#2-8-0

[hazel-of-sodor]

Tonight's file is the ROD 2-8-0. One f my favorite engines.

[jlcrr-blog]

Jessie Line Central Railroad 2-8-0 Consolidation's Class M’s #118 And Sister Locomotive #119 Set out Idling on Ready Tracks waiting for Work Orders.

[majimassqueaktoy]

Happy Birthday to The one and only, Goro Majima.

[chrisitsraining]

it seems youve landed yourself a blind date with a resident evil character! why dont you open the door and see who your date is?

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which door? you know :)

[wastedskins]

The beauty of Resident Evil.

[dr1nkybird]

a few evil residents as well

[howtodrawyourdragon]

The Post In Which I Deduce How Old Baby Hiccup Was When Valka Disappeared

You know, in order to write this Httyd Retelling, I have to do some preparing. I have to collect plot points for future storylines, keep certain canonical facts in mind and take a closer look at certain scenes.

Like the flashback scene in which Valka gets taken, for example. Because that'll be a vital scene for the prequel-type fic that I'm currently working on.

And I don't think I've ever realized how truly young Hiccup was when his mother was stolen from him. And I'm not talking about how he was a baby, because that fact is obvious.

I'm talking about how it's possible he was barely 6 months old.

And there are a couple of things about the flashback that point to this.

When Cloudjumper finds Hiccup and appears to play with him, I notice that Hiccup is:

Laughing

Grabbing Cloudjumper's wing talon

Clapping once (which could be a fluke as he is waving his hands around wildly)

Appears stimulated by Cloudjumper's attention and actively seeks interaction

Now, the laughter I won't waste much time on because I don't really see it as an indicator. On average, it starts as early as 4 months, but in my experience that highly depends on the child. I've seen a 3 month old laugh, I've seen kids not start laughing until they were almost 1.

Points 2 through 4, though, are much more interesting as what Hiccup is exhibiting is actually not "true" play, but rather hints that Hiccup is still actively learning to interact with the world around him. This may seem strange for people who don't interact with babies and toddlers on a daily basis, but children actually have to learn to play and this starts by interacting with the world around them.

Putting a variety of things in their mouths, sucking on things, grabbing things (like Cloudjumper's talon), shaking things, etc. This is usually how a baby between ages of 4 to 6 months old begins to learn how to play.

You can try to offer toys to a 3 month old, but chances are they won't do anything with it or even react much too the toy at all. Older than 6 months old, it's possible you can see them actively pick what interests them to inspect rather than simply put whatever they've been giving in their mouths.

In my personal experience, it's not until around 4 months old when babies start to show interest in the things around them. (Which doesn't mean you shouldn't try to stimulate your child by at least offering a toy before that time, we do.)

Something else of note in this scene is:

Hiccup can't sit up

No teeth

Hiccup simply lying there swaddled in a cradle is actually a big indicator that, not only is he not sitting up yet, but he doesn't appear capable of rolling over.

And if you think "Oh! but that's because he's swaddled in furs!" Wrong! Babies of any age are surprisingly determined. If a baby wants to roll over, they will fidget their way out of the swaddle and roll over. In no good conscience would Valka or Stoick leave Hiccup in a cradle unattended if this child showed signs of rolling over.

Now babies can start rolling over as soon as 4 months. (If you know what that looks like, it's quite an endeavor, takes a lot of manuevering, which the previous unattended Hiccup didn't appear to be doing)

And I know you may be thinking; "doesn't that mean Hiccup is younger than 4 months in the flashback?" I don't think so simply because of how he reacts to Cloudjumper, whose attention and stimulation he actively seeks out. Rather, I actually think Hiccup is a little bit of a late bloomer physically.

He was canonically born prematuraly, to the point that his mother feared he wouldn't make it. And often when a child is a late bloomer physically, they actually usually end up ahead of the other kids in other areas. Like mentally, verbally, or with their finer motor skills.

In my experience, children who can walk by the time their first birthday comes along, take longer to even begin to start talking. (which takes the form of making sounds. Not forming words, but voluntarily making sounds)

Meanwhile kids who are barely crawling by their first birthday are usually already showing signs of forming words (usually done by trying to repeat sounds they hear others in their life say) and verbally responding back to the people in their life (though through sounds and not actual words)

Being late in his gross motor skills while actually excelling in his finer motor skills and speech seems in line with the Hiccup we know and love. Even between the ages of 15 and 18, he still appears to be a bit of a late bloomer. The example I'm thinking of is how he can work years in a forge, yet struggle to pick up a single weapon versus to 3 years later when he's a swordsman himself and picks weapons up with no problem now.

That brings me to the lack of teeth.

On average, babies will begin to teeth between the 4 and 7 months old. From my personal experience, it tends to start much closer to 7 months than the minimum 4 month mark. I've even looked after plenty of children who didn't start to teeth well beyond the 7th month mark. (even had one who didn't start teeth until they were almost 1 and then suddenly got multiple teeth in at once.) Hiccup has no teeth.

