#ttte hc

[thatoddhufflepuff]

oh my god i love this.

HOW DO THE TTTE CAST LAUGH?

Thomas - a rapid fire laugh that's incredibly infectious. Kind of your standard HAHAHAs or HEHEHAHAHs but it's still very genuine and liable to make others laugh as well

Edward - he wants you to believe that his polite little "hmm-hmm-hmm"s are his laughs. His actual laugh is a squawky, ugly, incredibly loud seagull laugh that only Thomas knows about.

Henry - a wheezy laugh, kinda sounds like "eeeh-heeeh-heeeh". Not a loud chortler but completely unable to articulate words.

Gordon - a deep, rumbling laugh. AHO-HO-HOs. Embarrased over his own laughs so he immediately composes himself and goes ENOUGH

James - a squeaky, chipmunky laugh like EHEHEHEHEEEH. He snorts a little, too. Tries to make it sound more impressive, like NYEHEHEHEH! but if it's funny enough he devolves into his true laugh sooner or later

Percy - a cutesy little heeheehee laugh but it oscillates between that and a racouous AUGHAHAHAHA laugh

Toby - dad chuckles- not exactly laughs, it's not too loud for them. Slaps his knees as he chuckles. Like ohohohohoho!

Duck - a snorting, honking, slurpy and damp mess. It definitely sounds like a duck quacks. Like its like eheheh-*SNRK*-heh-*SNRK*-heh-*SNRRK*-

Donald - deep, throaty HAGH-HAGH-HAGH-HAGHS while also elbow nudging the guy who made the joke appreciatively

Douglas - The same HAGH-HAGH-HAGH laugh as Donald, but completely different reaction; he immediately beats the nearest object up in the vicinity. Slamming tables, punching walls. If he's just an engine he just shakes helplessly as he laughs.

Oliver - His laugh used to be loud and genuine, a real YEHAHAHAHGAHAHAHAH with tears in his eyes kinda laugh but he learned to be quiet during the escape and never quite unlearned it when it comes to laughs. It's now kinda like, quiet chortling.

Emily - a regal, queenly laugh of O-HO-HO-HO! but when she breaks down it devolves into banshee like shrieks

Nia - it sounds like tsshAHAHAHA! tssshAHAHAHA! Like she tries to hide her real laugh at first but cant help it, and it sounds so clear and genuine

Rebecca - laughs a lot, so everyone's used to her giggling, but it's always a welcome sound! It's a cute little, high pitched and rapid fire hee-hee-hee! And she sounds so delighted every time. When she laughs louder its like HEEAHAHEEHAHA!!!!

[fanficfish]

ranch au: top five ways to tell the Scottish twins apart

(No you can't tell Bill and Ben apart, they are a hive mind their only difference is which hand they prefer to write with because ofc they're ambidexterous, all the better to prank people with)

Donald has 2% more smile wrinkle line then Douglas. Which makes sense when you consider how often he joins in on or even starts pranks.

Douglas is practical until you show him a plate of Duck's blueberry pie. Donald will instead judge it silently and wish it was raspberry.

One of them remembers he owns a comb and the other remembers but sometimes can't be bothered and just gives it a couple swipes before taking off ("It'll get messy later anyways" "Donald, it literally looks like a rat's nest" "We wear hats, what's the difference to you?")

Douglas is the one with the blackmail camera roll. Donald sweet-talks, Douglas films, and suddenly the story of Jame's' incident with some bees he was sure had been long forgotten was brought up. Toby has learned this and knows to keep mum, especially if he's recently played a small trick on the twins. Thomas has not.

Donald likes to sing but Douglas even more so. Everyone assumes Donald leads their rounds, and while it's true, it's Douglas that can pull out a song out of nowhere for almost every situation,l and he'll know all the words too. Donald just prefer songs where Douglas can chime in.

[lnwrcauli]

Before The Fleet [NWR AU]

Sorry for my lack of AU posts recently, I've been rather busy. To get things rolling again, here's a bit about some of the engines that were loaned to the North Western but didn't stay. Seeing as I'll be talking about multiple very different engines, I'll format this slightly different to my usual posts.

Brooke the Bullying Engine

Brooke was a Great Central Railway Class 1 that was loaned to the North Western in 1915. She was meant to be the engine pulling the express, but mostly found herself rostered on heavy freight work due to her size and power. Her official name was City of Lincoln, but if you called her that, you might just end up in the turntable well. She was a horrible bully by all accounts and along with her accomplices Ashley and Micah, she reigned over Vicarstown through fear and violence until her return to the Great Central Railway in 1922.

Ashley the Eastern Engine

Ashley was a Great Eastern Railway S69 fitted with experimental larger cylinders. They were loaned to the North Western in 1916 to undergo trials but ended up staying until 1922. They did the passenger work that Edith couldn't. Upon the purchase and subsequent failures of Henry in 1918, they had to pick up the slack from both engines. Being reportedly as rude and self-important as Brooke, they wreaked havoc upon Vicarstown until their return to the G.E.R.

Micah the Mineral Engine

Micah was a Caledonian Railway 600 class loaned to the NWR in 1918. He was brought in to pick up the slack in the freight work that Henry and Edith were meant to be doing. Out of the 3 horrid engines stationed at Vicarstown, he was likely the worst. He often bullied smaller engines such as Thomas, Edith and some of the other loaned shunters. He even sent an engine to the works once. Everyone on the line was glad when he was called back to Scotland by the C.R. in 1922.

Sprite the Buckjumper Engine

Sprite was a Great Eastern Railway S56 that was loaned to the North Western in 1916 to run the Ffarquhar Branchline. They took over from 2 of the much smaller TK&ELR Coffee Pot engines. They worked the line mostly without fuss or incident until 1925, when Thomas was reassigned to the branch and they were sent back to the Great Eastern Railway.

Elsie the Midland Engine

Elsie was a Midland Railway 1377 Class loaned to the North Western Railway in 1917. She took over the mantle of Tidmouth's station pilot from Wellsworth & Suddery Railway No.1. She worked the role without fuss for quite some time, becoming a favourite target of Micah's due to her small size and relatively low power output. She was sent back home in 1925 when the North Western Railway bought Percy.

Kirtley the Old Engine

Kirtley was a Midland Railway 700 Class loaned to the North Western Railway in 1914. She did short-distance freight work and other odd jobs. She was reportedly very kind-hearted and surprisingly strong-willed despite her age. She left the island in 1947 after 3 years of inactivity when the L.M.S. recalled her to Derby Works for scrap.

Jenny the Banking Engine

Jenny was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Aspinall Class 30 loaned to the railway in 1914. To start with, she worked the railway's heavy freight services but was reallocated to the Suddery Junction banker siding in 1918 when Micah was purchased. She worked through the 10s, 20s, 30s and 40s pushing trains up the gradient, during which time her northern bluntness and hospitality rubbed off on some. Sir Topham Hatt I had made plans to buy her from the LMS, but they came too late as she was recalled to Horwich Works for scrap in 1946.

Thanks for reading, I hope to see you all in the next one.

Cheerio!

[raiku44-tttecatter]

A little lore from a picture that I got from @just-sittin-on-a-fence, And I just slapped face on them cause I'm too lazy to make the whole art Lol

The engine: So they deemed you problematic ey?

The diesel: Yes, they're going to scrap us all. I just hope 5702 can make it through

The engine: 5702?

The diesel: You know The No Where railway? He's in there and accepted as part of the fleet of the island filled with good ol kettles

The engine: That's one lucky diesel, Im going to bet that he's your brother

The diesel: Yes, he is......

The Diesel and Engine: ........

The diesel: I'm sorry

The engine: Pardon what?

The diesel: *sighed* In sorry, for my actions, attitude, and anything I do bad. Now I understand why you steamies feels threatened.

The engine: It's alright, I understand.

The engine: Also, I never got your name, do you have one?

The diesel: No I don't, but I do have number it's D5710. Yours?

The engine: I see, and my name John's Steam. You don't mind if I called you Betty?

'Betty': Well I see no problem with that John, Say do you also have relatives in there too?

John: Well more like half relative, you heard about the flying kipper?

'Betty': Yes, especially the crash and the steamie who got that accident having a rebuild. Don't say if that engine IS your half-relative?

John: Yup, he is. Half Stanier and Half Gresley and Half something else.

'Betty': 'Something else'?

John: I've met him once at the Furness, he said he's just a stolen failed Blueprint Gresley build with some modifications to make him at least move.

'Betty':...... So your half-relative is technically an illegal build, representing 2 class that were build by completely different builders and 1 builder who is a robber..... If the No Where Railway doesn't exist or your half-relative never being popular I would probably calling you out as a liar.

John: Believe me you're not the first one to say that to me, he's just an amalgamation of builds just like you said. Yet he was somehow stronger than me

'Betty': Come to think of it, what is your half-relative other half build is?

John: It's an A1 build

'Betty': Amazing, great just great.

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Say hello to John and 'Betty', Henry and Boco's relative Respectively :)

[hellokittyshinkansen]

My most intense TTTE headcanon is one that barely relates to canon. It is as follows:

"Well-adjusted newbuild" is an oxymoron.

Some do better than others, sure, but when you're playing resurrectionist, some sort of trauma to someone is almost inevitable. The little narrow gauge lads who are basically just a new [x] in the family tend to take it better, 'cos they're in this little preserved bubble where the inter-engine culture hasn't necessarily changed that much- there's been a great and terrible upheaval, and everyone bears those scars, but there's a comfort in running routes that have stayed the same for centuries. the likes of Tom Rolt (Talyllyn no.7) and Corris 7 tend to have a bit of time to get their bearings before they're eased into knowing about The Horrors.

Straight replicas of a specific engine have it harder, even if there's still classmates knocking about, especially if there's only ONE classmate. They're effectively imperfect clones, and while that's not as uncanny-valley as it would be to a human, I think a lot of their relatives still wouldn't like it. Perhaps a stronger effort would be made to find common ground there, to let the personality of the newbuild make them distinct from the original in one's memories, but the oddness would probably never quite fade.

And then you have your full on Jurassic-park situations, your Steam Into History no.17s and T1s (pending completion) and Tornadoes. Those are... divisive. Opinion varies from "spit in the face of the originals" to "resource-draining leech taking time and money from restorations" to "Vapid showboat with no culture or common sense" but are rarely good. They're also brought into the world pretty much alone- no railway, no classmates, no nada. Thus begins an unwinnable and inevitable process of "proving" themselves, which happens one hard-won opinion at a time rather than as a general shift in culture. There's the constant need to perform to several different expectations at once, AND the under-socialisation from essentially lacking a family, AND the obvious angst of being physically part of a group you're culturally outside of. Healthy!

[raiku44-tttecatter]

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YOU DONT HAVE TO COOK T H A T HARD

Illustration for my TTTE X Polar Express Crossover.

Fanfic here; Hope you enjoy!!!

[castorfell]

My brain runs on Duncan (ft Rusty!)

[sugarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

My 3RD redesign for lady, chat I swear this will be my last design for her🙏🙏

This my first time using water color in a WHILEE

[togetherness23]

lesbian colors colorpicked from illustrations of tvs!rusty, stepney, and lady

[putuponpercy]

Updated Gordon

Thomas | Edward | Henry

As usual some AU lore/headcanons under the cut for those who are interested (or not you can ignore them if you like)

Previously married - now widowed

Cut off all ties with near enough all other Gresleys after they showed little to no compassion after his loss

The slit in his brow came from a fight with his brother Scot a few days before Gordon left for Sodor

Which was also the last time Gordon and Scot saw each other for however many years

Years of being deemed as "not good enough" by the higher ups in his family lead Gordon to project a sense of self importance once he arrived on Sodor to mask his fear of failure

Keeps the information about his late wife a secret from the others - the only other person to know is Spencer (and Scot obvs)

Puts on a hard exterior but is a softie at heart

It takes an extremely long time for him to consider the others as friends but is fiercely loyal and protective in later years despite not always showing it

Opened his spare room to Henry during a time of need - who then later convinced him to let James stay with them too as he was also without a place to stay

Is autistic

Heavy smoker - is always extremely mindful about smoking around Henry even after his respiratory issues were mended

Roughly around 36 - making him younger than Thomas by only a year - Thomas won't let him live it down when he finds out

[brendamfireworks]

A friend suggested me to draw them fighting.

When he said that he meant mentally not this.

[lorainedoesthings]

BDHSHZHSHSH LMFAOOOO

oh my god that’s hilarious

Even better than the engines using their own swears? The railway workers adopting their swears. I could totally see a driver off work talk to their friend and have an interaction like 

“yeah I broke my arm the other day”

“Cinders and ashes! Are you doing alright?”

“?????”

[bruhstation]

do you ever wonder what it's like to date the most mentally repressed bachelor of sodor but also want to prepare yourself for what's to come? for casa tidmouth's valentine's day special the author filled out this handy dandy chart so you can see if you're lucky for fitting all the criteria or for not fitting any of the criteria

(template by mythir on twitter)

[couldtransitionsaveher]

PERCY from THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE

JUSTIFICATION:

"I don’t really have any SOLID evidence but I feel like she’d feel better about it. Look at me and tell me she wouldn’t be happier with like a skirt duct taped around her. know there’s a ttte fandom out there back me up on this one" - Anonymous

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[mavibonghostexpress]

Besties

[ladychandraofthemoone]

Happy 9/9!🦆🖤💙

Have a engine and his duck 🦆

(Please ignore the date haha but hot take I really like Aeg! Mole and chipped tooth Donald so let’s go!!)

Bonus RWS:

And a Dilly.