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aiiaiiiyo · 2 years

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#human computer #Katherine Johnson #famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard #the first American in space #in 1962 #SnooLemons474 #oldschool

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darlingshane · 26 days

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Julian and his car. AMERICAN GIGOLO (2022)

#jon bernthal #american gigolo #julian kaye #tvedit #anna-hawk #kwistowee #userlyudmila #stephibee #cinemapix #cinematv #dilfgifs #mancandykings #userthing #tvsource #mediagifs #darlingedits #does this car look bigger in rl??#it looks like a toy car to me #his package takes all the space in the first one js

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the-unfortunate-ly · 5 months

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look who’s inside again…

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amarriageoftrueminds · 2 months

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Hot take but the more I think about it the more I reckon they should've left the Russian aspect out of the Winter Soldier in the MCU.

I know it's a part of the comics, and the name is meant to evoke the Cold War (Russian, Winter), but IMO it better suits the ‘Gitmo Army brat’ Bucky of the comics than the ‘Arnie Roth’ Bucky of the MCU; it doesn't fit with the MCU's specific backstory parameters. (Plus conflating Russian/KGB with SHIELD/Hydra just muddies the waters, for no particular purpose.)

Examples:

If Bucky was tortured by Nazi doctors in Russia it would've been under Operation Osoaviakhim, not Paperclip.

It doesn't make sense that Russians would name him after an American's quote about America. That's the exact opposite of what Russians would do.

Whereas it’s exactly what Americans would do if he was in American hands when the WS was created (ie. from early on). If comics!Steve can quote Mark Twain it doesn’t make sense that people don’t recognise a Thomas Paine reference in-universe.

It doesn't make any sense, logistically, that the WS is tortured and operated on by Zola, who is in America (and stays there until he dies), unless the WS is also in America from early on.

(Per Agent Carter) It also doesn’t make any sense that the man who created the WS mind-control techniques -- Doctor Fennhoff/Faustus -- is working for the SSR in America, with Zola, if the WS himself is not also in America when those techniques are implemented.

(And we know that that tech stayed in America, not Russia, because in the Black Widow movie the Red Room had to go undercover in Ohio just to steal it, and this was in 1995!)

It seems significant that we only see the WS in Siberia a mere 10 days before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union (and Howard Stark knew about him / recognised him instantly, and called him Sergeant Barnes, like Zola did.)

It doesn't make sense that the WS is shown being conveniently stored in a local urban bank vault in Washington, DC... but was previously shoved hundreds of miles out of the way, in the Siberian wilderness, where it would've been a massive pain in the ass for any American Hydra to get hold of him. (And if they did, for some reason, want to massively inconvenience themselves just for a cold-name’s sake, why not Canada or Alaska?)

It doesn't make sense that MCU WS is shown exclusively speaking English to the American Hydra agents who have control of him in the present day... but then all his control-words were in Russian and suddenly he speaks only Russian to handlers before this... And yet, he’s back to speaking English again in the flashbacks from TFATWS?? 🤦‍♀️

IMO it would've just been simpler and more straight-forward if it was just Nazis who found Bucky at the bottom of the ravine, not Russians (might even explain why he didn't escape, post-fall but pre-brain damage; he would've been thinking he'd get repatriated pretty soon, when the war's over... and he's kinda right 😭).

And it would ram home the 'we were the ones doing wrong' horror of CATWS, if Bucky had just been on US soil the entire time and nobody good knew.

Possible scenario:

The Russians who found Bucky wounded in WWII handed him over to the Americans, since the war wasn’t over yet and the two sides were ‘officially’ still allies. (And/or because they didn’t realise what they had, and/or he was part of some POW exchange deal.)

By the time Stark, Carter & Phillips found out, they had already hired Zola and Fennhoff.

They intended to use Bucky to reboot the eugenicist supersoldier program and also experiment in the field of mind control (a la Project Artichoke, MK/Ultra etc.) Which they knew people would object to, so they kept Bucky’s recovery quiet from the other Commandos, his family, etc.

SHIELDra had Bucky in America all along, and the whole Russian Boogeyman / Russian weapons thing was just a cover so that Hydra Demagogues could blame every WS hit on the USSR, and thereby drum up convenient anti-Communist hysteria during the Cold War.

(After scientists were sent there to work under Operation Osoaviakhim, Hydra grew slowly in Russia -- with the rise of (anti-Communist) capitalism, and with Fascism being typically the resort of anti-authority criminal classes. Hydra ideology flourished much more quickly in the US (where it would be conformist-authoritarian, not anti-authoritarian), because the US was already capitalist, and had already been doing Hydra eugenic science like Project Rebirth, back in WWII.)

