My prediction...
Jul. 20th, 2013 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
surrealistdreamer...for what's going to happen in the future with the people who are crying about leaving tumblr fiveever because they're supposedly cracking down hard on nsfw stuff (even though all evidence points to they're actually not). A couple weeks from now they're still going to be on tumblr. They're still going to post nsfw stuff and people are still gonna see it.
Honestly this is starting to get really annoying. Though the thing that really makes me want to roll my eyes so hard they fall out of my head is that people seem to want to scapegoat yahoo even though tumblr has always run itself as ineptly as possible without the intervention of a large company. And if I see one more post whining about yahoo wanting to clean the site up "for the children" even though tumblr let's you join if you have an email and has never asked for your age then I'm gonna throw up.
Honestly this is starting to get really annoying. Though the thing that really makes me want to roll my eyes so hard they fall out of my head is that people seem to want to scapegoat yahoo even though tumblr has always run itself as ineptly as possible without the intervention of a large company. And if I see one more post whining about yahoo wanting to clean the site up "for the children" even though tumblr let's you join if you have an email and has never asked for your age then I'm gonna throw up.
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Date: 2013-07-20 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-07-21 03:33 am (UTC)Have you seen the "I am over 13" thing yet? The explanation is that whoever started it think Yahoo wants to censor nsfw content because the Yahoo execs wrongly believe that most tumblr users are under 13, and therefore every tumblr user who is older than 13 should reblog a statement of that fact to show the Yahoo employees who constantly monitor everyone's tumblr that people over 13 are in fact the majority. That is supposed to make mean Yahoo give the stolen smut back because . . . um . . . I got nothing. You know what? I thought it was ridiculous when I first saw it going around, but typing out the words makes it seem EVEN MORE ILLOGICAL.
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Date: 2013-07-21 05:45 am (UTC)On a happier note Cassy and I are gonna go see Pacific Rim tomorrow. Gonna throw money at this movie! Aw yeah!
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Date: 2013-07-21 06:26 pm (UTC)You should totally see Pacific Rim and throw money at it and tell me what you thought of it. I think you will probably love Mako even though there is only one of her, and you will come back from it with urge to doodle everybody and his boyfriend/brother (might be both at once, since it's you) as pilots.
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Date: 2013-07-21 08:56 pm (UTC)I already have silly ideas about the Azuni tribe piloting giant robots.
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Date: 2013-07-21 09:35 pm (UTC)Heeee~ Of course you do.
Also, I bought the novelization of Pacific Rim today. It's pretty long, so I'm hoping it has scenes with pilots who didn't get much attention in the movie (on account of not being English-speaking white dudes).
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Date: 2013-07-22 03:16 am (UTC)ALSO ANDREW AND ELIJAH PILOT A JEAGER WHILE MICHAEL AND JOHN PILOT ANOTHER ALSO KWAME IS A MECHANIC WHO LOVES BUILDING AND DESIGNER JEAGER WHO IS THEN ASKED TO BE THE PILOT OF ONE WITH JANET AND AHHHHHHHHHH
AAHHHHHHH THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD
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Date: 2013-07-22 02:27 pm (UTC)HUNGER GAMES- KATNISS AND RUE ARE CO-PILOTS (THEIR JAEGER IS NAMED VICTORY LUNA). KATNISS'S DAD DIED IN JAEGER, AND HAYMITCH WAS HIS CO-PILOT, WHO SURVIVED BUT BECAME A TRAUMATIZED ALCOHOLIC BECAUSE HE FELT KATNISS'S DAD DIE. ANNIE CRESTA HAS MAKO'S STORY ARC (TRAUMATIZED BY A KAIJU DESTROYING HER HOME CITY WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD, ETC.), AND MAGS IS STACKER PENTECOST. WIRESS AND BEETEE ARE THE WACKY SCIENTISTS, AND CINNA DESIGNS ELEGANTLY EFFICIENT JAEGERS.
MOTORCITY- KANE IS PART OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. WHEN HE FINDS OUT ABOUT A PLAN TO CLOSE THE BREACH, HE TRIES TO SABOTAGE IT BECAUSE HE GETS VERY PROFITABLE CONTRACTS TO BUILD JAEGERS. MIKE DISCOVERS THIS AND LEAVES TO JOIN THE BREACH-CLOSING MISSION, BUT HIS KANE-APPROVED CO-PILOT STANDS BY KANE. MIKE IS AN AMAZINGLY GOOD JAEGER PILOT, BUT NOW HE NEEDS A NEW JAEGER AND A NEW CO-PILOT. SO RAYON TESTS HIM WITH A VARIETY OF CANDIDATES, SUCH AS KAIA AND TEXAAAAAS! BUT MIKE REALIZES THAT HE'S MOST COMPATIBLE WITH THE HIGH-STRUNG COMMUNICATION TECH WHO IS THE LAST PERSON ANYONE ELSE WOULD RECOMMEND AS A JAEGER PILOT.
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Date: 2013-07-22 03:33 pm (UTC)More Motorcity- TEXAAAAAS! is a tatooed Kaiju groupie. Tennie is a mathematician who dabbles in weapons R&D. Dutch is a mechanic/Jaeger designer who finds excuses to spend extra time with Tennie because he liiiiikes her. At some point, Texas is like, "Hey, Tennie, I see your department's got a Kaiju brain here, why don't we find out if I can drift with it?" and Dutch is like, "Effin' Texas." Julie and Claire are a Jaeger pilot team. The Duke of Detroit is Hannibal Chau because fucking duh.
