If you’re a snakey boi with glasses clap your hands!
*clap, clap*
If you’re a snakey boi with glasses clap your hands.
*clap, clap*
When you’re snakey and you know it, and you really want to kiss him.
If you’re a snakey boi with glasses clap your hands.
*clap, clap*
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OH I meant to make a post about this yesterday and then I forgot but I went over to my sister’s house to bring my niece her birthday presents and of course my niece wanted to show me all her new toys and play with them with me. I don’t mind doing this, in fact I actively enjoy playing with her because she’s a good storyteller and I know she loves having someone that will listen to her. Anyway, she brought out some slime and my stomach just straight up DROPPED. Yall I can’t STAND touching slime, like it makes every part of my body want to crawl up inside of itself, I just can’t do it. So I told her I couldn’t touch it and why and she stopped for a second and goes “you can’t touch it?” And I was like “no I can’t touch it, I don’t like the way it feels and it makes me upset to be touched with it.” And she nodded and set down her little jar for a second and was like “hold on” and dug under her bed and pulled out a little plastic horse and handed it to me and says “you can touch it with this!” It kind of rocked me because I mean of course that was a solution, and it was a fantastic one, I just didn’t expect her to understand and offer an alternative way to play so quickly! And it worked great! I didn’t have to touch the slime, and using the little horse was fun to roll and poke it with. We didn’t have to stop playing just because I didn’t like something, she figured out a way to let me play with her anyway. So I guess my thing is like, tell kids exactly why you do or don’t want to do something. You may need to explain it a couple of times, or in a different way, but they get it. And they will find a solution.
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Relating to your post on the subtle angst of being a machine, I hunger for all the possible physical angst elements. Where is the fear of limited or increasingly costly repair parts? Where is the worry of the shrinking pool of mechanical experts (engine troubleshooters)? The simple inescapable awareness that one's moving parts are constantly degrading? Horror relating to corrosive/damaging environments? Complex emotional trauma and strange coping mechanisms in response to the reality of their entire "family" slowly *literally* falling apart?
YES!!! YESS!!! FUCK YES!!! SOMEONE THAT GETS IT!!!!!
going to. put this under the cut bc I have SO MUCH TO SAY.
You get it SO well, so many good points there.
All things come to an end, and engines especially can be kept alive for over a hundred years if they are well taken care of, but there's so many who are not as valued or who simply cannot be taken care of as well as their owners want to take care of them. And they can rarely do things about it. It's honestly admirable that some of the Sodor engines have worked so hard to protect and preserve their fellow rolling stock. Oliver is a beloved little engine, but he likely stays up some nights thinking about how if Douglas hadn't happened upon him, he wouldn't even be here right now. He'd have been melted down ages ago.
Not to bring up Hiro again but he is literally the first engine that comes to mind when I think of this sort of thing. He went to Sodor so excited to be helpful and useful and was promptly abandoned not long after he'd broke down. He was stuck there for god knows how long and if Thomas hadn't found him, by accident mind you, he would've corroded and died there most likely. And yet he would've rather done that then get scrapped. Almost as if he wanted to pass away on his own terms. Like I mentioned before, we're shown often that most of the kind-hearted engines (specifically on Sodor) will put forth their best effort to keep any machine out of the smelters. Thomas listened to Hiro's story and was likely deeply disturbed that Hiro had been abandoned like that and not a single person dared to look hard enough to find him when he was still on Sodor this whole time. But with his horror, came understanding, because he knows the reality of even some of the most famous locomotives at times can be harsh and even deadly.
And Spencer showed no care or concern at all, not only that, but he almost seemed delighted to inform Sir Tophamn Hatt of Hiro's existence purely to ensure that he was scrapped. He knew nothing about Hiro. He doesn't even LIVE on Sodor. And yet he took great pride in the concept of getting the old engine scrapped. As if that does not mean the very end of an engine's life. It's honestly really unsettling to me how quickly Spencer jumped to that conclusion. Not to mention the tearful horror in Hiro's voice when he was yelling out to Thomas whilst trying to get away from Spencer.
Henry was locked in a tunnel for fearing the rain would damage his coat. How often did he beg those workers that would come by to let him out? How many times do you think he cried feeling like he'd failed his entire railway and that he'd never be released again? There was no sympathy shown for him. And no acknowledgement to the terror he very likely felt for the time he was trapped there in that tunnel. He got sick not long afterwards, the anguish he went through in that time period was probably something awful.
Most all machines are at the mercy of their employers. They don't have the appendages to escape the situations they get in that some humans might be able to get out of. If you deprive any machine of their fuel they cannot go anywhere. If you refuse to repair them they cannot go anywhere or function properly. There's a reason they pride themselves on being really useful. If you're not really useful, you're either sent away or you're...well...sent somewhere to be scrapped. It's the way the world works with real, non-sentient machines...and it seems like the TTTE universe operates on those same principals despite being a world where 99% of all heavy machinery is alive and can think and speak for themselves.
Sometimes it's just progression, sometimes it's business, but at no time is it ethical. They are alive. They have wants and desires and emotions and fears, yet very few of the humans in their world seem capable of understanding that. There's so many scary things that come with being an engine. If you're too slow and you get less done than a new model, you're likely done for unless somebody cares enough about you to take you in and restore you. Sodor seems to work overtime to preserve old rolling stock, I'm sure they would've taken incredible care of Hiro had he not went home to Japan, and it seems like they did miss him there considering that he's still very well taken care of when he comes to visit Sodor after he'd moved back home. But there's so many engines who don't have that luxury. Hiro just as well could've been sent back or left sitting still, of course whoever owns him now clearly cares for him a great deal.
The other types of machines aren't as touched on as our beloved engines are, but they surely experience the same kind of stuff. Airplanes may just as easily feel the same anxieties as old steamers do. They get antsy when they can't fly because what is a plane good for if it can't get off the ground?
There's just SO many things to talk about. I really do think the fandom should include things like this in angst content more bc there is a lot of the show's own canon that is genuinely unsettling when put into real world perspectives.
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oh yea i didnt get #girlblog about it but yesterday i did a throughout cleaning on my room completely by myself and ive never felt a stronger sense of acomplishment. i think im officially healed from mental illness im throwing all my meds away
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much love to my streamer,
chat has no faith he can be near create machines
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I don’t often post pics of myself on here anymore, but y’all should know I just did my first burlesque performance and made my own costume for it
I’m just really proud of how it turned out
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One of the things I like the most after I started following you is that now my for you has so, so much stuff about computers and machines.
and I like it, computers are cool.
REALLYYYYY?!?!!!??? THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY YOU HAVE NO IDEA OMG AHSYAHAHAAAA
IVE HIT YOU WITH MY !!! MACHINES BEAM !!!!!!!!!
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Wait a minute, so you're telling me that Bendy and The Dark Revival is a mascot indie horror game that actually explains its story? That's incredible, I clapped when I saw it.
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Fun fact:
If you’re watching HOTD and are like hmmm why does Mysaria look so familiar?
It’s because she’s the same actress who plays Kyoko in Ex Machina
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