Assuming that Nobby has seen Edward in preservation (post 1963 rebuild) (I think it was '63), what are his opinions on Edward being rebuilt into something not-so-Furness?
tl;dr: Nobby's just glad Edward is still alive, thank you — though he knows he has to pretend to give a damn about this sort of thing
The Awdry’s explanation for Edward does not come down to a single rebuild but to numerous modifications over the past, erm (checks notes) century or so. Some of these rebuilds would have been more extensive than others but it’s not clear to me that the one after the crankpin failure would have been one where they made the biggest alterations to his design.
I am sure that some significant rebuilding took place between 1920 and 1941. So Nobby already saw the beginnings of the Edwardification of 34 before he left Barrow.
Life is change. Most of Nobby’s own working career was before Mr Pettigrew brought standardisation to the F.R., he knows how it goes.
And, like, look, Nobby knows that when visitors come and say anything along the lines of oh if only so-and-so was still in their original form (and they do mention the Edward case to him of course, quite a lot), his job is to make vague sympathetic noises and to be sure to sound genial rather than biting if he observes that the world already has a preserved Sharp and Stewart passenger engine, you can go visit him any time, oh yes, I’m told the Dutch take very good care of him...
Incidentally, Nobby was sceptical about the project to rebuild 20 to his original form. May have kinda definitely been polite, diplomatic conversations with earnest representatives of the newly-formed Furness Railway Trust that boiled down to Nobby being like ‘Ya can’t bring back the past, shit don’t work like that’ and the FRT blokes being like ‘lol wut, nah bro, if you throw enough money at it you totally can — relax, we’ll show you.’
(At the risk of spoilers… the attitude of both parties proved justified in the end.)
I swear to God, modern music production is so FLAT that it physically hurts to listen to. There's no spatial depth to it, no air, no sense of this music actually being performed in a real three-dimensional space. Please can we bring back breath and air and space in music production?
Randomly remembered the half-reason i call my oc-verse by the name it has while laying in bed. One-half of the reason i still knew, but I had forgotten what had truly, really cemented it jointly until now
(it was a song from my favourite band I haven't listened to in a while.)
(the song fit so well at the time, still does, that i needed to hold onto it for the main protagonists forever, by partially naming their story in reference.)
Does this explanation make any sense? Does anyone know why I'm tearing up remembering this. Aahh
one day I'll cave and commission someone to draw this but so far lemme just tell ya, selfshipping with a character that at the first glance seem like completely out of your world is just. so fun. the potential. the gags.
like, look. I'm big. I'm alternative. I'm drifting towards the gender vibe I'd call butch-adjacent - but in a nonbinary way. I am pierced, I am tattooed, I dye hair green, I am messy, makeup hurts me and I can't keep nails longer than the moment I start to feel them because otherwise I'll bite them off.
with OP characters that's not much of a shock. but. now put me next to Nanami. who's probably shorter than me btw as soon as I put platforms on. two completely different worlds. maybe a joke, even.
out of us two I would look like a fucking sorcerer, witcher or whatever, even without speaking in my native language that's probably sounds for non-slavs like sounds of a dying curse.
and yeah. we're gay and married. keep scrolling & remember to fuck capitalism.
I'd call it perfect opposites attract but we're not that opposite and that's half of the joke & shock here 😂
It's such a tiny innocuous thing that really doesn't matter, but I feel like calling duel monsters a children's card game (when it's fundamentally baked into everyday life, and your social existence is judged by what you play and how you play it so very intensely, for everyone in-universe) is an absolute injustice to what it is for that universe of people.
there’s one on here currently and they’re bringing back up old controversy (jashshipping)
Yeaa I saw that. They also seem to post a bunch of CJ related things, so I might make the daily photos one since there isn't one for just CJ screenshots/photos
Every time someone ends a sentence with /hj my brain just goes handjob?? Which sure does something to the tone of what they're trying to say, lemme tell you.
Translation is a mix of both of these with my edits
"I can't cry..."
That hyped-up movie that will "leave you in tears"
Didn't move my tear ducts an inch
"The world's tastes are weird, aren't they?"
