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Writing Submas? Here’s Our Local Trains.

I’ve been seeing some posts in the Submas tags that have made me think this might help some people, so here goes:

In the greater NYC metropolitan area, we have a few different rail agencies. I grew up here as a Weird Train Kid (read: undiagnosed autistic girl), so I’ve spent a fair deal of time around all of them and know them very verrrry well as a result. These are the essentials that will help you write Submas more authentically!

A few abbreviations to be aware of before we depart:

MTA: Metropolitan Transit Authority

NJT: New Jersey Transit

LIRR: Long Island Railroad

NYC: in the context of the city, New York City - but in the context of railroads, New York Central

PRR: Pennsylvania Railroad

CNJ: Central Railroad of New Jersey

DL&W: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

That said, let’s get into the meat of this.

Let’s Talk MTA For A Second…

The MTA in New York City actually oversees more than the subway system. It covers buses, the subway, two car tunnels, several car bridges, the LIRR, Metro-North, and a light rail on Staten Island. For an in-depth look at the subway system, you can read my Submas primer here, where I covered it. The subway will obviously be the one element you need to be the most concerned with here (and I’m happy to answer questions on it anytime!), but it’s important to know that the LIRR and Metro-North are also under the MTA’s jurisdiction. Metro-North operates commuter rail north of NYC, with any west-of-Hudson rails being operated by NJT under contract with the MTA, and the LIRR moves people around on Long Island. The LIRR is actually the busiest commuter rail line in the United States, followed by NJT and Metro-North. We like our trains here.

Culturally, you should know that the LIRR is notorious for having what are known as “drunk trains,” which are trains filled late at night with passengers returning to the suburbs after partying in the city all night. Nobody likes being stuck on the drunk train with these people except cultural anthropologists. It apparently even made it into an episode of How I Met Your Mother.

You have two major stations in Midtown. Which one is Gear Station supposed to be?

I am fairly positive that Gear Station is an amalgamation of Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal. Architecturally from the outside, the building resembles Grand Central more, given what happened to Penn Station:

Compare Grand Central, right down to the green roof:

Once you get inside Gear Station, though, you notice that a lot of it is actually underground. Both Grand Central and Penn Station have significant below-ground portions, with Penn Station being entirely underground nowadays. (Those of you who have been here for a while may have seen me draw Ingo complaining about Penn Station. He’d have his reasons to, believe me.)

The structure in the middle reminds me a lot of the information desk at Grand Central:

And the general darkness is more like Penn Station.

Penn Station once had beautiful natural light. In 1963 they stole that from us and New York has not forgiven them.

We could have had it aaaaaallllllll…

Grand Central was built by the New York Central, and Pennsylvania Station was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad. In the late 1960s both the NYC and PRR weren’t doing very well and they merged into Penn Central. We don’t talk about Penn Central.

New Jersey Transit?

Right, NJT, the bane of my existence. We’ve had a love-hate relationship for the majority of my adult life. NJT does not know this, but I do.

NJT operates commuter trains on lines once owned by railroad giants like the Erie, the DL&W, and the CNJ. Despite being the second-busiest commuter line in the entire country, New Jerseyans are frequently found complaining about them because we need to get places and they’re delayed because they saw a snowflake or something.

In all seriousness, NJT isn’t horrible and they do what they set out to do, but as a regular commuter myself I understand the complaints. It’s frustrating.

If you look at the composition of Ingo and Emmet’s team, a large portion of them can be found on the “Jersey side” of Unova (especially the Chargestone Cave area), which implies to me that they either are straight-up from New Jersey or spent frequent time in the area building their team, so they absolutely would be familiar with NJT and how to use it. I don’t usually get into headcanons in these posts because they can be very personal, but I’ve often thought it would be funny and cute if they spent time as kids looking for the remains of Penn Station in the Meadowlands, because when Penn Station was demolished for some reason a lot of the rubble was thrown into the marshlands.

As a personal note, no, I haven’t found any pieces of Penn Station yet myself. Yet.

You were a “weird train kid,” you said. Where’d you get your fix growing up?

Besides the above transit agencies, I actually went with my family to the Strasburg Rail Road a lot as a kid out in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. One of the oldest operating railroads in the United States, Strasburg runs heritage trains pulled by historic steam locomotives - it’s only a couple of hours away from where I grew up in New Jersey, so it’s not a difficult stretch to say that if the boys grew up in NJ or NYC, they’d have been able to go there as kids, too. Pennsylvania in general is teeming with heritage railways and train history (thank you, PRR and DL&W, and a lot of other long-gone railroads) so if you’re like me and you like railroad history there’s a ton of places to visit. I actually did a recent swing through the state with my dad (that Submas came with me on in spirit via plush form because I wanted to take funny photos), and in less than two weeks I’ll be on the footplate driving Strasburg #90, my first crack at driving a steam locomotive. I am either really cool or a massive nerd, you decide.

