DAY 4: DINAH THE DINING CAR

DAY 4: DINAH THE DINING CAR

- Favourite Actor?

FRANCES RUFFELE, JANE KRAKOWSKI, DEBBIE WAKE AND EVE HUMPHREY ARE THE QUINTESSENTIAL DINAHS IN MY HEART

- Favourite Song/Scenes?

any dinah centric song is perfect to me, there’s me (including “that was unfair”) is very cool since it gives dinah a lot of depth, showing that while she is extremely attached to greaseball, she is very much not afraid to call him out when he’s doing bad things, also a huge fan of the variant, that’s me which is a fun way of looking into why dinah chooses to stay with greaseball despite her saying that he has left her before. i just really love any version where dinah stands up to greaseball, be it when they are being coach-ist in 2018 bochum and wembley, or when she tells greaseball to let rusty race him in “hey you, yes you” and continues to speak even after being told to shut it. also as always UNCOUPLED is dinah’s like, magnum opus, it’s SUCH a good song, it’s SUCH a good insight into dinah’s psyche, and such a good progression of emotions, to controlled sadness growing into BIG sadness, to anger to sadness once again (also i think it’s funny how eve humphrey perfectly hams up dinah’s sadness by having her BAWLING, HYSTERICALLY.) also both versions of dinah’s disco are wonderful, i love seeing dinah take her life into her own hands and decide what is gonna happen to her, same applies to girl’s rolling stock as well, i just LOVE seeing her gain more confidence and independence, it’s so sweet.

- Favourite Costumes?

like rusty and greaseball, dinah’s costume was already pretty, but the japan/australia tour dinah costume is PEAK dinah costume imo (and by extension any dinah costume between 1986 and 1990)

- Favourite Ships/Friendships?

i have been infected with kitchen repair syndrome, yes it is chronic, yes it has become terminal, no i am not upset (thank you @tabooi for enlightening me with dinahwrench thoughts forever). as for platonic relationships, HUGE fan of her and cb being friends, i like thinking about her friendship with pearl pre and post-show, i LOVE her being besties with all the coaches, especially buffy since she’s also the only food-coach, and i think rusty is an interesting friendship i haven’t seen much of, with them being able to understand how greaseball and pearl have upset them (though i might not be looking hard enough LOL)

- Headcanons?

for my dinah (when she is an actual coach), when she was first dispatched into work, she was enthralled with the hairstyles of the waitresses that worked inside her, so she had two large lamps fitted to the side of her head to mimic the shape of the waitresses’ hair, and even better, the sign above her head very much resembled their waiting tiaras as well. additionally, when she was first opened, dinah’s restaurant was originally called “someone’s in the kitchen with dinah,” but dinah soon had it changed to “dinah’s diner” since she believed it rolled off the tongue much better than the former.

- Unpopular Opinion?

i don’t see dinah with a straight southern accent, i see her as having more of a southern belle accent, she seems more like a southern belle to me

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DAY 7: BUFFY THE BUFFET CAR

- Favourite Actor?

CATHY MCIVOR AND AIKO NAKASONE AS HOW I ENVISION BUFFY TO LOOK, AND NANCY WOOD FOR HER VOICE

- Favourite Song/Scenes?

since buffy and ashley are always in the same scene, my favorite buffy songs are my favorite ashley songs !!! her lotta locomotion introductions are so confident yet self aware, like buffy KNOWS her food is kind of decent at a low price and she’s OWNING it, she will try and humor you and pretend to be sincere, but she’s a woman who knows her own worth, which is why i love her hearing out and comforting dinah at her lowest moment, and encouraging her to be amazing is so so nice to see. it’s also nice seeing her be so invested in rusty and pearl’s relationship in the olc, i think it’s cute !!! their love life is her soap opera.

- Favourite Costumes?

like all the other (non-pearl) coaches, buffy reached her peak with broadway, the japan/australia tour and early bochum had the best buffy costumes, her design is by far the homeliest out of all the coaches, especially when she has a nice, brunette hairdo

- Favourite Ships/Friendships?

i don’t really think about buffy that much, but i love her and ashley as my main ship for them, and her being friends with the other coaches !! also her hating on rusty when she was gonna race with him was funny but sad, but nice to him buffy :(.

