#mod taub

[housemdsuggestions]

MOD INTRODUCTION

Mod Wilson - Hey everybody ^_^ I’m technically the owner, but we’re all doing our part to pitch in around here :) I’m really excited to share this blog with you all!

Pronouns: She/Her and They/Them!

Likes: Sweet stuff, HouseMD, and biking!

Please keep discourse out, and let’s all have a good time!

-W

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-H

Mod Taub: [DECEASED]

Mod Dr. Shaun Murphy: [separate post]

[desire-mona]

house in 2024 bc i see ppl post this

- chase makes "lol americans experience gun violence" jokes

- cameron engages in online discourse and starts a lot of arguments with "as a doctor..."

- foreman uses 4chan but just to sit in shock at the things he sees on there

- house is a mod and frequent poster on r/newjersey of all things. only wilson knows, not because house keeps it a secret, but because its so weirdly out of character that nobody would ever bring it up

- wilson sends reels of edgy standup comedians to house on instagram

- cuddy frequents gentle parenting forums, occasionally uses tactics on house

- taub used to run a food review channel on youtube but stopped when people called his videos "mukbangs"

- thirteen introduces herself with her name and pronouns, everyone makes a joke about this at least once

- kutner is a hamilton fan

[textingtroublesanswers]

(Nah, so many people have wanted me to watch like Naruto or One Piece, I straight up refuse. Too many episodes. However, Mob Psycho 100 👀 highly recommend. Not too many episodes, only 3 seasons. The manga is good too, the style of the art tho definitely puts off a lot of people but I love it, it's an AMAZING story either way!)

Hehehehe, I get that about the doves. The rescue I volunteer at actually takes in and rehabs feral and stray cats. Taking them off the street means less cats attacking birds, and other native species. There's a lot of ways to help cat populations but I always say that they're gonna have a better life in a home then on the street.

-🦖

Mod B: I have absolutely no clue what Mob Psycho is about 🤣 is it the one about a psychic kid?

"Aw, my future Taube is protecting other Vögel," Ludwig giggles, "Ach, pidgeons are such poor things. There aren't any true wild pidgeons in most of the world anymore, the ones you see on the street are descendants of released pet birds. They get hurt, hit by cars, eaten by things, & everyone sees them as pests! I wish I could take them all in, but I don't think I could manage taking care of thousands or even millions of birds."

[cto10121]

R&J Clown Takes Round ♾ —Part 8

In which a Reddit short with the question “Which fictional character(s) are wrongly idolized?” brings the anti clowns once more to the yard. A lot of garden variety hate and rehashed old chestnuts—but at least one truly jaw-dropping, unhinged take.

“jUST dUMB kIDS!!!”

Juliet is 13, not three. First the Orlando Bloom version where they had poor Juliet on a swing during her most erotic soliloquy, and now this. What is it with these productions’ obsession with infantilizing her apart from being part-and-parcel with misogynistic Victorian purity culture?

So. Once more with feeling. While Juliet is 13, she is no immature dummy with a dummy. She eagerly anticipates orgasming on Romeo’s dick—this is literal canon. Not all 13-year-olds are alike in maturity. Juliet is obviously on the high-end scale, and purposefully written that way. She is literally ready to smash.

*pushes up glasses* “acTUALLY”

This was corrected later on in the thread, which quickly devolved into whether or not R&J is a tragedy or not. But I’ll correct it here because ho, boy, the confidence.

Arthur Brooke’s poem is titled “The Tragicall Historie of Romeus and Juliet” (give or take a misspelling or two), not “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy” (title of the quarto edition). And no, it is not darker than the play. If anything, it is lighter. I did a whole read-through with commentary of the poem on my blog. Suffice to say, Shakespeare did a lot of clean-up of Brooke’s mess, turning his dull morality fable into an actual tragedy with real drama.

Romeo Hate Dumb (Reprise, encore plus bête)

Where the hell are these English teachers coming from? Oh, right, barely literate warm bodies hired by a underfunded public schools attacked by right-wing and elite faux liberals who want to privatize public education and keep down the masses. Almost forgot.

Melinda Taub? Rachel Caine? Is that you?

