#transport tank

[macadamia-shithead]

mr veep.. fought him for the first time recently, very silly experience thank you mr hollywood single father of 6 cold callers

[amtrak-conductor]

[betterbemeta]

not to Girls und Panzer or anything but I think a WH40k Chimera tank that's been taken over by some 13 year old girls would be very funny.

[cali]

5 outlaws vs. everything else

[unpopularvivian]

Thomas Hater: Thomas and friends early seasons were creepy!

The Thomas fandom right now:

[corvidaedream]

behold! i have transportation! and additional debt but like thats not important rn

thinking ill name her bianca

[phoenixcatch7]

Security breach's story (including ruin) was super weird, right? Left a lot unexplained, introduced a lot of confusing elements, cleared nothing up, and made it worse with the ending of ruin. Very frustrating.

But.

I have a bold claim - in this essay I'm going to tell you that I think I've found the unifying theory of security breach, INCLUDING ruin. And no, it's nothing that's mentioned in the actual game.

It's 'Remnant'.

Now presumably matpat or some other theorist has made more detailed connections and I just haven't been able to find it, and I'm a casual fan at best lol. But I'm quite chuffed, so. I'm sharing.

Remnant is basically glowing soul juice produced by high emotions - children, trauma, excitement, suffering, death. Ectoplasm, essentially. It gets into physical objects and stores that emotion, like how a stuffed teddy is full of love or a torture device is full of pain. Yay!

Afton, during his killing spree, harvested this remnant from kids to fuel his plan for immortality (or something). He discovered along the way that if it was infused into a material like metal, then it could be shaped and, when combined with any form of intelligence ('even ai', he says!) it acts as a source of independent power 'that translates into movement, which is why things may appear haunted'. Ergo, animatronics. His perfect army of golems and test subjects.

The first round was, of course, fnaf 1, with the children literally stuffed into the suits to power them, which, yikes, horrible, and in a food establishment? Later he figured out how to skip the rotting corpse step and directly infuse metal, which made it temperature volatile and apparently hard to store. Anything is better than the first round. This resulted in sister location with the scooper, which could (as best I figure?) take the remnant out directly and store it for later use. It could also recycle animatronics, to scrap them without wasting all that precious soul juice that could theoretically power something forever.

Anyway, decades later, the same company is still running, and their precious 'animatronics' are now full on artificially intelligent robots with an army of drone cleaners and a dozen well covered up missing children.

You see where I'm going with this?

I think the glam rock animatronics are crafted out of the newest, highest grade remnant metal to bring them to life (maybe a little too much)... and to aid in the gathering of remnant to power Trap/afton, in his little recharge pod under the earth, at vannys direction. (And presumably all that after hour neon lighting, let's be real.)

The animatronics are all secretly equipped with track and destroy technology - roxy with her sensitive ears and x-ray eyes, chica with her stunlock voice box, monty with his metal rending claws and pouncing ability... Freddy with his chest cavity big enough to fit a small child. Like old times!

I swear the daycare attendant has infrared vision and very possibly direct access to the cctv, but anyway. (I also swear freddy collapsing on stage and triggering the safety protocol after hours was the only thing keeping him from joining, even leading the pack of machines to comb the place and take Gregory down to the scooper by trick or by stick, and Gregory almost made a fatal decision when he hid in the chest cavity. No freddy has ever been nice after hours, and there's no reason given why this one is.)

Back to the DA, it gives the implications of their old power core (freddys original upgrade and heavily theorised to have previously belonged to the only 'tronic out during the hourly recharge) a whole new meaning. Perhaps the setting of the daycare and all that happy sugar high children energy making happy memories was a perfect environment for a low level (experimental? Inefficient?) sort of... Emotional photosynthesis? It would explain why one half is the daycare and the other is the security patrol. Food for thought. Obviously freddy isn't able to receive all those benefits for a number of reasons.

(And it might explain the poor treatment of the DA, too, if the core was removed for some reason, and why sun is struggling so hard to keep his hopes up if it can no longer absorb and process literal happiness vibes for the best haunting ever. Poor guy always gets the short end of the stick. Maybe it also explains why the DA is the only animatronic to glow... because of the remnant metal? The extra juice they were supposed to have?)

