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Kill Rusty the Steam Engine, NOW!!!
ok
Seam and Jevil deltarune SLOPILY making out 3 am among us gay potion challenge
not starlight express related but ok i guess
pearl starlighting expressing NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this really was a starlight express wasn’t it gamers
*Spawns* Hello hello! I would like to very, very kindly request either a Ruhrgold or a Joule! I think they would look very neat when Newspapered :]
two heads are better than one so you get BOTH/silly
CB please.
hello cb!
oh mighty discowormfan, i request..brake van doodle🙏
thou asketh for brake van, so brake van thou sha receiveth
in fact you get to have 2!
Hi Disco! Can we have some art of the engines (or even just GB) meeting baby Control for the first time? 😊
momma and rusty meeting little control, 8 years prior to the show
Your Starlight Express "book pics" gives me joy!
thank you!!! i’m glad you enjoy it!! it’s been a fun series so far. after i finally finish the main starlight express book series, i’m gonna do some spin-offs including a retelling from pearl’s perspective, and a story of momma and belle’s past. i’m hoping they will be actual stories instead of just excerpts from a book that doesn’t exist, but if that is the case, i will have to actually write those stories first! so uhhh be on the lookout for that!!
no pressure but rusty x wrench in ur style perhaps :3
yes yes!!! (i ADORE your rust repair art btw!!!)
wrench likes to make him feel tall
Everyone in the StEx fandom likes to shit on Pearl, while forgetting that the World Championship Railroad Race practically brought out the worst in mostly everyone. GB and eElectra were fixated on winning by any means possible, CB derailed Rusty in front of everyone, even Rusty himself finally decided to race after seeing Poppa almost killing himself by stressing himself out despite his old age.
Let's not even count the fact that the Rockies decided to remind Rusty to "stay in his place" after getting derailed by CB and beaten up by the other Diesels, instead of getting conforted in any way. After "Right Palce, Right Time", it almost seemed like Rusty was on the verge of giving up on even his whole life, and he would have done so, hadn't the Starlight Express itself interviened.
As for Pearl, she's firstly captured by Electra's magnetism, and then got with GB because she thought that he wanted her to have "just some fun", and only the aftermath of the Uphill Final helped her to open her eyes about the whole situation. She even blames herself during "Only You", thinking that Rusty lost because of her. This is some big ass MATURITY, coming from her.
But NO. Let's all get angry at this one specific character, just because she has trouble understanding others' feelings.
Any opinions?
there are a multitude of reasons why i think that pearl is a flawed but good person at heart, basically for all the reasons you stated. regardless on whether they act like this extreme in day to day life, gb, slick, cb and electra all do arguably worse things than pearl. they lie, cheat, betray, mistreat and bully all throughout the show, and pearl’s worst sin is having really low awareness of the feelings of the people around her. even if electra didn’t entice her, i can see why she didn’t want to couple up with rusty for a few good reasons.
1. he simply just isn’t what she’s looking for in a partner. that’s fine! she doesn’t owe a relationship to him just because he’s nice to her. also good on her for knowing what she wants in a partner!
2. (assuming they’ve known each other for a long time and are friends) pearl likes rusty platonically and wishes to remain just friends, because she doesn’t want their dynamic to change. also fine!!! i’ve had countless friendships where, while we were very close, they didn’t go romantic because we simply just didn’t want to alter our relationship and were fine being just friends.
3. (assuming the events of the show are when they first met) pearl literally met rusty like 5 minutes ago and doesn’t feel comfortable getting with someone who she just met, who is also REALLY insistent that he race with her. i’d be pretty apprehensive to get with that guy too.
she wasn’t even that mean to rusty when she rejected him, she didn’t go “EW NO GET AWAY FROM ME FREAK” and like spit on his face, she gently said “i’m sorry rusty, i know you have good intentions but you just aren’t what i’m looking for” yes it hurts, and sucks for rusty, but pearl is being very clear and kind to rusty while she friendzoning him. she was being VERY nice i think.
as you said, pearl wasn’t even aware that dinah and greaseball had broken up at that point, she even says “it’s only fun” implying that she only saw getting with gb as a temporary thing before moving onto another engine. could she have been a bit NICER to dinah rather than saying “STOP FUCKIN CRYIN BITCH WAH WAH WAH I DONT WANNA FUCKIN HEAR IT” yeah. could she have maybe ASKED why dinah was so upset at this? yes? was it still really messed up she hooked up with dinah’s boyfriend/girlfriend RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER AFTER THEY BROKE UP? yes very much so. pretty messed up of pearl, not cool. but is it THAT WORTH LOATHING her for? compared to how literally everyone else acts in this show, i’d say it isn’t.
hell, if you look at it from the perspective of her being a newly built coach, it gives a lot more understandability to why she acts the way she does. she was literally born yesterday and is still figuring out how the world works, and people are already pushing her around and trying to kiss her. i wouldn’t have the best sense of what’s right and wrong and identifying people’s emotions and seeing things from their perspective either if i was immediately thrust into an unfamiliar world just YESTERDAY and people are acting all crazy banana cuckoo around me either.
even if you don’t see pearl is a newly built coach and she’s been around longer than just like a day, i still wouldn’t hate her for being flawed??? because flaws are what make characters interesting!!! even people who’ve been around for a long time are flawed, it’s not just a young person thing. and it’s satisfying seeing someone recognize their own flaws and try to atone and grow from them, which pearl does!
