#“he's been in a freak accident”

[fyodior]

thinking abt how only dazai could kill fyodor and is the only one who can undeniably evade fyodor’s ability ……..

[catstar91]

“Average portal to hell requires human sacrifice” actually statistical error. Fenton Works, who’s killed 2 people in portal related accidents and the only ones to make an artificial portal to hell,

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

HIII I KNOW. A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ANNIHILATION. PERIPHERALLY. ive seen like part of it but i do NOT remember much. except that its one of the prettiest movies ive ever seen. that being said im so eyes emoji abt ur au..... r there any specific scenes frm the movie ur thinking about?? how would the character dynamics differ from either canon?? etc etc etc!!!

GOD I FUCKING LOOOOOVE ANNIHILATION. ONE OF MY TOP 5 FAVORITE MOVIES OF ALL TIME EVER. yes yes yes yes yes OK. so this is. all encompassing crossover jrwi au which means I'm pulling characters from different campaigns. which. usually im not a huge fan of but i think i pulled it off rlly well in a limited sense here bc i have very specific reasoning behind why i put each character where. u will know at least two of them and they WILL cause you psychic damage so trust me when i say the other ones will too. putting this under a cut bc im gonna ramble

BASICALLYYYYY it's gonna follow the plot of the movie pretty closely just with slightly altered character dynamics + each of their reasons for going into the shimmer. so each person on the Current Team has lost someone on a previous expedition, and basically all of them are trying to find answers for what happened to their loved ones.

im gonna talk mainly about the ones you know because youll understand where I'm coming from the best with them but just know I am OBSESSED w the roles I have put gillion and chip in here. god I miss riptide every day .

DAKOTA COLE AS ANYA. Anya is the retired paramedic !! she's the one that. hold everything. gets killed by the fucked up bear. smile. that was just a fun little coincidence for me . ORIGINALLY I was dead set on having the pd representative be william bc im biased and I love him but after rewatching the movie I just think dakota fits in anyas place so perfectly. she's the most outgoing of the group, she's the one that initially invites Lena to join their team (also side note there is a pre-existing dynamic between dakota and chip because they've had MULTIPLE interactions in various what if crossover episodes and their dynamic is one of my favorite things ever). she's also the most aggressive. she's the first one to snap into action mode after finding the body in the pool, she's the one to take josie away from it and has a very protective stance over josie for the rest of the time after that (this is going to be relevant i am gonna talk about josie next) . once the group starts arguing about whether they want to continue further into the shimmer, anya shifts into a VERY black and white mentality, pinning ventress as The Bad Guy immediately for wanting to continue. and then when Lena shows some hesitancy over what she wants to do, anya snaps into a "youre either with me or against me" mindset. she also has this growing sense of paranoia ever since they find the tape of what appears to be the previous crew killing each other, and after she learns Lena is lying to them about her connection with Kane she goes way overboard with tying them to chairs and threatening to kill them. while i don't think dakota would necessarily go that far I DID say this to jonesy when we were rewatching the movie together so. bfu connecting two dots meme

anyway i think dakota is in the shimmer looking for william AND vyncent. parallels to the "dakota leaves for 10 months without telling them" which is why the three of them would be separated in the first place. william somehow finds out about the southern reach and his draw toward a mystery is what causes him to join the first expedition. vyncent goes with him because he can sense it's dangerous (and basically a suicide mission) and doesn't want william to go alone. I have. ideas. for what happens to them in the shimmer but they are vague at best right now and even then. dakota never finds out what happens to them before he's killed by the bear. the bear uses their voices to draw him out btw. smile. he dies protecting thr rest of the group even immediately after his paranoid breakdown.

