#deployed life

[prokopetz]

Detachable junk sounds good in theory, but I can't help but feel that the plug-and-play approach is just asking for trouble. Forget about USB compatibility – I want something mounted on a threaded rod that I have to spend several minutes turning into place, and it makes an obtrusive squeaka-squeaka-squeaka noise the whole time because I'm a dumbass and forgot to lubricate it. I want something that needs to be seated and secured like the parallel data cable from a 1950s computer. I want something where removing it requires disengaging a series of four interlocking mechanical toggles, and I want each of those toggles to go ka-chunk.

#life #penis mention #transhumanism #(ish) #swearing #i want it to make a discordant thrumming noise and emit wispy clouds of dry ice vapour when i deploy it for absolutely no practical reason

[ghouljams]

So you might’ve said something previously and I just missed it but I was reading the tags on your post about soap and Goose and goose had an accident? And Soap drove her to the hospital??? Have you said something before and I just missed it it’s 5am here I feel like I’m going insane trying to figure this out-

Goose's accident happens at the end of Soap's first summer with them and is part of Goose's story that I haven't talked about yet because, well, there's no good way to bring it up... but it colors a lot of how Price treats her on the farm as well as how close she and Soap are. Nothing brings people together like some solid medical need. We are also going to do some serious suspension of disbelief as I write moderately improbably situations and injuries, everyone be nice.

You never really bought the whole slow motion play in movies when characters get hurt. You've seen people get hurt, seriously hurt, and it always happens fast. It's quick and messy, and you've never needed a slow motion edit to know that it must have hurt like a bitch.

You get it now. That your brain must have been trying to find the right angle to record the trauma, that it must have been searching for some way out of this. Once you actually were hit everything sped back up, the pain sped back up. You try to lay still and stare up at the clouds, you're supposed to stay still until someone comes to patch you up. You're cold.

Soap drops to his knees next to you. You think that cloud looks a lot like a butterfly. He presses down hard on your stomach and the ringing in your ears grows louder until it pops and you feel the full burning extent of the pain. It's excruciating. Every nerve in your body lit up on high alert to make sure you know you've been nearly gutted.

People are yelling, Soap is yelling. You've never heard him yell before. His face is twisted into something unreadable as he looks at you. The world seem very fuzzy and watery, or maybe you're crying? Are you crying? You can't feel anything past the electric shock of ripping pain from the wound.

"I know, I know, I'm sorry," He's telling you, "I have to keep pressure on-" and you don't really have the brain power to parse the Scotts that he's speaking past that.

Your stomach, aside from feeling like its been thrust into a salted fire, is wet. That must be the blood. And there's something hard on your chest, something that's speaking in a calm tone.

You try to focus on your breathing, but that only brings fresh shocks of pain through you. It feels like every twitch makes you want to flinch away from your own body. You've never felt a pain so all-consuming before. So bad you can't even draw a breath to scream from it.

The flashing lights of the ambulance sure got here quick. Or, no, have you been down that long? Someone shines a light in your eyes like they're some sort of doctor. Soap is talking to them with short military precision. You've never ridden in an ambulance before, you'd almost be excited if you could think of anything but the pain. Actually, you can think of something else.

You think the Lucas' have to be the only morons in the state that don't have their bull's horns tipped.

#Soap keeps it together just long enough to throw up in the ambulance #war and treating wounded soldiers? fine nothing #treating his wounded sister? traumatizing the worst thing he's ever had to do #Price never forgives himself for being deployed when this happened #doesn't let Goose help out on anyone else's farm again #doesn't let her in the pasture alone #puts up a fight when she wants to compete in the rodeo #Soap literally stripping the shirt off his back to apply pressure #GOD They all love you so much Goose #Duck is working at the hospital and gets called to the ER it's the worst day of her life #Goose gets a cool scar out of the whole experience #oc: Goose #johnny soap mactavish #cowboy!141

[andavs]

I’m so fucking curious about Shannon’s life in LA.