she realizes that her unawareness of other people’s feelings resulted in her friend getting beat up, and she even says that “this wasn’t how i wanted it” her intent was to find love, but her selfishness only resulted in people getting hurt, and she recognizes that. she laments why she let greaseball blackmail her into staying silent about rusty’s crash (“whyyyy did iiiii, haaaaave to liiieeee?”) she feels remorse for seemingly costing rusty’s victory in the race, and ultimately becomes better because of it.
hell, even rusty is flawed! he’s stubborn, insecure, dependent, easy to give in, and i’d argue at the beginning of the show, he and pearl have the same flaw of being selfish in that they fail to consider other people’s feelings in spite of what THEY want (rusty doesn’t understand why pearl wouldn’t want to race with him, and is rather pushy when offering to race with her, and pearl wants to find her “dream train” and doesn’t understand how rejecting rusty, and getting with dinah’s significant other might make them upset), it’s just that rusty completes his half of the arc before pearl completes her’s.
might i reiterate, pearl’s biggest sins were having extremely low self awareness, and getting with dinah’s bf/gf. compared to greaseball’s cheating, mistreatment, bullying, beating up of racers, and cb’s everything, and electra’s cheating, pearl’s crimes are literally NOTHING when you put her against them.
now if you want to criticize how pearl is written that’s another thing, which i actually can agree with since i don’t really think of this show when it comes to “really great character writing, especially for the girlies,” i think there is a lot to criticize on that front, but saying pearl is this mean, vindictive bitch for the crimes of being really not self aware is complete poppycock.
anyways to answer your question yeah i agree pearl is pretty cool
HEY BESTIE! Tumblr isn't showing me ur post bc it's a meanie, but I was wondering if you could doodle Trixie and Slick? You can just use the Dogsama seals or if you have ur own Slick design already!
Seal Trixie for you
first off, I LOVE HER DEARLY.
secondly, since this is the SECOND sentence, that means you get TWO trixie doodles!
one with dogsama’s seal trains
and one with the ref you sent!!! (DW WORRY ABOUT THAT BTW!!!)
Hi!!
I would like to request Carrie x Strike if it’s okay :3
YES YOU MAY HAVE!!! their ship name to me will be mail package!!
hii I love how you draw flatcars with :3 faces so perhaps either flat-top or the rare and elusive unnamed chocolate bar wagon :3
how about….. BOTH of them
and a bonus chocolate wagon below!
for art requests: if u draw some kitchen repair i will literally owe u my whole life
you’re literally the reason i started shipping it so hmmm lemme think…. YES I SHALL DRAW KITCHEN REPAIR. TAKE THIS.
AND THIS!
AND THIS!!!!!
i also drew that one kitchen repair meme you did down here 👉🏽👈🏽
Swindon and C.B chaos maybe? 👉👈
swindon and caboose chaos is ALWAYS welcome on my blog!!
Memphis belle and the sleepers ( Duvay and 24!belle aka belle jr )
belle jr has been experiencing some doubts about taking over belle in the passenger train, i think everyone would starting their first job, but i think she’ll be a fine first class sleeper, don’t you agree?
(also i’m very sorry about the delay, i hope it wasn’t too much of an inconvenience!!!!/gen)
How much brick could a brick truck chuck if a brick truck could chuck brick?
he’d chuck enough bricks as a brick truck could and then throw the rest at the person nearest to him once he couldn’t chuck them anymore
Hi, it's me again with another question!
Who are your top five favorite StEx characters and (if you feel like answering this follow-up) what are your favorites headcanons for each one?
RUSTY AHHHHHHHHHH- IM SO SO SO NORMAL ABOUT RUSTY HE'S MY FAVORITE IM HIS NUMBER ONE FAN HES MY BEST FRIEND I WANT TO LAUNCH HIM INTO SPACE INTO A BLACK HOLE. anyways a hc i have for rusty is a little unrealistic but at least makes sense to me, he actually isn't that old. him being a young steam engine is actually true, he was built in 1960 and is 23 during the events of the show. it's a whole tangent that would make this post way much longer than it probably is LMAO so i might explain that in another post that's not this one XD.
PEARL IM ALSO VERY NORMAL ABOUT PEARL SHES ALSO MY BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD I LOVE HER VERY MUCH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH- anyways i'm one of the many supporters of pearl being tall (partly because im a tall girl as well) but it just feels right for pearl to be very tall, it's always been something i subscribed to from day 1. also a personal headcanon is that if pearl was a dog, she would be a poodle, specifically pink poodles because she's pink and fancy poodles are always are always pink in cartoons LMAO.
SLICK SLICK SLICK I DIDN'T EXPECT ID LOVE HER SO MUCH ESPECIALLY OVER SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME BUT IVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH HER AND WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR HER. a headcanon i like is that slick's motivations for what she does is fueled (WAKA WAKA) by an insecurity she has about being replaced by other forms of fuel, especially when hydra introduces himself to them by saying his gonna replace them, especially when she has to affirm to herself that she's "still quick, still slick" I LOVE THE THEMES ABOUT OBSOLESENCE ALSO EFFECTING THE VILLAINS OF THIS SHOW
I LOVE FLAT TOP VERY MUCH HE'S SUCH A LITTLE SHIT my best headcanon that i have is that flat top actively pays out vandals to give him more graffiti tattoos for him to show off to the other trucks
HYYYYYYDROOOOGEN I LOVE HYDRA I ALSO DIDN'T EXPECT TO LIKE HIM BUT HES SO FUCKING LOVEABLE I CANT NOT LOVE HIM. a headcanon i have (because of a misinterpretation of hydra's character i had before learning more about him) was that he comes off as this shady drug dealer guy trying to get rusty to try out "the stuff" when in reality he's just a vegan with autism (that's not just a human au thing, i think that hydra as a truck is vegan LMAO)