#conductorposting

Ah, this is the sweetest thing anyone could have asked! Okay, I'll go through all of them...

This is Fireman, my partner in crime up in the locomotive cab. She and I have a lot of funny conversations up there when we're on the rails. She's a meme and YTP encyclopedia and she'll quote the old classics for ages. But I really love listening to her talk about some of her favorite topics, like chemistry or world religions, or hearing her delightedly pull something out of nowhere from an old hyperfixation (mountaineering). Then her passion comes out and it's great.

Assistant Conductor is one of the coolest people I have ever met, and she's such a good writer. A lot of people expect her to be really serious because she's really tall and masks the best out of all of us, but she LOVES cute stuff and gets so excited over it. She likes coming up with aesthetic Pokemon teams for her friends and absolutely glows with joy when she shows you all the stuff she's done on her Animal Crossing island.

Brakeman is like a decade younger than the rest of us so we all indulge him like a little sibling. He's always going on excitedly about whatever action movie he most recently watched or the fighting games he's currently playing, and if you ask him to tell you about his dream to fight on top of a moving train he gets ecstatic. (You can also give him dessert. He loves dessert.)

Conductor is almost never not smiling, to be fair, and it's one of the things I love most about him. He's a big goofball. He's passionate about so many things - playing trombone, drawing rubberhose cartoons, cooking, playing video games, railroad history...he just loves life and loves the world and loves existing and learning more and I just think that's so goddamned wonderful. He is an absolute breath of fresh air, and he's so silly and joyful that he helps me be silly again too.

(The others have also said he smiles like that when he talks about me, but...y'know...)

Luckily for me I have a partner who agrees with me on that latter point and doesn't understand why there has to be a designated day to tell people you care about them when you should just be doing that anyway.