#bill's truck

[toointojoelmiller]

posting just this moment because it deserves the spotlight

[ishizylonnn]

Smiles and waves hello Eltingville community

People don’t draw Bill insane enough

[coffinpal]

silly doodle from a while ago, they put down some tarps and made Dollie's truck bed into a pool thinking he wouldnt notice.

[syoddeye]

thinking about price in those orange glasses again 😮‍💨

[novelconcepts]

When i think about how Van Palmer was developed in a lab to get me in a goddamn chokehold.

You got a lesbian. You got a butch lesbian. You got a comedy-prone butch lesbian. You got a comedy-prone, movie-obsessed butch lesbian. You got a comedy-prone, movie-obsessed, haunted-by-a-rough-childhood butch lesbian. You got a comedy-prone, movie-obsessed, haunted-by-a-rough-childhood, hidden-pragmatic-depths butch lesbian.

You put that lesbian in survival hell situations. You put that lesbian in survival hell situations with her girlfriend. You put that lesbian in survival hell situations with her girlfriend as the romantic heart of your show. You put that lesbian in survival hell situations with her girlfriend as the romantic heart of the show AND make them both unkillable.

You put that lesbian in two timelines. You put that lesbian in the storyteller role. You put that lesbian in scars and silver rings. You put that lesbian in a position to explore the darkest side of loving someone. You put that lesbian on my screen, and you cast Liv Hewson. You put that lesbian on my screen, and you cast Lauren Ambrose. I mean. I mean.

Any ONE of these things would have been enough, and yet. Here we are. Watching the unkillable, complex-ass, funny, scary, heartfelt, fireproof lesbian get her face torn off by wolves, commit cannibalism, fall in love, move to fucking Ohio, and come back for more?? And you expect her NOT to move into a penthouse apartment in the very center of my heart? Be serious, dude. Be so serious.

[mattbegins]

No but I’m actually so clinically unwell over the fact that this song is what 7x05 is named after like I need to sit by the sea and touch grass etc because this has to be Eddie or Buck’s pov at the other

[rad-claid-plaid]

I think that most men who are "financially clueless" and just go "oopsie sorry I know we had rent to pay but I just dropped $1500 on a new toy I wanted. It's your job to figure it out" aren't really financially illiterate. They seem to do that knowing fully that they don't have the financial means to do it, but then just demand the woman in their life fixes it.

He's saying, "I made a decision. I expect you to fix this by suffering yourself." So the woman goes without healthcare or food for herself and her children to try to fix the finances. If she complains, then it's *her* fault for not budgeting better or making sure he is aware of the finances (spoiler alert, he's well aware, he just doesn't care). She's expected to sell her jewelry or her car to keep the house, just because he wanted a toy. It's another shade of financial control.

[dinosaurwithablog]

This is a great day in automotive history!!! At least, for me. For the first time in over 20 years, I drove my 1967 firebird convertible!!! I am restoring it because it's an amazing car!!. The mechanics are good to go. Now it's time for body work. This car is the first year that they made a firebird and is convertible so it's quite a rare gift to have one. 1967 is my favorite automotive year!! They made such great cars that year. I am sooooooo excited!!!!🤗 the ides of March might have been a bad day for Caesar, but it's a great day for me!!!! Vroom, vroom, vroom. Yeehaw!!!! 😍😁🤗❤️❤️❤️

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Austin Mini Ute, 1971. The pick-up versions of the classic Mini were based on the Mini Van. Assembled in New Zealand, Austin Minis were built at the Associated Motor Industries Petone plant. They were popular in NZ (my primary school teacher had one) and continued to be made here after production in the UK had ceased. This one (which has been modified) is part of at display at Bill Richardson Transport World in Invercargill.

[strangesickness]

so the richie's ugly red junkyard car headcanon. you know her, you love her. you were obsessed with her as an obnoxious preteen who's dream car was a red ford (oh wait that was just me)

but i raise you, that thing isn't richie's richie doesn't know jack about cars, but you know who does??? eddie.

the losers were screwing around in a junkyard, eddie is screaming about tetanus and is generally resentful of his current predicament. and then he sees it. and by it i mean a red 1990 ford f-150. the left mirror's been knocked off, the engine is long gone, the paint is so scratched the truck is hardly even red anymore, the right door is hanging on it's hinges, the upholstery is disgusting, the bumper is dinged to hell, and eddie loves it. he'd never normally spring for a red car, but it's the most in tact he'd ever seen a junkyard car and its practically new and if he put it back together he could drive him and his friends all the way out of derry.

he sees this disgusting truck, every possible health hazard in one place, and he sees him and his friends driving up to canada just because they can. he knows he has to have it as soon as he sees it.

obviously his mom would lose her mind, so they push the truck all the way to the tozier household, where went hitches it and drives it up to the hanlon's place. the losers spend all summer working on the car, everyone contributes, and as much as its all their car, it's also definitely eddie's specifically.

they get it working, mostly by finding spare parts in the junkyard, but richie, bev and bill pitch in summer job money to buy a new motor. once it's working, they have to decide on a paint color. eddie hates red cars, he insists they're obnoxious and only idiots who don't know how to drive have red cars, but like... he's kind of attached... he says he chooses red because it'll be easier to work with what they already have than choose an entirely new color, but he's secretly grown fond of how obnoxious the car is.

