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EDIT because people keep missing my footnote in the page itself: the top two panels in the "unfortunately [...] a haiku" page are a reference to THIS comic!

Because I’ve lost control of my life

Fantasy Guide to Early 20th Century Trains

Trains were a popular means of transportation during the early 20th century. The previous decades saw to the explosion of more trains, more services and more tracks linking country communities which were isolated from cities and larger towns. So what do we need to know about trains in the early 20th century?

Typical layout

A basic layout of a train is as follows: passenger compartments, dining cars, luggage and guard vans.

Compartments: Compartments are where the passengers sat. They were divided between three classes – first, second, third. First class compartments were the most expensive. The seats were upholstered, and the floors were often carpeted. They were much larger than the other class compartments. They would be fitted with gas light like the rest of the train, the windows would have curtains, and the walls would often be panelled with wood. Second class compartments were less luxurious but pretty much the same as the first class only smaller and less grand. Third class would feature wooden benches or seats fitted with cushions or fabric, they were smaller and often more crowded. Compartments could be offered as corridor compartments which offered more movement between compartments and cars. Compartments would offer seating areas and areas to store hand luggage. Some trains travelling overnight would offer sleeper cars which offered beds and an area to wash.

Dining Cars: Dining cars were offered on some trains. There would be tables for the passengers to eat and get something to drink. Dining cars were usually offered only to certain classes or segregated by class.

Luggage Cars: Where large luggage would be stored.

Guard Vans: Where railway security staff could get warm. It also held a stove and hand-operated brakes which the designated guard would use to slow the train if needed.

Separation

Trains in this era were divided by class and in some case race. Unlike the American states and South Africa where there were laws preventing certain races from mixing with others or from using any class other than third class, Europe was a little more forgiving in the case of race. However, this is not to say there was no segregation. This was Europe at the height of the age of Empire. People who hailed from the ‘colonies’ were discriminated through subtler means than simple prevention, they would be discouraged from attempting to use the upper class tickets and sometimes they were even treated not as well as other passengers. Class was the main division on the train. First class of course had more ability to move, more access to amenities. They often had separate dining cars where they could sit down to full meals. Larger trains might even offer some other common areas such as smoking compartments. Second class were sometimes permitted to dine in the dining cars but may not have been allowed access to full meals. Third class was not permitted access to the dining cars, often having to bring along meals or buy food at the station before departure. The classes were not allowed to mingle. In cases of a first-class person travelling with a servant, they had the choice to either purchase a first-class ticket for their servant or leave them in third class.

Train and Station Staff

Trains did not run by themselves. The passengers and the train had many needs and there had to be an army of staff available to keep things chugging along *hehe*. That being said, the train staff weren’t the only people who kept things going smoothly, the station staff at each stop would also help out the staff and the passengers.

On the Train:

Drivers: These were the people who drove the train.

Firemen: These were the people who shovelled coal and kept an eye on the steam pressure.

Guards: The guards were there to keep the passengers safe. They sometimes checked tickets and would patrol the luggage cars, mainly to keep an out for anybody sneaking onto the trains without a ticket.

Conductors: Conductors would go from car to car to check tickets, collected any outstanding fares and kept an eye on things in the compartments.

Engineers: Would travel on the train to help out with repairs on the train.

Dining car staff: Such as maids to serve tea and coffee, waiters to serve food and if the train is large enough, kitchen staff and bartenders.

The Station:

Station Masters: Was the person in charge of the station, overseeing the flow of trains and passengers through the station.

Porters: Handled the luggage.

Signalmen: Oversaw the signals to keep the trains on track *hehe*.

Parts of the train

The train is a beast of many parts. A train in this era is a steam train, which links of cars connected together behind a steam engine.

Buffers & Buffing Gear: These are the parts of the train built in to absorb impact.

Cars: The segments of the train.

Couplers: This is what connects the train cars together.

Cowcatcher/Pilot: This is the frame that sits at the very front of the train used to clear things off the track.

Carriages: These are the cars that the passenger compartments are.

Headlamp: This is the light at the front used to improve visibility.

Freight Cars: Used for transporting goods.

Locomotive: This is the train’s engine. It is the driving force of the train, where the driver and the firemen would work.

Truck: The framework that connects the axles to the wheels.

Smokebox: Where the exhaust system of the stream engine is housed.

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

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Homer: Are you aware that many Iliad characters are first time fathers? That all of them in one way or another misses a big chunk of their children’s life or never gets to see it at all?

Also Homer: leaves and never elaborates

A doodle for random parenting shiz basically. Order from left to right, top to bottom:

-Menelaus carrying a sleepy Hermione. @hermesmoly I was drawing this when the request came lolol

-Achilles and baby Neo. I don’t know if it’s a thing in other places but hanging on father’s leg and then let him moves it back and forth like an impromptu swing is quite a favorite pastime activity here.

