#drift lore

[kinky-cas]

when i first watched supernatural at age 14 i was like dean is clearly bi and so am i. obviously we’re both attracted to [opposite gender], that’s a given, duh. and then when you look more closely you can see that we’re also both maybe having gay feelings too but we’re keeping that quieter. btw Did You Know if you Perform Gender Right and wear a Cool Jacket and Look Hot Enough you can compensate for the other things about you that people find offputting? too bad i have too much else to compensate for and not enough Hot left over to also make up for being out of the closet tho. :/ can’t wait till i get to college and it’s socially acceptable to make out with other girls as long as you’re Hot Enough for straight guys to be into it. thank god im a girl, guys don’t get that excuse. maybe if i get a boyfriend who finds it hot i can kiss other girls and it won’t even count as gay.

[tonguetyd]

I like to think he has gray hair in his beard :3 ya boy has a thing for older men and I like to ✨️imagine✨️ gray hair on him but not fully gray but like patches or a few silver strands here and there. Also consider deep voice with that accent. When he talks I am SAT. Or kneeling, depends on what he wants :3

See here’s some drift lore for you, I have been a Ginger Lover since I was 13 years old so while you think gray hairs and it drives you crazy, I think red hairs and it drives me crazy. Either option. Very good. Very here for it.

Gray also would give DILF energy and like. Nodding emphatically.

If I think about this man’s voice I’m gonna ***, for NO reason at all I’m just gonna go watch a certain video filmed in Australia from April and be super fucking normal about sounds and accents, COMPLETELY TOTALLY UNRELATED TO ANYTHING WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING

[monsterblogging]

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

[keferon]

Monster hunter au Part 5

Keep in mind that what Ratchet hears in the last pages are rumors, and rumors are known to distort the truth. But of course Ratchet can't know exactly what's been distorted

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[drill-bits]

Have you seen the “reasons my sparkling is crying” post yet? Bc I feel like Drift would have a few dozen to add to that once Spectra emerges.

(Post link:) https://www.tumblr.com/spookyprime/167500455719/thatfriskyfeline-simonbitdiddle

Mostly thinking about “discovered he has sirens. Is now crying bc he can’t turn them off (he only knows how to turn them on).”

This one is so funny

[tonguetyd]

Marking the start of the 2023 fall US tour! Which is when I started following ST way less casually and in the span of a week fuckin NOSEDIVED down the rabbit hole, hitting multiple rocks on the way down, before crash landing at rock bottom with the deepest hyperfixation I have had in YEARS that is still ongoing.

So since I don’t know the exact exact date. I am claiming this as my sleep token anniversary

Cheers to a year, guys. Wormship or whatever

Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2023

On September 8 2023, the Blue Ridge Rock festival was the kick off of the collective's first headlining tour in the U.S., the North American Rituals. They played on the Zyn stage at 19:30 (7:30 PM) local time.

The setlist was as follows:

Chokehold Like That Granite Vore Hypnosis Alkaline The Summoning Rain The Offering

Photographic imagery by Adamrosssi [FB/IG/X]

Additional imagery by Nyne Photography/Nicky Hernández [IG/Site]

We are once again blessed with a recording of the full set, courtesy Daniel Jackson [YT]

[slackster]

Lore drop!!

First Aid and Slack were found early in the war, after a pack of Seekers bombed the nursery in which Arcee worked. There were no creators to be found.

Obviously… Arcee and Ratchet took them in :’)

[whirledpool]

my favorite character isn't in my favorite show so i just put him there myself

[archie-sunshine]

[Knightformers Comics 1: Home Sweet Home]

I wanted to brush up on my comic skills, still a little rusty, but i think it'll be fun to work on knightformers more!!

[tonguetyd]

Half blorbofication, half Feels™️

I’m gonna start with the feels and get that out of the way first. Because this chapter deals with Frodo leaving his home. And yes there’s more actual plot that happens and the Big Scary Bad Guys start to show up and the elves and stuff and that’s all great. But the big thing to me is Frodo packing up his home, the place that has been his, that he’s made his own…and selling it and leaving. (TO THE SACKVILLES!!!!!!!! UGH!!!)

