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I forgot how much comfort this ship used to bring me omg
I know it's fucking 4am but fuck it, I just finished this and I (surprisingly) love it
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What if in the upcoming Strange New Worlds Musical episode, we suddenly see Paul Wesley as Kirk disappearing into a room.
He abruptly reappears, walking out in a bowtie tux.
He has a stool and a microphone in hand.
He puts down the stool and promptly sits upon it.
He snatches out a "jazz cigarette", lights it, takes a generous drag, and begins:
"Packed my bag last night, pre-flight; zero hour, 9 am . . .
and I'm going to be high as a kite by then . . . "
The USS Enterprise crew:
*Whispering* "Maybe if we don't look he'll stop . . ."
"Captain, do something. Shut it down!"
Meanwhile, Spock:
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as a fan of the space race and the large financial black hole of musks pockets that is space X I am deeply saddened to know that I wont get any more funny haha penis rocket explosions for the next year as elons famous "rapid unscheduled dissasembly" rockets are taken of the market
elons' rockets have been environmental disasters for the land, animals, and people that the toxic chunks rain down on, and his money has been made through deeply unethical financial exploitation over a lot of markets that were made measurably worse by his participation.
also, a shit ton of the funding is from the american military industrial complex, because they want to use the technology to make better drones and missiles to kill more people more often. even if everything actually went to plan and he was able to get people to mars alive, the mars settlement project will involve generations of indentured service workers dying of radiation poisoning in sealed little bunkers on another planet while rich tourists fuck around for funsies.
it's extremely funny that the rockets go boom, but the best case scenario is he never gets to fire another one ever, dies very soon, and his assets are chopped up by competitors who never again recreate any of his work.
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ghetsis is the funniest character in pokemon to me i swear to god. old fucking man who's the absolute worst human being ever actively making everyone around him miserable because of just how mean and manipulative and intolerable he is. yet he's still walking all around in his fucking castle snuggie and old man brown loafers and socks with a big whatever the fuck around his neck. somehow builds an entire ancient castle beneath the elite four without anyone finding it. gets beaten by one child and then has such a fit he goes into his emo phase at age 60 or whatever and becomes a pirate flying a giant airship. loses to ANOTHER child and is so ashamed and furious that he goes into hiding. he's such a well written villain but every time i see him i'm just "grandpa's on the move again watch out. he's gonna getcha"
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I know you said that you aren't the pinnacle of military knowledge that people think you are but know a damsite more than I do about the US military than I do, so I have a question. Do you have any idea how long the Darkstar project would've been going on for in canon? It can't have been a few months but I also don't know if it would be years and years? I know Mav has an award for being a test pilot that I think is dated 2007 (I may have imagined that) but that doesn't mean the Darkstar project was going on for over ten years? I think the F-18A took 8 years from testing to being approved, so it can't be far off. Just wanted your opinion. Thanks :-)
awright here’s my opinion (not an expert)
the darkstar is canonically a Lockheed Martin “skunk works” (super duper secret) surveillance and reconnaissance (SR) spyplane, as evidenced by the skunk works logo on the vertical stabilizer (left is darkstar, right is me with the SW logo on the SR-71 blackbird at the udvar-hazy museum this summer).
we can look to see how long other SW projects have taken to develop in the past. the SR-71, for instance, was first suggested as an “undetectable spyplane” idea in 1957. the lockheed A-12 oxcart, which would provide the framework for the SR-71, had its first flight in 1962, five years later. the finished SR-71 was introduced into USAF and CIA service in 1966. so a 9-year development for the fastest-ever air-breathing jet, with 4-ish of those years being flight testing (ish because the A-12 had to be heavily adapted into the SR-71 which had its first flight in 1964).
Lockheed’s been teasing its blackbird successor, the unmanned aerial vehicle the SR-72 “son of blackbird,” on its socials recently. i saw someone say: “soft-launching its new death machine like an instagram influencer with a new boyfriend”
leading many to believe this is what happened
note however that the SR-72 son of blackbird is an UNMANNED aerial vehicle (UAV) which is why in my fic I specifically said this
note also that most of aircraft development is just that—development. Flight testing (i.e. where mav would get hands-on involved) doesn’t come until very very late in the development process. For the plot of my fic’s sake I had mav go out to NAWS china lake in 2003, but in TGM during the Hard Deck scene Penny says something to the effect of “you got sent out to the desert three years ago for pissing off that other admiral” and mav goes “that was three years ago? 😀” (cute!) so that’s the longest mav could’ve canonically been involved with the darkstar project. (For my own purposes i made it like a year, for those two sections of the story to neatly flow into each other—from 2015ish to 2016. I know TGM takes place in 2020 [i know but idfc] Maybe LockMart has had this tech [probably not high hypersonic like in the movie] for that long anyway and it’s just been so heavily classified that we didn’t know about it till very recently. Definitely possible.)
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how do you post self insert x canon art without feeling embarassed. I wanna post my own rocket ship art but the years off being bullied for being autistic abt him have gotten to me.
Oh I'm so sad that happened to you! First off fuck those assholes that bullied you they suck ass.
Second I was sorta shy as well tbh but I really think it's because of this very supportive and welcoming Rocket Raccoon community that has really helped me get over my initial embarrassment! Everyone here genuinely just eats up any sort of Rocket Raccoon content that gets posted lmao. I say totally go for it and if anyone bullies you we'll give em hell. Whenever you do post I'll be here supporting it!<3
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Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but Hemp's lost phone rights fer a while. hes stressin himself out n shouldnt be startin shite like he is.
-Piers
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