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Arsonist's Lullaby

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Reblog this to ease the back pain of the person you reblogged it from

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(Not) Another Joker

Over time, effects from Danny’s ghost form starts to bleed over into his human form.

His skin gains a deathly pallor. His hair turns white before gaining an ectoplasmic green tinge. When he smiles, it looks just a bit too wide to be human.

He, completely coincidentally, looks a lot like the Joker.

Not that he realized that fact for a while. Sure, Joker’s crimes may make the news sometimes, but it’s not like anyone in Amity Park paid that much thought to a criminal in an entirely different state. The connection just… never occurred to anyone.

Well, that was until Danny ended up in Gotham for [dealer’s choice of reason—college, vacation, runaway, etc]

Because then everyone noticed, and it started to cause lots of problems for him.

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(Not) Another Joker

Over time, effects from Danny’s ghost form starts to bleed over into his human form.

His skin gains a deathly pallor. His hair turns white before gaining an ectoplasmic green tinge. When he smiles, it looks just a bit too wide to be human.

He, completely coincidentally, looks a lot like the Joker.

Not that he realized that fact for a while. Sure, Joker’s crimes may make the news sometimes, but it’s not like anyone in Amity Park paid that much thought to a criminal in an entirely different state. The connection just… never occurred to anyone.

Well, that was until Danny ended up in Gotham for [dealer’s choice of reason—college, vacation, runaway, etc]

Because then everyone noticed, and it started to cause lots of problems for him.

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it's really interesting to me how you can tell the level of respect azula has for mai, ty lee, and zuko through how she directs them within the confines of the fire nation's expectations of them all.

azula is someone who really values and upholds the fire nation's expectations of conformity, especially in regards to court. she herself plays her part as she's expected to. she plays by the rules her father sets for her, parrots his beliefs, renames omashu "new ozai" for her father, tasks herself with finding the avatar (zuko's fool's errand) and conquering ba sing se (iroh's greatest military failure), and is consequently ultimately hurt and betrayed when her father punishes her despite this by refusing to let her come with him during sozin's comet and giving her a meaningless title to mollify her. to her, playing by the rules that are set out for them within the fire nation, whether spoken or not, is essential, and to not play by them results in punishment. this mindset was already instilled in her before zuko's agni kai, but it was no doubt fully solidified by witnessing her brother pay for his inability to play the role he was assigned as a dutiful son and strong heir.

as a result of this, zuko is the most obvious liability of the fire nation kids in azula's eyes. he has already failed to abide by the rules once and is likely to do so again if she doesn't stop him from doing so. make no mistake, azula does not want zuko to stumble again. she manipulates him into coming home despite his wavering resolve by reminding him of what he could have and what he's always wanted (their father's respect, his honor and birthright restored, the return of a feeling of normalcy/familiarity) because she loves her brother and wants him to play the role he's supposed to successfully. if she didn't love him, she could easily have taken him home as a prisoner like her father wanted her to initially or killed him. i won't even entertain the notion that she brought him home specifically to take the heat if the avatar wasn't really dead; that is a deeply stupid thing for her to do which would result in her judgment and honor being called into serious question as she's the one who vouched that zuko killed the avatar which would be a failure in her role as the dutiful daughter and honorable princess.

so azula appeals to zuko's weaknesses to get him home because she loves him. but she still doesn't respect him because of his prior failings, so she tries to keep him on the straight and narrow within the confines of their roles in the fire nation. she confronts him about visiting their disgraced uncle in prison, tells him his actions could be misconstrued (although she knows exactly how zuko means them; she wants to remind him to play his part or suffer the consequences once more). she shuts him up in war council meetings by speaking over him so that he won't say something that would result in their father punishing him once more. she attempts to prompt him into letting her know if they should be worried about the avatar still, although he doesn't confide in her since he doesn't trust her and instead takes matters into his own hands by hiring combustion man. azula does not threaten to harm zuko herself if he fails in his role; she instead manipulates him with her knowledge of his personality and reminds him of the harm that their father will cause him if he fails.

