#Planning and Logistics:

[embrace-your-illithid]

Yes, I, too, will attack the Emperor and betray him deeply

By "attack him" and "betray him deeply" I am, of course, referring to the fact that I shall kiss him and we will then proceed to be evil together

As we should

[jojotier]

just realized that if there's a shapeshifter arc in dunmeshistuck i absolutely Have to split Karkat's party up or else there would be 132 imposters. 132 fakes. all at once. over 100 illusions v. 12. maybe 120 if all 11 Eridan imposters are just homosuck Eridan but even then I do feel like 11 of These Guys

probably still isn't very good for a fight.

[agnesandhilda]

okay so pink is my favorite color and I have never known moderation in anything so I've got pink hair pink clothes pink pens when I go to class etc and it's all fun and games until I make a mistake or have a very specific kind of interaction that reminds me of how that exaggerated performance of femininity is perceived by others. I need people to know I do all this in a chappell roan utena tenjou eye-blistering untameable magenta kind of way I do not do it in a coquette bow teehee I'm just a girl hashtag girl math I can't do anything kind of way. you understand?

[soath]

these guys love a third option but i do not think this is their final third option. they're going to need possibly a fourth or fifth option to really thread the needle on redefined relationship between the gods and exandria vs. avoiding calamity 2: electric boogaloo/imogen does not end up possessed by predathos for all time

[iminhiraeth]

cutely sprinkling romance tropes into this Limoreau fic before these mf’s have the chance to find even ground with each other

Marie needing something else to wear: Guess I’ll just have to cope.

Jordan, begrudgingly handing over their sweatshirt: SIGH.. Here. 🙄

[systlin]

Whatever else Cullen Rutherford did and setting aside all of the discourse about his 'redemption arc' and all that, he is a shitty commander send tweet

[isjasz]

So what is Xisuma's whole deal in The Promised Hermitopia AU?

He's the caretaker of the orphanage and seems to know its secret :3

[silverskye13]

For the record! I'm going to apologize now and say it's probably going to be a hot minute before a new RnS chapter comes out [a week, maybe two]. I have encountered some issues that need sorted.

[daemon-in-my-head]

Okay this might be the fever speaking, but Gortash's timeline makes absolutely 0 fucking sense if u think abt it, which I made the mistake of doing.

He first established himself as an Arms dealer and Slaver thx to selling weapons made out of Infernal Iron

But bitch only got the manuals from Zariel after selling Karlach (and if he didn't need em, how, why did no-one else do it yet, why sell Karlach in the 1st place then, where is his iron supply coming from, etc)

And Karlach was only sold around 1480 DR

And while ofc, if u never sleep, u can pull of the Absolute scheme in 10 years, Gort was already an established arms dealer when he started working on that plan

Which means that the Absolute stuff is less than 10 years old

Which is quite frankly impossible for such a massive operation. Esp when somewhere in between, he also developed and founded the Steelwatchers and wormed his way into becoming a political advisor for persons such as the four dukes (which takes a ton of trust, connections and bribing, so much bribing, the nobles of the Gate are horrible).

Which is my way of saying good lord someone please fix the timeline. And canon, for being absolutely illogical and impossible, can smd

I have a feeling the late addition of Karlachs infernal heart really fucked over the timeline here cuz suddenly Gorts main business and kinda his whole life stops making sense. How tf would Karlach work for him when his business, yk the one that allowed him to displace the Knights and threathen the Zhents, was rly only established and picked up after she was sold? How???

[tinseltownie]

In the most logistics obsessed way, I want to be added to the pj drivers gc where they decide who flies with whom after every race

[meteortrails]

sucks that nami and law didn’t get to interact more in canon bc they’re SO fucking similar and they would hate it. luffy’s favorite little feral cat schemers. they should’ve chatted about their tattoos and pushed each other’s buttons i think they’d be really good at it :(

[occasionaltouhou]

kasen wanting to destroy gensokyo without even knowing how the barrier works or even having attempted to escape it still fascinates me. girl you were a sage did you just not pay attention during the meetings

[iamumbra195]

What if AU where the Sternritter were the ones who approached a powerless Ichigo with the promise of regaining his powers.

The Soul Society was heavily weakened after the war with Aizen and with one of their Special War Powers now powerless, discreetly striking at them by bringing Ichigo to their side or taking him out so he wouldn't be a problem in the future would be a huge hit to them.

Ichigo, who was very skeptical of the offer but was desperate enough for power that he agreed. Ichigo, who realized that his father was a Shinigami so the only possible way that he could be a Quincy was if his mom was one. But how could she have been taken out so easily by a hollow like Grandfisher? Had she lost her powers like his father had?

Mind weighed down by these questions, Ichigo finally decided to ask his dad about the whole thing. Isshin, as usual, was cagey about it but did cave after Ichigo pressed him. That's when Ichigo learned that his mom hadn't lost her powers the same way his dad did but rather, she lost them right as she was fighting Grandfisher, taken from her. Isshin didn't reveal by who, even when Ichigo asked, apparently done with being truthful.

Ichigo, at this point, has been around whichever Sternritter had approached him for a decent amount of time. So he asks them about it and they tell him, using his reaction to gauge whether or not he would be a threat to take out or a useful ally. Ichigo didn't react, not until he was sure he was on his own.

And there in the rain, alone at the riverbank where his mother died, he made a promise to himself. A promise he would fulfill no matter what.

He would kill Yhwach himself.

[stinalotte]

Why San Francisco is the worst possible place to park a giant flying city ship: A critical analysis

This is incredibly specific and pedantic, but it bothers me. So now I will bother you.

