#ask hazel

[hazel-of-sodor]

I just realized that I dont think I've ever told y'all about the most irreplaceable engine in my collection.

...Hazel...the black five is incredibly common. Not this one.

Several years ago I found a listing for a Black Five in Ebay. She was extra detailed and cost more than I wanted to pay, but for some reason...I fell in love. I won, flinching at the price...until I got a message from the seller. She was from Britian, and the seller was a former BR Driver...a former steam driver.

This was his model of his old locomotive. She had been modified to reflect the engine he used to drive. He had got a new tooling to replace the model, so he was selling the old one, but had wanted the person who bought her to know her significance.

5138 (by then 45318) had been scrapped in 1967, but over half a century later her driver still kept a model of her, only replacing it when he got a model more accurate to her. I have the physical representation of a driver's love for their engine, and she is irreplaceable.

[wolfieskies-25]

“𝒩𝑜, 𝓎𝑜𝓊’𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝓊𝓇𝓉! 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓎 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁— 𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝓂𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝓎𝑜𝓊!”

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A remake of an old snippet from a story I had made on Wattpad quite some time ago! (My old wattpad in particular, that I lost access to TwT) Let’s see how many people remember this scene!

New on the left, old on the right— though I’m sure the fact is obvious haha— with a four year difference!

[babtqftimaskhazel]

Hows the spoon master?

Art by @nicx-otine, @sailor-macaroni

[preservationofnormalcy]

Hey folks! Norm here. Sorry for the short notice, but we're going to have another Ask an Intern Day! On the 4th, we'll have Hazel Doyle from Archival in to answer your questions. Hazel, tell the people about yourself.

Hi guys! I'm Hazel. I'm currently in my third year of my major in Cryptobotany with a minor in applied mythology. I'm currently interning in the Archives under Miss Cece who was kind enough to let me browse the stacks for my research, while I help her with hers!

Remember, send in questions start with "For Hazel" so we'll save them for her.

[seconds-2-midnight]

Hey Hazel, what do you think of Ace and punching of Snake?

"Well, I'm not a fan of it, obviously. But I also know that Snake doesn't like when I get involved...

He's worried he'll just get bullied even more if I call Ace out for being a jerk. He says if he wants a little girl to stand up for him, he'd call those 'Powerpuff sissies'. Kids at my old school treated me like garbage too, so I get it. Ya' don't wanna give them more material to work with.

Still, I wish he would realize that maybe if he gave Ace a piece of his mind, he wouldn't treat him like such a pushover.

I tell him that he's like a noodle. Everyone loves noodles! But it's hard to stand up for yourself if you've got wet spaghetti instead of a spine."

[teacupsposts]

Cuphead mini's

[haz311bl0gs]

FINALLY, another person who believes in dom Gale. He very much takes the reins in the astral scene. And he exudes soft/gentle dom vibes in the latter parts of his romance imo. I also just like the idea of dom Gale and sub Durge, who best enjoys themselves when someone else is control...

OMG!!!

I ship him with my Durge who thought she was a dom herself but Gale just changed her entire world with the softness and now she just wants to melt in him and his soft domness <3

And idgaf I love that he wants my durge all to himself thx

DOM GALE BELIEVERS RISE UP!!

[lizislife]

poor Bekkah

Bekkah belongs to @wolfieskies-25

[nicx-otine]

This is a re-introduction since I ditched tumblr cause of someone constantly tagging me in inappropriate posts. But hello if you remember me i'm back again! If you don't know me nice to meet you i'm nick (formerly brittney) and I'm helping out bekkah with her ask hazel blog! I had another account called "askbrittney" and I had a good rep but my mom made me delete it since I was like 13 and she didn't want me on the internet (mom why I was doing so good). I'm hoping to post some original stuff as well but we'll see how things go.

[hazel-of-sodor]

Imagine being an LMS express engine, back in the thirties, arguing with Gordon at Barrow, you blow your deep LMS whistle to try and assert dominance, but instead of the Gresley blowing his shrill inferior whistle in retaliation, he replies with a HOOTER of all things, defaming the stations. The rumor was true, the Gresley has a whistle that can out do even the deepest of deep-toned whistles. Never shoulda got transferred.

Well looks crack this one open shall we?

