#unsinkable eight

[shrublub]

total yuri island

[pantherinos]

ok after my rewatch of the wilds i can’t stop thinking about the girls and in a nod to my roots, here are some headcanons!! mostly music themed

leah is a lorde STAN. melodrama got her through the jeff break up and the louvre was the first song added to her playlist for fatin. hard feelings/loveless was her most streamed song pre-crash, post-crash it’s solar power.

shelby never liked country music until she found sapphic country music. blasts lesbians pop through her and toni’s apartment, chappell roan (she is OBSESSED), zolita, hayley kiyoko, etc. karaokes the giver reguarly. she also loves taylor swift

toni is big on rnb and old school rap. tupac, biggie (ofc), bone thugs. her secret talent is rapping.

nora is a podcast type of girl through and through. that’s why she has so much knowledge, she just listens to people talking about shit 24/7

martha is the type of girl who exclusively listens to 2010s billboard top 100 songs. asides from a few songs she listens to because of toni

fatin is brat summer. charli xcx, that kind of music. also party music, songs she can really dance to. she gets into lana del rey cause of leah. ariana grande, that type of music.

rachel listens to a lot of 90s artists, michael jackson, duran duran, george michael and wham. her aroace blasts last christmas during the winter

dot is metal and rock. need i say more?

karaoke is a regular occurrence and shelby’s favourite group activity (after escape rooms)

speaking of escape rooms, shelby makes the unsinkable eight do escape rooms regularly. they hate it. they go along with it though

toni and rachel play basketball together all the time

after they got properly rescued they requested to stay in the same room because of what happened the last time they thiught they were rescued

when shelby came out to her parents, the unsinkable eight were right behind her to grab her when she started crying

fatin and leah take her brothers out for lunch multiple times a month

toni and shelby get married first, but surprisingly it’s dot and mateo that follow second

nora worked on the team that built a bionic arm for rachel

leah, fatin, and nora are cat people

shelby, dot, rachel, martha, and toni are dog people

every time any of them have to travel, they travel by car. none of them fly on a plane again

[stargirlfangirl]

The Unsinkable Eight Headcanons

Leah

-Verrrrryyyyyy pretentious with media she likes

-Bisexual

-Aspiring Novelist + Poet

-Loves Cats

-Her favorite month is November

-Huuuuuuuuge Lana del Rey stan

-Secretly loves "shallow" media

-Her favorite colors are maroon and navy blue

-Favorite Taylor Swift album is either evermore or Red

Rachel

-Favorite color is forest green

-Asexual + Aromantic

-Likes hoodies, sweaters and other cozy clothes

-Her favorite movie genre is action

-Weirdly good at pottery

-Eventually finds a way to love swimming and the water again but it takes a longggggg time

-Absolutely a dog person

Dot

-Will argue with you over the best kind of fast food

-Is extremely competitive with board game nights

-Really likes turtles

-She knows a lot about fashion bc Fatin talks about it all the time

-Adding on to the last point, she's a really good listener

-Wants to learn to play the electric guitar

Shelby

-Gay that can do math

-She's a huuuuuge theater kid at heart and has always wanted to be an actress but never rlly took it seriously until Toni encouraged her to follow her dreams

-The one thing she cannot do is cook. She will burn everything she makes

-Crochets and/or colors to relax

-She used to hate makeup bc it was yet another thing she felt like she had to do, but post-island, she's been doing a lot of creative eye makeup looks and loves using it as a way to express herself

-Is a huuuuuge Swiftie. Her favorite album is 100% folklore

Toni

-Has a secret stan Twitter account that only Martha and Shelby know about

-Follows women's soccer and basketball very closely

-Not a huge fan of school in general but she really likes science-----especially biology

-She loves paintball

-Tells dad jokes that are so bad they're good

-Says she's not a Swiftie but she is secretly a Lover stan

-Loves dogs

-Also crochets bc of Shelby. The two of them 100% have crocheting contests

Fatin

-Bisexual

-Loves horror movies

-Yells at the TV whenever someone does something dumb

-Went through a huuuuuge mermaid phase as a little girl

-Definitely has a TikTok account where she does makeup tutorials

-Favorite musician is Dua Lipa

-Uses lots of emojis

-Gets good grades without even trying

-Her favorite Taylor Swift album is 1989

Martha

-Pansexual

-Says she doesn't have a favorite animal but it's 100% guinea pigs

-Secretly loves rock music

-Generally not into sports but she's amazing at volleyball

-She comes up with rlly good comebacks but she's too nice to actually say any of them

-Her favorite color is pink

-Plays Animal Crossing

-She really likes gardening and painting

-Also a huge Taylor Swift fan. Her favorite album is Speak Now.

