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hinamie · 4 months ago
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*catboys ur shounen protag*
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thatcheeseycandle · 1 month ago
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T2024: Day 5, Exhibition | TC-LRAU
The New Hall would fill with the sounds of conversation and excitement faster than building it, another year, another round of visitors from all over the region, every spot in there would be filled with all sorts of steam engines.
Each batch of engines that came would represent the railway they’re currently owned by, the more well-known ones coming to the exhibition.
All kinds of steam engines there; from narrow to standard gauge, and from 19th century to new builds, a big and broad roster of engines.
But before we get to them, we’ll focus our attention on the person who’d tap their mic twice lightly, clearing their throat as they caught the attention of the spread out crowd.
“If I could have most of your attention, visitors and contributors, old and new, I’d like to thank you all for coming here to see another moment of history in motion.”
The man started, as the sounds coming from the crowd would die down as he spoke.
“I am honoured to be passed down with the role my father, Seth Harken once had. Continuing the legacy of, not just of his love for engines of all types and how much he's done for both engines and humans, but his own personal legacy. To all of us, including myself.”
His gaze softening, he'd straighten his posture as his grip on the microphone tightened. Taking a quick glance at his watch.
Tick.
Tock.
Tick.
“But, in his words, let the hour begin!”
Tock.
As a cacophony of whistles blasted in the air, echoing across the halls, the event would officially be in full motion.
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“Why so worried, dear sister?” Came the comforting voice of the Stirling Single, N. 1, separating himself from the group consisting of Flying Scotsman and Black 5s, glancing curiously at his younger sister.
To which said younger sister would flinch at the sudden call, her train of thought breaking. Though glancing at him with a warm smile once she recognized who it was.
“Ferris, hello.”
“That doesn’t answer my question, Milly, what's the matter? Is it those Midlanders again?”
She'd chuckle softly at such a claim.
“You say that as if you weren't mingling with those Black 5s, dear brother,” she says as she glances at said Black 5s, overhearing their conversations mixed with jabs at each other and general gossip, not dying down a single bit considering the Flying Scotsman was practically the host of that session.
“Well, I wasn't exactly mingling. I was simply offering up advice.”
“Advice about mentoring the newest edition to the LBSCR? It seems your reputation as a mentor yourself is still kept up, well, you're more like a fath–”
“Oh hush, they'll hear us!” Ferris’ face would flush with red a bit in embarrassment, reversing into the buffers behind him as Emily held in a laugh, even with the decades that flew by, she still wondered why he hid things like this from those he loved.
She will admit, even if it was rare, he tends to be quite the silly engine when being straightforward about his clear affection towards all the engines hes taken under his wing, or cab, and right now is one of her favourite examples.
She’s seen how much he’s rubbed off on the Atlantic, they’re practically father and son as the humans say. It’s quite heart warming, like how some of the shunters back before the grouping era had picked up on Ferris’ mannerisms. It’s very amusing.
“I know that look of yours Milly, what’re you planning to pull on me now?”
“Oh please, if you had known said look, you would’ve known it wasn’t that.”
“Then what on Lady’s name are you plotting in that scandalous mind of yours?” He jabbed jokingly at her, though would be met with an Emily who’d gaze out in front of her thoughtfully.
“But not in a Great Western manner, it is similar to how the humans would cope with lost. If you recall how my fireman in the 80s had coped with the news of his aunt’s unfortunate passing with his religious beliefs as I recall, then it is similar to how I’m thinking now.”
‘Well,” she sighed before she started. “I suppose it’s just the faint yet vivid presence of our siblings, our colleagues.”
“Ah.”
“I see.”
In all honesty, she didn’t mean to drag down the mood this quickly, but she can’t exactly help it.
Looking back at it all. It’s most likely the toughest run to have experienced, from speeding through the glorious sight that was the River Trent to then having to take in all the neglect the rest of them had to face. Though thankfully it was willingly, since the remaining of them had agreed to it before being locked away-
“Well, I suppose I’ll place down that note for myself.”
“If it helps, Emily, I could recommend a relief crew from the Mid-Norfolk. They’ve been quite the help for myself and mostly to others, an example being that Thompson.”
