#engineering in drafting

[resdraft]

Role of Structural Engineering in Drafting

Integrating structural engineering into the drafting process ensures that designs are visually appealing, safe, and durable. It also enhances the structure's stability, addressing factors like load distribution and material integrity and environmental factors like wind, soil, and seismic stability.

[magic-worms]

"equal ground" a blu engiespy comic

CWs: graphic descriptions (not illustrations!) of violence/torture, illustrations of blood, bruises, fresh stitches. for the first one, please refer to this clip from poker night at the inventory if you need a preview.

thank you for reading

[daily-tf2-engineer]

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[mysticalcats]

might as well post these here since idk if i'll finish them. old west cats

[calitheheart]

rusty in season 5 for some reason

[lithuanianking]

Listing to call me rusty for the first time:

"Call me Rusty if you like"

Allright sure I'll call you rusty

"Rusty's how I look

And Rusty's my name"

Oh ok that makes sense

"Call me Rusty if you must"

Wait wdym if I must? I thought it was your name??

"Call me Rusty if you dare"

Wait what do you mean if I dare?is Rusty not your name??? Did you not just tell me to call you rusty???

"Call me Rusty"

Ok so I do call you rusty?? Your sending me mixed messages here

"Call me Rusty I don't care"

You clearly do care

[multiheadcanons]

TF2 MERCS AND HANDS

scout: long fingers. calloused palms. strong grip. long nails. softer than you’d think because he keeps them wrapped in bandages. small scars litter the tops of his hands. knuckles starting to knob up from the constant breaking and fracturing from various fights. warm, if not weirdly sweaty. dexterous fingers.

soldier: rough, calloused hands. thick, knobbed fingers. cold. only has a strong grip on his guns. it’s hard for him to get a full grip on anything else. nails bitten to the quick. thick skin around the nails where he bites at the skin as well. his hands are almost useless to him. does grip exercises.

pyro: pyros hands are scarred from various flames they’ve gotten too close to. wide set palms with short fingers, soft when you don’t think about it. nails painted with a soft, glittery polish. strong grip. dexterous. generally moist with a strong lotion for their constantly cracking skin. almost feels like a toad?

demo: well maintained hands. short, well filed nails. long fingers, narrow palms. comfortably warm. callouses on the fingers of his dominant hand where he holds his pencils too hard. takes a lot of handwritten notes. firm grip, and dexterous. has to be to not blow himself up.

heavy: huge. fuckin. hands. and they’re so cold. they warm up quickly, but it’s like touching snow. the tops of his hands are scarred, but not gored. plenty of meat on his palms and knuckles. has a thick scar that leads into the lines on his palm. it’s hard for him to not see it as an omen.

engineer: short, thick hands with sausage fingers. they fit his body nicely. short, clean nails. comfortably warm. he does his best to maintain his hands, they are his livelihood. he’s got some small scars on his palms. he’s expressive with his hands. frankly engie always looks like he is in a more relaxed state when he is in motion.

medic: that man got horror hands. loooong, thiiiin, egregiously big hands. please keep the gloves on. keeps his nails longer than anyone would feasibly want their doctors nails, but at least he keeps them filed. ice cold, all the time. they’re hauntingly beautiful. his hands are unscarred, he takes incredibly good care of his hands. also expressive with his hands. they look better in motion than they do still. and frankly; an idle hand on the medic is the devil’s paradise. it’d be better to give him a gun to play with.

sniper: finally, some regular fucking hands. real blocky. nails bitten to the quick. clammy. that’s why he keeps his gloves on. he’s got some gnarly scars on the tops and palms of his hands. nasty long fingers, gives him some crazy reach with his big ass armspan. his knuckles are starting to knob up from the wear and tear battle has on his hands.

spy: he’s got hand model hands. well maintained, yet frail nails. he keeps his nails short because they break so easily. thin fingers. hands are veiny, but unscarred. soft palms. very effective pointer and hand communicator. warm. quite a few beauty marks on his hands. his favorite is the one on his trigger finger. it’s why he wears gloves. his hands are very distinctly his.

[nyaa]

what got you so into pulling slight pranks like the pictures actually being gifs stuff

short answer is last year when I came back to tumlr for awhile i made this gif for that yugioh reblog

and people started commenting in the tags about how they felt they were losing their minds not realizing it was a gif at first so I got really into the idea of how I could play with the website itself as a medium to illicit a distorted perception of things. not out of malice. It a sort of vicarious thing for me.

You know when you were really young (before internet access) and playing a weird video game and u didn’t know why things were happening the way they were because you hadn’t quite grasped the concept of game development, or like whether or not something was a glitch or intentional (I played a lot of majoras mask and morrowind as a young kid) that’s kinda the feeling I like to bristle against.

