Japanese National Railways 9667 is a member of the 9600 class of Consolidation steam locomotives built for the Japanese State Railway. They were extremely popular and served for many years with several being held for preservation. But recently, one member, 9667, has been put on the chopping block by the city council of Takahagi City. This is despite the fact that there is a group of people already dedicated to preserving the engine. She's set to be destroyed, but with your help, it's possible they might still be able to save her.

https://chng.it/CnSzHr9w2s

My big bro,  Blueratmatt needs help paying for his little bro's dental care.

https://gofund.me/f133c80e

Anything you can give will help.

These past couple months, and these last few days have been the worst in my entire life...

My caretaker, after a year of sobriety, took up drinking again in march. I ended up having to flee to my aunt and uncle's house because of it. She did say sorry and promised not to drink again, but she kept going. the second time I fled and had to take shelter in a park bathroom during a rainstorm until a cop picked me up and took me to a family friend's house.

then there was the 3rd time where she got set off over some letters from my medical place (which she thought were social security letter), and among her ranting, she threatened to kill me and my family, before leaving for more drinks. I called the same cop from the 2nd time and she took me to a place the family friend suggested, which turned out to be a mental hospital. the last thing I heard my caretaker say before I left was "(I'll) never amount to anything." I got evaluated there and was deemed ok before my uncle picked me up and took me to their house for another night.

and there were a bunch of drunk days between those 3 times, and one or two after the 3rd time. Me, my aunt and uncle, and a few others always tried to talk with her about it, but she wouldn't stop. her excuses being "only I can make myself quit", "I'll quit when I want to", "It makes me happy", among others I don't want to bother trying to remember.

after the 2nd instance of me having to flee, my aunt and another aunt had me put on a list for a group home. eventually one was found for me. I spend Monday to Wednesday trying to decide if I should go or not. Thursday I told my caretaker about it, mainly out of guilt for hiding it from her and the pressure of trying to do so. she asked me a couple times not to leave. when I told her why, she just said "sorry you feel that way" and when I tried to bring up past instances, she told me not to look back on them and to loo forward. I didn't like this because it felt more like she was trying to forget the past instead of learning from it.

She picked me up after work and was livid, and made me call my aunt so she could go off on the both of us, even going so far as saying she regrets reuniting us since we've just done "sneaky" shit since we met again (my family and I were separated by my caretaker's sister, who was my stepmom, in 2017, another story in of itself. it was thanks to dog groomers we went to that we were reunited last year). my caretaker didn't want to hear that she was the problem and if not for her drinking, I wouldn't have a problem (which was true). Not to mention my caretaker picked up drinking months after I found my family again.

Once I got home, my caretaker made me take everything I had out of the house and the shed. She wouldn't let me take the blanket I used, nor my air fryer. But I thankfully managed to put my foot down when she also demanded the lock to the shed, but that was mine. I also demanded my documents, but she claimed she "didn't know where they were" before driving off, most likely to drink. My aunt and one of my uncle's employees came by after she left and we loaded my belongings into the back of the pickup they brought. I then went to aunt and uncle's again to unload some essentials I'd need for the next couple days before I was taken to the home. I was supposed to be there Monday, but I had to go in early because of the circumstances.

these last couple days were horrible for me, i hardly got any sleep Thursday night, and got sleep paralysis at one point, and I spent most of yesterday panicking because I might have left my flash drive (containing all my artwork and documents, along with episodes from a couple shows I like) behind and I don't have my documents either. My family refuses to go back there because of my caretaker's animosity, and the home won't take me back there until Monday.

I've got no money, my ID is the only important item I have on me, and I don't even have another change of clothes for tomorrow.

I'm a failure...

Why the hell is it that people on discord ban you for unfair bullshit?

A STS server opened that me and Dustin joined, but he ended up getting kicked because he was posting sexual pics of sodor's females... ON FURAFFINITY! and it made the snowflakes on there a LEETLE uncomfortable. I COULD understand if he was posting the pics on discord, but banning him simply for his FA having sexual pics is NOT OK. I almost left the server because of this, I'm only still on there because Dustin talked me out of it.

Just this morning I found out that another friend of mine was banned on another server for a similar reason, except this time it wasn't said WHAT it was that made the snowflakes on that server "uncomfortable".

Unless what they're doing is illegal, or REALLY morally horrendous, WHAT THEY DO OUTSIDE OF A DISCORD SERVER IS IRRELEVANT AND SHOULD NOT BE CAUSE FOR BANNING THEM!!! If you or one of the other snowflakes don't like it, TOUGH SHIT!!!

I'm so sick of this bullshit, and I'm starting to reconsider leaving the STS server because of this.

To those of you who watch my YT, I uploaded a video where i asked for help since my laptop wasn't working properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSYNNVHxfHs

I found out some time later that it broke. I don't have the money to get it repaired so I opened the FA shinies tip system, if you have any money you can spare, please donate. That laptop is what I use for practically everything, I've had it for years and I won't be able to afford it's repairs by myself.

Please help!

against all the odds, i got the Ask Or Dare vid done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2PolG913lQ

I've fallen sick over the last couple days, and as such won't be able to finish or upload the video until some time next week. Sorry for the inconvinience, but rest assured I have filmed most of the footage and once i'm well i will finish filming & editing, and upload the vid.

Just a short while ago, I came across a series by StarEevee on YouTube called "Ask or Dare the Eeveelutions" which is pretty much what the title is, the Eeveelutions doing dares (I've not seen them answering any questions). I remember this series from a couple years ago and I've been coming back to it every few months since then.

Here's a playlist of them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li.....4MFpG0S8RNcrZ7

that said, since I found this series again, I've been considering doing a similar series with my All Engines Go push alongs. Heck, a long time ago (back when I started my YouTube channel) I considered collecting the original push alongs and doing a series like this. Though now I think the AEG ones would be more fitting for this sort of thing. My channel has also been inactive for months now and I thought it would be nice to make it at least semi-active again.

What do you think? Is this a good/fun idea for a series, and should I make it?

My bro  acr's Dad is going to be undergoing open heart surgery and needs money to get by for a good while.

https://gofund.me/d7e6c186

Please donate if you have the funds!

While I was out today, I was VERY surprised to find the 23rd series of Thomas minis, especially since this is the first time I've seen minis being sold outside of the museum I live near since seeing series 2020-1 early in 2020. I picked up one of them, and while I was there, I got the codes off the bags (Yes, they brought back the bags, much better than the cheap plastic cars), so for anyone interested, here they are:

571 Chrome Percy/Fantasy Millie*
572 Classic Rajiv
573 Pets Ben
574 Pets Salty
575 Camping Victor
576 Camping Shane
577 Breakfast Harold
578 Breakfast Thomas
579 Slime Ashima
580 Slime James
581 Fantasy Rosie
582 Fantasy Millie*
583 Classic Whiff
584 Classic Flying Scotsman
585 Pets Henry
586 Pets Iron Bert
587 Camping Edward
588 Camping Annie
589 Breakfast Duck
590 Breakfast Percy
591 Slime Bash
592 Slime Troublesome Truck
593 Fantasy Gator
594 Fantasy Yong Bao

*The reason why Millie is listed twice with different code numbers (571 being alongside Chrome Percy), is because while Chrome Percy IS mini 571 (checked the Minis wiki), There's supposedly only one per box of minis, but there's multiple 571 bags, none of the ones I've seen in the stores (didn't thoroughly check) had Chrome Percy, but DID have Fantasy Millie, so keep a good eye out if you're after Chrome Percy.

With that all out of the way, Happy Hunting!

Ever since shinies were added to FA, I'd been wanting to try it out, but didn't have a Paypal, when I did and found out my personal email would be attached to it, I was put off for a long time. Today I decided to bite the bullet and give it a shot. So if anyone wants to give shinies, feel free.

Note: ONLY give shinies IF you have the money to do so. I will NEVER think any less of anyone who doesn't.

If you've been watching me for a while, you'd have noticed that I haven't uploaded ANY non-digital pics since those pics of my 2021 Christmas haul.

The reason dates back to before then. around October or November We'd been told by our landlord (we lived in a leased house) to leave at the end of 2021/start of 2022. The reason being was so he could renovate the house and charge more to the next renter. I wasn't sure when we'd be moving, but we did so at the end of January. The place we moved into was one half of a duplex with barely enough room for us and our things, and not really any room for me to be taking pics or setting up layouts. all this is why there hasn't been any real life pics between the Christmas haul pics and my recently-uploaded Swindle pic.