Yeah, but what about ruin? How does it fit into this?

Well, for one, the new scooper. It's the literal gathering tool and storage place for all this remnant, so it's presumably pretty vital. Afton is parked directly above it in a recharge pod, sucking up all that sweet sweet juice. He's literally drinking children's tears, the monster.

And the mimic. Because there's a second part to remnant that only becomes relevant now. It's the worst and strongest emotion that can only be created through immense pain and suffering. 'Agony'. A black sludge of distilled horrors. And the thing is, it's highly infectious. But agony is useless. Unless it's combined with remnant in a specific way, and the resulting reaction is extremely powerful and dangerous.

The mimic is infected with agony. And it's found itself probably the biggest source of remnant in the world. The battery of (potentially) the whole pizza plex, and every animatronic inside it. (Moon may well have been the first infected... If the patrol animatronic encountered the mimic on its arrival. Ooh, now there's a thought. It's more likely it saw and tried to stop vanny from some unethical activity (it's a purely robot job!) And she... Prevented it from becoming a recurring issue with the glitch code. Ah, but there's no proof.)

Either all that remnant is now corrupted, or converted. My money is not on converted because the mimic is not spreading a plague of suffering across the land, and is instead trying to lure kids in again to replenish the remnant. And the poor animatronics are still clinging to blackened, crippled life.

It certainly would explain why the company just dropped the entire location without either bulldozing it to the ground or trying to scavenge and repair. With the animatronics infected with agony, it's far too dangerous to do either, and of course officials absolutely cannot find out.

TLDR: I think the missing puzzle piece is 'Remnant' to explain aftons presence, the strangely alive animatronics, the point of all those child disappearances Gregory was supposed to be investigating, the scooper, the mimic, vannys actual job as head enabler for afton, the animatronic's violent upgrades, the true goal of the pizza plex and why it was built over the sinkhole, but most importantly... how they're footing that electricity bill.

But hey ;D! That's just a theory!

[postcard-from-the-past]

Transporting a tank in the Mailly military camp, Champagne region of France

French vintage postcard

[more-than-a-princess]

"Instead of beating someone over the head with an unloaded firearm, you could run them over with it instead!"

That is, indeed, what tanks are for. When the rocket launcher fails, utilize the tank.

[railwaycreature]

Twinote is the best app ever created

[nelc]

[kylermalloy]

With Open Arms

Fandom: Trigun Stampede

Characters: Millions Knives/Vash the Stampede, Rem Saverem, Luida Leitner

Rating: E

Word Count: 4208

Written for the Vash n’ Knives server birthday exchange for @otoutonai 💖

Summary: Nai has always loved his brother too much. He’s done what he can to distance himself from Vash, all in the name of protecting his little brother.

But he can’t run forever—a surprise visit to Ship Three will change the brothers’ relationship for good.

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[sirenofshadow]

Sodor Companies

In the provided link I am sharing my Merch-only Companies spreadsheet, compiling every Sodor company introduced in the toys I can find, this list is almost certaintly not comprehensive, and if anyone has anything I may of missed I would be very thankful. I'm sharing this because I think it's fun, and because it may help inspire somebody to write a story using Arlesdale Luxary Linens, or the Ballahoo Fine Crystal company. Have fun! c:

[carbone14]

Jeep Bantam BRC 40 tractant un canon antichar M3 de 37 mm au cours d'un test – Wadesboro – Caroline du Nord – Etats-Unis – Novembre 1941

©Library of Congress – LC-USW33-027847-ZC DLC

[rat-clown420]

soso cold it's snowing like a bitch rn, bus was 10 mins late bc ofc it is, it's the first snow. omfg a girl was waiting for the bus with me earlier, got fed up and left, and as i typed this we just passed her walkinggggg poor girl. it's like that minecraft image about perseverance except instead of diamonds its the cta bus. oh I'm definitely gonna be late for work

[jkfishworld]

Driving around a 1200 gallon tank takes some practice, but our drivers know what they’re doing!