#subway rats

[oca-rinn-a]

rat girl summer

[frankensteinshimbo]

Heads Up! Seven Up!

I was tagged by @zonnemaagd in her excerpt from Phei of the Wind.

Rules : Share an snippet or line from your recent work and tag 7 people!

This is from Subway Rats. What I'm writing right now honestly deals with dark themes, so I'll go ahead and slip it under a cut then tag people on the reblog.

It's a transformation scene initiated by an attempted suicide that doesn't end in death. So if visceral body horror or suicide is upsetting, go ahead and give it a skip.

Momentum crushed her bone into red slurry. Thick and hot. Pulse fast and then slowed, but not to a stop. Her spine compacted until the vertebrae fused into each other. Joints ripped out of place into new orientations. And then, beneath the tracks (slipped under the body of the steel monster somehow) she regrew as raw and bloody as her scream. The soft tissues blossomed from the skeleton they were encased in, popping warm and horrible on the filthy tracks. She began to squirm again once her muscles reconnected where they’d been torn. And like she had when she’d been born she cried for no other reason than to voice the sudden terror of not knowing herself.

The thunder of steel drowned them. They comingled to make one loud indiscernible cacophony of apathy and pain. The train was a force greater than her body. She had known that in some implicit way. Choosing to die by it meant laying feal at its wheels, but she had always considered it an instrument instead of a master. She lay there until the tunnel was dark.

It was a long time before anyone came to find her. She had no expectation of being found. It was rare that somebody had the time and energy to find anyone in the life she had lived. In the life she … lives still. There was breath rising in her lungs. She listened to blood rushing in her ears drowning the reverberation of distant metal. As homeostasis kicked in again, she began to shiver from pain and exhaustion. She was alive. She was alive! The miracle of her own vitality frightened her so much, that it took her a moment to realize that the warmth traveling the wire of her tremors were hands moving over her. They were careful as though they expected injuries. She knew they would find some eventually. This vibrant illusion of life was in fact just a defense mechanism of a brain fighting shut-down, but through their gentle probe she learned that she was whole. Unbroken.

[critterbitter]

Nimbasa trio, gremlin edition.

They’re theater kids, your honor. They’re brewing crimes as we speak.

BONUS CRACK DOODLE THAT I EXORCISED DIRECTLY FROM MY BRAIN:

Some patrat children and a pachirisu child!

(Check here for my submas stuff!)

[rat-at-heart]

Fell asleep on the subway and missed her stop :(

[meister-draws]

You know about new yorker and his funny pidgeon now meet his brother new yorker and his funny subway rat

I drew this on one of the boards in @/choochooboss's anniversary magma session ✨️

[sprmstr]

saw a batfly

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

it remains so funny to me that Stede's "main character of a romcom" energy has a fucking area of effect.

last season Ed's crew were all taken aback by switching genres from gritty pirate drama to romcom, and this season we have Izzy losing a leg to gangrene right before Stede wakes Ed up from a coma by holding his hand.

[jenasu]

Hey now! Who's that, running across the station platform??

The ever lovely and wonderful @cecilioque has organized ANOTHER incredible sticker project for the community, and I'm so so happy and excited to say I was invited to be a part of it!

If you want your OWN Pizza Patrat (and several many other fun stickers, made by 29 other amazingly talented artists), check out Sunny's official announcement post for details!

[cardinal-crossing]

Behold! A doodle I did of @evtraininguniversity's borrower's au. It was a very good way to pas time while on my flight, and I just love these to little guys. Enjoy!

Also side note: The image is a photograph I took at a model train museum when I was visiting; my mother took me as a graduation trip to the museum and I thoroughly enjoyed!

[cowwatcher]

goochland....

[transgenderfivepebbles]

i was not made to get an education and a job and exist with awareness of this increasingly nightmarish world i was made to be a little sparrow who lives behind a store sign and spends all day foraging for seeds or perhaps bugs

[oca-rinn-a]

before and after: a rat was enjoying the discarded portions of a banana, and then a person with no joy in their heart shined a flashlight on the tracks to scare them away

[frankensteinshimbo]

Anyway, here's an excerpt from my WIP, Subway Rats. I've decided that the opening scene is a suicide. Wherein, instead of dying, the main character is transformed into a small creature. That said, it still brushes the unfortunate subject matter of wanting to take your own life, and should be skipped over if that's something that would upset you.

She didn’t know what it’d feel like when the train hit her fragile body. She hoped. She hoped. It’d be so fast the world would go silent.

It didn’t. 

...

And like she had when she’d been born, she cried for no other reason than to voice the sudden terror of not knowing herself. The thunder of steel drowned it. The noise and anguish co-mingled to make one loud indiscernible cacophony of apathy and pain. The train was a force greater than her body. She had known that in some implicit way. Choosing to die by it meant laying feal at its wheels, but she had always considered it an instrument instead of a master.

[critterbitter]

Revisiting relatives at chargestone cave! Here’s tynamo’s cousin, here’s tynamo’s cousin, here’s tynamo’s cousin, here’s-

Anyways I like to imagine chargestone cave’s magnetic fields are so strong it causes rock islands to float and gravity to get a tad funky. Or maybe it’s due to the thinning barrier between the material world and the distortion world…

Master list for more pokemon shenanigans!

[evedenic]

doing a rewatch and five’s crash out in episode 6 is actually very iconic. his apocalypse girlfriend/situationship/affair dumped him in the middle of a giant monster fight and he decided it’s time to let the world end and die?? he’s so me

[kittehbiscuits]

oughh the creture,,,,,,,,,

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