Left-Handed Catcher

Steph (she/her) is an archivist with a B.A. in history from Gettysburg College (class of 2011; minored in Civil War Era studies) and an M.S. in library science from Pratt Institute (class of December 2014; archival studies focus). See her about page for tags! Founder of the Autistic Gaming Initiative. Ask her your train questions - she'll answer! Runs purely on caffeine and guts.

[1863-project]

Hi! I'm Steph, an archivist and ferroequinologist who likes attempting to drive every steam locomotive on the east coast of the United States in her spare time! There's a few reasons you may have stumbled upon this blog, so here's a quick navigation guide.

Are you here for...

Train stuff? Here's a page where I've linked all my railroad history posts, along with trains in video games.

The disability, ableism, and fandom spaces project I'm working on? All the polls and research I'm collecting can be found here. Research should be publicly available, I think.

Murphy? The best reason to find my blog is my abnormally large cat who was the size of a human toddler. His tag is here!

My Submas primer or some other Submas post I made? All of those posts are linked on the railroad page, but here's a rebloggable version of them!

The Autistic Gaming Initiative? Oh, rad! Here's our website, and here's a link to our Discord! You have to be 16 or older to join the server and 18 or older and autistic to be on our streaming team.

Something else? That's cool, too! Just remember not to be parasocial with strangers on the internet and have a great time!

[rockinmusicquarterly]

i don't really think saying ppl are ableist about tenna is a stretch because he is simultaneously so heavily coded with bpd (or just mental illness in general if you want to be vaguer) and characterized as being shockingly patient and non-violent/non-confrontational given his circumstances (outside of when he's in the middle of a nervous breakdown so bad he's having active flashbacks during it), that the only real way he can be so consistently mischaracterized as a possessive yandere dom who hurts people with his size is if you either didn't play the game or have very strange misconceptions about what a character like him "Would" act like. which certainly warrants reflection methinks

[tennas-t-v-time]

Adding both Rowan and Key’s tags to this actually because like. Yeah. Yeah exactly. And on the inverse of fanon ableism I can personally say that Tennas coding spoke very deeply to me while I was playing and with each replay and analysis spoke to me in a way that I hadn’t seen before- where there were symptoms of BPD without the character being treated as irredeemable or a massive burden but someone who is scared for good reason and struggling. Like you can imagine that it feels like a personal punch to the face when you then turn around and see people making jokes about him suicide baiting people and straight up attacking them or using his size to intimidate them or yandere aus or just. A variety of content thats just a caricature.

And it’s fine if you realize you might have a bias you haven’t assessed! Every single person has a bias, no matter what- and everyone is constantly learning and growing. It’s good to learn and grow and change! There are people who might just not connect the idea of “oh hes showing these signs of mental illness associated with BPD such as massive abandonment issues and struggling to navigate relationships in his life as well as lashing out or black and white thinking or breaking down over things I feel aren’t that big, therefore he must [insert stereotype here]” or even realize that that’s the thought process in the back of their head. That’s why people talk about it, thats why people say “wow the yandere trope is really ableist” or “it’s ableist to insist tenna beats people”.

Sure. Yeah. A lot of the time, “playing toys” isn’t that deep, honestly I’m someone who thinks a lot of these types of things are stupid and blown out of proportion most the time- but politics exists in everything whether you like it or not. Thats why it’s good to learn when a way you might be going about something might be hurting someone else.

[neon-moon-beam]

It is Wo-Chien Wednesday, my dudes!

[1863-project]

[thelensart]

Make my day

[d-e-w-p]

incredibly cool pose, I thought.

Is Archeops gping to land on her arm like a hawk? If so, how heavy is it. Can't be too-

oh

[thelensart]

Divas don't care about numbers

[thelensart]

Had to

[1863-project]

[ms-demeanor]

How do you feel about driving?

I can drive, I am good at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am good at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I think I would enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I do not think I would enjoy driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I enjoyed driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I didn't enjoy it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I enjoyed it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I didn't enjoy it.

Remaining time: 1 day 3 minutes

[dragongirlsweetie]

ok i am curious. how long is the longest song in your library (not counting tracks that are like several songs in one file like a full album mix or symphony recording or whatever) (also if it is longer than 20 minutes say the name in the tags i am curious)

how long

< 3:00

3:00–3:59

4:00–4:59

5:00–5:59

6:00–6:59

7:00–7:59

8:00–11:59

12:00–15:59

16:00–20:59

21:00–24:59

25:00–30:00

≥ 30:00

Voting ended onJun 1

[dragongirlsweetie]

ok i would like to clarify it has to be music and it can't just be a short song that's been looped a bunch. that still counts as several songs in one file, it's just several of the same song in one file. no audiobooks no podcasts no plants vs zombies theme 2 hour loop

[neon-moon-beam]

It is Wo-Chien Wednesday, my dudes!

[1863-project]

[brucebocchi]

two years later and BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPIN MEAT is still the funniest thing that’s ever happened

[hugsohugs]

one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(

[1863-project]

Thinking about him again and how he does this...

[etheringtonbrothers]

CAT POSES part TWO! To get the FREE MONTHLY How to THINK When You Draw digital MAGAZINE (including NEW tutorials, a YEAR before they appear online!) just GO HERE!

Lorenzo!

[1863-project]

Hate how stupidly grabbable he looks in this stupid imagine spot those kids had in that one episode

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

your favourite character has a crossover with your recent fav media, how is it going? {like, this character teleports to this universe}

good

bad

great

awful

questionable

chaos

they're already from it

results

Voting ended onMay 27

[neon-moon-beam]

It is Wo-Chien Wednesday, my dudes!

[1863-project]

[thelesbianthespianposts]

starting a series I’m calling “Stuff I like in Baseball”

The big stretch the first baseman has to do to catch the ball and remain on base

When a pitch rolls away and the catcher has to look all threatening at the base runners when he gets it

When the batter strikes out so bad and he can tell

When the fielder gives up trying to catch the home run ball

When the second baseman tries to catch a ball twenty feet above him

more to come

[questions-about-blorbos]

Do you think you love your Blorbo MORE than the majority of the fandom does?

Yes, I think that

No, I do NOT think that

Voting ended onMay 20

Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds