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Erm… well, here are some photos I suppose?

I don’t really take selfies, but I do take a lot of holiday snaps…

@joezworld @lswro2-222 @transsexualunderground @jobey-wan-kenobi @septemberofgenders @sparkarrestor

Tagged by the awesome @say10x to post six non-selfie pictures from my camera roll. Thank you!

Tagging @chaupr @exhaustedpumpkin @dylanadreams @odessa-edmundson @sonpat-rides-again and @leaveyourego

No pressure of course!

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THE WIGGLES JUST RELEASED A SONG CALLED “WE’RE FRIENDS OF DOROTHY”??????

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I'm gonna shamelessly ask for 4 in hopes of getting a new snippet 👀

Ask and ye shall receive!

4: Edward; a Requiem in Steam:

So, this fic has a part one Ask Post here, which you can read to get an older snippet and an idea of just how big this fic could be if I sat down and actually wrote it instead of being distracted by innumerous side quests.

However, it has been a little bit of a while since then, and I do have more to share - such as an outline and a new snippet! This story follows Gordon as he enters retirement and begins to see Edward in a new light, leading to the big engine delving into the history of the railway's kindest old blue engine.

And for your snippet:

Gordon winced, realising that that was his new destiny, to pull little trains down quiet branch-lines – never to feel the true freedom of sprinting down the mainline with the wind whipping around him.

“You finally retire?” asked Edward. Gordon didn’t reply. He couldn’t. It hurt too much. Edward sighed, watching Gordon from the corner of his eye. “Don’t worry… you are still important. Do you have any trains scheduled?” “No…” “Come on then, let’s go get some coal and water.” Edward ran round his coaches and coupled up to Gordon, pulling the big engine out of the station and towards the sheds. A shunting engine the Fat Controller had recently bought scuttled over to take away the coaches.Gordon and Edward puffed to the coaling station and sat side-by-side. “Do you want to talk about it?” “I… how do you keep going? They took everything from you, I took everything from you… and we were all so horrid… how did you?”

The exciting news is that I've since found an editor who was insane enough to agree to read some of my fics. Hopefully this one'll be getting some more love in the near future!

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Valentine's Fic 3

Last of the lot for this year - and it's a two-parter! It's also one I've been trying to finish for up to three years now, so it's quite exciting to have it out now. It's an AtLA fic, and you can read it here on Ao3!

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Valentine's Fic 2

Keeping right on going with these Valentine's Day fics, here's my second offering - and it's all about being rescued from a catfish. You can go and read it here on Ao3!

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Valentine's Fic 1:

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! To help me ignore the fact I'm single and working today, I've written some stories for you to enjoy! Here's the first one - you can find it on Ao3 here!

Hope you have a great day!

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Not sure if i can ask for more than 1 but ... 53,56,71? 71 is especially cool cause i just got back into a galaxy railways kick

I'd say ask for them separately (I love answering asks + it makes my life easier) so I'll answer 71 in this post! But you can definitely ask for more than one!

71: Wisps of Time (The Galaxy Railways)

So, this fic is a bit of an AU idea that has been floating around in my head for the longest time, but only recently did I start typing up an idea for it. The basic idea is that Sirius Platoon is punished for 'insubordination' after a mission and as punishment have to help digitise the books in the railway's central library. While there, Manabu keeps finding references to engines that - to his knowledge - never ran on the Galaxy Railways, starting a long chain of events that leads to the group crossing the universe in search of the truth behind the origins of the railway.

Here's a quick snapshot of what I've written!

'Manabu made it to the museum not long before it was due to close, hurrying through its halls past centuries’ worth of rail history until he came to a stop in front of the only surviving example of a Type 1472: Type 1472, number 1472.0091. It was just as Captain Bulge described it - an attempt at clean lines and beauty in steam disturbed by dozens of exposed pipes that burst from the boiler at random to run alongside it. The entire thing was painted in Galaxy Railways red, with the standard issue whistle and filter - and it was all so utterly wrong. The tender had the Galaxy Railways logo stamped on it - and it was a standard-issue tender, not the sleek one that 4472 had. 

The blurb was no help either - if anything, it made things worse. 

