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Hydra's "First" Christmas by MelodicDaemon
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
25 Dec 2024
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This is the first time Hydra gets to experience Christmas at the yard and he's not happy that he won't be at Troubadour for much longer.
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- Part 3 of New Freight in the Yard
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I'm Mostly Scared, I am Mostly Unprepared by Kingsnake101 (NightmareoftheCabin)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
12 Apr 2025
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Momma had been warned that the new hire was quiet. Lumber the wood truck, they had told her. He had only been in the workforce for eighteen months, and three of them were spent trying to fix a manufacturing mistake.
She had been expecting quiet, not timid.
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My version of Lumber's backstory.Series
- Part 1 of Kingsnake's WIPs
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Half Rusty/Pearl fluff, half brown-nosing coaches. And a whole lotta awkward!
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Salvaging the Scrapped by sadbeigedinah
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
05 Jul 2025
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She was a useless Union Pacific, a defective sticker slapped over her, marking her as worthless.
But still…she couldn’t help but wonder.. what would life outside the Scrap… What would it be like?OR
A telling of Greaseball’s backstory, and how she made it to glory.
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I’m… So Pretty (On Hiatus) by DarkSheKnight
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
13 Jul 2025
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Dinah was outed to the whole yard about being a lesbian… Greaseball was struggling to tell her about being a trans woman but now… she just knows the coaches will think she is just trying to stay in a relationship with Dinah by… pretending to be a lesbian too. Maybe… she was just pretending…
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Greaseball is trans and Dinah is gay. It should be straightforward, but it’s not.
ON HIATUS
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- Part 1 of Speak of the Diesel
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No Light Above and No Hope Below by madamemelody
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
28 Nov 2025
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Anytime you're lost or alone.
Make that sound.
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You’re not a dedicated gym rat or pumped-up musclehead, and yet you’ve found yourself smack dab in the middle of the university fitness center in a terrible attempt at a health journey. A bookworm like you has no business lifting weights and hitting the treadmill; you’re ready to give up before you’ve barely begun.
Then you encounter the uni’s star athlete. She’s popular, confident, strong, and beautiful- the perfect late night fantasy material for any loser like you. That is, until she opens her fat mouth, and you realize that she’s an utter donut with an ego bigger than her pumped biceps. And, because the universe absolutely hates you, you find yourself as her newest target after a first encounter gone wrong.
You decide that you really, really don’t like the gym, and you really don’t like Greaseball.
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Tassita can't sleep in a storm. Greaseball and Hydra complicate the situation.
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- Part 1 of Quidrogen
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Everything tonight was so eerily similar to those old stories. That pricked the back of Rusty’s neck in a strange way. It was like they were on some massive, circular track, too big to realize they were going the same way again until it was too late to change course, not that there was any way to change course if you did realize.
So Hydra was what, then, in that case? A switch he hadn’t noticed before?
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Rusty has an existential crisis as Hydra works on his conversion. -
A Nice Young Truck by Blueberryattack
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
22 Nov 2025
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“They’ve taken in a new fuel truck,” She continued. “Hydra. He seems like such a nice young truck, I think you'd get along with them.” He cringed a little at how sing-songy her voice got at the end.
Oh, stars. He didn't need this from his mum, too, he was perfectly capable of getting a date without her matchmaking. Definitely not his mother, he'd seen her taste in men.
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Five times Tassita almost met Hydra for the First time, and the one time he actually did. -
An (ir)rational fear towards repair trucks by Ohwell1imdrowinginginideas
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
29 Nov 2025
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The morning following the race, Hydra’s glares and guilt has been eating Lumber and Porter alive. Having enough, they finally go and apologize to Rusty. Rusty, being the way too forgiving soul he is, accepts it, but asks Porter if it was because of the crash that stopped him from racing.
*My interpretation of the fandom’s universal headcanon of Porter not racing due to a crash in the past.
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Febuwhump 2022 by TheDiamondSword400
Fandom: Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), Cats (1998), Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Encanto (2021), Hardy Boys - Franklin W. Dixon, InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, Phantom of the Opera - Lloyd Webber, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber, Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons), The A-Team (TV), The A-Team - All Media Types, The Greatest American Hero, Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
27 Feb 2022
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Your boyfriend’s boyfriend by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
27 Dec 2024
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Logically, they know there's no problem. It was Pearl who invited him over first, with a smile and a cup of tea as if she was asking them for a favour, not a date with her and her boyfriend that Hydra's been crushing on for months. They'd had this deep, organised conversation about boundaries and feelings before Rusty kissed him soundly, in a way he didn't think he would ever be kissed.
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It’s the morning after Hydra finally got with his crush. And his girlfriend. It’s taking a bit of time to come to terms with it.
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- Part 1 of The Mornings after
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The day after Rusty won the race, a bad storm rolls into the yard. The trains gather together and are prepared to hunker down and just wait out the blizzard, but with an engine too low on fuel to make it through the bad conditions, someone must venture to the next yard over to fetch supplies.
And the only one able to go? Rusty.
With an unlikely volunteer accompanying him, the steam train must venture out into the frigid conditions and traverse the dangerous tracks to fetch the necessary supplies and return safely.
The returning safely bit doesn't quite go to plan.
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CB saves Rusty from a blizzard. The lil caboose does have a heart!
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Rusty Proves a Point by StarlitPuppy58, The_FlatDust_Guy
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
17 Nov 2025
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After an altercation with Greaseball. Rusty agrees to go 'round for round' with the diesel train and prove that steam power can hold its ground. What a round means, exactly, he'll have to find out for himself.
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Beyond The Blue Horizon by ShyMollymawk
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
26 Feb 2025
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Hydra was originally made in Japan.
It had been drilled into him from day one how dangerous his fuel was. Stories of leaks and failures plagued his mind for months; catastrophes such as the Fukushima meltdown and the Hindenburg explosion.
So when he was officially transferred to the UK, it was suffice to say he almost depressurised himself.
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Hydra gets transferred to Wembley and gains a crush.
(This is more fluff and Hydra's thoughts than anything else.)Series
- Part 1 of Choo Choo Mofos
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Rusty runs into the diesel gang at the Station at the end of his shift. Things go south fast.
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This is a series of stories about Starlight Express characters from various different productions (including the 1983 workshop)
The main events of the musical generally happen in the Wembley 2024 revival, however the race format follows the 1984 production and cut songs/scenes are added back in
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3 times CB was there to comfort others, and one time someone was there to comfort him
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StEx Kinktober: Bicycle Hopper Edition by eisenerzwagen (nefariousreasons)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
23 Oct 2025
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Drabble collection of Kinktober prompts, focused on a variety of Dustin ships. Will add tags as new ships are added.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,300
- Chapters:
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- Kudos:
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