Call me Pyre! They/Them; Australian; AuDHD. Enjoys sickfics and medical whump (probably) too much; a little obsessed with magic systems. I write sometimes. I’m on tumblr only on occasions I recall it exists nowadays. Thunderbirds (old & new), Legend of Zelda & Linked Universe. Safe space. Ramble at me about anything. ~ Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. ~ Ao3: darkflames_pyre
(Updated as of 17/08/21: Dead links have been repaired and minor edits made to layout)
So, I’ve been in the Thunderbirds fandom for officially a decade now, and my first fic series isn’t complete yet. Life gets in the way, as we all know, but unless I specifically have a note on any of my stories on FanFiction.net or Ao3 that say they are abandoned, I always intend to get my stories completed. At some point.
I hang out on Tumblr to vent, muse and interact, mostly about fandoms. These include Thunderbirds (all three iterations), BBC Merlin, Marvel MCU, Star Trek TOS/AOS, The Shadowhunter Chronicles and Legend of Zelda (specifically Linked Universe (by @linkeduniverse)). I do post stuff of my own, but recently it’s just been hop-on-tumblr-to-ignore-the-real-world shenanigans. *grins sheepishly*
Please feel free at any time to drop me a DM here on Tumblr, or on either of my pages at the links above. I’ll always do my best to reply. I may not be actively posting content, (especially with the last two (six) years being a f*cking sh*tshow) but I’m constantly lurking (and working on things as the muse permits). *Waves excitedly*
This is a masterpost of all my fanworks, whether they are writing, traditional art/digital renderings that I am happy with, etc. Others will be added as they’re completed.
Click here for a bit of waffle about what I’m trying to achieve with my Thunderbirds ‘Bound’ Universe.
These are my fanfic stories to date. All except one are Thunderbirds so far, and this will be updated as each new fic is added, as well as any supplementary material I create. All these links are for fanfiction.net, but I am currently in the process of uploading all of my stories to Ao3, for those who prefer that site’s format.
Happy reading, and thank you!!
THUNDERBIRDS:
The Bound Universe:
‘The Bound Series’:
Bound: Part I - Bound
Bound: Part II - Determined
Bound: Part III - Fulcrum - In Progress
‘The Bound Series’ - Promotional Pieces
The Bound Series Official Trailer
Bound Series Banners
Bound Series Aesthetic Post - John
Bound-Verse Oneshots: (In chronological order)
For Jeff and Luce (a songfic, my own lyrics, and put to original music - if you wish to hear it, you can find it here.
Red Holly and Hot Cocoa
A Little Family
Amissus Gemina
The Trip (More of a multi-chapter, but didn’t fit in the categorisation. :D)
Sunlit Days
To the Stars
Pater Et Filii
Itchy
On the Road
Down With the Weather
Something Like A Friend
Flyboy
Fire and Ice
Golden
Dangerous Boys
Phoenix (can also be read as tv-verse)
‘The Bound Series’ Trilogy (see above)
Tempered
Tremble (contains spoilers for Chapter 23 of Bound: Part II - Determined)
Breathe (contains spoilers for Chapter 31 Bound: Part II - Determined)
Bound-Verse Multi-Shots:
Threads in Time and Reminiscence
Glimpses Through the Veil (contains background spoilers for The Bound Series)
Virgil Tracy Week Prompts (Aug 2016):
Day One: Skies
Day Two: Stars
Day Three: Music
Day Four: Ocean
Day Five: Heroes
Day Six: Brothers
Day Seven: Change
Day Eight: Bonus Round - (The Hangover)
Thunderbirds Are Go:
Pride Goeth - (Contains spoilers for Thunderbirds Are Go Episodes 1: Ring of Fire (Part 2), and 4: Crosscut) - In Progress
Tidal Force - (Contains some spoilers for Thunderbirds Are Go Episode Ring of Fire Part 1 & 2 - In Progress
Addendum - Skyhook (Spoilers for Skyhook, need I say more?)
Pavlova Peril (Secret Santa 2016 ~ For Argentis, technically a stand-alone but fits within any of my fanon.)
