#(it’s ‘roads’ by edward thomas)

[tomhardymyking]

This was 𝗧𝗼𝗺's last scene as 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆 in 𝑴𝒂𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒙: 𝑭𝒖𝒓𝒚 𝑹𝒐𝒂𝒅, this is how we said goodbye to 𝗠𝗮𝘅 🥺💖

How happy it made me that today they broadcast this film on a national channel in Spain (for the 𝑭𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔𝒂 release) 🥰💓 We need more of 𝗧𝗼𝗺 as 𝗠𝗮𝘅 🙏🏻

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Así fue la última escena de 𝗧𝗼𝗺 como 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆 en 𝑴𝒂𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒙: 𝑭𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒂 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂, así despedimos a 𝗠𝗮𝘅 🥺💖

Qué feliz me hizo que hoy emitieran en un canal nacional de España esta película (por el estreno de 𝑭𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔𝒂) 🥰💓 Necesitamos más de 𝗧𝗼𝗺 como 𝗠𝗮𝘅 🙏🏻

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[vixvigil]

incredible start

[whisperthatruns]

Roads

I love roads: The goddesses that dwell Far along invisible Are my favorite gods. Roads go on While we forget, and are Forgotten like a star That shoots and is gone. On this earth 'tis sure We men have not made             Anything that doth fade So soon, so long endure: The hill road wet with rain In the sun would not gleam Like a winding stream If we trod it not again. They are lonely While we sleep, lonelier For lack of the traveller Who is now a dream only.                 From dawn's twilight And all the clouds like sheep On the mountains of sleep They wind into the night. The next turn may reveal Heaven: upon the crest The close pine clump, at rest Ancl black, may Hell conceal. Often footsore, never Yet of the road I weary,                   Though long and steep and dreary, As it winds on for ever. Helen of the roads, The mountain ways of Wales And the Mabinogion tales, Is one of the true gods, Abiding in the trees, The threes and fours so wise, The larger companies, That by the roadside be, And beneath the rafter Else uninhabited Excepting by the dead; And it is her laughter At morn and night I hear When the thrush cock sings Bright irrelevant things, And when the chanticleer Calls back to their own night Troops that make loneliness With their light footsteps’ press, As Helen’s own are light. Now all roads lead to France And heavy is the tread Of the living; but the dead Returning lightly dance: Whatever the road bring To me or take from me, They keep me company With their pattering, Crowding the solitude Of the loops over the downs, Hushing the roar of towns and their brief multitude.

Edward Thomas (1878 – 1917)

[richardanarchist]

The green roads

The green roads that end in the forest Are strewn with white goose feathers this June,

Life marks left behind by someone gone to the forest To show his track. But he has never come back.

Down each green road a cottage looks at the forest. Round one the nettle towers; two are bathed in flowers.

An old man along the green road to the forest Strays from one, from another a child alone.

In the thicket bordering the forest, All day long a thrush twiddles his song.

It is old, but the trees are young in the forest, All but one like a castle keep, in the middle deep.

That oak saw the ages pass in the forest: They were a host, but their memories are lost,

For the tree is dead: all things forget the forest Excepting perhaps me, when now I see

The old man, the child, the goose feathers at the edge of the forest, And hear all day long the thrush repeat his song.

Edward Thomas

[bwthornton]

Roads by Edward Thomas #EdwardThomas #Roads #poetry #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity

[batboyblog]

My Super Gay/Queer Reading List

The Long Run by James Acker

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Another Dimension of Us by Mike Albo

Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak

Alan Cole Is Not a Coward by Eric Bell

Alan Cole Doesn’t Dance by Eric Bell

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker

Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron

Dragging Mason County by Curtis Campbell

The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan

The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich

Half Bad by Sally Green

Half Wild by Sally Green

Half Lost by Sally Green

Heartbreak Boys by Simon James Green

Gay Club by Simon James Green

You’re the One That I Want by Simon James Green

We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra

Totally Joe by James Howe

After School Activities by Dirk Hunter

At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson

The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson

A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson

The Boy Who Couldn’t Fly Straight by Jeff Jacobson

Haffling by Caleb James

The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune

A Destiny of Dragons by T.J. Klune

The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune

A Wish Upon the Stars by T.J. Klune

The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune

Flash Fire by T.J. Klune

Heat Wave by T.J. Klune

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg

The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg

Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

Every Day by David Levithan

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

Ryan and Avery by David Levithan

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis

Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden

When Ryan Came Back by Devon McCormack

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Fraternity by Andy Mientus

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller

Hero by Perry Moore

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

More Than This by Patrick Ness

Junior Hero Blues by J.K. Pendragon

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid

Kens by Raziel Reid

Emmett by Lev A.C. Rosen

Jack of Hearts by Lev A.C. Rosen

Camp by Lev A.C. Rosen

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez

Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez

So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez

The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Adam Sass

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

All Kinds of Other by James Sie

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

Freak Show by James St. James

Ray of Sunlight by Brynn Stein

The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis

366 Days by Kiyoshi Tanaka

The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas

Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes

Always the Almost by Edward Underhill

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Tumblr got rid of yellow so I couldn't do pride colors, sorry!

If you want help picking something out just send me an ask with what kind of thing you're looking for and I'll select something for you, and if you end up reading something because you saw this list, please let me know

[labuenosairesfrancaise]

OTTERSHAW PARK

The mansion

Hi guys!!

I'm sharing Ottershaw Park. This is the 18th building for my English Collection.

I decorated most of the house ground floor, for reference.

The interiors:

History of the house: In 1784 Thomas Sewell died and ownership of Ottershaw Park passed to his son, Thomas Bailey Heath Sewell, Lieutenant Colonel in the Surrey Fencible Cavalry. He sold it in 1796 to Edmund Boehm who improved the interior of the house and enlarged the estate by buying tracts of wasteland and allotments.

In about 1805 Boehm built, to the design of the eminent architect James Wyatt, two Grecian-style lodges at the new entrance to the estate from where a coach road ran to the mansion. The same architect may also have designed for Boehm the Gothic Chapel which originally served as a kitchen, bake house, dairy and pantry but was demolished in 1962.

Ottershaw Park was bought in 1819 by Major General Sir George Wood, a Lieutenant General in the Bengal Army. At this time the estate was largely self-supporting with stables, smithy, brew house, bake house, laundry, dairy, slaughter houses, ice house and two farms.

Sir George died in 1824 and the estate passed to his son, also named George, who in 1841 sold the property to Richard Crawshay who built a new bailiff’s house, farm buildings and brew house.

On Crawshay’s death in 1859 the estate was bought by Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke MP, who made a number of alterations to the mansion. He also gave the money and land for the building of Christchurch and the first village school.

The estate was later sold to Lawrence James Baker, a stockbroker and MP who sold it in 1910 to the millionaire, Friedrich Gustav Jonathan Eckstein. Eckstein demolished the old mansion and replaced it with the present building designed by Niven & Wigglesworth which is more magnificent and much larger.

During World War I Eckstein made the building available to the British Red Cross as an Auxiliary Home Hospital but soon after the war sold it to Miss Susan Dora Cecilia Schintz, the daughter of a Swiss nitrates millionaire. Miss Schintz lost most of her sizeable inheritance through gifts to charity and bad investments and finally had to sell the estate. Much of it was acquired by the Ottershaw Park Investment Company (OPIC) which planned to develop the rim of the estate for housing. In 1932 the mansion and central part of the park became Ottershaw College, a boarding school for boys which for a short time was very successful, but eventually became insolvent and finally closed at the outbreak of World War II.