She probably had a job, unless she got some amount of money from her mom after she died (but living on that while knowing how tight things were back home is uh…not great). She was charming and fun so I would assume she had friends, or at least friendly coworkers. Did they know she had a husband and son back in Texas? Neither of them were wearing their wedding rings by the time they reconnected. Eddie took his off when he moved to LA, so when did she stop wearing hers? Were they this huge secret she kept from everyone around her? Did she have anyone around her who knew and was like "Hey, so what’s the deal with your husband and son back in Texas?" There’s so many gaping holes in her side of things and I’m so curious.

#like did she basically move on without them or was she also stuck and lonely and just farther away? #did she have friends and family who came to her funeral in la? #was she originally from la and moved to texas? #was her dad dead? not in the picture? in the military so they moved around and he was also deployed? (this makes me so sad) #i feel like we should know more about her with how prominently she's loomed over eddie's life

[skippersthecat]

Akechi would destroy him.

#there is not a single know it all who compares #my baby could beat anyone in a battle of wits #and if things go south he can always deploy the piss tactic #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #akechi touma

[fauvester]

goofy silly lovedrunk bashir! and AWED STARRY EYED GARAK!

#dee s 9 #this is why i LOOVE Cupid Computer... the look of a man for whom all his dreams had come true at once... #meanwhile julian blushing grinning hee hee wrowwww... #ooOWOOOOWWW my favorite dynamic #garak cannot believe he is allowed to be this lucky in this or any other lifetime. is it selfish to grab at this happiness? #meanwhile julian is just having the time of his life with his several-years crush. getting butterflies #good morning ... #especially good if theyve known each other for like years at this point. normal buddy dynamic. then UH OH SHIFTING INTO CRUSH ZONE! #used to be two bros chilling in tains gardening shed 0 feet apart cause theyre sharing a standard issue quick-deploy cot #and now its...... CHARGED

[compacflt]

sorry if youve already talked about this but do you have any views on Goose's christianity? I assume with the cross he wears and Carole referencing him going to church that he is christian, im fascinated by how that might affect his character but im not religious at all, i was raised atheist in a mostly atheist country, so the fact that the tg characters might be caught me by surprise, i know thats not statistically correct but i just assume people arent religious until proven otherwise. feel free to speak on this topic in regerds to fhe other tg characters as well or to disregard this ask completely if it doesnt interest u

yeah. Americans were more religious in the 1980s than they are today. By like some order of magnitude. 90% of Americans were Christian in 1986. And the military tends to be more religiously conservative than the general population. So, I don’t mean to correct you, but the more statistically accurate assumption would be to assume that [X American character] is Christian until proven otherwise.

On the other hand. Characters’ relationships with religion is one of those things that is so personal, it’s completely useless to headcanon. it’s like music taste in that way. Goose outwardly presents himself as a Christian & also makes passing references to cheating on his wife. That’s like one of the 10 main things God told you NOT to do. (check out a little thing called “exodus 20:14.”) So it’s pretty useless to infer any relationship with religion because everyone treats religion differently, and goose doesn’t sit us the audience down and explain the exact kind of Christian he is.

Whatever. He’s a dude in the Navy of the 1980s. Religion comes secondary to dudehood. People can be (and frequently are) hypocrites. That’s what makes people so interesting.

There’s this great military line: “There are no atheists in foxholes.” Your moral code gets a little screwy when you’re constantly facing death or the prospect of death.

I think it’s okay not to shy away from the complexity of these characters. You can let Goose be a complex person who is statistically likely to be a conservative Christian who cheats on his wife sometimes and/or lies to her about it. That was, like, a commonly accepted male archetype in the middle of the 20th century. Those guys existed. Top Gun is a military movie. It confers complexity! That’s what military movies do! It’s okay to let bad people be bad people. Their emotional beats can still hit just as hard.

