#military build-up

[writeouswriter]

I love how ominous such basic names like "The Organization" or "The Institute" or "The Initiative" or "The Facility" or etc. are when placed in like a shady sci-fi context, like there's no reason for them to sound that suspicious, but without elaboration, it's like here is a place where they are doing things™ and I am like ooohh, because the blank state, the refusal to give you any more detail makes you think they're hiding something on purpose and leaves the darkest corner of the imagination left to fill in the rest.

#writing #writeblr #names #i want to give my shady research facilities in my stories actual names but some part of me is like #you'll never get the level of unease you get from just naming it the institute rather than the x institute or something #sci-fi #other genres i guess too but usually sci-fi #the barn in haven why is that the scariest sounding thing ever like? #you just know that thing ain't a barn #it is a barn physically outside but oh the creep factor that name gives i can't explain #the shop in firestarter? like f*ck it conjures up images of a workshop and saws building and tearing apart people for some reason #the initiative in buffy it's so nondescript and unassuming just like its soldiers living among the campus and the military power they hold #etc etc etc you know #mayhaps i am not creative enough to come up with better names also mayhaps

[cheesebearger]

a lot of people will play dragon age 2 and they'll be like... whoa.... anders is truly a grey character who does both good and evil......

when in actuality anders blowing up the chantry was not only good but based, sexy, and inspirational and he has never done wrong a day in his life

#dragon age #anders #i refuse to believe the non-game added lore by dave gaider - via his tumblr blog - placing several hundred orphans in the chantry #there are no fucking kids in that building in the game. if we were meant to care about a bunch of fucking exploded orphans they'd be there #if we go just by who we the player see in the church a bunch of fucking shitty pastors got blown up #and given the chantry is the nonviolent part of a military org #theyre not like blameless or innocent bystanders lol #any attempt to put children in the chantry is simply an attempt to justify the violent oppressive theocracy they represent #by adding 'innocent bystanders' for anders to additionally kill #thus making him look more violent compared 2 the banality of the true horror enacted by this military theocracy's oppressive violence

[caffeccino]

Lily Academy has fallen on hard times 😔

This is some of my thumbnailing from my sketchbook that I finally scanned! Some of the character ideas got moved around, and the core idea of this story has totally changed from my original ideas of a sort of psuedo-airsoft with an arms race, as they chase those sweet ad dollars... Now it's a bit bleaker 🤪

#lily military academy #doodle #comic #caffe art #onigiri #I don't even really wanna say my ideas out loud because they're so demented #I'm a coward tho and didn't want to draw anime college girls getting killt so instead it's all nanomachines son #I don't think that would even get the points across that I wanna think about #isn't it so fucked up how in an escalation of violence in our country we still expect kids to go to school like normal? #to behave like nothing is different... as we start to build schools around the reality of mass shootings... #we fill schools with bullet proof glass... places to hide... metal detectors... whatever else #but given that my main inspiration here is metal gear revengeance I'm cranking everything up to 11 #8) #comic wip

[clowningaroundmars]

POM posted a sneaky peek from the production room of a younger chuck with shorter hair when living back in deluxe and i just........ had so many young muckles feels man.

SO MANY

#mine #motorcity #muckles #chuck motorcity #mike chilton #if you see any mistakes no you didn't!!! :) #also this goes along with my hc that mikes lowkey a blonde fetishist #i mean his best bud in the military was a blonde...... his best bud EVER is a blonde... #do yall get my drift #ya picking up what im puttin down? ;) #also young chuck was probs a million times less confident and more anxious than he is when hes older #like if you think chucks anxiety is bad in the show.... it was most likely way WORSE before lol #its all those compliments mike pays him it builds his confidence over time :) ♡ #i cri everytim bc pom posted SO much stuff that we couldve gotten to see in the show :'( #fuckin DISNEY #add canceling this show to their long list of crimes against humanity :(

[doom-dreaming]

hngnngnfmfngng I miss painting my nails

just.......so so hesitantly.....if I were to do a Halo nail art series like I did for Borderlands........which characters would you want to see? Obviously I'd do major characters like Blue Team and Cortana and The Arbiter etc. etc. but....What About Others? give me ideas....