During the war The Vacuum Oil Company leased the mansion as offices and laboratories. From 1940 much of the surrounding land was either ploughed for crops or grazed as part of the war effort and the woodland areas were used by the 19 Vehicle Reserve Depot (VRD) for storing vehicles.

The Vacuum Oil Company moved back to London at the end of 1947 and Surrey County Council established Ottershaw School which was opened in 1948. The school prospered until 1980 when it closed due to financial constraints.

In 1982 the developers DeltaHome converted the mansion and other buildings into the present residential estate.

Link: https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/places/surrey/runnymede/ottershaw/ottershaw_park_estate/

The garden:

More info: https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/places/surrey/runnymede/ottershaw/ottershaw_park_estate/

The floorplan:

This house fits a 64x64  lot, but I think you can make it a 50x40 if you lose part of the garden and the conservatories on each side.

Piano nobile furnished, the rest is up to your liking.

Hope you like it.

You will need the usual CC I use:

all Felixandre cc

all The Jim

SYB

Anachrosims

Regal Sims

King Falcon railing

The Golden Sanctuary

Cliffou

Dndr recolors

Harrie cc

Tuds

Lili's palace cc

Please enjoy, comment if you like the house and share pictures of your game!

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[togetherness23]

‘Bases’ are places where each team/king are most likely to frequent and return to. This setup might change, but the bases (capitals?) of the newer kingdoms in 👑👑👑 are:

Ffarquhar- When Thomas defects and declares himself King, he retreats and creates a base there. This is a huge inconvenience due to King James’ position at Knapford but it also allows him to be able to retreat along his branchline. It limits his scope of being able to go out and recruit allies/subjects unless he can find a way to not only sneak past King James to go up north, but also King Edward’s position at Wellsworth to go south or east.

Kellsthorpe Road/Crovan’s Gate- When Emily defected and declared herself Queen, having allied with King Arthur right out the gate, she boldly positioned herself at Kellsthorpe Road. King Arthur positioned himself close to hers at her suggestion, at Crovan’s Gate. Both positions and their alliance became immediate threats to King Henry’s base at Vicarstown, now having much closer enemies and also having blocked passage to Wellsworth. Queen Emily’s position also puts her at risk of being surrounded on both sides if King Edward ever moves east.

[steam-beasts]

In a general sense, who was infected via bite/scratch ratter than getting the suspicious coal?

Salty - got attacked by a feral Porter. He actually doesn't mind being a reptile-like beast. It means he can go visit Rusty and crawl up Cranky's support beams to talk to him better, plus, he can swim!

Diesel - got scratched up by a feral Duck. Duck suddenly remembered the beef he had with him and just went up and scratched him, then left. He refused to elaborate.

Mavis and Daisy - got cornered by Thomas, Percy and Toby while trying to escape Ffarqhuarr.

Bertie - Got bitten while trying to keep his passengers safe.

Annie and Clarabelle - couldn't go anywhere and got a bit scratched up.

Henrietta - was attacked by a feral Toby. Tried reasoning with him, but it was too late.

Carolyn - was chased around a bit, but escaped. If she could, she would spray water at them. She now treats them like big kittens whenever they act all adorable, and treats Diesel 10 like a dinosaur if she ever sees him.

Cleo - managed to hide from the infected. She's still secretly afraid of them, and has to have Ruth reassure her that they're still the same engines she got to know before.

Ace - escaped, he still treats the engines and infected road vehicles as his friends, but he also treats them like Australian wildlife, and sometimes just pisses one of them off to see what happens. He tried that with Edward to see if he could get on the old guy's nerves. Spoiler; it worked after the 1000th time.

Paxton - got jumped by the NG engines, all at once. He's pretty unnerved now when he goes to the BM quarry and literally squeaks when an engine just suddenly pops out of one of the tunnels without warning. He also struggles to understand Rusty. That little diesel just sometimes spawns everywhere Paxton looks. Rusty's an definite enigma...