There's no way I can blurt that
My heart's so dry that it feels like it'll crack
"Touched hearts and left the entirety of America sobbing"
Projecting onto all these heroine
"Not at all!" "So dashing!" "The wild blue!"
A cliched ending
"Touched hearts and left the entirety of America sobbing"
Somebody, please, make my eyes tear up...!
Pushy, forced sympathy—
it seems like if you don't go along with it, it'll be your loss
Just one life per person, and just one emotion per person, too
Telepathy? No one gets it
And even if I got fed up with the constant peddling
And run away, I'd become lonely!
YES WE, YES WE
I can't join in with you guys, oh yeah
YES WE, YES WE
By the way... Who exactly are "we"?
Since when have I been pushed around by "showing sympathy"
Trying to force a reaction from my tear ducts?
"It's just the way the world is, right?"
No way, that's twisted...
I guess that's just how I see it
We can't be saved with that kind of cheap sympathy
When life gets complicated, so do our feelings—
There's way too little delicacy in an "equal temperament"
If I felt seriously threatened and wound up pushed
Out of the group, I'd be lonely!
YES WE, YES WE
I can't join in with this "we," oh yeah
YES WE, YES WE
By the way... Who exactly are you guys?
Pushy, forced sympathy—
it seems like if you don't go along with it, it'll be your loss
Just one life per person, and just one emotion per person, too
Telepathy? No one gets it
It'll be my win if I can honestly tell them
That I'm not giving into their constant peddling
YES WE, YES WE
I can't join in with you guys, oh yeah
YES WE, YES WE
Let something original impact you enough to cry
we used to have incorrect quotes channels in some of my servers and heres a few top hits
Nobimaru: 'Person of interest' is almost too flattering.
Nobimaru: Like, if the police were to pound on my door and go, 'A man has been murdered in your building and you are a person of interest,' I'd be like, 'Moi? Oh, do go on.'
Akagi: How long have we been talking about this?
Hinata: Four hours, 6 minutes.
Nobimaru: well, there's some pros and some cons, guys.
Nobimaru: Pro: we've cut our conflict resolution time in half. Four hours, that's good for us.
Akagi: That's huge, good work.
mihai: ouch! that hurt my mihai’s apple!
inugami: i told you it’s not named after each individual man.
Nobimaru: I'm sick of this! I do all the cooking, the cleaning, the paperwork, the shaking, the baking, the pooping, the scooping, the-
Inari: You also do all of the complaining, apparently.
Inugami: AUGHHH… I'm in terrible pain! Hurry, you gotta suck out the poison!
Mihai: Uh-uh. I don't suck.
Inugami: You're a vampire, Vampires SUCK BLOOD-
Inari, holding Nobimaru's resume: Okay, so right here, it states that you’re creative.
Nobimaru: Yes
Inari: So…what do you create?
Nobimaru: Problems.
Mihai: Is letting someone win at chess sapiosexual bottoming
Inugami: Does anyone in this godforsaken group ever think before they speak
Mihai: Am I in trouble?
Inugami: Take a guess.
Mihai: No?
Inugami: Take another guess.
Inugami: There are seven chairs and ten kids. What do you do?
Kabane: Have everyone stand.
Akira: Bring three more chairs!
Shiki: The most important ones can sit down.
Mihai: Kill three.
Inugami: What the fuck is wrong with you?!
Mihai: Wow, you could start with a 'good morning'.
Inugami: Good morning. What the fuck is wrong with you?!
Nobimaru: I can explain.
Inugami: Can you?
Nobimaru: If you give me thirty seconds to think of a lie.
Nobimaru, to Kon: remember before when i was talking about smelly garbage standing around being useless? that was a metaphor. i was actually talking about you. and I’m sorry. you didn’t react at the time, so i was worried it sailed right over your head. which would have made this apology seem insane. that’s why I had to call you garbage a second time just now.
Inugami: Mihai has a weird fetish where he likes to dress up like himself and act like a huge fucking bitch all the time
Mihai: Hey, do you know the password to Shiki's computer?
Kabane: Fuck you, Mihai.
Mihai: Rude.
Kabane: No, you misunderstood, the password is “fuckyoumihai”.
Mihai: Oh, no numbers? Not very safe.
Inari: I'll explain later, Inugami, but you're just gonna have to trust me that everything is going to be fine.
