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rainbowchaox · 9 months

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Pissa Reunion Masterpost: (Literally there’s so much content we got this is gonna be hella long pls help me)

FIRST OFF YA DONTCHA SEE WHY THE PISSA NATION IS LOCO OVER THIS DUO? WE HAVE BEEN STARVING. PHILZA ALWAYS BEEN LOYAL TO ONE WET CAT! And that is Missa. And secondly I got most of the earlier half of stream information from the lovely @pepper-mintzyy. Give your liveblogger some love and care.

First off the scene where Missa comes online and Phil is all “WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!” And Cellbit immediately saying “Oh this your husband?” And Phil immediately saying yes without the platonic. THEN THEY PROCEED TO HAVE A FULL BLOWN BOAT DATE with legit felps being such a third wheel he legit says “Continue on forget I’m here”. Also the fact Cellbit pointed out “OH that’s why you have a skull on your backpack it’s because of your husband” and Phil immediately agreeing and Missa whimpering.

They literally like lowkey forgot they were on a mission and immediately was smitten with each other they high-key forgot the mission and people around them. The fact our wet cat almost dead rushed in to save Mr hardcore himself. The amount of times Phil has to save his husband. The fact Missa bought gifts for Philza IRL.

The fact when catching up Phil was all like “Oh we have another egg” not even thinking twice about accepting his husband as Tallulah second adopted father. The fact Missa was like “You are such a good father” in the down bad voice he is always in.

Literal highkey their cubitos flirting saying smooth shit like “Like the good old days" "nothings changed” and "the one thing that made you stand out". Like full on giggling and laughing and just chilling in each other company. The amount of time they were distracted by the actual major lore by each other just being there after so long is insane. Honestly believe not for others present they would not have reached the objective.

Phil being so sweetly protective of Missa and always making sure he is right next to him. Also the amount of soft showing off he did towards Missa is insane. The fact Phil numero uno priority is Missa and chayanne always. That has never changed despite Missas absence. The fact Missa never left his simpage for Philza and immediately seeing Phil be awesome and is “I c-can see your PECS”. Like bruh he is so down bad.

The fact Philza immediately seeing his husband getting wrecked by mobs decided then and there to give him SO MUCH GEAR LATER. Philza lanuage of love Definitely is Gift Gifting and Acts of service. The fact during Philza introduction to the new players Missa kept saying stuff like “That’s my love! that’s my love!”.

Missa soon had to leave to be a part of a Minecraft event of sorts. But right after he got back online because he wanted to se his husband and son. (Sadly chayanne already went to bed). The amount of miscommunication the death duo went through (With mainly bad being a third wheel and trying to cause problems in their relationship). Landduo was legit preventing poor Missa to go and see his man.

Missa literally only escaped because dapper told him just ask and he will kill LOLOLOL. He went home and forever and him had a whole conversation and apology. That they are friends now. Missa saying stuff Philza is not someone to be won etc. and Philza literally ditched tubbo and Cellbit was like “Your husband needs help? Understandable” and yet again no corrections from Phil.

THEN THE MOST SOFTEST ROMANTIC LATE STREAM STUFF I HAVE EVER SEE HAPPENS. They met again and literally it’s like nothing has changed. Phil immediately showing off the baby skeletons because he knows Missa will enjoy the skeletons. Phil FINALLY giving Missa the slime armor he made for him ages ago.

I won’t lie watching it live gives off major date vibes (obviously about their cubitos in rp). Phil and Missa legit did that trope of someone good at archery teaching their love interest at the exp farm. They legit shared exp as well. The fact they keep giggling so much.

Philza seeing how bad the gear Missa has literally have him 20 upgrades including giving him a full bar of exp on his backpack. Again gift giving and acts of service is clearly Philza love lanuage. LITERALLY MISSA STARED AT THE SKULL AMD NODDED QUICKLY TO HIS CHAT. The amount of avocado toast Phil keeps throwing at Missa and putting in his backpack. Gotta know his husband is eating well I guess. Philza casually saying that the “Wall is ours” to Missa.