[ambulonalive-theory]

Being feral about StEx is my favorite hobby rn

[shih-coulda-had-it]

i could make a one for all racing team AU. Formula 1 but not Formula 1… Kudou is team principal; Bruce is in the mechanics’ garage with Hikage; Yoichi is bankrolling… Banjo is En’s race engineer, Nana was racing but exited just in time to slot her protégé Toshinori up from the One for All racing academy… the AU would absolutely smash the timeline together but that would make it so much funnier.

[sillytf2]

a couple of doodles from my notes while in the forge 💥

[willyonilly]

winning every day. whinnying

[polaritydisturbed]

Disclaimer: I’m not a mythology expert, but mythology was (and kind of still is) my special interest, so this is basically me info-dumping lovingly, not academically.

Anansi, Sága, Dionysus—Oh My. A quick-ish dive into the gods mentioned in the Doctor Who episode The Story and the Engine.

Neat things about them, more accurate gods he could have picked ect....

Anansi (West African and Caribbean)

Anansi is the blueprint for trickster gods. A spider (sometimes a spider-man, sometimes just a guy with major eight-legged energy), he’s clever, chaotic, and absolutely unbothered by the idea of playing by the rules. He’s not exactly a hero, not exactly a villain—he’s just Anansi. And that’s kind of the point.

He shows up in West African folktales—especially among the Akan people of Ghana—and later all over the Caribbean and the Americas, carried through the stories of the enslaved. In those stories, he outsmarts bigger, stronger enemies using nothing but his brain and his mouth. He tricks the gods, he cheats death, he starts problems just to see what happens—and somehow, even when he loses, he wins. Because he gets to tell the story.

And here's the thing: he doesn't just appear in stories—he creates them. In Ghana, “anansesem” literally means “spider stories.” The dude is synonymous with storytelling. When enslaved people brought his tales to the Caribbean and Americas, they carried more than folklore—they carried survival strategies. Anansi became a symbol of resistance: the powerless using their minds to flip the script.

(Though I'm afraid to ask how regularly claiming to be your wife's father affects things behind closed doors.)

Bastet (Egyptian)

Okay, this one’s a one for his list. Bastet is a goddess of protection, fertility, the home, and.....cats. She's more “fierce guardian” than “master of storytelling and illusion.” After the episode, I even went back to double-check—maybe there’s some obscure myth where she whispers divine truths into scribes’ ears or something? But I couldn’t find anything.

If anything, Thoth would’ve been a far more fitting Egyptian deity for The Barber to name-drop. Thoth is literally the god of writing, knowledge, and recording everything that happens. He’s also a divine mediator between gods and mortals—basically exactly the role The Barber plays. But admitting that might’ve tipped his hand. So instead, he throws out a random god name that sounds cool and mysterious.

Bastet’s inclusion feels less like a calculated mythological reference and more like The Barber scrolling through a pantheon wiki page, closing his eyes, and going, "That one." (Unless, of course, she was a god he specifically worked for—and had beef with.)

Sága (Norse)

Sága is one of the more mysterious Norse goddesses. She’s linked to storytelling, wisdom, and memory, and spends her time drinking and trading tales with Odin at her hall, Sökkvabekkr—a place described as a peaceful, flowing haven where “cool waves resound.” It's often interpreted as a poetic, almost dreamlike realm associated with knowledge, reflection, and perhaps even the subconscious. Some scholars think Sága might just be another name or aspect of Frigg (Odin’s wife), especially since Frigg’s own hall, Fensalir, shares similar symbolic traits.

Either way, Sága’s domain is lore and preservation—less flashy than Loki, but no less important.

The Barber name-dropping her is likely a play to borrow credibility as a keeper of ancient knowledge.

Dionysus (Greek)

This one isn’t wrong, exactly. Dionysus is the god of wine, chaos, theatre, and dramatic flair—all of which line up with The Barber’s love of spectacle and obsession with a good story. He’s unpredictable, a bit unhinged, and thrives on attention. So yes, thematically, it fits.

Some might argue that Apollo would’ve been a more accurate name-drop—after all, Apollo is the god of knowledge, prophecy, poetry, and the arts. On paper, that makes sense. He’s a patron of reason, order, and enlightenment. But that’s also the problem. Apollo represents clarity and control. The Barber isn’t about clarity—he’s about distortion, manipulation, illusion. He doesn’t want to preserve meaning, he wants to warp it. Apollo would be a fine guess if you’re just thinking “art” or “poetry,” but thematically? He’s too clean, too lawful, too… sterile. The Barber isn’t playing a lyre in the sun; he’s setting the stage on fire and laughing in the smoke. So sure, Apollo would’ve made sense—but not the most sense.

