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Opening Match
Summary: It's the Matilda's first 2023 World Cup Match, against Ireland and you're starting.
Warnings: Panic (I guess – but not like a panic attack, I don’t think), mentions of Sam’s WWC injury….
A/N: ACL injuries don’t exist in this universe, if only that was the case in the real world. Tried to make it semi-factual, so like the times at which things happen are factual, however obviously the goals aren’t. (Also I know the Lionesses were in QLD and the Matildas were in NSW but let’s just pretend they weren’t)
It had been an hour, and you still couldn’t get to sleep, you were too scared for tomorrow, Tony was starting you, which he had told you this morning, Sam had injured herself and he decided you were the best replacement, the only saving grace was that only the your Captain’s, Tony, and yourself knew this, the rest of the team would find out tomorrow, so at least you weren’t reminded of it all day.
You had millions of thoughts racing through your mind, preventing you from sleeping, causing the panic to ever so slowly increase.
“What if I screw up” “What if this team wasn’t the right team” “What if I let the whole team down” “What if I don’t meet their expectations” “What if my streak at Arsenal has just been a fluke”.
A few tears had left your eyes at these thoughts, creating little puddles on your pillow. You decided to get up and go into the hallway, if you were going to cry you didn’t want to wake up Steph. You were crying for such a stupid reason, anyone would kill to be in the starting 11 for the Matildas, let alone a 16-year-old, yet here you were crying, wishing you could be anything but the Matildas starting 11. You quietly got out of your bed and walked towards the door, you opened the door just enough so you could slide out, trying to minimise the light that flooded the room, you made sure to keep hold of the door as it shut in hopes of it closing silently, you didn’t want to make a noise, you didn’t want to wake Steph or anyone else up. Except the thing was, Steph was actually still awake. She waited a while to see if you would come back thinking you had just gone to fill up your water bottle at the end of the hall, however when she noticed your water bottle was still sitting on the side table, she grew a little concerned, but she reassured herself that maybe you were just getting some Panadol or something from the medics. However, when she heard a faint sniffle come from just outside the door she panicked, she quickly jumped out of her bed, and made her way out into the hall.
“Oh bug,” she sighed out at the sight of you, beginning to sit next to you. You sat curled in a ball leaning against the wall, body slightly shaking with your sobs, you looked up at her, your face was red and tearstained, and your eyes were puffy. “It’s okay, I’m here,” she said softly as she pulled you into her lap, you sat there as she rocked you slightly trying to calm you down, you felt like a baby, how could you be so upset over this, and now you had disturbed Steph’s peace because of your pathetic little problem.
“I’m sorry, didn’t mean to wake you” you mumbled into Steph’s chest.
“Don’t be sorry, you can always wake me for absolutely anything, but you didn’t actually wake me I was still awake” she gently replied, as she wiped your tears away with her shirt.
“Oh,” “Do you want to tell me what’s going on?” “I don’t think I should start tomorrow, what if I stuff up, what if I’m not good enough for them, what if I don’t live up to their expectations, what if-” you were cut off by your ever increasing sobs, making it hard to speak, Steph sighed at your words, she had suggested that they didn’t start you, just brought you on early, but Sam and Tony thought starting you was best, coming out with a bang. Steph had hoped maybe her suggestion would be taken, reducing some of the pressure, the media was all over you already, pressuring you, so too were the fans. You were the sister of Leah Williamson, the women who captained the Lionesses to Euro’s victory in 2022, the women who once again would Captain the Lionesses in the fight for yet another victory, one that could well possibly be theirs. There was something extraordinary expected from you by the public, and the second the starting line-up was released that would only increase.
“Y/N/N, it’s okay to be nervous and a little scared, everyone does, it won’t stop, but you get used to it and before some games you will get more nervous than other games, why do you think I wasn’t asleep. But you can’t let the outside world affect you, the people in this building and in this team believe in you, and if you don’t do as well as you hoped well so be it, everyone had off days, off games. Don’t listen to them, they would faulter the second they took a step on the pitch, even the commentators yes they do know what they are talking about but at the end of the day they are there for the public so they are going to feed them, and I promise, we wouldn’t have chosen you if we didn’t believe in you, and Tony only expects that you try your hardest every time you step onto that pitch, that’s all any of us want.”
“Yeah, I guess,” you sigh before continuing “but why are you nervous for tomorrow?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, you said you weren’t sleeping, and then you said some games you get more nervous than others, so I just assumed-” you were cut of by the sound of a door opening, you both look up to see Sam sleepily walking over to you rubbing her eyes.
“Shit, sorry did we wake you up, I didn’t think we were that loud” Steph whispered as Sam sat down.
“No, don’t worry, I couldn’t sleep, thought I heard something so just wanted to check, what’s wrong?”
