Daily Archive:September 3rd, 2020

Twenty-Two Short Films About Wellington Wells: Put Forth a Thorn

Put Forth a Thorn

My Dearest Violet,

You can’t imagine the agony with which I write this, as I do love you so and could not imagine my life without you. I had always thought that we would be together forever. That our children would be as siblings and our husbands as brothers. That our families would be as one.

After yesterday, I cannot see how that could ever be. I have tried to embrace your husband, but he finds threat in everything about us. And I fear what he might do if we persist. I looked upon our savaged lilies, how he ripped them apart and pulled them from their earth, and I know that is what he would do to us if he could.

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Twenty-Two Short Films About Wellington Wells: What’s Said and What’s Done

What's Said and What's Done

Their new “home” in Lud’s Holm would’ve been positively quaint if it weren’t for the mad ravings of the plague wastrels outside at night.

James came down the stairs from delivering Dr. Faraday’s dinner to find Roger sitting at the kitchen table, pressing his ear to the wall.

“I think they’re speaking Old English,” Roger said. “They’re saying…” He leaned harder into the wall, trying to hear. “They’re quoting Beowulf,” he concluded with some disappointment. If they had been communicating with each other, then that would suggest they still had some cognitive function and could be helped. That they were only all reciting lines from Beowulf probably meant they weren’t really thinking at all and were just repeating what they heard from other plagued wastrels. He did wonder how they came to be so fixated on the poem though.

“You gonna go out and form a book club then?” James said, sitting in the other chair and pouring himself some tea.

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The Future is Still Silver and Black: The MSI’s Pioneer Zephyr and the IRM’s No. 9911-A “Silver Pilot” are pen pals, writing to each other from their respective museums about their service lives both pre- and post-preservation.
Low Art Lyseum: DJ, Ray, and Ellie play and critically analyze videogames. 7:00 CST on Thursdays/Fridays. Currently playing Mafia: Definitive Edition.
Engines in Sidings: Thomas the Tank Engine stories. Written with Ray.
We Happy Few Poedit: all the cut content I’ve collected out of the game’s translation file.

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for the WIP ask game... The Future Is Still Silver and Black? (original train fiction from you two sounds really interesting!)

So last year, I went up north to visit Ray. Ray lives in Chicago, which just so happens to have the largest railway museum in the United States, the Illinois Railway Museum.

At the IRM, we saw the Nebraska Zephyr, which is a streamlined stainless steel articulated trainset. Each of the… [more]