The fact Missa immediately wanted to have a hat like Philza on his backpack then a player head of his to match his beloved husband. Earlier he tricked the translator and said “I speak weird so the translator won’t pick it up- I love you”. Casually like that sentence didn’t break all the pissa enjoyers brain for 24 hours.

Dapper casually saying “Glad to see the love birds are on the mend” about them. Literally one of us. Iconic king. THE FACT Philza while talking about Tallulah said she was “Our Daughter” to Missa. Bad trying to cause drama meeting the brick wall of Missa adoration. Aka him screaming “Philza the best!!!!”. The fact they both tried to go offline the same but Missa felt bad and had to said bye to everyone. The fact Missa went offline right next to the house.

WE WERE FEED. PISSA NATION STAYS WINNING! And we are gonna continue to get food. As Missa promised to try to stream four times a week. So maybe maybe….second gay Qsmp wedding-

#qsmp #death duo #shipping #major thanks to pepper #Qsmp Missa #Qsmp Philza #pissa newspaper

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gofancyninjaworld · 2 months

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Thinking about Garou

Question: "Compared to the first season, which draws attention to Saitama's exhilarating punches, the second season focuses on story development. Did you have any specific goals while drawing the story?" Murata: "There was one thing that I requested from ONE Sensei before drawing my re-illustrated manga. At first, there were plans to cut out Garou's childhood with the bully in my version, but that scene really left an impression on me. I thought it was a vital part of understanding Garou's position, so I discussed it with ONE Sensei and requested that I be able to leave it in for y version. And it was paced so well in the anime! I believe it ended up being a very high-quality scene." -- From the liner notes of One-Punch Man Season 2.

I'm including this because I feel it's fundamental to really talk about Garou with any depth. Garou without context does not make sense. He is a kind, sensitive, and thoughtful young man who wants to do good in the world. Yet, he caused a horrifying amount of harm, both directly and indirectly, and ultimately undermined his own goals.

I'm glad that ONE listened to Murata about keeping Garou's childhood flashback. Without it, he'd just have been a thug attacking heroes for no reason to us (pretty much as the heroes saw him). Not only that, but ONE has gone a lot further in the manga in showing us the context in which Garou grew up that's been very helpful for understanding who Garou is, what he saw, and making some sense of his powerful yet contradictory desires.

Ultimately Garou is Garou. He's his own person and the buck for his actions firmly stops with him. No matter what, I can't imagine him not being an independent thinker with the determination to put his thoughts into action.

But...

...the tragedy of his thinking becomes clear when we see his thinking of monsters as metaphors for what is misunderstood or unacceptable in ourselves (a popular enough one IRL where monsters aren't real) and compare it with the reality of his world in which monsters have won, successfully restricting humans to one continent, and people like heroes because they are reminders that sometimes, even apparently overwhelming evil can be defeated. Nothing good happens when you deny the reality around you.

You know Garou's rant about uniting the world with fear? It's a standalone rant in the webcomic. The manga gives us a snapshot of the context in which he came to this conclusion. As this is a place that is no stranger to natural disasters -- forget the monsters -- Garou has no doubt experienced at least one big storm, or flood, or earthquake, or volcanic eruption in his life. In those days and weeks that follow, he's no longer an outcast. Nobody cares about where you come from or who you are: people help each other. At least until normalcy is restored. That's something he's directly experienced.

That's just human nature: even in individualistic societies, for every report of looting in the wake of a natural disaster, there are hundreds of people trying to help. And this is a much more collectivist society that has to deal with disasters semi-regularly. That's the sense of looking out for each other in the face of a tragedy bigger than any person he wanted to recreate—only permanently.

Then we get bits of Garou through the people around him. We got nothing about his parents in the webcomic but in the manga, his parents refuse to see him or get him out of custody. They've given up on him. To make it worse, the audience ONE is writing for understands that Garou is a minor until he's 20 (the law recently changed in Japan but it wasn't even up for debate when ONE started writing OPM). So they've done the equivalent of washing their hands of a 16-year-old. That's got to have hit Garou very, very hard, even if he was estranged from them. He'd have liked it if his father cared enough to tell him what to do.