ty lee is another problem azula thinks she needs to solve. once more, she loves ty lee, but ty lee has shown azula that she is not a reliable person to play her role as she's meant to. azula believes ty lee's failure to be even worse than zuko's, though. zuko said the wrong thing in a war council meeting because he didn't understand the rules; ty lee understood the rules, and she chose to run away anyway. this is not just ty lee being oblivious, but her choosing to intentionally disobey the rules.

so when azula comes to collect ty lee to resume playing her role, azula is initially friendly, perhaps giving ty lee the benefit of the doubt that she might have wised up, but the moment ty lee demonstrates that she is still refusing to play by the rules azula is convinced they all have to play by, azula turns to manipulations and threats of harm to pull ty lee back into line. like with zuko, azula loves ty lee but does not respect her. she knows that ty lee will not play the role society says she must unless azula coerces her into doing so. unlike with zuko, ty lee does not require multiple corrections from azula. the threat of harm once is enough for ty lee to return to her duties. noticeably, ty lee also manipulates azula a lot when she does so, showcasing her awareness of the roles they're all playing and her ability to play with the best of them.

but mai is different from zuko and ty lee. azula both loves and respects mai. yes, azula has to go out of her way to collect mai as well, but mai has moved to omashu with her parents. she never stopped playing her role. azula does not believe mai would ever stop. she respects mai's intelligence in a way she doesn't with zuko and ty lee because mai respects the rules of the game. so azula not only never utilizes threats or manipulation with mai, but she treats mai as almost an equal and allows mai to treat her as an equal. she asks mai to come along with her, and mai agrees. she promotes mai to a position of power above that of her parents, and mai obliges. she says that the trade of bumi for tom-tom is unfair, and mai calls it off. but it's not only when mai plays by the rules of the game that azula respects her and does not threaten or manipulate her to keep her in line. even when mai blatantly disobeys azula's orders, azula allows it. even when mai screams at her during the beach, azula allows it. mai knows that azula will allow it, too. she openly scoffs at the idea of azula lightningbending at her. why? because azula respects mai and her judgment. she sees mai as an equal because mai plays the game as well as azula does, including her moments of rebellion (this is undoubtedly what azula disobeying ozai by bringing zuko home under false pretenses and directly lying to him is, albeit a much higher stake rebellion than mai's refusal to search the sewers).

notably, while azula declares her intent to kill zuko after he commits treason and tells ozai that she lied to him, even when mai and ty lee take the ultimate step out of line with their roles, she doesn't allow them to be executed. i say "allow" here because she's not the fire lord, so it wouldn't be her personal decree to have them executed but rather her father's. they committed high treason. they not only aided and abetted in a prison break and the escape of some of the fire nation's most wanted but physically attacked a member of the royal family and the crown princess at that. this is a crime that's punishable by death, and yet mai and ty lee stay in their cells in boiling rock, seemingly unharmed given mai's unscathed appearance at the end of sozin's comet. ozai would have no reason to not simply execute them, but azula would since she loves them. it's entirely possible, she was on some level holding onto hope that she could coach them back into line again somehow.

but why does she hope to rehabilitate or at least preserve her friends while aiming to kill zuko? it's pretty simple: when zuko failed to play his part he did so in a way that meant azula was punished for having failed in her role as the dutiful daughter and honorable princess because she chose to play a different role that she gained nothing from playing: the role of zuko's sister. so in azula's eyes, zuko went out of his way to not only lapse in his role as the dutiful son and strong heir but to purposefully fail to play the role of her brother in a way he knew would cause her harm. do mai and ty lee also fail to play the roles of her friends while instead revealing their loyalty to someone else entirely when they betray her? yes, but them doing so does not result in ozai's wrath.

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I think they would've been friends

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Im not sure if you meant ttte/rws or only rws but ... Got anything for Diesel 10? If its only rws then you can do James for this ask or something,,

Its both!

1. Diesel Ten was original brought to Sodor by BR to be their spy on the NWR.

2. He was assigned to the steelworks and given his claw by Crovan's Gate. This was technically illegal, but as he immediately put it too use scaring the steam engines, BR let it slide.