Yawn. OP, this is just dull. These clowns are tired even of their own shtick. Plus, there’s all this hemming and hawing. If you must clown, clown to the back seats!

That said, here’s something new: “a line implying judgement in the beginning.” How mysterious, OP. Do tell. Me, I can’t really think of any. The Prologue Chorus is neutral to slightly biased in favor of the lovers; Chorus 2 is a little less so, particularly “alike bewitched by the charm of looks” description. That still isn’t judgment, though. Overall, the play more often fully embodies the lovers’ perspective than critique it.

Romeo Was X, Juliet Was Y

Romeo was 20 while Juliet was 14. Romeo was 17 while Juliet was 13. Romeo was 48822 while Juliet was 9310. Romeo was a T. Rex while Juliet was a raptor. Romeo was a discord mod, Juliet was his kitten.

Romeo the Rapist

Now this is what I call a clown take.

The confidence. The delusion. The initial, rather basic age gap pearl-clutching before the cha-cha slide into an accusation of statutory rape. The mic drop of an deranged edit when OP is called to elaborate. The casualness. “Yeah, R&J is a text filled with the threat of rape and relationship abuse. It was very much so not a good situation. Love me some Shakespeare, but this just isn’t his best. :/”

I don’t know what deranged anti fanfiction OP has been reading lately, but this take beats them all. Stunning. Incredible. Legendary. Unbeatable. Somewhere a small, proud tear is rolling down Khachaturian’s cheek. This is it. He had found it. The perfect setting for his masterpiece. What can possible best this spectacularly unhinged bit of clownery?

…I stand corrected (?)

I don’t know Discord from discord, so this comment is as impregnable to me as the Dead Sea scrolls. I’ll just leave it up for you guys that know Discord more than I do and who will fully appreciate the clownery of this take, if any.

Meanwhile I’ll just be here thinking of a strange RetJ fanfic AU where Romeo makes Juliette his kitten. If you know what I mean.

[paulodebargelove]

Vanessa Williams - Legs (Keep Dancing) [Official Music Video]  First Listen: Vanessa Williams launches label with new single#VanessaWilliams, the legendary star of stage, screen, and the music scene, is dancing into the next phase of her dazzling career with a series of professional high kicks. She’s formed her own recording label, Mellian Music, set up her first publishing entities,  and signed a joint venture agreement  with Mod Squad, LLC, which is distributed by GoDigiPath, LLC, in association with  ADA Worldwide,  Warner Music Group’s independent label and artist services arm. Steven C. Beer,  who’s worked with Lady Gaga and Britney Spears, has come on board as Williams’ strategic lawyer/management consultant.“What a joy it is to be making new music behind the mike again with old friends,”  Williams adds. “There’s a certain comfort in creating new works in the studio while reminiscing about how so many years in this business have brought successes, excitement, and lasting memories. Always moving forward is what drives me. Every challenge is exciting. And more new music to share with my fans is the fuel that lights my fire.”Williams is putting the final touches on her first non-seasonal album  in 15 years. It releases later this year. The project was executive produced by Mellian Music, Mod Squad, LLC, and Christopher Todd Hall. “This is an album that surrounds Vanessa’s vocal gifts and performances with stellar acoustic and electronic performances by real musicians, real writers, real producers; a real music album,” says Mod Squad CEO, Tony Prendatt. “This album is for all genres. It  will touch on all of Vanessa’s experiences in the Pop, R&B, Latin, Jazz, and Dance genres. Vanessa is re-introducing herself by her design; we’re all committed and excited to be a part of it.”The first single, “Legs (Keep Dancing),” was co-written by Disney songwriter/producer Chantry Johnson; songwriter Kjersti Long; and songwriter/producer Kipper Jones who co-penned Williams’ early classics, “The Comfort Zone” and “The Right Stuff.”  Music isn’t the only thing on Williams’ mind. She’s currently in rehearsals to star as the fictional fashion queen Miranda Priestlyin London, England’s West End stage production of The Devil Wears Prada. There are preview performances at the Theatre Royal Plymouth July 6- August 21st. The official opening takes place on October 24th at the city’s Dominion Theatre.  The musical features an original score by  Sir Elton John and lyrics by Shania Taub. The book is by Kate Wetherhead. It’s directed and choreographed by 3-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde, Pretty Woman).In the past, Williams has served as executive producer for various projects such as the telefilm, The Courage to Love, and her own televised Christmas specials.  She’s continuing that enterprising practice as part of the producer team for  A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, a play about the life of the iconic jazz trumpeter known as Satchmo, that will make its Broadway debut this fall at the Roundabout Theatre’s Studio 54 in New York City. The production will star James Monroe Inglehart who is best-known for his Tony Award winning role as Genie in the original Broadway production of Aladdin.“You can call it a comeback, a full circle moment, or just plain serendipity,” says songwriter Kipper Jones who’s history with Williams dates to her The Right Stuff album debut in 1988. “But I call it a blessing to be creating more history with the iconic force of nature that is Vanessa Williams. If past is indeed prologue, we’re about to give ‘em hell again!”

