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I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

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"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.

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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

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One more month!

Mt. Rainier National Park, USA by Emilie Hofferber

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I love you, Mr. Murderbritches.

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the first and last scene of pacific rim (2013) both end like this: one drift partner on their knees, devastated, as the drift partner they have an emotional connection with is gone, lost to sea. bookends of pain, and loss. And then Raleigh wakes up.

Pacific rim is full of these scenes of contrast. A father and his child find Raleigh, alone at the end of the first scene. In a flashback mid-movie father (Pentecost) finds his child (Mako). And one of the last scenes shows a father (Herc Hansen) losing his child (Chuck Hansen). Not all of the foils end happily, and even as Mako does not lose Raleigh, she loses her father.

Pacific Rim is about loss. Everyone loses someone, everyone loses something, everyone has something to prove. Even as humanity comes together against monsters, it fights itself. Jaeger Program vs Wall Program, a father, Lars Gottleib on the Wall and a son, Hermann Gottleib with the Jaegers. Separation. Even within the jaeger program is infighting and anger. This makes sense, of course it does.

History has shown again and again that people fight, people go against their own self interest, petty squabbles when the fate of the world is at stake. If pacific Rim, a movie with admittedly giant monsters and massive robots fighting, did not show this, it would be unrealistic, something we could blow off, move past. But instead, Pacific Rim says even despite this, we CAN come together, join forces.

A sparring scene is proof Mako and Raleigh are drift compatible in the way they move together. Newt and Hermann, the two scientists shown fighting in every scene, come together, are drift compatible, and it saves the world. Drift compatibility saves us. Again and again, the ability of humanity to find common ground saves the world. Pacific Rim starts with Yancy dying, with Raleigh’s brother gone, symbolism of half a head, of the broken connection, of losing your other half.

Pacific Rim ends with Raleigh waking up, with wholeness again that can be found even after it’s believed to be gone forever, with drones rising over them like a flock of birds at the start of a new day, as the new day starts. Raleigh wakes up. Mako doesn’t kiss him, even if the movie seems to be leading there, because yes, pacific rim is romantic love, but it’s also platonic love, also just love.

Raleigh wakes up, and Mako and him press their foreheads together, so obviously full of love for each other it doesn’t matter how. Raleigh wakes up, and the movie ends with a scene of symmetry, not perfect, just two people together, at the start of a new day.

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Thanks for that, Satan!

A little something for Knifehead Day 🙃

After his first Drift with Yancy, Raleigh clung to his brother for hours. It didn't seem to matter that they spent most of their time before they Drifted brawling rather than hugging; he practically cried when they had to be separated.

The Drift changed Yancy, too. He didn’t protest when Raleigh dragged him to bed, forcing him to sleep on the bottom bunk in a tangle of limbs.

So Raleigh wasn’t surprised to feel a surge of affection for his new co-pilot, who was sitting on a catwalk in the jaeger bay and basking in the glow of Lady Danger’s heart.

But Mako looked terrified. Her pupils were blown wide, and her eyes darted so quickly around the jaeger bay that it made Raleigh dizzy.

It was the R.A.B.I.T. chase all over again.

“Mako, hey,” he whispered.

Her eyes found him. Panic left her gaze, but her body stayed tense. The knuckles gripping the grates of the catwalk were white.

The Ghost Drift might have made him more aware of her emotional state, but it couldn’t help him read her mind yet.

“Talk to me, Mako.”

Instead of words, she let out a sob.

Raleigh instinctively reached for her, coming to his senses too late to stop himself. Mako flinched at his touch.

He drew back. Of course she wouldn’t find his touch comforting. They hadn’t figured any of this out yet. They hadn’t even figured out how to Drift together.

Raleigh’s throat hurt with the effort of swallowing a sob. The rejection hurt, sure, but that wasn’t what hurt the most. It was the realization that a familiar face was missing from this familiar place.

In the split-second his instincts took over, he had forgotten what he’d been trying to come to terms with for five years and four months: Yancy was gone. And he was alone.

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Adding the one I took outside my office today. We got 60% totality in central Florida.

Solar Eclipse Shadows

These solar eclipse shadows form due to the distance between the sun and the leaves on the trees. The distance and the proximity of the leaves to one another cause for a "lensing" type effect, making the eclipse shadow clearer to the human eye.

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Neurodivergent people love pacific rim bc its basic theses are “two besties who share a braincell can pilot a mecha” and “what if crab was big”