#br stuff

[littlebunno]

[silver05spe]

Sorry I'm too lazy to finish somethingsidhwikwiwiw

More Kirby!!!

Lesbian Susie believers, rise with me...

[broocksz]

uhhhgh hi

been going a little insane about ocs the last few days as well with malevolent but the skelly grind never stops

MY BABIESS THEYRE EVERTIYHTYNTG EVER the one on the left is peril SHOUT OUT PERIL MADE BY MY FRIEND @/eskiinox and the one on the right is my cchild Cole sorry about your life THEYRE GOLDEN GUARD OCS BUT MORDERN AU HEAD IN HANDS THEYRE EVERYTHIONG EVER

[eggtomatosoup]

iris kwan you will always be famous

[violet-traitor]

The other day I brought up post-birthright Leo, but I think it's also interesting to look into post-birthright Camilla. Last time I mentioned that Camilla had left royal affairs, but honestly I'm not completely sure about it? That was the case for Conquest and Revelation. So I'm not sure if she did the same in Birthright? Possibly?? I'll discuss both

So obviously Camilla is very affcted by Xander's and Elise's death, which she expresses (in JP she also mentioned having bitter feelings towards Corrin for their deaths, despite her loving Corrin which is so interesting and I'm SO MAD they removed that). She saw multiple of her siblings die (possibly even having to kill them herself) in the concubine wars, which is what made her so protective over them. So the deaths of Elise and Xander were the cherry on top, I cannot imagine how she handled that.

Not only that, but she also had Selena leave for Ylisse. which... man...

And Corrin now lives in Hoshido. So she has lost almost everything at this point, except for Leo and Beruka. In the case of Corrin it may have been good that they don't live close anymore, at least in the beginning because of her bitter feelings? I think she would need some sort of break.

So at the end of Birthright she either stayed with Leo, as he was the only sibling she had left (technically) and wanted to cherish the fact, or she completely ditched everything after his coronation to start anew as she couldn't handle all the shit and all the death anymore. She doesn't deem herself a good enough ruler, so perhaps the role of a princess is growing ever so tiresome in the worst ways, her childhood repeating itself, even though she swore on her life it wouldn't. And she can't take it anymore. So she leaves.

Though she would still visit castle Krakenburg as her love for Leo remains unchanged.

All in all... uh... I love Camilla and I wanted to let this out. Thank you for coming to my ted talk where I just stated the obvious about her character.

[bonefall]

How do cats know what disco is

NUT DISCO MY GUY.

Disco is a type of mushroom that makes use of particularly fruitful mast (mast = tree species that makes food for animals) species-- namely Beech and Oak. It springs off the nut in cute little cups! Yes, it is a real, actual name, fight with the mycology board of england or whatever not me.

There's two types of disco I'm aware of in England; Nut Disco, and Hairy Nut Disco. Again, fight with the mycologists, not me

(Nut Disco, picture on a beech nut taken by Stathern Wood in 2019)

(Hairy nut disco, picture taken from woodland trust)

What's also really cool is that it's related to Ash Dieback disease, which is a massive problem in the UK right now!! I don't know how these facts are linked, but something in my brain is trying to connect "native plant that helpfully breaks down uneaten food" and "invasive plant that kills particularly helpful trees."

Anyway I think disco is really cool and the sort of thing ShadowClan would totally take notice of, since I'm giving them that chemistry/fermentation perk :)

[zhuzhee]

“why did you change so much?”

gift for @tuesday-teyz; fanart for butterfly reign 🦋👑

[sweetieviktor]

"tomorrow's exam", feat. viktor.

summary: you're not confident in your potential, so you go after viktor seeking comfort.

word count: 297.

content warning: reader is insecure because of an upcoming exam, but other than that its just fluff!!

author notes: oh my god i needed to write this so bad!! i only writed this one bcs im feeling like i wont be able to make a good score on literally one of the most important exams in my life (and on a lot of other brazilians too. i hate enem so much aarrgh) and i needed comfort, so yep take this tiny vik comfort fic :)

when viktor entered in his lab, he surely didn't expect to see you already there, pacing back and forth all around the place, only noticing him after the noise of the door closing hitted your ears. you turned around quickly, stopping in your tracks, looking at viktor with wide-eyes, almost as if you were shocked, completely lost in thought.