#idk if you’re the person who put the goose stuff in the tags of one of my previous posts about this #but if you are—it’s okay for goose & Carole to have a complicated relationship. #many people in military marriages—hell marriages in general—do. #she can still love him #he can still love her. #he can still be a good dad (again also he is forward deployed from his family so not entirely sure how good of a dad he is from afar) #how much of rooster's life was goose (deployed navy pilot) actually THERE for? #good dad in absentia? #anyway #people are complicated #& often hypocrites and often willfully ignorant #and yes goose is still a 'good character' whom we are supposed to mourn when he dies #it was the 80s. #nick goose bradshaw #top gun #Carole bradshaw

[fluff-writing]

Thinkin' about Sicarai.

The idea of their being an entire class of angel designated 'world destroyer' is pretty terrifying in its implication. Just One is apparently enough to take out a planet, and there are enough for Tyrael to have personally trained a bunch, and also meet one that he's never seen before.

To me this implies there's like. Twenty-odd angels who can wipe planets off the starmap. What kinda magics do they wield for that? Why wouldn't Malthael just borrow one or two or the whole class if he's worried and have them boom our favorite mudball? (prolly cuz he's an edgelord who needed to edge les be honest)

The particular Sicarai we encounter is...not that scary. Is he less scary cuz Tyrael and Friends are there to stop him? Maybe. He definitely gives them a run for their money, but he's not unstoppable.

Perhaps they have more of a cleanup role.

Perhaps their job is to destroy whatever world the angels create with the Worldstone itself after they've stagnated. They would need to be dangerous enough to hold their own in case there's anything lurking or growing on the planet, thus their specialized training. But primarily just deal with wiping away stone and earth, cleaning the slate for the next creation.

#Diablo #Thinkin' #Sicarai #this concept felt like they had something potentially devastating #and then it didn't go anywhere #also #Love the throwaway line that Tyrael personally trained a bunch of these death-machines #like yes he himself was something of a life-ending monster #the way he talks about them #they're supposed to be scary scary mofos #and potentially only able to be deployed by an Archangel? #he seems pretty convinced Imperius sent a world killer after him #and not I dunno #any of the other few thousand angels pissed about his existence

[dermy-der-demp]

does everyone ever think about how funny and weird must be the conversations of pk teachers ?

like they're discussing what's the best class and when matsuzaki said that he thinks is saiki's class (I don't remember what was lol) all the other teachers look him with noting but fear and confusion

And he's like "the problematic class with the depressed,anxious,weird and queer kids? Yup that's the best"

#“How was the cooking lesson?” #“Some kids put a metal bowl in he microwave and now i owe 15000 yen to school” #“damn the worst thing my students have do is not doing their homework” #“Yeah ig mine's was being hospitalized for a non-existent disease” #“or wait 2 hours after school in some bushes just for see how I rejected a student that had deployed fellings for me” #“...” #“these are good kids” #I can see it lmao #saiki kusuo no ψ nan #the desastrous life of saiki k

[butwhatifidothis]

Radiant Dawn is dope af because Micaiah will come up as a boss with the exact same inventory as you last had her with when using her but also I am glad af that the map she's a boss on is just a survive chapter because I sure as hell ain't got much that can handle this monster lmao

#not 3h #she also has 9 movement btw <3 #mind you tho she absolutely NEEDED to be this busted because otherwise the fog of war map beforehand would be impossible for me lmao #Sothe was NOT able to hold his own at all so Micaiah had to RESCUE HIM (he randomized into Mist LOL) and fight for her fuckin' life #literally everyone else would Just Die if I'd deployed them because they all kinda suck ngl lmao rip my luck #so she had to go solo (+ eventual Black Knight) AND handicapped #this randomizer has been a ride lemme tell ya

[bylertruther]

me whenever i remember the extremely obvious and purposeful almost exactly the same like line for line brenner and mike parallels