“Mayflower?”
“Yes, him. He’s been in need of it for quite a while from the looks of it, I will admit.”
“Just contact my crew with yours, ask for a Mr. Onix, and they’ll come right away. Though it will depend on how far and busy they are when you do so.”
“I see-”
The sudden buzz of a radio would echo in Emily’s cab, her firebox starting to warm up again as her fireman threw coal inside it. Good gosh, why did it have to be now?
“Well, I bid you farewell for now, Ferris. I hope to see you soon after this run.”
“Same goes to you dear sister!” He replied as the both tooted both of their whistles at eachother, watching Emily leave with a wheesh of steam.
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“Now that was a blast!”
“A blast of whistles you mean!”
The three would burst into laughter as they arrived at their designated spots within the new hall.
A little flow of people would form around them, murmurs of conversations blurring together and curious people eyeing them in either surprise or admiration, or both! Either way, the engines would simply chat among themselves as if they were the only ones in the room.
Though there would be one engine in between those atmospheres, st always taking a glance behind them, as if waiting for something. Something, someone.
Time moving slower than a tank engine trying to pull an express consisting of eight full coaches on their own.
It was painful, in simple words. It was crawling from the back of their mind to consume their thoughts. 
Not the greatest thoughts to go through your mind during a wonderful time like this.
No, no. They just need to be calm. He's received the overhaul, he's been checked out, hell you were there in some of those sessions, he'll be fine.
Just enjoy the moment, enjoy the momen-
“Nadi?”
They'd snap out their train of thought, looking to wherever the voice came from, to which they'd get a bit embarrassed at. Well shit.
“Yea- Ah, what is it?”
“You were staring at that 9F, the Black Prince, are you okay?”
“Well, Betto-”
“Do you have a crush on him?”
“The fuck? No, of course not!” Nadi’s smoke deflectors slid back as they glanced at Lyd, as she rolled beside them on the narrow-gauge tracks next to the standard-gauge tracks the three were on, quite baffled at this sudden claim. Considering how the Black Prince is more of a brother than a lover, it was odd.
Though they couldn't exactly blame Lyd, Nadi doesn't talk about other engines much often, other than the ones they usually speak of.
“Besides, why would I have a crush on him?!”
“Well, why would the Flying Scotsman have a crush on that King Arthur class? Hmm?”
“Okay fair point, but stil-”
Suddenly, a familiar whistle would blast through the atmosphere, cutting off the four's conversation. Considering their brakes would be applied by their crews, Lyd would reverse to see who it’d be.
Though as she did, her eyes widened in surprise as she took a glance at their nameplate, now recognizing who it was.
“Oh, Leslie!”
——
Oh how loud it was here, well, at least it wasn’t as chaotic as Sodor. It’s just louder than it.
He’d reverse into the coaches behind him as the shunter behind them uncoupled from the coaches and let out a little “peep!” of a whistle, to which he’d whistle back at them.
As he glanced to the sign that read-
“We’re at Redworth! No- No, I’m not fucking with you I’m serious!”
“Sounds like she’s fucking with you, old chap.”
He will admit, he did miss them. He missed how comforting they were to him, that light feeling that swirled in his firebox whenever he interacted with him. It was an odd feeling, in a good way, and it seems to run in their family as the same feeling has started to resurface in recent years since the 2000s started.
“You’re older than me!”
Gordon would hold in his laughter as he heard his crew jab at each other a bit. The two have been with him for about, nearly a decade as he recalls. Wow. Though they’ve technically been with him for nearly two, since they go back into the late 90s as his crew. Being the brother and cousin of his crew before them.
As much as he’d like to go into detail of this feeling, he just couldn’t find the right words to. It was similar to this feeling he had felt before, it was the bond between him and his siblings, though that didn’t fully match up with what this odd, swirly feeling he felt with them, with his crews.
Though unfortunately he wouldn’t be able to further his research and guesses into it as the sound of a whistle blasted through the air, his hearing being pierced like a bullet shooting through paper. As he glanced to his left, the whistle would be muffled as it fades out by the sound of pistons pumping, surprised at who it is as his eyes widened.
“Hello there, little brother.”
