MidNightWriter24

#oh that's coo- wait sorry repeat that last one? #as a reader who's fond if not extremely fond of all the remaining o'sheas #(that we know of so far. it seems the rat king may have some claims to that lineage) #l am Extremely Concerned #also the aforementioned last two o'sheas are both children #muffinlance where is connor

Don't worry he's fine

If, just as a concept, two dumbasses with poor impulse control, no time constraints and unlimited funds were driving across the country from New York to California, what kind of things would they stop along the way for?

I will go to any and all museums. I do not care. Tennis museum. Car museum. Modern art museum. Glass museum. Historical, literary, sporting, arts, science, all of them. There is a museum of industry in Baltimore that they had to chase me out of with a broom at closing time. The MSI in Chicago. The old Higgins Armony. The MoPop in Seattle. Every single building of the Smithsonian.

I will be going to THE AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM this July and I am unreasonably excited.

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.

Grace: *Retroactively freaking out about Doing A Misogyny™*