How Do You Work This

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂

Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.

Okay, so Brains, we need us sized floaties first, and then the baby sized ones.

Meh, kinda. But also not kinda. Especially when the little aquanaut does what he wants…

Humanity’s greatest gift? Us lot? Oh sure, yep. Absolutely. That’s exactly what we all think - you know us so very well.

It’s must be why your witty replies are so very devastating y’know? The many many truth bombs… I could cry, honestly.

The world will survive plenty well without us when we go (although if someone could arrange things such that we get a straight week off of having to save it at some point between now and then that’d be great).

But at least when we do go we’ll be able to say we spent our lives doing our best to make it a better place for as many people as we could.

Will you?

Last I recall you couldn’t give a damn about the people who live in the world, you merely wanted to own it.

What about your team, Scott Tracy? A gaggle of younger brothers you forced to toe the party line? That you send into danger? What choice did they have really?

What about your Air Force team? Were you a shining beacon of hope and love when you were following orders there?

It’s pathetic. You’re being pathetic.

Imagine where the world could’ve been if you put this much effort into doing anything genuinely good for humanity. Instead you run around in circles screeching flaws both real and imagined, you know we’re human, right? Of course each of us is flawed is our own ways, and we’ll admit to it because it’s just a fact of life.

But you don’t get to insult the memories of those my son holds dear. You don’t get to insult the memory of anyone.

You can drag us through the mud until hell freezes over, you can call us hypocrites, arrogant, but it won’t change the fact that you’re no different. You’re just a jealous, spiteful man.

Jealous? Of you, Jeff? Ha!

What is there to be jealous of? Living the rest of your life, tortured by your own failures? Everything you do touched by the shadow of your own guilt at letting her die.

At least I got the time I had with her. Years of memories I can cherish for the rest of my life, the privilege of seeing a different part of her every time I look at each of the beautiful sons she gave me.

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂

Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.

Okay, so Brains, we need us sized floaties first, and then the baby sized ones.

Meh, kinda. But also not kinda. Especially when the little aquanaut does what he wants…

Humanity’s greatest gift? Us lot? Oh sure, yep. Absolutely. That’s exactly what we all think - you know us so very well.

It’s must be why your witty replies are so very devastating y’know? The many many truth bombs… I could cry, honestly.

The world will survive plenty well without us when we go (although if someone could arrange things such that we get a straight week off of having to save it at some point between now and then that’d be great).

But at least when we do go we’ll be able to say we spent our lives doing our best to make it a better place for as many people as we could.

Will you?

Last I recall you couldn’t give a damn about the people who live in the world, you merely wanted to own it.

What about your team, Scott Tracy? A gaggle of younger brothers you forced to toe the party line? That you send into danger? What choice did they have really?

What about your Air Force team? Were you a shining beacon of hope and love when you were following orders there?

It’s pathetic. You’re being pathetic.

Imagine where the world could’ve been if you put this much effort into doing anything genuinely good for humanity. Instead you run around in circles screeching flaws both real and imagined, you know we’re human, right? Of course each of us is flawed is our own ways, and we’ll admit to it because it’s just a fact of life.

But you don’t get to insult the memories of those my son holds dear. You don’t get to insult the memory of anyone.

You can drag us through the mud until hell freezes over, you can call us hypocrites, arrogant, but it won’t change the fact that you’re no different. You’re just a jealous, spiteful man.

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂

Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.

Okay, so Brains, we need us sized floaties first, and then the baby sized ones.

Meh, kinda. But also not kinda. Especially when the little aquanaut does what he wants…

… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…

On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…

On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.

On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…

Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹

I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂

Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.

Okay, so Brains, we need us sized floaties first, and then the baby sized ones.

Meh, kinda. But also not kinda. Especially when the little aquanaut does what he wants…

Of course this hits a little different when said family are effectively designing and building the planes but err… the principle is important ☺️

It’s the darn humidity, I’m telling you. I’ve stood amongst active fires and felt cooler.

We could... but don't you see the vision?

That’s it! I’m off to go drive my head through a brick wall.

@scramjettracy you and your brothers are welcome to join me at your earliest convenience.

Think we should stick Jeff back in the oort cloud

He changed, slowly. He always had a clever mind, sharp as a knife and ruthless in his dealings... but that was not originally a negative. His true colours came out slowly, and I didn't see it until it was too late.

I am sure he would say the same about me. That's the problem with power and money, you change. Whether for good or bad... your attitude towards life and the world around you changes. I'll admit, I had always seen my ambition and drive as a force for good. For humanity. Not everyone saw it that way, and I still do get challenged over it.

Sometimes I wonder what would be different had I seen it sooner. Would I have been separated from my family? Would he have hurt all of those people in his pursuit of power? Would he have enslaved a man?

As I recall it took them one heck of a while to accept IR could be a force for good in his absence.

The Hood wasn’t the first to demand we hand over the Thunderbirds…

And on his reappearance it took the GDF and the World Government, what, 6 hours to decide they might order us to do it? Without you and Lady Penelope fighting our corner, giving us time to do the GDF’s job for them, what would have happened?

Don’t even get me started on Janus…

While I have the greatest of respect for many of its personnel, most especially yourself, forgive me for having my doubts in the amount of ‘good sense’ the organisation would have displayed in the absence of its favored few.

It is hardly out of the question that the GDF had concerns after your father’s… accident. You were a young man grieving his father, with the weight of an entire legacy on your shoulders - and without your father’s more considerable experience, may I add. The Thunderbirds in the wrong hands, even well meaning hands, could have been disastrous.

I cannot speak for all of command’s decisions when I was not in my rank, but there was no small part of concern for you that went into any discussion I was involved in. We have a duty to care and protect everybody on this planet, and that includes you.

Not to mention ILLEGAL.

Public indecency is still a thing you heathens.

Not to mention ILLEGAL.

Public indecency is still a thing you heathens.