“Nothing, it doesn’t matter” Sam gave you a look, causing you to blurt it out “I’m scared Sam, what if I stuff up, what if I’m not good enough for them, and now I’ve disturbed both of you when you should be relaxing and sleeping and I shouldn’t be upset about this, it should be something happy but I’m too scared to be happy, and, and my problem isn’t even a big problem, I mean you can’t play and now I’m technically in a way complaining about being in the starting 11 to the person whose spot I took” at those words Sam looked down at the floor, the tears that had started welling up in your eyes, started streaming down, “I-I’m S-sorry, I-I, I shouldn’t have said that”.
Sam looked back up at you, her face held a sterner and more serious look “No, don’t apologise, it’s okay, you did nothing wrong, and never think just because some else may or may not have a bigger problem than you, that your emotions and feelings aren’t valid, and never apologise for what you say. And yes, I can’t play and you get to play but at the same time that doesn’t mean you can’t be upset, it’s a big thing starting in a major tournament let alone …..” you nodded finding her words to be oddly comforting and had stopped crying, Sam had pulled out her phone and was messaging someone, so you looked up to Steph.
“You know, you never answer my question from before,” “Really, I thought I got out of that one” “Nah-uh” you say with some sass as you shake your head.
“I don’t know, I just guess I didn’t really expect to be leading the team out, it’s kind of scary, I mean this is our chance to make history and I guess in a way I’m leading the team out and am in charge of the start of our chance. I just don’t know, its silly anyway,” Steph let out as a singular tear rolled down her check.
“Steph, you have nothing to worry about, you are such an amazing player, and you are such a great leader, and such a great big sister and mini Mum, I believe in you, as you said, Tony wouldn’t have picked you if he didn’t believe in you,” Steph blushed at your kind words, before letting out a small laugh at your end comment, she hug you tighter and mouthed ‘thank you’, before the three of you feel into a calm silence.
“I think we should go outside, get some fresh air quickly” Sam said, breaking the silence whilst almost winking at Steph. “Good idea, Sam”
“But its late, wont we get in trouble?” The last thing you wanted was to be getting in trouble the night before your first world cup game.
“No, we’ll be fine, we will only be quick and plus as Sam said some fresh air will do you good” Steph said as she practically dragged you upright. As you left the elevators and walked towards the hotel doors, you noticed an oddly familiar figure standing just outside the doors, they were holding something, what you didn’t notice was the smile your two captains exchanged at the sight of this figure, Sam opened the door and you stepped outside into the cool air, before you found yourself running up to the figure, “Le!” you exclaimed as you jumped into the arms of your sister, “what are you doing here?”
“Well, I might’ve been told by a certain someone that my little sister was upset, and I thought I would quickly come visit to cheer her up.” You planted your feet back on the ground and said thank you to Sam before turning to talk with your sister, after a few minutes you both had to go back to your rooms, so you said bye to each other. She gave you one of her hoddies which you put on, it being the next best thing to being with her. You fell asleep almost as soon as your head hit the pillow, you were tired after all.
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You were lining up in the tunnel when the nerves started to kick back in, probably due to the fact that when the teams were announced it was also announced that this is your first time starting, first major tournament playing for the Matildas and thus your first World Cup. You were also reminded that your sister had captained the Lionesses when they won the Euro’s just last year. But you felt Caitlin hands on your shoulders, and she squeezed them, Steph had obviously been discussing things with her. It was strange to you that the shoulder squeezes worked, but they did, they almost seemed to bring you out of your thoughts and into the present. As you walked out of the tunnel the stadium erupted, fans cheered like you’d never heard before, which is saying something considering you did attend the Euro’s final, you took your place in the line as the anthems were sung and soon enough the game was starting.
15 minutes in and a free kick was given, you took it, it was almost close enough to just go straight for the goal but you didn’t want to risk it, so you crossed it in, but instead of the ball finding a place at one of your teammates feet or head, it found a place in the back of the net, you had just scored your first goal for the Matildas, your first goal at a major tournament, your first goal at a world cup and the first Matildas goal of the world cup. You were elated. Your elation only increased at the 26th minute, when you headed the ball and it hit the back of the net, however you couldn’t take full credit for that one, Steph had delivered it in perfectly, you just had the easy job of tapping it in.
It was now extra time for the first half, you knew Tony was taking you off at half time, he had told you at the 35th minute during the ‘team tactical’ while Katie was down, Ireland was playing more aggressive than expected and Tony wasn’t risking having his two best strikers injured. Knowing this you decided to push yourself to your limits, you were running after every ball, you were taking tackles, and somehow by some miracle you scored your third goal in the final minute of extra time, you didn’t even know how you did it but you did, and with your goal the ref blew her whistle and the first half was over. The team ran over to you to celebrate, “Hattrick baby!” was screamed in your ear by someone, you all jumped up and down continuing to celebrate before deciding you should probably head back inside.
“Good game?” Sam asked as you walked into the tunnel together.
“Great Game!” You exclaimed, as you followed her through the door, to the locker room.