We see how Bang has literally taken on the role of in loco parentis. It's been interesting to see that the reason Bang has chased after Garou so relentlessly is because he sees himself in the young man. However, we also see that he deeply misunderstands Garou too. Bang beat up people because he was an extremely selfish young man who felt he was entitled to everything.

Garou beat up people because he is an extremely thoughtful young man who sees himself as bringing a great good into the world at the expense of some heroes.

It's definitely going to cause trouble but that's okay -- nothing in life is smooth and such differences are inevitable. With love, such struggles are worthwhile.

Garou's an object lesson in why the energy to do things in the world rarely comes with the power to make those changes. His overly simple solutions were disastrous. But one thing we can also say about Garou: he's a fast learner. He's literally rebuilding his life little by little in the webcomic by rebuilding the world around him. In the manga, he's been given the opportunity to sift through his thinking and find what's genuinely good. We'll see how it all shakes out.

#OPM #meta #Garou #manga #webcomic #the road to hell is paved with good intentions has rarely been truer when it comes to Garou #I am glad the manga has drawn out more context for us to understand him better #and also given him more opportunity to confront his way of thinking

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toast-com · 5 months

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I love these two. Holy War and Alice

They are both Hunslet narrow gauge engines, and both are very cool and adorable.

#toasty's train thoughts #the mannerisms of locomotives #<- tag used for train stuff #i gave real trains personality #irl locos

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mavibonghostexpress · 2 years

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Not ttte, but art neither the less!

Decided to draw 2019.. Stinky (affectionate)

#lmk if theres anymore you'd like to see me draw!#real locos #irl locos #on the rails #(if I'm using that correctly- sorry first time getting into it)#mavisghost art

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edwards-exploit · 8 months

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The evil smile that came to my face when I read your reqs where open/positive anyways could you do cranky if that's ok? Or you could also do D10 if you don't want to do him! :] -🐚

I think cranky would see diesel 10 do his shit and go "the hell is this guy's problem" anyway you also get to see a sneak peek of my human au lore with d10 :]

request a character/engine from ttte/rws/an irl loco and i'll draw them as human and with build era fashion!

#live from tidmouth #creative on the mainline #ttte #tatmr #thomas and friends #ttte human #ttte human au #ttte humanized #ttte humanisation #ttte cranky #ttte diesel 10 #ttte d10 #sodor mailbox

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hazel-of-sodor · 4 months

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Presenting the LBSCR A1/A1x terriers! in 30 liveries.

Here is a list of the liveries and locos. They will be listed left to right, top to bottom.

1. Stepney in 1960s preservation/RWS condition IEG

-preserved irl

2. Kemptown in Original IEG (or close to it)

-She was sold to a colliery and preserved in the 70s

3. Martello in Southern Olive

-preserved irl

4. Abigail (Wandle) in AF&JR Blue

- @angryskarloey 's OC, see their fics for info

5. Freshwater in FYN Green

-preserved irl

6. Deptford in NER Green

-sold to a factory, survived the factory being bombed in 1915, was sold to the NER to replace a 'destroyed' E1 (Thomas in my AU), sold to the NWR in 1923

7. Minories in NWR Blue

-sold to the NWR in 1933

8. Carisbrooke in Southern Machalite

-bought for a Musuem in 1959

9. Nicola (Piccadilly) in AFJR Blue

-See @angryskarloey

10. Beulah in DWR Black, 2-4-0 condition

-purchased by the DWR in 1934, expirementally rebuilt back into a 2-4-0

11. Thomas (fictional addition) in NWR (rebuilt) Blue

-fictional addition to the class, just to have Thomas as a terrier

12. Cheapside in LB&SCR Umber with white lining

-purchased in 1951 at scrap price by Suddery Rail Museum after withdrawl due to broken crank axle, restored and serves as pilot at musuem. Livery was proven to be historically inaccurate, but She prefers it, so was allowed to keep it.