OK THAT GOT LONG. OOPS. ONTO THE SECOND ONE

SHILO AS JOSIE. ohhhhh josie radek one of my favorite characters in media of all time. God I love her so much. anyway she's the only one of the current expedition with no previous combat training, so she's often seen by the rest of them as someone who needs to be protected. if I'm remembering correctly she's also the youngest. (in this. au. dakota would be older than shilo. feels better in my mind. none of them would be Kids they'd all be adults at this point but I'd put shilo in early 20s and dakota maybe in mid 20s. so . still young.) shilo is in the shimmer looking for his twin brother who went missing. somehow he was able to track down the southern reach and find out emizel was part of a previous expedition, and desperately wants to get him back. he's the one with the LEAST amount of knowledge going into the shimmer. he doesn't realize it's a suicide mission. he just wants his brother back. anyway when they get to the first outpost they find the remnants of the first team's base of operations, with names on a guard patrol rotation and leftover weapons and. a video camera. with a tape in a plastic bag labeled "for those who follow". josie is the one holding the camera when they watch it. the tape shows members of the previous party in the abandoned pool, one guy tied to a chair while the others cut open his abdomen to show his intestines moving around like snakes or worms. in the movie, the guy who cuts him open is Kane, Lena's husband. the rest of the party doesn't know her connection to kane, and she knows now if she tells them they won't trust her (and is proven correct by this when anya eventually finds out her connection) ANYWAY I'm going off track. sorry this is my favorite scene in the whole movie I get distracted. ANYWAY so when they see this, josie is the most immediately horrified by it because she's the only one who hasn't seen anything as gruesome as that before. for shilo. well. he gets to see the one being cut open is emizel. and then later when they get to the pool and find the body still there (again. josie is the one to find this. she's also the one who reaches down into the old dirty water and accidentally picks up the knife. which was still left in the same place they saw it be dropped in the tape) corpse plastered to the wall by all kinds of multicolored fungus and lichen, I think shilo doesn't immediately break down, he doesn't really. process it right away. I mean it's completely unrecognizable. it's not until he accidentally picks up the knife that it all clicks into place in his mind and he realizes "that thing right there used to be my fucking brother" and completely shuts down. runs out of the complex, dakota has to chase him down because they all know its dangerous to go anywhere alone, etc. after this he loses any sense of purpose, the only reason he came into the shimmer in the first place was to get emizel back and now seeing what happened I think he just gets. hopeless. which is the beginning of the end for him . i haven't decided if his exact death is the same as josies but i want it to be peaceful in the same sort of way. "imagine dying frightened and in pain and having that be the only part of you which survives... i wouldnt like that at all" "ventress wants to face it.. you want to fight it... im not sure i want either of those things...." josie radek i am in love with you. anyway. annihilation pool scene for you because I love this image more than anything

[uhhhhmanda]

Almost done with Doctor John. Trying to sleep last night and my brain is like HEY HEYHEY HEY EHEY ARE YOU COMFY? What if Gaon got hurt again and Yohan's personal physician is retired or busy or something so he calls his friend Dr. Cha. Imagine poor Gaon waking up to a guy who looks just like his Yohan and is even NAMED Yohan but definitely isn't his Yohan and DOES have his hands all over him. Isaac's doppleganger being tended to by Yohan's doppleganger while Gaon and and Yohan have complicated (and horny) feelings about it.

[berryblu-soda]

Anyways update i just didnt bother to post earlier:

fr God is good and the whole car crash my parents got into last week was so incredibly mild in terms of injuries!!!! worst was a bruised knee im pretty sure

ALSO-

*taps mic* HUG YOUR FREAKING LOVED ONES OR SO HELP ME!!!!!!!

[romance-incubomp3]

aghhhh:(

[graincracket]

oops my hand slipped again

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinking about nora again

[guinevereslancelot]

why do i feel weirdly guilty for taking a day off of work to have necessary surgery 🤡

[the-lonelybarricade]

would absolutely love to read more about grim reaper rhys and his shenanigans

I can just imagine on halloween, him playing pranks and calling them “trickerhys”. And feyre’s like I can’t believe I didn’t choose to marry you >:(

Rhys is a menace and he is just BARELY controlled by how much he loves his wife. He LOVES Halloween because he gets such a kick out of all the Grim Reaper stuff. He asks Feyre what it's like to be married to a celebrity and makes jokes about the skeletons in robes not being handsome enough. She's so fed up with it.

"I wish the mortals didn't think my sense of fashion was so... macabre."

"Rhys, every piece of clothing you own is black."

None of their friends can quite seem to remember how Rhys and Feyre met. They all think they got plastered for the wedding and can't remember. Anytime one of their friends asks Rhys what he does for a living he gets all serious and says, "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you."

[florida3exclamationpoints]

FAM someone got my dad into a car accident today (no one's hurt) but it wasn't even this dude's car he worked at a MAITAINENCE PLACE AND WAS TESTING A CUSTOMER'S CAR AND CAUSED AN ACCIDENT IN IT???? Peace and love to the poor guy who was just trying to get his OIL CHANGED OR SMTH

[anddreadful]

i’ve talked before about how asterclay are brat4brat but it really is incredible how clay clearly wants/ needs external direction, but as soon as someone tells him what to do he’s like “well i’m not fucking doing that” and goes and does something extremely stupid instead

[hobbinch]

There's a shitpost going around rn involving warning someone about a crevasse and good lord I'm not gonna make this op's business in the tags but every time i see it it hits Oddly just because it's JUST similar enough to how a childhood friend recently died.

[koishua]

okay they'd said that they'd be back early tonight what is this it's past midnight where are my family

[imitation-steamroller]

Snow Problem

Ao3 link

“The nerve of that engine,” Nia muttered as she chuffed towards the mountain. “Who does he think he is leaving me behind like that? You’d almost think that I hadn’t been helping him his entire journey! He’d still be stuck in the rainforest without me, or still stuck on that hill back home.”

It had been several days since Thomas and Ace had left Nia behind in Arizona, and the orange engine was still cross.

“I can deal with tank engines with bad attitudes,” she continued. “I can deal with rude little race cars insulting me. But to abandon me like that on top of everything? It just isn’t proper, is it?”

“It’s alright,” her driver soothed. “We didn’t need them anyway. Let’s get you up to that mountain. You always wanted to see snow up close, didn’t you?”

That made Nia feel a little better. With a cheery toot toot! Nia chuffed quickly to the mountain.

But she couldn’t have known that she was headed for trouble…

Winter had come to the Island of Sodor, and it brought heavy snow clouds along with it. Before the engines knew it, the railway was covered in thick blankets of snow.

“Would you look at that?” Emily marveled when the engines awoke. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen this much snow.”

“I have,” Percy said, grinning. “Remember? When Ulfstead Village was snowed under and I had to save the day?”

“I helped, too!” Thomas huffed. “And anyway, Nia and I have seen far more snow! Remember, Nia? When we were in China and there was that avalanche?”

Nia shivered at the thought, but she put on a brave face for Thomas. “I remember. You tried to pull me back onto the rails, but Yong Bao had to come and save us both.”

Then, the Fat Controller arrived.

“The line up to Ulfstead Castle is snowed under,” he said gravely. “Nia, I need you to clear a path and take a train of coal trucks to the castle.”

“Yes, sir,” she said.

Once the Fat Controller had left, Henry saw that Nia looked nervous.

“Are you okay?” He asked. “You don’t look so well. I can take your train if you’d like.”

“It’s fine,” Nia said quickly. “It’s like Thomas said; I’ve dealt with worse.”

And before Henry could say any more, Nia puffed away to collect her trucks.

…

Nia collected her plow and trucks without issue, but as she ventured out onto the mainline, it began snowing again.

“Just what we needed,” she muttered. “Hopefully, we can get to Ulfstead before it gets any worse.”

Presently, they arrived at Gordon’s Hill. Nia couldn’t see the rails leading to the top, and the bottom was surrounded by deep drifts. With the clouds swirling above her, Nia was reminded of her trip to the Himalayas.

“Would you look at that!” Nia cried as she came to a stop. A large snow drift sat at the bottom of the mountain.

Nia’s driver inspected the drift, then she glanced at the dark clouds forming around the mountain.

“We’re not getting through that,” she sighed. “We’ll just have to come back another day, Nia.”

“Oh, can we please try and climb it? We have come this far already!”

The driver couldn’t say no to the hopeful look on her engine’s face.

“If we are quick about it. I don’t want to be caught up in a snowstorm.”

Nia cheered as she began working her way through the drifts. She was going to make it to the top or burst!”

“We should have expected this,” Nia’s driver sighed, shaking the engine out of her thoughts. “We should wait for the twins to come clear it.”

“I can get us through it,” Nia chuffed. “By the time Donald and Douglas get here, the rest of the mainline will be buried. Please, let me try!”

The driver sighed, but agreed to let Nia try. With a determined toot of her whistle, Nia began charging at the snow.

The cold wind blew across her face as she charged up the mountain.

Nia slipped on a patch of ice and lurched back.

“Steady!” Called the driver.

Nia laughed as she slid partway down.

A pit was beginning to form in her firebox.

Snow began to fall as she turned round a bend. She could hear her driver muttering about turning back, but the orange engine was too excited to listen.

Nia focused on nothing but the task ahead as she climbed the hill. The snow was packed together and hard to move, but Nia struggled on.

Finally, after what seemed like ages, Nia made it to the top.

“It should all be easy from here,” she said to herself.

…

Nia was quiet as she made her way to Ulfstead Castle. She didn’t sing, she didn’t joke to her crew, she didn’t even whistle at passing engines. She shivered as she cleared the tracks and tried ignoring the cold.

Eventually, she arrived at the bottom of the hill and groaned.

“Right,” she groaned. “I had almost forgotten.”

“Hello, Nia,” Edward greeted from the other line. “Thank goodness you’re here. I need to get Jack here up the castle, but the snow is too heavy for me to get through. Could you help me?”

Nia glanced down at Edward’s buffers. “Where is your snowplow?”

“With BoCo. Bill and Ben thought it would be fun to try clearing rocks with his and broke it.”

“That sounds like the twins alright. And sure, I can clear a path for you. Just follow me!”

Edward and Jack left to find a junction, while Nia reversed to get a running start.

Toot toot tooooot! “Here we go!”

Nia charged at the hill at a great speed. Snow flew everywhere as she began making her way up.

“Go it, Nia!” Jack shouted as Edward followed behind.

Twin puffing echoed around the mountainside as Edward let out an encouraging peep peep!

Suddenly, Nia skidded to a stop.

Nia thought she heard the faint sound of an engine puffing behind her.

