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cerenemuxse · 6 months

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TGR but There's a Roleswap - Chapter 1

Chapter 1 - The Foreign Scottish Engine

All in Vain (Season 20 Episode 16)

Word Count: 930

The story can be found at @tgr-2x5-roleswap-au for easier access.

Once James arrived at Brendam Docks, he headed straight for his assigned goods trains to get it over with and go back to pulling passenger trains. "A splendid engine like me shouldn't be doing this sort of work!" he muttered with fury. Just as he was about to say something else, a ship's horn blasted near the docks as the ship came to the loading area, specifically the engine loading area.

Nobody had used that area in years so when the platform dropped to connect the ship to the docks, everyone stopped and stared, including James, Salty, Porter, and Cranky.

Once the ship and platform were safely connected, engines stormed off the boat, quickly filling Brendam Docks and startling the beings there. The engine, a Scottish tender engine, in the front rushed ahead with excitement. "Och, dear! V-Very busy today! The dockyard, I mean!" he exclaimed inattentively.

The dock manager looked up from his clipboard when he noticed the engines pass by. "Hey, stop! Hold it!" he hollered but they couldn't hear him so he blew his whistle. Thankfully, they all stopped, including the Scottish engine.

Ignoring the immediate groaning of questions from the engines behind the second engine, the dock manager asked loudly, "Where are you all going?"

"To the Great Railway Show, of course!" replied the second engine, a Belgium streamlined tender engine.

"The Great Railway Show is on the Mainland in England! This is the Island of Sodor!"

"The Island o’-?" The Belgium engine's face dropped. "Oh." With a blast of his whistle, he hollered, "Alright, back on the ship!"

Despite the complaining from some of the other engines, everyone reversed back onto the ship. As they did so, the Scottish engine yelled, "H-Hold oan! I'm comin’!" following everyone else. "W-Wait!"

James followed the crowd to the boat. "The Great Railway Show? Are you all really-?"

"Get out of the way, rusty iron!" hollered a large blue Canadian tender engine.

James fumed, huffing heavy clouds of steam. "I'm not the one going backward," he muttered. As the engines boarded the ship, he exclaimed, "Why don't you take me with you all?" He switched lines. "It looks like there's room for one more!" exclaimed James as he braked suddenly at the engine boarding dock.

"Is there somebody missin'?" piped up a small green tank engine with a thick Italian accent. Her expression quickly shifted as she noticed Salty and Porter calling out for an engine rushing towards James.

The large American tender engine only chuckled darkly.

Just as James' expression shifted, the Scottish engine bumped into him from behind with a loud CLANK! James was shoved forwards, making his pony truck dangle from the edge and for him to dip forward, as the other engine gasped in surprise.

"Nonono! Help!" he screamed as he panicked. "I'm going to go overboard!"

"James!" exclaimed Salty and Porter. They rushed forward to the engine-loading docks with many of the dock workers.

James helplessly reversed, dipping back and forth on the edge of the docks.

The workmen quickly grabbed a chain, attached it to the back of the Scottish engine, and connected it to James' tender buffer beam.

"Start pulling!" exclaimed one of the workers.

The Scottish engine struggled as his wheels squealed against the iron rails. Slowly but surely, he managed to pull the bright red medium-sized tender engine back on the rails. Once James was settled down and the workmen began to unchain the engines, cheers roared around the area for the Scottish engine.

"What a rescue!" exclaimed Porter.

Everyone was glad the engine had saved James and that nothing worse had happened.

But James wasn't.

"What is it with all you railway show engines? Charging about like you own the rails!" he fumed as he backed down and switched onto Porter's line. "What makes you so special anyway? Do you think you're better than the rest of us just because-!" He froze once his eyes met the stranger.

The Scottish engine was a tender engine with four leaders and four drivers, painted Indian Red with a lighter red and black used for his lining. His eyes were a warm brass, and he was about the same size as James. "S-Sorry, I’m v-very sorry!” he exclaimed, looking downwards and avoiding eye contact. “No’ ma intention tae bump ye. I-I should've lookit." he said. "I-I didnae ken ye there!"

