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I genuinely think Philomena Cunk interview questions are academically valuable in that 1. They force experts to consider ridiculous scenarios they never would have thought of having to deal with and 2. They test the ability of academics to explain their fields to laypeople and challenge the idea that “everybody knows xyz.” I think part of all higher level degree programs should involve having to get interviewed by Philomena Cunk

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Random crossover idea: Lady the magic engine is actually a crashed and abandoned Tardis.

Magic gold dust is actually focused Artron energy.

The Magic Railroad is really an isolated section of the Time Vortex.

The reason vehicles are alive on Earth is Lady’s consciousness and life energy got split off and spread around the world attaching itself to what was primary to her personality identity which was being a vehicle!

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"Oh Gordon, my actual appearance isn't a punishment my friend"

"It's a gift to be better. To be perfect"

I really like how this Au is turning out

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46239 City of Chester waits to depart from London Euston with an express for the north in the early 1960's. Euston would be a very different-looking station by the end of the decade!

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It’s not 12 ether :/

has anyone figured out how much art you need to make to make your mental illness go away

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happy 1/1

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I love it when people do truly unique and fun customs

How to Dragon Your Train

Ok it's a phoenix, but to a 4yr, dragon is close enough. Ttte BR Class 37 Europhoenix, hand painted by me for two boys who are crazy about these 'dragon' trains.

Just repainted a couple of D40/D261/Bowler. Body shape is the same, and since wooden railway tends to ignore wheel configuration...

Yes I exaggerated the phoenix because the wooden one is portions are shortened and the phoenix is the best part of the livery.

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…baaa…?

its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

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Random TTTE head canons and ideas No.4

Even though the Talyllyn Railway and Skarloey Railway have very remarkably similar history and motive power rosters, the engines themselves have very different and unique personalities to each other. This is a quick bio for Sir Haydn

No.3 “Sir Haydn” “I’d tell you a knock knock joke, but I haven’t any hands.” Humble, intelligent and quiet are the words most people would use to describe Sir Haydn, while his fellow engines and close friends would also add funny to the list. Sir Haydn will take any chances he can to make someone laugh. With a unique perspective on the world his jokes don’t always make sense to those unfamiliar with his sense of humor. Sir Haydn will always find the absurd in the mundane and the logical in the ridiculous. Even at the worst of times the others know they can rely on Sir Haydn to find something to laugh about.

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I'm seeing a lot of posts where the overall point is good, but it's still full of dubious information. People act like questioning the sources is a betrayal of the virtue of the point, but, and I cannot stress this enough:

You should still question sources you agree with.

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New head canon! Mr. Hugh feds a stray cat that wandered into the yard. All the engines except Duncan (he likes the cat secretly but worries it will get hurt. Because a cat the hung around the factor he worked at got hurt) enjoy having the cat around. The cat however is particularly fond of Sir Handel and likes to sleep on top of his water tank. The cat has been named “Mrs. Brown” due to the color of her coat and her affection for Sir Handel.

You know, I can imagine that a lot of the engines do. I mean if Gordon can enjoy cats, and Gordon is very picky about who he likes to be around, I can imagine most of the engines either like them as well, or at most, couldn't give a toss!

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Wanted to combine my two interests, so here’s ttte x transformers, and this is Rusty as a transformer

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(Here r some decent artworks)

Yeah, tbh I gotta agree. We need more honest critiques. It does feel like too many folks r like the mum who praises everything their kid does, no matter how shitty, n doesn’t teach them that reality is ok. They will feck up. They need to learn from that. They need to know what they can improve on. This is especially true, because the fandom is often a sanctuary for them. It’s not to be nasty, it’s to keep them grounded n not let them get too full of their own stink.

Sometimes, stuff is comedically bad and still gets praised - and defended. Sometimes, it’s decent work, it has great potential, but something just makes it….not quite right. Remember magic railroad - you can love it, you can hate it, but sometimes, a good thorough critic is necessary to learn from. We get distracted by our own minds sometimes.

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Yesss! You get it!

Completely agreed. The potential for decent fanfics exists, even with crossovers.

But in terms of crossovers alone, people put Thomas characters with feck knows what random thing, simply because they like both. They try to make them work, n it’s a whole round peg in square hole deal. They can’t accept that some things just don’t work, n that’s ok. It’s not meant to be, just because u want it to.

It still takes considerable thought….and imagination. Not enablers. A lot of folks think that simply because others. Tell them they like their stuff, that it’s automatically good. They may just be saying this to b kind n not offend, or because they lack the same amount of imagination, n think yep that’s good - whether it really is or not. A hive mind sorts deal. I’ve stumbled across some shite that I’m just like

When I was in college, we had writing critique classes, n let me tell u. They were brutal. You’d get a few things that were pretty good, amongst a bunch of utter tat that made u want to crawl the bloody ceiling.

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I am both these 😆

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So… funny story…

I was watching TFA season 2 and I saw the pattern of “all spark fragment goes in thing; thing becomes new bot” and I thought

“Gee imagine if it went in a train, we could officially get Astrotrain. But wait, he wouldn’t be a triple changer…. Unless….”

And so Blitzwing now has a son. Enjoy!

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