#what even are engine faces

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

If you think about it — in the RWS Clarabel is the only coach of Thomas’ to have (and need) a face.

Thomas is a passenger engine through and through, his service is push-pull so he doesn’t need to turn round. When he’s going backwards under normal circumstances, Clarabel would be facing forwards, effectively being his “eyes”. Think like the Culdee Fell coaches.

Case in point:

Give Annie nothing but S1 truck eyes, and tell her she's lucky to have that much.

#ttte analysis #chatter #ttte coaches #what even are engine faces #<-organizational tag #this is a distressingly good point #fun on the ffarquhar #(?)

[hungerpunch]

from valtteri’s instagram stories 10/20/22

#valtteri bottas #f1 #BLOODCURDLING RAPTOR SCREAM!!!! #HE IS!!!!!!!!!! THE MAN!!!!!!!!!! FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #post-2018 heritage softtail mhm mhm #would have preferred a sportster nightster or some kind of cafe racer for a little more ssex appeal but this is still good #i get it #u get what the dealership has that day #u want the big engine #u want the storage space #u might even want the windscreen so bugs don't die on ur face #i will forgive him for the egregiously corny flames on his helmet4

[aphsillyos]

silly lil designs for pf ez and aphelios blending into piltover :]

#me arts tag #i was going to draw smth a bit more substantial but i need a nap :'D #the monocle and glasses are just their visors disguised somehow #and the weird half vest? design for ezreal.. i imagine half of it tears off/opens (like buttons or smth) #to accommodate his arm cannon transforming. actually i imagine both their outfits kinda work like that #tearaway clothes for their pulsefire equipment somehow #although im imagining the pulsefire tech might be able to make some illusion/disguise clothes.. transforming tech? who knows #realistically im sure aphelios would cover up the glowing marks on his face but it also looked odd w/o his face markings so i just left em #ezreal monocle doesnt look as silly as i thought... maybe he should wear one normally #im meh on aphelios's coat design but maybe ill rerereredesign into oblivion... LOL #wanted to give him more of like a pilot jacket originally but idk what his vibe is. goofy lil guy. what fashion even suits you #OH.... I GUESS. HE NEEDS HIS SCARF.... ill fix it at some point probably maybe sure #i think it'd be a bit funny if ezreal is unintentionally a fashion/style person #just bc of how much blending in with timelines and worlds and stuff hes done #he just ended up absorbing so much fashion knowledge #aphelios or ekko points it out at some point and hes like. huh. im not into fashion #(said while reading a hefty book on fashion history for whatever location theyre at) #yeah im sure PEARL probably has built in search engine stuff #but ezreal just strikes me as the type of guy to research and memorize/learn stuff #''just in case i lose access to PEARL's database again'' or whatever #im sure thats probably happened like 100 times #so random but i feel like aphelios has the vibe of a guy you wanna dress up in various outfits #but also hes like :) (just happy to be included/present) so he doesnt mind #you put a goofy souvenir shop floppy hat on him and hes like. :) #my aphelios hcs are nonsense im so sorry. i want him to be happy #pulsefire ezreal #pulsefire aphelios #pulsefire #aphelios #ezreal

[blackskorpi0n]

Nadia in Metahuman

#metahuman #unreal engine 5 #oc: Nadia Solovyova #this is probably what she looked when she was a teenager #15 y/o?? #i like this creator but i wish it had more feautures when sculpting the face #i wanna install unreal engine just to put her in #do i even have space for that 😭😭 i dont think so #when i master DAZ studio im gonna make her properly just wait 😔🙏🏾 #nadia coded

[todayisafridaynight]

y3-y4 daigo is so goofy looking to me i love him immensely with his thwomp headass. his smile is more deceased than his Best Friend and his hair is not brushed and frayed at the bottom like an abused paint brush i simply think he deserves a spa day

#snap chats #his face is SO round and cute looking i love him #we're about to watch a movie in my history class and i need to distract myself before all the fuckin nerds start yapping #jesus christ i couldnt even finish this post before they started i hate the fuckasses in this class #anyway i love skrunkly daigo its what makes his appearance in the dragon engine such a shot gun blast to my organs #like why are you incredibly handsome now what the fuck is this you were pugly. kinda ugly but ultimately cute #i talk abot how different daigo looks across all the games like once a month leave me alone #why does tom hanks in this movie look like that fuckass that fakes his donkey kong WR #ok bye i love daigo

[xohalu]

the only thing getting me through this engineering degree is the knowledge that one look at any one of my p-sets would send the average kpop idol into a coma

