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"You see these two slices of bread from that retort pouch? What are you? That's right, an idiot sandwich. We have a robust supply chain for a reason and you cannot keep feeding the pilots this fucking swill for the rest of eternity."

riversidewings

"With what?….and you were under the impression that this would help the pilots how? My gods, Captain, the good idea fairy must've bit you twice this week. This is why we have to uphold the standards as an organization. That's stuff's unsat. Let's get you squared away."

yaldabaothadeez

(sources: 1, 2, - ocatg on bsky)

#me irl

frostgears

summer on Kepler-452b means painting rainbow stripes on the side of your medium enforcement mech and supplementing the Willy Pete with glitter.

you're new. you were a stationer, an orbital kid raised on scant oxygen, and you fuss about operational efficiency. "don't worry about it," everyone explained. "it's tradition." Command authorizes it every year. a company mechanic read you the bulletin for this local year. the bulletin says the same thing she did: it's a chain of tradition stretching centuries and thousands of light years back to a holiday on the motherwell. Old Terra herself.

"but why? what does it all mean? why rainbows? why glitter?"

"don't worry about it, kitten. nobody really knows."

"Handler!" you gasp. you didn't hear him come in. you're so lucky to have him here. he's always so busy, but if he's willing to make time for you despite your silly questions, maybe your secret goal isn't as unrealistic as it seems sometimes.

he gently ruffles your hair. "all we know is, for as long as mankind has been settling the scattered worlds, in the summer, we wear rainbows, and we say the words. it's a celebration of everything we have to be proud of. happy pride, kitten. just say it with me."

"happy pride," you say, smiling, as you fall into his warm and comforting lap and get comfortable with a bit of strategic wiggling.

you still don't know what the deal is, but if he doesn't care, you suppose you don't need to either. you'll pack your incendiaries and tracers with sparkly multi-hued foil bits and have the maintenance crew update your paint scheme, just like everyone else does. whatever gets you through your tour in his good graces so you can settle down to the real work: getting out of the cockpit, bearing the next generation of pilots, and raising them to someday work with handlers nearly as good as yours.

you briefly look over, smug, at the mechanic. this is your handler, not hers. mechanics don't have handlers; how would that even work? whatever the hell "happy pride" means, you're almost certain you'll be having a happier pride than her. □

aflo

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

aflo

theonion

In a move that left hundreds of longtime residents scrambling to find alternative housing, municipal construction crews reportedly demolished a local Black neighborhood Thursday, part of an ongoing city project to make room for nothing in particular. “For decades, this part of Fort Worth has languished as nothing more than a loving community for African American families and a bustling hub for Black-owned businesses,” said Mayor Mattie Parker, adding that the destruction of dozens of beloved restaurants, theaters, barbershops, and newspapers was an essential step toward creating more vacant lots that could sit empty behind fences for an indefinite length of time.

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b0tster

settling into something casual 💋💋

how-to-be-a-pilot

How to Be a Pilot, #59

halimaidmf

You think you can't be plural because there aren't any other voices in your head?

You already have one. Her name is tinnitus.

aj-moment-deactivated20260416

She's not nonverbal she knows how to say the letter e and loves to do it more than anything

#my tinnitus is always doing the sound of vibrating glass jars clattering together in a steam cooker

raydaug

Otherside Picnic's use of first person feels less like an deep dive into a character's psyche and more like a hostage situation.

phenoct

#its a horror series not because of the monsters or the spatial anomalies but because you are trapped in sorawo's thoughts

dknightlight

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

somethingusefulfromflorida

contemptible-scoundrel

my cursed sword doesn't even tell me to kill people anymore it keeps begging me to put on a skirt and tights

contemptible-scoundrel

I already know I'm a girl dickhead I just like wearing pants

analog-delight

Telling my cis woman roommate "welcome to womanhood" when she has insurance trouble picking up prescriptions bc the insurance company marked her gender wrong

imperfectfinch-blog

Trees grow best beside the dead.

nem23

loop-lover-central

Y'know I gotta admit I didn't really care about mdp as much more than a plot device, especially at first, but it's grown on me over time.

Fucked up little mental illness demon that stands in the corner staring at you like the "I frew up" meme. I wanna dunk it in water and throw it at a wall.

loop-lover-central