Being a greedy liar and a thief, Howard Stark decided to take advantage of the end of the Cold War by selling the WS to the Soviet branch of Hydra, just days before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union made it moot, and stealing the WS from the Pentagon to patent it himself.

He sold Bucky complete with the Red Book, which the Russians either translated while reading aloud, re-wrote in Russian for their own purposes (explaining why an American organisation’s supersoldier appears to have Russian trigger words; perhaps he doesn’t, they would work in any language?) and why Zemo read them aloud in Russian.

(And/or, maybe the Americans really did use Russian trigger words on Bucky, to perpetuate the ‘definitely-not-American’ Boogeyman mythos?)

The Russians realised they had been double-crossed by Stark, and sent the WS after him and his wife in retribution, and to steal the WS serum back (which Stark may or may not have also promised but failed to deliver.)

The other US intelligence agencies failed to look into it more closely because, once they discovered the sale of the WS, and the theft of the serum, they considered Stark and his wife traitors / double-agents, and thought it was best for PR if the whole thing was hushed up.

Despite now having a mind-controlled super soldier of their own, the Russians didn’t have the secret of creating new mind-control. This explains why they couldn’t control the other Winter Soldiers (despite them being Hydra ideologues before serum), and why the Red Room had to go undercover in America, to steal the secret of mind-control from SHIELD in 1995.

Why would they have to go to America to get that intel, if it was already in Russia?

#dat's me #bucky barnes #bucky meta #meta #mcu #mcu meta #POSSBLE SCENARIO UNDER THE CUT #bout to post a hot take while spaced out and sleep-deprived #always a wise decision!#of course it doesn't follow that a thing is good just because it is in the comics #it could be a comic written by mark millar after all #what is the watsonian explanation...#for this preposterous east coast american / siberian wilderness set up??#what does the russian aspect add to it? why was it necessary for the plot?#at first it looked like the russian stuff was just a cover up by americans to conceal bucky's true identity #but then in CACW they went full blown russian with it and that.... doesn't actually make sense for this MCU #time for a catnap

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gaasublarb · 6 months

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IMO Miles and Hobie actually look similar enough to justify Actually Miles Is Young Hobie fanstuff and yet I haven't seen any

Same eye color

The hairline and eyebrows are different but those are things that can be shaped

I thought Miles had just rounded lips but even that's not right. And it's not as if Hobie's don't even out sometimes

The face lines

Even their ears are similar enough I can't say anything against it and ears are like super individual

(Edit. Differences that age and stress maybe can't account for:

I think Miles has bigger ears? And maybe his lobes are more detached?)

((edit edit. I think the back of Hobie's jaw is shorter?? And the base of it longer????))

#i know one is American and one is British #but this version of Gwen has different organs #i think there's space in the multiverse for this #atsv theories #Miles Morales #Hobie Brown #my posts #spiderpunk #atsv #this puts the idea in by brain that the cop who died was his dad #this would be such a good way to introduce the concept of a separate multiverse #gonna double check that vocabulary #megaverse #metaverse #omniverse #I JUST Realized! this explains how hobie seems to make the first spot pun early!!!#i was this cool the Hole time

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spokelseskladden · 2 months

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Btw it's super hard to be polite in English, like your formality rules are. Damn. I'd hate to have the audhd in an English speaking country, that shit is c o m p l i c a t e d

#i have to hold myself back from calling my american professor by her first name ALL the time #and u have to like separate requests by time?? and space???#how do you do that

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flareguncalamity · 2 years

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Lt. Commander Killian: So what was your name again?

Nevularxi: I have not already told you. I’m afraid my name may not translate into your language.

Lt. Commander Killian: Oh yeah?

Nevularxi: I am named for a period of time on my home planet that surrounds the immediate aftermath of the second yearly equinox of our planet’s solar star. It’s the period following our fertile rainy season, and marked the beginning of the harvest in years of antiquity, as well as the coming of the colder, darker season which our species typically spends in isolation or hibernation. The period is considered to be a time of great liminality and spiritual importance in our ancient religions, although since the dawn of the modern technological age it has lost some of its transient meaning.

Lt. Commander Killian: …Okay, but i meant more like. how do I say your name.

Nevularxi: Oh, it’s nev-you-LARK-zee.

Lt. Commander Killian: Gotcha. by the way, your name in english is October.