#most of these idols have not even made it through middle school #i think i could scare them enough with just sohcahtoa #what would they do when faced with the krebs cycle #jake i know u said u love physics but try doing thermodynamics without having an aneurysm #making jungwoo proud for doing what he couldn’t #the only idol i fear is girls day sojin because how dare she be both stunning and a great performer and a mechanical engineer #gods favourite frfr #academic weapon #dark academia #kpop #studyblr #kpoppies staying in school though their idols didn’t #soobin was so right about not needing math (in denial) #enhypen #ateez #girls day #nct #new jeans #gidle #ive #seventeen #tomorrow x together #luna.txt #text post

[legionofpotatoes]

man post-andor star wars feels so embarrassing

#I know I'm like fifteen years removed from the mandalorian's TA but watching that show has truly become a test of mettle #I don't want them to turn brow-furrowing serious with their politicking either. I get the camp it is GOING for. but there's no engine #there's less deep lessons to learn from andor than all that. simple story mechanics and letting drama drive your story instead of like #nothing burger plotlines that push meaningful moments aside instead of inviting them in. and badgering us with endless cameos #this is the golden goose outward-facing star war poster boy now I get it. has to be this way. but even THIS can be done better I feel #it is so lost up its own sauce I can't even comment on specific issues anymore. it's a stew of bad decisions and lack of clarity in #just about everything. even stagecraft feels stunted at this point. they felt like they were pushing the tool when they had frasier ADing. #now it's all so sickeningly stagnant. we are right back into 'no one feels like they live in the space they inhabit' except we learned #how to achieve that with in-camera CG. baller! #negativity #text #*DPing I think is what frasier was actually doing. and I do love the baby still so I am stuck in this sisyphean loop for the long haul #cant help myself the puppetry really is the one true standout in this whole shebang

[obessivedork]

I got so caught up in the euphoria of new Star Trek that I forgot SNW has some of my least favourite writing of the new shows. I think I’m frustrated with it because there are so many aspects I SHOULD like! On paper I SHOULD like this show more than I do! I just do not vibe! :(

#Happy for everyone who loves the show so much god I wish that were me #tagging for my own blog's sorting system not here to be a dick #it is only dethroned by season 3 of PIC for my least favourite writing #but. STOP TALKING ABOUT GENETIC MODIFICATION STAR TREK. IT HAS NEVER BEEN GOOD. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN BAD. ALWAYS. #EVEN THAT ONE BASHIR EPISODE THIS IS A HOT TAKE I WILL TAKE TO MY GRAVE #(but there are other things that are good about that Bashir episode) #It's too nuanced and difficult of a topic to handle in a 45-60 minute episode. It really is #Children should never be blamed for the sins of their parents etc etc but it is SUCH a double edged sword #what they did with La'an was neat I guess. something something facing ancestral ghosts that put guilt on your shoulders #Like at least this guilt and trauma isn't entirely needless like the Gorn shit #It makes sense that a descendant of HIS would have complex thoughts and feelings. Just wish it was a descendant of a DIFFERENT #genegic augment from Earth's history. Makes the universe feel SO SMALL #The La'an episode got me reluctantly back into being willing to see where they're going with everything because it was a decent episode #I mean I'll watch the Lower Decks episode no matter what but I was hoping the show would grow on me more this season #and it still hasn't really #There are fun elements (Funky old engineer lady! Still mad about killing off the season 1 guy but she's fun! I'm so gay for Ortegas) #I want to like this show more so bad! :( #but I'm just overall not vibing :( #star trek #snw

[hrokkall]

hey crow. how was p2 going for ya (definitely didn't watch you stream it /j)

That boulder sure can push back

#Re: Inbox #Re: Anon #TL;DR P-2 was good it took me nearly an hour and a half and the lore was a full course meal #As for the less concise version: #I GOT MY ASS **KICKED** KICKED #THE FIGHT WAS SO FUCKING COOL THOUGH AND SO WAS THE TERMINAL ENTRY AT THE END AND SISYPHUS'S TERMINAL ENTRY AND #I have so so SO much to say about it you guys have no idea this game keeps giving me everything I want #It gives genius loci and robots who are inadvertently human and machines both divine and mechanical abandoned by their creators and canon- #game mechanics and body horror and romance in the violence/violence in the romance and blue & orange morality and environmental storytellin #A gift that keeps on giving it's like engineered to be my personal sort of catnip. All it needs is messy divorce (joking) #Anyway P-2 did NOT disappoint Sisyphus prime looks so damn cool #I still have no idea where his husk's head is though. I was talking with a friend about it on call and I concluded that it's probably not i #P-2 because if that was used as a means of torture (as in ''look at your own face; the sight of which made your army lose all morale'') it- #would just make Sisyphus angrier and even more stubborn which is the opposite of what they were going for. Can't break this guy #Anyway yeah that's the extended version of my thoughts on P-2. I want to make a whole headcanon post about machines and their dynamics now #(Because of the entry 02 terminal gladiator trading thing. That's what I headcanoned initially but seeing it confirmed makes me SO happy) #Stoat Plays

