#railwayseries

Hello everyone! My name is Annie, and I've started this blog (my first Tumblr ever, I'm very excited to finally be here) to enjoy the wonders of everyone's favorite hellsite, and to be a home base for art, fanfic links and world building dumps about two Thomas AUs I've had cooking in my head for years now: The Sudric Cycle and Thomas & Friends: Co-Working!

🛤️The Sudric Cycle

The Sudric Cycle is a decades spanning series of planned fics of various lengths, all about family, family drama, love, legacy, Sudrian history, alternate history, politics, grief, guilt, heartbreak, war...and talking trains. 

It's also a means for me to babble on about my headcanons for characters who only exist as names in The Island of Sodor: It's History, People and Railways (If you've ever wanted to read fics featuring Nicola Dreswick, Ranald Drixon, or Sigrid of Arlesdale this is the AU for you!); headcanons about how talking vehicles (known in this universe as "animate vehicles") work, come to be alive, and their effect on the history of mankind; and headcanons about extras from the tv show!

In terms of plot, The Sudric Cycle focuses heavily on the human characters of the Railway Series/Thomas the Tank Engine. At it's core lies the Hatts (Sir Topham, Stephen and Bridget, and Stephen's three kids being the family members we'll spend the most time with). We'll follow them, their relatives, and the North Western Railway through the railway's founding in the 1910s, to a change in leadership in the 1970s, all the way to today, the 2020s! 

Along the way, we'll take diversions to look in on characters and events all around the Island of Sodor: the Skarloey Railway, the Culdee Fell, the Arlsdale, the Earls of Sodor, the little villages where the railway doesn't reach, and the world beyond! All in a setting that mixes and combines book and tv lore, locations, and characters. 

And the engines, of course, will be going through their own melodramas and hijinx all the while.

The current plan is for The Sudric Cycle to be told over 11 or so fanfictions, of varying length, 10 of which are WIPs, but one of which (The Devil’s Back) is finished. In rough chronological order these are:

• Dreswick's History of the Island of Sodor (a prequel/lorebook written from an in-universe perspective (based on a book mentioned in The Island of Sodor: It's History, People & Railways))

• The Devil’s Back

• The Rise of the House of Hat

• The War and the Railway 

• This Machine Kills Fascists 

• She Never Married 

• Lay My Curses All To Rest 

• Eddistone's Daughter, Schenectady's Son

• The Young Controllers 

• The Other Railways (an anthology, will jump around the timeline)

• The Three Controllers

(Titles of WIPs are subject to change)

🧙Thomas & Friends: Co-Working!

Co-Working will be another installment in a classic Thomas fandom genre: the humanized AU! I have a lot fewer concrete plans for the overarching plot of this AU, other than that a lot of it be devoted to a retelling of Thomas & The Magic Railroad. It really mostly began as a universe for my humanized engine designs to exist in. Magic will be a big plot element overall in this AU; aside from Lady and her magic being at the center of the TATMR retelling, Co-Working will also feature Proteus, Boulder (yes, I humanized Boulder), and versions of Burnett Stone, the Conductor cousins, and Diesel 10 who are straight up warlocks. I hope you like wizard duels! 

‼️Content Note:

Here we have Peter Sam, pulling a passenger train, the passengers consist of Glimmer and Bow (She Ra (2018)) being interviewed by Doug (From LoliRock), Max, Nikki, and Neil (from Camp Camp), and My OC, Jerry and Hatiao

Here we have him passing by Duke and Shiro

SodorGust - Rescue

Hguorht eht Krad fo S'erutuf Tsap Eht Naicigam sgnol ot ees. Eno stnahc tuo neewteb Owt Sdlrow ERIF, KLAW HTIW EM!

Ll'i hctac uoy htiw ym htaed walc Uoy yam kniht Ev'i enog enasni tub I esimorp I LLIW LLIK NAIGA!

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This is so Not Canon, but the vibes are immaculate.

Original Sprites by @Princess-Muffins & @Cj-The-Creator

Book 15- The Twin Engines - Break van

My entire for #RWScollab2024! I had to recreate the van basically being murder skjdjsjsjsj

Happy Douglas Day everyone!

When I decided to do group pictures for every month's characters, it occurred to me that October, November, and December wouldn't have an equivalent SR or TUGS character to include.

So, instead of giving Douglas a solo picture for his day, I drew him with his (RWS canon) break van, Toad.

For those who haven't read the series as written by Awdry or have forgotten, Toad volunteered to become Douglas's brake van in gratitude after he, Isabel, and Oliver were rescued. There is evidence of this in season three of TTTE, as in Toad Stands By, Toad asks permission - and is granted it - for Douglas to let him stay in the yard to help Oliver.

I like Toad in the CGI series, but I was a little disappointed to find him back with Oliver. You could argue that Douglas may have 'released Toad from his "debt" at that point, but I think Toad would likely have stayed with him and the rest of the Arlesbrugh engines rather than latching back onto Oliver. Let's face it, Douglas's relationship with the other Sudrian brake vans isn't going to be the healthiest after he straight-up murdered one (with a smile on his face if you believe the show) when he first arrived, so Toad was probably a dream come true for all concerned.

"Henry came back feeling much better and they put him in front."