13. Brighton Works in Brighton Pilot livery

-Stolen by Caomhnóir in 1963, later restored by the Bluebell

14. Portishead in GWR Shirtbutton Green

-disappeared from Swindon in 1950, reappeared at the KESR in 1978

15. Ashted in WC&PR Green

-sold into industry, bounced around the NCB till the 80s, then purchased by the KESR in 1976

16. Fenchurch in LBSCR Umber

-Preserved irl

17. Bodiam (Popular) in KESR Blue 18. Sutton in Worn Grey

-Preserved irl

19. Waddon in SE&CR condition post-war Green

-Preserved irl

20. Boxhill in LBSCR 2-4-0 Condition IEG

-Preserved irl

21. Whitechappel in BR Lined Black

-Preserved irl

22. Clapham in LSWR Mint

-bought for spares for Kemptown. Purchased alongside kemptown and rebuilt in the 80s

23. Knowle in Southern Black

-Preserved irl

24. Newport in Isle of Wight Central Railway Red

-Preserved irl

25. Leadenhall in New Haven Harbor Co.

-purchased by the New Haven Harbor Co. to work alongside Fenchurch. Preserved direct from British Railways in 1962

26. Millwall In DWR rebuilt condition

Purchased by the DWR in 1934. Due to her boiler being little better than scrap condition, she was fited with a DWR D1 type boiler.

27. Zephyr (Wapping) in streamlined condition

-striped for parts to repair Popular in 1938, but her frames were saved by an eccentric Railway director, who loved the terriers. Rebuilt as his personal engine and given cosmetic streamlining, she was purchased from BR following his retirement, was stored in a dedicated room in his home until his death in the 80s, when she was donated to the Bluebell as per his will.

28. Earlswood in DWR 0-4-2 condition

-purchased by the DWR in 1949, experimentally rebuilt as an 0-4-2

29. Tooting in C&HR Blue

-Purchased by the C&HR in 1901 for service on a coastal branchline, which she still runs to this day.

30. Brixton in Caledonian Blue

-sold to a colliery in 1935, purchased by the Caledonian preservation Society in 64 to serve as a shunter in their works.

*collapses*

#0-6-0 #0-6-0t #LBSCR #LBSCR A1 #LBSCR A1x #LBSCR Terrier #Stepney #ttte thomas #au thomas #es exhausted

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demonskiss · 1 year

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WHAT IF I HURT MYSELF AND OTHER PEOPLE FOR MY F/OS. WHAT THEN. will they be proud of me…

violence is my love language

cw: violence, murder, implied blood covered sex, possession

WARNING: I ESPECIALLY DON’T CONDONE THIS IRL, for this ask i will only write for darling hurting other people, not themselves

written by a minor, dni if uncomfortable

blythe who is initially shocked, they couldn’t have expected you to hurt someone else for him. they’re flattered, head over heels for you and swooning at the thought of you covered in blood, covered in other people’s blood. but the next time you check the news, there’s been a murder near campus, and the killer hasn’t been found. the front door slams open, revealing a blood soaked blythe, who can’t help but get hard at the sight of you, who can’t help but close the door with a crazed grin, who can’t help but wrap his arms around yours, rutting into your thigh like a beast. they’ll put a bloody hand on your cheek, tenderly caressing it in his own way of desperately trying to control himself, but it does the complete opposite. whining and moaning about how he needs to claim you now, how you look so beautiful covered in the blood of others. you’ve enabled this poor man to go much further with his violence.

ambrose genuinely can’t believe it. you, his sweet life itself, has harmed another? he’s shocked, he doesn’t know what to think. he may even disappear temporarily, telling you with a gentle tone that he needs to think. but he’s not mad, nor disappointed even. it got him so excited he forgot his words, he’s embarrassed to tell you, and he feels awful leaving you to drown in your guilt, but the next day he returns to you, hugging you and telling you how he feels. in fact, he’s fully supportive. but he scolds you for not telling him sooner, what if you’ve gotten hurt? he would’ve never forgiven himself for that. ambrose daydreams about an intruder breaking into your home, and him possessing you to maim the unsuspecting lad together. isn’t it so romantic? to him, it’s the ultimate sign of love.

