running leap off Wayne Tower, pulling his arms, and the now fully released wings of his suit, taut in a perfect glide. Circling the rooftop shrine similarly to Phantom, in part to catch his attention and in part to lessen his momentum, Dick chose his landing spot and let go of his retractable wings. He dropped six feet, landing in a roll that left him kneeling in a ready position in front of Phantom and the shrine. Dick took a moment to catch his breath, head cocked to the side in an exaggeratedly curious way. He held his ready stance for a count of eight, then started relaxing parts of his body opposite how one would normally relax their body, starting with his legs and working his way up to his shoulders. He kept his head cocked, though, and just watched Phantom for another count of eight.

Just like the night prior, Phantom was casually sitting about a foot or so above the rooftop, his legs crossed as though to prove there was no trick behind it. He had a faint glow about him that brightened with the growing look of awe on his face. His cape billowed slightly in an unseen, unfelt breeze, blending in with the night near the edges. The crown bobbed up and down above his head ever so slightly, but always stayed perfectly centered whenever Phantom moved.

After another four counts, where Phantom said and did nothing more than stare at him, Dick finally spoke. "Yesssss?" He rasped, thinning out his voice and elongating certain sounds.

Phantom blinked. "Right. So, after last night, I got to thinking, and I talked it out with the rest of my Fright —everyone got in safely today, by the way, but thanks again for the offer—and we, I, can't help but feel kind of... Concerned. Please don't take offense to this, but you all seemed rather... Surprised? By yesterday's proceedings. Coupled with what we know of your species, well. Let me put it this way. Most of you are likely orphans, are you not? So there are things you may not know about your species you would have learned from your biological parents had they been around to teach you, things you likely wouldn't have been able to learn anywhere else due to lack of knowledge about them. Things I know and can teach all of you about, or put you in contact with others who can teach you what you need to know." Phantom shifted positions slightly, floating up a few inches at the same time. "Please believe me, I mean no disrespect. I just couldn't help but feel like you were all going off of instinct during our entire interaction last night, which, if true, is honestly amazing. I only want to give you the opportunity to put words to instinct and take the guess work out of your interactions with yourselves and each other. If I've overstepped, I apologize, I just didn't want to be right and not do anything, only to watch as something I could have possibly helped prevent happened due to my inaction."

Dick thought about that for a moment. Listened to his brothers talk over each other about what Phantom could mean, Steph joining in occasionally with a witty remark. Listened to Bruce discounting the truly outrageous options. Listened to his instincts, like his parents had told him growing up in the circus, like he'd learned the hard way when his parents died, like Bruce constantly reminded him to do ever since he first hit the streets as Robin. And he made a choice.

"Yoou can heelp make ssssensssse of the nnoisssse?" The constant fight between two or more sides within himself, the visible frustration and confusion whenever one of his siblings does something they don't understand, the hurt in Bruce's eyes when one of them is a little too sharp with another, the unease they all felt whenever Bruce had a feeling. If that was what Phantom meant he could help with... "Weeee acccceept."

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I can't believe I went the full month and only now wrote Dick's POV! What the heck! (⁠┛⁠◉⁠Д⁠◉⁠)⁠┛⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻ I should have done something with him much sooner! ┬⁠─⁠─⁠┬⁠◡⁠ﾉ⁠(⁠°⁠ ⁠-⁠°⁠ﾉ⁠) Okay, but seriously, I hope this lived up to y'all's expectations, because I had a lot of fun writing Dick character acting and being a drama queen with his epic custom made wingsuit. I kinda wanna see a costume design of his Raven suit, with and without his wings open ⊙⁠.⁠☉ if anyone wants to do some art of his suit, please, do so! I'd love to see it! Heck, if anyone wants to do any fanart of my ficlets, I'd be absolutely honored!

Also, I just wanna point out, I posted part two of this ficlet series on the eve of me hitting 200 followers, and I'm posting part three on the eve of me hitting 300 followers. Like, wth? (⁠(⁠(⁠;⁠ꏿ⁠_⁠ꏿ⁠;⁠)⁠)⁠) Y'all, I am honored. I'll be posting some more edits from the Batpham Discord server the day I hit 300 as a celebration (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

I had a long, stressful day, and I just want to crawl into bed and sleep, so I hope everyone who wanted to read part three of this ficlet series followed me... I, once again, don't have the brain capacity to tag everyone who wants to be tagged...

