#Transmissions

[inkkapped]

hey y'all, I really really fucking hate to make this post but I'll be honest, it's really dire. we're three months late on rent, the wife has a great job she just landed but no bank account so she can't get paid right now. I have been really fucking sick, it's getting worse if I'm being honest with myself, so I haven't been able to get a source of income going. we're hopefully at most a week away from getting the paycheck situation sorted but until then if anyone could shoot a couple of disabled trans queers down on their luck even just a couple of bucks, that would really help take some of the stress off

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[runwayrunway]

id be interested in seeing you rank plane emojis from different platforms (by their livery, or by whatever else) just for fun, if you want!

You're right. I WILL do this for fun, because this is fun. Not based on livery, since they're mostly white with blue wings - just how much I like them. I'll be adding a rating out of 10 for each one because I think that's the tradition for this sort of thing.

Apple - 4/10

I mean, because I have an iPhone this is my default conception of an airplane emoji - I think it's fine, I just find it a bit offputting how they model the individual flaps and cockpit windows but the rest of it is a white airbrushed tube. It's a weird contrast.

It's fine, I think. Acceptable. I maybe think emojis by default aren't the most aesthetically pleasing.

Google Noto Color Emoji - 4.5/10

I think this is a slight improvement over the Apple version because of the more consistent stylization. It's also a little more contemporary, since most airliners that are flying now have two engines. I like that they added a few windows and highlights to keep the cabin interesting, and I think it's a bit...something that they took off the flaps but added flap track fairings. Cockpit windows look awful though.

Samsung - 2/10

This is a bit more of a realistic shape for an airplane but for some reason I don't like it. Maybe it's the fact that you can barely recognize that there's a tailfin at all, or the cockpit window looking weirdly...shiny? I think what gets me the most, though, is that those engines look like Super Mario pipes.

Microsoft - 1/10

She's a little...phallic somehow. I just think a top-down view of an airplane is almost always going to look worse if you make it super round and blobby. On the bright side, it's still recognizable as a plane.

WhatsApp - 7.5/10

I really like the way this one is red. Way to stand out in a crowd. It's also quite realistic without giving up on being stylized. My one issue is with the cockpit windows, which look a bit out-of-place and weird. This seems to be a common point of failure for this sort of emoji. Also, I'm unsure if this is meant to be a two-engined 747, but if it is points off for those not existing.

Twitter - 6/10

I hate to ever hand it to Twitter but this is just solid. That's an airplane, just a very simplified and round one. Even the cockpit windows on this one look okay.

Facebook - 3.5/10

Maybe airplane emojis with airbrush shading just look bad to me. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the shape of this but I don't think they differentiated the tailfin from the fuselage enough. It looks like a stub. Also, what is up with that miserably short wing chord?

Telegram - 7/10

I mean, it looks like a 3D version of the Apple one, but it's surprising how much making it 3D improves it. Plus, gotta hand it to them deciding their emoji was being flown by Tex Johnston. I admire that sort of verve.

Microsoft Teams - 0/10

On the flipside, animating this one and making it 3D makes it so much worse! It looks like it was made right when people just figured out that 3D animation was a thing that was possible to do, back in the 50s or something. And boy are those pixels crunchy - I wouldn't mind this if it weren't already heinous. Seriously, how is that tailfin even attached?

Skype - 10/10

Now this I really like. Most of these are impossible to assign a model to but this distinctly looks to me like one of the earlier, stubbier 737s, just really short with a pointy nose, and she's waving at you. Crisp, nice smooth animation, just fantastic.

Twitter Emoji Stickers - 0/10

Looks bad. One of the few of these which are very easy to recognize as a specific model of airplane - this is clearly a 747, based on the inclusion of the hump. There is a reason basically none of the others are trying to be a 747. Adding a weird lump to the front of your emoji doesn't really make it any less weird-looking, and rendering a plane from above tends to be weird-looking already. It looks like she was stung by a bee.

JoyPixels - 6.5/10

As with the WhatsApp red, I appreciate anything setting itself aside in color, so I have to compliment the choice of this sort of toothpastey green. This is one of the better simplified airplanes we've gone over today, and the only thing I really dislike is that it has the same issues with the tailfin Facebook does.

Toss Face - 0/10

I can barely tell this is supposed to be an airplane. It makes me want to, excuse the mental image, toss face.

JoyPixels Animations - 10/10

Now THIS is what I'm talking about! Just a nice little pixel aircraft, doing the same sort of smooth wriggling as the Skype airplane - no criticisms.

Sony PlayStation - small/10

Adequate, but too small to really assess further - but the fact that I don't dislike anything about it is honestly a credit at this point.

Noto Emoji Font - 3.5/10

This just looks like the Samsung emoji but rendered with plain lines. Removing detail from these tends to improve them.

OpenMoji - 0/10

Oh, no, I take it back! Too few details! It's like a torpedo with wings awkwardly stapled on. A really phallic one at that.

emojidex - what the hell/10

I think this more or less looks fine, and the livery it has also looks fine, but I'm so thrown off by the fact that I don't think this is a real airplane. I am obviously not an authority on every model of airplane ever built but I'm reasonably sure this isn't a real one. It most resembles a BAe 146/Avro RJ, the only four-engined t-tail plane intended for passengers rather than heavy cargo. But the 146/RJ has high wings, located above the cabin windows, so...what is this airplane? What does emojidex know that they're not telling us?

Messenger - 7/10

While not ugly per se, it's a bit futuristic for my taste. Still, the choice to model it from a position other than directly from the top avoids a lot of the pitfalls that make many of these so bad to look at.

LG - 4/10

Boring? Yeah, without question. But this is just a good representation of an airplane, and at this point I'll accept that. Does the tail thing, though.

HTC - 3/10

Something about the way this is shaped makes this look more like a rocketship than an airplane. Or a Convair Pogo.

SoftBank - 5/10

A decent pictoral representation of an airplane. See: LG. Fixes the tail thing.

Docomo - 5.5/10

Also a decent pictoral representation of an airplane, but I think rendering it in silhouette gets rid of many of the pitfalls associated with airplane emojis. No details to mess up, just the shape of an airplane. Why do the majority of these have four engines? Seriously, there are only three four-engine airliners in passenger service right now. Have the people designing these not flown since the early aughts?

au by KDDI - 2.5/10

Okay, I know I've been saying being a good representation of an airplane is good enough but this is just simplifying too far. This isn't an emoji, it's a unicode character.

Mozilla - 1/10

Why pointy but only sometimes? Why does the tail pinch in like that? It's ugly, Mozilla, you made an ugly one.

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

Starset really is the funniest band ever, they didn’t establish a fanbase before going off with their lore like most do, they dropped one (1) single in 2013 and then a year later, with no fame and one established song, walked up to the music scene like “hey we’re a secret society with a scifi message about a dystopian future, the only answer is to make science accessible and to fight against fascism and rock out” and then dropped the greatest cinematic rock album in history. unbelievable

[zegalba]

Dan Holdsworth: Transmission - New Remote Earth Views (2012)

[mrs-bingley]

[twocubez]

yes, berdly mistakenly assuming noelle had a crush on him is at least in part due to his overinflated ego, but consider this: perhaps he couldn't understand why anyone would want to spend time with him if it something like romantic interest wasn't involved. what the idea of someone just appreciating him and wanting to be his friend is just that foreign to him?

[brightmoontrigon]

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[desert-fever]

Die with your mask on if you have to

[dingus-on-stardust]

I fucking LOVE songs that seamlessly transition into the next track, even better when those songs build up to the next track

Like most recently with FIRE4FUN leading into RISK, RISK, RISK. Or with STARSET’s Transmissions where it basically does it throughout the entire album while expanding on the story and lore they’re building with each track. But my favorite example of this has to be the transition between 20 Dollar Nose Bleed and West Cost Smoker.

Like you cannot listen to that ending monologue and NOT get hyped. It’s a requirement to listen to these songs together

Oh hey you clicked read more, here’s the

Fancy

Links for the songs I mentioned

[shinceltyblewup]

Are you 🏳️‍🌈???? and izaya???

I'm going to die. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vendal-alaska]

My beloved daughter-niece has ripped the ass out on her pants mere days after making her kink blog. I'm so proud. We truly are all just fetish comic characters.

[inkkapped]

fuck it, plush lamp doodle

[runwayrunway]

How about a quadjet that looks like a trijet?

THE SECRET TRIDENT ENGINE!!!! I love that it's the Trident 3 of all things that got the extra engine too. (Fun fact about the extra engine: it's a turbojet even though the other three are turbofans like you'd expect. You've got three Speys and then an engine designed for VTOL fighters.)

The extra stretch also makes them kind of goofy-looking from the side. They're so much longer than they're supposed to be...like the really late MD-80 models that somehow look like about as long as it's possible for an airplane to.

While they're probably not my absolute favorites as far as visuals go I have an appreciation for the Trident that eclipses a lot of other airliners. They were just so incredibly sophisticated and are honestly the robbed queens of their time. I'd call them the best British airliner of all time easily. They're like narrow-body TriStars in a lot of ways - wildly ahead of their time trijet commercial flops with cat iii autoland. I also like how they feel like they're optimized for sheer eccentricity. I mean, some airlines configured them with seven-across seating, they've got sideways-retracting landing gear for their massive avionics bays that work out at the library and they flew crazy fast for some reason. Also, while I can't find a video because of how old they are, the first version of the Trident could do the same thing the tu-154 does and open the reversers just before touchdown. These things are insanely cool and I'm so sad they only ever built a hundred.

[kply-industries]

Cosmic transmissions

[alien-shmalien]

if it were not for the fact that these things live in my head i wouldve killed one of them myself

[foxyfexyll]

i wanna buy a snake sticker have you made any stickers

yes we have stickers! however sorry if i got your hopes up because they are not for sale. they’re more for funsies/ personal distribution. thanks a lot for asking tho it makes me really happy someone would want to buy them! i shared the transparent images, so you could make them yourself if possible and i wouldnt stop you :>