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Also this entire thought process:

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Big Bird has been waiting for the store to open for a very long time now. He’s a patient bird, and he knows about waiting his turn, but his watch has the big hand on the three and the little hand on the nine and he’s pretty sure that Alan usually open the store when the little hand is on the seven.

Finally, when the little hand goes all the way to the four, the door opens.

“Hi, Big Bird,” Chris says, his eyes red and puffy. “We aren’t going to open the store today.”

Big Bird doesn’t understand; Hooper’s store opens every day. “Why aren’t you opening the store, Chris?” Big Bird asks. “I need beakpaste, I’m all out.”

Chris just looks sad. “Big Bird, did you hear about The Snap?”

“No,” Big Bird says, and the way Chris is talking is very scary. He feels like he might need to sit down. “I don’t even know how to snap!”

Chris steps out form behind the door and gestures for them to sit on the stoop. When they’re settled, Chris takes a deep breath before he speaks. “Well, a bad man named Thanos came to Earth. Do you know about Thanos?”

“Yes,” Big Bird nods He heard some of the grownups saying that name. “He fought with the Avengers.”

“That’s right,” Chris says. “And the Avengers lost their fight. Sometimes, even when grownups try really hard, they can’t do all the things they want to do, and sometimes that means that bad things happen.”

“Did a bad thing happen?”

“Yes,” Chris says, taking Big Bird’s wing in his hand. “Because of Thanos, a lot of people are missing. And Alan is one of them.”

Big Bird has to think about that for a moment. He went missing one time, when he was a blue bird in a circus, but his friends found him and brought him home. But something about Alan’s face tells Big Bird that this isn’t the kind of missing where your friends can find you.

“Is Alan dead, Chris?” Big Bird asks. “I remember when Mr. Hooper died.”

“The honest answer is that we don’t know. He might be. Or he might just be missing.”

Big Bird tries to understand that. “Missing?”

“Yeah,” Chris says. “He might come back some day, and he might not. We just don’t know.”

Big Bird wants to cry. He loves Alan, and he doesn’t want any of his friends to be missing. “Is anyone else missing?”

“Yes,” Chris says. “Some of your friends may be, or their parents, or yours cousins and uncles and aunts. A lot of people are. And it’s very scary.”

“What can we do?”

Chris is crying a little, a few small tears pooling at the side of his eyes, and Big Bird wants to do something, wants to say something, but he kinda feels like crying too, and doesn’t know what will help. “I don’t know,” Chris says. “I think the only thing we can do is be here for each other, and love each other, and take care of each other. When things are scary, and when bad things happen, the most important thing to do is look around at the people who are still here, and try to do your best for them.”

Big Bird nods. “Hey Chris?”

“Yeah, Big Bird?”

“Do you want a hug?”

Chris nods. “I would very much like a hug, thank you.”

Because it pointed out within about four seconds:  The worst part of this is that they’d have to decide which muppet characters went missing after the Snap based partially on which muppeteers did.

I haven’t done a fashion post in a while excuse me 

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180717094723.htm Also apparently barless pigeons have eye problems?

Dove Mom-

Fascinating!

Ankhou, my feral Assisatance Pigeon, is the base/wild type Bar:

Andre, my Giant Homer cock, is Checker patterned. A mutation to the bar gene that spreads bars up the wing, dominant over Bar.

Morning Star, a mismarked Archangel, is a T-pattern checker, a further darkening mutation to bar that is dominant over Bar and Checker.

Fun fact! The Lacing of a COF’s wing is the Toy Stencil gene’s effect on T-pattern Checker!

This is what Toy Stencil does to Bar. ^v^

Black pigeons are a further darkening mutation on T-pattern Checker called Spread, which spreads the dark bar pigment all over the wings and body, dominant over T-pattern, Checker, and Bar.

Here is a Barless Racing Homer: A recessive mutation to Bar, Checker, T-Pattern, and Spread that seems to be a disruption of rather than a modifier to pigment.

God damn this being the sideblog…