#tank the matrix

[stampgwifeyera]

Just finished watching the matrix and came here to ask if anyone else ships these two

[snonkerdoodlefizzy221b]

ok so guys. i love the matrix. i love it so much that i am going to make some headcanons for it (slight spoilers for 3 films below because i haven't watched resurrections):

mouse got his...codename? nickname? chat i nearly said callsign fuck me don't trust me because he literally. would. not. stop. talking. about. cheese. ever.

switch: "dude it's literally not real"

mouse, sobbing in the corner: "it was real to me"

ok well he wouldn't actually do that i think but they definitely ribbed him about it and he maintained that cheese is amazing despite the fact that he would never get to taste it in the real world.

i haven't watched the movie in a hot minute so i can't remember if it was mentioned in canon or not but i hc that morpheus was really reluctant to let tank and dozer join his crew because he'd known them for a pretty long time (not all their lives because he was freed from the matrix but they were homegrown) and didn't want them to get hurt. he'd seen the sentinels and the horrors within the matrix and especially outside and didn't want to endanger them like that, either mentally or physically. (especially the mental part tho because they were naive in a way? in that they were very eager to join the forces and help fight and were slightly ignorant of all the dangers that lurked. morpheus wanted them to stay in zion because if they stayed there they'd keep thinking [at least on some level] that the world was their oyster and that they'd be safe. their worldview would be completely turned upside down and tarnished if they joined up. tank and dozer wanted to do everything they could to help)

and when they got to the nebachu--ok listen it's like 4am and i can't spell that so we'll just call it the nebb. so when they got to the nebb they realized that morpheus was right about everything he'd warned them of. but they stuck around. they stuck around because they were true soldiers.

very few things survived the wars. but some people locked their shit into these like super cool techy impenetrable boxes or something that were later recovered by various ships and taken with the humans to zion. they contained things like photo albums, diaries, articles of clothing, and a lot of other things that really helped them piece together what humanity was like before the wars. there was also a ton of oral storytelling that got transcribed and placed into records of zion so that the humans didn't lose their humanity. they tried to keep whatever shreds they could but they couldn't keep all of it, so they combined it with the new stuff to make a new culture

switch and apoc are definitely close with each other somehow. platonic? sure. fucking? sure. romance? sure. whatever u want. but they are definitely two peas in a pod. (i need to rewatch dang)

what if trinity was like a music student or a journalism person before she was unplugged? i feel like whatever her main interest was during her plugged-in time was something that she missed very dearly upon getting freed. yes she was free and she knew the truth and could make her own decisions but the thing was that even though all that had happened she couldn't help but miss what she had while in the matrix. morpheus told her it was okay to mourn what she had lost and to take whatever time she needed, but to be careful to not let that feeling turn bitter. (because bitterness drives you to abandon the cause, as we saw with cypher)

neo likes strawberry ice cream and when he was little he cuddled with this squishmallow-esque stuffy. it was really squishy and plushy and sometimes he misses it.

cypher took way too much time, missed his old life too much, and abandoned the cause.

agent smith had thoughts that differed from the other agents' and what the matrix aimed to achieve ever since he was created. the ai put them apart to do his job but then looking at humans and everything more closely he reconsidered

mouse often daydreamed about fast food. one time on a mission he actually managed to order some mcdonald's fries at the drive thru and dumped the whole container into his mouth while running from agents. like picture this doofus running down the street, guns blazing, with his mouth stuff full of fries. morpheus was extremely scared when he did that for obvious reasons and explicitly banned food on all future trips.

the place that neo eats his noodles at often serves them with runny yolk (think poached or soft boiled eggs) on top and that's why he loved them so much6

[pink-carnelian]

we need to bring back this vibe and I’m so serious

[holybagelsstuff]

a very important chart

[leathercircuits]

to deny our impulses is to deny what makes us sigma

[magneticallyyours]

What fandoms would you like to see more of on my blog? Fics and imagines wise. (From my masterlist)

REBLOG for visibility, with tags if possible >:c

Thanks -w-

[sai-doodles]

Drew Harry while playing whiteboard with friends but I HAD TO do him justice

[neotrinitysource]

Carrie-Anne Moss and Marcus Chong in Street Justice (1993) | The Matrix (1999)

[bluesakura007]

*In 1, shortly after the then-newbie Neo's awakening, most of Team Neb are sat playing a card game together.*

Trinity, putting down a card: "Ace of spades."