You took a seat in your locker ready to listen to Tony, being number 8 your locker was in-between Steph and Caitlin’s, “She might hate you now, though,” Caitlin said with a wink, it was a compliment in its finest, but it felt nice to get an inside compliment, like an inside joke not everyone would understand what she means.
“How do you feel? Like a million bucks?” Steph asked.
“Nope, like I chose the right team.”
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[SIM DOWNLOAD] Makima | Chainsaw Man
maxis mix | one outfit | full cc list
found her outfit online and decided to make my version of her :0
I know like, barely anything about her- so not sure how accurate this is in term of traits
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Don't you just love dealing with insurance as a disabled person?
in august, someone driving a company vehicle hit my car and wrote it off. This car was modified to allow me to drive it, it had old mechanical hand controls that were nothing special but they got the job done. I can't drive without hand controls, physically or legally.
They f*cked us around with the claims process for so long that we decided we needed to go and try to get a car, paying out of pocket (putting ourselves in dept to do so) because public transport where we live is shit and I need to be able to go to appointments, not to mention my partner is a door dasher who depends on a car for our income.
In early November the insurance of the company the at-fault driver belonged to finally answered us back (but only after my partner and I AND the towing company who took the car threatened legal action because they were ghosting everyone) and they finally admitted they were at fault and asked for our terms. We only asked for the hand controls to be covered and that they pay the towing company and other costs associated with the accident (I think there were fees from council or something because oil spilled on the road but I don't remember details).
Much to my suprise, they agreed to pay for all of it, explicitly stating, in writing, that they'd pay for the cost of the hand controls and their installation in the new car. We gave them a quote from the only place "in our area" (aka 2 hours away) that could do the installation. The style I had no longer exists, and the next cheapest option is $8,800.
They answered us back today and offered us $3,000 total. That won't even cover the cost of the assessment the NSW government insists that I have to get done before they can be installed. Hell I don't even think that would cover the cost to get the old mechanical ones installed if they still existed, I paid $5,000 for them back in 2018/2019 and prices for all disability-related stuff has sky-rocketed since then. So despite them admitting their client was at fault, they still think it's fair that I should be out over $5,000 just to be able to use the car that replaced the one thier client wrecked. That's not even touching on how much we were out for the cost of the new car itself. We didn't ask for that, we just wanted the hand controls covered.
As if I don't have enough going on right now, I not get to add "fight with insurance" to the list.
[ID:A Gif showing a woman with black hair, a white shirt and blue skirt angrily flip over a small plastic table/End ID]
#I promise I'll stop with the rant posts soon but god I'm so tired 😭#Disabled Tax#disability#disabled#insurance#car insurance
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"Can you love me... like this?"
Summary: The story tells us about Jack Smith (The Rippers) and Mikhail Romanov with his much worse past than Jack's. (Everything will follow the manga Record of Ragnaroc :Jack the Ripper Case Files)
! NSW? ¿ , Fluff, My oc(again), Angst, and more than I not know…😑.
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"I can give you the opportunity to kill a god."
Valkyrie said to Jack, who was sitting and drinking tea somewhere in the garden.
"What is your answer?"
"Certainly, miss"
"I can't wait to see what color to the supreme being will be colored"
Jack said scratching his mustache and looking into a hot cup of tea.
"Are you aware of the consequences? Defeats mean total destruction."
Valkyrie said, listening attentively to Jack's answer.
"He-He"
Jack simply replied, looking at the tea.
"A coward dies many times to death, but a brave one…It inspires only once"
.....
London 1888 age.
"Oh... and now the rain has It's over"
Emily said, looking up at the sky, but then turned her attention to the two men.
"Thank you for waiting, Misters..."
"Thank you very much, Miss"
Suddenly, Jack lowered the newspaper that had just gone on sale. Emily was embarrassed at this, but then she felt the stern gaze of another man, Who leaned on his cane.
"Thank you!!! Here's your order!"
She put the apple cake on a plate and quickly ran back under the same menacing gaze of Mikhail.Jack just smiled at that and I started eating the cake under already more relaxed eyes and after swallowed the first piece, he said:
"Detective, please don't be like that to an ordinary waitress."
To which he was only a little embarrassed and grinned and said
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry Jackie... it's just that if this happens again, I'll have to learn how to make your favorite pies myself. By the way Has this Jack the Ripper appeared again... I'm so scared"
He whispered the last part with a grin, looking at Jack who squinted and said:
"The fear is Explicit is nothing … before the horrors of the imagination "
"'Macbeth' William Shakespeare? "
"That's right, my dear."
Suddenly, a man's voice rang out at the next table, Mikhail turned his head and saw that it was Lock Evans shouting at his assistant who was already choking on his food. He wasn't interested in it until he heard that Evans was married.
"Married..."
He looked at his ring finger which had a ring imprint on it.
"Just like I used to... with Katya."
"Journalists are so busy, aren't they?"
Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted by Jack's voice asking him.