3. He worked with two class 08s prior to Sodor, Splatter and Dodge. In the nineties, they would be sent for scrap, but were saved after 10 put in a good word for them with STH.

4. His name comes from the fact he is NWR D10, his friends call him Ten, but everyone else calls his Diesel 10. His official name is Tencent.

5. When he arrived at the Sodor Steelworks, he quickly took charge of their two class 08s, Arry (Harry) and Bert (Albert). The three quickly became many of the NWR Engine's greatest fears.

6. No one is quite sure which Warship he actually is, as BR record were intentionally changed to hide this from the NWR. If 10 knows, hes not telling.

7. When Sodor officially left BR in 92, 10 was revealed to be a double agent. He had been helping engines escape to Sodor since his arrival. Thomas had saved one of his sisters from scrap years before so when br hat that looked for a spy to be sent to Sodor he had volunteered. All of the intent of helping others like his sister escape.

8. During his time as a double agent, many thought Thomas and Ten loathed each other, but it was revealed they were actually friends the entire time, with their fights being staged to help tens cover.

9. Even after his reveal to be on the nwr's side, Diesel 10 still keeps up his pranking of the Sodor engines. Not because he has to because he finds it funny.

10. When his betrayal was revealed to BR are they attempted to reclaim him as he was technically a BR engine still. It was quickly found out he had more control of his claw that they thought, so when the NWR offered to purchase him it was accepted.

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Forever and Ever... Even in the 1920s-1960s

Started going down a long digression in the 2+4 essay. Gonna follow this breadcrumb trail over here instead...

One of my arguments is that Gordon actually behaves well and graciously way more often than he is usually given credit for (and starts doing this way earlier than often credited, too).

Along the way, I realized that his spots of bad behavior are not random. When he starts acting all Ass, it's almost always in the period of some sort of major change in his life:

The Three Railway Engines - *waves hand vaguely* all of it -> he's just transferred from the GNR to Sodor

Troublesome Engines - *waves hand again* y'know, all of it -> Thomas moved away :(

Henry the Green Engine - harrumphing about how Henry has let the side down in like three different ways directly after Henry's major reconstructive surgery -> the horrible wreck where Henry, his best friend, could have died, and instead was in hospital the rest of the damn winter

Gordon the Big Engine - "Mind you keep on the rails today!" and then, when he gets pushback, retreating to old friend "boasting" -> is he mother-henning Henry?? he's explicitly referencing the Kipper accident! I would not be too shocked to learn that Gordon gets twinges of unease that he never examines every so often whenever he sees Henry with a train

Percy the Small Engine - "Quack quack quack!" and trying to bully Duck (lol. lmao, even) -> Percy is gonna move away :(

Main Line Engines - getting on his high horse about "Branch Line Diesels" and then getting into a huge spat with Edward that results a brand-new beat-down of a dead horse named "Edward is Weak and Useless" -> We learn in "Wrong Road" that his fireman is new. Presumably his old fireman advanced to fill the role, leaving the vacancy... which means that Gordon recently lost his old driver to retirement.

You might be thinking "well yeah, stressors are stressful, most people's outbreaks of bad behavior have to do with some sort of Big Life Thing" - I certainly thought so, for a mo'. But this isn't true of the other major characters? James's worst behavior in the Wilbert books comes when he is slightly delayed sometimes during his work day and when Toby just, erm… exists. Thomas's worst behavior is because he… doesn't like his snowplough, and has a careless cleaner.

No, only Gordon's poor behavior can so consistently be linked to big changes. Indeed, not many RWS characters have been seen with quite as much of an interior life as we learn Gordon has in "Tenders for Henry." By that point, Gordon has matured enough that he doesn't express his feelings in this emotionally-stupid make-it-everyone's-problem sort of way. But we can see clearly that the end of steam seems to affect him more deeply than anyone else at Tidmouth.

So yeah, I think there's something real and insightful in the above pattern. Once again, my friends - Galloping Sausage with Feelings.

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So we've heard about Tornado, but what about the other new-build in Britain, Lady of Legend?