[story-locked-in-silver-thread]

listen // songs selected by mod ceil and mod ali // pictures from pinterest

i. all for us // labrinth + zendaya

when it all comes down to it, i hope one of you come back to remind me of who I was when i go disappear.

ii. listen before i go // billie eilish 

sorry can't save me now. sorry I don't know how. sorry there's no way out but down.

iii. it's oh so quiet // björk

‘til it's over and then it's nice and quiet, but soon again starts another big riot.

iv. in the woods somewhere // hozier 

v. won’t want for love // the decembrists 

my dearest love, i’m not done yet. how many years i know i’ll bear? i found something in the woods somewhere.

vi. if i die before you // shaina taub

i’m gonna love you to death, so after my last breath, i can die happy,

vii. the garden // the crane wives 

the crows in the garden are laughing at my expense; drowning out all the lies that I might have told instead. my stone, my shield, my steady hand hold your light to the darkness in my head.

viii. to the sea // katsenjammer 

wish i could forget and let the years go by, wish i could escape from my dreams of you. because all I have left i the voice of the wind blowing through the doors of our house.

ix. blue lips // regina spektor

they made it past the enemy lines just to become enslaved in the assembly lines.

[sucede-es]

HONDA DOMINATOR

Cuando Gorm Taube compró esta Honda NX650 Dominator en 2015, el objetivo no era crear una moto personalizada, sino montarla mientras se completaba otro proyecto.

El otro proyecto nunca llegó a buen término y la Dominator se convirtió en el centro de atención. Cinco años después, está completa, al menos en su revisión actual. Manteniendo las líneas utilitarias de Dominator, los mods son prácticos al tiempo que agregan a la apariencia. Se ha instalado una ECU del mercado de accesorios, junto con un escape deslizante Yoshimura para aprovechar al máximo el pistón único. El carenado delantero y el faro cuadrado se eliminaron en favor de una unidad redonda clásica, junto con instrumentación digital, indicadores LED de bajo perfil y soportes personalizados para alforjas.

[deafaq]

Any tips on creating a sign language or two for my story? I'm already making several spoken conlangs. Thanks.

 - iHello,

uh... study sign language linquistics? Sing languages (and language in general) are too complex to be explained in one ask, I am afraid. Another option is to get a sign language expert/linguist to assist you. 

Also, if your story is written and not comics, how do you plan to show these sign languages in writing? I am honestly curious. Sign languages are visual and make use of 3D space and face expressions and are notoriously hard to write down in “normal” English. Most dictionaries either use videos and pictures or their have special writing systems designed to write signs down. 

If you are really commited to this sort of action, I recommend reading some linguistic books which will introduce you to sign language essential. One of my favourites is Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An Introduction to Sign Language Linguistics by Trevor Johnson, The Signs of Language by Klima and Bellugi or Language from the Body - Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language by Sarah F. Taub.

Hope this helps,

Mod T

[official-german-autismus]

Was Autismus für mich bedeutet

Wenn ich erklären müsste, wie es ist, Autist zu sein, dann würde ich sagen, dass es bedeutet, extrem zu sein.