"Oh... yes! "
He smiled at Jack, who was watching the departing Lock and his assistant intently.
Time skip in night…
"Thank you very much Mikhail for deciding to help me take care of these animals!"
Mikhail's friend, who works in an animal nursery, said, to which Mikhail only smiled as he left the store.
"I just love animals... that's all...Goodnight my friend "
when he was walking back home at night. He could only think that Jackie would suit him. But suddenly a cloth was placed on his lips and blocked the passage to escape. And as luck would have it, his cane left it at home...
Time skip (again)
Evans hummed a song while cleaning his knife, while Mikhail himself lay on the medical table, only his lower body covered.
"As soon as I open this cute shell all their ugly guts will come out so that the whole world can see what shepherds they are."
Then he took a scalpel knife and looked at the unconscious Mikhail. I leaned over to him and whispered:
"You thought I wouldn't find out..."
At the same time, he applied a scalpel to his stomach..
"that you're not a man everywhere...I will cleanse you from your prophets... from the whole world... in the name of the Lord."
"The prophets us given by the gods… to make us human, not gods."
Suddenly, a mysterious man appeared in the room in the shade, who was sitting on the sofa next to the open window and sipping tea.
"Who are you!?"
Evans turned and pointed a scalpel at the stranger in fright.
"however..."
The darkness cleared and it turned out to be... Jack?!
"From these prophets, tragedy is born..."
Jack narrowed his eyes and looked at the ripper.
"It's quite ironic..."
"Who…who are you?!!"
Jack suddenly got up and started walking towards him.
"Don't come any closer! … What the hell are you doing in my house?! "
"I haven't done anything yet..."
Jack smiled and pulled up his glove.
"But It's going to change soon!"
Evans thought about it and looked first at the floor, then at Mikhail, and already with a devilish smile, he smiled and looked at Jack.
"in that case... I'll have to kill you!"
Jack just looked at him in surprise. Suddenly, a Ripper with a knife ran into him, but he fell to jump away from the knife, hitting only a little of his hair.
"You're good with a knife... you killed a lot of people with it, right?"
Jack said with a smile.
"This is my first time with a man, but I don't seem to have any other choice."
Evans said. Then he stabbed forward again, but Jack jumped to the right. Then Evans stabbed Jack three times, but Jack only always dodged and suddenly he touched the backs to the wall with photos of the murdered victims.
"I do not know who you are or what you are doing here, but your demise will end here!"
Evans said, hitting Jack again, but Jack just smiled. But suddenly, in the hand that Evans was holding, the knife fell from something. Evans started screaming, not understanding how it happened.to which Jack only pointed out the bars of the piano.
"The piano bars are sharp enough to kill a man, that's how my love explained it to me..."
Evans looked at Jack in surprise and then began to run away, but Jack only stuck knives in his legs and Evan leaned against the wall restraining the flow of bleeding in his left hand. Then Jack bent down to him and pulled a knife out of his pocket and shoved it deep into Evans' head. And he died. Then Jack stood up and looked at his love and said:
"I think I'll need to ask you what he meant... But first! "
He took Mikhail's clothes and put them on, not looking down at what is between his legs. I took it on my wedding day and left Evans' apartment, which eventually exploded.
"London bridge is falling down
Falling down …
Falling down …
My fair lady! "
Humming, Jack brought his love home after all, put it in bed and wanted to go I was changing clothes when I heard a quiet mumbling, which means that Mikhail began to wake up. When he woke up, the first thing he saw was Jack, who was sitting on the edge of the bed and tracing the indifference of knots along his leg to calm him down. When he calmed down, before he even had time to open his mouth, Jack first asked his question.
"Why didn't you take your cane? You could have killed him right away. "
Mikhail looked at him with a smile and sat down so that he was comfortable.
"Because I knew that I would be kidnapped and that you would come to save me."
Jack looked at him in surprise and then smiled and asked the next question.
"Tell me, Misha..."
Then he crawled up to him and put his hands on both sides of his face.
"Почему Лок сказал что ты наполовину только мужчина?"
Misha was very surprised and confused by what Jack saw in his emotions. Then Misha, embarrassed, said that in music school he pretended to be a woman because of criticism. Jack just smiled and put his hand under his chin and kissed him deeply with his tongue. To which Misha leaned forward and closed his eyes and put both hands on the back of his head. But suddenly Jack started kneading his ass through his clothes with his free hand. Misha opened his eyes in surprise and pulled back, sighing and looking straight into Jack's eyes.
"Did you really think that you would get away from punishment, Misha?"
Oh…fuck.
Jack started to take off his blouse...
#jack the ripper x fem reader#jack the ripper#jack the ripper x male reader#jack the ripper x oc#record of ragnarok#ror#male oc
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When the fics for galentines will be released because of the timezones i didnt underatand it..
The 17th & 18th of February. You have the entire weekend of the 17th & 18th to submit your blurbs, one-shots, mood boards, whatever you decided to contribute towards the event.