[shikariiin]

×Cough-cough×, this is going to be a lot of text, but it's vital that I get answers to these questions(even if it's in a short format, I really need to know that urgently and just now, I'm not kidding). I beg you to answer, your art makes me live, the main AU is absolutely beautiful, please that's all I need 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Questions about the system and the war: Who and where did Spencer work during the war? Do his epaulettes indicate any rank? If so, what opportunities did their ranks give engines? Does he now know that Alice has had a sex change, does he wish her and the baby back? After all, legally Edward still belongs to the duke or his old road if Alice illegally escaped…or how does that work? What would happen if Edward was once again owned by Spencer and the duke?

Questions about Spencer and Alice: Was the decision to have a child a mutual decision, or did Spencer insist on it? Or did they both not want to, but were forced by military department? Did Spencer beat Alice during her pregnancy? Was there any reason for Alice(last straw) to finally decide to run away? What made Spencer so evil/aggressive and why did he beat Alice at all, why? What motivated him? So because person can't just beat up another person just because him feel like it 🤔 Also, did/still does Spencer drink alcohol? Why? How did the duke himself feel about Alice's escape? Did he not even try to look for the steam train he paid money for? Was punishment or double work awaiting Spencer afterwards? After all these accidents, did Spencer ever go to Sodor and did he see Thomas? What is his relationship with the duke? And does the duke have a wife as well?

Questions about Thomas and Topham: Did Charles Hat have any problems with acquiring Edward and the authorities(since rowdy Eddie could do all sorts of illegal shit)? What kind of person was Thomas brought up to be? How would Spencer raise Thomas if he got him? And does Spencer still need a Thomas if he was glad to have an heir?

This many questions is very cheeky of me, however I can't handle the desire and necessity to know more about your main AU 😭😭😭😭💕💕💕 (And yes, how does James know Russian???? That's so cute! I'm from Russia, and I know russian, but why did he learn that language? o^O)

OH WOW THE DEDICATION AHAHA, Sure I'll answer them all numerically 🩵

1. They're not necessarily soldiers, but also tools of war, Spencer was the engine that pulls high ranking officers, used for his speed, while Alice is both a transport engine that doubles as a medic. What role they're given also has it benefits, Spencer was given a special treatment while Alice is treated like everyone else.

2. He doesn't know Alice had a sex change, he does wish deep down under that layer of Arrogance his baby and wife would be back, but mostly Alice running away from him made him the laughing stock of the gresleys, it fueled his desperation more.

3. Since Alice illegally escaped, they still own her, but that's a story for another day, that has it whole arc I'm planning to make 😄, if Edward is owned again by the duke, then he'll have to leave the railway and become a private engine.

4. Spencer insists, a-lot of forcing too from her old railway, yes Spencer beats and emotionally manipulated her, he wasn't even present in Thomas's birth.

5. The last straw for her is when Spencer agreed for them to be bought by the Duke without her consent.

6. Spencer picked her because she was the most beautiful, but quickly saw her as a nuisance, she was shy and quiet, he didn't like how she wouldn't listen to him sometimes, what started as Spencer dragging her into things became a manipulative and abusive cycle, and it became a customary thing for Spencer, he thinks that's the only way he should treat Alice.

7. The Duke in this era felt angered, he deemed the engine was rebellious (this was in the era where women doesn't really have rights yet) there were a search warrant for her for months to no avail, and he chose to leave with Spencer, there's not extra work for him, but to be able to withstand his current work, the Duke upgraded his class through an experiment.

8. He did come to sodor, I do have an arc awaiting for that :3, his relationship with the current duke is like in the show, neutral, and yes the duke has a wife.

9. Sir Charles treated him with specialty, always excusing his antics like a father excusing his child for hitting someone, "they're just kids" mentality, He never had to face the Authorities because Edward never gets caught.

10. They raised Thomas as someone responsible and Diligent, although he is cheeky, if Spencer raised him he would laze around and be snobby, He doesn't need an heir, but he would want Thomas to be back just to save his family reputation.