The Type 1472 was built between 2180 and 2200 in the Brittanion Quadrant for the Galaxy Railways, being numbered between 1472.0001 and 1472.1001. These engines formed the majority of passenger engines used in the Quadrant between 2180 and 2235, when they were replaced by the Type 55 diesels. Number 1472.0091 was built in 2183 on the Planet Nottingborough and used on expresses between Planet Destiny and the Brittanion Quadrant. In 2205, it became famous for its part in the evacuation of the Planet Edinscow when it pulled the last train to leave the planet before it was destroyed. 

Manabu pulled up the first picture of 4472 - the one that had dragged him into this rabbit hole in the first place. The beauty in its lines, the brilliant shade of green that almost seemed to blend in with the lush grass around it. The number and letters that seemed to taunt him - the numbers and letters that didn’t exist with this class. 

Snapping a photo of 1472.0091, Manabu turned to leave. “I wonder what Captain Bulge will think of this - these two cannot be the same,” he muttered to himself.'

Thank you for your ask!

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WIP Game:

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPS.

This is my second time making one of these, and in part it's to help me reorganise my thoughts and help me get back into writing. University has done a lot to weigh me down over the past two years, and so in some ways I'm hoping to get the chance to write at least a bit more often this year.

In order to best show just how much I am working on, I'm dividing this into old WIPs (from the last list) and new WIPs (which I started on since then). And remember, you can ask about any of these and I will share what I can!

The Old WIPs: 1: Sir Topham Hatt and his Engines (RWS) 2: Mixed-Traffic Engines (RWS) 3: Silent Engine Bert Again (RWS) 4: Edward; a Requiem in Steam (RWS) 5: Mavis the Quarry Engine (RWS) 6: History of the Sodor Highland Railway (RWS) 7: Five American Engines (RWS) 8: TATMR Horror Story (RWS) 9: The Reject Railway (RWS) 10: Tales From the Other Railway (RWS)

11: In Orwell's World (Voltron) 12: Pidge & Dr Strangelove (Voltron) 13: Keith and the Wolf (Voltron) 14: Grandma McClain and Adam Join the Voltron Crew (Voltron) 15: Planet Obscure (Voltron)

16: TDWT Rewrite (Total Drama) 17: Total Drama Grand Tour (Total Drama) 18: In the Hold (Total Drama)

19: BirdFlash story (DC) 20: Jingle Bells, Nightwing Noel (DC) 21: Red Hood Reading Club (DC) 22: Manor on the Hill (DC)

23: Malevolent Spirit (Saiki K) 24: Dark Reunion's Anti-Love Ray (Saiki K) 25: How to Win Over Saiki K, or a Rhapsody of a Man Not in Love (Saiki K) 26: Saiki K Europe Trip (Saiki K) 27: Kusuo's Christmas (Saiki K)

28: Jinrao (Naruto) 29: Obito, Father of the Jinchuuriki (Naruto) 30: Akatsuki Parents (Naruto) 31: Naruto & Nazis (Naruto) 32: Sakura Out-trains Everyone (Naruto) 33: Work Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 34: Adoption Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 35: Children Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 36: KakaObi Regency Story Part 2 (Naruto) 37: The Club (Naruto) 38: Atomic (Naruto) 39: Only Love Can Hurt Like This (Naruto) 40: The Hidan Story (Naruto) 41: School Shenanigans (Naruto)

42: AssClass Yearbook (Assassination Classroom) 43: The Theoretical Sequel to 'The Informant' (Assassination Classroom)

44: Britain in the AtLA World (Avatar; The Last Airbender) 45: Fast Car (Avatar; The Last Airbender) 46: Kaoru and the German (Ouran High School Host Club) 47: Romantic Killer AU (Romantic Killer)

The New WIPs:

48: The Samhain Special (RWS) 49: The Tour (RWS) 50: Summer Blues (RWS) 51: May Love Guide You Home (RWS) 52: It Lives in the Hills (RWS) 53: Thomas & Friends Season 22 Rewrite (RWS) 54: It's Sodor, Uramichi Oniisan! (RWS, Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan)

55: Easter Egg Hunt! (Voltron) 56: An Idiot Sandwich (Voltron) 57: The Spirit of Easter (DC) 58: Izuku Midoriya & The Dark Knight (MHA, DC) 59: The Gilded Age (MHA) 60: The Bunny Suit (Assassination Classroom) 61: Karma's Trick (Assassination Classroom) 62: Three Stops to Your Heart (Naruto) 63: A Trip on the Flying Scotsman (Naruto) 64: The Happiest Family (Naruto)

