#jeff Tracy

[tracyislandinmymind]

There’s a Gront at a desk in every iteration

(Bill Paxton my king)

International Rescue will always be there to answer the call

[spectre-0ne]

Jeff Tracy with baby Scott-core

[call-me-casual]

Allow me to raise to you this meme, which I was inspired to try following a conversation with the lovely @cookidoughlilac

Lucille design roughly based on what I’ve seen @lenle-g do which is GORGEOUS

[thebirdfantasy]

Every time I hear the Tracy family use the “he’s a Tracy” excuse for doing something absolutely ridiculous…

I remind myself that the Tracy family just have biological plot armour.

They all inherited it from Jeff Tracy, I mean how else could he have survived living in that cloud? Plot armour.

Gordon surviving the hydrofoil crash? He got his dad’s plot armour.

Scott running through an active volcano that was spitting lava everywhere ? Inherited plot armour!

[sina-camilo]

Inspired by the writings of: @cookidoughlilac

I wanted my first art activity in this fandom (after my activity in RP Brandon) to be a large painting of Thunderbirds 2, but since my painting is in my own country and I am not in my own country right now and I am stuck in Iran, I decided to entertain myself in this tense atmosphere of missile attacks and psychological warfare with art of Jeff and the Mechanic, inspired by your talk about cheese and the presence of the Mechanic on the island.

[arwensarboretum]

Do you ever think, when Jeff came back from the Oort Cloud, that he had a brief stint on Thunderbird 5 first?

I know that would have been an anticlimactic ending, so we're shown him landing on Tracy Island, but it would have been a TERRIBLE adjustment from 8 years in 0G to full Earth gravity. No WAY he'd be able to stand or walk. (Or honestly look as healthy as he does, but I digress).

So, do you think there could have been some time spent on 5, maybe just with John, maybe with all of them, just getting used to being back around Earth for awhile. Something familiar and safe, but not so different from what he'd been living so his body could adjust more gently. I know Jeff would want to get back into the action and everything as soon as possible, but I think it might have been nice to have a restoration time on 5. Give him some 1-on-1 time with John or something.

[niffler-gold]

May have done a large amount of shopping at my local market and got numerous thunderbird items.

This is deffo one of my fave that I got though.

💙💚🧡❤️💛

[finiteuniverse13]

thunerbirds are go (2015) and thunderbirds (2004) crossover where 2015 are transported to the tracy island of 2004 and are baffled by literally everything.

"what do you mean gordon is the astronaut??? gordon??? aquanaut gordon??? space-sick gordon???"

"secret identities??? you guys don't even have masks! how have people not found out!?!"

also they (specifically scott and alan) have a bit of a Crisis about jeff being alive.

alan (2004) is so jealous that alan (2015) gets to pilot solo. when he finds out why its such a necessity he does cry a bit. but he's still jealous.

the 2004 brothers are quite concerned over alan having 0 friends who are his age.

2015 brothers are horrified that brains has a son old enough to be alan's friend.

kayo is upset that tintin is having to deal with her uncle so young. but is very very happy that tintin's parents are still around to help.

[greekmuller]

THUNDERBIRDS 2004 POSTERS [FREE TO DOWNLOAD, PLEASE CREDIT]

Google drive download link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1W2xJ19_2TKlpRaZ3AKd2lUjMroCuMkDH?usp=sharing

[edutainer2022]

The issue of power dynamics and adjustments after Jeff's return opens infinite possibilities (for angst). Jeff's idea of picking up where he left off might be less simple or even feasible. Scott literally spoke in my head through this one and John chimed in. Jeff gets an earful and needs to think.

Many thanks go to @janetm74

IN STRIDE

"May I remind you, Bluejay, I built the whole gig from the bottom up! I know how it operates. There's no need for triple reporting - it's a waste of time!"

"With all due respect, you don't, Dad."

"Excuse me?"

"You don't know how IR operates. Not anymore. You weren't there."

"Through no fault of mine!"

"True. It was MY fault. I take full responsibility. You weren't there when I negotiated new parameters with the GDF and the World Council. I was not the First Man on Mars they could trust implicitly. I was NOTHING to them. I realize I'm nothing beyond your shadow, but that's not the point! You were GONE, Dad. Uncle Lee left. Kyrano resigned. Aunt Val got promoted. There was no active duty GDF officer on the IR roster anymore. There was NO roster till Virgil and John completed training and Gordon graduated high school. I'm still a downed washout for your old buddies in the Airforce. I can live with that. But I will NOT jeopardize what IR is now, the reach and freedom we're given on the off chance the GDF brass will extend you the benefit of the doubt unconditionally again. You were on six IR missions total, Dad. Zero failure rate. The triple reporting is what keeps us in the game when the worst comes to the worst. Without it we wouldn't be allowed to lift off the ground. It keeps the boys and Kayo safe from liability!"

