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🫷OS3RZ !!!!!

my new favorite minor character in starlight express is this one diesel in the vegas production that fucking HATES RUSTY’S GUTS WITH A PASSION.

like WTF IS THIS VENDETTA HE HAS AGAINST RUSTY WTF

no one else is THIS aggressive towards him in the vegas production it’s just THIS guy (not even GREASEBALL hates him that much LMAO, just THIS guy)

aren’t they just the bestest of friends

time to talk about why terrorizing rusty is peak with a bullet list of everything i like about it

- the song itself is so tense, each line comes after the other with barely any room to breathe, until the part when rusty is confronted by greaseball’s friends. rusty barely has any time to even speak, and when he finally is able to defend himself, he’s cut off twice and greaseball kills any chance him being able to explain himself any further

- greaseball ADMITS that rusty was actually pretty good during the race, hence why he decided to cheat before he could get ahead of him. i think it’s a clever way to set up that rusty DOES have a chance at winning if he was fast enough to make the CHAMPION at least slightly threatened says a lot about rusty’s abilities

- the marshals blindly believing electra and greaseball’s story of rusty causing the wreck when it was very clear to anyone with eyes that it wasn’t, very much implies that they aren’t as impartial as greaseball says (something something the system is rigged for more powerful people to abuse something something)

- the line “the marshal’s impartial it has to be true!” goes so hard

- the diesels beating him up, as much as it hurts me to watch, in my eyes, tries to trick the audience, and rusty to think that greaseball and electra are right. steam engines are weak and frail, and not fit to go into the race, as he’s not strong enough to fight off a few measly diesels, but in doing that, it proves that they’re wrong. yes, rusty couldn’t fight the diesels off, but that was only because they overpowered in him numbers, and physically restrained him so they could beat him up. it was not a fair fight in any way, implying that rusty actually might’ve stood a chance if the diesels didn’t overpower him.

- i like how slick and flat top (in their respective shows) are the ones to check to see if rusty is ok after everything that’s happened, it gives a lot of depth their characters, showing that while they certainly won’t show it, they really care about rusty at the end of the day (which is especially interesting for slick since she’s one of the main villains)

- (this only applies to the bochum production pre-update) caboose further taunting rusty after everything that’s happened just adds an extra cherry on top of his shit cake. (also i think it’s funny when caboose mockingly imitates pearl yelling “rusty!”)

- (this only applies to the london revival) pearl going up to rusty after he’s beat up, asking him to whistle for her like she did when they first him, only for him to sit there silent is SO. FUCKING. SAD. MY HEART. ITS BREAKING. (note: anything i say about the revival is based on what i’ve heard from people who have seen it so please take this with a big spoonful of salt)

- (this only applies to the vegas production) i think it’s funny how that one diesel goes fucking ham on rusty like he just burned his crops, pissed on his wife and took the kids when literally no one else does (he was the only one punching him too 😭)

a doodle i made based off an interaction i liked from the third race in bochum

DAY 3: ITS GREASEBALL ITS GREASEBALL ITS GREASEBALL THE DIESEL

- Favourite Actor?

nigel casey and al knott are PEAK greaseball to me, followed closely michael quinn, jeff shankley and rob torti !!!!

- Favourite Song/Scenes?

oh i have many, rolling stock, pumping iron, taunting rusty, ESPECIALLY terrorizing rusty, it’s ABSOLUTELY PEAK but i already spoke my peace on that, i also ADORE HIS APOLOGY TO DINAH IN THE 2018 BOCHUM UPDATE IS PEAK GB APOLOGY. THE WAY ITS FRAMED AS HIM HAVING TO COME TO DINAH’S LEVEL INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING FAVORITE GB APOLOGY SONG.

- Favourite Costumes?

i’d say that the japan/australia tour had the best gb costume in my eyes, but basically any greaseball costume is like perfect to me. gb’s design peaked on the first go and they stuck with that ever since, even in the revival you can see how despite greaseball looking so different, she still has the yellow and black color scheme and general triangle shaped torso. (also despite me ADORING her prototype wig and frankly preferring it, gb’s current wig still fits her very well !! giving her a mullet was a perfect substitute for the og pompadour/elephant’s trunk)

- Favourite Ships/Friendships?

gb and the gang polycule truther FOR LIFE. also gb’s friendship with cb is always interesting even if it never got explored outside of there’s me and the intro to wide smile.

- Headcanons?

i think that greaseball is actually very smart, especially smart with all of their little cheating schemes. the reason that they can’t spell sorry correctly is because they’ve never once said or spelled it out before in their life ever up until having to apologize to dinah by the end of the show.

- Unpopular Opinion?

idk how unpopular but i HATE HATE HATE greaseball being converted to a steam engine at the end of the show, regardless of the show i hate it. i pretend it just doesn’t exist. like i could rant all i want about that but… i’m a little lazy ya see. either way it’s a stinky plot point that i refuse to acknowledge the existence of.

after the events of the olc workshop

“i can push and you push too!” - famous last words

the traingels

London 2024 greaseball could never do hot to go like the lesbians intended

Why??

Greaseball can’t spell- 😔

EDIT: Ik sorrry happens after the crash i was just being silly goofy :(

STARLIGHTS UR EXPRESS 2.0

Fantasy forest festival edition!!

>> posting my cosplays to tumblr because I don’t use this silly site enough, so here’s Greaseball and a crack version of joule (IYKYK) so here’s ur Thursday morning cup of tea innit

Spent the week stewarding at a festival so here’s all my break time doodles from the week!! ✨

(Including seal-thimble)

heard about how the new production is going so far from what ive seen posted. i jus hope that it turns out good, but heres some schoodles that may or may not be from weeks/a month ago‼️

im also making an au but idk if im gonna post abt anytime soon but i might post doodles that have notes abt it!!

needed to post these two🫶

i renamed dinah taffy and made her a candy dining car and renamed greaseball elide!!

. . . Okay, who cares about logic!? 乁(ツ)ㄏ I really can't believe I spent the whole night editing this X> Song

Each art more beautiful than the other, my darling~~ ´w`)💕💕💕💕

School is being hard for me, but I'll try to draw a little bit between classes... Well, I was trying to draw some random steam trains, but ended up with greaseball-

I know Greaseball is supposed to be a greaser but every time I look at him my brain goes “yeehaw cowboy time 🤠”

I hope you people like the sketch of me and Buffy that i’ll upload in a while

host notes: fast thumbnails for this shit post

original post this is based on was written by @aweega