Nora

-Rlly funny but nobody knows bc she's quiet

-Reads and draws comics

-Avid gamer. She really likes the Zelda games

-Likes cats and otters

-She also really loves swimming and the water but she pretends not to so that can be Rachel's "thing"

-Favorite colors are grey and yellow

-Scares easily when it comes to horror movies

-Cannot carry a tune, no matter how hard she tries

[bisexualchrissycunningham]

I miss the Wilds so much, y'all. How is the Unsinkable Eight doing? Will Rachel ever speak to Nora again? What about the boys? Did the Florida boys become besties with Toni and Martha (one of my fave personal hopes for S3 and beyond)? Did Fatin come to terms with her bisexuality? Is somebody gonna punch Gretchen in the face? I'm in pain, folks.

[emilyjunk]

Girls will get home from dinner and be so full they just deliriously spam post as a distraction

[unhauntng]

nothing is funnier to me than the fact that in the wilds like every episode was geared around the girls realising what was hurting them in themselves and in their lives and that they were all fucked up but they also all turned around almost simultaneously and pointed at leah and went yes we are all fucked up but there is actually something very specifically wrong with this bitch

they’re like we love u for it as well but holy shit you need help

[kiekiecarrera]

multifandom meme > [12/12] brotps - the unsinkable eight

[eyeslikewatercoolers]

adding on to this, if I said that the show I’m referring to is The Wilds, would that make people more or less interested?

(I’m gonna do it anyways)

…so what if I made another s15 cast as (blank) list.

[ex-textura]

The OC 8 Track Prompt Mix

Tagged by @vitanithepure hi hello i love you 🥺

You have a single cassette tape, it will only hold eight songs and play them in the exact order in which they're added to the tape. If you made such a mix tape for your original character, which songs would you choose and in what order? Feel free to explain why you chose the songs and order that you did or just let the music speak for itself.

I'm gonna do this for Relic because he's still taking over my brain and also I'm still working on his playlist so the timing is good. I'm not going to explain myself though because i don't have the bandwidth for that so you can take the meanings how you please lmao

Waiting For the End - Linkin Park

I know what it takes to move on (Oh) I know how it feels to lie (Oh) all I wanna do is trade this life for something new (Oh) holding on to what I haven't got

2. Metaphor - The Crane Wives

Don't look too hard 'cause you won't like the scars he left in me I've gotten good at making up metaphors I've gotten good at stretching the truth out of shape And all these words are sweet and meaningless You can't trust a single thing I say

3. Help I'm Alive - Metric

If we're still alive My regrets are few If my life is mine What shouldn't I do? I get wherever I'm going I get whatever I need While my blood's still flowing And my heart's still Beating like a hammer Beating like a hammer

4. Unsinkable - Sail North

Aim high, swing hard Leave it out there No regrets My blood is in the water and the sharks are takin' bets They circle in, waiting for my final breath But they won't see me drown / When the wind rips the tide I will sail Reach the other side Let the storm roll on wild I was born for this

5. Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

Here's a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry Be happy In every life we have some trouble But when you worry you make it double Don't worry Be happy, don't worry, be happy now

6. Fuck They - Sofi Tukker

I don't give a fuck about they (Who's they?) Who gives a fuck about they? (Who's they?) I don't give a fuck (They don't even give a fuck) They don't even give a fuck (Who's they anyway?)