65: They Say the Past Haunts You (One Piece) 66: Zoro & Luffy: Buddy Daddies (One Piece) 67: Thailand (One Piece) 68: Down the Aisle (Avatar; The Last Airbender) 69: Dormmates (Sasaki & Miyano) 70: Wisps of Time (The Galaxy Railways)

Ok, so the good news is that most of my fics are now quite happily in one place... but the less brilliant news is a lot of these are longer-term projects. Some of them I am further along with than others, but a good few of these are a long way off. If you want to read them, then make sure to ask about them to keep them fresh in my mind!

Now, as for who I'm tagging in: I'm going to drop ten names here, and offer that anyone else who wants to do the game can do it as if I recommended you (I am not putting 70 tumblrs in here, I'm pretty sure the site would hunt me down). You don't have to join the game yourself, but I personally enjoy it as a fun way to order my thoughts!

@mean-scarlet-deceiver, @angryskarloey, @joezworld, @septemberofgenders, @scottishproductions, @jobsoldbootlace, @anonymousboxcar, @transsexualunderground, @eeveeandme05 and @thefedoragirl

And yes, I am probably going to do this again if I get under 50 fics. This is turning more into an organisational exercise than an exercise in showing off what WIPs I have XD

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Damn, I've actually finished 30 of these! Well, I said I'd redo it and I will. I hope those of you who've been silly enough to become friends with me are ready to get tagged in XD

WIP Game:

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPS. (... I do not know this many people)

Thank you @jobey-wan-kenobi for tagging me in - here's my best attempt to categorise the various inane WIP pieces I have floating about. Oh, and cause I'm a multi-fandom writer, the fandom is at the end of the title.

Edit: Alright, so now I'm sort of using this as a check-off list for things I've written. Things people ask about generally get more progress done on them - so ask about what you want to read!

1: Jinty, Pug and the Ffarquhar Branch Engines (RWS) 2: Bowler the Redeemed Engine (RWS) 3: Arry the Churlish Engine (RWS) 4: Murdoch the Mighty Engine (RWS) 5: Seaside Engines (RWS) 6: Duncan the Disagreeable Engine (RWS) 7: Sir Topham Hatt and his Engines (RWS) 8: Ivo Hugh the Young Engine (RWS) 9: Arthur the Midland Engine (RWS) 10: Mixed-Traffic Engines (RWS) 11: Mid Sodor Engines (RWS) 12: The Caledonian Twin Engines (RWS) 13: Very Important Engines (RWS) 14: Silent Engine Bert Again (RWS) 15: Duke's and Duchess' Engines (RWS) 16: The 2004 Special: The World-Famous Engine (RWS) 17: Edward; a Requiem in Steam (RWS) 18: Mavis the Quarry Engine (RWS) 19: History of the Sodor Highland Railway (RWS) 20: The Island Song (RWS) 21: Five American Engines (RWS) 22: TATMR Horror Story (RWS) 23: The Reject Railway (RWS) 24: Tales From the Other Railway (RWS) 25: Tidmouth Train to Hell (RWS) 26: RWS/World Trigger Crossover (RWS, World Trigger)

27: Hyuse & The Iron Horse (World Trigger) 28: Crash-Course in Meeden (World Trigger)

29: In Orwell's World (Voltron) 30: Comfort Food (Voltron) 31: Pidge & Dr Strangelove (Voltron) 32: Keith and the Wolf (Voltron) 33: Grandma McClain and Adam Join the Voltron Crew (Voltron) 34: Planet Obscure (Voltron)

35: TDWT Rewrite (Total Drama) 36: Total Drama Grand Tour (Total Drama) 37: Pull Your Weight (Total Drama) 38: X-Treme Torture Rewrite (Total Drama) 39: A Night To Remember (Total Drama) 40: In the Hold (Total Drama) 41: Total Drama King Lear AU (Total Drama)

42: BirdFlash story (DC) 43: Jingle Bells, Nightwing Noel (DC) 44: Red Hood Reading Club (DC) 45: WikiHow Does Not Have An Article For That! (DC) 46: Manor on the Hill (DC) 47: Swear Jar (DC)