Alea Iacta Est Arc: (Movie AU-Verse)
AIE Multi-Chapters:
Alea Iacta Est - On Hiatus
AIE Oneshots:
An Evening Photograph
**In this universe, much of the basic details are the same; post-film, circa 2059, with the events occurring including my OC Kent. More details will be revealed as the story progresses. The ages for the boys as of the beginning of that fic (on hiatus until I get it completed and start uploading again) are as follows: Scott twenty five, John twenty three, Virgil and Kent twenty one, Gordon nineteen and Alan fifteen. Tin-Tin is sixteen, and Fermat, thirteen.**These fics, unless specified as being otherwise, have absolutely no links with the Bound Universe (the name of my normal fic ‘verse), but you might see a few similarities with characterisation.
Miscellaneous: (each stand alone)
Refining the Antinomy
Nimbus
Paperclip
The Hardest Thing
Ebony and Ivory
The Binary of Five and Six
Musica Universalis
The Other Side of the Page
TOS: (each stand alone)
Health Hazard
T is for Tracy, C is for Chaos
Scarlet Burn
Balancing the Scales - In Progress (Collaborative story with LexietFive)
TAG AUs:
Of Gilded Frames and Silver Crowns - A Companion piece to Space-baegel’s Fairytale AU
Remembrance - (Contains spoilers for The Infernal Devices Trilogy by Cassandra Clare)
A note on my fandom involvement and expectations on your conduct within and regarding my stories:
I feed off of comments/reviews, so don’t be afraid to let me know what you think, either with grammar, flow, ‘isms’ (as most people are not cognizant of differences unless they are told by someone of a different English dialect) or characterisation, but I will say right here and now that I do not tolerate flaming in the slightest. Constructive criticism on how I can improve; yes, unwarranted abuse of how I have incorrectly portrayed your perception of the character/series; no. I would also very much appreciate if you were to contact me before placing any of them into any archive, or on any sites other than my own on here, fanfic.net or Archive of Our Own.
Also, Kent Slayton Tracy (younger twin to Virgil Tracy) is my OC, and no use of him in any way, shape or form may be included without my prior consent.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I did a thing a few weeks ago! My first podfic, for the amazing @lizzable's story 'Don't Lose Heart'. Go give their fic a read, its challenging matter in some spots but its awesomely written!
I have my 6-monthly psychiatry appt today. I hate that I get so fucking anxious about going to a Literal Doctor of any kind. I have no idea what I’m doing with my mental healthcare and it shows. I’m so fucking tired of feeling I’ve achieved nothing and have moved nowhere because I haven’t. I have no fucking motivation for anything and I’m tired of feeling like shit mentally. I can’t break out of it and it sucks. I feel like I’m just whining at my doctors instead of being involved in my own progression because I just DGAF anymore. It isn’t even ideation it’s just I Want This To Be Over. Urgh.
So, we’re going to make slight adjustments to my adhd med and add an ssri to my current antidepressant to see if that balances out the fatigue I got last year from the SAD increase. See how that goes and hope it helps. Thanks to the buddies who sent me love yesterday. Had a shit sleep last night with nightmares lol but it was nice to have the support. 💜
I have my 6-monthly psychiatry appt today. I hate that I get so fucking anxious about going to a Literal Doctor of any kind. I have no idea what I’m doing with my mental healthcare and it shows. I’m so fucking tired of feeling I’ve achieved nothing and have moved nowhere because I haven’t. I have no fucking motivation for anything and I’m tired of feeling like shit mentally. I can’t break out of it and it sucks. I feel like I’m just whining at my doctors instead of being involved in my own progression because I just DGAF anymore. It isn’t even ideation it’s just I Want This To Be Over. Urgh.
Sir Terry Pratchett was not remotely in the vicinity of Fucking-Around, and had never even heard of that ridiculous thing some of his esteemed colleagues referred to as “Chill.” (1)
(1) In point of fact, he had heard of it, on numerous occasions, most often when a friend or well-meaning-but-politely-horrified acquaintance advised him to locate some, but he always studiously ignored this in favor of a much more productive righteous fury, which he kept hot enough to boil the kettle for his afternoon tea. If the world was not going to work as it should, then damn it all, he would create one in which people had some blasted sense for a change. And he did. Spite, as it turns out, makes for an excellent motivator.
honest to god we've got to start naming the elderly as a vulnerable group & calling their disabilities, disabilities. we sugarcoat and distance these things by only calling them "elderly," "old & frail," etc. most of them are disabled.
too many people completely separate disability from themselves in their mind. it's something that happens to other people. other sad people i don't want to think about. are they really even people, it's too much to bear thinking about that happening to a person... those background characters over there. it would never be me, i can't cope with thinking about that possibility.
this mass denialism of the fragility of the human body (YOUR human body) has created a whole category separate from the disabled - the "elderly." since anyone can join it if they live long enough.. no they can't be disabled. that's scary, and worse it's political. so they are just "old." so what they lost their hearing, their mobility, their heart function? that's just how it goes for old people. as if that's not a person as real as you. as if you wouldn't be devastated if that happened to you today (and it can btw). as if you won't be when it's your turn to be old, and disabled.
simultaneously the disabled are dehumanized as not people, and the elderly are dehumanized as not disabled. so the illusion of disability as separate can be upheld.