7. Emotion - Pastel Ghost

You revived me Unconsciously Trust my feelings I’m yours to keep Suffering loss Losing myself I only want you No one else Emotion Emotion Pure emotion Pure emotion Let go of the past Forget the future Let go of the past Forget the future No apprehension Just fall in love No apprehension Just fall in love

8. After Dark - Mr.Kitty

I see you You see me How pleasant This feeling The moment You hold me I missed you I'm sorry

I've been too absent on here I dunno who to tag anymore sooooo. if you wanna do this, this is your tag 💚

[ginandoldlace]

Goodbye, "Reliable old Olympik! »

On this day, 89 years ago, hundreds of people waving scarves and headbands saw off the venerable and "unsinkable" Olympic to its final journey at Southampton

After a six-month Moored in the home port "Olympic" "came alive" again, as evidenced by the clubs of thick black smoke coming out of the third Funnel and the last long horn. It was a one-stop journey - to the north-east of England, to the town of Jarrow. On this day, even the weather was symbolically "sad" with rain. The decks and cabins are unusually empty, with only a hundred crew members on board, as accurately noted in a British newspaper - "it seemed as if the sailors were escorting off the old soldier on her last journey to her eternal resting place. "Olympic" left her home port "old transatlantic comrades" - "Homeric" and "Majestic" saw her off with farewell Blasts of their Fog Horns they too wold be doomed to also go to the wreckage after some time. As an honorary escort, several small steamboats accompanied the Reliable Old girl into the Solent Strait on its final flight. "In my opinion, the Olympic is one of the most beautiful steamships ever built or even will be built in the future," recalled former Olympic captain Bertram Hayes.

After the dismantling of the superstructure at Jarrow, in 1937, the hull of the shipbuilding masterpiece of the early 20th century will be delivered to Inverkeithing with the help of eight tugs. In this Scottish town, the existence of the "Olympics" will end forever.

[calliettes-posts]

speaking of the wilds s1, hot take maybe but i lowkey hate how it always gets added into the list of shows that was cancelled because it was a lesbian show. it was cancelled because the people who made it didn’t give a fuck that their audience was mainly female watching because they finally had a show that didn’t center men, and made season two all about men so their audience stopped watching and they flopped.

Sorry I just saw this ask

And yeah I agree, the additional of men was completely unnecessary, not only did they unsuccessfully try to create male counterparts for the unsinkable eight, they also took away significant screen time to characterise and introduce the boys, which also fell flat

[bray-tech]

Y’ ever thought about what a fucked-up thing immortality would be?

But not just any immortality, the specific kind where when you die, you just… respawn. Like ten feet away. GTA Respawns. Or for simplicity, you wake up a lil' bit later, exactly where you were. so like, as an example, say you’re a WW1 soldier, drilling to place one of the bombs along the Somme for the allies.

You don’t know what set it off, but the world around you goes up in flames instantly and…

Somehow

somehow you don’t.

You wake up buried in the rubble, or in a newly opened tunnel, or crawling out of a fissure of water deep underground.

So you spend the next week stumbling around collapsing every so often from dehydration before inexplicably standing back up. until suddenly you find

Trenches

 At the surface.

But of course, you don’t have the good fortune, no sir, no fortune here. These aren’t your trenches.

They’re your enemy’s.

So you fight like a mad dog, trying to get back across to your guys

You make it

Despite the gas,

Despite the shelling

Despite the hell around you

And your boss calls it a miracle

Sends you back to medical for some much-needed rest

So, you make it through the rest of that war

Confused as hell when people die around you and you just… don’t.

You get a reputation among the others;

You’re unkillable, unsinkable. Somehow, unshakeable. They must not hear your mind in the dark.

You find out towards the end that your wife and child were informed that you had been killed at the Somme.

It’s the British intelligence agency, or what will become it. They invite you to come to them.

You accept and begin sending your paychecks as ‘death benefits’ to your grieving family.

It’s probably better this way. The war changed you.

So you find your way to the front again.

You’re now a British officer.

You volunteer, in WW2, for the disastrous Dieppe raid. You heard the plans. You just want to get out as many as you can.

This earns you a rep as ‘insane’ among the British. You’re hailed as ‘a good one’ among the Canadians.

You work with them, mouse-holing up Italy.

Eventually, you make it through that war.

Not without incident, of course. More than once, you took grenades for your men to prevent them from dying.