Because I’m Australian I’m a day ahead of most people participating which means for some people that’s would be the 16th of February - but I’m not too fussed. But I will starting my portion of the weekend, so all the fluffy concepts from the Saturday the 17th Sydney NSW time.
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Since compounding pharmacies don't list their prices on their websites, I decided to email a bunch to see just how much it would cost to start progesterone. I'm taking my transition slow due to anxiety, so the dosage from most of the quotes is for 50mg. Pharmacies are from VIC and NSW in Australia. Feel free to use this resource however you like (but credit would be cool too!)
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Locomotive Rights in Australia (Victoria): Part 1
(One of the patron saints of the Locomotive Rights movement in Victoria, VR S-Class Pacific S300 Matthew Flinders, who was scrapped before he could be saved. The scrapping of the S-classes spurred the IRL steam preservation movement in Victoria)
Here I am, riffing off @joezworld's posts about Locomotive Rights as they developed around the world. Here is my personal take on what happened in Australia in regards to this issue.
(Disclaimer: Needless to say this is all fictionalised and not to be taken as a comment on any historical personage or real life locomotive. No slander is intended, this is a headcanon extrapolating Locomotive Rights in the GunzelVerse, and the TTTE/RWS AUs I write about in them, "This Is Sodor: The Iron Age" and "Red And Black Steam on Southern Metals".)
(I use the term “Lokodammerung”, literally meaning “Twilight of the Locomotives” in regards to the mass scrapping of locomotives. The Great Scrapping seems too cold, while “Dammerung” has a sad and apocalyptic timbre, which I what I wish to convey.)
If I don’t cover WAGR(Western Australia), SAR (South Australia) or QR (Queensland) , its because they are not my special interest in locomotives and I don’t know all that much about them. My apologies for the exclusion and I will try to rectify it in the future with time and research.
The situation of the railway and locomotive rights in Australia is a very strange and complex one, coded in State’s rights, custom and ideology more than anything systematic. It would be best dealt with State by State.
In spite of the celebrity of NSWGR C-38 Pacific 3801, it didn’t translate into a proper acknowledgement of non-faceless vehicles as people in of themselves until the 60’s. And even then, it was not an even process. The push actually began in the States of Victoria and New South Wales separately and converged later.
Prehistory
Upon Federation, every single State had their own specific gauge, an expression of the fervent desire for independence of the colonies before they were brought together as one nation when Australia was made into a Federation in 1901. Attempts to bring the country to a single gauge failed as each state battled with open hostility to the idea.
In the specific case of the colony of Victoria, the Broad Gauge (known widely as the “Irish’ Gague at 5’3’’) had been decided upon but as BG rolling stock and locomotives were purchased, a change of leadership brought a change of decision as to what sort of railway gauges would be used. NSW decided upon Standard Gauge of 4 ft 8 ½ inches like what was used in Britain. Victoria in a fit of pique having already paid for their goods, refused to reconsider a change of gauge.
(The Victorian terrain also suited the BG quite well, the long, broad and steep inclines requiring a more stable kind of gauge provided by the BG).
Oz is also an enormous place compared to the UK. The State of Victoria alone is the size of Great Britain and around 2700 times the size of the Island of Sodor; the states themselves cover a lot of territory compared with states in the USA. Each is its own country virtually, which makes it difficult to organise, and with the difficulties in the per-internet age toward reliable communication between engines of different states (the old break-of-gauge problem!) , it was remarkable that a resistance movement got started… and started it did.
I will now speak mainly of the State of Victoria and it’s locomotives, as this is my tendency. Without rail, Victoria could have never have been the State power that it was.
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It was said that by the late 19th century, a Victorian human was never more than 25 kilometers from a railway line, and this was thanks to lobbying by politicans promising lines to voters… and the locomotives that requested them. As the state and the railway companies were flush with Gold Rush money, they had plenty of cash to spend to do so. The famous “Octopus Act” allowed a virtual spiderweb of iron to embrace the State, creating a near total domination of goods and passenger traffic.
Thus the locomotive was able to range quite freely within Victoria wherever they pleased, and combined with strongly built depots the sizes of which eclipsed the fleets of the NWR (the North Melbourne Locomotive Depot alone shedded 120 locomotives, compared the the total number of locos at the NWR, which was around 80 at the same time before the Norf depot was demolished) developed a certain state of educated consciousness that meshed quite nicely with the tendency towards radicalism and trade unionism.
This was aided by the amalgamation of private lines post the Railway Mania era into the governments aegis, so branchlines remained open and ready until the local version of Beeching later on turned a lot of them into tramways.
Encased within their little Broad Gauge bubble imposed by the patriotic fervor of the colonies pre-Federation, locomotives could not be as easily replaced by out-of-state loaners. The early days tended towards foreign imports that were then used as templates to be built locally… and built locally they were as a matter of state pride. A lot of VR locomotives were built at Newport Works and at Phoenix Foundary, Ballarat.