James didn't answer. He glared at the foreigner, feeling insulted that the engine didn’t even bother looking at him. Great, just what I needed! he thought with a huff and a frown that slowly grew. Another red engine.

Noticing the rising tension, Salty broke the silence. "Uh, thank you for rescuing me. My name is James," he said, glancing at James to the Scottish engine. "What's yours?"

"Salty!" James scolded sharply.

But Salty laughed, and the Scottish engine joined, chuckling.

"Don't be silly, James. That can't be their name. That's my name!"

The foreigner's laughter subsided. "Edward. Ma name’s Edward," he chimed with a warm smile.

"Well, I can't stay here all day!" he huffed as he backed straight into Porter.

"James, watch out!" exclaimed the viridian saddle tank engine. It was too late as James bumped him back by accident.

Edward gasped as quietly as he could.

James was flustered. In a desperate attempt to cover his mess up, James huffed back at the other red tender engine. Red. He fumed at the thought. "I have work to do!"

"Hm?" Edward's eyebrows furrowed in confusion as his eyes followed the other red tender engine leaving the docks without his goods train.

Disclaimer: they don't fall in love in this story. We do not believe in the "Love at First Sight" trope here. It'll happen later.

For the new readers: If you've noticed that Edward's dialogue is a little weird, that's on purpose. You'll see why as the rest of the chapters are posted. It's important to his character.

OG description: Throwback to when I rewrote the Thomas and Ashima scenes with James and Edward instead in almost one sitting. I went back and cleaned it up once I decided to actually post it. Definitely more self-indulgent lmao

Each scene will have its own chapter so it'll give me the chance to slowly go through and polish them one at a time. :D

A few characters will be swapped out so that it makes more sense (by following EoSR).

#ttte james #ttte edward #tgr 2x5 roleswap au #ttte shipping #ttte edward x james #a dozen years #my writing #here comes a barrage of chapters for this fic #still one of my favorites /biased #ttte salty #ttte porter #ttte #ttte fic #ttte au #ttte 2x5 #tgr but there's a roleswap

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pompomqt · 7 months

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Journey to the West Chapter 18

In this chapter of Journey to the West with @journeythroughjourneytothewest we finally get introduced to Pigsy! Hurray....?

So we begin this chapter finishing off the plot of the last one, with Sun Wukong taking his leave of Guanyin. However rather than immediately returning to Tripitaka, he makes a pit stop to burn Black Wind Cave to the ground. Unfortunately for Sun Wukong all the minor demons that had been living there previously had already evacuated when they saw what Guanyin did to their boss. So no demon's were harmed in the making of this particular case of arson.

And with that taken care of, Monkey finally returns to Tripitaka, who's been waiting up for him like an impatient housewife waiting for her husband to return from a 'work meeting' he suspects might have actually been an affair. Fortunately Monkey does indeed return, cassock in hand, which Tripitaka is pleased with. However the Monks that Monkey has been threatening for the last few chapters are even more pleased. Tripitaka still gives Sun Wukong some shit for returning home later then he said he would. Sun Wukong explains about what happened, and makes sure to thank Guanyin properly. No thanks for Monkey though.

Now that he's got his cassock back, Tripitaka wants to head out right away, but Monkey wants to impose on the monks hospitality for a while longer. Surprisingly the monks seem happy enough to agree to this, and even give them all the valuables they managed to scavenge from the fire, and send them off properly the next morning.

So the duo travels for about a week before they come across a village. Tripitaka suggests they spend the night there, and Monkey agrees after scoping the place out using his magic eyes. Once they enter the village Monkey grabs the first guy he finds in order to ask where they are.

However this guy isn't very appreciative of being held up, and starts kicking up a fuss. So Monkey's solution to this is to bully the man further. So he tells him if he can break his grip, that Monkey will let him go. So the man does everything he can to break free from Monkey, obviously to no success, until he just tires himself out. Tripitaka eventually steps in telling Monkey to just ask someone else, but Monkey is like "what would be the fun in that?"