#i don't think it'll be nearly as extensive as the bordernails series was #and it'll give me a chance to stretch my creativity #because the character designs in borderlands are so buckwild and loud #and halo is very. military green #But I Want To Do Another Nail Art Series So Bad Guys #writing my bordernails retrospectives is making me realize how badly i miss it #anyway there's no time limit on this #i've gotta build my nails strength back up #and the lighting in winter is bad for photos #but. i am putting it out there #ash does her nails #i'll cross-post this to my nail blog but i figured i'd get more feedback on main

[strawbs-screaming]

punch out but theres a 3rd title defense

HEAVILY INSPIRED BY @matchamabs's punch out title defense 2 posts!! go check their account out!!

Glass Joe - He gets a baguette and beats the living shit out of you with it, if you somehow attack him while he prepares to hit you with it you get a star + his baguette breaks and he has 2 baguettes to beat you with now

Von Kaiser - He gets another haircut and also turns into a cyborg, if you punch his face enough you can reveal the robotic parts of his face, through his cutscenes he malfunctions a lot more

Disco Kid - He wears 80's fitness gear and becomes faster and dances nonstop, also he has headphones in all the time

King Hippo - He has 3 belts to hold up his new jorts and the little tape on his stomach is now covered in duct tape, the belts are still ridiculously loose and can still be knocked off because he hasnt been pantsed enough already

Piston Hondo - He has a entire ass mech that looks like him, if you do a 3 star punch you can break his mech and have it eject him, you gotta dodge the falling mech or you just get knocked out

bear hugger - He tapes an entire maple tree to him and drinks the maple syrup during the fight that has birds & squirrels in it, similiar to normal title defense king hippo: if you knock off the tree from him he becomes a Disney princess and makes the animals attack you

great tiger - He has a genie lamp and fights you with said genie in it, if you punch the genie enough it goes back into its lamp and tiger gets mad at it

don flamenco - He uses his "perfume" (POISONNN!!!) to attack you, if he sprays you with it Mac gets tired for a few seconds, if you can punch it away from his hands he gathers up the pieces and rubs it on his gloves

aran ryan - He gets a brick tied to a rope and is out for blood, if you can somehow punch the brick it bounces back at him and knocks him out

soda popinski - He has one of those hats where you can store drinks in it and sip from it and he has scientists refilling it almost every second, you can jab them to get them off of his back to stop him from getting stronger

bald bull - He befriends the bull from don flamenco's cutscenes and the bull that charged at him during his td cutscene and attacks you with them, if you knock out any of them he gets more involved in the ring and charges at you more

super macho man - He wears 2 sunglasses during the fight & his roots are showing, if you knock of one of those sunglasses he laughs at you because theres another one on it

mr sandman - He gets a tank, an entire ass tank and proceeds to go crazy with it

#alternative title: everyone is fucked #punch out #headcanon #punch out wii #punch out headcanons #bald bull #don flamenco #piston hondo #aran ryan #glass joe #great tiger #GO FOLLOW @MATCHAMABS OR I'LL STEAL YOUR FRIDGE!!! #theyre super awesome and so is their art #this is so nonsensical #i love it!! #also i imagine bulls cutscene as him befriending the bulls and just wrecking don flamenco while hes at it #and Joe's as robbing a bakery #AND Kaisers as him just going to the hairdresser as a cyborg after surgery #AND AND AND piston hondo's as him staying up for ages to build a mech #AND AND AND AND AND!! Sandman as sneaking into a military base and stealing a tank #AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND!!!! Disco kid as watching 80's workout stuff #AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND Don flamenco brewing up some truly evil poison #AND- #(gets shot and fucking dies) #AND ARAN RYAN STEALING A BRICK FROM A CONSTRUCTİON SİTE #ok enough screaming BYEEE #no i lied actually #AND GREAT TIGER INDIANA JONES'ING THE LAMP!!! #AND BEAR HUGGER STEALING A TREE!!

[meteorstricken]

{Insert extensive grumbling noises here about half of my YouTube recs being for The Rising Tide playthroughs while I've opted to do a replay of the full game in order to fully grasp the implications of the DLC on the narrative as a whole.}

#I just made it past Bahamut last night. #And if Echoes of the Fallen taught me anything it's that there *will* be implications. #For instance--Echoes not-so-low-key confirmed that Ultima wasn't just blowing smoke up our asses about how vile the Fallen were. #Those fuckers were ready to self destruct for want of power...And while Ultima still can't be said to have reacted correctly #...it shows that he was not without a truly legitimate grievance. #Humanity didn’t merely 'awaken'...they awoke and built their own military industrial complex... #Committed grotesque violations of wild nature that even Jill was quite disgusted with--calling it a twisted menagerie--to facilitate it. #And remember: Ultima used members of himself to build his mothercrystals. The Fallen? Defenseless animals--and a kid based on TRT's trailer. #Anyway...That's all quite a lot just from Echoes. And TRT is much longer and more involved. No way I'm going into that raw on an old save. #A full replay is a must!

[saladmander]

me playing sid meier’s civilization: i shall dedicate myself to progress and technology, collecting countless great works of art and literature. my empire will raise temples and wonders and industry, and divide the bounties of the land between our multitude of gloried cities. i shall extend generous offers of trade to my neighbours. war shall never reach my shores; my people will know only peace and they shall prosper endlessly, so that we may reach for the stars together

every single AI civ:

#like just leave me alone to make my little cities and fill them with pretty buildings #i hate having to switch up wonder production for military #civ 6

[dilfsuzanneyk]

the captain should watch mash

#have i said this before? yeah probably #BUT. still. i think he should watch mash perhaps #would he like it? i dont actually know i didn't think this through #probably! #i think he would find bj hot though. if we're following his taste in men here #he would find trapper hot also #he would disagree with most of what hawkeye does though. goofy ass #still think he should watch it just so he can have a heart attack over the disrespect for the military and also the many attractive men #WHILE WE'RE ON THE TOPIC. #robin would love hawkeye. okay. he would love those shenanigans. the practical jokes. he would pick up the snark and wit. #he would be insufferable about it okay he would build his own little parasocial relationship with hawkeye #kitty would be there just to watch them do surgery #vex rambles #bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts captain #shadow watches mash

[cod-sins]

When yall read COD fics do yall prefer civilian reader or military reader

#.kiki jupiter talks #[ civilian is easier to write but when it comes to ghost idk how yall would be introduced ] #[military is slightly harder because i gotta research guns and military ranks] #[but if its military reader with ghost its so much easier bc you know each other and i dont gotta worry about building up plot LMAO] #ghost x reader #ghost headcanons #[ <- dating hcs will be posted soon]

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Images of despair [stellaris version]

#when you're fighting the scourge and making 700+ alloys a month but you NEED MORE #genuinely so glad I invested into a dyson sphere early on to suck the market 100% dry of alloys #pumping out ships because my life depends on it #just imagine. you're a space trader and you heard there's some invasion of bugs somewhere in the galaxy #then the strongest military you've ever seen rolls up and offers you 'any price you name' for spare metal on your ship #you laugh and say '600 energy credits and I'll give you four metal pipes!' #the military says 'deal' and immediately deposits 900 energy credits [the market price of alloys is already increasing] #anyway I'm now sitting here with a military over five times larger than my naval cap #and over four times the population I had before the war #reason: people evacuated the planets the scourge bombed #thousands of pops have settled straight into my empire even in the most dire planets #every square inch of living space is now taken up and every single job is full #every single planet has unemployment [i have an overabundance of consumer goods so I'm just giving them all free stuff] #oh and since I'm gearing the economy now towards 'well. they gotta work SOMEWHERE' [building as many commercial districts as possible] #I am spending hundreds of special resources I do not produce to keep massive company complexes running #imagine this: strange otherworldly beasts are running down your homeworld #you escape into space in a small cargo ship stuffed with people #it's barely enough to be considered a transport but it gets you far enough away to feel safe #as you are running you see the largest collection of ships in your life warp into the system #they unleash hellfire on the aliens and then neuron sweep the planet [the very ground of which got infected] #you shed a tear and look away from the window #three days later you're told you've arrived #you touch down in an extremely busy landing area #there are hundreds of thousands of people everywhere. the mood is joyous #there are screens set up in the square broadcasting the eradication of the aliens #you see people in the crowd you've never seen before. people speak in tongues you've never heard #a guide calls over to you and all the other new arrivals #apparently you weren't the first to run. you won't be the last either #this planet has more than quintoupled its population and is still recieving many people every day #luckily the government has declared they are going to be constructing massive projects to introduce new jobs

