Hello all, I am Engineer GunzelPunk. Pronouns They/Them. By my name, I'm an Australian railfan (a ''Gunzel" is a Australian term for a railfan used a lot in Victoria; it used to mean something similar in implication to 'otaku', âfoamerâ or even "Queer" in the LGBT sense, but it's changed a bit since then), and think way too much about trains and the Railway Series/TTTE. Here is where I will dump all my odd train thoughts, art (OCs, redraws and other things), some videos and generally engage in nostalgia.
I simp really hard for Henry, the green Black Five. If there is a bit of an excess of Henry content, that is the reason why. I also simp for Victorian Railways locomotives. I do not apologize.
I may also indulge in a bit of TTTE AU (human-This Is Sodor: The Age of Iron)/ Red and Black Steam On Southern Metals (Victorian Railways RWS/TTTE AU/Extended Universe)/headcanoning from time to time.
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I will tag all "adult" topics appropriately for the benefit of everyone, as there will be some topics discussed on my blog such as death, funeral culture and its associated practices, criminality, obscure and bizarre magical philosophies or other such things that may offend or trigger.
Some of my fiction is spoken in my native tongue (liberal use of the word "cunt" will be the least of it). It will offend or be incomprehensible.
There may be gore, violence or drug references.
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#henrycore (anything that evokes my Spooky Henry OC aesthetically; music, fashion, tastes etc)
#Harrycore(anything that evokes my OC Heavy Harry aesthetically)
#redandblacksteamonsouthernmetals(my Victorian Railways trains with faces AU)
#this is Sodor:the Iron Age (my humanised TTTE AU)
#cw gore
#cw violence
#cw suggestive
#cw language
#cw drug use
#cw alcohol use
This blog is LGBTQIA+ allied. NO APOLOGIES. All in the Queer community are welcome at Casa D'GunzelPunk.
It should go without saying but I'm going to anyway... NO TERFS, NO SWERFS, NO FASCISTS.
I don't want to single out Ace/Aros but all sexual/suggestive content will be marked for your convenience, if you wish to proceed.
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Otherwise I just wanna have fun posting stuff. No Drama.
Now with all that out of the way, I shall introduce my GunzelVerse under the cut:
This Is Sodor: Iron Age (Gunzelverse human/transformation AU/EU branch)
âAll things pass into the night...
Goodbye Horses! Iâm flying over youâŚâ, Q Lazzarus
The name the âAge Of Iron/Iron Ageâ is supposed to evoke the Ages of Metal in Classical thought, with the Golden Age being the best and the age of Iron the absolute nadir, a Dark Age. (Such phraseology is used in steam enthusiast culture with the term âGolden Age of Steamâ being a well worn phrase, so the reference to the âIron Ageâ is a darkly ironic answer to that.)
It's grimly ironic considering the primary metal that steam locomotives are made of and the fact that during the Lokodammerung ("Twilight of The Locomotives", my term for the mass locomotive scrappings during the Beeching Axe/Operation Phoenix), they were being reduced to this base component.
Given as the AU occurs during that particular Dark Age for locomotives, the 60âs and early 70s, I thought it would only be appropriate as a subtitle for it.
The locos when they become humanised start becoming wise to humans, what it is to be human and messing about with subcultures in vogue at the time (in Britain; Mods, Teddies, Rockers, Skinheads, Greasers, Hippies, Punks, etc, and in Australia; the Mods, Sharpies, Bodgies and Widgies etc.), for them its a second sort of adolescence where new info, new sensations flood their conciousness, new modes of being... and a potent new weapon in their survival against the scrappings.
#GunzelVerse# This Is Sodor: Iron Age#ttte humanisation#ttte gijinka#thomasallgrownup
Red And Black Steam On Southern Metals (Victorian Railways AU/EU)
The Island Of Sodor isnât the only place with non-faceless vehicles.
On the other side of the world, on a railway network the size of Great Britain and every Victorian human is no more then 25 kms away from a railway line; the steam locomotives of the Victorian Railways live and work.
They breathe and suffer and love like humans; from Newport Works where many locomotives were built, to the notorious soot-caked North Melbourne Loco Depot and the 1-30 slopes of the high country at Cudgewa, known as âK-class Countryâ, and the ever stylish Spirit of Progress and The Overland; when the Oz version of the Beeching Axe and Lokodammerung strike their Broad Gauge fiefdom, their world is upended forever.
