#there are still air bubbles

[oneiricazalea]

“It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done,” I say, grinding my teeth while applying a screen protector.

[thatsrightice]

Navigators. ❤️

[manasurge]

Guild Wars 2 OC stuff: So I finally figured out the full body design for Vallotash (Mordremoth's Scion a.k.a. who Mourynn actually is) They're more or less the same person, but it's complicated, but leans more to Vall believing she's Mourynn and kind of is since she inhabits her body and memories, but is technically an imposter and is very depressed and in denial about it. Inspiration from Jahai Bluffs: "Are you a dragon dreaming that it's a hero? If you were, how would you know?" (also it's my tumblr banner lol) I'm still sketching out the origin story to explain how this happens, but for now here is this sketch bc I am happy with how this turned out and wanted to post it early. It's basically self preservation turned to parasitism to accidental death of host to unintentional identity theft out of guilt/tribute + memory absorption to make her think she's the sapling + amnesia about the whole event taking place over the span of a year stuck in the dream (to super condense her origin lore). I'll finish these sketches once I'm done her origin story pages, or if I get possessed to do it earlier bc I'm still happy with how this turned out and might want to keep working on it sooner, hehe.

Here is more sketches of Mourynn/Vallotash under the cut:

She has some simpler looks for when she's flattened down. She looks SO SILLY but I love it. Beware the Scion of Mordremoth: This freaking wiggly silly noodle thing. A terrifying menace!! Beloathed parasite daughter vine of the mighty Jungle Elder Dragon!! /does a snake blep (Also the first two head sketches I did of her from last year when she still didn't have a body designed yet lmao. I still have to figure out how large she actually is, as well as her colouration. She'll have to match Mourynn's, so she's gonna be a funny mix of the colours in the cool spectrum, which doesn't look very plant-like, but sylvari can be all different colours, and she has the whole poisonous/hallucinogenic thing going on, as well as some Soo-won influence bc she's based off a leafy sea dragon and is very attuned to water, so it kinda works yeah????) I also have no idea what her large chin whisker things are supposed to be. I just kind of made them up on the spot and fell in love with them, so they're STAYING, even if they make no sense. I mostly just love that they'd look so cool underwater and while glowing in the dark, and they are vaguely alien and jellyfish-like.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Since prompts are open again, it's time to launch the Unholy Trinity + Evil Fourth Thing - please gift us with your hc or drabble on the adventures of Bucky, Curt, and Bubbles, featuring their secret accomplice Gale "absolutely batshit, actually" Cleven.

(This is also me enjoying Jack Kidd torment)

The thing is, and I cannot stress this enough: No one ever fucking believes Jack when he says, "I don't fucking care what Bucky, Curt, and Bubbles are fucking doing. Come find me when Buck's tagging along. THAT'S where the trouble is."

And the response is always the same: "Sir?? Cleven?? Calmest, coolest, most disciplined man in this entire air army? Surely he'd be a good influence."

"I need you to stop and think for five seconds, then answer this question: Why would the first three allow a good influence anywhere near them?"

Is Buck a good influence on literally everyone else on base? Yup. Great officer. Top-notch leader. And it's not even that he's a BAD influence on Bucky, Curt, or Bubbles in normal circumstances. Jack will be the first to admit that Bucky would have been in the drink (because Jack threw him there himself) if Buck didn't actually have some ability to contain him.

And Curt, well he's just rowdy like a lot of the boys. And Bubbles, he only gets rowdy if someone's there first. It's not three idiots and a braincell. It's low impulse control (Bucky & Curt) and perfectly fine unless he's feeling a little fighty (Bubbles), and then Buck. Who is a fucking chaos demon turned human by a witch that Jack is certain his great-grandda must have pissed off just before leaving Ireland. It's the only explanation.

Rowdy, Jack can handle all day. Big family, lots of cousins. He's been stopping fights and redirecting energy since he was in short pants. Nothing to it. And, of the boys, Bucky, Curt, and Bubbles are actually pretty okay. The one most likely to actually get into a fight is Curt, and he punches like a mule kicks, so Jack never worries there, either.

The thing Buck brings to the table is a fucking scheming mind. He learned it from his father and doesn't actually like that he CAN come up with a hundred ways to fuck something up if need be. But it was trained into him, and at least it comes in useful for flying. He's glad to put it to use rather than having the skills just itch the back of his head feeling like a really stupid can of worms to open.

But, then, it also turns out that there's types of scheming you can do that don't cause trouble. And can make people laugh. And can lift spirits. And just be fucking funny.

Like when the base got 100 calls in one day because "someone" parked a the Colonel's Jeep up at the entrance to town with a sign on the bumper:

FOR SALE

RUNS PERFECTLY

FIVE POUNDS

And Jack had known the moment he'd heard about it who'd done it. It had Buck Cleven's fingerprints all over it. And, in fact, Jack is certain he knows what happened:

Bucky and Curt drinking.