[pallases]

PROF ROUNDING GRADE UP AMEN 🙏🏻

#personal #the engineering chronicles #also there was a mistake in how he graded my final project so that helped too #get to feel good abt at least one of my classes this semester thank god 😭 physics has me feeling so shitty and the rest of my classes are #either teetering and probably won’t be a’s or they’re one credit labs etc that are easy to get a’s in #but this one oh my god i slaved away for this class. and idont regret it at all bc i feel like i really really understand everything i did #in it and how it all worked. v glad that he is letting it pay off #didn’t even need to ask him outright i just wanted to know what his calculated final percentage was to see if it matched mine and he just #went i was waiting for you to ask that. etc etc we discussed some stuff. and then he just went i will round it up #part of it is also that my lab partner vanished off the face of the earth for the last three weeks bc of health issues and obv the last #three weeks are when you’re covering the hardest content and assignments so he is granting me leniency based on that LMAO #seriously though besides the blinking rgb i had to do eeeeverything for our final project. and it was SO time consuming #again don’t regret it bc honestly i don’t think i would Get It nearly as much if we had actually been able to split the work properly. but

[deanpinterester]

the other side of genya's face better be fucking RUINED. no more of this ~tasteful scar~ business. she is completely fucked up and that's the POINT

#shadow and bone #uhhhh me #i didn't even read the mortal engines book but i KNEW hester's face was supposed to be fucked up #and what happened in the movie? oh just a slice across her lips #i can't take another one of this. no more adaptation attractiveness. make characters ugly or else

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

Hi! What’s your favorite Railway Series book? I have another question too, what do you think of the engines faces being the smokebox doors?

I'm not sure what I think about the smokebox faces? It's peculiar when you try to think through it and make it "realistic" but the notion is so natural that there's not much to think about.

People really get on Awdry's case for not having thought through the implications of his sapient engines but I feel like we gotta cut the man a break. He clearly never had any interest in worldbuilding. It's not like he had some wild oddball idea that he just then neglected to nurture to maturity. Almost everybody has imagined smokeboxes to be the face of a steam engine (and the grill and headlights to be the face of a car, etc.)

No idea if that answered anything. Anyway!

What isn't my favorite RWS book?

Honestly it changes every week or two. At one point or another it’s been: 

Thomas the Tank Engine - the structure is so simple yet so sound. this is some Joseph Campbell bullshit right here (positive)

Tank Engine Thomas Again - simply a classic from the moment it was penned. not my personal favorite (i think the ffarquhar line is just a bit too twee as a setting for my tastes?), but you can't beat these stories or this character. objectively, the best stand-alone book in the series. you don't have to know anything about anything to read this and to fall in love and to sense at once that it's an indispensable part of classic childhood literature.

Toby the Tram Engine - this kicked off the era of somewhat darker themes of obsolesce as well as new characters having really great introductory arcs/backstories❤️ points off for the last story tbh—but points on for seeing the Fat Controller and his fam on holiday as well as the parts dunking on busybody cops

Gordon the Big Engine - another one that just has really good structure—plus some underrated character moments in this—plus stories 1 and 3 are hilarious

Edward the Blue Engine - the vibes are impeccable

Eight Famous Engines - altogether, just a really good ensemble romp

Duck and the Diesel Engine - I N T R I G U E

The Little Old Engine - another just-really-good ensemble romp

The Twin Engines - I N T R I G U E, also irony; it's just very ambitious, grow-the-beard stuff

Very Old Engines - the sheer layers going on. also i'm a sucker for prequels.

Main Line Engines - just very classic Golden Age rws stuff, witty and warm, nothing to criticize, all clover. it feels like home.

Enterprising Engines - hooooooooooly crap, it's so good. some bits are shaky or pudgy, i kinda wish i had been the editor for this one, but you have to forgive the nitpicky stuff in the face of all the wealth. a triumph.

Oliver the Western Engine - the books just kept getting better in this era? wtf????? 

