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pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

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

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Crying bc the events of Pacific's Rim are literally happening right now. January 8 was the day Mako and Raleigh fought those kaijus in the Hong Kong double event. January 12 is the triple event where they close the breach. In two days we cancel the apocalypse.

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there should be three kaiju coming through, not two!

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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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what's fun about newton and hermann is that they're both extremely cheesy but in totally different ways so they're still never in sync like newton would tell everyone he and hermann are going to save humanity with the power of love and hermann would blush and scoff and roll his eyes but then late at night he'd whisper things like i ache for you dr geiszler and newton would be like ahhhaha what. oh my god. awesome

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weird science!!!!🧪 🧬

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the fact that newt and hermann canonically exchanged "passionate and fascinating" letters for four years before they met in person. the fact that, upon meeting face to face, they instantly disliked each other, and yet they were so obsessed with each other that they didn't just simply break things off, but actively antagonized each other just to have an excuse to stay in contact. the fact that they saw the kscience department get downsized and budget cut to hell until all that remained were two neurotic men with a literal line of tape dividing their lab. the fact that they began corresponding after the first kaiju attack, and they saw this all the way through to its end together. the fact that all they had was each other. the fact that they were drift compatible.

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my headcanon is that hermann and newt are both so so socially awkward that they think the other person is considered super socially Cool™️ because they have zero idea what that is supposed to be like. newt has spent his entire life feeling like an outsider for being "too much" so he's like Fuckkkk hermann is so restrained and composed and collected…. meanwhile hermann is literally just there like Oh my god newton is wearing a leather jacket. This could only mean one thing.

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i dont care the close friends instagram stories are getting posted to tumblr because this is making me lose my mind

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what’s funniest about the pacific rim scientists is like. when newt geiszler says he’s a scientist he means an old-timey 1910s entomologist wearing khaki shorts and a comically oversized pair of binoculars traipsing through the jungle capturing endangered species of butterfly and murmuring “egads!! fascinating…..” and scribbling it in his journal. when hermann gottlieb is being a scientist it’s literally the fucking manhattan project. tortured chainsmoking physicist. pawn of a war. repressed homosexual all his life. gets executed for being a communist. And they have to do each other’s peer review

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the jocks in Pacific rim: to neural bond with someone… you need to be drift compatible… you need to trust them completely… you need to be emotionally healthy.. it can be absolutely traumatising if anything goes wrong..

the nerds, mindmelding with dead alien monsters: fuckin cowards

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Little kaiju finally finished!! 

I have these up on my redbubble and society 6 

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Easy mistake.

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