sorry i went a lil loco here

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hermywolf · 1 year

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top 5 teammates of messi

bestie im kissing u on the mouth (consensually) rn i wanna talk about la scaloneta so bad at all times always

for this ask game

1- dibu (the third picture??? sexo)

i mean are we surprised. dibu is an amazing goalie first of all. y bueno por supuesto es el mas grande es el rey y ademas esta re loco. and also i want him carnally so that's that. also also, seeing all the french people who fucking loathe his guts is just making me love him more ik so many ppl even irl who just fucking hate him it makes me so happy i love it when he's fucking insane

2- juli

arañita te quiero tanto amor de mi vida bebecito i would die for him. i don't think ive ever seen a single picture of him where he's not smiling all huge and sunny he's literally free serotonin personified. he's the definition of babygirl i would die for him he's so fucking CUTE

3- kun

whats that? he's not in la scaloneta anymore? umm idk what you're talking about look at this picture

he's literally world champion?? he's wearing the jersey and everything. clearly he's still part of la selección. why would you even say that smh

anyway he's fucking hilarious y su amistad con leo is everything to me son adorables los amo. sus stream>> thank u kuni for giving us some of the best leo content ever btw

4- di maria

idk man. idk what to say. anytime i look at fideo i just get overwhelmed by love and fondness and im a loss for words. i just love him

5- i realize now this was a terrible idea i just love them all too much i can't pick. so im just gonna put rodri, beckham and enzo all in the fifth place bc why not. honorary mentions for dybala and ale. oh and paredes. just all of them really i love them all

bonus: neymar bc i love him but i wasn't sure if the ask included any teammates or just the argentina nt. he's so babygirl

(also obviously scaloni but i didn't think i could say him since he's not a player anymore. do NOT mention kun we've talked about this)

#futbol #asks #post:tm #messi #dibu #julian alvarez #kun agüero #di maria #neymar #papu gomez #de paul #enzo fernandez #dybala #paredes #alexis mac allister #hermy posts

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engineer-gunzelpunk · 11 months

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Heavy Harry At North Melbourne: Fat Bastard (TW: Fatphobia, Misgendering, Coarse Language)

This next story was actually a conglomerate of a bunch of IRL incidences to do with VR H220; it really did push a VR D3 pilot once he got started up (they really aren't small locos), it really did keep falling off the track at North Melbourne Locomotive Depot...

And the VR Commission really did insist in newspapers in the public calling it "Healthy Hilda" and "Hungry Harriet" in spite of the public knowing the loco as 'Heavy Harry', because they thought all locomotives were intrinsically feminine and had to be that way.

And to make fun of its' weight and coal consumption.

(It kind of hits particularly hard that the VR chose a feminine name for the loco specifically to mock its weight and coal consumption...)

Lord knows why it was that important to the VR that a loco had a name of its choosing and to seemingly make their brand spanking new passenger locomotive ripe for ridicule...

(The Victorian public gravitated to "Heavy Harry" in a kind of proto-"Boaty McBoatface" thing a newspaper did, reporting that the loco was called that by workers during the construction phase after a particularly hefty Newport Workshop builder, sometime around late 1940 and it took off spectacularly...

H220 is still "Heavy Harry" today, still very often referred to by male pronouns in railway literature, common parlance and newspapers.

Whether as "Hilda" is very rarely used outside of gunzel circles).

And it would have probably given rise to the kind of gross and immature schoolyard namecalling in the story had locos-with-faces existed.

Heavy Harry At North Melbourne: Fat Bastard

The biggest locomotive in the Victorian Railways (indeed the whole of Australia), VR H-class Pocono H220 “Heavy Harry” was normally shedded at his home Works at Newport and at Seymour when he needed his third cylinder looked at or a train to pull from there; but a lot of the time, his duties had him being shedded at the Big Smoke, otherwise known as the North Melbourne Locomotive Depot, also known as Norf Yards. He hated being at Norf.