Auf eine Art und Weise bin ich extrem rational. Ich lasse mich von meinen Gedanken führen und verbringe viel Zeit damit, in meinem Kopf neue Gedanken zu fassen. Ich habe großen Spaß daran, mir neues Wissen anzueignen und in Diskussionen - egal, zu welchem Thema - habe ich oft eine starke Meinung, die ich vertrete. Dabei bin ich sehr direkt und ehrlich.

Ich liebe es, Probleme zu lösen und dabei bekomme ich sehr involviert in diese, egal ob es meine, die anderer Leute, fiktionale oder wissenschaftliche sind.

Ich liebe es, Dinge und Konzepte zu verstehen. Vielleicht kommt dieses Bedürfnis daher, dass ich in einer Welt aufgewachsen bin, die mir manchmal so fremd und unlogisch erscheint. Um zu verstehen, nutze ich meistens mein sehr ausgeprägtes Auge für Details, Muster und Zusammenhänge. Ich bemerke Dinge, die andere meist übersehen. Ich denke sehr analytisch und genieße es, so zu denken. Wenn ich etwas analysiere, dann kann ich mich so darauf fokussieren, dass ich dabei die Zeit komplett vergesse.

Dadurch bin ich auch sehr philosophisch veranlagt. Selbst wenn ich die Wahl hätte, würde ich es immer vorziehen, mir selbst aus den kleinen Details des Lebens ein großes Bild zu machen, als wie nicht autistische Menschen sofort das große Ganze zu sehen.

Ich kann aber auch extrem emotional sein. Ich habe so viel Leidenschaft für die Dinge, die mir wichtig sind. Und ich kann überall Schönheit und Gutes entdecken, egal, wie seltsam es anderen vorkommen mag.

Ich habe sehr tiefe Gefühle. Wenn ich Menschen habe, mit denen ich auf eine gewisse Art und Weise reden kann oder die auf eine bestimmte Art und Weise mit mir umgehen, dann mag ich sie sehr, selbst wenn ich sie kaum kenne. Und sie werden mir wichtig, weil ich eine Verbundenheit empfinde, die mir sonst eher fremd ist.

Aber ich bin auch sehr schnell überfordert. Ich bin schnell gestresst und mache mir viel zu viele Sorgen - um mich, andere und oft auch einfach über das Leben an sich. Oft empfinde ich Emotionen so tief, dass ich dadurch wieder emotional taub werde.

Ich liebe viele Dinge. Ich habe unglaublich viel Begeisterung für Kunst, Musik, Geschichten und Personen und kann mich sehr gut emotional darauf einlassen. Ich liebe auf meine eigene Art und Weise. Wenn ich etwas liebe, dann extrem - ich bin ein ganz oder gar nicht Mensch. Dadurch ist in meiner Ehrlichkeit oft auch sehr viel Freundlichkeit enthalten.

Ich bin dazu letztlich noch extrem sensibel. Ich höre zu viele Geräusche, die viel zu laut sind. Manche davon sind so unangenehm, dass sie mir physische Schmerzen bereiten - ein Martinshorn, Stühle die über den Boden kratzen... so viel zu hören macht müde.

Dazu ist das Licht oft so hell, dass ich kaum sehen kann. Ich bin super leicht zu erschrecken und sehr kitzelig. Was Essen angeht, bin ich unglaublich wählerisch. Und ich fühle jeden Teil meines Körpers ganz genau und bewusst, jedes Kleidungsstück auf der Haut, obwohl ich oft sehr unsensibel gegenüber Schmerz bin.

Und manchmal, wenn ich mal wieder "zu sensibel" bin, dann werde ich verzweifelt. Ich werde defensiv gegenüber anderen und letztlich hilft oft nur weinen, um die Überforderung abzubauen.

Autist zu sein bedeutet für mich, extrem zu sein. Auf eine gewisse Art und Weise könnte man fast behaupten, dass es für mich bedeutet, extrem menschlich zu sein.

- Mod Cosima

[housemdsuggestions]

WHY WE HAD TO KILL MOD TAUB [Our Side of the Story]

As you all know, Mod Taub was a founding parent to this blog. However, after recent events, we had to draw a line on the direction we wanted this blog to take.

