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Today's REPO stream was hilarious...Ray and Matt mentioned they needed to put Chibi on a child leash😭

The art is HEAVILY inspired by the art from Jakeneutron's song "Why Must We Do"

Every wanted to make your own Star Trek title cards, without needing to mess about with editing software?

Well now you can! (credit to Josh Mayfield as the creator)

Go wild and lets see what you can make

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

“heh… remember strawbebby…. And ranibow spramkle… always made me laugh”

“Don’t talk like that man. We’re gonna get out of here i prommy.” [mortar fire sails overhead and land nearby] “christ its like a childrens hospital out there”

[through shallow breaths] “I always loved…… the color of the sky…………”

Do you have full length photos to show off the entire outfit?

This is the full body picture:

It’s a separate cotton sateen shirt and skirt from (the now defunct) eshakti. Both are under a custom made waistcoat made for me by lunar rose costuming, I asked her to use a pattern from Black Snail Patterns #0220 which she did, but she said in hindsight she wished she had just drafted her own pattern for me. I’m wearing a combination chemise, petticoat and corset underneath it all.

I altered the shirt torso to be more fitted and altered the sleeves and added internal support to them to emphasize The Puff™️. For the vest, I made a little fit adjustment with darts on the back waist because I got a much better corset since commissioning the vest. (See stock photos of vest and skirt below).

I paired everything with an antique chemisette/dickey that didn’t like to stay put, and an antique top hat. the thing you’re thinking of is a chatelaine but what I’m wearing is an antique watch fob, without the watch. It has a similar function in that it clips onto my waistband and holds something that I would like to easily access, but in this case I don’t have a pocket watch. I put a broken off stick pin jewel on there to replace it.

This map shows the scale of proposed data centres in Scotland. The Action to Protect Rural Scotland group have a ton of information on their website.