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Sodor After Not Surviving

love that this was my first ever ask and i'm only answering it now

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Full of such Joy and Whimsy

Model Salty brings me so much joy I mean look at him

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YIPPEE

Since the new The Future Is Still Silver And Black (made by @monstrosoupdate & @djangodurango) came out I figured I should do more screenshots!

U-505's christmas story near the end stole the show for me, but unfortunately there's no u-boat model for either Rolling Line or Trainz, so his museum-mates will just have to tell him about all the festivities I suppose.

How cute, they're even looking out for hi- oh.

I guess U-505 wasn't the only one the gang decided was in need of a bath. Better luck next time, 999!

And now for the other side of the coin! I'm not one to deprive Silver Pilot of the Joy and Whimsy of wintertime, so here he is one one of his EMD relatives up above!

..and i've run out of shennangians now so it's time for some more oc stuff!

Namely a funny lil mixup including a very confused Mutt being hooked to the Godesses while Silver Pilot has to stare down the Cryptid Of the Week™ without dropping his frames into his trucks with fear

Back to the land of Trainz, we have Pioneer sizing up a very.. different type of horror before finding a few friends to settle down and chat with, namey Dean, Judah, and The Mosue.

All in all, amazing work on this update! Looking forward to the next!

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Misty Island: Thunderstruck!

Guess who's back with his wacky crossover AU?!?! ME!!!!!!

Made a proof of concept logo in paint 3D lol (Misty Island Logo credit goes to Percyfan94 on DeviantArt!)

Anyways, this post is mainly to celebrate one thing: I GOT MY BASH & DASH MODELS TO WORK AGAIN YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!

I now have collected all four (4) idiots ❤️

"Shake! Shake! Make me Quake!" "OH GOD THIS WASN'T MADE FOR AN ENGINE OF MY SIZE-"

I also have Electra's consist he'll typically be running around Misty Island with! It consists of a generator car to supply him with power to move and a match wagon for coupling to chain-link stock. He despises both cars lol, espescially as the GG1s are of PRR kin and the generator car is from the New York Central, the PRR's main rival.

So, yeah! thats all the updates I have on this silly lil au of mine! Hope you enjoy!

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Coming soon to a YouTube near you...

BoCo Gaming

(this is a joke I might not even do this lol)

((also yes I know there's no voice this is a teaser))

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Now this is just my opinion, but I don't get how one could find Very Old Engines unmemorable. I love what it does by showing us the goofy things that Skarloey and Rheneas got up to back in the day. not only that, but it also gave us the only book appearance of Neil!!! How couldn't you love the boxy man himself?

I wish we got a volume on the precursor railways, The Buried Truck did a bangin one for the Wellsworth & Suddery engines but I wanna see what the box tanks and their dysfunctional railway got up to.

Okay Neil distraction over I think Very Old Engines is a fine book that has memorable moments like Skarloey being put in Gay Baby Jail and Rheneas and Skarloey losing it in the sheds at the end while being judged by the cleaners at the end.

tossing my two-cents in here: Gonna have to AGREE with the Skarloey books anon, but specifically Very Old Engines for being unmemorable and basically an advertisement for the real-life Talyllyn (moreso even than the other Skarloey stories).

'Fuck the Entire Skarloey Railway' Anon is clearly tonight's star, none of us are on their level

RIP to Very Old Engines, becoming the second book to get name-checked in The Great Hate

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manicotti pixie dream girl

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Okay so this isn't a usual thing from me but it is a pitch for a Starlight Expressx TTTE crossover AU!

Misty Island: Thunderstruck!

Basically, the premise is that after Electra storms off from the story of Starlight Express in No Comeback, he rolls down to the docks where all these international engines came from, hops on a ship and takes a quick nap, and then wakes up having been dropped off on Misty Island with the ship actively leaving him behind.

Oh No indeed. With no overhead wires for Electra to draw his power from, he's stuck there until Ferdinand comes along to see what the panicked honking is about. From there's it plays out like a mix of Cars and Green Acres, with Electra being intoduced to the logging locos and discovering that his normal celebrity charm doesn't work on a bunch of loggers who have never heard of him before. Eventually they jerry-rig a makeshift generator car so he can help out, but Electra largely tries to remain unintrested in what they're doing as he tries to adapt to country life. There's a subplot about Electra's cars trying to find him and they eventually do, with Elecra having learned a thing or two whilst being marooned.

I hope you guys like this fun little idea I had!

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Found your Electra and the logging locos au.

And well, I absolutely love it!! 💖💖

Is there anything you can spill about it?

I'm glad you like it!

In terms of further details, there's a whole subplot about Electra's trucks trying to find Electra and ending up getting mixed in with some Troublesome Trucks on sodor while trying to get from England to France, alongside other wacky adventures trying to find their boss. Unfortunately, I have not caught up on the Truck Lore(TM) enough to do anything with the idea yet.

