My kingdom for some flight time...

Chuck stays to help

I do find it interesting that despite the Shatterdome being a resistance, Chuck always wears his dog tags, the thing which identifies him as a soldier. And perhaps that what he solely considers himself, just like how he’s The Pilot. 

He’s focused intensely on the cause and being the best pilot possible - especially at the beginning, that you can see how antics like this shows it. It’s just logical that having another jaeger would make sense, there’d be better odds. He might not stand the idea of Raleigh at this point but he’d accept it if needed to, just like he accept that he wasn’t going to return from the run.

But the two fail, and it’s the most catastrophic fail possible, something which considering the situation isn’t acceptable. He reminded of and falls back into that mediocre pilot’s mindset, that all the failures paved a path to where they are now. He probably reminds himself failure isn’t an option and that too many people are counting on this whether they know it or not.

The Chuck before Victoria Harbour refused heartedly to show anything that wasn’t his mask, or his opinion as a pilot or soldier. But glimpses still show, just like this one.

Because in the end, Chuck does care, he horrible at showing/saying it. But it does show. He’ll hope for Mako and Raleigh’s success in a drift, just as he’ll accept they’ve proved themselves after saving his ass. He cares about his comrades to the point where he refused to stand by as they die (it makes one wonder how bad it affected him when he seemingly failed). He cared about his father, despite all the hostility he shows, to the point where he is close to tears as he leaves and essentially dedicates his last words to him (a sort of apology, his way of showing that he did listen, that to him Herc was always his father no matter what). He respects his superior that he only asks one question of ‘how do you know it will work’ and then stands by him and follows his orders to the end.

- skewed sense of time eg; i can easily get there and back before my eggs cook!

- altered sense of reality//tendency to get sucked up in daydreams and temporarily lose track of real life

- extremely vivid daydreams// alternative realities

- feeling really lonely but getting the urge to isolate yourself for no reason

- getting overwhelmed by too many choices and freaking out

- hearing the instructions but not really being able to hold onto them

- people cant speak to you while you’re really focused on something because you can’t hold on to multiple things in your brain at once

- repeating things over and over in your head to try and remember them

- feeling like you never really appreciate things as much as you should because you get too sidetracked

- getting super excited by small things but sometimes feeling indifferent towards the things everyone’s raving about

- being self conscious from everyone telling you you’re annoying but being scared you’ll come off as boring

- getting hyperfixations on a certain person and getting really wrapped up on them regardless of if they like you back

- putting too much into things and getting disappointed when it’s not reciprocated

- constantly being told that you’re too intense and need to chill it out a bit

- ^ thinking you’re cool and desperately wanting to just be chill and laid back but your personality is just 24/7 overdrive

- building things up so much in your head to the point that it gets stressful because what if it doesn’t live up to expectations??

- extremely over-emotional (this includes when it’s inappropriate such as giggling at sad things and then feeling really bad after)

- feeling when you just don’t know when to stop

- getting increasingly uncomfortable in a situation for no apparent reason until you feel like you’re gonna cry or scream but you do none of that and just sit there

I am always taking prompts!

He’s actually nervous. 

Raleigh can’t remember the last time he was nervous around a girl. Especially for a date. But then again he can’t quite remember the last time he went on a date with someone he cared about this much. Or who knew him quite so well. Even before Yancy his dating life—if it could be called that—was primarily one night stands. No explanations, no commitment, no risk. 

But Mako is different. 

it’s pretty important to find your drift partner, don’t get me wrong. but it’s also really really important to find your control room team— y’know, that group of people that you love and trust and despite (or because of) not being able to actually read your mind, still watch your back all the time and aren’t afraid to override the controls and manually shut your shit down to save your fucking lives.

@inthedrift @eadrey-the-iptscray @murphyhatesme @gutterballgt @weekend-writer @patrickwsawyer @legowerewolf @thewrongjaeger

(yikes I made these when they announced the tv show and I totally forgot to post them)

Some of them are extremely intelligent... in their particular field. Hand them an engine with combustion instability, and they’ll figure out how to redesign the combustion chamber to end that issue. Hand ‘em a torque wrench and ask them to change a tire... and they’ll look at you like you have two heads. Completely clueless at practical, hands-on engineering, but absolute geniuses at theoretical or analytical projects.

B-17G assigned to 401 Bomber group, 612 Bomber Squadron about to drop its load.

This photo was taken at 27,600ft, just before lunchtime on Saturday 14 October 1944, over Cologne, North of the Rhine, Germany.

Photo: 401st BG Association.

How... What...

WTF? I'm trying to understand what happened there, and I'm drawing a blank.

How did what appeared to be a part of a front wheel drive shaft wind up lodged in the rear bumper of the second vehicle, with the wheel that probably came off of it *two cars down and around the corner*.