“dear, what happened?” he walked to your direction, looking at you, your eyes, searching for any possible reason for you to be so distressed like that, “whatever it is, you can tell me.”

“it's just –”, you pushed your hair back to it's place with your trembling hand, “do you remember this one exam i told you about some weeks ago?” he nodded, “i'm afraid that i–”, you took a deep breath, trying to ground yourself, “i might fail.”

“oh, my love...”, he took your shaking hand on his, guiding you to take a seat beside him on the lab's couch, “look at me, okay? you ain't going to fail, you'll see. i'm sure you're going to make one of the highest scores on it.”, he intertwined his fingers with yours, caressing the back of your hand, “because you're one of the most intelligent–” he planted a kiss in your right cheek, “smartest –” another one in your left, “brilliant –” now, at the top of your head, “and amazing person i've ever knew. i know you're going to make it.”, and finally on your lips.

he said those words so certain and, the way he looked at you with such adoration, made all the bad feelings you were dealing with earlier fly away.

“thank you, love.” you smiled heartily, now not that much anxious, feeling his hands crawling to your sides, embracing you and kissing your face all over again.

[peacheskoo]

Wait if daisy Mac doesn't have shadow powers, then is the "Nightmare - Daisy AU" comic not / no longer canon or is that other ability just really visualy similar?

Yeah not canon lmaoooooo I literally forgot about it😭😭😭

Mainly not canon cause we gots new designs for the monkeys so I’d start scrapping that stuff from the lore, though the first two posts about the au would still be canon cause they got the premise of the story👍

(You can still see the comic as something that does happen, just six-ears without shadow powers👍)

[ride-or-bi]

Wybory prezydenckie 2025 mood

[littlebunno]

The bottom right is Casey from the current timeline. Just showcase a moment from when she had just gained control over her ability

[vikramsharma007]

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Me when my entire TikTok feed is bi/lesbian discourse and everyone is (I’m saying this with my full chest) being frustratingly STUPID, lacking nuance and throwing around the damn phrase “know your history!!!!” Only to then say something that is actually ahistorical

[yourlocalbug]

[weirdowithaquill]

ok question how and why was the scrapping of sentence vhecials even allowed in the first place I mean sure irl this isn't that bad but in ttte the mass scrapping of steam engines in the 60s in Britain might as well be considered a genocide did Brittish railways use every loophole and excuse in the book to do this and every other country for that matter

Thank you for your ask! And wow does it open up some cans of worms...

But before we get to in-canon reasons for why BR was able to mass-scrap steam engines, we should probably consider the author's intent behind writing this in - after all, the Reverend W. Awdry was writing a children's book series and went "ah yes, I want this to be a picture children see":

So why does Awdry allow for scrap to happen? Because it happened in real life. Awdry was a massive steam engine fan - he grew up on the Great Western mainline near Box Tunnel listening to engines working up and down the grade, his father was a steam fan, and he himself volunteered on various heritage railways (most notably the Talyllyn in Wales) - this is a man who loves his railways and his steam engines. But in the era he was writing - the 1950s and 1960s - the engines were rapidly withdrawn and scrapped as part of BR's Modernisation Plan. Awdry hated this - Britain was scrapping completely useful engines who had served the country through two global wars for untested, faulty diesels that smelt. If you read through the Forewards from Four Little Engines onwards, you can sometimes find that he is quietly advertising heritage railways by crediting them and telling his audience where the real-live versions of the steam engines in his books are. He does this for the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, the Dartmouth Railway, the Ffestiniog Railway and of course: the Talyllyn and Bluebell Railways.