First of all, you guys haven’t heard anything about Tornado - I’m working through some other stuff first, but I have got some stuff in mind for her. 

As for Lady of Legend, well, it’s a short tale, but a tale nonetheless.

For some background, Lady of Legend is not - strictly speaking - a new build like Tornado. She’s a rebuild of a GWR Hall class (Maindy Hall, to be precise) into a Saint class. 

To begin with, Maindy Hall was not on board with being rebuilt. She was quite proud of being a Hall class, and had no desire to be rebuilt, even if it meant no longer being in scrapyard condition - which she was from the 1960s until 2009. 

But this is England, and she was given no choice in the matter. Many protests were made by Maindy, (she has never and likely will never refer to herself as Lady of Legend) and she was told to be “less ungrateful” and should “consider herself honoured.” This did shut her up, but didn’t stop her from being upset - it merely meant that she instead internalized a lot of potentially toxic views on railway preservation as a whole. 

A lot of her complaints came from the reasoning behind her rebuild - there are already ten Hall class engines in operable state - they have enough.

Maindy was greatly offended by that, and this kinda set the tone for the rest of the rebuild process - it took considerably longer than it should have because she actively tried to sabotage the works at several points. 

[It should also be noted that the idea that “ten Halls is enough” is also very offensive to the other ten Hall locomotives! Olton Hall - of Harry Potter fame - is especially upset by this, and has apparently been negotiating with Warner Brothers to ensure that he will not have to leave his current location within the Harry Potter Studio Exhibition for at least another decade. It’s also very interesting to note that while there were ten Halls in preservation when Maindy’s overhaul began (with 7 operational), that there are now 0 Halls in operation, as they have all coincidentally gone into overhaul at the same time...]

After finishing the rebuild, Maindy, now “trapped” by her “captors” at Didcot, spent most of 2019 shuttling around the heritage railway, trying to figure out how to get out - aside from her intense dislike of everyone and everything at Didcot, (except for fellow Hall class Hinderton Hall) she was especially concerned about the fact that they were at some point going to literally take her wheels away - the Saint class could be converted to 4-4-2 Atlantics, and plans were in the works for her to undergo that conversion at some point. 

She hadn’t been able to put a concrete plan in place (Sodor, perhaps? They had some GWR stock) when 2020 occurred, and the world went crazy. Maindy intentionally got herself shut up in a shed with Hinderton and the pair spent most of 2020 basically being each other’s emotional support, although it should be noted that neither one of them are particularly good at it. They also began to formulate a plan... 

With 2021, the men at Didcot were relieved to discover that “Lady of Legend” was no longer a difficult engine to be around, thanks to Hinderton Hall being a good influence. 

Both engines laugh at this when nobody’s looking. 

As of right now, Lady of Legend is a model prisoner at Didcot, and has even been granted work-release privileges at the Severn Valley Railway. Because he was such a help to her, and because she refuses to let him be very far away from her, Hinderton went with Lady as a static exhibit. They’re there right now, actually, however it should be noted that on their way to the SVR, they were “misrouted”, and ended up going most of the way to London Marylebone before anyone noticed the error. 

I am not a betting man, but from the smug looks on their faces when they arrived at the SVR after their brief escapade, one would think that they had accomplished something - a dry run perhaps?

Additionally, the secretive conversations they’ve been having with fellow Barry Scrapyard survivors Hagley Hall and  Raveningham Hall would also imply that, whatever they do, they don’t intend to do so alone...

But that’s a story for another time...

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a non-selective plan for the resurgence of fic commissions

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wish you well

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Why doesn’t anyone in the Order of the Phoenix , even the marauders, tell Harry Potter stories about his parents, positive or negative? Like they tell him things like “you’re so much like your father” or “you look so much like you mother” or “we used to get into trouble all the time” but never “oh hey your did this one time I remember….ect” or “your mom did this weird thing once it was so funny ect…” like stories like this would be a goldmine to Harry of identity and belonging. How well did they all know each other???

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my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

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emperor kuzco was clearly gay