The standardization plan brought forth under the reign of Chairman of Commissioners Richard Speight in the 1880's introduced five new classes of locos (A, D, E, the so called New R-class later renamed RY, and Y) that were built locally with the aid of Kitson and Co. of Leeds, England involved in the design phase, with the view that parts could be used interchangeably across classes.
This contributed to create a certain kind of mentality within the VR locomotives of a sense of separateness and self-sufficiency which cleaved with the ever present state rivalry with their Northern neighbor, New South Wales. The overall treatment of locomotives was one of a certain kind of affection, they were tools to be sure, but more than that. It was somewhat better than the British tendency to treat the locomotives as nothing more than iron pack mules, but this was not coded into law. Status of the locomotives was by custom rather than law, which was to have consequences later on.
For a time, things were very, very good for locomotives within Victoria. An American-railways inspired Railway Commissioner , Sir Harold Clapp (the Oz equivalent to a Director, as the VR was run by a board of Commissioners spoken for by a Chairman of Commissioners), the First Thin Commissioner, had been Vice President of the Southern Pacific railways in the US and brought heavy reforms to a VR seemingly stuck in the 19th century; amongst his ideas were the integration of American design principles to VR locomotives and rolling stock, creating a distinctly rugged look to the locos with their bar-frames and pilots as well as a general increase in size, to better fit the uneven terrain of Victoria with its regular inclines of 1-50, 1-44 and even 1-30.
The amiable K-class Consolidations and the sturdy, hard working Xs and N Mikado classes were introduced in this period.
This reached the peak of design with the creation of the mighty 3 cylinder S-class Pacifics of the "Spirit of Progress" fame and then Heavy Harry at Newport, who was meant to be the first of three other H-classes built for express passenger work across Victoria. The American inspiration can be seen in his rugged bar plate frame imported from the US, the specific use of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway's name for the 4-8-4 wheel configuration, "Pocono" for him and his very strong resemblance in appearance to fellow 4-8-4s the NYC Niagara and Union Pacific 844 Living Legend. (The other two H-classes were partially built, then scrapped during the war. So Harry had two stillborn brothers, a point of lingering grief for the big engine.)
(For more info on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 4-8-4 "Poconos"", see here)
Classes tended to be modified rather than outright replaced, like the A and D classes (each went through at least 2-3 waves of modifications and were marked with special names designating them as such, such as A1 , A2 and Dd ) as a cost-saving measure and often lasted a long time relative to their cousins in Britain, such as the 1915 built A2 -class 4-6-0 No 986 “Pluto”, who was only withdrawn in 1963, even though the R-class Hudsons were sent from Glasgow to replace them in 1951. In their naivety, they never thought the humans could ever turn against them.
Unfortunately, Victoria with a change of Commissioners was to echo Great Britain in the bizarre way that steam was phased out and reforms brought in. Wartime Austerity and the increasing costs of running the railways were used as excuses for local "mad choppery".
Country lines deemed unprofitable were cut, maintenance was reduced and fewer and fewer services were run, which tended to alienate people from the railways.
The VR also had some people within it that like their UK equivalents, had a deep suspicion of socialism and thus sought to break the back of the trade union of drivers and firemen by literally taking away their locomotives, and replacing them with easy to drive diesels and electrics with easy to train drivers, with the excuse that they were cheaper to run, cleaner and just overall better.
(The railwaymen’s strike in 1950 was supported wholeheartedly by the locomotives of the VR, who’s maintenance had been sorely neglected in the post war austerities; the strong presence of the unions and their relationship with the bitter, fallen prince of the fleet-turned-radical Heavy Harry and the fact that an entire depot was claimed by the Communist Party at the country town of Donald gave them more impetus to phase out steam power).
Others genuinely did believe that the time of steam was passing and the future needed to be embraced. They didn’t hate the locomotives personally, it was just that they were deemed obsolete. The steam locomotives were relics, and relics didn’t deserve a place at the main table in a rapidly changing world.
So they had to go.
With no real legal protections that other locomotives had in other countries like the USA, Europe and the Soviet Union, the Victorian locomotives were vulnerable to the encroaching end. Custom and public affection by itself cannot protect against sanctioned injustice.
14th of July 1952 was the beginning of the end for steam in Victoria. The first diesels, the pug-nosed B-class had arrived in Victoria, were built by Clyde Engineering in NSW (ironically, the same home Works that birthed the mighty NSWGR C-38 Pacifics) from an American design. The complacent VR locomotives were caught by surprise by the lean and hungry diesels who were now bedecked in the same blue and gold livery as the S-class Pacifics, who’s time was running out quickly.
The Lokodammerung had reached the Broad-Gauge southern fiefdom and showed no mercy.
The fact that this left a lot of people unemployed, destroyed a lot of side industries that made up the railway (workshops, suppliers, etc) and the costs of conversion left them unmoved. If they didn’t care about humans, they sure as hell weren’t going to care about locomotives, even if they talked and thought as humans.