Duke the Lost Engine and Tramway Engines - i could write ESSAYS on both these books. i SHOULD. like at this point you can start doing high-grade LITERARY ANALYSIS (enthusiastic)

Christopher Awdry's stuff is alllll on a lower tier than the above but while i'm on a roll i gotta give some props here too:

Jock the New Engine - i don't know how to defend it, it just makes the mini railway feel very real to me in a way that their first book (funny though it was) didn't

Gordon the High Speed Engine - it's overrated by certain Thomas bros, who to my eye seem to be deliberately obtuse when they insist that it's every bit as good as any Wilbert book (WHAT??), but it is enjoyable, thoughtful, and certainly the most consistently high-quality Christopher book

Henry and the Express - i'm here purely for the arc and the book's ending. as a final word on Henry's character development, the last couple of pages are unmatched and give him a new and hard-won layer that even Enterprising Engines didn't quite get him to

Thomas and the Twins - the interactions between Thomas, Edward, Bill and Ben are delicious. even if the Trevor story is pretty lame, i'm still soooo glad this book exists, i can't believe it, it feels like someone wrote a self-indulgent fanfic... and i am Here For It

#chatter #the railway series #what even are engine faces #thomas the tank engine (rws) #tank engine thomas again (rws) #toby the tram engine (rws) #gordon the big engine (rws) #edward the blue engine (rws) #the little old engine (rws) #the twin engines (rws) #very old engines (rws) #main line engines (rws) #enterprising engines (rws) #oliver the western engine (rws) #duke the lost engine (rws) #tramway engines (rws) #christopher awdry #the fact that thomas and toby originally bonded over heckling a policeman is amazing 🙏 we stan

[tsuuie]

my parents are actually a harvard experiment to speedrun how fast they can piss me off. succession irl if you will

#you jest but the caretaker by arthur miller is just a day in my life #we dont even talk to each other we talk at each other #and at this point its just assumptions and jabbing and sniping with paggro #and no one bothers to communicate properly its just (a) ignore if you dont like what the other person said. #(b) start a completely unrelated sentence as a reply to the other person if you dont care #and then people wonder why im so tense and quick to anger and blank-faced all the time #my parents wonder why #like my brother and sister in christ!!!! YOU raised this!!!! YOU engineered this!!!!! DUMBASS!!!! #i am exactly your consequences!!!! have fun sickos!!!!!! #fucking losers

[haltandcatchfiretothemax]

Headcanon that it is the year of our l0rd 2023 and that Cameron and Donna are still saying 'do you think I could find it on comet dot com?’ and ‘let me search for that on rover’

#both cam and donna saying 'what's that?' with a straight (ha) face whenever anyone mentions g00gle or yah00 #happy wednesday bbys! even though search engines are only getting more and more useless #like i wish i could check comet or rover #they must have been better than what we have now? #better living through headcanons! #cameron howe #donna clark #donna emerson

[joyridingmp3]

i feel safer living in an apartment alone where the front door doesn't lock than i ever felt living with my parents

#mine #it's interesting #I'm not even worried about it #like logically I know I should be and I'm doing something about it #but that pit of dread just isn't there #but i remember hearing the engine to my mums car as she pulled up in the drive way #and that underbelly of dread was so intense #where as now im just like. chilling. vibing. it's all good. #amazing progression I think #anyway I've got to stop focusing on trauma and move on #I have some very happy childhood memories worth noting too! #to be fair I think it's this sense of like #if there was an intruder. what could they possibly do to me that hasn't already been done? #like idk. I'm just not scared anymore #because I've already faced it

[cowboyhorsegirl]

i'm just saying if they AREN'T supposed to engage in a torrid love affair then WHY would both of their suits only allow you to see their eyes i mean it's the victorian buildup of lust of it all

#and like!!!!!!!!!!!!! them both learning to be vulnerable enough to doff their armor around each other THIS SHIT WRITES ITSELF #the PHYSICAL and METAPHORICAL armors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! until they are PHYSICALLY and METAPHORICALLY laid bare to each other!!!!!!!!!!! #plus they're both so smart they respect each other's engineering ability #imagine their combined power. what they'd be capable of. i know doom does #ooh what if doom initially tries to deny his attraction to stark by convincing himself that it's just admiration for the iron man suit #which works just fine and great until doom captures tony in the suit and his faceplate is half ripped off and there's blood running #down his face and even with the suit doom can tell how heavily tony is breathing and he hacks the suit and makes it interface with his #doom lair or whatever and it's just SO doing it for him to see tony stark at his mercy even though doom himself doesn't bow to the power of #tony's image he is well aware that others do and jfhfoiwhfesfnabvjfesijfiojHFAOI;FHNB;VDIJFIJSDIFHIBNBJIJESFES;FSEOFJ;FJSFJIWOEJF #yeah :) #also no matter what their relationship would be doomed. DOOMed. you get it??? do you see???? i feel like my third eye just opened up #my employer's opinions #tony stark #victor von doom