So lets line all of the evidence up.

In the flashback, Hiccup:

Actively seeks interaction with Cloudjumper

Actively interacts with the world around him, but doesn't know play yet.

Responds positively to Cloudjumper's stimulation

Doesn't yet appear to even try to roll over

Has no teeth

And all of these points point to the very likely scenario that Hiccup was only 4 to 5 months old when he and Stoick lost Valka.

4 to 5 months old.

That's hella young to be losing your mother, a terrible time to lose your wife and mother of your very young child and, honestly, a terrible time for a mother to have her abduction be preceded by watching her premature son and her husband almost die due to her lack of actions.

I realize that I'm ending this post with a hot take, maybe even an unpopular opinion, but as it already takes months for a parent who gave birth to feel somewhat normal again even without breastfeeding their child... No wonder Valka, in this highly sensitive and vulnerable time, internalized that both Stoick and Hiccup would've been better off without her.

Valka, who:

Was still on month 4 after her pregnancy, meaning her hormones would've still been all over the place

Had to breastfeed with a lack of better options at the time, meaning it would remain that way for quite a bit

Had a traumatic labor that involved nearly losing her son

Her son who was born much too early, which would come with complications (right down to getting him to eat at all, for example)

Almost watched Hiccup and Stoick die in a fire right before she got abducted by a dragon, which would've meant hours if not days or weeks of believing she was going to get eaten

Doesn't mean she just gets to stay away for 20 whole years, but it definitely puts a different perspective on her sudden departure from Hiccup's life.

Everyone in the Haddock family was hurt that day. Though, the biggest victim of all was that literal 4 month old boy.

Video from SoloMinike-Movies & Shows scenes HD for reference.

[gumy-shark]

things heating up in the number fandom on the wisp discord tonight

[kayden-valcourt]

Slipknot

Some of the group pictures I have saved.

I love these guys so much

Especially him <3

[womenofresizine]

WOMEN OF RESIDENT EVIL ZINE APPLICATIONS: OPEN!!!

Hello Resident Evil fans, the applications for the Women of Resident Evil Zine (aka WoREZ) are now open! This zine is a 16+, beginner friendly, free, digital only zine focusing on the female characters and sapphic relationships in the Resident Evil series. The applications will be running until March 5th and we're shooting for a mid-late June release date depending on the size of the zine and the amount of applicants we get. We're looking for Page Artists, Digital Merch Artists, Writers, and anyone else who has something they'd like to contribute to the project! -> applications <- FAQ&RULES MOD INFO Feel free to send an Ask or DM to the blog if you have any further questions!

[0-kiwis]

Forgot about this account ngl <3

Anyways here's a little art dump!!!!

Agent 8 on the third slide is my friend's!! Go check out their art too :) @orange-julius

[hazel-of-sodor]

henlo again! the dumbass with the 8K and 01 obsession here! how many 8K's has sodor acquired through its years? asking because i have a feeling its more then 3 and they are all beans and deserve to be pat! also i figured out how to do asks >:3

So the NWR buys 5 in 1921, NWR No.28-32, directly from.the ROD. No.28, the engine in alot of my old scale comparisons, is named Vicarstown.

Another group is bought from the LMS in 1927, but I haven't locked in how many (I'm thinking 10)

Finally a group was bought from British Railways from 1957 (the 3 final GWR 30xx) to 1966 (LNER 04s).

Now not all of these are in service as ROD 2-8-0s. Some were Rebuilt in NWR Mikado's using LNER A1 (peppercorn) Boilers. Others have retired to museums.

Still, the ROD 2-8-0, GCR 8k, LNER O4, GWR 30xx, NWR 28 class is still the line's most numerous locomotive class.

How many exactly Im working on, as I am still working on the Locomotive Roster

[blueisquitetired]

Things I’ve figured out in my thirty minutes of research:

[rinflash]

Happy Birthday Takaya Kuroda! 💖

Heh, it's like you're going to see a Barbie movie 🌚

[cinna-bunnie]

you have 7+ computers ? ? i am so curious about the uses for them o_o

linux:

drawing laptop

older laptop w shitty battery

mini PC i use to clone a bunch of laptops in my home office (work related)

windows

work laptop

gaming PC/general use

old art mini PC, i don't rly use this much bc drawing worked nicer on Linux and I'm on hiatus w music for the foreseeable future

mini PC mounted to the ceiling by a projector in the living room, for movie nights n stuff :3 this is the one that could be moved to Linux

[critterpdf]

my goofy ass reblogging the post about @agentshipzine then IMMEDIATELY forgetting to post my own piece: oopsie!

ANYWAYS!

its been a while since ive posted squids... but now the zine is out which means time 2 post two of my favorite gay cephalopods<3 fin and jo just hangin' out in the (squid) countryside