“It must be my echo,” she said to herself.

Peep peeeep! “Nia!”

Her name echoed across the mountainside. Nia looked back to see a cloud of steam below her, but she couldn’t see the engine making it.

“Nia!” The voice called, followed by a loud peep peep-ing. “It’s me!”

Nia looked back again and scowled. There was Thomas, puffing after her and whistling loudly.

“I’m sorry!” The blue engine cried as he whistled again. “It wasn’t my idea to play a trick on you! Honest! It was Ace’s idea!”

Nia grew crosser still. “And that makes it alright, does it?” She shouted back.

“No, because I went along with it! Please, I’m so sorry!”

She was just beginning to wonder if he was sincere when it happened. The mountain rumbled loudly. Nia looked up to see an enormous pile of snow headed straight for her. Nia began to reverse as quickly as she could.

“No, Nia! The tunnel! You’ll be safe in there.”

Quickly, Nia changed directions, but her wheels slipped and spun helplessly on the icy rails. Nia shut her eyes and braced herself as the crushing weight of the snow pushed against her…

“No, please,” Nia whimpered. “Not again…I can’t go through that again.”

The driver knew Nia could go no further. She gave a short blast of Nia’s whistle and gently began reversing her down the hill.

As Nia’s crew placed warning flags and detonators behind her, Edward pulled up alongside. Tears were streaming down Nia’s face and she was shaking violently.

“Nia?” He said gently. When she didn’t respond, Edward was just a bit louder. “Nia!”

Nia opened her eyes and looked around. “How did I…? I was just-”

“On the mountain?” Edward guessed.

“…Yes,” Nia replied quietly.

“Thomas has told me a lot about his and your adventures, but I think it’s time I heard about what happened in China from your perspective. If you’re up for it, that is.”

Nia was tempted to say no and leave it at that, but she knew Edward only wanted to help. So Nia took a deep breath and told him all about the Himalayas. About how hurt she was that Thomas left her behind. About how the snow had forced Nia over the side of the mountain. And about how Thomas’ rescue attempt only made things worse.

Once she was finished, Edward was silent.

Then… “I’m sorry that happened to you. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in such a perilous situation. And I doubt Thomas constantly talking about it made you feel any better.”

“No, it didn’t.”

“You know,” Edward said after a moment. “I was caught up in an avalanche once.”

“You were? What happened?”

“It was my first year on the island, and I was helping replace the rails in Misty Valley, but my steam and the vibrations caused a massive avalanche. My crew and the workers managed to get out, but I was trapped.

“I thought they would get me out the next day, but they couldn’t. It had started snowing heavily, and it was impossible to dig me out. So there I stayed until the weather cleared up.”

“How long was it?” Nia asked quietly.

“I asked the Fat Director when they dug me out. I was under all that snow for two and a half weeks. I was afraid of snow and had flashbacks to the incident whenever I went through the valley.”

“So what did you do?”

“Well, whenever the snow got too heavy, my crew or Henry would always talk to me to keep my mind off of it. It worked wonders whenever I needed to pass through the valley. It still helps too, even today.”

Nia was quiet for a moment. “Do you think it would help me?”

“Maybe. We’ll never know if we don’t try. But if you don’t want to, you can stay at Wellsworth while I take your train.”

She looked at the long line of trucks behind her.

“I’ve come this far,” she said. “I can’t stop now.”

“If you’re sure. I’ll couple Jack up to your trucks and push from behind.”

“Thank you, Edward. And…can you please not mention this to the others? I don’t think I’m ready to talk to them about it yet.”

“Your secret is safe with me, Nia. And Jack won’t say anything either, will he?”

Jack grinned. “I won’t tell a soul, Nia. That’s a Pack Promise!”

Soon, the two engines were puffing slowly up the hill.

“You know,” Edward called from behind, “I don’t think I’ve told you about the time I pushed Gordon and Duck up Gordon’s Hill.”

Nia heard his voice echo and took a deep breath.

“Did you really?” She asked back.

“Yes. You see, it all started when Gordon said I should be retired…”

…

“…and then Spencer went down the wrong line!”

Nia laughed as she imagined the look on Spencer’s face when he realized he had lost the race. The two engines pulled into the platform outside of the castle.

“Thank you so much, Edward,” Nia puffed. “I don’t think I could have done this without you.”

“It’s alright,” he replied as he shunted Jack’s low-loader into place. “You would have done the same for me. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to get out of this cold.”

“So am I,” Nia agreed happily.

Nia is still afraid of snow and often thinks back to her accident. But she knows that whenever she’s feeling overwhelmed or afraid, she can always look to her crew or Edward for help.

[clarissaexplainingitall]

my entire torso is physically sore from yesterday which. been a while since my body decided to rebel this badly. let me struggle with things in peace you little shit. like I’m not the one who got hit by a car this time so there’s no need for this