[guideaus]

i wanted to look up a certain scene from this movie and saw this instead, and i think its so funny. can you imagine living in the pokemon universe, its like the equivalent irl when the cops get a call a bear or moose is in the neighborhood, except here its giant and revered as a god and is currently on a revenge mission for another legendary in the city

#personal #pokemon #destiny deoxys #rayquaza #the super high tech building looked way more set up for like military shit though #the US would definitely shoot down rayquaza :( #rayquaza in this movie is so funny though #this scene is not a 'oh let the pokemon pass' situation. the scientists were like oh fuck it wants to kill deoxys #rayquaza got a sniff of deoxys leaving its grave and was like thats it. *tracks its ass hundreds of miles* #all bc deoxys just brushed past through the stratosphere #4 years ago!! #while deoxys just wants to find its bff #the movie is kinda bad bc it literally is just that but i think its funny #also this scene showing rayquaza as if its a hurricane w a predictable path lol

[bagheerita]

DS9's "Second Skin" once again shaming the Stargate Atlantis writing team by doing an episode they wrote but over 10 years earlier and 50 times better. I went on a rant about "Sunday" vs "Lessons" a couple years ago, but watching "Second Skin" is like seeing what "Michael" could have been if written by people who understood drama instead of only being acted by people who did. There are definitely differences, like we start out having a relationship with Kira which we don't with Lt Kenmore, but with the whole fake identity plot having the person's actual parent there makes it sooooooo much more emotional. (This is what I wanted from "Michael"!! Not just handing him a stock photo that literally looks like it came with the frame and telling him "These are your parents." But an actual emotional connection, any tie for him to cling to to believe your bullshit and not just Teyla being quietly agreeable like whoring her out is the only way you can sell your lies. Because, here in DS9 as well, the lies are so obviously bullshit.) But making it a double blind also, where you lied to the parent as well to make sure you manipulated that honest emotional connection into existing, fantastic, exquisite, Stargate wishes. And in the end the point of the episode is different, as Lt Kenmore is the focus of his episode and Kira is really just the excuse to expose the Legate by having him try to protect his "daughter," but (and as much as I love "Michael") the emotional content here is so much deeper and sweeter. Maybe SGA writers are allergic to honest emotions, or maybe the writers were trying to hedge their bets with not portraying their main cast as being as evil as the Obsidian Order... though if you're going to go with the war crimes go whole hog with the war crimes come on.

#mini rant #ds9 s3 second skin #not to say that star trek doesn't also have a whole HISTORY of issues with non-consensual body modification and their female characters #looking at you tng. Kira wakes up as a cardassian and I was literally like wait I already saw this but with troi and romulans #lmao it's okay SGA you trash show i rag on you but i still love you #can you imagine if Michael Kenmore was an actual soldier who died on the mission but he had a mother or a brother who was also military and #they get read into the stargate program and come to atlantis and get told 'hey here is your loved one. a building fell on him so he has #no memory and also looks different.' And Michael actually had an honest connection with someone and honest affection #AND THEN when it all comes out that he's a wraith with this violent nature (or whatever i think that's bullshit and his anger was about #the lies) he and this relative have to go through this whole heartbreaking realization that they thought they loved each other but #they're on opposite sides of this conflict and are going to probably kill each other. like it doesn't even have to end any differently #just give me deeper drama