- Headcanons?

out of all the coaches, buffy is the most stable. she isn’t fickle with relationships, overly dependent on her partners, nor does she feel threatened by the concept of obsolescence and have an addiction to smoking, she’s just out vibing in the world, serving sub par food that she knows is bad, and she’s owning it. we got to give buffy some respect for that ! also, much like ashley, buffy is on the older side, being about 33

- Unpopular Opinion?

out of all the coaches, buffy has the absolute least going on, which obviously isn’t a bad thing but i can’t be the only one who find

DAY 5: ELECTRA THE ELECTRIC ENGINE

- Favourite Actor?

JEFFREY DANIEL AND DAVID MICHAEL JOHNSON AND TOM PIGRAM AND ZAINE GRIFF ARE PEAK ELECTRA AND I DONT THINK WE HAVENT REACHED THAT PEAK SINCE

- Favourite Song/Scenes?

AD/DC is stex’s showstopper for a REASON, ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS SCARY AND MYSTERIOUS AND ROBOTIC I JUST LOVE AC/DC. ADDITIONALLY I LOVE ELECTRA BEEFING WITH GB IN CODA, AND INSULTING RUSTY AND POPPA IN LAUGHING STOCK. and in the rap when electra continually refuses to race with rusty, before reluctantly agreeing to is pretty fun, AND ELECTRAS PARTS IN CB IS PERFECT. and no comeback, NO COMEBACK IS PEAK ELECTRA SONG. IT CONVEYS SO MUCH EMOTION, anger, embarrassment, sadness, PURE FURY AND MALICE, ALL PERFECT FOR THE AMOUNT OF DISGRACE ELECTRA IS IN. also them bargaining with slick/brake van with money to help them win is perfect especially when they are played as more desperate. it would be remiss to not mention electra spontaneously kissing gb during ORARTM, and them literally exploding after being so furious at seeing rusty winning the race.

- Favourite Costumes?

1987 japan australian tour was the BEST electra costume and i will not take criticism, also 2018 monochrome electra is pretty cool too, especially that glow in the dark hair ,,,,, i love watching it sway about whenever electra moves around.

- Favourite Ships/Friendships?

electra and the components polycule FOR LIFE !!!!! i’ve seen some people headcanon that dinah actually really gets to know electra and becomes good friends with them and i think that’s super cute so now i’m adopting that for myself !!! and as always, i think the idea of electra trying to be friends with pearl and rusty without doing anything to earn their forgiveness or friendship is super funny, especially if they don’t acknowledge that rusty and pearl DONT like them at all LMAO. also i do think that electra and the some of the components (basically everyone besides purse) have more of a proper friendship rather than a master/servant or boss/employee relationship. while yes, the components DO work under them, and electra is the one giving them money for their work, it’s much more similar to greaseball’s friends and how they back him up. as for purse, i think that his relationship with electra is similar to kermit and miss piggy’s from the abc muppet sitcom, and mettaton and burgerpants from undertale.

- Headcanons?

- i think that electra tried making a mobile phone line, the “ephone infinity deluxe 2.0: the phone of the future” which was literally just an iphone with a phone case that looks like electra, and siri was replaced with a electra’s voice ai, and that it was hastily coded in, making the phone unusable. when purse told electra to make an apology for scamming their fans, electra decided that the best course of action was to film a whole edm music video on public television called “MEA CULPA” (emphasis on ME)

- i think electra did try to leave after the embarrassment after losing the race and after a day of not having their components tending to their every need, in addition to no one giving any positive attention, electra returned to the yard but the components since moved on to other things and different people, and much like greaseball, because of their bad decisions, electra was made to do the boring shitty jobs rusty used to do, until he came back from his world tour

- i think much like mettaton, they have a cd album they play for purse which is full of songs about how bad he is at is job whenever they think he’s doing poorly.

- my electra is a streamlined, modern passenger train, rather than an sncf 40100

- Unpopular Opinion?

say for slick, electra is the least out all the stex villains. electra’s biggest crime is being fr*nch but aside from that, they’re just kind of a dick, play unfairly and conspire with cb.

after the events of the olc workshop