#Starlight Room

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Eunice Kennedy and R. Sargent Shriver at their wedding reception in the Starlight Room of the Waldorf, May 23, 1953. The ceremony had taken place at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Photo: New York Daily News via Getty Images/The Knot

[gjgoblin]

[aceofstars0]

I can never decide who to ship. They're all so gay

[designmiss]

A Cortina arriva la Starlight Room https://www.design-miss.com/cortina-arriva-la-starlight-room/ Una stanza di vetro sotto il cielo delle #Dolomiti

[sparklejumpropequeen1949]

when I finish

[dinojay-art]

some small ish mlp doodles i did

[nauticaltrain]

is the way you interpret the stex characters, are they robots or a mix? since they don't feel pain, but bleed oil etc. what is the lore? are they built at a young age or are they built into adults? (p.s your art is delicious too look at !!)

ohohoho boy, the lore i have for you, strap in

(brief note, this is all my personal interpretation and is definitely not the word of god lol. I genuinely love every interpretation and believe that headcanon variety is vital to a healthy fandom ecosystem)

So, this is something I have thought a lot about and still continue to think about. I'm pretty sure I've nailed it down but it might still be a little nebulous so bear with me.

In the most basic sense, my interpretation of Starlight Express, and all of its characters, is that they are real world pieces of rolling stock that have the ability to shift between a train form (primary configuration) and a human form (secondary configuration). Not an uncommon idea in this fanbase.

However, I'm an overthinking bitch, and I love going in-depth on things like this, so let's expand a little.

There are three main phrases that I use to define my interpretation (headcanon? au? lore?) and to keep myself on track when developing ideas. Sort of layers, if you will. They are as follows:

Fabricated manifestation of psyche - This is rolling stock's appearance in secondary configuration, or what we see in the musical. Their human bodies are a cosmetic representation of their will. A psychological trick. It reflects their personalities, their jobs, their mental age, the demographics of the region they serve. There about a million different factors that go into how they look, and like us, they can't control it. (well, except for CB, but he's another story) It's important to note that this is a manifestation. They are not Transformers. Secondary configuration is not 1:1. There are certain things that get muddled in the changeover. Wheel arrangements being different, missing certain parts, changed color palettes. You could open one up and see parts but not in any sort of similar arrangement to their blueprints. I mean, who can honestly picture every single part of their body in perfect detail and then reinterpret it into a new shape? (this is in part my answer to discrepancies between the real costumes and my lore shh shh)

Counterfeit reflection of humanity - This is their minds. They are our copies. They experience everything we do. They work, play, socialize, fight, fall in love. You could talk to a piece of rolling stock and have a fully human conversation. They are people. However, the longer your conversation goes on for, you may notice certain...oddities. Gaps in their knowledge, speaking in rhythmic sentences, constant repetitive movement. Someone copied humans and didn't do the most perfect job. Like looking at human culture through a lens. Many a train has pondered the simultaneous existence of being machine and being alive.

Physical incarnation of industrialism - Now this, is the origin of all of this. The humans did not create trains to be the way they are. Every piece of rolling stock is designed as they would be in the real world: vehicles to transport people and goods from one place to the next. No one designed Greaseball's slicked back hair or big, studded belt, they designed an EMD E7 built for pulling fast passenger trains. My point is, at the advent of industrialism as we know it, the trains manifested their secondary configurations themselves. They are the offspring of humanity, sired by ingenuity and innovation and birthed from the overturned earth of the Industrial Revolution. No one knows how or why, they just are.

So, in summary, they're sort of robots? Sort of a power of the mind situation? Sort of my own self-reflection on the nature of being alive?

Bonus facts!

Indeed, they do not feel pain. In fact, much of their sense of touch in general is limited. It ranges from same sensitivity as human flesh (hands, face, wheels) to just registers contact (shoulder boxes, hip plating, couplers). I have a diagram of the exact distribution somewhere lol

They bleed? Kind of? If parts are pulled off or damaged, they sort of…leak. Also, if their fleshy bits are "injured", the wounds only heal when the actual machinery is repaired. Also also, if you remove a human part (arm, leg, head, etc.) it will turn back into a train part!