[tovaicas]

not me importing my anti-air defense worldbuilding h/cs into ishgard bc I can

#saint.txt #long post #ishgardposting #tl;dr in my personal project one of the big things is that (one) military has had to evolve alongside gryphon riders for a long long time #who's biggest threat are information gathering and the fact they drop flechettes and are nigh-untouchable by anything even each other #even with firearms (which are still very early tech-wise) so anti-air defense is paramount #the biggest results being that *everything* has a roof on it to mitigate stuff falling from the sky. #cities are cramped and avoid open space as much as possible. anti-bird spikes but scaled up on steep roofs so that birds can't land. #buildings are made of non-flammable material like stone when possible. open areas exist mostly as corral zones so that tired birds #must land there and can be easily surrounded on the ground. #but the flashiest is killwire which is basically just wire strung between tall buildings that discourages flight below a certain level #and is difficult to see especially at speed or at night #and if you hit it. well. the idea is based off motorcycle accidents where people have hit wire fences on farms so I'm sure you get the idea #not all of it will apply to Ish.gard but I highly believe that's exactly why Ish.gard is 98% built out of stone #as are all their forts and important structures like bridges. I also believe realistically most streets should be roofed if possible #and open space is kept at a minimum even if daniffen's ward exists. anti-dragon spikes consisting of slots to put lances in on roofs. #Ish.gard might not even have much of a need for 'traditional' forts with huge walls and such bc 90% of their enemies fly so their fort #designs might get a little wild after 1000 years of war. w/ magitek via stephva.nivien you might even electrify the killwire. #ofc some of it already seems to exist - ish.gard's roofs and spires are built *very* steep which would make a dravanian landing on them #difficult and even without that most of them are covered in spires and spikes anyway but. ofc there's the dragonkillers and such too but #ish.gard is a city built on 1000 years of war and hyperspecialized to fighting dragons that fly we really could make it look like that too. #I want to walk into ishgard and immediately know this is a place built on war bc everything about it is hyperspecialized and utilitarian #to fulfill that purpose. look up in ishgard and the stars are replaced with glittering wire.

[listenupcupcakes]

Ay! I'ma got a similar hc as that anon!, only that he was raised by raccoons before being found by a ex-military sergeant, funnily enough

(ooc) I actually love that!

Solly's ambiguous everything is so much fun, I love playing around with his backstory

for the longest time I believed he was on the run from the police (mass murder is a little illegal) so that's why he's Jane Doe and blah blah

I have noticed that Solly being raised by animals is kinda common lol, when his childhood is brought into question he's usually an orphan or smth and gets raised by animals

this exact speculation is why he's one of my favorites, he's so vague and so feral his childhood could be anything!

#for this blog specifically #im not sure yet what hcs im going with #i feel like growing up during WWII also helped his obsession with the military #i rarely see people wonder #but why didn't he get drafted??? #i've got hcs #so many hcs #im still not sure if i'm going with trans solly or not lol #im building this as time goes on #mod speaks #mod answers #anonymous #anon ask

[st-just]

So doing D&D prep and I've got two different NPCs the party might choose to fight on the way to finding the Dragon Turtle's lair with the artifact they're hunting. And the need to create complete dungeons around each potential boss fight to keep the players from just brutally novaing their way through them has been surprisingly good at making me come up with, like, a supporting cast for each potential boss.

#the rakshasha-in-human-skin pirate queen has a chain devil fence and slaver who runs her palace on the side #and a 6'8" berserker subordinate captain whose her current favorite and favorite muscle #and a chained up fey monstrosity with a cursed third eye she uses for all Sarlac Pit needs #the secretly-a-bronze-dragon elven artificer/military genius has #a stick-up-her-ass veteran pirate-hunter actually commanding the squadron babysitting him #a hobgoblin research assistant/fellow scholar/paramour who said (ever so slightly racist) captain *hates* #and a guardian construct he's tinkered and enchanted so much it's basically a beloved pet that sometimes levels several buildings instead #of knocking down the door like it was told #D&D #it's 2am and i'm rambling #rpg