Tank: *Pulls out an Uno card* "+4."

Mouse: *Pulls out a Pokémon card* "Jolteon, I choose you!"

Neo, trembling: "Wh- what are we playing?!"

[just-otter-thoughts]

I wish learning skills was as easy as calling Tank.

[dyke-o-matic]

god do y���all remember Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix? that shit changed my life forever.

dudes were wearing floor length black leather dusters in July on the off chance it would snag them a babe like this. I learned html for her.

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

We should have been suspicious when Kaylee didn't wear more tank tops with her cargo pants.

science fiction as a genre was invented specifically to show lesbians some greasy sweaty women in tank tops fixing machinery

[holybagelsstuff]

Another day another Matrix meme

[movvae]

“The Matrix” - movie review

🎥 Movie Name:

— The Matrix

👀 Seen Before?

— Not before, no

🆕 First Time?

— Yes

⭐️ Personal Movie Rating:

• ⭐️ Stars: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

• 📊 Percentage: 90%

• 👍 Positive Factors: concepts, how it’s still relevant

• 👎 Negative Factors: the fighting

���� Favorite Parts of the Movie: the end, the introduction scene for Neo, Trinity's introduction scene

🎭 Notable Characters: rank, the guy tjst died tjst trinity said was a virtual pimp

💔 Characters That Died That You Got Attached To: virtual pimp guy (his name is mouse)

⚖️ Justice For…?: MOUSE ‼️‼️‼️‼️

📝 Notes: mouse 🥺🥺🥺🥺

⏳ Did It Age Well?: YES ‼️‼️‼️

[chipthekeeper]

ya boy is once again having post ideas outside her skill level

[kremlin]

@pain-matrix in terms of firing the main cannon, it would likely be the british fv4005 (the shit barn). i’m talking about strictly tanks here and not self-propelled artillery/guns/weird german crap like rail-mounted guns. and the shit barn barely makes the cut for that definition. these sorts of things aren’t really measured universally, but it’s a pretty easy supposition since cannons don’t have baffles, that largest propellant charge = loudest boom.

the shit barn was an incredibly britishly engineered prototype for dealing with assault tanks, soviet stalin IIIs, at range. the stalin III’s hell turret was extremely thick and round, which’d make penetrating it difficult, so the shit barn used a then-novel alternate ammunition HESH (high explosive squash head) that does exactly what you think, hit target, deform plastically to cover large surface area with its yet-unexploded explosive, and then detonate briefly afterwords when surface area is maximized and any air pockets between squash head/turret target has been reliably squeezed out. this would cause the highly briscant shockwave to propagate through, really, any amount of homogenous steel armor without rupturing it, but once it’d reach the other side, the side with the crew in it, it’d splinter/spall the interior surface. sending hot bits of steel through crew skulls. but without actually penetrating.

you would need a LOT of squashing explosive to accomplish this, and the shit barn accomplished this with the still largest tank cannon by diameter ever built. 183mm. since this was meant to use at range, the propellant charge was also enormous and the boom deafening.

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in terms of engine noise, the internet would have you believe it’s the m1a2 (abrams). this is mostly ENEMY PROPAGANDA but the gas-turbine engine is certainly loud as f*cking sh*t. at 1500 horsepower it’s fair to assume as much. but the part often left out is the fact that gas turbine engines emit much higher frequency noise which obviously gets attenuated more by the atmosphere. essentially, if you are right next to it while running, it is loud.com, but the volume falls off quite rapidly as you move away, compared to the racket generated by a piston engine, which while quieter up close, carries a lot more as move away. this is an important distinction since militaries do not care about long term crew hearing loss nearly as much as they care about short term crew exsanguination/liquidation/perforation stemming from having their position revealed by noisy engine.

the sound the gas turbine makes when winding up is wonderful. m1a2. my beloved.

would anyone like to know anything about tanks.