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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 - 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.
Mate how are ye supposed tae pronounce it then?! We're Scots we're nae going tae be lit Oh pardonnez moi je suis so French oui verse moi mon croissant!
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me train-ifying my OFF ocs wasnt a joke lol. so heres one of my OFF ocs but in thomas
very normal middle aged man who definitely doesnt lead a cult/isnt trying to find a way to kill lady to gain her godlike powers, hes just a regular driver :)
- he moved to sodor from america, the south specifically. he was born and raised in georgia
- hes the poster child of southern hospitality and friendliness. always kind, says hi to everyone, is willing to help others whenever needed
- hes in his mid forties, around 44-46
- calls everyone 'baby' 'darling' or 'sweetheart'
- has a thing going on with his fireman, not at all healthy but very consensual and loving :] theyre just both a little fucked up!
- leads a small cult whose goal is to make jeb a god, basically. hes insanely power hungry and craves nothing more than godlike power and control(his fireman is his number one cheerleader in this endeavor)
- sacrifices people on occasion, and dumps their bodies into his engine's firebox to remove evidence :)
- gets along well with his coworkers, even if some find him a bit off-putting due to cultural differences. edward however flat-out doesnt trust him
- no mental illness here, jeb is just a horrible person. thats just how he is
- hates anything he percieves as weakness, and will target people he views as such to sacrifice
- when hes mad at you, its in that way where he still acts friendsly, but theres an air of hatred and malice.
- very protective of his hair. touch it and he will strangle you
me train-ifying my OFF ocs wasnt a joke lol. so heres one of my OFF ocs but in thomas
very normal middle aged man who definitely doesnt lead a cult/isnt trying to find a way to kill lady to gain her godlike powers, hes just a regular driver :)
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i take all my millions of OFF ocs and i put thsm in thomas. illya is a freak who haunts engines for fun. eden is the resident serial killer. baxter is just some guy(derogatory)
I'VE MADE A UQUIZ WHERE YOU COULD SEE WHICH CASA TIDMOUTH CHARACTER YOU ARE
it's been in development since two months ago. 12 questions, none of them are romance-related however you might sense that it gets funnier the longer it goes. do share your results because I'm curious
(This one goes out to the anon in my askbox who requested Hank for the bingo meme. I'll do you one better <;3)
So to preface this I think some context is required. Iāll be brief.
When I started this train misadventure with @greatwesternway, I personally had no plans to watch beyond Season 6, which was the last season that I remembered watching as a child and so the last season I had any personal attachment to. Once that had been done, however, and I still wanted more trains, I skipped directly to season 17 (to see Duck) and then proceeded to watch the rest of the CGI (backtracking to season 13) and then all the movies and specials.
This watch order left a gap, Seasons 7-12. I was not looking forward to watching Seasons 7-12. I had no special memories associated with them, and knew from prior research that the characterization and writing wasā¦ shall we say, less than stellar. I also knew that these seasons added many one-off characters that the CGI would not end up carrying over, and which I had basically zero interest in. Who cares about Flora the steam tram? Not me, certainly.
Imagine my surprise, then, when Season 12 (of Steady Eddie infamy) delivered perhaps my favorite one-off character of the entire show, and a pretty good all-around episode in general.
Letās talk about Hank and his episode, Heave Ho, Thomas.
Despite appearing in only one episode, we know a lot about Hankās character. We know that heās big, strong, gregarious, friendly, quick to compliment others, andā perhaps most importantlyā American!
Yes, the engine whose color scheme is red, white, and blue and who has a Texan accent (which Michael Angelis is attempting so, so bravely) is American. Shocker!
Iām pointing this out primarily because itās interesting on its own: the show never directly states that he is from America, but itās made very clear to the audience that that is the case.
There are many American engines on Sodor (Rosie, Caitlin, Connor, Porter, Timothy, Victor) but Hank is the only one (aside from Victor, who I would consider a special case) who is shown to be Culturally American. Most of these other engines are given British (or in the case of Caitlin and Connor, Irish for some reason) accents and their status as transplants isnāt really commented on in the canon.
