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do you ever find something that is so funny and you want to share it with everyone but it also requires 18 layers of context spanning things like. 90s anime. aviation history. europop. canada. in order to even remotely understand why it is so funny

all-pacas

in the late 90s there was an anime called initial d which was all about street racing and drifting. naturally every single drift was played for great drama and excitement.

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:

#im so happy all of that was explained to me and the punchline was totally worth it

get-more-transmasc

To the trans boy reading this who feels like he has no hope: you're stronger than whatever you're going through.

I promise you it will get better, it does get better.

Life can be so beautiful, the world can be such a kind and loving place, the struggle is a passing thing and when you come out the other end, and believe me, you WILL, you will find yourself marvelling at the joy you once thought you'd never get to have.

Listen to me. You are going to be okay. Better than okay, you are going to survive this and you are going to THRIVE.

We're all in this together. I love you.

storm-of-feathers

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

storm-of-feathers

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

#it meant we were safer and that's a thing with real fucking value #yes capitalism is bad and we all need to dismantle it #but it's hard for us to dismantle it if we've all been fucking killed or legislated out of public society #and what rainbow capitalism signalled was that we were a group worth pandering to and worth SELLING stuff to #which meant they were willing to protect our place in public society because it got them more money than betraying us would #and now they've largely decided that we aren't worth the risk #that being publicly accepting of queer people is an economic risk for them #and thus they will not do anything to stop the overton window swinging

dearausten

not now sweetie, mommy is watching how the massive girlbossification of female characters has led to the belief that weak and vulnerable female characters are badly written characters because apparently every woman needs to be outspoken and witty and snarky and brave in order to be considered “complex” and have any value in a piece of media!!

chilewithcarnage

#swapping one type of flat female character for another is actually not the fix we wanted lol

seolinguk

is this not how the scene went?

#agreed with prev about suho's body language it's so good #sieun's stillness and suho's swagger #also the way suho becomes more still right before a fight...all the adrenaline being stored for the moment of explosive movement #versus when he's comfy with sieun and just kind of bopping #also yes this text is so good because suho knows so early on that sieun is charmed by him on some level #even before sieun knows that probably #suho took one look at this angry kid and was like.....i can absolutely bother him into being my best friend #actually interesting question for myself....when did suho know that sieun loved him back? maybe not till sieun was hiding his #injured arm from suho #maybe it was then #or maybe he didn't really know until he woke up from the coma and saw sieun running to see him #i wonder.#that he realized that his obsession with sieun was fully reciprocated. that they were in this together for better or for worse #i think it's more tragic if he doesn't know until sieun hides the injury because then he's not only realizing the injury in that conversati #at the doorway to sieun's place...#he's realizing that sieun loves him too and that he can't do anything about that because he has to kill whoever hurt him first #the protective side of his love defeating the side of him that wants good things for himself. to be able to accept that love from sieun #anyway i've made myself sad #sieunsuho #shse #weak hero

victusinveritas

There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

just7frogsinapeoplesuit

Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

bellamyblake

Random Bellarke moments pt.18-Clarke and Bellamy in Day trip

#the episode that created a thousand shippers #and we were then shot ten thousand times over the course of five seasons #was it five? i don't even fucking remember #curse this show and this endlessly watchable ship #chemistry so good their actors got married is always wild but even more wild when it's about two characters that DON'T FUCK IN THE SHOW #bellarke #the100

tsumugiology

random question:

what was your first exposure to prev and what made you decide to follow them?

#was it on the fandom-specific forum site or on tumblr first? either way it was the anime fandom. you know. *scythe noises*

stormsbreadth

i'm aware that the introvert website might but the wrong audience BUT please tell me your default karaoke song in the tags (for bonus points also tell me the song you WISH you could sing at karaoke but it's too obscure for the karaoke booths to have)

#i have a list on my phone for different karaoke song ideas because i'm actually afraid irrationally of singing the same song too frequently #that being said...my best karaoke performance ever was 'total eclipse of the heart'#would love to sing that again some day #i don't think i have an obscure song i wish the booths had because all the obscure songs i like are not in my range #i cannot access my head voice during karaoke i get too nervous and my throat gets too tight #so im locked to chest voice songs only and that really limits me

stephenroot

I hate cigarettes so much I hate that smoking is becoming cool again I hate that we're becoming contrarian hipsters about this disgusting habit that has literally killed so many people and destroyed so many lives I'm so serious we need to become absolute killjoys about this again it's time to go 90s scolds on cigarettes until the scourge is wiped out entirely.

quiet-doll

recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours

#okay originally this tag said it was psychopath behaviour to say kitchen cabinet but i understand that's an overreaction #there must be a country where this is common because i cannot imagine anyone coming to this conclusion naturally without #being raised in a culture that has meds in the kitchen #obvs it's bathroom cabinet where they SHOULD be #i understand keeping it in like the bedroom or a spare room cabinet if your bathroom has no space #but the KITCHEN???#that's where i consume stuff in the middle of the night while functionally blind to what i'm grabbing at #you can't have meds in with your spices that's nuts