As I said above, I won't be able to upload any IRL pics because of lack of space. I'll try to get some outdoor pics once in a while though. And I'm sorry for not bringing this to light sooner, as well as not uploading any IRL pics until just now.

Thanks for your understanding.

IT has been a VERY long time since I've posted a Thomas story on here. I've been giving it a lot of consideration, and I've made my decision on what I want to do with my Thomas stories, there's no other way to put this, so I'm putting it bluntly.

I'm cancelling my Thomas fanfiction series.

The main reason being is that I'm not sure about making a series. I'm alright with doing a standalone episode, or an arc of 3 episodes, but a full series is something I'm not sure I can do, let alone do a good job on. It wasn't an easy decision, nor one I wanted to make, but the series has gone on multiple hiatus' so I've decided to just end it. Another reason is that I'm not really all that happy with the execution of most of my previous stories, especially the first ones, as they all felt juvenile in how I made them.

Over the course of the next couple of days, I'll be moving all of my old works and my series into scraps as well as creating a folder for them so people can still find them, titled "Old Thomas Stories/Adaptations".

Sorry for any inconveniences this may create, and I hope you all understand my decisions on the matter.

Have a great day everyone and I'll see you all soon.

Well, it finally happened.

My Work assistance program (18+) has gone under quarantine and has take me and several others down with it. Which means I'm shut up in my house until the 18th of this month.

Don't worry though, I'm still fine and dandy, and I'll be able to make some more content both here on FA, and on my Youtube (link in my profile).

Stay safe everyone.

There's a plethora of words I could use to describe 2020, but the word I'd like to use is; taxing.

While it did start off nicely with the 75th anniversary of Thomas, it quickly went downhill with a certain virus I'd rather not mention the name of. As well as the fact that it seems everything is moving to streaming services I have no access to such as the Pokémon anime, Thomas (at least for the 24th season, but who knows?), and a couple more, the same can be said for my favorite games like Pokémon and Zelda (though I don't play it as much anymore) now that they're moving to a console I couldn't dream of affording.

Though there was some good that came out of this year. such as the aforementioned 75th anniversary of Thomas, the second season of
Bluey, and the Transformers franchise having made some excellent shows and merchandise.

Even though the future may not seem very bright, at least I have some of the best friends in the world to see it through.

Here's to a better year in 2021.

I mean It, pokemon cafe is the worst thing I've ever seen related to pokemon.

The expectations to beat almost every level are too much to ask for, and having to try and repeat those levels countless times only to continue losing because the idiotic designers behind this dumpster fire of a game didn't think of the players at all.

That is the main problem with this thing, it's like the designers didn't try any of the levels they made to see if they were playable, as in, I can beat the level without having to fail 20 times first.

I'm serious, I have to retry some levels more than 10 times, which is NOT normal for a simple phone game. If you design a game and your levels take countless tries to beat, you have absolutely no business in game design because that's a serious fuck-up to make, even if you're a beginner in that field.

Honestly, I think I'm gonna delete it from my phone, it's not worth it anymore.

I have some of the worst news of my life.

 FireBall.Fox is gone.

Out of respect for him, I'm not gonna disclose the reason as to why he's gone. All I'm gonna say is that he isn't dead, but he's gone from the internet...

He was like me when I first joined FA. And like my best friends have helped me to where I am now, I helped him get a standing on this site. he was kind-hearted, cheerful, and he always made my day. Knowing he isn't around anymore and that I won't get to see or hear from him possibly forever...

I'm not gonna be on this site for a long time...

I have some very sad news...

 BrookeGillespieWildDog is no longer with us.

Just a few minutes ago, her older sister posted a pic on Brooke's profile stating that she and her unborn child had died. I had been friends with Brooke for a while, it wasn't a long while, but it felt like I'd known her as long as I have known my best friends on this site. She was almost like a mother figure to me, and we even emailed each other in the days leading up to this. Her last email to me gave me an idea on what happened, but out of respect for her family and herself, I WILL NOT disclose anything about it. And anyone who pesters me for it will be blocked.

Hearing now that she's gone, hearing that I'll never be able to talk to her again... is the worst thing to have ever happened to me on this site...

