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.

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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’s 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!

cliffsecord:

whitealbum:

when you see the words girlhood girlie pop girl’s girl female experience and you immediately know you’re about to see something so completely unrelatable that it makes you feel like you’re on a different planet

tweet from @freshhel: When you guys say stuff like "hot girls do their laundry on thursday" or whatever it makes me feel like I am trapped in a tj maxxALT

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deannego:

deannego:

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Pyaari wip~

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All finished ❤️

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strathshepard:

Belmond’s Royal Scotsman train across the Scottish Highlands. Photo Ludovic Balay

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fixaidea:

Bahh. I see how it is. When the dangerous crow boy eats plastic he’s ‘doing great’ and 'doing his job’, but when I, the humble housecat…!

(via bluehairedspidey)

nugothrhythms:

2022 single “I Love Cats” by Athens, Georgia based goth-pop band Vision Video

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1863-project:

neon-moon-beam:

It is Wo-Chien Wednesday, my dudes!

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dumbpuppyfag:

people on here love to call themselves a perverted freak and then post the most conventionally attractive steam engine you’ve ever seen

(via debbie-jellinsky)

kismetnemesis:

what happens when you stumble into the subway with a new york slice?

a dangerous rat boy whose job it is to destroy pizza becomes obsessed with you.

(via shotsofnovacaine)

shutyourmoustache:

*whispers* serving buster keaton realness in 2025 is such a move.

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clairenovvak:

fanservice sucks bc it’s never you that’s being serviced it’s always some other really annoying fan

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1863-project:

neon-moon-beam:

It is Wo-Chien Wednesday, my dudes!

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