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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!

Bonus:

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Weeping Angels Are Conceptual Entities

In their first appearance (Series 3’s Blink), the Weeping Angels are a race of monsters who can only move and live when no other creature is looking at them. As soon as they are perceived, they become quantum locked and turn into stone statues. They feed by shifting their victims back in time and absorbing the potential energy of the life they would’ve lived in their original era.

Yet even in that story they’re called “creatures of the abstract.” This description would make more sense in their next appearance (S5’s Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone), where we see a long-dormant angel crash-land a human ship above a labyrinth that held a multitude of other dormant angels.

In this story the angels display the ability to act on the world around them in non-physical ways. The first angel causes the ship it’s in to crash without leaving its prison cell. Then it inspects the area around the ship by using a projection of its image in a camera recording to manifest outside the crash site. While it does this, it is also able to deadlock the temporary shelter where its image manifests.

Then, after killing two soldiers from a military force that arrived on the planet to re-capture it, the angel strips their cerebral cortex and uses their consciousness to communicate via radio with the Doctor, his companions, and the other soldiers. All the while the radiation from the crashed ship slowly revives the dormant angels in the labyrinth, and they all proceed to hunt the humans as they try (and fail) to harness the energy from a time rift in the hopes of becoming a formidable force in the universe again.

Besides seeing an expansion of their abilities in this episode, we also get some interesting lore from a book written about the angels. The book explains how the projection of an angel is an extension of it, “That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel.” It speculates on their abstract origin, “What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if, one day, our dreams no longer needed us?” And it even explains how they can infect and possess a living being who looks into their eyes, “The eyes are not the windows of the soul, they are the doors. Beware what may enter them.” And as the other angels in the story begin to regenerate from shapeless humanoid statues to their angelic forms, the Doctor states “Their image is their power.”

All of this means that the angels in this story have become, essentially, conceptual entities. They are perceived physically as stone statues, but they operate primarily as non-corporeal beings.

“As conceptual entities only seem to affect the minds of their victims, it’s often said that the entities are ‘made out of pure thought’, but this is clearly inaccurate as thought itself isn’t a substance. Although many people are determined to think of the entities as telepathic presences, or neurological parasites, or in some cases even ‘spirits’, in fact it’s much more accurate to think of them as nothing more than hostile ideas. They exist by bypassing matter altogether, and instead giving themselves structure inside the meanings of things.” — The Book of the War

At this point, the angels are no longer simply monsters who move when they aren’t seen. They are living ideas who exist on the periphery of perception. They affect the world primarily through non-physical means. As conceptual entities, the angels infect the physical world, reshaping its meaning to suit their needs and to give them power and form.

This post is already long enough, so instead of going into more detail about other stories. I’d like to conclude by mentioning how in their most recent TV stories, in Flux, we see a group of angels working as operatives for Division. They are killers-for-hire for this ancient temporal power that exists outside of normal time and space, a notion that goes back to their original description in Blink as “the lonely assassins.” In other words, they are conceptual entities who are living weapons at the service of a Time Lord interference group that has abandoned the physical universe.

This may all be coincidence, but regardless, I love thinking about how the angels have gone from being a creative monster of the week to becoming another televised incarnation of ideas from the Faction Paradox and Doctor Who literary universes.

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two riders

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Barrow-in-Furness in 1967

A 'Gronk' (Class 08) shunter hauls a curious 'railtour' comprised of brakevans while a solitary 'Metrovick' (Class 28) waits in the station for the signal to drop, its duty is unknown.

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Random TTTE head canons and ideas No.3

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 Dolgoch.

No.2 “Dolgoch” “We must keeps trains moving and on time”

Dolgoch better known as “Dolly” by the other engines or “The Old Lady” by TR volunteers is a focused and no nonsense engine. That not to say she is unkind, she’s always happy to advise, or settle arguments among the engines, and will often be the first to volunteer to teach newcomers, she just tends to look at things from a viewpoint of practicality. Due to being the only engine running in the early days of preservation she knows how to make do in even the most difficult of conditions. She won’t stand for waste or excess, often chastising the others for over filled tanks and bunkers. The other engines know her concerns come from a place of love and that they are very lucky to have her on their railway.

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not cringetober bc i was busy today

but i did get a doodle done for 40 years of thomas the tank engine <3

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Alright think I've cracked it

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"To Alf, there is more that meets the eye."

I felt possessed to do a Transformers Animated-inspired design of diesel engine Alf (given his secret origins from the planet Cybertron)

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Reblog to kill it faster

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Random TTTE head canons and ideas No.2

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 Alf

No.9 “Alf”: “A bit of work a bit of fun then a bit of work again.” Alf likes to take life slow while also working hard. When not preforming his primary task of maintaining the line his favorite pass time is telling jokes or coming up with riddles. Being so important to the maintenance of the line has left Alf to deeply understand the importance of knowledge. He’ll take every opportunity he can to learn about how to better do his job and from time to time has even come up with solutions to more unusual dilemmas faced by the maintenance volunteers.

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I love the shift in doctor who from “the tardis is a woman in the way a boat is a woman” to “the tardis is a woman in that it sorta has a personality” to “the tardis is a woman in that it’s a living sentient being with a literal soul and she actually controls herself because she likes taking the doctor on adventures and she loves the doctor so so much and they’re each others family and he takes care of her and sweet talks her and gives her little kisses and they’re marriedddd” That’s how every guy with a boat feels anyway