The Pacific As Tweets

on tragic heroes and the people who'd follow them anywhere.

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aw bless that seemed a longer walk than expected lmao

ok so I came across a little malcolm bright fanfic (don't worry babes, linked below, go enjoy) and it began a lil bit of brain rot so hear me out:

(spoilers for the fic, go read it first if you want, commentary/word vomit bit is below)

ok so in this malcolm has a seizure disorder which Gil knows about, but not Dani. stuff gets figured out, others are updated etc. etc.

BUT

my lil goblin brain couldn't leave well enough alone so after like the third time reading this i've decided to pen (or rather type) these ridiculous things i can just about call thoughts

SO

let's set the scene, malcolm (yh for some reason my brain thinks the name looks better lower case? sorry if that bothers you but now it's slightly more symmetrical?) has a seizure while Gil and Dani are there.

(also not trying to romanticise anything, just going off what i got)

Dani and Gil are both used to the Complete Human Disaster™ that malcolm is so obviously they both know seizure first aid for future reference.

(also gentle reminder, if you don't know this go find out, there's like st John's ambulance videos that make you a functioning member of society in under 10 mins)

now, based on the confidence that each of them seem to have regarding the situation, they keep looking at each other like "huh, they seem to have done this before"

so they end up each thinking that malcolm must have epilepsy/a seizure disorder that the other knows about but they never got told.

they look after him, do all the things you have by now learned in helpful video format (wink wink) and everything is fine, right?

THEN

when malcolm eventually wakes up, and is told what happened he is understandably eloquent in saying "wtf, how, why etc." and his surprise makes them realise that for once he wasn't just conveniently leaving out information.

i feel like this started out fine and got slightly more unhinged and less logical as it goes on but if that isn't life i don't know what is

the point may have gotten a little lost and it petered out a bit but i said a thing and it's done so woo

why mclaren film look like Lego movie?!

at this point i have more faith in little onion than myself

walking and waving calmly (read: would like to be elsewhere)

Red bull trying to convince us they're hip and cool only for Liam and Max to look so unenthused and then they cut to ferarri is so fucking funny

this scene is so funny to me. lieb making fun of perconte for crouching down when they're only hunting for a deer. ramirez and malarkey straightening up acting like they weren't crouching down like perco did

bastogne drift i am actually cackling

The Band of the Brothers

2 Band 2 Brothers

The Band of the Brothers: Bastogne Drift

Band & Brothers

Band 5

Band & Brothers 6

Brothers 7

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

the paratroopers' boots are honestly so cunt like are you serious. you got the marine guys in the pacific fighting with shoes so thin everyone's getting malaria while the parachute infantry are serving in europe with these beauties