Have a good morning/day/night!

UPDATE (4/10/23): @davestridernb made some fanart of Dick's Raven costume and it's AMAZING! It looks even better than I ever could have imagined, myself! Please go check it out!

[pangeen]

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“ Who wants to move there? “ // Alex Aimard

Original Audio

[bewilderbark]

doggyposting . i miss mcrp

[ilikeit-art]

The Electrified Wingsuit is the result of three years of development, with two encased carbon propellers delivering an output of 7.5 kW each. Paired with an energy storage unit integrated into the front of the suit, it can boost airspeeds from over 100 km/h to over 300, letting pilots travel farther, faster.

[txttletale]

Speaking of games with rancid politics, I played Just Cause 2 when i was in middle school and did not have the critical thinking to realize how it might be the most racist imperialist game ever made in all of history. Just astounding to look back on

yeah that shit sucked. the first person shooter genre is genuinely just dripping with open US military propaganda but just cause has got to be one of the worst because it's literally about doing violent regime change in an exoticised stereotype of a foreign country

[lynxmuse]

Leaping into action! :D

by GerryAAB

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #9085

 Flying to new locations to explore! – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

[ruvviks]

JUST CAUSE 3 ➤ [2/?]

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Dimanche 12 mai 2024 à 5h45, deux Autrichiens ont réussi l'exploit de traverser le Tower Bridge de Londres en wingsuit. Les deux parachutistes Marco Fürst et Marco Waltenspiel ont sauté d'un hélicoptère au dessus de la Tamise à environ 1000 mètres de hauteur et ont traversé le pont à 246 km/h. Un vol en wingsuit qui n'a duré que 45 secondes et a demandé 2 ans de préparation et 200 sauts d'entrainement.

[redjaybird]

[next time i just wont get the wingsuit its a hazard]

[pangeen]

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“ Winguiting makes me wet “ // Lane Paquin

Music:  Sam Tinnesz - Play with Fire (feat. Yacht Money) [Extended Mix]

[stellarana]

Double wings :^)

Also how tf did this guy get here?

[windfighter]

Wings of flight

”Junpei. Junpei, wake UP!”

Junpei blinked awake. Izumi had a hand on his shoulder and was shaking him violently. He wouldn’t have been able to sleep even if he wanted to.

”What? What’s wrong? Are the kids alright?”

”They’re still sleeping”, Izumi answered.

She shoved an iPad into his face, pressed it against his nose.

”Can you believe this?!” she asked.

Junpei pulled his head back, yawned and sat up. Looked at the screen. Kitties playing with some yarn. Junpei looked at Izumi instead.

”Yeah? Cats love string theory.”

”What?”

”What?”

Izumi turned the tablet around, looked at it.

”Your nose must have pressed something”, she complained. ”Hang on, I’ll find it again.”

”You’re the one who pressed it on my nose”, Junpei laughed.

Wrapped an arm around Izumi, pulled her closer and kissed her cheek. Her forehead. Her nose. Izumi giggled.

”Junpei, please, I’m trying to show you something.”

”Of course, my queen”, Junpei answered and kissed her hand instead. ”Anything you say.”

She laughed, pulled her hand out of his grip and tapped on the screen. Turned it around for Junpei to see. A person in a wingsuit jumping out of a helicopter. There was engines on his chest.

”Wha-?”

”They have electric wingsuits now! With engines so you can fly for longer!”

Izumi sounded way too excited. Junpei felt a shiver along his back. This did not bode well.

”I need to try it”, Izumi continued.

Junpei felt his soul leave his body. Izumi kissed his cheek.

”I’ll go wake the kids, you get started on breakfast. And when they’re off to school we can see where to get us these suits.”

She jumped off the bed again. Disappeared to the other bedrooms. Junpei took a shaky breath. Pulled his hands over his face. Okay. He needed to somehow convince Izumi to bring Kouji or Takuya instead of him. He could… watch from the helicopter or something. Or the ground. The ground sounded safer. He stood up as well. That sure was a way to wake up.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

My current thoughts on Book 4 of LOK is that uh, Jr is just a lil bitch and the wingsuits really are not that good lmao.