𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈.

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

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𝙸’𝚅𝙴 𝚂𝙴𝙴𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝚅𝙸𝙻
𝙸𝙽 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈 𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴
𝙸𝙽 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴.

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[ً. @abhorarchive]

maybe  we  exist  to  bleed  /  maybe  we  exist  to  burn.

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

Fuck Antarctica.

[‏ً @GAMMAlRRADIATED]

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𝚁𝙾𝙱𝙴𝚁𝚃 𝙱𝚁𝚄𝙲𝙴 𝙱𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙴𝚁.
𝙲𝙾𝙳𝙴: 𝙶𝚁𝙴𝙴𝙽.

' 𝒀𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦
𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐'𝘮 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒚. '

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[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

@cabingore We don’t need you around here.

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

a blood test. ’

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

‘ Prove it. ’ The pilot reached into his front pocket and extracted a pocket knife. MacReady threw it on the table. His hand reached around and gripped the handle of the snub-nose revolver tucked in his waistband as a precautionary measure. ‘ Cut your hand open. I need to run —

[𓂃 ࣪˖ ᛕ𝘈𝚃͟𝘌 .ᐟ @flamethrowings]

jaw tenses, lids falling to a momentary
close in an effort to self-soothe ﹠ regain
( whatever was left of ) her composure.

digits dig into table’s edge ╱ chair
abruptly screeching mid-retrieval.

❛ keep it up, and your piss poor
temper is bound to rub off on me. ❜ •

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

𝘈𝘎𝘈𝘐𝘕.

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

Now he’s 𝘮𝘢𝘥.

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

MacReady gritted his teeth. ‘ Don’t get cute with me, ’ he snarled and knocked the can of oranges across the room with the back of his hand. ‘ How do I know you didn’t get assimilated by that 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 while you were gone? ’

[𓂃 ࣪˖ ᛕ𝘈𝚃͟𝘌 .ᐟ @flamethrowings]

❛ didn’t know I had some sort of
curfew, 𝘮𝘢𝘤. ❜ hand raised in feigned
defense, dark eyes widening mid-
revolution. can of mandarin oranges
snagged from tabletop ╱ frame
plopping down into chair.

❛ easy with the tone. ❜

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

‘ Where the hell have you been? ’ MacReady demanded an answer in his gruff, deep voice. His beard looked as magnificent as ever.

[𓂃 ࣪˖ ᛕ𝘈𝚃͟𝘌 .ᐟ @flamethrowings]

from where she’s standing, she
can practically 𝙨𝙚𝙚 the tendrils of
steam emanating from the top of
his head. ( typical behavior ┈ she
wouldn’t expect anything less. ) * ♨️

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

Now he’s 𝘮𝘢𝘥.

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

In the middle of an intense argument, MacReady prevents @flamethrowings from leaving by pulling her into an embrace. He stares at her longingly before saying, in a demanding voice, ‘ 𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘢𝘳, 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺. ’

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

stepped out, he said, in a low, gruff voice, ‘ We—have to—get—outofhere. So c-c-cold. ’ To his surprise, the driver was female, and not sprouting eight limbs. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈 hoped he wasn’t imaging this.

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

Snow clung to 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈 like dead weight, making it harder for the 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘳 of Outpost 31 to search the perimeter for the light source. ‘ C-Come on, Robert. Come on, just a l-l-little 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 into the 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘺. You can do it, ’ he said through —

[𓂃 ࣪˖ ᛕ𝘈𝚃͟𝘌 .ᐟ @flamethrowings]

frigid air nipped at reddened nose ╱
eyes sharp ﹠ inert against the canvas
of white laid before her. snowflakes
scintillated in the dark, snowcat’s
high-beams offering a channel of
light atop untouched ground.

digits tightened around throttle; the
vast uncertainty of what •

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

new plan of attack.

On the verge of collapsing, 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈 climbed over a hill and was bathed in the snowplow’s blinding headlights. He raised a hand to shield his eyes from the bright illumination. ‘ Thank God, ’ he said, before falling to his knees. When the driver —

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

the face.

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

That’s where you’re wrong, kid. I call 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵. Tragedy sticks to people like gum on the bottom of a shoe.

I never had a bad stroke of luck until the day I got drafted. After that, I can’t turn around without having’ some creepy, crawly sonofabitch starin’ me in —

[˖ ྀྀ ･ 𓂃 𝓓𝗔͟𝗥͟𝗥𝗬. @chapeIofpain]

the 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 of me? what’s that supposed
to mean? —— you’re like, super
judgmental, man . . . how does that
usually work out for you in the end?
bad shit could happen to anyone.
tragedy doesn’t care who or
𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 you are.

[𝚁.𝙹. 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈. @arcticoutlast]

‘ Hmmph. ’ Macready poked the stick into her abdomen. ‘ You seem to have all the right parts in the right places, ’ he said, eyelids narrowing skeptically at the results. ‘ But I can’t know for sure until I do blood test. ’ A beat. ‘ Hold your hand out for me. ’

[˖ ྀྀ ･ 𓂃 ℒ𝘐𝘕͟𝘋͟𝘈 .ᐟ @cabingore]

arms cross, brows knit together as
sharp gaze shoots daggers towards
the stranger. ❛ yeah, I’d say so ——
is this normally how you approach
people you don’t know? ❜

[˖ ྀྀ ･ 𓂃 𝓙𝗨͟𝗟͟𝗘𝗦. @locketfervor]

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