#oc #humans are space orcs #these are original characters of mine btw #Killian Weir is a human scientist whose dad got them a high ranking official job through nepotism #and they’re very out of their depth since all of their credentials are academic and not in leadership #so they’re overqualified for the scientific and technological aspect of their job. and vastly under qualified for every other part of it #Nev is an alien who had to fight tooth and nail to claw her way up through the ranks. so she resents Killian a bit #but later in their story arc they fall in love and go against the hypercapitalist intergalactic regime together #so it’s ok #i don’t have a design for Nev quite yet #i know i want her to be blues and purples mostly #but i want there to be a little bit of a speculative biology aspect to her design #so i have to do some worldbuilding first before i settle on anything #i just know that i want her to be bipedal but with 4 arms #and i’m also imagining her with a bob haircut. whether it’s gonna be hair or feathers or something else remains to be seen #Killian is like. 6’3 ish red haired irish american. built like a jock sort of but unfortunately lacking the swag to be sexy #They’re a xenogeologist btw. <3 i love geology

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arcticflowerz · 1 year

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Indigenous Lesbian

A flag for people who are Indigenous/Aboriginal/Native and a Lesbian.

Feel free to switch out Indigenous for Aboriginal or Native in the name of the flag.

Flag by: @arcticflowerz

Do not repost my flags/the things I coin with out credit.

This flag was made by an actual Inuk. DO NOT USE THIS FLAG IF YOUR TRANSRACE/TRANSINDIGENOUS! THIS FLAG IS EXCLUSIVE TO BODILY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. By “bodily indigenous” I do not mean you have to be “indigenous passing” to use this flag. You can still use this flag if your white passing or not. By “bodily indigenous” I’m referring to having indigenous blood and indigenous relatives in your family tree. For those who don’t know what transrace is, it’s a transID label that means “you were born one race but BELIEVE you should have been born another race instead.” Transindigenous is just the indigenous version where “You BELIEVE you should be indigenous but aren’t”. I DO NOT SUPPORT TRANSRACE/TRANSINDIGENOUS, AS SUCH, THEY CANNOT USE THIS FLAG.

Here’s are the links to the Indigenous Vincian/Gay, Indigenous Varian, Indigenous Fluidian, and Indigenous Enbian versions I made.

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rimouskis · 8 months

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on the subject of museums though: I'm a FIRM believer that the smithsonians are genuinely some the greatest cultural heritage americans possess and I believe SO fervently in them being free to the public and accessible to all because they ARE our nation's history and tell (and ideally deconstruct) our national myths and help contextualize the natural world around us and show us the heights of human ingenuity and art. also my favorite of all of them is the national museum of the american indian and I personally think if you can only go to one smithsonian museum it should be that one

#I've only been to DC once since the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened and I wasn't able to go bc the #timed tickets for the day were all sold out :( but I'm going to attempt to go later this year #idk I feel very passionately about the smithsonians... one of my favorite childhood memories is the family trip we took there #and I walked around the natural history museum with a notebook and wrote down all my favorite things I saw that day ahaha #and the air & space museum really is just incredible. my dad has Space Race Boomer Brain but I was always really interested #in how his mind was so CAPTURED by the space race and by space exploration and him seeing the first man on the moon #and that bled into me appreciating that museum a lot #but seriously the american indian museum is just a feat to behold. just incredible.#and — I'd argue — the MOST important museum to view if you wanted to truly grasp the weight of the stories our country tries to tell itself

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nickysfacts · 1 month

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Since being gifted with life, Mewtwo remains as one of the most other worldly Pokémon!

✨👽✨

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mscking7 · 5 months

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Okay so Loudermilk is finally on UK Netflix and I'm going to chalk this up as a personal win as it must be because of the 1000s of petitions I sent to Netflix right? You can thank me later fellow Brits.

Anyway, I'm drowning in those big brown eyes...

Also his hair is the definition of scruffy perfection. Fight me.

#Ron Livingston #Loving it so far #May have binged the whole first season #His hair is perfect though #I need an American to explain his accent though?#Is it changed slightly?#I swear he doesn't sound like that?#Or maybe I just think it's weird cos my brain is hardwired to hear Nix?!#I didn't have this problem with Office Space though?!#haha weird

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an-american-whovian · 6 months

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They changed the ending to ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ to feature Ncuti!? 🥹

#doctor who #an american whovian #whovian #dw #classic who #nuwho #classic doctor who #a.r.lopez #twelfth doctor #series 10 #an adventure in space and time #ncuti gatwa #william hartnell #Youtube #the first doctor #the fifteenth doctor #david bradley

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compacflt · 11 months

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Sorry for the ridiculous ask (really it's unforgivable), but:

Iceman went to NYC to see A Chorus Line in '87.

