Bisclavret's Den

in 1999, an italian named giancarlo pasquini released a europop song under the alias dave rogers called Deja Vu. this song was picked up as the theme song for the above anime. it in turn became a meme, a shorthand for drifting and Cool Moves as a concept.

in 1983, air canada flight 143, a full sized 767, ran out of fuel halfway to edmonton, alberta. this is not something you want to have happen to a huge airplane. the flight chose to try and make an emergency landing at a nearby decomissioned airforce base (as they were falling fast and could not make it to a proper airport), where they ran into a second problem: they were falling out of the sky at 500 feet per mile, but reached gimli (the base in question) while still too high to safely land. normally a plane would just do a big loop-de-loop to lose altitude, but they had maybe three minutes of airtime left before they hit the ground: not enough time to make any kind of circle. the pilot, therefore, decided to execute a side slip to lose speed and altitude. this is Not a move you want to do with a massive 767, because airplanes are not built for that and if you screw it up that plane is hitting the ground at a high speed at a weird angle and breaking into a million pieces. nevertheless, the captain tried it... and succeeded. the plane landed perfectly, and there were no major injuries! (a couple of people did get minor injuries when evacuating the plane after.) he did it so well, in fact, that the plane was refueled, flown out of gimli a couple days later, and continued to fly for another 20 years with the nickname "Gimli Glider."

what is a side-slip, you ask?

it's drifting.

the guy goddamn drifted his 767.

in 2008, the tv show Mayday: Air Disaster featured the gimli glider with full reenactments as an episode on season five of their show.

and so, in conclusion, the thing i have been giggling to myself about all weekend:

the sky's kindest, most radiant star

He’s a character who gets very passionate about certain things. And I think he needs to be in an environment with a partner who he finds can encourage, enjoy, and embrace that about him. [...] I think he needs to feel, I guess, as we all do, safe in a relationship and appreciated for who he is. – OLIVER STARK

And if Buck were to present anything else [to him other than friendship], I haven’t even wrapped my head around how Eddie would understand how to move forward with that — other than being caught off guard, I guess. It’s almost like when something’s so close, you can’t see [the bigger picture]. It’s right under your nose, but you can’t see it. I think that’s how it’s meant to be played. – RYAN GUZMAN

EVAN BUCKLEY AND EDDIE DIAZ THROUGH THE SEASONS (original)

Finally finished the most ambitious piece I've ever started. This has been in progress since February 2024 and I just finished it last night. Nearly two years and four (almost five) months later. (I am not fast at drawing) It took over 89 hours and 34 minutes, not including the time to make the original sketch since it started on a different program. I'm glad to be done with it but I had fun. Maybe in another five to ten years I'll complete the fic idea that this picture sparked while I was drawing it.

For those that are curious I present to you Snakeboy Steve! The idea behind this picture is that while working at the docks Bucky found a poor snakeboy trapped in a box. He rescued him without much more of a plan than getting him home. Unfortunately, the snakeboy (Steve) isn't too happy about having been torn away from his home and shoved into a box. Bucky slowly starts to win him over (mostly by turning his apartment into a jungle via houseplants). This is supposed to be the moment he comes home to find Steve has stolen his pillow off his bed (the blue one) and his shirt from his closet and has now fallen asleep while taking care of his plants.

what are you afraid of seeing when you look in the mirror