“Ah, ah. That’s my phrase, little brother.”
“A phrase that’s originated from me, Scotsman, or would you like me to refer to you as one of the elderly considering your memory might not be working too well?”
Scotsman would slide back his smoke deflectors, revealing his jokingly ‘offended’ look as he took a glance at Gordon.
“Oh says the one who’s beyond a century old!”
“You’ve literally just become a century old, little brother. And you do represent a century.”
“Oh fuck off," he muttered jokingly, unconsciously letting his american accent slip out as it mixed with his natural one.
After a slight pause between the two, they’d burst into light laughter as they sped down the line side by side, blasting their whistles in a duet as they wheeshed steam, doing what they love. Their purpose.
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resoyani · 1 year ago
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Romano got so incredibly fucked over in canon it’s almost unbelievable. I’m trying to think and I honestly can’t remember any positive trait he was given??
Like Vene has many negative traits (especially in the earlier chapters) but he also has a ton of positive characteristics to balance it out. Romano just feels like Hima’s punching bag tbh
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ladyinthebluebox · 5 months ago
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yhhhh, i think the stars are not aligned for me to finish this playthrough.
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fragmentedblade · 7 months ago
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"Though I don't know exactly what you are or what you're up to... My bullets will find you — until then, you best find a casket store in Penacony, and ask the owner to reserve a good quality casket for you, imposter!"
Hardly could get more Western film than this
#That one scene in A Fistful of Dollars#The casket maker doesn't appear that way in Yojimbo if I recall#I love those films so much#Boothill has such a... soft youthful voice? I didn't recognise him at first. His voice is beautiful though#I talk too much#Boothill#The way he awkwardly laughs a little and asks almost shy 'Did I make a mistake?' lmao#I was wondering how he got her number and she gave it to him but gave him Black Swan's?#Or was Black Swan talking about Constance when she mentioned that 'she' who gave Boothill her whereabouts? Or someone else altogether?#He was kind of cute with that 'Did I make a mistake?' haha#'get that forehead clean and wait for me' this man is hilarious and has watched far too many movies xD#'are you asking me to write your will? Sure‚ go ahead' omg stop hahahahaha#'Not quite' responds Black Swan. Truly an elegant lady. I would have mocked him to no end#Hilarious too the idea or possibility of her apparently clocking him by the way he talks#'She's clearly not a Pathstrider of The Hunt. But you are‚ aren't you?'#Of course it could be context but it'd be funny if simplistic perhaps to think it's his manner of speaking lol#'go buy a bottle of Asdana's White Oak and warm it up‚ and I'll raise a glass to you' this man is hilarious and would be unbearable irl xD#I love the idea of an Emanator of Nihility existing despite the impossible. It seems very fitting#Also‚ unrelated‚ but I love Aventurine's little whimpers before his 'Didn't think you'd have the nerve to show yourself'#When Ratio claims he 'is the manager of this task' does he mean as undertaker or something real in the mission?#When he says Aventurine won't be seeing the Strategic Investment Department because he's the manager#did Ratio mean he will be the one dealing with the funeral or that there won't be a funeral at all because he's in charge?#I found this confusing
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idealisticrealism · 6 months ago
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TCL season 4!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌
Looks like it will be 12 episodes again, with no news yet on whether it will be a Fall or midseason release. Sadly Miranda Kwok will not be coming back as a showrunner, but fingers crossed it still stays the show we know and love even without her.