Here's a fun snippet for you though!

"I'm Bash!" "I'm Dash!" "And I'm Ferdinand!"

"... And I'm gonna have a Problem if you three don't let up on the country schtick."

three weeks later "HOW HAS IT ALL COME TO THIS?!?!" "YIPPEE!"

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Oh boy, first ever tag game! (I say that like i'm competent but this is my first time ever seeing or knowing one of these exists lol)

Last Song: "I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along" (specifically the variation sung by James Iglehart and Brian Gonzales from 54 celebrates the Muppets)

Favourite Colour: Almost any variation of blue, but usually Sky Blue

Last Movie/TV Show: I don't really watch T.V, so I guess depending on what you count either nothing, the Disney "Brave Engineer" short, or Dropout's "Game Changer", specifically clips of Brennan Lee Mulligan being overly competitive lol

Sweet/Savoury/Spicy: Savory first, then Sweet, then Spicy last

Last Thing I Googled: "Blue Comet Locomotive". Very on-brand for a New Jersey train lover, I know.

Current Obsession: Right now? Technically TTTE. I mean like it's always been my obsession my whole life but my brain works in this funny way where sometimes I just fully immerse myself in a Thing(TM) for like two weeks (or two months if you're Starlight Express and it's like 2018) and then afterwards I go back to mainly looking at thomas stuff but sometimes adding in or revisiting Thing(TM) more casually along the way, so right now i'm in a swing period of sorts, which is understandable cuz right now i'm too busy to fully immerse myself in anything.

Last Book: Macbeth, purely because we're reading it in my english class.

Last Fic: I don't often read fics but if we count audio readings by the og author on youtube then "Wellsworth & Suddery Engines" by TheBuriedTruck, and if that don't count because it's a fan volume instead of a fic then "Desprate Measures" by MasterOfTheLemons is where it's at.

Looking Forward To: A possible snow day tomorrow so I can just relax after a busy past week and possibly write & make some screenshots!

Tagging: @chance-blog @shortbox-jb-brandy @stikbot1992 @endoard1 @meowchela @monstroso @anonymousboxcar & @brendambois

thank u thank u @fiddleleafedfig for the tag !!

nine people you want to get to know better

last song: when i opened the tag, 'alien blues' by vundabar but currently i'm listening to hozier 'would that i'. as of finishing writing this, radiohead. there you have it.

favourite colour: a deep cherry red. the kind that would make a really lovely lipstick gloss.

last movie/tv show: i'm terrible with shows and movies, but i was watching the bowie doco (moonage daydream) the other day, keeping on brand ik. i also love british comedians so 'would i lie to you?' is probably up there as well.

sweet/savoury/spicy: sweet if it is really well done. i'm talking specifically that one pub down by where i live that for some reason makes the best chocolate lava cake ever. if not, savoury forever.

last thing i googled: beatles guitar songs for beginners. i've decided to relearn guitar and i'm back to the absolute basics.

current obsession: concerts! this is a long-standing love but it is very evident lately. the way concerts down here work is that no one comes for years bc of the trek to aus, and then randomly there's this one month period where everybody is here at once and suddenly i have to choose between favs. that has been this month! hard on the bank account but my soul is thriving with a concert every other week. saw noah kahan, it was life-altering.

last book: i'm between the '50 yrs of led zeppelin' biography by mick wall, and 'anna karenina' by tolstoy atm. (adding it) last fic: blends by rvltn909. finished it yesterday and oh my god. the crime that was me putting it off.

looking forward to: still a little ways away, but i'm moving to america for (my) winter-spring!! i've work in the states, which i'm thrilled abt. it also means i am tracking down artists who refuse to concert in aus (hozier for the love of god) and trying to sneak them in as well.

np tags (apologies if you've already been tagged): @fairylittlebitch @alltoounwellll @the-moon-says-hi @just--vi @whyistarchaser @bellaxisworld @feminist-cult-following @none-of-it-was-accidental @svnflowermoon + ofc anybody else who wants to. tag me. let me know you all.

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I love that one scene in Misty Island Rescue where Thomas sees the Shake Shake Bridge and is like "This isn't safe. You guys Will Not use it." and then the Logging Locos laugh at him and basically just go "Okay British Boy, don't like our bridge? Well we've got the log cars and you don't so what the hell are you gonna do about it?? Gonna float?? Gonna float over to Ol' Wheezy???"

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes! Tumblr auto-generated post yippee!!!!

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What if I made an askblog with my main ocs so that I can do stuff with them and show them off more

the thought's been crossing my mind for a while but I don't know if anyone would tune in to it or if i'd get like spam or something cuz I dunno if askblogs get spam?? Like I don't think so but???

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Conjunction Junction when he learns about the Function:

Conjunction Junction when there's a Junction Malfunction: