My favorite thing about Thomas the Tank Engine is that it canonically takes place in a train post-apocalypse where the Island of Sodor is the only safe zone in a totalitarian dystopia in which steam trains are routinely killed and their body parts are sold or cannibalized for repair
If you think I’m kidding you need to read the original books
could you please direct me to a source? i would feel much better if this was validated.
It took me so long to find this quote online but I did it because it’s so much darker than one might expect from Thomas the Tank Engine:
“…Engines on the Other Railway aren’t safe now. Their controllers are cruel. They don’t like engines any more. They put them on cold damp sidings, and then,” Percy nearly sobbed, “they…they c-c-cut them up.” -”The Bluebells of England.” Stepney the Bluebell Engine. Rev. Awdry, Wilbert. London: Egmont Publishing, 1963.
This illustration, by Gunvor and Peter Edwards, accompanied the above text in the original book, and depicts a pair of unfortunate Other Railway engines moments before being disassembled with a blowtorch.
HOLY FUCK LOOK AT THE ONE IN THE BACKGROUND THEY TOOK ITS FUCKING FACE OMG
the early thomas the tank engine books are pretty standard stuff. saccharine bubblegum type stories and illustrations. if you watched the show, it’s like that in book form.
the second half of the railway series are so fucking dark and surreal i’m convinced they were a result of reverend wilbur awdry doing copious amounts of lsd and having hallucinations of his own death.
Excuse me but the very first story in the Railway Series is about an engine who hides in a tunnel and refuses to run because he doesn’t want to get his paint job ruined in the rain, so railway management seals off the tunnel.
They eventually let him out because another engine breaks down or something, but the original plan was to just leave him in there forever.
On the show, didn’t they also hook up one engine to a generator, so he’d never move again? That was literally one of the lines, I think. It’s on some other post on here. It was chilling.
Yes! This also happened in the books, to an engine referred to only as “No. 2″, but the television series applied the same scenario to an invented character named “Smudger”, in the episode “Granpuff”.
“Smudger,” said Duke. “Was a show-off. He rode roughly and often came off the rails. I warned him to be careful, but he took no notice.” “Listen, Dukie” he snared. “Who worries about a few spills?” “We do here! I said, but Smudger just laughed.” “Hahaha!” “Until one day, Manager said he was going to make him useful at last. Smudger stopped laughing then!” “W-w-why? What did he do?!” “He turned him into a generator. He’s still there behind our shed. He’ll never move again.”
This is so fucked up
No, listen.
Okay, so we see Railway Management doing all this shit, right, but supposedly it’s so much worse in the Other Railways? I mean, sure, you might get turned into a generator or bricked into a tunnel for not doing as you’re told, but at least you’re not cut up and sold for parts, right? It’s not so bad on the island of Sodor, right?
Or maybe that’s just what Railway Management wants the engines to think.
Maybe the island of Sodor is the real totalitarian regime, and the engine citizens (slaves) are fed propaganda, illustrated in hellish grays and sulfuric yellows, about how bad it is everywhere else, at all the Other Railways.
It’s bloody and has numerous wounds. It is believed that It got into a fight with something bigger
i do not like the words “something bigger” in this context
fun fact: seram means “scary” in Indonesian
It just looks like a dead, rotting whale though?
it’s some kinda dead baleen whale. here’s exactly what you’re looking at in the videos but without the rotting meat and blubber
baleen is the term for their brush-like filter teeth, which are very brittle and don’t always stay attached to the skull of the animal after death and after rot has set in, especially if the animal was sick before it died, so their odd skeletons look even more alien without teeth
their skeletons are just really alien-looking in general without their blubber and flesh attached, and not many people even know what a whale skeleton looks like, especially since their skeletons look almost NOTHING like what they look like when they’re alive
in fact, their skeletons look quite sea serpent-like, so it’s not so shocking that people look at washed up carcasses of whales in advanced stages of decay and think “sea monster” and alternatively; their blubbery pelts(often referred to as globsters) tend to deglove themselves from the corpse during decay and wash up on shore, which can be equally confusing and distressing since not many people know that whales have bristly whiskers that sometimes remain in the degloved skin, and the fibrous rotting blubber can also have a fur-like appearance, making identifying a whale from it’s skin a not-so-easy task for someone not familiar with how whales decay
as for the numerous bloody wounds reported, it’s most likely either wounds from a boat propeller that killed the whale in the first place, or the whale got sick and split off from it’s pod to die, drifted a bit and sharks and other scavengers probably picked at it before it washed up in the shallows
so yeah, long story short, it’s just a whale. it’s not a monster. and there’s nothing to freak out about. However, yes, we do know more about space than we do our own seas, so the sea is a very mysterious place and that can be scary, but you really shouldn’t jump to conclusions.
also i’m not kidding about the whiskers. never forget that whales are mammals
WHALES EXIST, DIE, AND ROT. HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF TIMES IS THIS GOING TO MAKE NEWS WITH “NOOOOOOBODY KNOWS WHAT THIS COULD BEEEEEEEE!!! WHAT COULD EVER POSSIBLY BE BIG AND IN THE OCEAN WE JUST DONT KNOOOOOOOOOW”
lol full offense but stop policing how frequently bisexuals date either genders. just cause i’ve dated 5 girls back to back doesn’t make me a lesbian, just like another bisexual woman who has dated 5 men back to back doesn’t make her straight. being bisexual means the person has the potential to be attracted to more than one gender and that’s it. what they do with it is their business so just let us live for crying out loud let us live.
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5 girls back to back doesn’t make me a lesbian
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Kinda makes it likely that you are more into girls than guys tho’.
Guys are much more available as partners for women unless they are quite unattractive.
But let’s imagine it was exactly equal that you would select a girl or a guy - that their sex genuinely was irrelevant, and that there was no difference in availability.
I’m rusty at maths, but from memory, the chance it’s coincidence is
(1/(2^5)) *100%
= (1/32)
*100%
=
0.03125
*100%
=3.125%
Feel free to correct my maths - it’s been about 35 years now since i did probability.
But if i was a betting man - i’m going to say my money is going to be on a woman for your next partner.
Maybe you are a lesbian, and maybe dudes need to know that so they don’t get hurt? Just a thought.
An Overwatchgameplay video gaining traction online can only be described as 16 minutes of pure horror. Throughout the entire recording, several members on a female player’s team verbally harassed her, hurling moronic, sexist, rapacious vitriol at her — nonstop.
The
video is absolutely gut-wrenching, not only because the content itself
is horrifying, but also because it stands for something larger: It’s a distillation of the experience of gaming online if you don’t fit the stereotypical image of what a gamer is supposed to be.
“I am putting this and a few other examples of the way I am treated up not just for entertainment,” Overwatch player Glisa said in the description of the YouTube video. Read more (5/11/17)
like it’s outright stated in the official comic that she’s on the “spectrum” aka the austism spectrum (bc what other spectrum could she be referring to?? one that makes her “different”, unable to mesh well with other people in a formal setting but excelling at a specific academia, that makes her love order????)
like it isn’t “implied”, she confirms it. she’s come to terms with it after being ridiculed for it and has learned to embrace it, since it’s the reason why she’s one of the best at hard light manipulation
symmetra is too good for us
Blizzard confirmed that YES she does mean the autism spectrum.So doubters can eat it
For those who were scrambling for a source like I was, I think I found the answer!
It wasn’t Blizzard, per se, but it was the writer of the comic, Andrew Robinson.
Both Tweets thanking him about the autism representation, and him calling it a privilege to write for the officially-sanctioned comic.
It’s canon. It’s confirmed canon. Symmetra is canonically autistic, I’m beside myself right now, oh my gosh.
thank you for the extra confirmation and sources!! people have been asking about it in the tags a lot so it’s super nice to know it’s Official official!!!
CANON Autistic Character Of The Day: Symmetra from Overwatch
so my uncle is a priest and apparently can’t deny when i ask him to bless something so i now have a blessed laptop, blessed loaf of bread, and blessed underwear.
i just asked him to bless this post and he did
This post is officially the most holy post on Tumblr. Use it to banish sins from your dashboard.
In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short.
A ruler with long hair is held in great esteem, for defending the peace.
The traditional declaration of war is for the ruler to send their cut-off hair to the enemy ruler. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair: to receive long hair says that you have angered one who is slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken.
Violent war-mongering leader frantically and aggressively tries to shave just a LITTLE hair off the top of their head into an envelope.
A faraway king receives a heavy wooden crate filled with a coil of the longest hair he has ever seen.
A despised ruler finds hundreds of pounds of cut-off ponytails at her castle entrance, each one belonging to her own people.
A young emperor refuses to cut their hair and insists on trying to make peace with invaders. The enemy leader steps forward, draws their blade, and cuts the emperor’s hair themselves.
Hellen cuts her hair off and throws it in Cathy’s face at her son’s soccer scrimmage.