My grandparents lived to 98 and 103. Read that again— 98 and 103. My grandmother died 5 months ago and was born in 1923.
She was extremely wealthy. My grandfather left her millions. She paid about 13,000 a month for her care.
And her nurses abused her. She could do nothing. She could not speak for herself, feed herself, clothe herself, and the humiliation they made her endure was disgusting. When she tried to express discomfort, they gave her drugs to “keep her calm” (keep their shift easy). We fought like HELL to hold that fucking place accountable. The only reason we were aware is because we hired a private nurse on her behalf, too.
The elderly are a massive, extremely vulnerable, and disabled group. You cannot leave them out of your advocacy, you cannot leave them out of the conversation. “They’re loud, they smell, they’re opinionated, they’re rude, they make me uncomfortable”. I don’t care. I don’t care! They need your advocacy too! I want you to think, if my grandmother— who was in the best retirement home she could afford, with a personally hired third-party nurse to step in where the other carers failed, had such abhorrent care… what about everyone else? What about all the elderly who don’t have a support system?
Astronauts are so funny man. Here's just a couple of things I've found hilarious from this past week of space stuff:
It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."
After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”
On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.
The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.
While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.
When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.
At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.
On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).
While Jeremy Hansen was doing an interview, Wiseman and Koch were just in the background swatting the mission mascot (a little moon plush toy named Rise) back and forth between each other.
#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry
@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.
Six years today since Mum passed away. I feel like it hit yesterday and I miss her so much. It’s stupid to be hanging on to her death date like this but I don’t feel like I’ve gotten past it at all and I have no forward movement in my life that makes it feel like this many years have passed either.
I really just want a “mum hug” and to snuggle in bed with her again and the loss feels so fucking fresh even though it’s been more than half a decade. I want to talk to her and tell her about S, my sister. It’s been ten years tomorrow since everything started to go to hell with Mum’s health and the catalyst of my mental health absolutely detonating around me and it’s never really gotten better.
Yelling into the void but… I’m 33 years old and I just want my mum.
My sister had a seizure today. Late-in-life dementia for Down Syndrome is definitely becoming a distinct possibility given the behavioural and cognitive changes that have happened over the last few weeks. She’s already on the maximum she can take for anti convulsants etc, and unfortunately this is just normal for age progression for a 38-year-old with her condition.
I have to consider the reality that she might be dead by the end of the year and I fucking hate it. She’s the only family I have left, but at least she’ll be with mum. I just hate that the NDIA stuff and the fight I’m going to have with them in the coming months is going to hurt more given that the six years she’s had since Mum died will end this way.
If more seizures come —which I have reason to believe they will based on my research into dementia in Down Syndrome — those combined with aspiration of either food or saliva will be the thing that takes her life.
I don’t know if this makes sense really, but I’m just trying to wrap my head around this the last few weeks, and today is especially bad. Urgh.
“Madeleine Silarjuangat”
This is the last large solar system I made. I created it for a custom order so I personalised it with my client who offered it to his wife for her birthday last year ♥️
This embroidery is called “Madeleine Silarjuangat”, which means “Madeleine’s world” in Inuit. My client lives in Canada, he wanted to name his embroidery after his wife, the Inuit language has a rich history of stars and legends about life above.
Thank you again Kirt!
I hope to have more opportunities like this to create more unique and custom orders, it is always very interesting and challenging for me to have to work directly for a client.
“Madeleine Silarjuangat”
Hand embroidery.
Unique piece.
Custom order.
32 cm diameter.
DMC embroidery thread, cannetille, Swarovski crystal beads, 24kt gold-plated beads, stone beads and glass beads on linen.
Wooden frame.
https://www.etsy.com/fr/shop/OphelieTrichereau
I take custom orders.
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This kid knows the gravity of the situation that has been placed in her hands. She knows the majesty of the creature she has been chosen to hold aloft, and man, she is absolutely killing that position! 💜
