I am endeavouring to keep this up to date, but I know my track record of updating such things is terrible!
I am ever thankful to the Thunderfam for being such a welcoming and encouraging fandom! Big thank you hugs to all of you!
(Links to fics below the cut to keep things short!)
Just saw a post with people finding out that not everyone plays this game the same way, so in light of that:
Rb for a bigger sample size please <3
I'm so done, fam.
(Fine just exhausted)
*hugs the emotional support chicken*
Sending many hugs.
And also the Virg who has way too much energy but can carry a squid no problem…
Sending you some huggables - Gordon and Sherbet.
Stingray (pilot). When a World Security Patrol submarine is mysteriously destroyed, Troy and Phones are assigned to investigate. However, they are captured by the Aquaphibians and sentenced to death by King Titan of Titanica.
Marineville Traitor. All the signs point to Commander Shore when a vital component is stolen from the Marineville control room.
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Trapped in the Depths has pipped Standby for action, and been voted the 3rd favorite! but we had a 50/50 split for the final so the third option returns.
Much appreciated
Parker himself returned to assessing the damage done to FAB One. But he had a feeling the scratched paint work was going to be the least of his worries.
I really didn't realize how long it's been since I posted... gosh. x_x Apologies for being mia so bad... I have been lurking a bit, but yeah. Uh. Life sure has been happening. lol Have few things I will probably post, but I hope you can all forgive me if I plug a thing first?
SO I'm taking commissions again. This time just sketch ones, as I don't think I have it in me to do full finished work right now. Since keeping things simple, using Ko-Fi for this!
(Trying to raise funds to get a new desktop that isn't 15 years old, so I can continue to play and stream FFXIV (my desktop couldn't even run the benchmark cry XD), but also have lot of software and things I want to do that I haven't been able to... I really need something not so vastly behind. lol)
More examples: (5.4 Spoilers)
Hubby and I just had a interesting discussion on morning and evening times on Tracy Island.
This discussion happened simply because of one random line in a fic I was writing (yes, I’m writing again ::bounces:: ). I said something about the morning on Tracy Island being earlier than that in New Zealand. My supposition was that I thought days on the equator would be longer than those in the temperate zone.
Turns out day and night on the equator is 12 and 12 hours each and no fluctuating, something I would find immensely weird (and obvious if I had half a brain).
What was then discussed was the actual location of Tracy Island (in Thunderbirds Are Go) which John points out in several episodes as being just to the east of the Minerva Reefs, between the two volcanic ridges, one of which is the Kermadec Ridge. This is most obviously not on the equator (much to @onereyofstarlight ‘s annoyance when it comes to a certain reference to Thunderbird Five’s orbiting position ::giggles and hugs:: ). What latitude it is appears to be somewhere north of Brisbane, Australia (equivalent) but more subject to the ocean due to the lack of continent being in the way. Therefore subtropical clime.
So we looked up Brisbane’s day length. When the sun went up and down.
Apparently the sun will come up at around 5am in summer and set at around 6.30pm. So all those early morning jogs we have Scott on would be at sunrise (I’m further south so may have accidentally added a more temperate pattern to my fics and had him up before dawn cos that’s all I know really). This, of course, also depends on whether Tracy Island follows daylight saving. Though I have to admit, considering their location and the location of the majority of the human populace on the planet, our Tracy boys are all night workers unless something bad happens in East Asia or Oceania.
Anyway, something to think about. And yes, Tracy Island will wake up earlier than Aotearoa, and not just because of the timezone.
Nutty
(Geeking out again)
I meannnn I frequently wake up at 5am and if it were light out I'd def be out and about so I say Scott can keep doing that haha <3
The thing that struck me was that since timezones cover in general 15 degrees of longitude, and it made me wonder how far west/east Tracy Island would be in comparison to their timezone since that would have a (minor) impact on sunrise / sunset too! The Kermadec Ridge looks like it's pretty much exactly where Brisbane is (comparing degrees/arc minutes/arc seconds), like Brisbane is right in the middle of the timezone (153 degrees W inside the GMT+10 timezone that generally extends from 142.5 degrees to 157.5 degrees), and Raoul Island (our go to standard) is 178 E, which is only one degree west when comparing the position within the timezone. This region of the world also has that pesky International Dateline to contend with, and it's worth considering whether Tracy Island would find it more useful to be to the west of this (same day as Australia / NZ) or east (same day as USA). Given their business ties to the US, this might be a good reason to be in a GMT-13 or GMT-12 timezone.
But I've gotten sidetracked! The reason I bring up longitude is because the further west you are within the timezone, the later the sunrise. So if we take Tracy Island to be not on the Kermadec Ridge but on the next ridge over (to the west!!) then that might give them a few more minutes in bed (we love that 15 minute lie in haha)
But I think it's worthwhile to point out that although time is real, the way we measure it is relatively arbitrary! There's absolutely no reason that they can't set their timezone to ensure that they have sunrise at 6am instead - in real life we do this and call it daylight savings after all looooool (and unless I miss my mark, Brisbane doesn't do daylight savings do they? Instant extra hour for the fam if they stick to tradition xD)
I mixed up too much Stingray blue and yellow (not pictured) for a thing so you all are getting a boy as bonus to use it up. That's my wip Wednesday for the day.
