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The Starlight Group Chat by sweet_dining_car
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
09 May 2021
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The trains have group chats, this is fine right? Right?
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Unburn the Ashes (Train Wreck) by Gravity_Solarflare
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
26 Feb 2025
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When a routine trip to Lancaster is disrupted by a sudden snowstorm, Rusty, Hydra, Pearl, Tassita, and Belle are temporarily left stranded in the city’s train yard. Finally cleared to return home by Control, the train is unaware of the impending danger ahead. What’s more dangerous than ice on the rails? Crashing with a Steam Engine and a Hydrogen Tanker in the snow.
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While on a first date with Rusty, Hydra has a medical emergency.
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Trevithick's Day by Blueberryattack
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
25 Apr 2025
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Proud of her own working form as she was, Momma knew it wasn’t ideal, having Rusty meld with a steam engine. Control had him set to be a shunter, so he wouldn’t be traveling beyond the yard much, if at all, unless he took up racing (and he did often talk about wanting to race). But she’d still held off as long as she could - both to see if another option presented itself (a long shot), and to see how far the refurbishments to the steam engine got. It wasn’t a perfect option, and funds were tight for the yard. Some parts worked, technically, but were rusted, not yet replaced or cleaned up before it became clear that Rusty would have to meld sooner rather than later. Rusty had taken it in stride, joked that his name would suit him now.
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Look Behind, There You’ll Find (There’s Me) by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
12 Jan 2025
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"Not feeling up to partying?" Hydra asks after a period of silence, and Rusty seems to deflate further than he already is, "understandable, you'll get a head start tomorrow then whilst they're all fighting off their hangovers."
"No, I'm not racing," he replies, pretty definitively, smirking humourlessly as he leans back on a rock behind him, "no point, right? No partner."
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Hydra finds Rusty moping before the second heat. There’s no way they’re just meant to leave him to his solitude - misery loves company, as they say.
(A short fic based on Ratsvalley’s ‘Carrot: Part One’ comic)
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Just give me one bad night by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
27 Nov 2024
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He staggers out to the yard, desolate at this time of night, and finds the emptiest, furthest corner they can. There's a wheezing from his pipes, desperation beginning to eat away at their insides, and they double over before they get as far away as they would have liked. He hacks, coughs and splutters, but what escapes his lips is not the trapped fuel or lubricant they expect.
It's vines. Leaves, big and green and spiralled. Flowers, delicate little red, yellow and pink things that he clocks as begonias, their petals stark against the floor like a bloodstain. There's ice in his fuel lines too, that settle inside of him uncomfortably; he can't tell if this is fear, disgust, or sadness, but the pit in his core that threatens to swallow him whole is saying nothing about this is right
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When Hydra gets too close to another train, he coughs up flowers. This would fine if each relationship didn’t threaten his life.
(Tendersteam Hanahaki AU!)
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Pressure Bomb (In a godamn knife fight) by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
14 Dec 2024
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Hydra has shown up for every job possible since the races, dedicated to helping Rusty get used to being an intermodal.
Except this one.
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When the music is impossible to hear by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
04 Jan 2025
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Porter gets derailed, and no one quite wants to admit how deep the hole goes, no matter how at peace he is with meeting the Starlight early
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Speak of the Diesel by DarkSheKnight
Fandom: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
13 Jul 2025
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The life of Greaseball the Diesel told through her struggles with herself; her struggling with her anger, her relationships, and her own identity.
Greaseball knows she’s not a great person but she wants to learn how to be a good one.
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I know that you’re clever (I don’t ask for much) by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
29 Oct 2024
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In which Pearl makes her own way home following the final race, so Hydra sets out to find Rusty.
Out of nothing but friendly concern, of course.
(Based on the 2024 London Troubadour production)
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A track I’d rather go to. by The_FlatDust_Guy
Fandom: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
06 Jan 2025
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My Eyes Were Shut but I Saw It Too by Blueberryattack
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
26 Feb 2025
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He'd slunk off in shame, skating near to the edge of the yard. He was alone in the darkness, sitting down with his back to the rough concrete of a tunnel entrance. He pulled his knees to his chest, burying his face against crossed arms, blinking back the tears threatening to roll down his cheeks.
Sleep claimed him before he even realized.
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Slip by Train_Prentiss (GarnetConfit)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
15 Nov 2024
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The funny thing is, it wasn't even that bad of a crash.
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What happens when you crash with a hydrogen tanker?Let's find out!
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I have no fear and have only love (NO LONGER BEING WORKED ON) by xiocrow
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
13 Sep 2025
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after facing rejection, ceebs finds himself suddenly wanting to amend his “friendship” with rusty. SEND HELP LMAO🔥 title is from gypsy by fleetwood mac 🤞
this fic will not be updated anymore as far as I'm concerned, but I've got a quarter of chapter 6 sitting in my notes and I've been literally dying to get it done since I've got such a good idea. If it gets posted then I'll probably start updating again but I've been super busy and the fixation is fading after like 11 months🙁🙁 but it recharges when I watch the musical again so I guess that's just what I'll have to do!!! And it's not even bad either it's a win for both parties!!! okay baiiii
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i sing the body electric by WorryWar
Fandom: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
15 Jun 2025
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Custom Line by Train_Prentiss (GarnetConfit)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
02 Dec 2024
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When Hydra's fittings compartment freezes shut before a race, Rusty has to find another way to refuel...
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Feels Like Summer by Gravity_Solarflare
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
01 Jan 2025
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Months after the Troubador yard races, Hydra finds himself frustrated with his situation:
“I thought after racing with you and Rusty, maybe things would be different for myself and Hydrogen… Like other trains would wanna give it a try or I’d have more work.” He finally piped up. He’d done a few one off things with Momma since the races, but she was an older train and the weight of his tank was just too much for her. He couldn’t bring himself to put that kind of strain on her. “Everyone still wants to work with Porter, Lumber, and Slick. But no one seems interested in working with me. Well. Electra was but they and the components make me uncomfortable. They’re so weird! And Rusty has the coaches, especially Pearl-” Hydra’s mouth clamped shut and his eyes widened slightly. Thinking it had been one thing, but actually saying it out loud was another. He tried to recover but he knew Momma had caught what he just said.
And that she did. Her silent gaze on Hydra left him squirming as she decided how she wanted to proceed with that change in topic. “Oh Hydra..”
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Graven in his palms by Pebs (Atalto)
Fandoms: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber
09 Mar 2025
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Unfortunately, the main drawback of being a volatile, experimental tanker is that everyone tends to be scared to touch you.
Four times where Hydra wasn’t allowed to be touched, and the one time where he was.
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The fuel truck stopped short, nearly causing Tassita to stumble. “Did you know you're beautiful, Tasser?”
He could feel Hydra's gaze on him, and he blushed, cheeks taking on an orange tint. Hydra was really drunk to be saying stuff like that.
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Tassita takes a drunken Hydra home after a party.Series
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