Really a lion

I'm a half Canadian mechanic who is currently dying in the Utah weather

[azurityarts]

PMD fans how we feeling about tomorrow's Presents

[realspacejunk]

Pfffff-

Plebs already painting themselves with clown colors. Not me. Because I KNOW we will get a new game this time. I have FAITH!

[sugarsylvie]

Bouncy Ampharos!!

[penpaladinjules]

“Commander Arcturus reporting back from Earth, sir.”

“Yes, Commander? Do you recommend initiating contact with them?”

“To be honest, I am torn on the issue.”

“Do explain.”

“As you know, they are mortal flesh containing a consciousness. But sir … their consciousnesses don’t pass on to a different flesh when the flesh dies.”

“Mmm, they return to one great consciousness, do they?”

“Nnnnnno, sir. There is no one great consciousness. They just *die*. They’re just gone.”

“BUH — WHA — well that’s preposterous, where do they get the new consciousness from?”

“They make a new one. A brand new one. Every time a new human is conceived, they build a new consciousness, and every time a human dies, that consciousness is gone forever. … … … Sir?”

“How do they have any kind of body of knowledge, then? … … … Well that seems incredibly inefficient, it would take years for one of them to learn enough to be able to do anything! But if you say this is how they do it … My stars, man, that means they would be *aware* that they had an expiration date! It means they would know the *new consciousnesses they made* would inevitably die!”

“Yes sir. Mortality weighs heavily upon them.”

“To think such a time-limited species could become intelligent and not any of the normal ones on this planet.”

“Ummmmm. All life on that planet is the same way.”

“… … … I am tempted to simply mark it down as the saddest goddamn thing in the entire universe and move on.”

“Thank you, sir, yes, I agree.”

“Why the thank you?”

“Frankly, I don’t think I could stand to go back. I … made a friend, you see.”

[livingcpu]

notes from ibo completion

more book notes, this time from the ibo completion books

season 1 book:

(there are a lot of "keyword" and "what is this thing" explanations in this volume, but it's for stuff that gets spoken in dialogue in the anime so i find it repetitious to include)

other atra food includes spam + asparagus, and bean + meatball soup

it was very, very funny to look at the character page and see a caption under eugene's portrait that starts off, "he's really quite handsome but he has no charisma whatsoever and gets weak when praised" lol

the gang just so happened to find red paint in the brewers stuff, which shino used for the graze custom 2 / ryusei-go paint w/o having to go back to saisei

makanai's villa was specifically built for him on millennium island, doesn't say anything about why the heck there's conveniently a military hangar there though

saisei was originally used to assist with mining on jupiter. the interior is 7km long. it regularly travels back and forth between the asteroid belt and jupiter. this trip takes 6 mo. teiwaz makes bank on rare metals that can be mined around jupiter.

gjallarhorn island is longer than saisei at 10km

season 2 book:

the issue family does have a head/rep after karta died, named orce issue (not sure how to romanize this name; オルセ), but they are bedridden hence why they never appear in the seven star meetings and why the spot is considered vacant

the turbines hq thing is located in an asteroid outside of an ariadne cocoon

shino's ryuseigo eye mark is the logo of the kassapa factory (I thought yamagi and dane had it in the ending cause of the past, but it seems it's the logo)

todo was responsible for mcgillis somehow teleporting from mars to orbit between 48/49. he was also left in charge of the montag company

dexter took over admoss after kudelia was named the mars chair lady

dante was really moved with orga took in the brewers human debris kids so he is quite thrilled working at kudelia's orphanage with derma

in the animator interview, the staff (such as masami obari -- get bari bari'd) talk about the lack of beam weaponry in the setting and how nagai wanted to keep the mechs "down to earth" and not have elements like glowing eyes yet barbatos ended up with glowing eyes anyway. obari in particular is attached to ep 38 where barbatos dunks on hashmal as it took a crazy number of keyframes. he attributes him powering through it and drawing all of barbatos's details as having The Power of Friendship (plus two other animators) on his side (友情パワー)

the animators are very partial to the rodi frame which is why it is featured in the opening instead of bael haha

one of the series mech designer who designed the graze, flauros, etc, kanetake ebikawa, picked shino's death in ep 45 as a memorable scene. yet at the same time, he thought, "wait, so flauros wont show up anymore?! gdi!!"

there's also an illustration of how flauros was found when excavated with one of the plumes. sleepy gundam with plume teddy bear.

[wordsandrobots]

#im impressed with eugenes ability to catch random strays whenever i open a book

Poor Eugene. Longing to be an action hero, born to be a logistics manager.