What if I have more specific questions?

Ask me! My inbox is always open and I am always SO happy to talk about train shit or go and get you photos or footage of specific stations/locations/trains/etc. I’m riding the rails underneath NYC all the time, so I’m more than happy to provide anything you might need!

i have found myself wanting platonic submas reader insert fics . So Bad like i just wanna hang out with The Boys for a day

i want emmet to do his swingy arm walk and then reader copies him and then ingos like "sure why not" and he does it too!! and/or they all keep shouting "ALL ABOOAARRD!!" together for no reason

id kill for a fic thats essentially just oneshots of reader and the twins hanging out where its not really a Story its just a series of events that take place in 1 consistent universe

like!! theres potential for dumb sibling antics here!! exploring what theyd do on casual days outside of work! what theyd do for fun aside from battling and trains! i Wanna be their Friend

Cells at work spoilers Chap 10 part 1

Can we just discuss chapter ten of the Manga? (Photos are from the manga)

It started with the usual husbando saving his waifu- I mean wbc (white blood cell) killing the germ that rbc (red blood cell) encounter.

This picture right here is my favorite cause in this three panel you could see rbc being aware of her flaw might get someone hurt. Wbc in the other hand even though he was hurt he didn’t stop to help rbc being lost.

The next page is me screaming on the top of my lungs cause one how determine rbc is to not get lost, two how understanding or respectful wbc is to her passion and lastly he immediately came when he heard rbc screams. Also i love how rbc caught the CO2 box.

CAN I JUST SAY WBC AND RBC ARE JUST COUPLE GOALS OR SOMETHING? Wbc was worried so he followed her but in secret cause he didn’t want to disrespect her wishes to do it herself. Plus when rbc was yelled at wbc flinches, its like he felt what rbc was feeling ( or just cringes)

Could i just have a wbc in real life, i mean an actual humanize version of wbc cause dang i need someone to be that supportive in my life. Look! He is encouranging her from afar, even though it looked weird from the others (other rbc)

Lowkey protecting her is just.. MY HEART CAN’T TAKE IT! Rbc remembering where wbc first saved her (total bs cause that was not the first *winks*) and blushing just killed me.

I’m as proud as wbc is proud for rbc. I’M PROUD FOR BOTH OF THEM! Lets appreciate how he gave a speech like dialogue to killer t cell about how awesome his waifu- i mean rbc was?

Rbc crying tears of joy made me tear up a little, i love this blood cell.

You are challenged by Subway Boss Emmet!

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I have a joke what do you call a fish with no eyes?

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HEYAAAAA!!!

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE 4K+ GUYS!!!!

I’M REALLY GLAD THAT YA’LL WOULD LOOK AT MY WEIRDNESS AND BE LIKE.. “oh I totally don’t mind this person on my dash”

So to celebrate, and since I’ve never done this before, Imma do an art raffle!!!

1st place winner gets a fully colored illustration! Full-shaded and stuff like that! 1-2 characters! Simple background!

2nd place winner gets a flat-colored illustration! No shading! 1-2 characters! Simple background!

3rd place winner gets a black-and-white sketch! 1-2 characters! No background!

1 like = 1 entry! 1 reblog = another entry! repeated reblogs don’t count!

Winners will be chosen through a random number generator on Thursday (Sep 19) so that I can make the prizes on the weekends! So good luck peeps!

Again, THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FAM!!! A lot of peeps here are just so wholesome and supportive! I love ya’ll! Yer the greatest and yeah!!!

Also if ya do reblog this, can ya add a stupid joke? Just for shits and giggles! XD

Just brain rotting over these two :))

I think about Emmet smilling a lot

I may be reading too much into it and this probably isn't even a fresh new take but I feel like he is someone who smiles so constantly that he also just smiles on stressful situations, or when he is uncomfortable, maybe some people even call it weird because he shouldn't smile after a tragedy, but in front of others he isn't comfortable showing any other emotion, or more specifically, it's overwhelming to deal with people and his own emotions at the same time, and smilling is natural, and he only can handle so much at the same time so when he is in a less overwhelming place he can let himself feel emotions naturally

Not that I think it's always a smile out of anxiety obviously, he loves his life so he has a reason to smile basically all the time

On another note I like to think Ingo can tell the difference between a genuine and a fake smile, so he can give his brother an out of a conversation that is distressing, I also like to think he doesn't smile 100% of the time with Ingo at home, he still is basically smiling all the time but they are more subdued, something about being in a more relaxing environment with the person he trusts most, if he is really focused on a series they are watching their expressions might even be reversed, Emmet almost frowning in intense concentration and Ingo with a enthusiastic but minor smile

Anyway I think about Emmet smilling a lot

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WAIT DID I NEVER POST THE EMMET FANCAMS HERE ?? WHAT THE FUCK ???