A lot of people, me included, didn't like the thought of Atlantis sitting in San Francisco Bay at the end of the series. Most fix-it fics center around getting the city back to the Pegasus Galaxy. Joe Malozzi said that they eventually parked Atlantis on the moon, which, yeah, right. Never mind.

But apart from the emotional knee-jerk reaction of "WRONG" to have her just hanging out off the coast of California, it's also wildly impractical. Here's why.

We know canonically that the tallest spire of Atlantis is 800 meters tall. From that, people have estimated the width and length of the city to be anything between 3.6 and 5 kilometers. Let's say 4 km on the conservative side.

From this screenshot, they're not in San Francisco bay, but outside, looking in. The ocean is at their backs.

See where it says "Golden Gate" in the ocean just before the bridge? That's approximately their location, maybe a bit further out - but not as far out as Point Bonita. The bay is 4 km wide at its widest point. Meaning that if you plop down a city, it will completely block the entryway to San Francisco bay and displace enough water to flood the north and south shores. Forget cloaking. There are hundreds of cruise ships, container ships, tourist boats and smaller vessels in that shipping lane every day. Cloak all you want, after five minutes the first fishing trawler is gonna go "BONK" and they'll have some explaining to do.

The view towards the bridge. If they decloaked, the view would be completely blocked.

So, in conclusion, keeping her there for any longer than a week (in which you would have to suspend ALL ship traffic and probably close the air space too because of the spires) would lead to the need to disclose it.

(Then again, we've seen how the internet reacts to disclosure - there would be memes and some half-hearted Twitter threads and then we'd move on to the next thing. Heh.)

I know it was basically an emergency landing, but oof, at least park her 10 km further outside?

The best fanfic I have read when it comes to logistics of getting the city back is A Place of Safety by McParrot. The focus is on John and his recovery after a failed first attempt to retake the city, but there is so much great planning in the background. It really shows what an undertaking it would be to plan a heist like that under the eyes of the IOA. The story ends before their attempt, but on a very hopeful note.

[If anyone knows good fics where they steal Atlantis back and return home, hook me up!]

[other-peoples-coats]

For reasons that don't need going into, I'm once again thinking about the logistics of hyperspace travel, and like.

Ok so you know how map makers put in trap streets and fake islands and alter the elevation of mountains and generally put in teeny tiny (or not so teeny tiny) errors to catch plagiarists? That, but hyperspace maps.

Like there has to be a fuck load of -- if not laws, at least generally accepted norms? about what you can and can't do, because... look, at the distances you (hypothetical GFFA space faring traveler) would be traveling, you're off by a fraction of an inch when you launch in the direction of planet funtimes-vacation-land and you end up like. 80,000,000,000 lightyears away from your goal, at planet oh-fuck-deathworld and/or in the literal middle of a moon and/or lost in deep space forever and ever, where no one can hear you scream.

So there has to be a sort of mutual agreement that hyperspace maps can't be like, 'oh yeah, there's def a planet here😉 it for sure orbits this totally real star😉😉 at 90000skm (space kms) a syear (space year)😉😉😉'; because, like. otherwise everyone would die and no one could use hyperspace ever, basically.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Only takes one 'whoops they were trying to avoid our fake planet and crashed into an inhabited planet, killing all 4 billion inhabitants via the most literal meaning of terminal velocity' to make hyperspace travel a wee bit dubious as a concept.

(and also get your particular cartography company/space-gps company sued out of existence, either by the people who survived Alderaan V-0.01, navigational error edition, or by the big scary conglomerates that had interests in the outer rim mining planet you just got blown up, as relevant.)

Ditto altering the speed at which planets (moons asteroids etc etc what the fuck ever space shit is out there) orbit their relevant local stars; again, fractions of a second off really adds up over that sort of scale.

I'm assuming that there has to be rival cartographic companies, simply because like. gffa is medieval end stage capitalism on steroids. There's multiple map companies, even if it's just that kuat drive yards have their hyperspace maps for their ships, and dodgy-joe's shonky ships have their maps for their ships, and the jedi temple have their maps (which they have to install on the jedi ships by way of jailbreaking/rooting the navigation systems, presumably, every jedi runs the equivalent of a mid 2010s iphone with a million sketchy apps sideloaded), etc etc.

Anyway. Fake planets (moons etc) are out for reasons of not turning random tourist space-bus no #7629 into the Death Star (analog edition), ditto altering the speed of existing planets, ditto, presumably, putting in things like extra space stations or fake hyperlanes or black holes or whatever.

Which basically leaves you with renaming things! presumably most mapping places go real world analogous, and pick something pretty easy to think is real - asteroid #12-z-3095-y labeled #13-z-l14r, or the 56th moon of ult'klssyk and the 59th having their names mixed up, etc-- but presumably at least some do like. the most obvious examples.

Long story short nine million words later there's at least one map that labels Alderaan as Coruscant and Coruscant as Mandalore and Mandalore as Alderaan, and the ensuing media shitstorm/spwitter hot takes/spunglr memes takes over the galactic news for like. a month and a half.

At the minimum.

[volfoss]

i would like to find a yarn color that is roughly close to this shade of orange:

as the doll is going to be using dark blue eyes and the contrast would look pretty good (ty to my friend for helping me narrow down colors here lol) but well. you would not believe how hard it is to find a more muted light orange. i have been to specialty yarn sites. if i did either of the two multi-colored yarns, it would be for highlights/still mostly orange just with other tones in there :) if u have specific opinions on this please comment bc good god i hate yarn shopping for this.