11. James learned many languages because Indonesia at the time was a network of spice trading, alot of foreigners and people with different backgrounds (although there were an era of colonizations), I do feel like he would learn different languages just so he can know more about them. :D

Awwww thank you so much for the Questions! I'm happy someone liked my AU🩵🥰

[tomhardymyking]

The beginning of May and 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐃𝐚𝐲 (𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐲) is full of news 😮

A new 𝑴𝒂𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒙 film, a prequel to 𝑭𝒖𝒓𝒚 𝑹𝒐𝒂𝒅, is in development, taking place one year before and focusing on 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆's backstory 👏🏻🤩💓!!!

The story is written and 𝗧𝗼𝗺 will return, since he signed for 3 (or 4) films, and 3 years ago he revealed that he is still waiting for the call to play that character more times 🥰

𝗠𝗮𝘅 returning after 9 years, OMG 🥹💖

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El comienzo de mayo y 𝐃𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫 viene cargado de novedades 😮

¡¡¡Una nueva película de 𝑴𝒂𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒙, precuela de 𝑭𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒂 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂, está en desarrollo, tendrá lugar un año antes y se centrará en la historia de fondo de 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆 👏🏻🤩💓!!!

La historia está escrita y 𝗧𝗼𝗺 regresará, ya que firmó para 3 (o 4) películas, y hace 3 años reveló que sigue esperando la llamada para interpretar más veces ese personaje 🥰

𝗠𝗮𝘅 regresando después de 9 años, oh Dios mio 🥹💖

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[duskstargazer]

[1925]

“There you go!” Edward cheered. “You're getting better by the day. Melanie won't even recognize you when you return home.”

“Hah, thanks.” Thomas chuckled. “But… can I tell you something, Edward?”

Edward paused, but gave Thomas the road.

“I… I don't think I want to go back to Vicarstown. I'd much rather stay here with you.”

“Well, I'm happy to hear that, but Melanie can't do all that herself, can she?”

“With how she talks, yes.”

“Thomas.” Edward chuckled.

“Do you hear that?”

“Hear what?”

Hissing. Hissing, screeching, and someone screaming.

A loud whistle cut through the air.

“James!”

A goods train came tearing down the hill at a tremendous rate. Smoke and sparks streamed out on each side.

“They're pushing me! THEY'R PUSHING ME!!” James howled.

“Hold on, James!!” Thomas shouted.

“Thomas, don't-!”

“Look after the yard for me!!”

[hazel-of-sodor]

Day 11 A-Stalled

Day 11 A-Hill

Other Stories

Other Days

Thomas was sitting on a siding next to the mainline sheds at Tidmouth, resting in the sunlight pleasantly. Or he would be if not for the commotion in the sheds. Percy had taken a train of skate to Kellsthorpe Road, but had stalled on the Maron Incline, Gordin’s Hill.

James and Henry of course delighted to tease him about it, which led to Percy bringing up the times they had gotten stuck on the hill.

Soon the engines had all been fussing over who had the least stalls on the hill.

“It's named Gordon's hill!” James said triumphantly, "It can't be him.”

 Gordon cracked open an eye to fix an unimpressed look on the mogul. “I only stalled on the hill once, shortly after I arrived on the island, and there was no established banker for the hill at the time. The trucks began calling it Gordon’s hill after that, and despite everyone else's innumerable failures to climb the hill, the name stuck.”

“Gordon probably has it then.” Henry said ruefully, “I think everyone else has stalled at least twice.”

Edward tilted his head thoughtfully “I'm not certain about that Henry. I can't recall Thomas ever stalling on the hill.”

“Of course he has!” James snapped, “he's one of the smallest here.”

“Then when?” Edward asked simply.

The engines all paused, thinking before slowly turning to the tank engine.