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thecomet-and-themeteor · 7 months ago
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I don't know how much sense this makes but I need a Langelique Cinderella AU, I think it'd work pretty well
#brought to you by:#my last post about angelique's fuck-ass sneakers#& juliet#and juliet#&j#okay but genuinely I think it would work really well#like Angelique is working for lady and daddy cap right#ignore how I called him daddy cap we did Romeo and Juliet for the school play this year and that's what we all called him#and like May and Juliet are the quote unquote evil stepsters#but you know they're not evil they're just like way nicer in comparison to their parents#and like you know the prince holds a ball to find a wife and it's this like whole thing#because lady and daddy cap want Juliet and may to go to like end up with the prince#and like the prince is still Frankie here because maycois is goated let's be real#and like this is kind of where you could either make it centric to a specific ship or you could just do like the whole thing as an au#you could say that like Frankie likes May but when they approach the capulets they're like oh Juliet you want Juliet and it's a whole thing#and you could do jumeo because I don't know maybe Romeo is like you know what Paris was like in the actual Romeo and Juliet play Romeo is#like Paris and the capulets hate him because Lance has kind of like pushing Frankie to be with Romeo but Romeo wants to be with Juliet#and Juliet wants to be with Romeo and blah blah blah but Lance and Angelique specifically comes in where it's like okay but what if Lance i#also looking for a new partner at these balls because you know his wife like died and he needs someone else to share the throne with and#that's why both may and Juliet end up going because their parents don't care about the age difference because their parents suck and they'r#just like you're going to end up with royalty one way or another and you know Angelique is like be safe and actually parenting them and#and warning them and making sure they're prepared to like actually go out to this ball because royalty or not it's still dangerous and#they're both like why don't you just come with us and it's a bit where like maybe April and William play the role of fairy godparents#and you know Angelique is able to go and she meets Lance and they have their little shoe thing and they have the Cinderella ark meanwhile#there's the whole love square with May Frankie Juliet and Romeo and Juliet gets to have a moment where it's like how are you so controlling#that you're pushing May to get with a man like 30 years their senior yet you cant deal with me getting with the wrong rich guy and may is#like screw y'all Juliet was The Golden child anyway okay I get what I want now and it's all happily ever after#and angelique gets Lance a magical girl transformation and some CLEAN FUCKING SNEAKERS EVEN MINE ARENT THAT DIRTY N I DONT CLEAN EM FOR SHI#anyways
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whatimdoing-here · 6 months ago
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Boys are done with school with their half day Thursday. I'm working at their field day all day Wednesday. So I get today and tomorrow for my last quiet days before summer.
And T wipes out real bad on his bike on the way to school and was a half hour late.
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hobgobbin · 7 months ago
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Thinking abt the other day at work where one of my tables (2 middle aged white women) asked to speak to the manager bc they had to wait like a few more minutes than usual for their food (there was one cook in the kitchen and they got shit that takes a while to cook anyway) and then they said I "disappeared" and never checked on them in the maybe 10 minutes they were eating. bc I was in the back doing backups and silverware. And they tipped me like $3 after getting the manager to discount their $30 bill for literally nothing
And then LATER that day I had a table (3 middle aged or older asian men) who came in before we got busy and then I fucked up their order bc they wanted 3 of everything they ordered and I only put in 1 of everything bc I couldn't hear the guy ordering very well (i thought one person was getting a soup one getting wings and one getting steak not 3 of each) and the other two had to wait an HOUR for their food bc we got wildly busy when I put the rest in and it was like explicitly bc I fucked up and I told them that and they were so nice and still paid the whole like $200 bill and tipped me like $50 without like any complaints at all
INSANE tonal whiplash in one day
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forgotten-daydreamer · 8 months ago
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if my housemates don't learn to clean after themselves, ESPECIALLY THE TOILET WTF, i'm going to burst
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lazinesswrites · 2 years ago
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Did I really wake up early and go all the way to the university library, in the rain, in order to motivate my self to actually work on my thesis instead of staying home and doing nothing, only to give up at lunch and write The Bad Batch fanfic instead?
Yes. Yes I did.
These clones are gonna be the end of me, clearly.
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cashandprizes · 2 years ago
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I just have to share my darling @autisticempathydaemon 's Valentine's day gift for me, which was a Shaw security tank (accidentally ordered so big it's a dress which is NOT a problem but also not quite sfw but if you're David Shaw come get this cake 👅👅) and this delightful Solaire cropped hoodie.
I am on my way to become an honorary clan member as I snatch the evil vampire lady for myself and constantly worship at her feet and help her be gay, do crimes.