LIST OF OFFENCES

Advocated for “Taub Hentai” on the housmdsuggestions blog

Claimed Mod Wilson was “fake marxist” because she has a dishwasher

Disrespected Mod House’s ace!Tritter headcanon, stating “That old man fucks and that’s final.”

Constantly used the hmds blog to brag about the “bitches and weed” he was pulling from his SoundCloud royalties

Kinned Markiplier :/

Overall changed the cottagecore coquette vibe of this blog into a sick and twisted playground for his own dark fantasies

Our goal is to eventually be able to make some money off this blog through ad revenue, so please understand our decisions moving forward. Thank you!

[winemvmii]

Unendlich Münzen bei Crossy Roads um alle Charaktere freizuschalten

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[textingtroublesanswers]

*Tala laughs* alright you big cuddle bug, go find and benevolently harrass your husband.

-🦖

(I always mix up malevolent and benevolent)

Mod B: I only remember it by remembering that Mal is the name of an evil character in some Disney show, so malevolent = evil

Ludwig giggles, "Take care, future Taube." He heads off, hearing the twins laughing somewhere in the general area of the kitchen.

[mathematicalrosebudthorn]

24 apr 2018

Rose:

J is integrable iff there is a torsion free connection that preserves the J

can ask to minimize covariant derivative of fixed metric over all connections, look for best connection

Runge-type theorems, Taube’s theorem (for a space with bad singularities, connect sum / glue them in with a LOT of nice spaces, use heavy analysis to show that this actually works)

Yamabe invariant; distinguishes smooth type, countably many smooth types. real number. related to volume of n-sphere for n-spheres, upper bound for other manifolds in that same given dimension n

Adler’s attempt at showing S6 has no integrable J; deformation theoretic attack

complex cobordism = sac manifolds. so maybe sac surgery is possible

what is the effect of surgery on the naturally associated algebras / dgas on manifolds? eg dga of differential forms? dolbeault complex? can we see what happens? do things degenerate? perhaps this is the way to distinguish the ac from c (del + A + del_bar + A_bar)

Thorn:

Stein manifolds, twistor space theory

Is S6 a twistor space of something? ie S2 bundle over a 4-manifold

tautological J on twistor space of a 4-manifold is a conformal invariant

Seiberg-Witten invariants

Bud:

characteristic classes are additive under # (by Mayer-Vietoris); euler class is additive mod 2

signature is additive under # (again by Mayer-Vietoris)

Lefschetz fixed point theorem

interpolation theorems

A-infinity structures

[tumimmtxpapers]

Implications of the tumor immune microenvironment for staging and therapeutics.

Implications of the tumor immune microenvironment for staging and therapeutics. Mod Pathol. 2017 Dec 01;: Authors: Taube JM, Galon J, Sholl LM, Rodig SJ, Cottrell TR, Giraldo NA, Baras AS, Patel SS, Anders RA, Rimm DL, Cimino-Mathews A Abstract Characterizing the tumor immune microenvironment enables the identification of new prognostic and predictive biomarkers, the development of novel therapeutic targets and strategies, and the possibility to guide first-line treatment algorithms. Although the driving elements within the tumor microenvironment of individual primary organ sites differ, many of the salient features remain the same. The presence of a robust antitumor milieu characterized by an abundance of CD8+ cytotoxic T-cells, Th1 helper cells, and associated cytokines often indicates a degree of tumor containment by the immune system and can even lead to tumor elimination. Some of these features have been combined into an 'Immunoscore', which has been shown to complement the prognostic ability of the current TNM staging for early stage colorectal carcinomas. Features of the immune microenvironment are also potential therapeutic targets, and immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 axis are especially promising. FDA-approved indications for anti-PD-1/PD-L1 are rapidly expanding across numerous tumor types and, in certain cases, are accompanied by companion or complimentary PD-L1 immunohistochemical diagnostics. Pathologists have direct visual access to tumor tissue and in-depth knowledge of the histological variations between and within tumor types and thus are poised to drive forward our understanding of the tumor microenvironment. This review summarizes the key components of the tumor microenvironment, presents an overview of and the challenges with PD-L1 antibodies and assays, and addresses newer candidate biomarkers, such as CD8+ cell density and mutational load. Characteristics of the local immune contexture and current pathology-related practices for specific tumor types are also addressed. In the future, characterization of the host antitumor immune response using multiplexed and multimodality biomarkers may help predict which patients will respond to immune-based therapies.Modern Pathology advance online publication, 1 December 2017; doi:10.1038/modpathol.2017.156. PMID: 29192647 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] http://dlvr.it/Q3yMbT

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Sera Trimble’s Rise to the Top of the Ranks of Stunt-Driving

Sera Trimble isn’t trying to scare me, but she does.