#you have lied / why do you lie + from mike #you made me look for him / all of s1 #what have you done? / what did you do? #you speak of monsters superheroes that's the stuff of myth n fairytales reality truth is rarely so simple ppl are not so easily defined / #all of the you're a superhero + superman stuff coming after she tells him she doesn't belong n is generally unsure of herself n #saying she's not a superhero anymore blahblah #every time i rmr i jus have a moment like tht rudd gif i rly do #they were craysee for tht one #brenner on one side hitting milkvan with a cannonball n will on the other side trying to patch the holes with gum n deploying a life boat

[mutatiio]

witnessed someone complaining that t.cw ruined maul bc he talks more. and they asked if people could imagine t.pm maul talking as much as t.cw/rebels maul. and like?? no. obviously. t.pm maul didn't speak bc he was made to feel like anything he said didn't matter. he was abused for his whole life. his only worth was being an attack dog for sidious. and then boom (kenobi)!! he's on lotho minor for 12~ years, is off sidious' leash and is finding his own worth. he's out of the abusive situation (still suffers bc if it) but i think the least he should be allowed to do is fucking talk. he's been quiet for so long,, let my man ramble as much as he wants.

#⸢ general ⤑ ooc ⸥ deploy the clown nose. #i know. i know... #my first mistake was reading a sw fans opinion. #a mistake i'll make again. #and also who tf is complaining about listening to mr witwer's voice. #AND ALSO JUST?? IMAGINE EXPECTING SOMEONE TO STAY THE EXACT SAME FOR THEIR WHOLE LIFE. #get outta here. #tw abuse mention

[zalhera]

I do really like that, despite the sea of 6 stars, the 4 star Myrtle remains as a mainstay of nearly every team I put together in Arknights. To the point where maps feel slow and sluggish when I bring any other vanguard.

#zal's life #arknights #myrtle #spoiled by flagpipe #forever zoom zoom #how else do I deploy mudrock and ifrit and all my other 30+ dp ops?

[kookyburrowing]

i think alpha-17 hates kids in theory but he’s like those guys whose families get dogs or whatever and then he gets really attached. he is definitely not happy about it but he’s attached.

#his kids also either hate each other or are weirdly codependent so he’s just constantly like #“why the fuck is this a thing that is happening to me” #“how dare” #and then when they’re deployed and they still talk to him?? #FOUL #he has never been more horrified in his entire life than he was the day cody called him on purpose #a truly horrific experience #and then if they ever meet up again in one place he discovers something awful #which is that they used to fight about stupid shit like who was faster or whatever #and they still do that! #however #now they are also fighting about things like partners and their generals??? #and fox is fucking TEXTING THE CHANCELLOR to prove a point #and 17’s just sitting there head in hands like how the fuck did i acquire these stupid cunts #and why are they still here #alpha-17 #star wars

[spacecdt]

The 50-year anniversary celebration of Apollo 11 at the Washington Monument in June 2019.

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#go for queue deploy #the night i met the love of my life #nasa #apollo #apollo 11 #washington dc #washington monument #history #astronauts #space #space exploration #art

[comet-wire]

If Nick Nack is the sexyman of Hello Puppets Riley deserves to be the sexywoman.

Thank you for your time.

Signed a queer romantic asexual nonbinary who thinks both are pretty.

#hello puppets #riley ruckus #nick nack #hello puppets nick nack #hello puppets riley ruckus #they both have so much potential tbh #respectively they are so tumblr sexyman/woman core #if you think about it #i am cringe but i am free/hj+lh #hello puppets midnightshow #hello puppets vr #hello puppets! #hello puppets! vr #hello puppets! midnight show #this post is scheduled to deploy because even though things are goyon in my life i am the jester here to keep yall entertained/hj #i think both are v pretty and v cute thank you #and i have adopted daisy as my mother shes v cute and now my mother figure bc i have trauma

[semimole]

im not built for calm debate. as soon as someone pisses me off im getting personal and aiming to kill

#it's an unfortunate talent of mine. i have the abilities of middle school girl bullies honed to a razor's edge #deployed it twice in my life