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I can do both

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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DICHEN LACHMAN as MS. CASEY / GEMMA SCOUT in SEVERANCE 2.06 ✄ Attila

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Do you still believe in GTOP?

I can't believe I'm getting these asks in my ask box in the year 2025.

I still believe in them having codependent friendship at some point and I weirdly believe we will see them together again

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don’t kill yourself because the internet is going to be really funny when Elon gets assassinated

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Joss Whedon writing Dollhouse, probably

if you're transgender and need name ideas, may I direct you toward the nato alphabet because like. delta? november?? echo?? romeo is like the butchest name. please consider foxtrot. being named whiskey would be cool as hell. I know multiple transmascs who were a bit too into english lit and are named victor now. I've met people named sierra who were trans in every direction. maybe don't name yourself golf

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In Ukrainian we say "в чорта на болоті" / "at the devil's swamp" or "за тридев'ять земель", which is "behind thirty nine lands" which is usually more magical or non existing middle of nowhere

there's this word in Serbian 'vukojebina' which literally means 'the place where wolves go to fuck' but they use it to mean 'in the middle of nowhere'. it sure does the job well, but the visual stayed with me longer than I would have liked it to.

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how i find out about media

1% ads

99% homoerotic gifsets on tumblr.com

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Ray of sun getting through my curtains to blast directly in my eye at 6am

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Me: You know how when you were a kid and you’d wish that you’d get sick or injured in a way that would justify why you didn’t live up to your potential?

Everybody, apparently: No?

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It's them your honour.

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how is this supposed to help, the only thing that keeps me from psychosis after reading this is learning that apparently I'm too old for a sudden offset now

99% of "mysterious disappearances" esp of people in their 20s who start acting weird for 48 hours and then vanish are not mysterious, thats just when a lot of reality-obliterating mental illness tends to kick in and it's pretty easy to get a short circuit in your brain that makes you go family guy death pose in joshua tree national park. it's not any less tragic, it's just a documented phenomenon and not particularly predictable. its a big reason the medical advice is for people with a family history of schizophrenia to completely avoid weed and psychedelics. "people just go crazy sometimes" is a principle of human health that used to be a lot more accepted prior to the american midcentury and to a certain extent thats a healthier way to conceptualize and prepare for the risk, as opposed to the modern assertion that anyone acting weird is dangerous and broken forever.

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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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The way Ukrainian twitter discussed this dude in "can I get his number to ask something really quick" kinda way made me chuckle

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Half of us is mentally ill

also, specify in tags how long im curious!!

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The art is cool but also I assume that people who are commenting on it apparently never lived through existential wars, which is amazing for you, but kinda makes you think that blanket statements "ah, war glorification!" is the only reason why war happens. Which is not exactly this. As a Ukrainian, it is interesting to see that people think "let's JUST stop the war" is an easy solution that is not taken just because the governments of fighting countries are stupid. While in reality sometimes the government of one country just wants your particular kind of people dead. There is nothing tricky or smart or cunning in this behaviour, there is no "seduction", they just want you dead. And then mobilised society just tries not to go insane by making war brotherhood or death on the front lines viewed as something heroic because it just helps. When you are in the trenches contemplating if you should cut a foot from your fellow battalion member or risk losing more leg.

s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936