Their temperature resistance is notable too. Comfortable is between -10 F to well over 500 F. Anything above or below that, and they start to complain. Wooden rolling stock have a harder time than steel ones.

They're afraid of deep water and tornados.

In addition to their nails being painted in relevant colors (which I believe is a semi-popular headcanon already), their mouths are the same. Some more unnatural colors include, black, yellow, and blue!

Tall! Generally between 12 and 17 feet. Loosely correlates to their height in primary configuration. Some are the same height, some are taller, some are shorter. Really depends on personality. I contemplated once to have their heights be the length of their primary configurations, but that would result in some pretty awkward height differences and they would be too big for their loading gauge.

They always manifest as adults, or at the very least, late teenagers. They kind of age? Sometimes? Momma started out a bit middle aged, but Rusty has spent like 50+ years looking 25. Really depends on the person, workload, environment, etc.

[fluxydrawings]

me and my dear @kishdoodles recently watched revstar and were normal about it (made an isat au). u know a character's fucked when u assign them The King

[asklesbianonceler]

✨𝒫𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝓁𝒶𝓈𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉✨

[upathosarts]

wtf revue of souls real (more pics below the cut)

[avampyone]

Set me free - Ancient lies

Is this peace divine?

The light will cast me aside

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Song lyrics from Monolith by Twin Tribes

[romanarose]

RomanaVerse birthday bash

Hi friends!!!

My birthday is this upcoming weekend, and o wanna party with my pals!

I do not have it in me to do a whole lot seeing as I still have several obligations I gotta catch up on and I still have not finished everything for my 2000 followers celebration ha ha

So I decided to do stuff a little bit easier, but I hope we’ll still be fun!

The main event is what I call RomanaVerse What If…?

It’s simple! Got a story of mine, whether a series a one shot or a two-parter or whatever and you wonder how things might have been different if there was a change?

Send it in!

Wonder, sunshine starlight sweetheart, bright side would have gone if Sam met Mark first? Or how the wrong way would have gone if little one hadnt gotten pregnant?

I’m going stories are also open to questions like rooms on fire, puppy, girl, guard, dog, or about a girl

Anything I’ve written is open, for work or not safe for work, dark or not all that

Other fun stuff to send into my ask box…..

Fuck Marry kiss

Would you rather

Ship me! (Send in sone things you like and like to do and all ship you with any of the characters I write for. If I know you or you are a regular interactor I might ship you with a universe specific version, so if you e read several universes, send it in too!

Thank you all so much for all the fun times, the kind words, and especially the encouragement this last year. Everyone who was there for me with what happened in April, as well as my own personal issues the last year that I wasn’t entirely sure I was going to make it out alive, I love y’all more than you could ever know. every, every like every comment and every kind ask means so much to me, more than you could ever know

Series on either here or listed below, but anything on my blog is up for grabs, including one shots. that would be fun for a what if are listed below, but anything on my blog is up for grabs, including one shots.

Sunshine starlight sweetheart, Brightside

Seattle

Leather and lace

Take your time

For the longest time

The wrong way

Puppy girl

Guard dog

Awakening

boys of summer

About a girl

Rooms on fire

If you wanna be wild (I will consult with @my-secret-shame )

And more!

Consider reblogging if you’d like!

[darunyama]

It's like having a bunny locked in the same room as a tigress 👁️👁️

[raionmimi]

Wishful thinking that Blizzard would never do: A Vishkar Academy map where you could find Niran and Satya’s childhood rooms when they were younger and the one they had when they were older.

Just so they could have more map specific voicelines as well as conversations with each other about things they remember that made them laugh. Also Lifeweaver’s fuckass dishes in the sink.

The Atlantic Arcology is more likely to be a map, but imo after several updates, the only change on the map should be that Niran’s room has a bit more of Satya’s belongings than it did before to signify that she’s staying there more often. He also has a lot of current pictures of the two of them on his wall though.

[honey-dont]

is this anything

[mudwerks]

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