#firebreak

[hes-a-phantom]

The Oldest House needs you! With the ongoing crisis against the Hiss, we need all FBC personnel to do their part!

Join the Firebreakers and put a stop to the Hiss corruption!

(No prior combat skills needed!)

Director Faden thanks you for your service!

[lostinthewoodsomewhere]

This came to me today so I had to do a quick doodle!

Why does this sound so much like a conversation they'd have in the game?????

[esdruxule]

After extensive testing, the FBC has devised an effective method of counteracting this hostile resonance space force from another dimension. Now, I bet you're wondering how you can do a little counter action of your own. Well, my friend, that's easy. You're just one elevator ride and seven signatures away from joining Firebreak, the FBC's recently enacted class three initiative far crisis resolution. Wow. Guys, a little help here. No matter your day job at the FBC, you too can volunteer to join the heroic men and women of Firebreak in valiantly protecting ourselves and the Bureau��� What's happening? Should I… Yeah. Alex, you can take five. Okay. Oh. Hey. Hey, what's going on? Emergency in maintenance.

Another crew down. Oh, it's a damned furnace flare again, isn't it? What are you going to do? Oh, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? Well, I'll tell you what going to do. Wait, I thought you were going to tell me what you were going...

Okay.

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: sci-fi

see sci-fi set in space post here

Firebreak - dystopian, aroace MC

The Meister of Decimen City - superhero, bi ace MC

Cradle and Grave - postapoc/horror, aroace MC

Werecockroach - alien 'invasion' novella, aroace MC

The Art of Saving The World - multiverse, YA, questioning ace lesbian MC

The Butterfly Assassin - YA scifi-adjacent thriller, aroace MC, aro/aroace SCs

Bang Bang Bohdisattva - cyberpunk, 1/2 ace MCs

Blasted Research - alien planet, ace MC

Power To Yield - alien planet, 2 aroace MCs

Sal & Gabi Break The Universe - multiverse, MG, aro (ace coded) MC

Green Rising - climate fiction, aroace major character

Màgòdiz - postapoc scififantasy, 1/6 aroace MCs

Gods, Monsters, & the Lucky Peach - clifi/time travel, ace SC

Quicksilver - YA, ace MC

Hamlet, Prince of Robots - robot hamlet retelling, ace MC, aroace SC

Blood Like Magic - YA scififantasy, demiromantic SC

Sidekick Squad (Not Your Backup) - YA superhero, aroacespec MC

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

info included here is brief! please see my database for full details of the books

[thechibi]

Anybody else just think of Control and Firebreak when these Progressive commercials come on or just me??

[layaart]

shop update!

open now (and for the next couple months, other than convention weekends). I have a few new things:

dragonfall character art prints

murderbot mini prints, ART sticker & aroace stickers

archivist wasp/firebreak 06 & 22 stickers/prints

[redactedshapes]

got one irl friend to play Firebreak, I went with Splash Kit and during Hot Fix he quickly learned I can put out fires. He starts yelling "FIREFIGHTER" at me when he catches fire, and I am resisting the urge to tell him "Just ask me to get you wet".

During Ground Control I did teach him the best way to avoid radiation build up from pearls is to shower with the leech's white liquid.

I'm about to drag a second irl friend and I won't be able to keep it together anymore lmao

[autumn0689]

TWO AANOUNCEMENTS!!!!! TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!!! Firebreak and the Lakehouse DLC!!!!!

[hashtagcaneven]

FBC Firebreak: A Summary from my first evening playing with friends:

“I’m on fire?”

“Have you tried not being on fire?”

“I don’t know how to do that.”

[anhilliator1]

I like how one of the things players want is an overpowered item that is literally just "Call in the Director."

[machinel1ke]

We all know that when the Hunger Games series first came out, it was a smash hit and spawned dozens of copycats, many of which (Divergent, the Maze Runner, the Selection, etc.) simply appropriated the aesthetic and didn't engage with the themes. In honor of Sunrise on the Reaping, I'd like to share some lesser-known book recs that honor the spirit of the Hunger Games, although they don't necessarily have similar plots.

• Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace. This is one of my favorite books, and it's criminally underrated. It follows a young woman in the twenty-second century trying to stay alive in a city ravaged by a corporate civil war who accidentally becomes drawn into investigated a conspiracy. It engages with themes like the entertainment-industrial complex and parasociality, as well as corporate control and war for profit.

•We Set The Dark On Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia. In this Latinx-influenced dystopian fantasy, a young woman, secretly an undocumented immigrant, is forced to marry a powerful man and becomes a spy for the resistance. It explores themes of wealth inequality, immigration rights, authoritarianism, and peaceful vs. violent revolution.

•Metaltown by Kristen Simmons. A dystopian with steampunk flavoring which tells the story of a labor rights movement through the eyes of three teenage narrators; two factory workers and a wealthy heiress. This one discusses the capitalist mode of production, worker's rights, war profiteering and foreign policy, and class warfare.

•Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters by Emily Roberson. A retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur with a reality TV twist. It deals with entertainment and celebrity culture, the exploitation of children (especially girls) in media, and the commodification of women in the entertainment industry.

•Solis by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher. This is a near-future dystopian and a companion to Sanctuary by the same authors, although it can be read separately. It follows four young women, three prisoners in a labor camp trying to survive and one a member of a resistance group trying to free them. It talks about propaganda, the scapegoating of vulnerable groups, the prison-industrial complex, and the slippery slope into authoritarianism.

•Fable For the End of the World by Ava Reid. I haven't read this one yet, but I've heard good things. It follows two young women in a livestreamed assassination spectacle, one the hunter and one the hunted. Some key themes are poverty and debt cycles, for-profit healthcare, and of course, the romanticization of violence in media.

[flyboytracy]

[lostinthewoodsomewhere]

(Fire) Break Time (909 words) by Lost_in_the_Woods_Somewhere Chapters: 1/? Fandom: FBC: Firebreak (Video Game), Control (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jerry Standish & Hank Flowers, Hank Flowers & Jesse Faden Characters: Hank Flowers (FBC: Firebreak), Jerry Standish (FBC: Firebreak), Jesse Faden Additional Tags: other character mentioned but not seen, established/implied Jesse x Emily, Minor Injury Detail, more characters/ ships to be added as this develops, These three will be the most prominent though, FBC: Firebreak spoilers, life at the FBC Summary: A collection of one-shots from inside the Firebreak office, all about life and lockdown at the FBC…

Got some Firebreak thoughts, so starting a little one-shot collection!!!

[mel-mcz]

MY BROTHER WAS SELECTED TO BE A BETA TESTER FOR FBC FIREBREAK! 😆

[annachibi]

Come get your anomalously self-propelled giant office chairs at the FBC!

[layaart]

like Carrion Boy and Ember Girl, endlessly drawn together, endlessly colliding, two against the world.

foster & the ghost from archivist wasp / firebreak