Not only was it musty, filthy, cramped, difficult to maneuver about and full of North Melbourne Kangaroos-supporting locos that gave him shit on the regular (like the majority of Australians, he was football mad. He was Essendon Football Club to the frames and those two Clubs despised one another), he kept falling off the track in the yard. It was too light for his enormous self and was not kept up well.

The fact it seemed to happen every week, and there, of all places, was a source of embarrassment, and the other locos would make it about his heft and weight.

To pile on the mortification, the VR Commission decided publicly in the newspapers that he was supposed to be called “Healthy Hilda” and “Hungry Harriet” rather than “Heavy Harry”; due to his supposed excess coal consumption and the supposed fact that all engines were supposed to be feminine, and to further make fun of his weight.

And insisted on this over and over again.

This went over well in the Yard…

Great.

Give me a girl's name and then set me up to make fun of me for it…

Why?

My name is my name!

And this, “Hungry Harriet”?

I can’t help eating the amount of coal that I need to run…

I can’t help being 260 tonnes.

They made me this way.

They literally made me this way.

Why do I have to be here?

I would prefer to be in a tin shed at Ararat or Moe or bloody Sleepy Hollow (Geelong) than this shit heap…

“Buck up, Harry!” his liege, VR A2 No 986 “Pluto” would say, rather unsympathetically, “Stop complaining and just sledge the arseholes back!”

“Who broke all the tracks?

Who broke all the tracks?

That fat bastard,

He broke all the tracks!”

He continued going about his duties none the less, with returned sledging every bit as venomous as the one he copped. He had no choice but to endure it until he could next go to Seymour or Newport, or anywhere but Norf.

One particular day was extremely annoying and brought on a particularly venomous mood. He’d fallen off the track and a crane was pulling him back to the rails. A smart alecky VR D3 named Albert chuffed past the carnage while he was shunting coaches and trucks in the yard and thought it would be funny to sledge Harry while he was down.

“GET BACK ON HILDA, YOU FAT FUCK!” he yelled.

“GET OUT OF IT, YOU LITTLE SHIT!’

YOUR DEPOT IS SHIT AND YOUR TRACK IS SHIT!

YOU’RE SHIT... AND YOU KNOW YOU ARE!” barked Harry, not in the mood for it.

“RUBBISH!

YOU’RE TOO FAT!

YOU NEED EXERCISE!” rejoined Albert, smugly.

Albert got some applause from the other locos and felt pleased with himself, knowing Harry could not do anything. Harry brooded as he was reset on the track and inspected all over for damage.

Those arsehole Norf locos really sang that ‘Mother Brown’ based ditty with gusto after that particular derailing…

“Who broke all the tracks?

Who broke all the tracks?

That fat bastard,

He broke all the tracks!”

He brooded in his berth after he returned from the Border run, burning with particular spite.

Often, because he was so huge, he was a bit slow to start moving, so a pilot would be required.

(Cue in more abuse…)

Some time later, Albert piloted him all the way up to Seymour, and he was feeling extremely smug about it. He decided unwisely to rub yet more salt into Harry’s bruised ego.

“What’s the matter, Hungry Harriet? Too fat to pick up speed?”, he chuckled.

Harry was very, very angry at him from the earlier incident and had gotten a good fire raging about half of the way to Seymour; it was then he really got going. He pushed all three of his cylinders into the effort of bumping hard into the tender of the D3 and just keep pushing...

The relatively smaller engine on the front realized this and started to get scared. He was not a small engine, being about comparable to a British Black Five in size, but Harry was still just pushing him along picking up speed and power. Then as he vaulted forward on Harry’s momentum, he realized he had no control whatsoever. Albert squealed as Harry surged and began crying, “Stop! Stop!”.

“Oh, but I can’t! I’m too much of a fat fuck to stop! Once a fat fuck gets going, you know they can’t stop!” mocked Harry as he pushed the engine forward. His three-part exhaust beat sounded hideous, like the triple barking of Cerberus the hellhound. He looked feral, he looked angry glowering over the D3s cab. The driver could see his snarling visage, the D3 could only imagine it.

As his speed increased, Albert shook in terror wondering if Harry was going to climb right over and crush him. Just to add to the fear, Harry would make as if he would, surging and then receding.

‘Ohhhhh thank you for recommending exercise! I’m really feeling the burn right about now! Ha ha ha! ‘Burn’, get it?” he taunted as he continued to push Albert up the line. He made a particularly hard shove after this.

Oh help! I’m about to be murdered by a pun-spouting bastard!

This continued down the line, Harry pushing and Albert trying not to get climbed over. Harry kept tittering and making jokes. Albert tried to keep pace in order to not get crushed by the 260 tonne monster and his 800 tonne consist behind him.

Thankfully Seymour was getting close by, Harry slowed on the approach and they decoupled. He raced ahead and scooted off into a siding, while Harry continued to thunder down the line on to Albury.

Harry rudely blew-down boiler piss at him from his blowdown cylinder cocks in a final insulting gesture as he passed Albert in his siding and picked up speed as he continued his run. Albert quivered in his siding wreathed in Harry’s foul boiler spray and waited for him to disappear and for the earth to stop moving.

As soon as the earth gradually grew still, Albert’s driver and fireman climbed out of the cab. Fireman walked around to see if there was any damage, and Driver went to the front to speak to him.

“Are you OK, lad?”, said he, pulling out a cigarette.

“Driver, why did you let him push me…”, he whimpered.

The D3’s driver glared at him.

“Do you know about the principle of inertia, boy?”

The blank look on his grey face betrayed his ignorance.

“To put it simply, the bigger something is, the harder it is to stop once it gets moving. You understand?”

Albert blinked as if to signal his comprehension of this concept.

“You goaded Harry when he was on the ground at the Depot and that got him good and mad enough to have a big stock of angry inertia along with his big self… and when you taunted him some more on the way up, he really got going and he would have been impossible to stop!’

‘If I had thrown the brake to try and stop, not only would have not stopped at all, Harry would have climbed over us… killing me and Fireman and you, and then tipping over himself, possibly killing his own crew and throwing the consist behind him everywhere…’

“Try explaining this to the Thin Commissioner!”

“This is why when someone is angry at you over something you fully know you did, you silly great engine… and you are in no place to argue with them about it, you let them get on with it and then find a graceful exit… you don’t argue, you don’t act stubborn, you don’t goad them further… you find an exit and get the fuck out of the way…”

“But he pushed me…”, the shaken engine burbled.

'Didn't you hear a word I said?!’

“Once all that bullshit started, there is not a force on earth that would have got him to stop! You shouldn’t have been so eager to please your mates by picking on the giant fucking Newport bastard! And then when the time came to pilot him, you shouldn’t have picked on him further… that all could have been very, very fucking bad!”

Albert sat on the siding, contemplating all this; a sadder and wiser engine, while Driver had a smoke.

Harry was still angry as he stormed up the North Eastern line; his figurative blood was up, burning up the track to the Border. Making the earth shake felt so good; it reminded everyone that he was Heavy Harry, and no other name; the ultimate Fat Bastard himself, and to get the fuck out of his way.

Humans clung to lamp posts, buildings shook and the ballast trembled as he ran full tilt down the line.

You little smart arse… Fuck You. I hope you dream of getting crushed by me for the remainder of your days.

I hope you dream of the Devil and wake in fright…

The locomotives at Norf heard about it and were terrified beyond imagining and said not a word about it.

But a voice started up the usual chant...

“Who broke all the tracks?

Who broke all the tracks?

That fat bastard,

THAT FAT BASTARD,

I BROKE ALL THE TRACKS!”

No one joined in.

#thomasallgrownup #victorian railways #Red And Black Steam On Southern Metals #Victorian Railways H-Class Pocono H220 “Heavy Harry”

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