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muffinrag · 1 year ago
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body failed to physically calibrate this morning so instead of being normal I keep being unspeakably bitchy with customers
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fingertipsmp3 · 1 year ago
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So the x-ray went fucking terribly
#it didn’t start off too badly. the waiting room was clean and the receptionist wasn’t the usual demon receptionist you get in a medical#setting. and the x-ray tech or nurse or whoever she was came to get me in good time#she said ‘ellen lastname?’ i said ‘hi’ she said ‘hi; please follow me’ so i did#then i discovered we were going to a linen cupboard because it was labelled as linen cupboard. i was like. i hope that’s not a sign#of things to come. it was though. i had to take my trousers off and wear this stupid fucking hospital gown that didn’t close properly#in the back. what is it about medical professionals and wanting everybody to have their butts out??? i mean luckily i wear the largest#underwear on planet fucking earth but. WHY. and THEN she’s looking at my knee going ‘what’s this blue stuff?’#i say ‘it’s tape. my physiotherapist put it on’ she says ‘you need to take it off’ i say ‘i cannot take it off. i’d have to soak it for#an hour. and something tells me that’s not a good use of nhs time and resources’ she’s like ‘okay fine’#does any of this make sense to you guys btw???? like this x-ray machine can look through my skin. why can’t it look through clothes and TAPE#also i’m not taking off my sports tape for you because my skin will come with it. my physio lady was pretty adamant about that#she said ‘do not rip it off i have seen skin injuries you wouldn’t believe’ i was like ‘i am so with you chief’#so then the actual x-ray starts and this woman is So vague with me about how i need to hold my body. plus it was hot as fuck in this room#and i was trying to hold this stupid little gown together while also holding myself in a really unnatural position#she’s saying ‘relax’ and ‘stop moving’ i’m like ‘i’m doing my best!!!’ like believe me i’m NOT trying to fuck this up#i have two sprained ligaments and that’s just what i know about. we’re here making sure i don’t have a cartilage injury as well#like excuse me if i’m having trouble laying my foot perfectly flat while also leaning forward while also having my left foot (good foot)#behind me while also leaning against the x-ray machine#and at one point a random man came in and i was like HELLO????????#my butt is out who is this???????????#i was starting to feel faint from the heat and from standing for too long in an unnatural position and from just general anxiety#which thankfully was the point when she asked me to sit down and x-rayed my knee from a different position#then she just dismissed me and didn’t walk me back to my cubicle or anything lol. but i found it okay#tossed that stupid hospital gown in the hamper So happily and went to mcdonald’s to rehydrate because i damn near sweated my head off#overall it felt like a bad experience. i’m just like. nowhere in the letter did it mention i would have to disrobe. i wore my big pants#just in case but i still wasn’t expecting it. like i really feel like they could’ve given me a better explanation of what was going#to happen. also why tell me to take off the tape and then just do the x-ray with it on anyway?????#stupidity. anyway if you need me i’m going to angrily chew some gum and put this behind me#personal
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downthepub · 1 year ago
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rhett last week: and when your wife finally dies.... (don't worry she's really old).... rhett this week: you know what you should get separated from your wife. for a year. so i can catch up. although if you get separated you never know how it will work out rhett: btw does your wife listen to this podcast? oh. hm. well i was clearly joking
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idealisticrealism · 2 years ago
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Hey, fellow Armony fan! 😁 I've screenshotted this to reply because it came in as a submission and I also wasn't sure you wanted your blog name shared. (Though y'all are absolutely welcome to send me Asks off-anon if you like!! Don't be shy lol)
But anyhow, as for your concern about not getting any Armony kisses this season.... I honestly don't think that you (or any of us) have anything to worry about there haha. Like ngl I totally support the old 'assume the worst so you're pleasantly surprised if the best actually happens' trick, because I've definitely had to do that before with shows that simply loved causing me pain (yes, I'm looking at you, Blindspot), but honestly, The Cleaning Lady is just not that kind of show.
I mean, do the writers give us shippers absolutely everything that we want? No. (And rightly so, tbh). But imo, everything that they do give us makes complete sense for the characters and the situation that they're in; and even more than that, every single Armony moment has only served to build the connection between them, steadily bringing us nearer to the kind of absolute OTP perfection that we've been dreaming of– and while it may have felt like a very long wait, we are so close now.
And so trust me– trust me– when I say this:
The Armony kissing is coming, and it will be glorious.
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