The man finally caves and tells them that they are in a place called Mr. Gao Village, so named because most of the people in the village have the surname Gao. However that answer is no longer enough for Monkey, so he also demands to know where the man is going and what he is doing.

So the man, who is apparently named Gao Cai, finally caves and tells them about how he has been sent to find an exorcist because a monster stole the daughter of one of his family members, to have as his spouse and has locked her up for half a year. He says that he had found a few exorcists but that they were all incompetent and none of them managed to do the job.

Monkey's like "Today's your lucky day, we happen to be expert monster hunters, and we'll even do it for free!" I find it funny that Monkey is apparently including Tripitaka in the 'we' even though we all know he can't do much against monsters lol.

So Gao Cai finally agree's and leads them back to their home. He has Monkey and Tripitaka wait outside while he goes in to find Mr. Gao. Mr. Gao isn't pleased to see him back so soon, thinking he's come back empty handed. Gao Cai explains however that he ran into two monks from the land of the east that say they can get the job done. Since it would be difficult to get all the way here without some abilities, Mr Gao agrees to meet them.

So Mr. Gao and Tripitaka bow to each other, but Sun Wukong and Gao Cai don't bow to each other. Which Sun Wukong takes offense to. After all, just because he never bows to anyone, doesn't mean that people shouldn't bow to him! Mr. Gao however yells at Gao Cai that now they have two ugly monsters to deal with. Monkey just says that 'Hey, I may be ugly! But I am also powerful and am here to solve your monster problem.' I kind of feel bad that people always comment on his appearance, I'm sure he's very handsome by monkey standards. Anyways Mr. Gao finally invites them all inside.

So Monkey makes himself and Tripitaka right at home, and they get down to business. Tripitaka explains about his journey from the east and asks for lodging for the night. Mr. Gao is disappointed that the two apparently only wanted a place to stay and won't deal with his monster problem, but Monkey assures him that fighting monsters is his hobby and he will be happy to help just for fun. Monkey also asks how many monsters they are talking, and asks Mr. Gao to tell him about it.

So Mr. Gao explains that he had three daughters and that the older two married into other families, so he was hoping that the third daughter would get a husband who would marry into his family and become his heir. Luckily one day a passibly good looking fellow with the surname Zhu (hog), and no family came and was willing to be his son in law. For a while things worked out since Zhu was pretty good at farm work however soon he apparently...let himself go, revealing himself as an ugly pig. Literally. And to make matters worse he has a huge appetite and has practically been eating them out of house and home, worse still, he also has locked up his daughter for half a year.

Fortunately for Mr. Gao, Monkey is more than happy to serve Zhu some divorce papers. So Mr. Gao serves Monkey and Tripitaka some dinner and asks if Monkey needs any weapons or attendants for this job. Monkey has his own weapon, but he asks for someone to keep Tripitaka company while he's gone. Aww that's sweet of him.

So Monkey has Mr. Gao lead him to where his daughter is being held and asks him for the key. And Mr. Gao is like "If I had the key, what would I need you for!" But Monkey was just teasing him, and goes to investigate the lock, upon seeing that it has been welded with liquid copper, he just breaks down the door instead. Remember kids, security is only as good as it's weakest link. So Monkey has Mr. Gao call out for his daughter, and when she replies monkey looks her over. And she definitely looks like someone who has been held captive for six months.

So the girl immediately starts clinging to her father and crying, but Monkey don't got no time for this emotional display and immediately starts interrogating her about where the monster is. The girl explains that he leaves in the morning and only comes back at night and never tells her where he goes. So Monkey just shoos the two off to go have their tearful reunion somewhere else while Monkey changes into the girl to wait for the monster to show up.

So the monster shows up with a violent gust of wind, and immediately tries to kiss Monkey- who responds by grabbing him by the snout and sending him crashing to the ground. Lol. Despite this Zhu doesn't seem to notice anything amiss and just assumes that she's annoyed with him for some reason. Makes me wonder what the state of their marriage is usually like...

So Monkey gets Zhu to get settled into bed, before Monkey complains about his rotten luck. Zhu takes offense to this saying that he does lots of work around the family home, and even gives her plenty of gold ornaments and giving her plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, despite how much food he himself consumes. So what could she possibly have to feel down about?

