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*adds arson to the list of Tangmere crimes*

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Flying Scotsman at the Nene Valley Railway, February 2025: Video 1

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Hello Tumblr, it’s been a while.

First of all, wishing everyone a Happy New Year! Hoping that 2025 has been good so far and for the rest of the solar cycle <3 The past few months have been a little rough for me, as I have been dealing with some behind-the-scenes stuff, though I will be fine, don’t you worry. I’ve been through far worse.  

Unfortunately, it means that I’ve lost the passion for Young Iron, I honestly think that the passion has been dwindling for a long time now, since at least May 2024. I think it was a factor of a lot of things; my hyperfixation slowly waning, feeling like the story losing its focus and getting out of hand plus noticing that a lot of my ideas were being copied. 

To clarify, I don’t mind if people take ideas I put forward in my writing, in fact, I do encourage it and love seeing what people come up with. It excites me and inspires me to write more. I want people to be creative and to be inspired to write their own stories, hell their own Tornado’s because you can never have enough Tornado’s in the world. 

However, my issues started after introducing and talking about future concepts of my stories with others and having people immediately ask if they could take and use these concepts/characters in their own AUs before I could even write them into my own started to discourage me. This is one of the reasons why all the posts on Broken Records have been deleted and I removed myself from most of the ttte groups I was in. I wanted to discuss my ideas with others, not have them immediately stolen for other people’s AUs.

It’s disheartening to not be able to flesh out my own characters or ideas before someone comes in and takes the idea away to make their own. Maybe I’m being petty or perhaps a bit protective, I don’t know, but it felt rude to me. 

That being said, please don’t be scared to post and continue writing stuff inspired by Young Iron. If you want to write stories about any of the characters I’ve introduced in the Young Iron stories, please feel free to go right on ahead and even tag me if you want. I really do genuinely love this kinda stuff, it might even inspire me to come back.

Either way, I still do have plans to finish Young Iron. In Pursuit of Self was always going to be the last in the series, I want the series it to have a definitive end, unlike my previous series with Godzilla which just randomly dropped off. I want to finish it but when things are looking up and things have gotten better.

In other news, Transformers One really got me into a Transformer’s hyper fixation so you might see some new things in regards to the Transformers franchise. (Probably not ONE related but you never know.)

Wishing all my followers and mutuals a wonderful 2025! 

Stay Safe, smooth running and dry rails!

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Day 31 - Dusk | Traintober 2024

Olivia Gresley finally fulfils her lifelong dream of being the Flying Scotsman’s driver.

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Day 29 - Misty | Traintober 2024

Thomas awakens in a strange place.

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Day 28 | Plot Twist - Traintober 2024

Bittern thinks Flying Scotsman and Mallard have teamed up to prank him once again.

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Day 27 - Twisted | Traintober 2024

Mallard senses himself falling into despair and finds himself in strange company while Merlin is away.

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Day 26 - Music | Traintober

Kip Spence has a moment with his adoptive daughter, Olivia.

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Day 25 - The Last One | Traintober 2024

Blue Peter reflects on being the last Peppercorn.

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I apologise for the pause in traintober. I've been a little busy and haven't been able to get to the prompts. Will resume soon. <3

Baku

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Day 24 - Accepting | Traintober

Truro reunites with Pendennis Castle after his return from Australia.

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Day 23 - Traintober 2024

Blue Peter has a bad day. Someone unlikely cheers him up. This is set a few years after Blue Peter’s catastrophic failure in 1994.

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Day 22 - Duck | Traintober 2024

Gadwall makes a promise to Mallard.

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Day 21 - End of the Line | Traintober 2024

A3 Pacific, Prince Palatine makes a wrong turn.

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Day 20 - Twins | Traintober 2024

Flying Scotsman visits Sodor with a gift for the Scottish Twins.

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Day 18 - Water | Traintober 2024

The one where the actual Flying Scotsman almost exploded.