-Odysseus and baby Telemachus who was trying to be a helicopter

-Hector and baby Astyanax when he was born.

-Probably Agamemnon and his three daughters, but I have no official designs. He tried to scold them and was failing. Tbh I feel like Agamemnon would be the type to cosplay buff Bubble from Powerpuff girls along with his daughters. I know he’s not that great but me delulu.

-Patroclus and Neoptolemus. Yes Patroclus contributed in raising him as well, the kid had 2 dads. Fight me.

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win for traumatised individuals! local eldritch horror is here to rip it all out free of charge

Hey Puki. How long is it supposed to take before it gets better? Because I'm getting tired of trying to make it better and it getting worse.

You fool. You're waiting to arrive at a destination, but 'better' is merely a direction. Life would be easier if we could tally all our feelings up, look at them like numbers on a spreadsheet; know unquestionably how to improve those numbers - but life can't be reduced to plain numbers. Your condition isn't defined by such easily-understood terms, so stop believing 'better' implies 'something I'm not'. You don't GET better, You BECOME better by BEING better. U wanna know how to start getting better? By simply being in the PROCESS of getting better.

DARK AGE | feat. the shipping notebook (so far)

Can I interest you in a new ship?

'ring of chaos one-shot with matthew lillard | post-session live q&a' | 22:00 | 51:12 onwards

i don’t really know how to edit videos but i have adobe premiere and a dream. @rpftourney thank you for your service it’s been real

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Mousey: While I was brushing my teeth and while I was doing all my stuff. And I’m like looking at myself in the mirror and I just all of a sudden it- it dawns on me that I’m standing in my bathroom looking at myself in my mirror. I am standing without assistance looking at myself in my mirror. And I’m brushing my teeth and I’m walking around my bathroom like a normal human. And then I started to think about, man that comment just made me realize what my 7 year anniversary really was about and it just made me think just how far I’ve come. It made me think about how my vtubing journey is especially important to me and especially special to me because not only is it my- how much I’ve worked to do this whole vtubing shit but it’s also a testament to myself personally. Which is something special to me because when I started vtubing I could not stand. When I started vtubing I could not walk. When I started vtubing I was bedridden and I could barely lift my head off a pillow. And it has taken me 7 years, 7 years of work, 7 years of whatever the fuck this has been, to be able to finally live as a normal human in my house walking around. Getting up, doing normal things. And it’s just insane to me to think that 7 years ago I could not stand in front of a mirror and brush my teeth.

Sometimes shit gets really hard and sometimes I feel like I’m regressing and I feel like shit just isn’t working out but I don’t really look at the big picture and I don’t realize just how far I’ve come to where I am today. You don’t really think about those things sometimes. And it just like hit me like a train yesterday when I was thinking about all this shit. And also I feel like it’s important to talk about this shit cause I just want people- Anybody that watches me, anybody to know that you may have a million and one setbacks in your life, you may have a million and one things that fuck you over in life but if you have enough perseverance and if you want it that bad you can take your life back. And you can make it into whatever the fuck you want. So I just want everybody to know.. that you can do it! Sometimes you feels like you can’t do it and it might not be in the way that you want to live your life and it might not be in the way that you want to do things but you can find a way to live life your way and do things your way.

Illinois released all of the rejected applicants for the new state flag design contest, and I love so many of these that I have to share them lol.

fuck you

Reblog and put in the tags how you would die if your URL predicted your death

I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.

Martyn: Ah, right, let me go jump in Discord with everybody, let me go say hello. (Discord call joining noise) Hello hello?

Ren: (sing-songy) Marteeeeeen.

Martyn: Oh, god, not you again! Can’t get rid of the guy!

Ren: (clearly smiling) What’s up bro?

Martyn: Hey’up, how are ya?

Ren: Dude, who are we today?

Martyn: Today we are…just two dudes, chilling in a hot tub (Ren chuckles), playing MCC, and—it might be gay, who knows? I dunno, does playing MCC make you gay?

Ren: Okay, um, serious question—costumes on or off? Hey Ant, what’s up?

Martyn: N-no costumes today. I’ve got my costume—

Ren: (through laughter) No costumes?

Martyn: No, no costumes today—

Ren: In the hot tub?

Martyn: Oh, in the hot tub, that’s what you meant! So, just to clarify—I don’t know if you meant IRL, because my costume is here and I shared it in the Discord chat last night, everybody—oh, this morning, sorry—and Ren’s first message was, “Earl Gray all over my keyboard! Thanks for that.” (Martyn laughs) That was-that was the initial response.