Monkey then explains that her parents scolded her today because he is a downer on her families reputation since they don't even know where he comes from or what family he belongs to. Luckily for Monkey this works- and gets Zhu to tell him that he is from Cloudy Paths Cave of Fuling Mountain and that his name is Zhu Ganglie. Knowing this information will make it easy for Monkey to track him down later if he needs to.

So Monkey tells Zhu that her parents are getting someone to exorcise him. Which Zhu isn't worried about since he is capable of 36 transformations and has his trusty nine-pronged muck rake as a weapon. When Monkey mentions that they were hoping to get the Great Sage Equal to Heaven to come exorcise him, he quickly changes his tune, and decides to bail out of there since he knows he is no match for Monkey.

Unfortunately for him however, Monkey is already here, and reveals his true form to Zhu. This terrifies Zhu, so he tries to run away, but Monkey pursues while saying that there is no where in heaven, hell or earth that he could flee to that Monkey could not follow.

Current Sun Wukong Stats:

Names/Titles: Monkey, The Stone Monkey, The Handsome Monkey King, Sun Wukong (Monkey awakened to the void), Bimawen (Banhorseplague), The Great Sage Equal To Heaven and Pilgrim Sun. Immortality: 5 Weapon: The Compliant Golden Hooped Rod Abilities: 72 Transformations, Cloud-Somersault, Ability to transform his individual hairs, super strength, Ability to Summon Wind, Water restriction charm, and the ability to change into a huge war form, ability to duplicate his staff, ability to immobilize others, the ability to put others to sleep, and the Fiery eyes, Diamond Pupils, intimidating horses, churning large bodies of water and sleeplessness. Demon Kill Count: 4+ Unknown Number of Minions Human Kill Count: 6 God's Defeated: 19 + Unknown number Defeats: 2 Crime List: Robbery, Murder, Mass Murder, Arson, Theft, Coercion, Threatening a Government Official, Resisting Arrest, Assault, Forgery, Employee Theft, False Imprisonment, Impersonating a Government Official, Treason, attempted murder, failure to control or report a dangerous fire and desecrating a corpse. Cry Count: 3 Mountains Trapped Under: 1

Current Tang Sanzang stats: Names/Titles: River Float, Xuanzang, Tang Sanzang, Tripitaka Abilities: Curing Blindness, making branches point a certain direction (allegedly), reciting sutras, and pretty privilege. Cry Count: 11 Tight Fillet Spell Uses: 5 Paralyzed by fear: 4 Bandit Problems: 2 Kidnapped by demons: 1 Falling Off Horses: 4

Current Bai Long Ma Stats: Names/Titles: Bai Long Ma (White Dragon Horse), Prince of the Western Ocean, and third prince jade dragon of the dragon king Aorun Abilities: Transforming into a human, a water snake, and a horse, eating a horse in one bite, and flight. Crime List: Arson, and Grave Disobedience. Contributions to the plot: 1

Current Zhu Wuneng Stats: Names/Titles: The Marshal of the Heavenly Reeds, Zhu Wuneng (Pig who is aware of ability), Zhu Ganglie and Pigsy. Weapon: Rake Abilities: 36 Transformations Failed Flirtation/romances Attempts: 2 Crime List: Sexual Harassment, Murder and Kidnapping.

#jttw #journey to the west #jttw read through #journeythroughjourneytothewest #sun wukong #tang sanzang #zhu wuneng #can you tell yet that Pigsy is my least favorite of the cast so far XD #Don't worry #I won't be biased (lie)#Perhaps I should just think of Pigsy as being the one with the most room for growth....#No new crimes from Monkey #but it's nice to see his arson habit is still going strong

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lycheelsea · 9 months

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I know I like literally just drew Fanny but I was going through tumblr and there is an unbelievable amount of hate on tpot 7 surrounding the Fanny/DPA arc.