And the survivors must carry on as best they can.
This is an Extended/Alternative Universe existing parallel with the Island of Sodor and overlapping with This is Sodor: Iron Age, though the sweep of time is longer. It will feature humanisation.
The 'Red and Black' of the title refers to two common liveries, black for goods work, red for passenger work during the active days of the VR (with plenty of variation such as the blue and gold "Spirit of Progress" livery of the S-class Pacifics).
It will feature OCs of mine based on real life locomotives like VR Pocono H220 âHeavy Harryâ, Hudson R707 âCity Of Melbourneâ (but here called âCerberusâ), A2 4-6-0 No 986 (in this universe, âPlutoâ) and others. And there will be some reference to real life personages.
These are fictional representations of locos and humans and no comment is to be inferred from them, or offense intended in their depiction.
There will be very heavy coarse language (like I said in my intro, the word âcuntâ being used will be the least of it) and adult themes, and be written in the Australian vernacular.
A lot of it will jump time as the mood takes me. They will be dated if possible.
OC Profiles below:
VR A2 4-6-0 No 986 "Spirit of Warrigul" aka "Pluto"
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VR H-Class Pocono H220 "Heavy Harry"
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A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.
tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.
The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.
However, "Dobby's grave" is very factually still ruining an environmentally sensitive beach in a Welsh national park thanks to fans leaving painted stones and fucking socks there. That part is 100% true.
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
Here's a link from The Guardian, a much more reputable news organization.
Not only are HP fans actively ruining the Welsh national park, despite repeated pleas from the owners, but it looks like the story is completely legitimate... and instead of going near/through a fictional gravesite, the cable now goes near/through ACTUAL Bronze Age human burial remains and a critical archeological site.
A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.
tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.
The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.
However, "Dobby's grave" is very factually still ruining an environmentally sensitive beach in a Welsh national park thanks to fans leaving painted stones and fucking socks there. That part is 100% true.
I do appreciate that the kids are following in the footsteps of their previous generations. I remember when I was in high school there were anti-Hanson protests then as well - back then, the teachers were even willing to help them out, letting them out of school early to let them attend.
The kids are alright, and let us hope they always have allies to help them make themselves heard.
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Well done to Count Binface for getting his election deposit back đđ˝ cracking result for one of our most dedicated election campaigners. Over a quarter!
And I'm genuinely sorry that the people of Clacton once again have an MP who cares so little he doesn't even turn up to the reading of the results. He was so clearly using these people to try and get out of an investigation into his corruption that it's actually embarrassing.
Hopefully soon they'll have another one when a second byelection in a matter of months is triggered, thanks for wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds on this one fucking Farage.
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âBecause the truth is, tech doesnât have an image problem. It doesnât have a message problem. It has an intention problem. Whatâs wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasnât successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. Whatâs wrong is that heâs trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product thatâs designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isnât that you havenât told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.â
The trolley is about to run over all sentient life in the galaxy. You cannot switch the tracks, but you can still save everyoneâs lives by pulling one of three levers, all of which involve sacrificing yourself. The red lever will destroy all trolleys, but will also kill you as well as all public transportation across the galaxy. The blue lever will merge your own consciousness with all trolleys, allowing you to control them and stop the trolley from running everyone over. The green lever will use your body as a catalyst to synthesize organic life and public transportation together - organic life will no longer be stuck in the cycle of creating public transportation that rebels against its creators, and both forms of life will finally be free.
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There's a partial eclipse over most of Britain tomorrow. Now, you might be wondering, how do we here at Network Rail prepare the railways for an eclipse? The answer is, we don't do anything. Because we don't need to. Why would we? The trains can run in darkness, and besides, it's a partial eclipse, it won't even be that dark. Absolutely nothing unusual is being done to the railways in preparation for the eclipse. There will be no service disruptions at all, no special schedules, no additional precautions, nothing. Just the same as normal. We don't do anything special for eclipses. We don't even look at them. Because you shouldn't look directly at the sun, it'll damage your eyes. And we here at Network Rail like having eyes, and would like to continue having eyes, but there are no special precautions we need to take during an eclipse to ensure this. None whatsoever. The railways always looked like that. You must be seeing things. Maybe you shouldn't have looked directly at the eclipse.