Ren: Yeah I—yo Ant, I opened up Discord, first thing I see is Martyn in his costume and I spat my tea all over my keyboard.

(Martyn, Ren, and Ant laugh)

i’ve been obsessed with hadestown for years now and finally got to see it yesterday on the west end, so here is a non-exhaustive, mostly in order list of things i loved:

- hermes ‘aiiiight’ ing the audience at the start

- the fates looking offended when hermes says they’re all dressed the same

- orpheus getting distracted and forgetting to greet the audience as he’s introduced

- irish orpheus and midlands eurydice healed something in me

- the fates all the time always, actually

- persephone and eurydice’s little moment of connection as persephone tells her to take what she can and make the most of it

- the trombonist dancing with the chorus during his solo

- orpheus and the cast looking out to the audience in a beat of silence as they toast the world we live in now

- everybody collectively gagging at the wine

- eurydice pushing orpheus right across the stage as she sings how she wants to hold him tight

- orpheus swooping in and popping up like a meerkat between hades and eurydice when she draws his attention

- hades putting on his dark glasses in order to immediately take them off at eurydice in hey little songbird

- eurydice holding the coins/ticket to hell out to hermes twice during chips are down and hermes only taking them on the third time

- hermes and persephone flirting at the start of act 2

- persephone not sharing her hip flask and hermes acting all offended until she gives them some

- every reference to hermes’ gender is gone

- hermes

- melanie la barrie

- hades’ slutty little strut on the revolve

- the absolute raw grief and anger and desperation in if it’s true, dónal absolutely killed it

- hades dad dancing

- hades burying his face in persephone’s shoulder after they reconcile

- orpheus’ adorable delighted ‘yes!!’ after eurydice tells him he’s done it

- the chorus’s cute af reaction when orpheus ’proposes’ eurydice to walk home with him

- orpheus’ fidgety, reaching hands as he walks and doubts (devastating)

- the centre of the revolve dropping away the MOMENT orpheus turns, almost before he’s actually set eyes on her. she’s already gone

- orpheus’ voice break on eurydice’s name as she vanishes (DEVASTATING)

- orpheus just sobbing by the gaping hole where eurydice’s gone as the theatre is in total silence (SHOOT ME ALREADY)

- the stage being set in the last minutes to match how it was when the show began. we’re really going to sing it again, aren’t we. there’s nothing else to be done

also do NOT get me started on the set and lighting design bc holy shit you guys it was PHENOMENAL. i so want to see it again to look for all the little details i inevitably missed

The one thing that I would change about the wicked movie is I would have included a detail from the Wizard of Oz book that was referenced but not explicitly stuck to in the stage musical. The movie didn’t keep it but I wish they did because it lowkey makes no one looking twice at Elphaba in the Emerald City make more sense

In the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy’s little posse gets to the gates of the Emerald City and a guard gives them these special glasses and locks them onto their faces, because supposedly the glasses protect them from the bright sunlight that reflects off the emerald buildings in the Emerald City, which would blind them otherwise.

They later find out that these glasses are a total sham. They’re just glasses with green lenses. Dorothy buys a green dress while they’re there that magically turns white the second she steps outside the city? It was never green in the first place. The Emerald City itself is not actually green. The Wizard just started mandating these glasses, told everyone the city was green, and they believed him. It really establishes just how much power the Wizard has, even after they realize he has no real magic.

If everyone was wearing these in the Emerald City in Wicked, I just think it would have added another layer to the whole scene when they visit. Elphaba would think everyone in the city is so much more openminded, and it’s actually that they can’t really see her at all. She’d think she’s in a safe place where for the first time in her life she can blend into a crowd, but it’s all an illusion. She and Glinda could get out on that balcony and look down and realize the city is not actually green. This is the one detail I would have changed about the movie.

Ren: Doc says “you know Ren what helps not being single, never mention you are in love with Minecraft only” (laughs) I mean. It’s—it’s a great game, Doc. Like, is this not the greatest game ever made? Like, the greatest experience ever made? It’s not just about the game, right? Like, dude, like—being a Hermit? Being on the Hermitcraft server is there anything, like, more awesome than this? I ask you. Listen, ladies, I love ya, you guys are (does a chef’s kiss) /mwah/. But is there anything better than being a Hermit? I say nay. I say nay. (five seconds of silence, his eyes flick to the camera knowingly) I mean there’s maybe /one/ thing better than being a Hermit. (Seconds of silence) But. Family friendly channel.

Ren: Being a Hermit’s the best thing there is, okay? (thirteen seconds of silence, then he laughs) Doc had to deal with groveling ladies? I’m sorry DocM, I’m sorry brother.

In the club

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNTRAINABLE THE STAGE PLAY RN

i ♥️ media with middle aged female protagonists SO MUCH

the midwest princess!

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