Thomas tried to ignore the questioning looks, but eventually gave in with a sigh, “I don't remember ever stalling there. I might have, but I don't remember doing so.”

“How?!” James demanded, “there's no way you've never stalled.”

Thomas looked irritably at the mogul, “I just said it's possible I have, but I don't remember it. I've never been a mainline engine so I don't cross it that often.”

Edward nodded, “Except for the few times they've all been stuck in the shed, you had no reason to climb the hill. Well, other than when you were banker.”

James stared at Edward disbelievingly, “No. There's no way he was banker.”

Thomas glared at the red engine, “What did you think I was doing at Wellsworth your first day?”

“I thought you were just the yard pilot!”

“The Wellsworth Pilot has always acted as banker,” Henry reminded James.

Thomas sighed, “To be fair, I had been given my branchline by the time he was repaired. They finished Wellsworth’s overhaul, although she had not been named that yet, and she relieved me before James returned to service.”

Henry tilted his thoughtfully, “I forgot James never knew you as station pilot.”

Edward chuckled, “that was probably for the better. James bossing him around might have been the thing that made Thomas snap.”

[jayde-jots]

Atlantic Sir topham let’s goooooooo!!!

Idea actually, the engines all assume sir Topham would suck ass at driving himself, but he’s surprisingly capable?

(Based on season one when he first purchased Percy because it looked like he drove Percy himself and Percy wasn’t too surprised)

Turns out Sir Topham does just fine if not splendid at driving himself. That’s how the engines find out Sir Topham learned how to drive an engine before a car. That’s why he sucked when he first learned to drive with Elizabeth (for those who know who she is.)

Actually head cannon: Sir Topham hatt still sucks at driving on the road. Just not as chaotic as he once was. He almost gave Dowager Hatt a heart attack once from his poor driving skills back in the day.

Also how would Sir Topham hatt feel when learning engine culture so to speak?

Like wheeshing steam at another engine is the equivalent of hugging or patting a fellow engine or slapping them in the face deepened on the circumstances of it.

Buffer to buffer touch when both facing each other is the equivalent of a hug or holding each other, ect.

Also I feel like Percy would wheesh steam at him to make him feel better but forget that he’d have to explain why he did that because the “engine” he wheeshed at didn’t understand the meaning of it and saw it as offensive but it was meant like a hug.

I think Edward would explain engine stuff to Sir Topham or at least try to, maybe they all would

Wow, I had an entirely different viewpoint to this. My first thoughts were that yes, he knows how to operate a steam engine, we saw that he can when he had to become Thomas's fireman in Thomas and the Royal Engine. As well as I'm just assuming it is a requirement of becoming a controller of a railway. Also, I don't think it was implied that STH drove Percy all the way to Sodor, he probably rode back with him while a crew operated Percy. There is a very good reason why 2 people operate a steam engine and not one person, that one person would be in charge of keeping up the coal intake, keeping an eye on the gauges, as well as just driving the thing in the first place. Imagine if you had to do that all in a car. That all being said, yes he knows how to operate an engine, driver and fireman, being an engine is an entirely different experience. Probably a lot of mixed phantom sensations. Like his buffers feeling like hands until someone touches them, then they feel completely different and alien. Or that he can't sense his tender or cab all that well until someone makes them known to him, like an engine bumps him or a worker steps in and operates him manually. Also driving himself is something he struggles with, not being able to sense the levers he needs to move, or being able to turn his head to see what's behind him when reversing, and when he expects to go down one set of tracks but he instead gets put onto another. Train etiquette I believe he understands well enough, a harsh weesh of steam is meant to be a harsh gesture, but slowly letting off the steam and letting the hot air waft to you he knows are two very different things. I imagine it could be a whole Tidmouth team effort, Thomas might show him the basics of shunting, Edward mixed traffic, Henry goods, Gordon express, James passengers, Percy night trains, Toby might do livestock, Duck may give a lecture on what sensations mean what in terms of maintenance, and Donald and Douglas might show him how to plow snow. He might need to build up his muscle memory for a bit before he begins to drive himself, so whoever his crew is probably needs to manually drive him until he gets the sensations correct. During his time with the engines he might say some human expressions to the engines that they don't understand, as well as see some sides to his engines he wasn't aware of before. He might just get fed up with Gordon and James's boasting, and vent about it to Edward I can imagine one conversation already- STH: "Ugh, there should be a clock in that shed. I don't know how long James and Gordon were arguing for but it felt like hours. How you all managed to sleep through that is baffling, their bickering was about driving me up the wall." Edward: "Driving you up the wall??" STH: "Oh! No, sorry Edward, it's a human figure of speech. It means they were making me cross over a stretch of time." Edward: "Oh dear, well, to answer your question sir I guess we've sort of grown accustomed to it. And if it is really bothering us we tell them to stop, it's sort of like what I believe you refer to as an unwritten rule that you don't keep an entire shed awake because everyone knows what the consequences of that are in the morning. Remember when we were all exhausted that one morning last year? That was because Thomas, James, Gordon and Henry all got into a squabble for most of the night and kept me and Percy up." STH: "Oh good grief that happens far to often doesn't it?" Edward: "The expression is 'Bust my buffers', and yes, yes it does."