Monsters University- Mike's childhood dream is to be a Jaeger pilot, so he has learned everything there is to know about designing, building, and repairing Jaegers. He earned excellent grades in all the required courses. But when he tried to drift, he had problems, and those problems persisted after the point at which most prospective pilots get used to it. Marshal Abigail Hardscrabble is the veteran pilot who doubts that Mike will ever be able to cope with drifting reliably enough to put him in a Jaeger. Sully is the arrogant jerk with daddy issues who accuses Mike of being exactly the kind of inferior candidate who brings the whole program down. But when a double event occurs, and Sully's dad is too badly injured to go back out there, the only option is for Mike to step up as Sully's co-pilot.
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Date: 2013-07-22 05:42 pm (UTC)Also also, in the Monsters University AU, Art is the weird dude who sees a preserved Kaiju brain and goes, "I wanna drift with it. I wanna drift with it! I'm gonna drift with it!"
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Date: 2013-07-22 06:04 pm (UTC)Harry and Ron are a rookie piloting team with something to prove. Ron is trying to outperform Fred and George, who together form one hell of a Kaiju-stomping team, and Harry is trying to avenge his dad, who died piloting a Jaeger with Sirius Black. Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald were the greatest, Kaiju-killingest team EVER (Alchemy Phoenix!). Aberforth Dumbledore sells Kaiju parts on the black market. Seamus and Dean are another co-pilot team, Lee Jordan is a soundboard operated, and Neville is some kind of behind-the-scenes researcher or repair tech who wanted to live up to the legacy of his Jaeger pilot parents but can't because he's too clumsy and too prone to getting lost in the drift. McGonagall is the stern-but-fair officer who points out to Neville that he's actually assisted in more Kaiju kills than his parents did.
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Date: 2013-07-22 08:50 pm (UTC)Chuck: What if I chase the rabbit and get lost in the Drift?! I'm not as efficient in combat as you are and I haven't had any training! I'll just drag you down like every says and and and-
Mike: CHUCK! Don't worry. I'll be right there beside you.
Chuck: I-I-I-okay.
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Date: 2013-07-22 09:12 pm (UTC)Po was raised by a humble noodle shop owner, but he has always dreamed of being a Jaeger pilot. When he finds out that his bio parents were killed in a Kaiju attack, that only makes him want to fight against the Kaiju even more. Po's heroes are Ugwe and Shifu, the first pilots ever to kill a Kaiju and survive the battle. They're also the trainers/mentors of the three currently highest-ranking Jaeger teams (the Furious Five + Tai).
But one of their students is mixed up in shady dealings (maybe selling stuff on the black market?) that could cause a huge scandal. Most people in the military and national governments would cover up just about anything to protect a really good Jaeger pilot. Tai's co-pilot Tigress is NOT one of those people. One day Tai loses control of his temper and, along with it, his memories during a mission. By the time the Furious Dragon returns to base, Tigress knows that Tai committed a murder for disgraceful reasons and by particularly dishonorable means. She refuses to work with him anymore and reports him, even though doing so endangers her own career. Now the most amazing team in the world is short a pilot-- soon to be short two pilots and a Jaeger if they don't find a new honorable pilot who is drift compatible with Tigress.
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Date: 2013-07-22 09:49 pm (UTC)Speaking of Hearts how about a Kingdom Jaeger AU where Sora and his two childhood friends Riku and Kairi pilot a three person Jaeger (Trinity Striker) and are on a team with Thunder Lion (Cloud and Leon/Squall) and Air Goddess (Aerith and Yuffie). With Micky "The Mouse" King in the role of Stacker Pentecost. Donald and his fiance Daisy work the sound boards. Goofy is a well meaning, but bumbling guy who had wanted to be a Pilot, but instead works as a coach for the various teams to make sure their spirits stay up (he has a lot of trouble with Riku and Cloud who both suffer from mixes of depression and Kaiju related PTSD).
Also Organization 13 is a Kaiju worshipping cult. Several of them are exPilots. Axel is a double agent who reports their shenanigans to Mickey who wants to keep tabs on them should they get their clutches into any more of his Rangers.
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Date: 2013-07-22 09:58 pm (UTC)YEEEESSS! MORE OF THIS!
You know, that's something that could plausibly have become a problem in the canon verse. They already have Kaiju groupies and trophy-collectors, and IRL our world already has doomsday cults and wackos who think human extinction would be a great thing for their extremely romanticized and very unscientific ideal of ~nature~. (Yes, humans do a lot of things that are bad for our own species and all the other species around us. But natural systems without humans do NOT work the way the "human environment guilt" extremists think they do.)
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Date: 2013-07-22 10:19 pm (UTC)Also various princesses become researchers and mechanics for the Jeager project.
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Date: 2013-07-22 10:58 pm (UTC)As an added bonus, it already sounds so much more girl-friendly than all the crappy attempts by dudes to "reimagine" the Disney Princesses as "warrior princesses" or "kickass" characters, which always seem to entail putting them in skimpier-than-ever outfits and more sexualized poses. (It's especially gross when Pocahontas is included because she 1) is based on a real life person who 2) was actually only 10-12 years old when she met John Smith).
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Date: 2013-07-22 11:10 pm (UTC)Also I even came up with a tragic backstory for Goofy wanting to become a Jaeger pilot. His wife and son were killed in a Kaiju attack and he wanted to initially be a pilot, but a lot like Neville he was too clumsy and had a bad tendency to get lost in the Drift. Not wanting to kick him out of the program completely Micky gave him a counseling position. Goofy is particularly invested in Sora's team because they're the youngest out of all the pilots (being in their late teens/early twenties) and acts a paternal figure to them all. Donald won't admit it, but he's fond of the kids too.
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Date: 2013-07-23 12:55 am (UTC)Meanwhile, I don't have a plot for the Claymore AU yet, but do know that Helen and Deneve are Canadian and a married couple and their Jaeger is named Aurora Crescendo!
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