the losers who have their licenses (mike, richie, bill, stan) help teach eddie how to drive on the farm. derry doesn't have a drive test centre, so all the losers pile into the truck and bill drives them all up to bangor so eddie can take his test. they all sit on the curb outside the drive test centre for the full hour it takes eddie to do the test. it then takes them five hours to drive to canada, eddie drives the whole way even though he's hardly driven up till this point. richie "navigates" but this mostly consists of him elbowing eddie while he tries to figure out the map, while stan looks over his shoulder and actually navigates.

they enter quebec around 7pm (you have to be 19 to ride in a truckbed in maine and i can't find information on that in quebec, but we're going to believe the truckbed law in maine was passed after 1993, and assume quebec has no laws on this because. it's quebec.), and immediately realize none of them speak french. ben is competent in spanish which he manages to use to understand the absolute bare minimum of french. they shell out way more money than they should for a hotel chain because eddie refuses to stay in an independent motel.

they manage to pay for a single room with two twins and a pullout couch. it is altogether a horrible night of sleep but they spend most of it talking and playing cards and eating snacks and trying to figure out if the hotel has roof access (the door says "alarm will sound" but when they try it no alarms sound so!) so it doesn't really matter if they don't sleep that well. the next day they drive up to quebec city and wander around. they have like. no money left so they can hardly do anything but ben has this shitty little camera the losers bought him for his birthday so even though they can hardly do anything they have a ton of fun sightseeing and goofing off and taking pictures.

mike, bill, stan, and richie all take turns on the drive back because eddie's totally exhausted. they get back to derry around midnight and have a sleepover in the tozier basement (where most of the parents thinks they've been staying all weekend anyways). went and maggie are so proud of eddie, and he called them from the drive test centre when he got his license.

this is the car btw. i definitely DID choose it because it was 13 year old mes dream car.

[anonymousboxcar]

Troublesome Truck Headcanons: Music

I’m very intrigued by the glimpses that we get at the troublesome trucks on Sodor. Here are some of my silly thoughts on their musical habits!

-> They have a rotating roster of songs. New ones emerge after embarrassing incidents, and older ones phase out of the roster once they no longer bother the engine in question (or make the other engines laugh).

-> With all the singing they do, I like to think they practice. In sidings, yards, and sheds across Sodor, one or two trucks lead their groups in a kind of evening choir rehearsal.

-> If you ask any of them about musical notation, rhythm, etc., you’ll get a baffled stare nine times out of ten. But if you watch and listen to them, you’ll see they have a basic understanding of these concepts and use them. They don’t have the technical vocabulary of music, but they have decades of experience and practice.

-> A group rehearsing in a siding has only passing night trains as an audience, who can’t stick around long enough to get annoyed. A group rehearsing in a yard or shed often earns someone roaring at them to shut up, for the love of [insert applicable deity or figurehead here].

-> Such requests receive the appropriate response: an even louder encore.

-> The only exceptions to this rule are

engines who got in their good books,

a manager with the authority to slate them to haul sewage, or

Bill and Ben, who say they amaze the trucks into speechlessness with their “auditions for the band.”

-> There are no rehearsals near sheds known to accommodate Douglas nor Oliver anymore.

-> Composing the songs is a collaborative effort among those appointed “the writers.” The railway shuffles them around too much for them to work with the same writers as before, but word of mouth makes it easy to pass on any recent developments.

-> They have enough years of musical tradition among themselves to provide inspiration for new songs. If a writer feels bolder than usual, though, they might listen in to the working songs of the railway crews.

-> Each song has a testing period. If all the trucks sing along with their leaders over the course of a day, the song gets locked into the roster.

-> Every truck has to sing along for it to count. They all agreed on unanimous votes awhile back; nobody wants to listen to a song they hate for hours on end. That breeds resentment and subsequent malice they’d like to reserve for the engines, thank you very much.

-> As much as they practice, the trucks reassure each other that it doesn’t matter if they sing very well. All that matters is that they make music with their companions.

-> If you can’t form words, you can hum. If you can’t hum, you can sway along to the beat or mouth the words. You can lean on your fellow singers, telling them you’re there, feeling and sharing the vibrations. They all know music goes deeper than the rails beneath them. They all know there’s more than one way to sing.

-> A new truck becomes part of the community when they join in a sing-along for the first time. “Singing with us makes you one of us,” one of them explained to a brake van once. “Simple as that.”

-> Some wish the engines would join their sing-alongs, would become one of them. (Well, engines that aren’t Bill or Ben. That would be too powerful of an alliance, the leaders agree with a shiver. Best to leave Sodor in one piece.)

[uselessalexis165]

tried making some ttte memes (263)

[mariatesstruther]

may i introduce an intersection of adult ellie and rich emmaverse in which emma hears about this child adult joel has adopted and immediately becomes her fairy godmother

@bearrycool im tagging u bc im goin into work and dont have time to tag everyone else is involved in adult ellieverse whoever created it im so sorry fam i gotchu later full creds to u

[jrueships]

Stef headbutting (bunting) Josh every five seconds and josh just letting him

[bi-functional]

In response to this ask to @tswwwit you know I love a good meme redraw