Iām not bringing this up in relation to Hank because I have a problem with this from a technical perspective, but because Hank being American isā I would argueā actually the crux of the whole episode and what makes it work.
(Hank actually gets a model face as opposed to a CGI one for this shot! This episode might have been planned for before the decision to switch to CGI faces had been finalized.)
The episode proper starts with Hank arriving on Sodor. Thomas and Percy are both excited to meet this new special and strong engine, but Thomas expresses some doubt that he could be stronger than any of the engines on Sodor. Already weāre seeing some hometown pride from Thomas, indicating both that Hank is an outsider and that wherever heās from, Thomas thinks Sodor is better. Sir Topham Hatt gives Thomas his 3 strikes jobs for the day, which he instructs Thomas to do while showing Hank around the island.
Hank arrives and immediately sets Thomas off by calling him āone of the finest little engines [heās] ever seenā. Thomas, being as he is, takes offense at being called ālittleā, disregarding of course that to Hank, the big fuckoff PRR K4 Pacific, every engine on Sodor is little. And of course, Hank doesnāt mean ālittleā as an insult either. He meansā¦ cute! But Thomas, being as he is, gets buttmad about it.
Hank sees the load of freight cars Thomas is set to haul to the factory and offers, quite magnanimously, to take them instead, setting Thomas off even more. And perhaps Hank is underestimating Thomas here, but on the other hand, to Hank it would be like offering to carry a childās backpack. The narration even tells us that Hank is merely trying to be helpful. Heās got that Southern Hospitality thing goinā on!
As these seasons adhere to a specific formula it doesnāt take a genius to see where this episode is going. Thomas doesnāt exchange his current train for the next as he was instructed and instead tries to do all of them together as Hank watches, offering each time to pull the train instead and getting turned down. Part of that aforementioned Southern Hospitality, though, is taking people at their word, and so Thomas struggles on in a valiant attempt to win the Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face Award.
(Thomas, all out of Puff and Pull.)
Itās here that gets called "Handsome Hank" in the episode by the narrator in passing. This is fun, because I love when one of the stereotypes Americans are given outside this country is that they're attractive. I suspect this comes from our only cultural export being film for 100 years, and so the impression that people who don't live here got was that Americans all look like movie stars.
Hank being called this is interesting though, in that sense, it characterizes him as American again without outright stating the fact, but it's also interesting because 'handsome' is not an adjective that gets ascribed to engines in canon. For this reason, I suspect it is a title in the vein of "Duck The Great Western Engine" or "James the Red Engine". It's a name given by humans to the engines as a form of address.
Because if it isn't... Well, how-dy Hank! Thomas (or the Narrator at least) thinks you look handsome! Add that to the list of things Thomas just can't stand about this guy! He swanks in here, disrespects Thomas, belittles him, and has the gall to look good while doing it. What a Hospitable asshole!
(Handsome Hank! I absolutely love these pieces of concept art and I'm so glad we have them.)
Hank is so Hospitable in fact, that when Thomas is completely out of steam and canāt whistle at the stations because of the heavy train, Hank announces in front of God and everybody that because Thomas is out of puff: he, Hank, will whistle for him! To Hank, this is just common courtesy. If he canāt pull the train, the very least he can do is whistle for his new friend.
Of course, this is about the worst thing you could say in front of an engine like Thomas. Thomas, who thinks everything is a competition, every offhand comment a slight against him personally, and every action he canāt do a knock against his own Usefulness. Itās not his fault, really. When you come up on a British railway with engines like Gordon and James, you expect to be belittled and patronized. But Hank isnāt being passive-aggressive here, heās just being American!
Well of course, as it goes with these seasons, Thomas cracks a cylinder and learns a lesson about asking for help or somesuch, Hank has a party thrown for him and is promptly forgotten about for the rest of time forever, The End. Itās not a very satisfying conclusion or a particularly good episode when taken at face value, but I think it works if you look at it as a Cultural Differences sort of episode, where the sensibilities of two different railways come into contact and are, at least initially, at odds with each other.
And actually, doing some research for this episode, I found out that Heave Ho, Thomas was never shown in Japan on tv or released for home media. Maybe they thought an episode like this wouldnāt translate well for a Japanese audience? Interesting, either way!
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