2. Confirmed watched Sound of Music with Carole for her birthday.

Am I connecting any dots here and did Ice have to go to Hamilton as a publicity stunt in the last year of the Obama presidency?

oh no anon im being very intentional with my ice-musical-theatre links. its easy lazy writing shorthand for him being gay lol. even if he isn’t actively seeing shows he does put the tonys on in the background every year just bc he likes the color and dancing

he’s not a fan of rap and he doesn’t like how Hamilton bastardized american history for its own political aims thereby convincing multiple generations of laymen of factoids that simply aren’t true (Hamilton was strictly speaking not an immigrant & could only extremely loosely be called an abolitionist of any stripe) but he’s also a milquetoast liberal so he says he likes it for clout but he’s also a military flag officer so no one is really expecting him to go see Hamilton for publicity purposes so idk

the pentagon circa 2016:

#don’t ask me about Hamilton. It’s what got me into American/military history in the first place. i literally have so many thoughts.#I did a mil history book rec post a couple months ago & in it I said Ron Chernow sometimes makes shit up?#lin Manuel Miranda was inspired by chernows biography of Hamilton but chernow Just Made Shit Up!!!!#I feel about Hamilton the way I feel about the historicity of my own fics: do not take anything as a fact. every word is #politically motivated. not a bad thing #good rhetorical goals #but it’s a work of fiction.#i got started writing fanfiction by writing Hamilton fic in 8th grade 😭😭❤️#they’re still up there!!!#on ao3!!!#still get kudos once a month or something #absolutely unreal #& I actually take all my cues of how to act in fandom spaces from one very popular historical Hamilton account on here #whom I’ve been following since 2017 #they’re the ones who proved to me that fanfiction could still be as heavy and well written as literature.#so really thank Hamilton for my fics and im not joking at all.

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identifying-spacecraft-in-posts · 9 months

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Roscosmos Space Shuttle 1K 1.01 Buran (Snowstorm)

Antonov An-225 Mriya (Dream)

#I'm so upset that both these vehicles have been destroyed #first the Buran when it's hangar roof collapsed at Baikonur due to years of neglect #and then the Mriya during the attack on Kyiv in 2022 #there are incomplete examples of both which could in theory be finished with enough funding #but I don't have the money to do it #the Soviet space shuttle program was interesting #in several ways the Soviet design was superior to the American one #it's booster rocket - Energia - used kerosene and liquid oxygen as opposed to the solid rocket boosters of the US shuttle #this meant the engines could be shut down in an emergency #and you wouldn't have an accident like the one which destroyed Challenger #the Buran was also fully autonomous #it's first flight was uncrewed and it managed to land itself back on the runway after reentry #an impressive feat for the technology of the time #thanks for the ask!#roscosmos #buran #space shuttle

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qwuilty · 1 year

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i do not have the brain power to like make these like Proper Drawings but i want to get him out there so. what would you do if you saw him press X if you would slap his shaved head and press O if you would slap his shaved head

#postal 1 #postal dude #postal #i think i have learned more about the american military complex researching for headcanons of this mf than i have my entire education.#because while he does have a simple story. and i appreciate that simple story. i have incurable “need to headcanon 100 million things”#but also in. in my defense. i think military time would explain part of how shit got So Fucked and also it in a roundabout way justifies #giving him braces via TMJ that could have occurred to the intense increase of stress #so like. cut me a little bit of bone here my friend its lining up in Ways in my head <:')#I also found out bird is a code word for a helicopter! which makes the bird nickname funnier w him cause hes like a helicopter.#just hovering over your shoulder (he doesnt mean it bad but like. please give some space dude.)#rws in their office looking at me make an entire backstory for the guy they didnt even make a name for at first:

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rotzaprachim · 1 year

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one thing i’ve been thinking about is the claiming/not claiming experiences in fiction thing and the necessity of empathy or writing the stories of people profoundly like unlike ourselves without laying claim to specific experiences. but also one thing i find is that my /own/ specific experience, my community’s, they aren’t monolithic in any way or something i could write down as This is /ME/, but that when i write profoundly different settings and characters shards and aspects of that experience pop up in the strangest places. there’s little shards of my home town every where i go. i think it’s really important to avoid that form of writerly solipsism which places physical and embodied personal experiences and understandings as the universals of everyone everywhere, so i don’t want it to be that, but it is especially interesting to me as i expand my writing especially in fantasy and sci fi locations what it is that has that resonance

#skinning my knees on volcanic rocks goes into a space age fic. touching snow for the first time out of the back of a pickup truck #the psychology of a small town in the middle of nowhere goes into a fic set in a country i've never lived in #the feeling of dry air if you've grown up somewhere with 99% humidity #i really like above all fiction with a strong sense of place or community so maybe it's that #i also think too it's interesting to think of in the vein of trying to expand beyond the kind of white christian anglo-american gaze #because obviously everyone who is /not/ that is not a monolith #but at the same time if we are removing this lens that asks for universal translatability THROUGH that gaze as relatability #i think there #s these opportunities for broader cross cultural connections and that's a really fascinating area

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