so literally on the 1st days of pride, i decided to go all out and make funny pride flag edits of a few of the many pride hcs i have for this funny train show
(please note: these are my hcs!! its cool if you have different ones but plz dont be weird about mine <:0-L tysm! )
1st set of six:
thomas (pansexual agender), edward (gay trans man), henry (nonbinary lesbian), gordon (unaligned bisexual nonbinary), james (nonbinary gay trans man), percy (gay demiboy)
2nd set of six:
toby (trans aroace), duck (demigender butch lesbian), donald (bigender gay), douglas (bigender lesbian), oliver (biromantic asexual agender), emily (lesbian trans woman)
3rd set of six :
diesel (gay nonbinary), mavis (nb butch aroace lesbian), daisy (bisexual transfem), boco (gay nonbinary), rusty (agender aroace sapphic), salty (nonbinary butch lesbian)
So I was always wondering about the tartans used in T&F, and I think I have found them. These are the best of my knowledge and if anyone else has info I'd love to hear it.
So, first we have the ones that Sir Topham Hatt and Lord Callan from Bad Day at Castle Loch
So STH's is likely Sutherland Old Ancient
And Lord Callan's is likely in MacLachlin Modern
And in the CGI series Lord Callan is wearing a different
And I think this one is Maclay Modern
Maybe not a perfect match, but it's the closest I've found so far
In case anyone is having trouble there are two sources I found where you can view all of the episodes :)
https://archive.org/details/thomas-friends_202212/1984-10-09+-+Thomas+the+Tank+Engine+%26+Friends+-+S01E01+-+Thomas+%26+Gordon+(9+October+1984).mp4 UK dub only (including all engines go)
All episodes, movies, and Jack and the Pack all available in different languages (well a few episodes are missing but it's mainly from other dubs)
Hope this helps anyone who wants to binge the series :)
weird thought: what if the engines have memories, have experiences, have thoughts and feelings, and can actually control themselves to some degree, but gain their faces at different times? this therefore prevents the engine from obviously having a face, making facial expressions, facial features, etc., but also from speaking- they cannot speak without their faces, and without this, their drivers and firemen won't know directly if there's actually an issue with the engine. what if james and henry were some of the few engines to get a face very soon following being built, hence leading to henry constantly being aware of when something's wrong with him, while also explaining the wrinkles on james' face. or engines like thomas and percy instantly getting a face after their smokeboxes being put together, leading them to have freshly brand-new opinions and feelings to express without actually having experienced anything. or even edward (our favorite shy steamer- might have to do with this), duke and emily (being some of the oldest by basis) being full in steam longer ago, but not having gained faces until almost a decade or two later- something that could actually tie in to duke's old spiel of "back in my day, engines were seen but not heard."