By stomping a Lamborghini Huracán Spyder’s V-10 and flinging the wheel, she kicks out the tail abruptly in a plume of dust. I’m scoping her technique from the passenger seat before directing her in a video shoot, and despite the raucous, pebble-launching powerslides in a $300,000 car on a dirt road, the petite driver remains eerily calm.

Trimble, it turns out, is one of the last humans on Earth to warrant concern. As one of Hollywood’s most sought-after stunt drivers, her skill set has navigated her through a labyrinth of peculiar automotive scenarios. She’s jumped a ’72 Chevelle, drifted an Infiniti on polished concrete within inches of actors, steered, accelerated, and braked from the footwell of a Subaru while a dog “drove,” dodged explosions in a Camaro, maneuvered a Kia while wearing a hamster suit, and launched a Porsche 928 onto a dock that collapsed into a lake. The drifting-a-Lambo-on-a-dirt-road thing? Essentially a nonevent.

This particular driver embodies every automotive-obsessed personality trait you’d expect, despite the usual stereotypes associated with XX chromosomes. Case in point: She outfitted her Los Angeles home with a Gulf-liveried kitchen and a Martini Racing-themed bedroom and is more likely to chitchat about weight distribution and suspension mods than shopping or fashion. But in the grand scheme of things, the car bug took some time to mature.

Trimble must assume any number of appearances such as a hamster for Kia, a character on TV’s “The Goldbergs,” and as a stunt double for Oscar-nominated actress Ruth Negga.

She was born 80 miles north of Seattle in the tiny town of Sedro-Woolley an unspecified number of years ago. (Like many a Hollywood player, she prefers not to disclose her age.) A deep-seated automotive iconography is embedded in her psyche, including an irrational attraction to ’66 Sting Rays, a warm spot for the Jaguar E-type hearse from “Harold And Maude,” and a self-proclaimed giggle reflex triggered by big-bore muscle cars. But the serious signs didn’t manifest until later. Her first car, a Nissan Pulsar NX with seafoam green paint, was simply an escape vehicle from her parents and a way to make a few bucks in high school by delivering pizzas. After two years at art school and a job at Blockbuster, she valet parked cars at a Seattle hotel. Spoiler alert: True love, no matter how circuitous its path, eventually wins.

“I drove everything,” she recalls, “then I started having feelings about everything.” Darting between parking structure pillars revealed handling quirks, and opinions of cars were quickly polarized. That black-on-black Land Rover Discovery she coveted? Its lazy turning radius burst the bubble. The Mercedes-Benz S-Class? Surprisingly nice lumbar support. Any Dodge Neon? Don’t get her started.

“If you say, ‘I think there’s a better way we could do this,’ no matter who it offends, you live with someone being pissed off and not putting someone in the hospital.”

And then, the fate-shifting moment: Director Doug Taub, in town shooting a Lincoln commercial, happened to spot Trimble as she whipped cars around at the valet. “Have you ever thought about driving for a living?” he asked her. “What do you mean?” she answered, pointing to the valet stand. “Look at all these cars I drive for a living.”

Based on her facile maneuvering (and perhaps aided by her quick wit), Taub offered her a gig as a production assistant so she could dip her toes in the precision-driving business. Sensing an opportunity for change (and admitting to herself that her art education wasn’t doing her any good as a valet anyway), she paid a friend $40 to cover for her on a Saturday. “When I think back,” she recalls, “that $40 was the best possible career investment I’ve had to this day. I’m glad he covered that shift because it was totally life-changing.”