They don’t know how to explain your survival, so they call you a hero.

After the war, you retire.

You get bored.

To cover your tracks, you take a job as an actor with the Globe. You get cast as older men; frequently you portray Richard III.

Sometimes you portray Macbeth.

Eventually, that grows stale.

On a trip to America, you meet the son of a doctor you met once in Europe. His name is unimportant; he’s now a doctor himself. The man mentions being in need of a butler.

You took that training as part of your British intelligence work.

You offer.

He accepts.

Ten relatively quiet years pass.

You’re pulling the car around to pick up him and his family.

He and his wife are murdered in front of their eight-year-old son.

You resolve to help the child.

Your name is Alfred Pennyworth. Your ward hasn’t figured out that you can’t die. World’s Greatest Detective, my ass.

[blinkaftermidnight]

nothing happens

Read on AO3.

It ends quietly. It shouldn’t. Leah thinks there should be more fanfare. Sometimes, late at night, on their island and on the new island, they discuss the possibilities. They talk about being invited onto talk shows across the country. They talk about book deals. Documentaries. Fame. Wealth. Signing autographs and becoming influencers. They’re gonna be the Unsinkable Eight – well, they acknowledge they’ll probably be overshadowed by the boys in the media, as the straight teenage girls drool over them, surely, and all sixteen of them will probably be lumped together – and Gretchen’s ass will end up behind bars, and they’ll see justice.

It feels plausible, at three in the morning, when they’re lying around camp or in the bunker, unable to sleep. Something is going to happen when they get home. Their lives are going to change forever, again. Because this has already changed them all forever. Leah doesn’t know if seeing Gretchen get slapped with a life sentence will bring her any peace, but it’ll be a start.

But it ends quietly. Which is funny, because the night before – that night – is anything but quiet. It starts with an explosion, somewhere not far from the bunker, shortly after sundown. It’s funny that it’s the first real problem they’ve encountered since they were abandoned in the bunker with the boys. The fourteen of them haven’t done much of anything besides inventory their shit and fuck around. What are they supposed to do, anyway? The bunker protects them from the elements, and there’s plenty to eat and plenty of entertainment.

Then there’s the explosion, and it draws fourteen reluctant teenagers out of their respective parts of the bunker, and Leah lays eyes on faces she hasn’t seen in weeks, in some cases, when they gather on the rooftop. It’s strange, how they all look like sorta regular teenagers again, now that their skin’s healing and they’re bathing regularly.

**

“We have to check that out,” Dot says, and though Kirin is quick to agree, everyone else splits.

“You want to head toward a giant fireball?” Rachel questions. “Fuck that.”

Leah agrees with the sentiment. They can see the beach from the roof, can see the ocean in the moonlight, and whatever blew up burns brightly in the sand.

“There wasn’t anything on the beach earlier,” Ivan informs.

“How’d you know?” Toni asks.

“I was up here. Writing,” Ivan replies.

“What if something crashed?” Fatin asks. “Like a helicopter? Shouldn’t we check that out?”

“Maybe not in the fucking dark,” Scotty pipes up. “You really think a helicopter just took a nosedive onto our beach?”

“Crazier shit has happened,” Dot points out. “I’m going. Who’s with me?”

“I am,” Leah says, barely aware she’s volunteering herself.

“If she goes, I go,” Fatin jumps in.

“Me, Raf, and J will go with you,” Kirin says, flashing Dot a smile. “Everyone else stay here and wait for us to get back.”

But they don’t get back. They don’t see a reason to say goodbyes. They’re gonna check out the fireball and come back. If it is a helicopter, obviously that’ll be significant, and as uneasy as Leah feels, trekking through the woods in the dark with Fatin’s hand resting against her lower back, she doesn’t expect anything to come of the trip. She expects to be back in the bunker within a couple hours, expects to spread out across the two beds she pushed together with Fatin’s help weeks ago, so Leah can continue the Uno tournament with Fatin, Rachel, and Martha until exhaustion forces them to go to sleep.

Leah doesn’t think setting foot on the beach is going to lead to anything special.

