#ttte magazine

[transsexualunderground]

a favorite ttte magazine moment

[greendreamer]

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends - Collected Edition 29 - The Party

[ryan1014n2]

Why is he like this

(from the magazine story “Flight Sight”)

[damnea]

The magazine story 'Bedtime Tale' really gave us an Edward and Mavis story with what sounds like a fantastical ending, and didn't even give us the rest of it.

How the hell did he come up with what he's describing?

Thats a bloody interesting tale.

Tell me the rest of the story old man.

[ttte-paint-shop]

[rizpatcatlovers]

Master of the Railway himself as model for magazine cover mock up for his birthday. Plus, if you scan those QR code, it will lead you to my main Tumblr page, interesting isn’t? Special thanks to ByunSlug for editing.

Enjoy everyone!

[bolters-and-rivets]

Context: TTTE, that weird universe where vehicles are sapient and we try not to linger too much on the ramifications involved the following is just me rambling on about how media ties into the universe. do you think locomotives and other vehicles enjoy human media? maybe drive in movies would be more commonplace a way to let cars enjoy films alongside their owners. how would public transport even consume media? do you think they have a radio set up in their shed/depot so they can listen to a bit of music and news in the evenings. I wonder if there are companies that specialise in making extra large print newspapers or magazines and accompanying stands to let locomotives read, if so would niche topic magazines like railway magazines be their form of news? maybe Henry has a subscription to Woodlands and Forests Monthly. Has an engine ever been taken to an actual concert or play, like in the back row you just have a whole-ass locomotive plinthed to enjoy the show. If they went to a festival would they just be left in the main arena for the entire weekend, do you think they would be in steam or just have their whistle hooked up to an air compressor so they can interact with the crouds? has their ever been an engine that's been part of a band, like a singer?

[toast-com]

oh ! I have a good one, summer headcanons ?

Roseanna "Rosie" Southampton: She and Christopher hang out, and she loves cuddling with him.

Christopher Bickerstaff: Gets cuddled and the like by Rosie, despite his grumpiness, he likes being cuddled.

Emily Stirling: Often hangs out with Wilbert. Doesn't know that he's got a crush on her.

Wilbert Dean: Has a huge crush on Emily. The two hang out together often.

Holland Peckett (Thirteen): Hangs out with Donald and Douglas. He's a little clumsy, so the twins have to keep an eye on him.

Cabott "Captain" Baxter: Owns a small fishing boat, which he uses in the summer to fish, and boat.

Stepney Stroudley: Hangs out of Rusty usually, and his other friends on the Bluebell Railway.

[the-time-lord-oracle]

The 1992 Marvel magazine story The Visitor saw Sodor play host to a red A3 Pacific named Flying Thistle. As a fun fact, his name is a hybrid of the names carried by two real-life A3 Pacifics; Flying Scotsman and Knight of Thistle. The red livery is completely fictional, but in hindsight gives me Hogwarts Express vibes. Maybe if they ever do comic book adaptations of the Harry Potter series the artist could use an A3 as the basis for the Hogwarts Express. It would be an appropriate choice seeing as how the train uses the A3s' old stomping ground of King's Cross and the A3s featured corridor tenders, which would facilitate Professor Lupin's chat with the driver in Prisoner of Azkaban. Back to Flying Thistle, he's a character that the CGI series could've introduced. All they'd need to do is recolour Gordon's CGI render! An episode featuring Gordon, Flying Scotsman and Flying Thistle together would be fun.

[thebunnylord]

Headcanons for my least favorite ttte characters:

Whiff is a huge collector, it’s not uncommon for people to throw out books, toys, clothes, lamps, and kitchen gadgets. Whiff likes to pick them out of the garbage, cleaned, and hung in his shed. He finds “human gadgets” fascinating as engines don’t tend to fully understand human gadgets, but whiff wants to understand them and figure out how they work and what they are for.

Whiff is also one of the few engines who is fully literate. It isn’t uncommon for engines to be illiterate as they don’t need to learn to read or write, stations can be memorized by sight, time tables are often spoken to them, and danger signs are often pretty obvious. Whiff had taught himself to read from the books he pulled out from the trash, his favorite books are surprisingly cookbooks and home improvement magazines. His driver made a simple device for him that will allow him to turn the pages easily and he would spend up to one in the morning reading store catalogs and adding up the prices and making a list of everything he would buy. Recently, he’s gotten into computer magazines and has read about computers for disabled people that they can use moving their eyes, he secretly wishes he has one but they’re too expensive and, well, he’s a steam engine.