As with any rise, Hollywood or otherwise, success was anything but overnight. She kept in touch with the crew she worked with, and nearly a year later in summer 2007 she moved to Los Angeles and started working as a runner on commercials. Although fixed on her goal of being a driver, she methodically learned how a set worked: who was in charge, who (in her words) kissed whose ass, and how the puzzle pieces of hierarchy fit together. More crucially, she observed what made an exceptional driver, why top drivers demand respect, who hires them, how they save the production money, and why they never seem to complain. Before long she met acclaimed stunt driver Brent Fletcher, who heard she wanted to drive. “I don’t want to sleep with anyone to do it,” she announced, when asked about her aspirations. “I’ve only been in L.A. for a few months, but I’m beginning to understand that that’s an actual way people get work here. I want to get hired one day because I’m really good at what I do. I don’t want to hook up with some producer, and he gives me two jobs as a stunt driver, and everyone thinks I’m an effing joke.”

Leveling with Fletcher laid the foundation for a career-long friendship and mentorship. “When I knew that driving was all I wanted to do,” she remembers, “I never wanted to be on set and have an excuse that I couldn’t do what I was there to do.” That meant investing heavily in driver training, diverting much of her earnings into instruction over the next several years. She attended schools from virtually every major automaker—BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes-AMG—as well as every conceivable type of course—Skip Barber, Bridgestone Winter Driving, Team O’Neil, and Dirtfish rally schools.

Trimble enjoys some rare time behind the wheel of one of her own cars, a 1986 Porsche 911 Carrera with extensive suspension modifications.

The pressure of stunt driving can be immense, and the expectations — especially for a woman — are often crushingly anachronistic. For instance, the common request for Ken Block-like maneuvers must be tempered by a realistic portrait of the vehicle and conditions in question. In other words, a director who thinks a Chevy Cruze can pirouette in a cloud of smoke might need to rearrange his or her expectations. “The fact of the matter is if you seriously, seriously hurt someone, you have to live with that forever,” Trimble says. “If you say, ‘I think there’s a better way we could do this,’ no matter who it offends, you live with someone being pissed off at you and not putting someone in the hospital.” Also unsurprising is the tendency for some directors to be naturally biased against female drivers. If told a certain maneuver can’t happen, some directors “don’t want to hear it. They look at me like I’m a hack, like I’m a girl, obviously I don’t know how to drive, I can’t make it work, and I’ve wasted their whole day.”

On Preferred make of stunt car: “Any car with brakes. You really take brakes for granted, they boil over, and you almost go over the mountain or into a helicopter or camera-car crane.”

Ensuring she can deliver on her promise of automotive acrobatics requires vigilant attention to detail and exhaustive spatial awareness, often without the luxury of advanced preparation or in-depth rehearsal. Drifting the Infiniti around those actors on polished concrete was particularly stressful. Grip levels changed constantly because fresh rubber was laid down with each take, which could dramatically alter the car’s handling characteristics. Upping the X factor was the repositioning of actors and lights between takes, requiring on-the-fly recalibrations of turn-in and apex points. Some 17 takes later, the director was eventually satisfied and called, “Wrap!” Trimble recalls the aftermath: “I was so mentally exhausted, when I got home I couldn’t even feed myself. My brain just turned off because I had to focus so hard and couldn’t change anything.”

Maintaining a routine is essential when it comes to prolonged concentration. If Trimble takes a bathroom break and someone has reset her seating position because the car had to be moved, her whole world has changed. One of her favorite examples concerns a stuntman who’s about to leap through a plate-glass window and fall 20 stories. The stunt involves a detonating charge to break the window, but the stuntman senses that something isn’t quite right. There’s a small chance the charge will detonate at his head, so he asks for it to be repositioned by a foot. Stunt coordinator Andy Armstrong, aware of the importance of the stuntman’s opinion, stops everything. The helicopter lands, the crew resets, and they start over. The stunt then goes off without a hitch. “Every human has things they like to focus on, and sometimes they’re super crucial in moments like that,” Trimble explains. “I love the idea, and I will always think of that moment where this big thing is about to happen, and it’s like, ‘How does this feel? Does everything feel good? Are you comfortable with this?’ Because that stuntman’s ability to move something one foot completely changed his energy.”