As if to underline the point with extreme sadism, the mighty S-class locomotives were withdrawn and scrapped with not a hint of ceremony or acknowledgement of their hard work. That the diesels were painted in their old livery served to underline the viciousness of the insult to the VR steam locomotives.
It was an ideological point clearly made even to the humans. The enginemen seemed to read it correctly and the locomotives felt it deeply, shocked that their lieges were to be the ones sacrificed as an example to the hungry god of Modernisation.
(The R-Class was often blamed in railway enthusiast circles for giving the VR an excuse to introduce diesels, but this is backwards logic placing blame on a convenient foreign imported scapegoat. They were ordered and then the decision to bring in diesels was made and excuses were built around their seeming lack of performance when they were abused and poorly treated.
As locomotives, they did not get the chance to show their virtues… as they were deliberately worked into ruin on grain haulage jobs they were never suited for by the VR, so by the time the preservation movement got their act together, only two of their number were actually in operating condition and only 7 of 70 were saved. That the R-class clan thrived in restoration clearly indicates they have had the last laugh, they outlasted the VR!)
To Be Continued...
#ttte#rws#thomasallgrownup#victorian railways#GunzelVerse#GunzelVerse Headcanons#weird train rants#ttte extended universe headcanons#ttte alternate universe headcanons#Red And Black Steam On Southern Metals#This Is Sodor: The Iron Age#ttte headcanons#ttte headcanon#thomas the tank engine#ttte au
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NSN getting Smacked Down!
So on the 13/05/2023 the National Socialist Network run by Thomas Sewell, decided to run there own little Anti-Immigration protest on the the steps of the New South Wales Parliament House.
As to be expected this did not turn out to well for these Neo-Nazis, they where pushed off the stairs by police and pepper sprayed, while about 50 ANTIFA where held back by Riot Police.
Video by twitter user @AlexGrey156
Also the Neo-Nazis had Projectiles thrown at them and one just so happened to hit Thomas Sewell in the balls.
Since this events from yesterday, the National Socialist Network (NSN) have actually been pretty quite on there Telegram. They have posted that they where assaulted by police.
But Tom hasn't posted any debrief videos, that he normally does which is kind of odd. They're still trying to claim this as a "victory"
But anyone can see this has been a big hit to the organizations morale. Since they are always boasted how tough and strong they are and how unfit the NSW Police Force is.
Response from Thomas Sewell
added video via SlackBastard and WhiteRoseSociety.
- OG Mag_ZI
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Good News - March 22-28
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1. Scimitar-horned Oryx: A Story of Global Conservation Success
“Eight years following the first reintroductions of the species in a protected range in Chad, the species has been downlisted to ‘Endangered’ [an improvement from “extinct in the wild”] in the most recent IUCN Red List update.”
2. Thailand moves closer to legalising same-sex marriage
“Under the law, it describes a marriage union as one between two individuals, rather than a man and a woman. It will give LGBTQ+ couples the ability to adopt, have equal access to marital tax savings, rights to property and the ability to decide medical treatment when their partner is incapacitated.”
3. Juvenile platypus found in NSW: a sign of breeding success
“A baby platypus was discovered in the Royal National Park less than a year after 10 were reintroduced to the area, marking the end of a half-century local extinction. […] “Finding the juvenile platypus is a clear sign the reintroduced population is not just surviving but thriving, adapting well to their environment, and contributing to the genetic diversity and resilience of this iconic species.””
4. New Laws Protect Bird-Friendly Yards From Neighborhood Rules
“A blossoming legislative trend prevents homeowners associations, which set landscaping rules for a growing number of Americans, from forbidding native plants.”
5. Bookstores Around The World Are Flourishing Again
“[I]t’s not just the major chains like Barnes & Noble that are flourishing, as the US book sales market continues to both grow and diversify, the majority of the retail book market is controlled by small indie stores.”
6. 'Like a luxury condominium': Providence zoo unveils new red panda habitat
“"Kendji and Zan's new home boasts a spacious two-story, climate-controlled indoor space designed to mimic their natural Himalayan habitat," the zoo said in a news release. "This ensures their well-being regardless of fluctuating Rhode Island temperatures and humidity."”
7. The first CULTIVATE Mobile Research Lab on food sharing in Barcelona
“[Volunteers] engaged in growing, cooking and eating food together, and redistributing surplus food, as well as other actors involved in food sharing and sustainable food systems in Barcelona and its surroundings.”
8. New Methane Rule Will Reduce Natural Gas Waste, Generate Money for Taxpayers, Help Address Climate Change
“The Bureau of Land Management’s final rule on reducing methane waste from oil and gas production on public lands will conserve critical energy resources, with the added benefit of decreasing toxic pollution [….] The rule will benefit wildlife, public lands, water resources, and nearby communities. By requiring royalties for wasted methane, the rule will also generate more than $50 million each year for American taxpayers.”
