#fuchs the thing

[stuckinaratcage]

why is Fuchs doing that pose

I can't tell if he's just sitting and leaning over the table, or he's bent over the table

[phocusnik]

'The Thing' 1982 × Littlest Pet Shop

[life-of-a-rat]

thing sketch dump

[idontcarecarebear]

I finally watched The Thing (1982) and people assuming that Child is The Thing because he might have drank gasoline is crazy. Okay lets all be so fucking for real. If I had just witnessed everything he had I would be sucking gasoline out of the planes engine with a straw and a little umbrella. My coworker/friend offers me a drink that tastes like gasoline, I'm still chugging it down.

All of my friends are dead and have been turned into grotesque creatures that I had to burn to death, you bet I'm drinking gasoline for fun.

[us-outpost-31]

U.S. OUTPOST #31

“U.S. number thirty-one calling McMurdo, come in, over…”

———

“Testing, testing, 123— Oh it’s recording now, hold on…” *shuffling in background*

“Hello, this is Windows, Radio Operator stationed at U.S. Outpost 31. We have been told that, this is a new type of communication that allows us to talk with people easily, and—” *Windows is cut off as a door opens in the background.*

“What is it?” “Is it up and running?” “Yes, yes it is Garry, now let me do my shit so I can get this over with.” *after a moment of silence, the door closes again.*

“Anyways, that’s basically about it. If anyone has any questions or want to reach us, you know where to go.” *Windows sighs, there is more shuffling before the radio clicks off.*

———

PERSONNEL

M.T. Garry - Station Manager

R.J. “Mac” MacReady - Chopper Pilot

Dr. Copper - Physicist

Windows - Radio Operator

Blair - Microbiologist

Fuchs - Assistant Biologist

George Bennings - Meteorologist

Norris - Geophysicist

Childs - Mechanic

Palmer - Assistant Mechanic

Clark - Dog Handler

Nauls - Cook

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Things/Rules Before You Interact! (PLEASE READ!)

Preferably nothing overly inappropriate! (Don’t send explicit texts/media!)

Implying ships between the characters are fine, just don’t expect them to react flustered about it! (They would probably be angry)

Silly and whimsical asks are fine and encouraged! (You wanna turn Blair into a cat just because? Great!)

You CAN ask for specific people! Just ask something like: “Question for Fuchs, blah blah blah…” and Fuchs will answer!

If you want to roleplay, just send in the asks: Who your character/OC is, who you want to roleplay with (maximum of three characters), the setting, and the mood of it!

i.e. “My character is [blah blah blah], I would like to RP with MacReady and Windows, the setting is in the radio room, and it is in a tense mood.”

Note: This takes place BEFORE the events of The Thing!

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Out of Character stuff

((Please know that mod will try xyr best to make the responses as canon as possible while also making them a little fun!

((I don’t really have anything else to say besides, have fun with this, so yeah!

Mod account: @stuckinaratcage

[mulleinnism]

If I had a nickel for every time my favorite character is burned alive, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times..

[tightrope-q]

Sorry Jojo moots, new obsession is IN!

The Thing, (1982) The Thing (2002 video game)

[low-keygee]

are we listening to gay hcs about the thing? because i have only one ship in that movie and i want it to be heard. (summary/tldr at the end)

this is kind of like the debate between frodo and sam where a true platonic friendship is shown between men and they both have this deep sense of trust and platonic love for each other and you almost don’t want to touch it because of how well it was done. but also they should have kissed.

i think that the relationship between macready and fuchs was like that. before mac was ever the head of the outpost fuchs pulled him aside to discuss with only him blair’s findings on the dog and splitface. he had known the danger they posed to him and his fellow men, that the thing singles out each victim and will only reveal itself when alone, and that both confirmed things were still alive.

fuchs is a very smart man and distances himself from any others who may be infected, but places his trust in macready. this could be for the same reason that he is elected the leader toward the mid point of the film, just that they trust his judgment and cool demeanor as a vet, but that doesn’t excuse fuchs literally going out into the snowcat alone with macready where he’s at his most vulnerable. you wouldn’t just bet your life on something like that if you didn’t know for absolute certain he was human.

i think its most likely that the two have a history together, in the platonic sense at the very least, and fuchs knows and trusts macready the most. which is where i fall into the pit of gayness.

fuchs may not trust macready at all.

fuchs may launch himself into these one on ones with mac because he would rather confide in an old friend rather than someone else who may well be a thing, but also because he would rather die at the hands of macready/thing than live in uncertainty that his one confidant could be working against him. this works in tandem with what theories have sprung up about his death.

after fuchs and macready have their chat on blair’s notes a second time in fuchs’ study, he goes out to investigate a silhouette. from there to his point of death there’s no evidence of the circumstances of his death other than his charred remains.

i don’t doubt a thing could maneuver a flare but also who has been using the firepower the whole movie? the outpost. then nauls (i believe is who makes the suggestion) and mac both theorize that fuchs was the one with the flare, with different outcomes (“maybe he tried to burn it” “maybe he burned himself before it could get to him”).

now this part is gonna get funky because i’ve heard this theory before but it doesn’t add up just right.

the prominent theory for fuchs’ death is that he found macready’s torn up clothes (establishing that he is probably a thing) and then burned himself alive. fuchs was found right outside the outpost. the jacket was stuffed into the furnace in macready’s shack. odd. until you add the narrative.

macready’s jacket was found with burn marks. (its implied) no one has been in macready’s shack for several days. no one has used the furnace in several days. fuchs found macready’s jacket after stumbling outside, wherever the thing may have planted it. after finding out that his closest friend on the base, the one who the entire outpost trusted to lead them and who he trusted with the knowledge on how to prevent assimilations, was one of them, he couldn’t handle it. he didn’t want to live with his mistakes in a world of paranoia and uncertainty, and wanted to die a man. he set himself on fire with the coat still in hand, but quickly tossed it away so it could be found by someone else to serve justice to the thing that killed macready, thus the burns on the coat.

(summary tidbit)

YOU SEE HOW THAT SOUNDS??? fuchs only ever entrusted macready with new information that could then be passed down to the rest of the outpost, spent at least two scenes in a place alone with him, then burned himself alive when he found out mac was (maybe) a thing. and i didn’t even have to TOUCH the way that the movie is a metaphor for the AIDS crisis to prove how gay they were.

i need to write a fic from a gay fuchs perspective because i have a lot more subtleties i want to add to his character and i think that would go hard. make ME go hard if you know what i’m sayin

tl;dr- macready x fuchs was real y’all are just focused on the big twizzler monster too much to notice

[zima74824]

Here what i think happened to Blair when Fuchs realized he was the thing he tried to burn the thing but he did it before it could get to him with a flare

So then the thing found where Blair was which was the tool shed and there was no way Blair did it himself because it’s bolted shut from the other side I think meaning the thing broke in the shed

[aklitayl]

So today @phocusnik had an idea of MacReady x Fuchs x Windows x Clark so everyone would be happy :3

And I thought of making this.

[stuckinaratcage]

I remember showing my partner this photo and it went:

Partner: Do they know it’s legal yet?💔

Me: The movie takes place in 1982

Partner: NOOOOOO

[phocusnik]

LPS × The Thing close-ups!!

[life-of-a-rat]

more animatic sillies

[goobysnack]

Little art for The Thing’s birthday

[halflifebutawesome]

movie night

[resident-dumb-fuck]

WOKE the thing:

MASCReady

BEAR

NO BALLS

Palmer

Childs TRANSITION

FUCK COPSper

NONBINARYrris

BTHEY THEMings

ClAROMANTIC

FUCKS

GAYrry

WOMANdows