48: Malevolent Spirit (Saiki K) 49: When You Fall, I Will Pick You Up (Saiki K) 50: Dark Reunion's Anti-Love Ray (Saiki K) 51: Rome (Saiki K) 52: How to Win Over Saiki K, or a Rhapsody of a Man Not in Love (Saiki K) 53: Saiki K Europe Trip (Saiki K) 54: Kusuo's Christmas (Saiki K)

55: Jinrao (Naruto) 56: Obito, Father of the Jinchuuriki (Naruto) 57: Akatsuki Parents (Naruto) 58: Naruto & Nazis (Naruto) 59: Sakura Out-trains Everyone (Naruto) 60: Dogs Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 61: Refuelling Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 62: Work Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 63: Barbeques Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 64: Snorkelling Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 65: Adoption Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 66: Children Shouldn't Be This Hard! (Naruto) 67: KakaObi Regency Story Part 2 (Naruto) 68: Sasuke/Naruto Story (Naruto) 69: The Club (Naruto) 70: Atomic (Naruto) 71: Only Love Can Hurt Like This (Naruto) 72: The Railwayman AU (Naruto) 73: The Hidan Story (Naruto) 74: School Shenanigans (Naruto)

75: Just Ask Him Out Already! (Assassination Classroom) 76: AssClass Yearbook (Assassination Classroom) 77: The Theoretical Sequel to 'The Informant' (Assassination Classroom) 78: Lost in the Night (Assassination Classroom)

79: Britain in the AtLA World (Avatar; The Last Airbender) 80: Picture of Sokka of the Water Tribe (Avatar; The Last Airbender) 81: Night at the Fire Temple (Avatar; The Last Airbender) 82: Fast Car (Avatar; The Last Airbender)

83: Stay Away From Minnemeny Island (One Piece) 84: Kaoru and the German (Ouran High School Host Club) 85: Romantic Killer AU (Romantic Killer)

86: The White Elephant *The Sherlockverse* (Various)

Right... so that took way longer than expected. Originally, it all seemed fine - I have most of my things in a single, neat folder. And then I remembered I have a Microsoft Account... and a WordPad full of old fics... and several workbooks with their own things in them. I think I'm still missing one workbook, all truth be told!

@lswro2-222 @predawnrex04 and that's all the people I know who aren't @jobey-wan-kenobi

Edit 2: When I get down to like... 60 or something WIPs on here, I'm going to overhaul the list to take them off and put up the new ones. Until then, remember to ask about the WIPs you're most interested in!

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Please 🙏

I call upon the fan fic writing gods to bless you with the perseverance to finish one of your unfinished drafts. 

May your fingers dance along the letters upon your device with ease, may the devil of distraction stay far from you, and may your work not need much editing.

I pass this blessing upon every fan fic writer out there.

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Here's our most requested item: Bob Katter's same-sex marriage speech, in all its unhinged glory

Follow for more Batshit Moments in Australian politics!

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Thank you for everything you did for us, for this fandom, and for the little blue tank engine you brought to life with your adaptations.

Thank you, Britt Allcroft

Rest in peace Britt Allcroft, you made a generation.

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

A huge Merry Christmas to everyone! I know I haven't been the most active this year, but it's a year I'll treasure nonetheless. I made some wonderful friends and had a lot of fun.

As a Christmas gift, I wrote a short fic for the World Trigger fandom that you can find here on Ao3, and I'm also including the link to my TTTE Christmas fic from a couple years ago that I did here!

Thank you all, and here's to another great year in 2025!

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New World Trigger Fic

Apparently, I've found just enough time to pull this together - it's a World Trigger fic and it's just shy of insanity... maybe it's a representation of my current state due to the Christmas rush.

Either way, you can read it here on my Ao3!

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A Brunch They'd Rather Forget:

Goodness, it's been a while since I've done one of these - but I recently (finally) finished the most recent instalment of my Duncody series! Go read it here on Ao3 - just try not to have lunch while reading it...

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Did a little more digging and managed to find the original advert for the wallpaper livery 😅 (I could not for the life of me get the audio to record so closed captions will have to do)

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snoopy of the day