Inugami: Trust you? Really? Kind of like the way Jesus trusted Peter not to deny him three times before the cock crowed? At this rate, I'm gonna be naked on a cross with a sword in my stomach by sundown!
among many more. most of them are the SIU actually
quirkthieves asked: WAIT I FOUND ANOTHER GOOD MIHAI ONE. it fits so well esp now w mia involved
Kabane: What does "take out" mean?
Shiki: Food.
Akira: Dating!
Nobimaru: Murder.
Mihai: It can be all three if you're bold enough.
THESE HAVE GOT TO BE CANON ❓❗ WDYM INCORRECT QUOTES I heard them say ALL of these MYSELF. I was in the nearby washing machine trust me
When you're just trying to watch videos about your (adult) fandom space made by a woman for once and the vibe is already honestly kind of annoying ...
But then the first thing that she does is start plugging her patreon, which is again, kind of annoying, but not horrible ...
...But then you see that this annoying little disney descendants kinne disney adult discourser "kim possible too sexy 🤓" ass bitch is a part of it............ And suddenly all of your interest in hearing what the other woman has to say about your 18+ fandom space, just immediately goes ...
Like that.
And then you feel kinda bad about making a post ragging on her so you go to look up her age to once again remind yourself just how old this bitch is because she does not look or act goddamn fucking 25 at all so like you keep forgetting.... But when you're looking her up, you see she has controversy and the "controversy" is just .... Literally that?
And you're like "Oh thank fucking GOD I'm not alone!"
So you know what I'm just gonna say something I've been wanting to say about her for a while ...
Why the fuck are you even talking about ableism when you basically spend all your time online role playing as an ableist disney character kinnie bitch? Like, you're not an amputee just grow the fuck up!
It's like if petitprincess1 was an annoying breadtuber groupie fangirl instead an annoying centrist tumblr fangirl ... "
"she said 'brown is the color of crazy'!"
"what the fuck is a 'vanillia black'!?"
I see her everywhere recently even though she's blocked and on my "do not recommend" and I just need to be mean for a second!
Just woke up from a nap and had the wildest dream:
So it was basically a Don Bluth spin on It's a Wonderful Life (completely different story but same premise) with Michael Sheen voicing the MC (.....yes he looked like Aziraphale but that's not important the only thing silly about that is that my brain supplied me with "oh THAT'S why his 'Newspaper man' act is so familiar!" Lol)
The story was rather interesting, happening during a WW2 type setting. Can't really remember most of it (there were submarines??) just that instead of seeing what would happen if they were never part of the love interest's (I never actually got to see who that was) life as a ghost, they got to be there and meet the love interest that hadn't known them all their lives. And go on some Bluth-y adventure while trying to fix everything that was wrong by them not having been alive in this universe
Anyways at the end they did the whole "I understand I'm important to the universe" thing and it was time for them to wake up, the angel/fairy....thing? that had led them on this adventure said they'd been healing them (head wound) during the whole dream and yes they could wake up now. TURNS OUT the MC was afab and the fairy, knowing very little about humans, Did Not Understand and had kinda....girlified them back up (don't worry they fix it lol)
Cut to me watching the movie (dreams are weird ya know) and the channel I'm watching it on MUTES THE FEMALE VO!? I was so furious cause I knew they were doin it for transphobic reasons, and while I couldn't hear the female voice I knew that the MC talked about their life growing up with the love interest while they still presented as a little girl (and tried explaining the complexities of human gender norms to fairies in the process)
And the freakin channel I was watching on had badly stitched in this random, horribly drawn/animated, kid in the background, and they kept muting anything that talked about the little girl being the MC, hinting that the story was coming from the stitched in male kid instead
Anyways the MC told their story about wanting to be with the love interest but knowing once their (rich) family found out they weren't a girl they'd never let the two of them be together. Idk there was a whole back story I can't remember now ANYWAYS
I was so pissed as I was (unknowingly) waking up that the channel had done that, and when I realized I was waking up my first thought was "man it has been forever since I've seen that! I oughta find and watch........it's not real 🥲"
(and yes the female presenting Oops We Healed You Back Wrong MC was @doria-plume 's Anastasia design lol)