And there’s this sense of just like. I am leaving and I am not sure I will ever see my home again, and if I do I will certainly be different. And that shit always knocks me the FUCK out.

Like the image of walking around an empty apartment, remembering “oh I looked out that window at the stars, this stain on the floor is from where I dropped a pot of sauce” kinda thing…like the laughter still echos on the walls even though you’re leaving it. It is so fucking painful to me now.

It used to be bittersweet! Because the number of times I moved in college from dorms and apartments and bouncing around, it was always “yes I will miss this place but new and exciting things are coming.”

And then 2022 happened. (This paragraph is going to be Drift Lore so if you don’t care you can skip to the next one.) My roommates moved out early May. I was running around with work and being in friends’ weddings and didn’t really get to enjoy having the place to myself until the first weekend of June. I was supposed to have 2 months to myself there and enjoy living alone until I found a new apartment when our lease was up in September. Instead of 2 months I had 2 days. Because the Sunday of that first weekend I went and tore my ACL and couldn’t walk, let alone live by myself. And certainly couldn’t find a new apartment. So instead I had to move back in with my parents at the age of 27, and pack up my home of 4 years. And that image of my empty apartment, and hearing the echo of memories around me while I am stuck on crutches and going backwards instead of forwards was. Soul fucking crushing.

Since all of that, ANY time there is a reference in a book, show, movie, whatever, about moving out, I *weep*. And this was no different, especially since Frodo is essentially going into this big scary unknown that he might not make it back from. The FEELS I felt for this poor dude. Oof. Ya girl projected entirely too much onto this lil guy with big feet. Projection onto literature. Shits wild. Idk if that’s really discussion more than just me rambling through my feels but. That was mostly what I was thinking about 😅

ANYWAY

The good thing about both Frodo and my reluctant and heartbreaking moves is that we had friends to get us through along the way. And while I would love a Sam Gamgee of my own, I did have a hound dog so that’s basically the same thing.

Sam. Sweet baby Sam. We can’t let the wine and beer go to waste. You are so right. We have to look after Mr Frodo and keep his secrets. Yes sir I will follow you anywhere. I love him, your honor.

And the END. WHERE HE IS EXHAUSTED BUT DOESNT WANT TO LEAVE “HIS MASTER” (there’s some unpacking imma need to do there but that’s later). SO HE JUST CURLS UP AND PUTS HIS HEAD IN HIS LAP. 😭 me when, literally me when.

What I would give to have a sweet (human) Sam of my own. How Frodo didn’t immediately fall in love with him? A stronger man than I.

Ready for the next chapter where I will continue projecting onto fictional characters in an unhealthy amount.

Discussion Post 24th of March

The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Book I)

Chapter III - Three is Company

This post is meant as an incentive to start discussing this week's chapter. Feel free to talk about this week's reading or chat with each other in the tags or comments!

If you have a lot to say, or would like to add pictures, GIFs, polls, or anything else your heart desires, submit a post here.

If you need some inspiration, here are some prompts of what you could talk about:

your favorite quote

what was most surprising/exciting/new?

if you've only seen the movies, how did this differ from what you already knew?

something funny or interesting that caught your eye

(If you are here at a later date, do not worry! You are welcome to join in at any time!)

[mttonex]

FEED US MORE OF UR FANCLONES 🤬🤬🤬!!!! /silly

ok here's them all with canon clones 😁 basically just who i think they'd be friends with

EAT UP!!!

[tonguetyd]

Can I ask what is Canada Man? 👀

AH I KNEW IT WAS COMING SOME DAY!

Here’s the story of how I know the beautiful moderator of my life, @lifemod17

The year is 2020, everything has shut down, and I downloaded an app called TikTok. One day, a man comes across my page doing a kinda cheesy POV video of leaving a voicemail for somebody. But it is a rather cute video about “hi! Hiiiii. You got this!” etc etc I don’t remember the details

But I check out his page and he’s got a bunch of mental health-type “hey, the world is kinda fucked, but we’ll figure it out, or just sit through the sucking!” And so I follow him.

His name is Sebastien R Teller (sebrteller in a lot of places too)

And turns out, wouldn’t you know, that he also goes live on TikTok! And also on twitch! And is a funny dude! But MORESO! The people *in* his chat are some of the most wonderful caring lovely funny ridiculous talented skilled inCREDIBLE humans that I had ever met.

And for the first time all year, I feel peace and hope and like things are gonna get better.

My first friend I made through Seb’s chat was Tonee and my life is so much better for it.

He doesn’t really stream or post those kinda tiktoks as much anymore (he’s got an acting career and a dog and a fiance and Quinn audios if you’re an adult and life to focus on now). But he was an integral part of my life the last few years and so a lot of things Tonee and I talk about will be references to him or Seb’s Cafe (the name we used for our chat/discord) or Cafe Radio or things like that.

He’s also Canadian so. Canada Man.

And yes he was one of an ALARMING number of straight men doing the maid outfits for Halloween…2(?) years ago and it was ridiculous but very amusing

But TLDR: I am forever thankful that I stumbled into Seb’s Cafe ❤️

[hawktims]

since my pacific rim brain rot doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon, i'm thinking about how losing your drift partner while still connected to them through the neural handshake is the cruelest way to lose anyone ever. even crueler when you consider ghost drifting. so after all those years of piloting together how much of yancy's mannerisms thoughts etc has raleigh retained? has he dreamt yancy's dreams? how much of him is now yancy too? yes, raleigh might have lost a piece of himself when yancy died, but it's also the way yancy's ghost will forever be inside his head (in a very literal sense). he has to grieve someone who will live inside him forever and that makes me very sad because how are you supposed to move on from that?

[melit0n]

"Let the tides carry you back to me." has always been among one of my favourite lines in Telomeres, and so, having listened to it again recently, a little idea popped into my head. Let me explain:

While ocean tides/currents is a very common metaphor, there's an underlying meaning to it. The ocean is a beautiful, but somewhat cruel place: tides can leave you stranded on a sandbank, or sweap you away before you even know it.

To put it in short, no object or creature that goes into the ocean comes out the same. For the tides to carry something back to you, something you've lost, it will be and always will be changed: eroded.

The cliffside will fall, the cave will crumble, etc etc.

With this in mind, we're yet again greeted with another example of Vessel asking for something he can't truly have. The person he wants will not be the same as they were before; they "collapse" into him, breaking apart, but still, to him, it's "the start of something."

His memory is warped, they are warped, and it'll stay that way.

However, what I would like to add is that, in DYWTYLM, it's theorised that instead of Vessel speaking to a second person, he's instead talking to himself.

Of course, this makes the song itself much more emotional (to me). Finding love for yourself is one of the hardest things you can do, but it has to be done to find love in others.

With that idea (stay with me here), the lyrics "Do you roll with the waves? Or do you duck into deep blue safety?" match up (generally) with Telomeres, which is mostly interpretated as being towards someone else.

So, what if some lines in Telemores are directed to himself as well?

Keep in mind, the tides don't just erode and carry objects (sediment), they also reflect. The Atlantic is one big mirror, and Vessel is staring into it's "deep blue safety" wondering what, or, rather, who, he was before he was Vessel.

Overall, the album name, "This Place Will Become Your Tomb", either being directed at Vessel or Vessel to Sleep (and being a Halo quote lmao), is more metaphorical than literal.

Who he was before Vessel sits in that coffin, not his physical body.

[sodor-spirit]

Oliver’s Gold dust Armour or The Diesel Spirit Ripper

((Anyone who’s seen Oliver’s old steampunk clothes will know where I got this idea))

[anerdynerd]

Detroit:BH x Twin Peaks, anyone?

The portrait at the top right is supposed to be the actual Agent Cooper, the rest belongs to a silly crossover AU I made because I started Twin Peaks recently and Cooper reminded me of Connor too much not to do this :]