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Huevember 2025, Day 17!

Here is Francis with bat features. This makes me really really wish I made vampires canonically have details like this, but alas they only have the wings. This is also actually a redraw of an unfinished drawing from a few years ago! Check below the cut.

I've organised some of my favourite YouTube videos about Metro Trains Melbourne into a 3hr explainer series. This covers, roughly in order:

A description of the network, especially the City Loop

Why, where and how the new Metro Tunnel is being built

A general explanation of tunnel construction

What TBM operators do

TBM assembly, tours, function and disassembly (focusing on the Metro Tunnel)

The new State Library and Arden Stations

Road headers and their history in the Melbourne Train Network

Creating and testing the metro tunnel tracks and communications infrastructure

Platform Screen Doors

Fixed Block Train Signalling in Australia (focusing on Melbourne)

How CBTC signalling works and its introduction to Melbourne

Thank you so much!

Don't fret... Chapter 17 is well underway! I eat, sleep & breathe this ship, so I'm working on both projects at the same time!

Me and my Rae Rae :) I’m just a artist from IOWA.. I struggle with social media stuff in general.. hope anyone who follows me or is reading has a good day! You must be thankful for what you have! #TBMS ..below is a link to my only video online at the Moment.. since youtube is lame.. lol thanks again for any attention :) 

So I kind of got over the fact of this whole calling nonsense thing. When I got to thinking some more.

Why are they calling me to activities committee? I’ve only been to two activities out of the whole three years I’ve been there, due to the fact that I realized even as a TBM it was a clique I wasn’t going to be able to get in and I didn’t want to deal with that drama a second time.

So then I got angry again because I know exactly what they’re doing.

They call less active members to places where their attendance is poor so they feel guilty and obligated to show up.

And no, this isn’t just an angry exmo coming to an insane conclusion like this. I have heard from bishops back when I was a youth that they’ve done this, and I have heard multiple women complain, especially my mother, that they do this.

In their words they’ll put someone who never goes to third hour in a third hour calling, “to encourage that individual to be able to have proper attendance, and to help gain their testimony that this part of church is something important.”

So in other words.

They aren’t coming to this thing which is influencing their attendance and our image, let’s give them a calling there so they’ll feel guilty and obligated to go, and eventually get brainwashed to continue going.

Now, perhaps this has helped on occasion. But it mostly leads to people in callings suffering. Prime example was my mom as relief society president, with her trying to get the bishop to understand that having three inactive women as her counselors and secretary wasn’t working and she ended up having to do all of the work with them not showing up. His response was simply that she wasn’t having enough faith and wasn’t trying hard enough to have these women come, when he couldn’t have been more wrong.

It leads to the extreme TBMs to have to pick up the slack and suffer through it for God, which is really abusing these TBMs and their faith. They shouldn’t be taken advantage of like that due to their faith!