Brooke's sister posted a final pic to her FA which can be viewed here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39148522/

I will be inactive for a while because of this, both here and on Youtube. I just need a long break from all of this...

While I was looking for a download for Trainz (I just wanted it for when I'm bored), I searched "Trainz 2009 download" and the first result was from the Trainz website Itself. They were doing a giveaway for Trainz 2009 and all I needed to do was register to their website.

A free download to a nice version of Trainz, sounds cool right? WRONG!!!

I tried registering with my main gmail and stuff, but it wouldn't let me because "that gmail is already being used". Now I know for a FACT that I didn't sign up for it with that gmail because I have NO recollection whatsoever of visiting the site prior to now. Not only that, but it wouldn't let me type in a new password without an underscore. THAT'S RIGHT, A FUCKING UNDERSCORE!!! You should be able to decide what goes in your password or not, not the site.

I managed to get around those issues with my secondary gmail and a site-suggested password respectively, then I subscribed to their newsletter (another requirement by the site). Then after that, I went to the link again to try and get the download again. You'd think you could do so immediately once you've registered and signed in, right? NO!!!

It took me to the register page AGAIN! *rage incoming* I ALREADY SIGNED UP ONCE, WHY DO I NEED A NEW ACCOUNT WHEN I'VE ALREADY GOT ONE!!! IT WON'T LET ME GET IT EVEN WITH A NEW ACCOUNT AND TRIES TO FORCE ME TO MAKE ANOTHER ACCOUNT AND KEEP REPEATING THE FUCKING PROCESS!! WELL GUESS WHAT TRAINZ?!! I'M NOT FUCKING DOING THAT OHOHO NO, I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO FUCKING DO TO ME AND I'M NOT FALLING FOR IT!!!

To those who are like "It's not a scam bro!" IT IS! these people offered a free program to people who registered and subscribed to their newsletter, I did both and got NOTHING from it! If that's not a scam I don't know what the fuck is.

So what i learned from this is: if the big guys themselves offer a free program to you, they aren't and are actually trying to fuck you over and waste your time. And believe me, I WILL be sticking to my PHYSICAL models I have from now on. This whole mess and waste of time and life energy WASN'T WORTH IT.

I'm just gonna go over to my wooden railway layout and calm down now...

Furaffinity is my all-time favorite site on internet. It's here that i made friends i could never find in real life (people in my hometown aren't easy to get along with), and i've grown since joining. However, if there's one flaw with this site i could pick off the top of my head, It's error 502.

Error 502 is when furaffinity's site crashes and you are unable to access it. Sometimes it's only a little problem that can be solved with a refresh, other times it can be as long as 3-4 days, what's even worse is that I've heard of this error deleting people's accounts. one big incident with this error that I can remember is that earlier this year the site crashed for 3 days, and to me it felt like more than that. Let me tell you that not being able to access your top site is an upsetting feeling. And since yesterday, I've been getting a few error 502s (some being refreshable, others lasting for 3-5 minutes) and I'm worried there'll be another crash like the one I mentioned earlier.

As i said, i have nothing against this site, but the staff and admins of this site need to work on fixing this issue to ensure that this error NEVER shows up again (or deletes anyone's accounts if that rumor was true). This error will damage not only them, but us as well as the site if it keeps up.

Just something i wanted to talk about.

Yep. i'm doing another one of these, except it's going to be a bit different this time around.

I've done this twice before in the past by posing pics of some decorative writing saying "ask Thomasfan95" and I only got about 1 question on each of them. I've gained a lot more followers since then so I've decided to give it another shot. Except this time around, I will be answering all questions on a youtube video which i will give a link to once I've done it.

Here are the rules for this one:

1: No adult/mature questions.
2: No questions about my personal info (birthday, full name, face reveals, etc.)
3: Asking my opinion on something/someone is ok, but don't ask me to hate or like said something/someone.

with all that said, ask away!

I feel like shit...

Thomas the tank engine and friends season 24 has been the best season of "big world big adventures", but Jam-filled has left the show meaning it will go into hiatus. I'm worried that the series will end, and even though the series has been questionable lately, I don't want it to end, not like this.