Once that sense of rightness is established, there are countless degrees of subtlety involved with precision driving. Although she once rated her brake-pedal effort on a scale of 1 to 10, trading notes with fellow stunt driver and racer Tanner Foust inspired her to increase the resolution of her stopping effort, expanding it to a scale from 1 to 100. That exacting level of control can make it difficult to stomach rogue external forces, like ham-fisted Uber drivers. Even though she essentially operates as an aerobatic pilot in two dimensions, her fortitude flies out the window when she’s a passenger. “I’ve gotten ill in taxicabs more than probably anyone who exists,” she confesses. “During one trip to Thailand I puked on every moving form of conveyance.”

When the stakes can be life or death, Trimble’s preferences for stunt cars get improbably binary. When asked what carmaker makes her stunt-driver heart go pitter-patter, her response is simple: “Any car with brakes. You really take brakes for granted until driving on a mountainside, they boil over, and you almost go over the mountain or into a helicopter or camera-car crane.” She adds, “Any day I’m on the set and my car stops when I want it to stop, it’s a good day.”

Trimble’s personal 1968 Dodge Charger took two years to source and was discovered in Indiana by her so-called Mopar mentor, Mike Musto.

As for her personal automotive tastes, her garage reveals some rather varied proclivities. Her fleet includes a Porsche Macan S, an air-cooled 911 Carrera, a Ford Focus ST, and a meticulously restored ’68 Dodge Charger that speaks volumes to her eye for detail. After enlisting fellow ’68 Charger enthusiast and owner Mike Musto (host of “The House of Muscle” on Motor Trend on Demand), the two embarked on a two-year quest to find her ideal black-on-red steed. Although she started searching for a 440 (the inspiration behind her Instagram handle, @Trims440), her so-called Mopar mentor led her through a journey that involved a seemingly Sisyphean process of sharing listings of prospective cars, to which he invariably responded, “Sera, this one’s a big sack of shit.” When your prepurchase inspection involves a list of 36 detailed questions (and your undercarriage viewing process is “like, a 3,500-point inspection”), the wheat separates from the chaff fairly quickly. The search eventually led her to a 572-cubic-inch-powered Charger in Indiana. “I was like, ‘700 lb-ft of torque? Of course I need 700 lb-ft of torque. And 768 horsepower? Of course I need 768 horsepower.’ It’s like an Indy cylinder head with these crazy headers I can fit my calves into. Holy headers, Batman.”

Based on her car collection alone, Hollywood appears to have been very good to Trimble. But she plays down the lavish array with the fact that she lacks overhead such as kids, adding that her specialized focus on driving makes her a rare breed in an industry where most stunt people are well-rounded in the fields of weaponry, martial arts, and all manner of physical badassery. “Since I’m technically more ‘useless overall,’” she says, “I would be less likely to be brought along on movies for that reason. The fact I survive on a living wage at all baffles me, especially considering the amount of amazing talent out there.”

Follow Sera on Instagram @trims440

For someone who drives for a living, Trimble has little affinity for nonprofessional motoring, save the occasional jaunt up Angeles Crest Highway with friends or the Robin’s Rally, an annual on- and off-road shred she does with a small group of air-cooled Porsche driving buds. As for real racing, she is surprisingly nonplussed by the lure of competition. “I have no personal need to take corners away from people,” she explains. “I have more fun at slow speeds being super technical than I do going as fast as I can.”

As for my Lamborghini video shoot, after my initial ride-along I climb out and shoot car to car with a cameraman, calling instructions through a walkie-talkie for Trimble to execute. She tells me when things don’t feel right, and I adjust the shot as required. But when she’s on, she’s on, coaxing the Lambo with precise authority, driving with balletlike grace as the gray machine cuts an elegant arc through the desert.

I know she has reached that “just right” state when she executes a perfect high-speed drift in the dirt, nailing a satisfying yaw angle while staying completely in control. It is at that moment that Trimble once again proves her mettle, allowing me to finally let go and enjoy her performance.

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which one is the freaky mod

Lol.

Well.

Guess it has to be me.

-Mod Taub