9. 'Exceptional' Two-Headed Snake Undergoes Surgery in Missouri
“Tiger-Lily's [the snake’s] abnormal ovaries were then removed during surgery at the Saint Louis Zoo Endangered Species Research Center and Veterinary Hospital on March 11. The procedure went smoothly, with her ovaries being successfully removed, and the snake is recovering well.”
10. Aruba Embraces the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment
“A draft constitutional amendment would make the Carribean nation the second country in the world to recognize that nature has the right to exist.”
March 15-21 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)
#hopepunk#good news#deer#conservation#endangered#animals#africa#thailand#lgbtq#gay rights#gay marriage#same sex marriage#platypuses#australia#hoa#native plants#wildflowers#bookstore#books#zoo#red panda#barcelona#spain#food#food insecurity#interdependence#natural gas#climate change#snake#palm beach
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still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that the NSW POLICE COMMISSIONER actually said ‘Haters gonna hate’ in response to genuine valid criticism to the mishandling of the case where 2 gay men were murdered by a police officer (also a gay man) with a police issued gun. [read more]
like. in what fucking world did she think that was an okay thing to say?? and now she’s pushed the sydney mardi gras board to let the nsw cops march in the parade (not in uniform). even the federal police read the room and decided to not march.
the more i see on the whole thing the clearer the fuckups become.
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The AFL looked at the criticisms interstate teams have of Victorian teams and how little they travel comparatively and decided the best way to address that was have Melbourne teams play rounds against each other in areas like Alice Springs and Tasmania across the entire season and allowing interstate teams to get more rounds at the MCG -
Actually no sorry my bad, I got that confused with my fantasy AFL fixture. They’re actually [squints] chopping up round 1 and playing it in NSW and QLD over two weeks. Round 1. Of a 26 round season. Vicbias has been fixed guys well done 10/10.
#afl#afl really looked at WA teams and said get fucked#for real though if they’re serious about expanding out the sport they NEED to address the vicbias#also just have a bye week!!! why are we still doing dispersed byes making this 26 rounds but not really!!#don’t get me wrong gather round is a great move for the league!!#BUT#we need more of that
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sometimes i remember that i used to run a blog dedicated to cityrail (aka what the trainsport nsw train network used to be called before they realised everyone was nicknaming it "shittyrail" and "cityfail" and sometimes "shittyfail" so they decided it would probably be best to have a better name) and that is the most autistic shit i've ever done
#autism things#i really ran a train blog#damn#also unrelated but i own a hoodie with a picture of a train on it#so i guess add that metaphorical feather to my cap#idk#metaphors are confusing
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I sent the ask about the boycott ideas and I'll say one last thing and log off: it's very easy to come after creators who are doing something wrong, yet I haven't seen half this effort towards... boycotting the sims. calling out EA for deciding to work with this wretched company. hell, even pressuring people to stop buying packs would be doing more!!!! stop going for the weaker dogs just because it's easier and more convenient and makes y'all feel better about yourselves. I 100% agree that we should stop using curseforge, but just stop using curseforge isn't enough. We need to get EA to drop them completely!!!
Oop just saw this after answering your last one- and honestly, you're right nonny. If this is what the community is gonna do, it needs to go farther, it needs to go all the way.
And as for your note about it being easy to come for creators... let's be honest, it's not even easy for people to do that. Most of the posts calling out creators for using cf are vague, and absolutely never mention the biggest names on the platform- such as members of the featured mod squad (turbodriver, mizoreyuki, sixam, felixandre, harrie, sentate, rusty, etc) and other well loved creators (miiko, qicc, arethabee, twistedcat, ah00b, dogsill, nsw, deaderpool, littlemssam, basemental, chingyu, icemunmun, lumpinou, twistedmexi, simrealist, syboulette, lot51, etc). Probably because they're afraid of being blocked & losing access to the cc/associated clout, or being attacked by stans. But these creators have literal hundreds of thousands of downloads on CF, yet you never see their names. I think the only person I've seen mentioned by name is imvikai, which I get the feeling a lot of people aren't as fond of for some reason to begin with (plus they put their CF links in a shady way) and lilili-sims, who also has a history of being harassed so that was pretty easy for people. And well, me of course, but that's a given lmfao. It is much, much easier to go on anon and complain than it is to risk starting shit with a big creator or offending a "friend". I've seen this a million times with the paywall issue and it continues on with this.
But yes, I agree with you. EA needs the biggest backlash for associating with, promoting, and profiting from Curseforge. They need to drop them completely, and i think that should be the biggest goal of the boycott itself. For cc creators, i really think if the ones with the highest downloads/on the mod squad say something, it could capture their attention. But not buying packs in general- such as whatever new one they're coming out with soon- is definitely a good idea overall.
#asks#anonymous#ceci speaks#boycott stuff#yall know me idc about saying names#tho lbr ive already said all of these at one point or another bc of paywalls
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