If The Barber were going for mythological accuracy—and let’s be honest, he absolutely wasn’t—he’d have been better off claiming to be Mnemosyne, the Titan of memory. She’s the reason stories got passed down in the first place. As the mother of the Muses—the goddesses of poetry, song, and storytelling—in Greek mythology, she’s basically the blueprint for oral tradition. She didn’t just tell stories—she made sure they were remembered.

So Dionysus works if you want flash. But Mnemosyne would’ve made more sense if The Barber wanted to tell on himself. Which he very much didn’t.

Loki (Norse)

Okay, this one almost makes sense. Loki is the trickster god of Norse mythology—chaos, mischief, shapeshifting, storytelling in the “oops I broke the world again” kind of way. So yeah, claiming to be Loki fits The Barber’s whole “I’m so mysterious—fear me but also applaud” vibe.

But what about storytelling? Does Loki have connotations there?

Sort of. He’s not a storyteller in the Anansi sense—he doesn’t weave tales to survive or preserve cultural memory. Nor is he like Sága, who listens and remembers. Instead, Loki is the story. He doesn’t narrate; he catalyzes. He’s the spark that sets everything in motion.

And here's the often-overlooked bit: in Norse myths, Loki isn’t just the guy who causes problems—he’s also the one the gods turn to when things go sideways. He builds solutions as often as he builds disasters. When the gods need something impossible, it’s Loki who finds a way (usually with some chaotic side effects). He’s a fixer and a firestarter. A manipulator who still gets invited to the table because, for all his unpredictability, he gets results.

That makes his connection to storytelling a bit indirect—but still potent. He’s not just part of the narrative; he ensures there is one. You remember the myth because Loki made it unforgettable.

However… The Barber already claimed to be Sága.

And Sága is also Norse.

So… two different gods from the same pantheon? Bit suspicious. Sure, you could do that, but it’s like lying about your job twice in the same interview. You’re gonna get caught—especially when one job is “keeper of stories” and the other is “guy who gleefully sets things on fire (and then puts it out with a wink).”

In fact, switching it up mid-pantheon feels like a tell—like he’s just pulling names from a list and hoping no one in the room took Mythology 101.

So why these particular gods?

Anansi and Loki are classic tricksters—manipulators of stories who use narrative to shape the world or sow chaos.

Sága, on the other hand, is about preservation and memory—less trickery, more timelessness. She’s a relatively obscure figure, only mentioned once in the Prose Edda (in Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál), which makes her a curious choice unless you’re deliberately trying to flex obscure myth knowledge.

Dionysus shows The Barber’s love of spectacle. He doesn’t just observe stories—he wants to be the story, to cause chaos and draw all eyes to him.

The pantheon he draws from reflects what he’s trying to control: memory, chaos, stories, and even the gods themselves.

But Bastet? Her role as a fierce protector doesn’t mesh with The Barber’s chaotic, manipulative nature. Her inclusion feels out of place—unless, again, she’s someone he once served. Someone he now opposes.

The fact that he pulls names from multiple pantheons without consistency or care for accuracy only reinforces that he’s not divine—he’s playing the part. And hoping we’ll believe the story.

[railwaycreature]

I've had enough of this leech stealing mine and other peoples' art so here's a little info post on @thefluffyrailwayhumanslogos

They're a known art thief, tracer, and general gross person who specifically targets the monster engines corner of the TTTE fandom, stealing and tracing art from myself, @steam-beasts , @thefluffyrailway-official , and @sketch-pencilpoint , likely among others.

Examples under the cut:

First off, this person traced the bodies from some Seren and Trelar art, and also made a shitty edit of Edgar's ref

Steam-Beasts has also been a frequent target, HumansLogos has traced both their James's and Thomas's bodies

TheFluffyRailway arguably gets it the worst, this thief has stolen and traced so much of their stuff. A recent example is this

And Sketch-Pencilpoint's monster engine body ref has also been heavily used by HumansLogos, another recent example:

They've also just posted a ton of unsavoury stuff, lots of which includes canonically child characters, so I encourage everyone to just ignore and block. Though rn tumblr blocking seems to be broken, as the thief can still reblog my stuff even though I have them blocked :/

[i-drink-meat]

engineers when the engine can’t hear

[a-typical]

"Mesoamerica, long thought to be the precocious child of the Americas, was still confined to the Mesoamerican village during the time we are talking about, and monumental architecture in Peru was a thousand years old when the Olmecs began their enterprise. For the sake of world cultural context, this also means that Peruvian monumental architecture was in place by the time the Painted Pottery culture of neolithic northern China emerged, that it existed before England's Stonehenge was created, and that it was already about a thousand years old when Tutankhamen's body was being embalmed in Egypt." - American Holocaust