My Pokemon journey has pretty much ended too. I got Pokemon sun and a 3DS for my birthday back in 2017, and I had gotten Pokemon ultra sun, and another copy of Pokemon sun since then (i go a second copy of sun because lost the original). but Pokemon has moved to the switch and the anime has moved to Netflix. I can't afford a switch or even a switch lite, and I can't access Netflix since I have no way to spend money online. I absolutely hate how the people behind Pokemon never considered how this would affect anyone. I want to keep exploring the ever-expanding world of Pokemon, but overpriced game consoles (and games too) and online services I have no way to access are just chaining me to a wall so I can't follow on.

This whole year has just been a pile of shit, and it makes me want to be in a coma until 2030 because this whole year so far has been an omen.

I just don't have strength, optimism, or even happiness anymore...

i've got to be blunt with the title because I AM VERY ANGRY!!!

pokemon shuffle is a side game where you have to match pokemon in rows in order to defeat and capture pokemon. that seems like a good idea, the execution of some of the levels is TERRIBLE.

for example the expert and some of the special stages are UNNECESSARILY HARD. i get that there needs to be difficulty for there to be a challenge, but you need to draw the line at difficulty somewhere.

i made it up to level 300 in the main stages; mega rayquaza. i had a team of high leveled support pokemon with me. i lost the first time which i was expecting, then i decided to spend some coins (in-game currency) on some upgrade to make the battle easier, didn't work the first time, bought another upgrade, lost again, then i decided to buy MORE upgrades (my coins were now down to 800, and guess what? I STILL FUCKING LOST!!!!!!!

YES YOU HEARD ME RIGHT, I SPENT ALL MY COINS TRYING TO BEAT THIS STAGE AND I STILL FUCKING LOST!!!

now before anyone says "oh, maybe you're just not good at it! I HAVE HAD THIS GAME FOR ALMOST A YEAR NOW AND I HAVE BEAT MANY POKEMON IN THAT TIME. this unnecessary difficulty is common in the expert stages (with time limits which i fucking despise and wish were banned from games, but i'll save that for another time) and the special stages in which even if you support pokemon having the type advantage or being at the max level, it still fails.

i'm serious, no matter what pokemon you may have, they barely do any damage in certain stages, and even if you spend coins on upgrades, it'll still fuck up. it's like nobody at nintendo or gamefreak tested these levels for themselves and said "hey, maybe this is too hard for most people to play, let's take it easy on that."

and do you want to know the worst part about it all? it isn't your fault that the game is like that. it's all luck-based and you have to hope that you can get a decent combo BUT EVEN THEN IT WON'T MATTER BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT SUPPORT POKEMON YOU HAVE, HOW MUCH YOU SPEND TO BEAT A LEVEL, THERE IS ONLY A 1% CHANCE YOU'LL WIN AND THAT IS NOT NOR WILL IT EVER BE GOOD GAME DESIGN.

PEOPLE SAY THAT THE SIDE GAMES OF POKEMON ARE EASY, BUT THEY'RE WRONG, POKEMON SHUFFLE IS THE WORST POKEMON GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED!!! IT'S UNFAIR, IT'S BAD AND I WISH IT NEVER EXISTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i need to calm down, i need to take a LONG break from this game for at least a month (apart from check-in bonuses but that's it. i raged when i lost for the third time in a row and became broke that i almost smashed my 3DS and that would've literally been game over for me, so i won't be touching shuffle for a month and will be focusing on my other BETTER AND MUCH MORE WELL-DESIGNED games in that time to calm down and recover from this horrible gaming experience...

sorry that you guys had to see me go off like a rocket, but i wanted to get this off my chest.

yes. i know i said i would NEVER get a youtube channel, but i did.

also, NO! i won't be switching or anything of that sort. furaffinity has and always will be my main site on the internet. this new youtube channel will only be for when i get bored.

here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6.....COBNFB-wJh_UQ?

back when i first began writing, i wrote 8 episodes of my own thomas series (the 8th episode being a special and the finale of season 1). i remember wanting to make a second season, but i never got around to it. there were plenty of reasons behind it, two of them being inspiration and motivation. as much as i want to keep writing, i can't come up with many original ideas. none of the stuff i write gets much attention here anyways.

i also want to try and rewrite the first season of my series, mostly because the first episodes i made were terrible. back then, i didn't know what type of writing i should go with. i wanna try and rewrite them.

with all that said, should i go through with a second season?