I don’t really want to get super involved as I just like to draw silly pictures but I personally think that the “character assassination” claims are a bit intense. What Fanny did in threatening to kill Tree, yes it was extreme but I don’t think this is really what Fanny will become in terms of her character arc, otherwise she’d just sort of be a more intense version of pillow. What she did was irrational and I personally interpreted it as an in-the-moment act of spite, nothing with truly malicious intent.

Eh, I really need to see how Tree interacts with the team after the events of TPOT 7 and I do hope that this isn’t the permanent direction that they’re taking Fanny but with how many rants I’ve seen about “character assassination” and everything I wanted to write out my thoughts on it :/

#fanny tpot #tpot #tpot 7 spoilers #Tpot 7 #death pact again #idk #I mean I might be biased cause Fanny’s one of my favorite characters but still #Sort of a rant sort of a defense I guess

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moodr1ng · 3 months

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just learned about the people posting '19th century paintings' by a supposed "emile corsi", which is actually just ai art misleadingly and purposefully being represented as actual historical pieces, and i do think this is an issue for art history and culture that people are doing this (and that more people are being tricked into reposting these pieces under the belief theyre legitimate historical ones, furthering the lie).

however after looking it up a bit im finding that the only issue people have with this is that misrepresentation of art history. and id like us to also consider that many of these pieces are in the 19th-century orientalist style, in which white european artists fictionalized, fetishized and otherized swana people. and the use of ai art to create new pieces of a historical racist style (which still today colors the way swana people and our history are perceived in the west) should be as big a concern as the issue of fooling people into thinking an artist who didnt exist actually did. probably more!

(preemptive disclaimer that im not "anti-ai" and dont care about having that argument. post is about a racist thing. does not need derailing.)

#97 #emile corsi #i dont want to have any arguments about whether or not orientalist historical art is racist btw i will block you.#truth be told? there are orientalist pieces i like. theres one orientalist painting that is one of my favorites.#there does come nuance sometimes when your representation in art you have access to is so tied to your fetishization and othering.#(not just in historical orientalism - see also journalistic photography of swana people etc still using the same tropes)#i know this. i dont think its evil to like some orientalist pieces. we still must be aware that the art movement is inherently racist.#and there is a difference between enjoying some orientalist pieces by long dead artists with an awareness of the issues surrounding them #versus creating new orientalist pieces today and relying on biased racist ai models to do so!

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thevampirediariesdiary · 21 days

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officially announcing the DAMON/ELENA BEST EVER MOMENT BRACKET (cooler title tbd)

how it’s going to work:

we’re gonna go season by season, starting with season 1!

I’ll start by posting a chronological list of the stand-out moments for the season (season 1 is here). at this point you can nominate other moments I forgot, petition for the separation of moments I lumped together into one, and/or send me propaganda for your favorites! this phase lasts a week.

then the polls begin! each round of polls will last a week. *insert pathetic begging to remind you that if you reblog the poll posts we will have way more fun*

when we’ve gotten a final winner for the bracket, the next season will start. we have four seasons to catch up on, and then we’ll do s5 once I finish my rewatch, and s6 when I’ve rewatched that.

someday (in the distant future) we can make the top 5 from each season go head to head and get an all-time best!!

#the reason we’re doing it like this is the rewatches make it waaaay easier for me to come up with a list #this blog is basically like a reference book lol #more so for the first couple seasons when I was doing full recaps! but still to some extent now that it’s live-blogging #if we did all the seasons at once #it would be biased by the s5 & s6 ones that are already my favorite and I simply wouldn’t remember any other ones!#d/e bracket round 1

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stupid-sloot-headcanons · 1 month

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🔥 hazbin hotel

I think it's shit lol. I liked Helluva Boss alright mainly because I have a soft spot for Brandon Rogers's humor and I am glad he's done so well career-wise but lost interest after a while. The original pilot was also alright but nothing and I mean NOTHING about the actual show is appealing to me and I'm not checking it out

#sloot bitches about things #Stuff & Sam/that End of the World series were both good #i still need to check out the Bryce show he did bc shes my favorite of his characters #but imo his number one series has always been Magic Funhouse. im def biased tho bc Death to Smoochy is one of my favorite comedies #and that show is very inspired by it #ask game

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