Bubbles also drinking.

One of them deciding it would be funny if they stole or hid the Colonel's Jeep.

Buck interjected, saying, "Fellas, no, let's not do that."

At which point all bystanders wandered off because, well, Cleven's the responsible one, so fun's over.

And then Cleven thought for about three minutes while the others kept drinking, leaned in and said, "If we do it your way, we get caught. We gotta do it my way."

Agreement. Theft of Army Property. Many, many phone calls.

Jack made sure to be very pissed off when he heard about it.

He also made sure to send Lemmons to retrieve it. Because Lemmons has a face like an angel and can absolutely convince everyone he really did mean to take the sign off the bumper before he brought it back.

While it is sometimes very frustrating that no one believes Jack about Buck, it at least gives him some cover for having a little fun of his own.

He can't play pranks like that. He's Air Exec. And every now and again Buck will meet his eye when a prank goes off with perfection and give Jack a wink.

[harrycrozby]

I should have known better 😦.

I remember watching The Pacific and Band of Brothers, how it was bad from the beginning, characters you cared for dying one after another. But I also remember how in both series, we also had some lighter moments. Giving us false hope that more of them will survive, making us feel better for a while....

We all know how the war ended, thank God, for those men who risked their lives, got injured, or died.

Band of Brothrrs, The Pacific and Masters of the Air is our story, and don't tell me otherwise, we can live the way we do now because of them! Each one of them! Basta!

Yes, I'm emotional because the 5th episode hit me very hard 🥺.

I may also see things a bit differently as a historian that I am, and a half German born and raised in Germany not so far away from where Bucky went down in this last episode.

I've read comments, not many, but some, how Masters of the Air isn't as good as Band of Brothers.

That's not true! Both series are different, trying to show us different views of the war, this time how it was for US Air Force to fly those, let's be fair suicide missions and yes, perheps at the begining it looked easy, less horrifying to us cause they were up there in the skys away from everybody and everything - it's just thst it's not true. They were as in the middle of this war as everybody else was.

And I think that especially this episode was proof for that.

And as before with the two other series, the second half of MotA will become more and more devastating, heartbreaking and impossible to watch without getting damaged by what will come.

And I don't think I'm prepared for that.

Sorry for my ramblings, but I needed that after watching this episode.

[angelsdean]

the best way to watch an early 2000s cw show is a decade past its prime, completely removed from its fandom in a bubble of your own amusement. the second best way to watch an early 2000s cw show is to completely entrench yourself in the fandom madness

[b00ks1ut]

How am I supposed to wait another week?

How do they expect me to last that long?

I think I might actually go insane

[raisinushigher]

im gonna try my best to stop posting about the reboot until it’s officially released bc i feel bad but i wanna say just one more thing

i love them. full rant in the tags

[xannerz]

Some imperfections but I’m trying 👶❣️

[unpretty]

the funniest thing i almost bought when i was part-time retail was one of those inflatable bubble tents. you can get them on aliexpress for like $800. i had to be talked down to a $300 ebay glamping tent. it took me over a month to pay it off, which was also as long as it took for me to give up on using the glamping tent because it turns out when you try to set up a glamping tent in a swamp it rapidly becomes full of bugs and humid and covered in mold.

[freebooter4ever]

i send my friend suggestions of tourist places to see in his new country (his contract was extended, lucky him!) or messages about friend of friends i have living there that he could maybe meet for fellow americans to talk to, and his response is always that he doesnt have time. and not in that exaggerated way that people do to seem busy. but in that bone tired way i recognize from him here in LA, that i recognize in myself.

[thatsrightice]

This one goes out to the Croz & Bubbles edit making people on tik tok and other platforms who without fail make me cry literally every time (you know who you are).

Now if someone hypothetically wanted to destroy me they would make an edit of Bubbles voice as he read the letter saying “I wish it were him sitting here and not me” and then cutting to a bunch of scenes of them set edit set to that dramatic, slowed-down version of Placebo’s cover of “Running Up That Hill”

[the-one-that-weeps]

If Wondasho got a van then Vbs deserves a rainbow race car.

Send post.

[dontforgetthedragon]

if deeplight were from jelt’s perspective it would be such a classic tragedy

[skibasyndrome]

when Sarte said "l'enfer, c'est les autres" he didn't know that he was gonna coin the perfect motto for when you have to do group projects at uni

[subparticlesupercollider]

^DOING T SHOTS WHEN UR AFRAID OF NEEDLES AND DONT LIKE IT I DONT LIKE IT OUCHIEEE I HATE IT BUT I LOVE BEING ON TESTOSTERONE AUGHHHHH IM SO SCARED