Regarding House Issue, the Urdr Hunt game introduced Okina Uroka, an old family retainer who worked to secure the future of the line after Carta's death. This is a separate character from the person described here, who sounds like it must be Carta's sick father, as referenced in the show itself. I am however somewhat intrigued by them having the same character at the start of their names, since Okina is *very* heavily Issue-coded himself (he's got the eyebrows), which suggests to me he's meant to be an illegitimate child of the family. I'm probably stretching, but it'd be cool if they named him to emphasise a connection to Carta's dad.

Hmmm. And with the Saisei, I don't suppose there's any indication if that's meant to be a trip around the *entire* Belt? McGillis and Gaelio's journey to Mars and back takes two months. A month's travel would seem reasonable for Tekkadan's arrival at Earth too. And it only takes them ten days to reach the Saisei, all of which is while the relative positions of the planets are thus:

Which implies a month from Earth to Mars is the high end of the range. But also that the Saisei must have been closer to Mars than Jupiter for that first meeting with McMurdo. Given the way the Asteroid Belt is distributed, a direct plunge into it from Jupiter surely wouldn't account for a whole three months of travel. On the other hand, six months around the whole of the Belt would be much faster than the other implied speeds. Which I'd think was entirely plausible, since when you have unlimited power, the only reason not to push up to some serious fractions of lightspeed is the necessity of slowing down sufficiently to actually do stuff at your destination beyond whizzing past or slamming into it. Cruising for extended periods at very high speed would likely allow for going much further than ships navigating between the inner planets.

Why yes, I have spent considerable time over-thinking this stuff.

[wordsandrobots]

Wait, sorry, no. It's *three* months that Gaelio and McGillis are gone from Earth, not two. But, again, later examples of travel times are much lower - the Hotarubi can get from Mars to Earth, at full speed, in a little over three weeks and Kudelia's round trip in the epilogue might be even quicker. So a month plus a couple of weeks would be the high end of the range, which would be a curved orbital path rather than a straight line.

[livingcpu]

mm doesn't give any specifications about saisei's travel; just says that the journey from jupiter to asteroid belt is a 6+ month round trip (whops i forgot the + in my post lol) maybe vague about how far along the asteroid belt it goes so it can mysteriously appear near mars whenever they need it to in the story

[wordsandrobots]

Yeah, that makes sense. I think I'd half-assumed the Saisei cruised between Jupiter and Mars, given how easily everyone is always getting to it from the Mars-based locations. But if it's cruising around the Belt most of the time, that still kind of makes sense.

Jupiter takes nearly twelve years to complete a single orbit, so it'd probably see a lot more variation in travel times over all. Given that, it might even make more logistical sense for the Saisei to usually be far closer to the inner solar system.

On a related note, I need to check my working for this latest fanfic and maybe bump up the length of a few time skips!

[mercywashere]

“who's the little friend you got up there?”

ik I'm not a charshall fan but I like how their colors look together, they're such a wholesome duo:') I enjoyed sm drawing this. It's been a harsh week and they're my comfort space

[spicymochi]

silly seal

[spicymochi]

tiny silly seal

[tumblr]

will you accept the challenge?

[mysterious-cat-official]

well?

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

[aimer-arts]

I am once again thinking about evolved team fate. kitty cat and her tall girlfriend <3

[fortuneravine]

i've been reminded of my old ace attorney pmd au and wanted to draw some of them again...

[flythesail]

Growing up on the internet it was drilled into us to not give our real name, age, etc. only for all these social platforms to turn around and be like 😦☝️ um actually, we really need your social security number, credit card, and full government ID.

[reneelovesrobots]

USA Gundam Store, they of the shittiest preorders in the western hemisphere, have decided a strange facebook Trump meme was how they wanted to advertise (and thus, the target audience who they wanted to advertise to). They're not getting any more of my money.

[ferhog]

My GOAT is getting slandered on twitter.com and I will not stand for it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

NASA took a pic of the dark side of the moon fyi

[marlynnofmany]

Yeah, isn’t that a cool picture? It’s the one someone showed me to point out what color the moon really is compared to the Earth! They both have the same amount of sunlight on them here.

The moon’s not white! It’s concrete-gray! It only looks so shiny when compared to the void of space!

I love learning things I didn’t expect to learn. Like when I learned that it’s called the “dark side” of the moon because it’s the side we don’t see, not because sunlight never hits it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

she's mooning us

[homeofhousechickens]

"Whats your favorite bird?" "Oh, chickens" "Those aren't birds haha" ??????????????????????????????????????

[chick-it-out]

[spicymochi]

silly guys

[transgenderer]

Lot of talk about "slop" not so much about "troughs" (for the slop. Like a pig). Many accounts are troughs. Sometimes entire platforms are troughs. Platforms will try to add a trough subplatform, and direct you towards it, so you spend all your time eating slop. Beware the trough