It is a helicopter, and the pilots are dead, and the fire’s not burning at nearly the same intensity by the time they reach it. It’s fairly dark, and there’s a cold breeze that has Leah zipping her hoodie and crossing her arms over her chest, and as Kirin starts to ask why the hell a helicopter crashed, he’s tackled from behind. He falls dangerously close to the fire, and Leah’s mind rushes to make sense of the scene unfolding in front of her. They’re all accounted for. Herself, Fatin, and Dot. Kirin, Raf, and Josh. Leah doesn’t recognize the guy that Kirin throws off of him, cursing.

But Kirin, Raf, and Josh sure do.

He – the unknown guy – says something about how they can’t get out of here. They aren’t allowed to leave.

X

This was actually two separate parts that I hadn't figured out how to tie together. And I have no idea where it was going. I can't recall writing this lmao.

[writewhereyouleftme]

shes with me on ao3

Relationships: Fatin Jadmani/Leah Rilke, Minor Shelby Goodkind/Toni Shalifoe, Nora Reid & Rachel Reid, Leah Rilke & Unsinkable Eight Members

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, After the Island (The Wilds), Fake/Pretend Relationship, (kinda), POV Leah Rilke, Jealous Leah Rilke, bar/pub, filling in some gaps after the rescue, what happens before the rescue though? thats none of my business, the Boys are not mentioned but they exist, Love Confessions, First Kiss, Short & Sweet

“I’ve been thinking—”

“—Whoa, what? No way,” Leah interrupts.

Fatin shoves her shoulder with a free hand. “Shut the fuck up.”

They both laugh a little. It feels like old times, except they’re not on an island, and they’re free, and they won.

[sapphic-squid]

Obviously I’m obsessed with all the unsinkable eight but I’m giggling kicking my feet every time Fatin is on screen

[roxannepolice]

for the choose violence ask game, 6, 13, 23?

6. which ship fans are the most annoying? I try not to get too far outside of thoschei and some timepetals shipping, so it's hard for me to answer… but there's definitely that tautological conspiracy theory-like attitude in tha/smin of "we saw that amazing chemistry while everyone else was blinded by heteronormativity"… I guess the straw that broke the camel's back was the insistence it's as epic as ninerose, which. Wow, the heteroglasses on my ace ass must be really strong if I missed the part where Yaz shielded some villain with her body and called Thirteen out on her bs or Thirteen absorbed all of time to burn her body to rescue Yaz!

13. worst blorboficiation As Verayne pointed out, this question is ambiguous! If we talk my own blorboification and "worst" as in "cringe police should absolutely put me in cringe jail", it's of course Simm!Master, who's my precious baby that's never done anything wrong in his life and if, instead of going "Let me help!", Ten brought some catnip to the Valiant and proceeded to rub the Master's tummy and scratch his ears, everything would have worked out just perfect! If we're talking fandom in general and "worst" as in "I think it's actually detrimental to interpretation", then, and it actually doesn't make me happy to bitch about Chibnall Who three times in a row, I'd say Dhawan!Master. It's mostly about his motivation to destroy Gallifrey, where it seems like everyone's so focused on making him so very in love with the Doctor to the point of being written by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch that I get really frustrated. And I agree, the canon motivation of "can't stand having the Doctor's DNA" is absolutely bs, that character parasited himself on one Trakkenite, one human, absorbed the life force of four more humans, tried to suck out Eight's remaining regenerations, and was apparently ok existing thanks to Rassilon's experiments, but the Doctor's DNA? Dealbreaker! But I also think the latching onto the concept he destroyed the planet for the Doctor makes even less sense. It's like the fandom is trying suck whatever last bits of charisma this era had...

23. ship you've unwillingly come around to I already answered this one here, with Martha and Mickey. I think one of the charms of sailing the thoschei unsinkable wreck is that there's hardly a ship that would either threaten yours (can you even imagine if those two disasters kept to monogamy????? the universe would fall apart) or really shock you into any pearl clutching, so there's hardly anything to come around to? Like yes, the Doctor definitely dated some of their companions, and is absolutely married to River Song, and probably had sex with a Dalek (outside of its casing), and yes, this interhuman relationship isn't tumblr definition of "healthy", but at least they don't trap each other in indefinite timeloops, so…