Lets get into the social dynamics and politics of the LMS, Barrow, and NWR.

So Gordon is top dog in Barrow, end of the story. While Barrow yard is far larger in this world than ours due to the existance of Sodor, its Industries, Harbors, and People, the largest Express Engines allocated there are usually 4-6-0s. Pacifics do venture down to Barrow, but heres the thing, hes their Elder.

Ask any Engine in Britian who the first (British) pacific was, they will invariably say Gordon (Neither The Great Bear nor Henry were largely successfull as 4-6-2s, and are seen as having found their true forms as 4-6-0s). Invariably class protoypes (successfull ones at least) are held in higher regard, but Gordon pionered the type. No matter He is former GNR/LNER and current NWR, Gordon is the first and is therefore the eldest. One could be forgiven for thinking that Gordon could have lost this respect in his younger years, but decourm in stations is the law for express engines (whisting in stations isn't wrong, but we just don't do it). Flagship express engines are the image of their railway, and are expected to uphold said image while in station. On the rare occasion LMS Pacifics did stay in Barrow longer than it took to refuel and prepare for their next run, they found Gordon a proud but gracious host, as was proper. (it helded that their opinion of him matched his own.)

The 4-6-0s, however were another matter. The Stanier 4-6-0s were content to tease their larger cousins about their hero worship, and keep a cordial relationship with North Western No.4. The Fowler's, however were...divided. The Patriots and Royal Scot's were aware of the threat of standardization. Stanier was not known to be sentimental man, and there were fears among some of the classes that they would be scrapped in favor of Stanier's standard engines (in reality a number of both class would be rebuilt to use Stanier Boilers.)

Some of these engines decided to deal with these fears by competeing feircly with their Stanier contemporaries, and for some this was not a friendly competition. These engines saw Gordon not as an honored elder or a respected collegue, but a part of the enemy. The incident this ask refers to occured in 1935, when a young Patriot class, newly assigned to Barrow decided to try and get a rise out of the Pacific. Gordon treated the younger express engine with all the restrained derision and posh superiority he felt the situation called for. Needless to say the Patriot only got angrier and angrier, leading to him trying to silence the North Western Engine with a long, rude, blast of their whistle, a dire breach of station etiquette.

Gordon intially waited impatiently for the whistle to stop, but when the 20 second mark was passed, he responded in kind. While Gordon only gave a short blast, the Patriot fell silent in shock as a Gordon's Pennslyvannia Railroad whistle thundered out. In the ringing silence afterwards, Gordon explained in manner simular to an exasperated parent correcting a toddler that one did not raise their whistle in stations unless they were departing or arriving, and they most certainly did not hold their whistle.

The LMS, throughly embarressed by their engines behavior, quickly reallocated the patriot to the other side of their territory (although they would return during the war.)

[wolfieskies-25]

Been trying to get back into working on Ask Hazel (Officially being called Hazel’s Story storyline wise)

Here’s some art I made a few days ago of the ever so floofy Hazel and the legendary spoon master, Connor

[babtqftimaskhazel]

Hi hazel!!!!!! How are you doing? Eek!!! I'm sorry I'm just so happy to speak too you!!!

Art by @sailor-macaroni

[hazel-of-sodor]

Im scared...but go ahead

A persons fanfic tells you a lot about them, i , a fanfic writer, realize in terror

[preservationofnormalcy]

Alright, we're gonna wrap it up here folks! We had a great time, and I'm sure Hazel liked the opportunity to talk to people about her passion.

Real quick, Norm said I could post this. I just wanted to show you guys my most favorite picture of my boy Samuel! Isn't he just the most handsome? He's so hard to take a picture on account of being a grim and all. Sort of like a vampire, doesn't show up in a lot of media.

He sure is....handsome. Anyway. Take care people, see you tomorrow!

[seconds-2-midnight]

You’re pretty! Has anyone every told you you look like Betty Boop?

-Levi

"Oh, stop it. I've never heard that, actually. Maybe that'll be my Halloween costume idea this year??"

(She wants Sauron and Herbert to be friends omg)

[haz311bl0gs]

Thank you for fueling the rolan obsession, truly. I'm on my knees at that pogchamp vid!! 😩💖

As a dedicated Rolanite I aim to please <3

Glad you enjoyed it :D