Shading. I always do my shadows first i knoooooow that not how your meant watercolour it just works for me
Oooh!
I mixed up too much Stingray blue and yellow (not pictured) for a thing so you all are getting a boy as bonus to use it up. That's my wip Wednesday for the day.
Just read a thing that suggested tumblr etiquette was to put comments in the tags rather than in the main section of a Reblog and it was somehow considered rude not to… still don’t quite understand why but not been here long and it does explain why people put so much commentary in tags where it gets lost… always confused me.
So… apologies if I’ve been offending anyone but as I much enjoy seeing comments / interaction on my stuff out in plain sight / rebloggably so that’s what I do to other posts. Please let me know if it bothers you and I’ll keep things short and sweet in the tags for you instead :)
oh I just thought that was for finding stuff or like "mumbled additional thoughts"! But then I'm very new to this. I think the way you've been doing it is good, at least I find that easier to read!
And tags get lost, as you say, so it doesn't make sense to write all this in there?!
I am terrible at tagging for sensible reasons (like finding things later), but I try to do it for things I post.
When I reblog, sometimes I'll add "filing" tags, and sometimes I'll have comments I want to share loudly (in the main body like this), occasionally I have things whisper (in the tags).
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Here we go again! I feel like I have been here before with this one 🙈
Kayo - Eowyn
The Hood - Saruman
Jeff - Gandalf
Scott - Aragorn
Parker - Gimli
Lady Penelope - Galadriel
Virgil - Sam
Bilbo - Brains
Lord Elrond is still tied between Grandma and Colonel Casey would you believe it!
So here's the next one. I actually do not know what this outcome is going to be
Attempted to write some fic tonight. Unfortunately I have no brain, so it isn’t great.
The original idea was sparked by the lovely @idontknowreallywhy whose cat is very fond of Scott Tracy. How that relates to this scrappy bit of fic is debatable, but that was the spark and this was the beginning of what I wrote…I have more, but it isn’t working very well…I need to revise it once I find my brain.
I’m posting this bit because I haven’t posted fic in over a week.
I hope you like these few words.
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“Woah! Virg!”
Gordon yelped and John dove as the stream of flame shot out at them, his brain calculating exactly how much their uniforms could take when tackled by a flamethrower.
Not much.
He held his breath, curled up on the dirty concrete, waiting for the heat to hit.
But it didn’t.
He cracked an eye open to find Virgil still standing but wobbling unsteadily. The makeshift flamethrower, still dropping sparks, hung in his hands, limp but easily ready.
“Leave him alone!” Virgil screamed at them.
“Okay, okay.” Gordon uncurled slowly, holding up both his hands as if in surrender.
“You’re not hurting him anymore.” The words were almost whimpered. Virgil turned to look at the crumpled body behind him. “No one! No one! No one is going to hurt him anymore.”
John eyed his unconscious eldest brother, sprawled against the wall of the ancient warehouse. His face was a mess of bruises, his uniform torn, and it was obvious Virgil had done his best to bind an injured arm at some point. Dirt and grim blurred the blue of his uniform.
Virgil himself was clearly only barely on his feet. He was swaying where he stood, blood dripping down the side of his face. The flamethrower was a makeshift mass of steel canister and pipes, very much slapped together in a hurry.
His brother’s engineer brains in every line.
Gordon was looking at John for direction - he had command.
“Virgil?” John’s kept his voice quiet and gentle. “Virgil, we want to help. I want to help.”
Virgil turned towards John and peered at him as if he was trying to see through smoke. “Johnny?”
“Yes. You’re safe now. I-“
“No! No! Not again. Not again!” And John had to throw himself to the ground again as the flamethrower lit up, Virgil yelling incoherently at the top of his lungs.
TBC
It's a new take on a Tracy BBQ 😁
😂 The boy’s got form.
Virgil will be recruited by the ATeam for this one.
Ah see whenever my phone resets and starts playing my library from the top I get that theme tune blaring out (usually at a neighbour-enragingly early hour in the car because someone* didn’t turn the stereo down the day before). Now every time I’m going to get that very specific image every time 💚
Seriously though - A-Team Tracys.
:::stares into distance:::
*me. That someone is me.
I somehow misread this slightly and thought you would imagine A-Team Virgil as your enraged neighbours very early in the morning 😆
I mean sometimes the music comes on REALLY LOUD 😬
To be honest, I wanted to add in the term ‘macgyver’ but didn’t think it would be clearly understood by all.
80s TV was so much fun 😁
Even the young ones at my work understand when we describe something as having been "FrankenMcGyvered" together. (Cobbled together form whatever they had at hand, ugly as all get out, and potentially very dangerous!)