[littlewestern]

Sonny's Title

I have a habit of making playlists for my favorite characters in ttte (you can find them on spotify or dm for a tracklist/link) and I like to name them after the engine’s full titles. Duck The Great Western Engine, Donald and Douglas the Scottish Twin Engines, etc. I think it’s a nice way to give the engines the respect and distinction of a full name and the playlist theming works well.

Which became a problem in the case of one of my favorite characters, Sonny. Sonny has so few appearances in canon and none in external media like books or magazines, so he’s never been given an official title. He has nicknames, but nothing akin to the typical format of ‘[Name] the [Adjective] Engine’. So I do what I always do in times of finding-canon-wanting, and turned to @greatwesternway​.

me: what did we end up going with for Sonny's title? did we decide? DJ: I like him as the Second Chance Engine 'cause that's pretty much the only thing we ever got about him. me: 😭 that’s so cute... DJ: Oh good! I was worried it was lame, but I didn't have a better idea. me: no, it’s perfect DJ: They never use these titles in the stories anyway. But I think it's nice for him because he's actually been given quite a few second chances. Even being found by his thieves was a type of second go of it.

Genius. Sonny The Second Chance Engine.

Has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

[transsexualunderground]

places to read the railway series (and some other ttte related works)... FOR FREE!

so, I'm not sure if everyone on TTTE tumblr has gotten a chance to read the RWS, so I thought I'd post some links! Note that for some of these you'll need an Internet Archive account to check out the books as it's a virtual library. It's worth it, though! They have a LOT of books!

Internet archive 60th anniversary story collection - Only goes up to "The Twin Engines" but I do like that it contains the forewords. However, I believe those can be found on the TTTE wiki, so you may not find them necessary.

Internet archive Thomas the Tank Engine - the complete collection - All W. Awdry books in one!

All Christopher Awdry railway series books (except Thomas and his Friends)- This one's a pdf.

Internet archive The Island of Sodor, Its People, History and Railways - A non-picture book lore source that's rare to find physically. Also a pdf!

And, as a bonus...

Ongoing archive of Marvel Thomas magazines - This one's being run by @/KingoftheTWR on Twitter. I like reading these, they have quite a few original stories and I am especially fond of the "Write to: The Fat Controller" section! I suggest sorting them by name that way you can start at issue one and not have to run around the archive whenever some of them were uploaded out of order.

[greendreamer]

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends - Collected Edition 29 - Poster

[thatcasualgamergirl]

TTTE OC Stuff

This is AJ

I couldn’t find a American tank engine that I liked so I picked Rosie’s class and added a tender (which she had at some point in a magazine) with some additional details.

I’m still pondering if I should make them related for not.

Random Head-cannons of AJ:

70% introverted, 30% extroverted

Would rather shunt and pull goods trains than pull passengers

Pulling passengers gives her anxiety

Struggles with remembering names

Socially Awkward

Her driver mostly does the talking for her

Can be as cheeky as Thomas, but she knows when something should be taken seriously

Pretty humble about her number one status

Dislikes diesels due to past work experience (American diesels are brutal)

Chaotic Good. Would probably laugh at someone if they get hit by karma (or she IS the karma)

Now for the island, Friskerholm is basically Sodor, but smaller and in the USA, specifically off the coast of San Francisco. It’s more dry and rocky with deserts and plains compared to Sodor. IT IS STILL A HEAVY WIP

More sketches of AJ, including a humanized version based on @asktrio516’s ttte humanizations (good check them out their art is better than mine lol).

[kingdicemrwheezyflowertor]

(Hey! It's me from tiktok and me and my oc have a question, the oc in my 1st post on Tumblr btw)

For you: are engines that are in the railway series, those who aren't shown often and those in magazines Canon in this au?

My oc: ī'vę ťãķêň ñøțîčė ôņ höw êvėřýøņę į§ đøıñğ. Íf ýøů ğúý§ ņëęď åñýţhįņğ łèț ů§ ķñøw.

(And by tiktok, you might tell by the similar names me and my tiktok account have, sorry if this is too much)

Yes actually

These three are in the AU of mine and they are barely around because of how big the Ttte world is.

There are more especially those from other YouTubers like Victor Tanzig; WildNorWester and Etc

[ttte-paint-shop]