Awdry's books were as much a love letter to steam as they were a series of children's stories, and he wanted to make a real point about how he disagreed with BR and try to promote heritage railways to help keep steam alive.

Rev. W. Awdry was also a notorious perfectionist. Remember, this is a man who said that Dalby's illustrations of Percy looked like "a green caterpillar with red stripes" (ouch!).

This perfectionism carried over to the books: Awdry is very famous for his views on realism in Thomas - he quite famously disliked the Season 3 episode 'Henry's Forest' because it both broke Rule 55 - which states that engineers need to notify the signalman that their trains are at a stand in order to avoid an accident - and the fact that the trees were too close to the line, which could have caused a fire from sparks from the engine in real life. He placed real railway practice and its constraints at the forefront of his stories, and it shows.

Mixed together, these two parts of Awdry created the situation where he wrote about the scrapping of engines and the existential danger that it posed to steam engines and their livelihoods. This is the authorial reasoning behind scrap and the mass-scrapping of steam engines being so prevalent in his works - and it is prevalent, from as early as the first story where Edward is bullied by the bigger engines for being used so little and the implicit likelihood that he could be withdrawn and cut up.

With the authorial reasons for the mass-scrapping of steam engines having been answered, it is now a question of how to drill down into canon and explain what these views and decisions made by Awdry translate into.

Firstly, we need to separate two things: sentience, and human. Vehicles are not people in this series - they are very much the closest thing in terms of intelligence and speech ability, but they are not human. They are built out of minerals pulled from in the ground and powered by more rocks dug up from underground. Whether or not you see this as making this a society that enslaves the engines or not, the reality is that they are machines and the property of their human owners. This is a lot like horses - horses love us, even though we own them, and we often love them back. But not always. Horses were and are, after all, animals used for jobs - in their heyday, they were the car, bus, tram and train of society. We bought and sold them, and when they were no longer useful, people often put them down. Which is extremely morbid, yes - but it's an unfortunately necessary fact of that era and their lives.

Now translate it over to locomotives - the iron horses.

Locomotives are built to serve a purpose, and they must be capable of fulfilling their role. They are taking on the position of the horse from the above analogy - and when they are no longer useful, they can either be sold or scrapped. Worse yet, they are the industrial evolution to the horse - the capitalist's beast of burden.

And now I can finally move to answer the question of why the mass-scrapping of engines was legal: there was never any laws to stop them. From the moment the first engine rolled out of the shop, their owners argued loudly and publicly that they were simply an evolution of the horse. If people didn't give horses rights, why give engines rights? They are not human; they are iron beasts of burden. And in the rigid and very xenophobic society of the Victorian era, this worked incredibly well. Engines were trained using the Railway Rulebook to fulfill their job in much the same way you trained anyone and anything to be good at their job, and their culture was dismissed in the same way that Victorians dismissed any non-European culture.

Now, don't misunderstand me - this is not a good thing. This is a laissez-faire system of caring for vehicle rights developed by capitalism to make it cheaper, easier and less objectionable to discard old stock when needed. The government never intervened because doing so would place all the vehicles under their control under scrutiny. Can't have military lorries and tanks suddenly wondering whether or not their roles in war are legal, after all. And it's that worry that led to no nation really looking into vehicle laws until after World War Two - and even then, it was haphazard at best and downright discriminatory at worst. Even today, there are still no solid laws in place to cover the vast majority of vehicles - only those held in museums owned by the government or 'considered to be of cultural or historic importance' are afforded any rights at all - Thomas, Flying Scotsman, Stephenson's Rocket - those engines.

It's not because the engines themselves don't care, but because they simply have no real option to change this. Engines cannot move themselves - the worst they can do is force themselves to break down, and there will almost always be another engine to take their place.

Sorry for how morbid that got, but I hope it helped explain why I think engines were allowed to be mass-scrapped by BR!

[theycallmelittleangel]

I'm late I know BUT AT LEAST I DID IT