Dauntless Ghost Rider

he/him, very excited to be here! I'm in many different fandoms, but the major ones are Ghost Rider (1990), One Piece, and Lord of the Rings

[iwhumpyou]

rewatched the entire PoTC trilogy on an international flight and I can't believe I forgot how funny it is.

Barbossa is the most exasperated character in any scene he's in, unless he's winning. then he's the smuggest son of a bitch on screen (he literally returns from the dead smugly eating an apple). but majority of the time, he's 'why am I the only adult here'. man rolls his eyes so much I half-expected him to turn straight to the camera.

when Will asks Elizabeth to marry him while they are fighting Davy Jones' crew, stuck in a maelstrom, and trapped in the final battle, the first word out of her mouth is "Barbossa!". she then continues by asking Barbossa to marry them, but for a split second Will's face goes like 'Barbossa? Barbossa?? I didn't even know he was on the map of this convoluted love quadrangle!'

when they're in Singapore and Sao Feng threatens the spy he found and Will, Elizabeth, and Barbossa all look at each other to confirm that none of them have snuck in a spy they forgot to tell the others about, before shrugging and telling Sao Feng to go ahead and kill him.

Barbossa's eyes just getting wide and wider the more weapons Elizabeth pulls out of her clothes. c'mon man, let a woman have her toys!

rewatching really gives you the full picture of how many people are scheming at any given time and how each person's schemes intersect with the others, even if they're nominally on the same side. everyone also gets So Upset when their scheme is foiled, accidentally or intentionally, by someone else's scheme, as though they themselves aren't scheming at that very moment.

Barbossa's iron balls. I'm sorry, this is the funniest dick joke in the trilogy that defines how many dick jokes Disney can stick in a movie before it stops being PG-13. Jack's reaction really says it all.

rereading this list I see it's quite heavily tilted in favor of Barbossa which I now realize is because I empathize with Barbossa way more than I did as a kid. I too am frustrated to be surrounded by idiots while I'm the only adult around. man just wants to eat his apple in peace goddammit. so he did a little mutiny and maybe some more murder and mayhem and also maybe unleashed a pagan god upon the world. the guy really likes his apples, is that a crime?!?

[super-hero-confessions]

[johnnyanger]

(id in alt)

GHOSTRIDER - comm

[dueseaworthiness]

[dauntlessghostrider]

I can't believe some authors don't turn on moderated comments on AO3.

Like you guys are just rawdogging it?

All the bots, all the trolls, all the guys with absolute shit takes, they can be easily avoided and deleted. It's a simple button but amazing for quality of life.

[trenchcoathunnybee08]

[dauntlessghostrider]

Holy Shit Iron Lung is on Youtube!!!

Was there an announcement or something? Bc I didn't see anything and was actually looking for something else and found it, but holy shit, it's there! I can re-watch it!

[cometcrystal]

out of the backyard gang baljeet is one of the worst to make into a coffee table. ferb would also be pretty bad. phineas and isabella would be mid because they have those bigass heads but the skinny bodies. might be worse than baljeet and ferb if you're a person who cares about symmetry. buford would objectively make the best coffee table because his silhouette has the most evenly-spaced surface area. now if you wanna talk about pnf characters in general i think pet mode perry would be the best coffee table out of all of them

[tvguts]

every single time time i try to check facebook marketplace for furniture i get jumpscared by this (admittedly sick) custom baljeet coffee table

[sillypinkboy]

Danny was so pretty in that blood hunt mini. probably him in that and the 90s run did him the best

[ravioliet]

"why can't they just be friends?" not in the homophobic sense, but in the "in your need to center romance in everything you are missing the whole point of the media in question" sense

[riviclouds]

it's giving princess celestia

[glompcat]

I’d love to see more meta about the fact that the Rebellion was named what it was not due to any particular romantization of the Republic, but because Palpatine’s entire government’s claim to legitimacy was dependent on portraying the Empire as an evolution and extension of the Republic.

By naming themselves the Alliance to Restore the Republic, the Rebels were directly undermining everything that the Empire was built on, and were calling Palpatine’s bluff on being a legitimate ruler.

This is made obvious when you consider how many former Separatists were in the Alliance’s ranks, and how one of the key central platforms of the New Republic’s constitution once they formed their government was that membership in the New Republic was fully voluntary. Any system that ever wished to secede was able to do so at will.