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Ttte yard sale headcanons

Thomas: doesn’t really care about yard sales, only goes because his aunts do.

Edward: buys entire dish sets because he likes one piece but didn’t want to separate them.

Henry: buys things that he could turn into a plant pot

Gordon: doesn’t do yard sales

James: went to one, bought a nice looking wool jacket that fit him, found out that it was infested with fleas two weeks too late, never went to a single yard sale again.

Percy: gravitates toward the toys.

Toby: buys the most junkiest thing he could find because he’s worried that no one will see the beauty in it and throw it out. Totally is not projecting his past onto it.

Henrietta: makes Toby take the junk back to where he bought it.

Duck: is only interested in buying certain things from yard sales.

Donald: is chewing the seller out for scamming his twin out on a cheap cereal bowl

Douglas: got scammed out of his money over a cheap cereal bowl.

Oliver: haggles with the seller.

Emily: is more interested in clothes than other stuff

Whiff: grabs random stuff off the side of the road and regularly shoplifts from yard sales.

[batboyblog]

Super Gay Reading List

The Long Run by James Acker Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Another Dimension of Us by Mike Albo Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak Alan Cole Is Not a Coward by Eric Bell Alan Cole Doesn’t Dance by Eric Bell The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara Peter Darling by Austin Chant Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich Half Bad by Sally Green Half Wild by Sally Green Half Lost by Sally Green Heartbreak Boys by Simon James Green Gay Club by Simon James Green We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra Totally Joe by James Howe After School Activities by Dirk Hunter At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson The Boy Who Couldn’t Fly Straight by Jeff Jacobson Haffling by Caleb James The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune A Destiny of Dragons by T.J. Klune The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune A Wish Upon the Stars by T.J. Klune The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune Flash Fire by T.J. Klune Heat Wave by T.J. Klune The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan Every Day by David Levithan Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden When Ryan Came Back by Devon McCormack Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Fraternity by Andy Mientus The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller Hero by Perry Moore I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson More Than This by Patrick Ness Junior Hero Blues by J.K. Pendragon The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid Kens by Raziel Reid Jack of Hearts by Lev A.C. Rosen Camp by Lev A.C. Rosen Carry On by Rainbow Rowell Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Adam Sass The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer All Kinds of Other by James Sie They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith Freak Show by James St. James Ray of Sunlight by Brynn Stein The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis 366 Days by Kiyoshi Tanaka The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes Always the Almost by Edward Underhill Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Blue= realistic fiction Purple=fantasy/magic Green=for younger readers Pink=sci fi/magical realism

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