"But not you?"

"That's part of the deal with the GDF. Now, if you'll excuse me..."

"Scott!"

"Dad, don't. Let Virgil handle it. Trust me."

"How bad?"

"When?"

"There's a scale?"

"Oh yeah, Dad! You have no idea!"

"I obviously don't. Okay, then. Right after?"

"Right after you were gone? Nosedive."

"Oh..."

"The stocks plummeted, the markets were in shambles, the Board all but rioted. Scott had to hold that up - at a point we didn't have the extra funds to run IR anyway. Then there was the GDF issue. They tried to strongarm Scott into handing the Thunderbirds and the Base over, instead of appointing operatives. Scott refused. We stood down for a couple of years. There were issues with the Tinies' custody anyway. The island was deemed "inaccessible to child services". Scott was needed in NYC and Alan stayed with him through middle school. It was better for Gordie's Olympics training to be Stateside as well. Virgil finished up his degree and I was in England, prepping for the ISA stint."

"And then?"

"Dad, you alright? You seem pale!"

"I'm okay, Johnny. Go on!"

"Well... then the waves settled a bit. The company was not belly up anymore, on the contrary. Scott got a hang of it. We could fully fund IR without the Global Council or GDF input, including launching Five. Virgil and I were fully trained. Once Gordie won the medal we had a specialized Aquanaut too. Kayo finished school and Kyrano sent her over to supervize security. Brains was on board. Scott fought tooth and nail for the Big Wigs to let him helm the op independently. Like he just told you - we still needed to make concessions on reporting. I'm not gonna lie, Dad, they ARE keeping Scott in a chokehold. The hardest part was to convince Scott to pull Allie into homeschooling. He wanted the kid to have a normal life. We tried launching from Gran Roca, but the island is just so much more suitable. So to keep the child services off Scott's back we asked Grandma to move in. You know the rest, more or less. The Hood came back, we found the signal, then we found you."

"I need to talk to Scott!"

"You do. But not right now, Dad. Let Virgil deal with him first."

"That happens a lot?"

"We got our routine."

"So you're wrangling your Old Man?"

"Maybe."

"I left a mess behind, didn't I?"

"You're back now, Dad. Talk to Scott. You both need it!"

[call-me-casual]

Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront Gront

[tracyislandinmymind]

I like to think that every time someone mentions how much Scott looks like their father, Gordon loudly answers that it’s because he cloned him in a lab.

[turtlefangirl15]

I remember watching every episode with my family the day it aired. One of the few programs we could all agree with. Man, I miss these guys.

Anyway, here's my contribution to the 10th Anniversary. Enjoy!

[scribbles97]

Happy 10 Years of TAG!

How lucky we are to have such an amazing fandom for this little show... I've met (virtually at least) so many amazing thanks to it, and had so much fun with the characters and ideas that everyone shares! I know not everyone has been here from the start, but it brings me such joy to see people joining the fandom even after all this time and I can't wait to see what the next ten years brings like Scott I'll be feeling very old by then. I'm definitely going to go on a hunt through the tags and have a reblog binge at somepoint today, but I'm not going to apologise because it's so worth it to bring people's work to the spotlight again.

Also happy birthday to this meanace to society and his brothers, please forgive me for the whump I'm about to carry out on you...

[arwensarboretum]

Thinking about the end of TAG and how it's really just a nice ending.

For the longest time, the Tracys had no hope about Jeff being alive. They struggled with his absence and tried their best to make sure other people wouldn't endure the same pain they did. They worked hard and they cared and they carried the legacy forward, but they still had to live with the reality of Jeff's disappearance. They didn't have a happy ending, even though they worked so hard to make sure everyone else did.

And I just think it's really nice, how, in the end, they did get their happy ending. And it's not all perfect (Alan's missed ceremony) and duty will always call (so no time to focus on Jeff's return even as it happens), but they got their Dad back. After so much suffering and agony and missing him, he came home. And they got to see him again. And that is supremely nice.

[skymaiden32]

The only time of year I can make this joke…