That is how and why so many systems were not a part of the New Republic in Bloodline. How and why Ryloth was able to become a fully independent system that had fuck all to do with the New Republic. How and why so many criminal enterprises, up to and including the First Order, were able to thrive in the decades that the New Republic was strongest - the New Republic’s charter was written with the Separatist system’s demand to be left alone very central to their platform, and because of that a whole lot of space never had anything to do with them - were fully self-governing with no acknowledgement of any kind of larger galactic law (things like laws against slavery,labor regulations, etc) because they simply didn’t want to. 

The decision to join or not was taken rather seriously by all systems in the galaxy. In fact the Aftermath books even told us that there was a time the Alderaan flotilla debated on if they wanted to enter into this union or not (we know they eventually did as Leia would go on to be their senator in the New Republic senate, but the book gave us a look at them debating on it and weighing the pros and cons).

One of the things I appreciate in Star Wars is there are no perfect political systems, and you can very clearly see how the events of previous eras influenced the choices that were made later on. Even the mistakes that result in the greatest losses come from very understandable beginnings.

[flashbrainrot]

I hate the "oh every bat has a kryptonian, and a speedster, and an archer, and an amazonian, and-" please, stop treating teams as accessories to the bats.

It's not really that the bats "have" them as if they were pets they collecting. It is that every generation has its teen team.

[radioactive-earthshine]

The fanon batfam fans and their incessant need to make all other characters a purse dog.

[thornedlullaby59]

Photos that Luke Skywalker keeps with him.

Photos that Leia Organa keeps with her.

Photos that Han Solo keeps with him.

[phoenixyfriend]

As I have no background in the topic, is it okay to ask what part of agriculture trade routes you mentioned a few days ago you find interesting?

If that is not something you feel comfortable sharing, what is one fact you think more people should know?

In terms of real world trade routes, I'd recommend watching videos by Wendover/Half as Interesting (Nebula, YouTube). A few personal favorites are:

How Inland Waterways Work (explanation of the Mississippi river)

The Logistics of Year-Round Fruit Supply

How the Trucking Industry Got So Terrible

The Logistics of Hawaii

Wendover — The Colorado Problem (not about trade routes so much as water distribution rights, which is actually a worldwide issue that causes/contributes to so many wars, though this video focuses specifically on the parties to the Colorado River Compact)

The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship

Also fun are videos from RealLifeLore, like How Geography Nerfed Africa (short answer: the steep rise in elevation along the coast results in very few navigable waterways other than the Nile, which has some interesting similarities to Why The US Southeast Coast is Bizarrely Empty).

(These are all Nebula links but the videos should be available on YouTube.)

Personally, I would joke that I am logistics-pilled. I love looking into systems and how they function, what their weak points are, and how things have been structured to cover those gaps. I did go to business school, so I'm a bit primed to find these things interesting.

A lot of how the modern world works, the way it seems so frictionless, is down to how carefully these systems have been managed. It's not just mapping the trade routes, it's the specific refrigeration methods (see the apples section of the fruit supply video), the way containers are transferred from one form of transportation to the next, the engineering of locks (I can't find the video right now, but there are many videos on the history of the Erie Canal and how its engineering influenced the rest of the world), the politics of trade route navigation, maritime law, legistlation of fuel efficiencies--

There are so many things that go into the way our world works that we don't generally think about unless we consciously decide to (e.g. being logistics-pilled like me) or are forced to (the world over now knows what the Strait of Hormuz is because of current events).

Anyway, I just think these things are neat.

If you want a fun fact about Star Wars in particular, which I remember you asked about? There used to be a major trade route (Hyperlane) branch going directly to Mandalore, which has since been removed from contemporary hyperlane maps (the Legends page shows older sections from about 4k bby).

IIRC we don't know if it was because of shifting political realities (Mandalore no longer being an empire powerful to demand immediate connection) or because natural forces became impediments (e.g. a black hole shifted and warped gravity to such a degree that hyperlanes had to be moved, slowed, and made more circuitous to remain safe). The Salin Corridor passes through the Mandalore sector, but doesn't go to Mandalore itself anymore.

[dauntlessghostrider]

I bought some jam (plum and elderberry) from some monks today. A sentence that sounds like I’m from the Middle Ages but no I did that shit in the 21st century.