#australium

[pinkappledanish]

"I will be right here. Watching them fight until they die."

Because it took me so long to make, and it works for her too, i made an administrator version of the GLaDOS drawing as well! helen you diva

valve only makes banger games tbh

original Image:

[kaminassss]

Guys...Grey Mann was a very weak baby, it wouldn't be strange if he used Australium to stay healthy from an early age.

I say this because I see that many do not understand why being so young he uses Australium.

[europium-catto]

help, americium got drunk because I took him to my favorite restaurant Outback Steakhouse and he tried the Croc-tail drink because he saw it and it was pretty to him. I just wanted a normal meal with someone >:

From AustraliumAKAelement129

That's why you don't take Americium to Outback. I'm not sure what restaurant chain they'd like the most actually... I reckon Americium likes Arby's. Anyways, if you expected something normal with Americium, you thought wrong, unfortunately. I suppose now you know for next time, though... if there is a next time. Also, Australium? Huh, I didn't know that Team Fortress 2 was real. And even despite all that, that country still lost a war against birds... to be fair, Emus are really terrifying. I can't imagine being chased by one in a vehicle, let alone as a lone catto... even if I am nearly twice as tall as a lot of others.

[baunenam]

As per my previous post, here it is!

Aphantasia

The Dead Dove: Do Not Eat variant of the Papa Cmedic AU exclusively in AO3!

Yes, it's even more graphic, which is why it'll be best to leave it as text instead of drawings.

However, there's a chance that there's ppl like me who like seeing visuals for a specific fanfic, so here it is! (maskless under cut)

[jevilowo]

It's me the timeline guy. Here are my many lore related grievances with the comic:

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT tho most people have probably read it by now lol

FIRST OF ALL, the Administrator's plan. What happened to "plan so disturbing that several US senators pardoned her for the Poopy Joe incident?" What even was her plan actually was it just to keep the fighting going forever? Then what was the point of Australiummaxxing after Redmond and Blutarch died?

What's up with Zepheniah’s hooked up corpse. Isn't his ghost still around? He certainly is by the seventh scream fortress comic, which takes place during MvM. His will says he won't rest until he's done being mad at the world idk how that relates to anything.

OH HORSEMANN MY HORSEMANN. Why is Zepheniah claiming to be an only child? And it's not a retcon bc later on Soldier pulls up the family photo WITH SILAS IN IT. Where did he even get that. Anyways. The only explanation is either 1) some in-universe attempt by Zepheniah to write Silas out of history (implied by the two copies of the quarterly concern, one seen in a hidden page in the classless update and the other in the background of the Engineer update), or 2) ...i was going to say Silas was actually his cousin or something but that wouldn't make sense if the siblings of Zepheniah’s dad all died young. Urgh. I hoped the Horsemann would return and put to rest the implications dragged up by scream fortress two but alas twas not to be.

What's with the 3 different covers of a young Administrator? My theory is they're supposed to represent three possible backstories the writers were cooking and wouldn't commit to. Who knows.

CHARLES DARLING. The triplets' birth certificate claimed that their mother was a Darling (save me Bette Mann etc etc), and that had me convinced Charles was going to be at least RELEVANT. Why else would he, a joke antagonist introduced in the War! Comic, show up at all? Looking for Australium, no less? I tell you that flashback of him and Maxton had me CONVINCED something would happen. Especially with the two of them lowkey treating him like shit.

So so so much Admin stuff left unexplained. Seeing her child self in the Australium. The census dated back to 1850 with "HELEN" on it. Telling Engie "your family has already done so much for me". By that she could have just meanth Radigan making an immortality machine for Redmond as well as Blutarch I guess, but ??? I liked the Emily reference tho that was something one of the artists reffered to her as for the Engie Update Comic by mistake and later took back so neat callback lmao.

SPEAKING OF RADIGAN. Nothing on who the third Australium machine went to. Presumably Admin I guess? Not explained, never will be probably.

Who was the person in the torn Mann Family portrait? My main theory was always either an earlier version/design of Grey or a Darling, but in the picture Soldier shows (SERIOUSLY WHERE DID HE GET THAT) we can't even see the outline of a person around his thumb. It almost looks like they just made a version of the picture without anyone in the middle and called it a day.

TFI having other mercenary groups came out of fucking nowhere, even in comic six. The T and F presumably stand for "Team Fortress", fuck you mean "Team Citadel", "Team Vanguard", giant fucking statue of random epic looking mercs??? What is happening. They did NOT explain that shit at all. Multiple, seemingly incredibly competent teams are NOT "eighteen perfect idiots". Did Poopy Joe die for nothing.

One of the top posts I've ever made is the one where I point out the date Spy and Scout got arrested on that newspaper: September 7th, 1972. This means the rest of the comics should take place 5½ months later i.e. February/March 1973. Ergo, 1979 could not be "seven years later". The comics seem to think themselves that they're set in 1972 already, there's a few lines about it but for the life of me I can't remember. Something something however many years since Zepheniah died blah blah year the triplets were born. Whatever. It's on my timeline probably.

Smaller thing, but embarrassing lack of a full name reveal for Heavy (I originally said And Medic here but. Herbert Ludwig was revealed). Spy also, but I wasn't really expecting that. Heavy shall remain Mikhail "Mischa" Weponzgy in my heart.

SO IN CONCLUSION: the writers went in with no clue how to end the story, something made evident by the possibility of the 4chan leaks being an early script and also entirely fucking different.

Still, there were a lot of lore unrelated things I did enjoy: the fact that the mercs actually got a happy ending, for one thing. Sniper stealing a plane, Scout maturing and moving on from Pauling, Pyro literally just being overjoyed to see Engie again, babies!!! The fact we even got a comic! How crazy is that? At least we didn't have to wait another seven years.

I might draft a script for an alternate ending that tries to answer lore stuff more, but knowing me I wouldn't finish it. Still, I am working on making a website for my timeline and I'll upload the link here once I'm done with it. Oh and I'll update the doc version soon. Bitterly.

[cage-cat-yt]

TF2 comic #7 spoilers, if you haven't read, skip this post :3

Personally I'm gonna interpret the stuff with the Australium and Administrator to be like. An allegory for addiction.

Like she needed it and it became a vicious cycle of getting it and using it, getting it using it etc etc. even at the cost of everything and at first there was a reason, and then that meaning is lost overtime to just get the Australium and be a hater

(this part was my girlfriend's interpretation) And when she dies that could be a metaphor for either her not taking an ultimatum (Red team gathering around her felt very intervention like) or overdosing

[dizzyahellfire]

I posted a new fanfiction on AO3 and wanted to share. Its a crossover fic with Free Willy the animated series and Team Fortress 2. My partner and I decided we wanted to be ridiculous and write this. There are 3 chapters up, I plan to add a few more. ENJOY!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65648116/chapters/169038634

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65648116/chapters/169038634

[oli-draw]

Remember in the comic (Namely "naked and happy") there the administrator spent the last Australium.

I had to redraw it as a meme + an excerpt from a comic book

(sorry that it's in Russian)