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mean-scarlet-deceiver · 3 years

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Thanks for the ask! I don’t see nearly enough of you around here. <3

I hope you’re cool with a continuation of my thoughts on James arriving to Sodor…

For all James inspired some flashbacks when he returned from the Works in red, and how he had some troubles fitting in socially with the engines… the operations and cleaning crews and basically all the human staff from day 1 just loved him.

By this point, the employees that had survived the railway’s past few rocky years were all pretty devoted—hell, most of the crewmen were in on the tunnel rescue scheme. And they are proud of their first four engines. But there’s also no denying that, at this juncture (’25-’26) the pre-James fleet is pretty messed-up.

A few times I have shown how the workers during this period hold to some patronizing stereotypes about what is ‘natural’ in a steam engine. It’s complicated, because they’re not entirely off-base. It’s hard to deny that, on the whole, steam engines are very notably frank, unfiltered, and pretty well oriented towards the present… as compared to humans and even other kinds of vehicles and engines. The biggest problem, really, is that humans have been known to use the idea of an ‘unnatural’ engine as a stick with which to discourage behavior that is simply inconvenient to them. (Also, they tend to assume that engines are stupider than they are. Again, it’s complicated, because In Their Defense, the moment you assume they’re using their logic is usually the exact moment they’ve gone all hold my beer, i’m going to jam this turntable, then i’ll be right back—or, ppsssst, trucks, will you bump me past the ‘danger’ board? ok cool great thnx!)

Anyway, during this year or two, by and large the North Western human staff is not quite like that. They are just mildly ignorant, and, although baffled, they have good reason to be concerned about their engines, who have all been left a bit… touchy. They’re not even that fussy? At least, they don’t raise a fuss (and the humans regard this as profoundly unnatural in an engine!) Instead, they’re much more likely to say and do all the right things, even while clearly under great emotional strain. Thomas has enormous black holes in his memory and is kinda more, not less, feral than he was before Gordon’s arrival. Edward, recently-painted-blue!Henry, and Gordon are very tight during this period—trauma-bonded. Private, secretive, and relying on each other to cope with festering anxiety.

(In that sense, although Edward found it painful to be reassigned to Wellsworth during this period, it was probably healthy in the long run. And when Gordon started bitching about being mistaken for Henry, and Henry requested to be turned back green, you see represented a very positive period of healing, where they start to re-establish their need for space after having gotten a little too far too fast into their double act for a couple of years.)

But probably the biggest factor in the NWR engines recovering from the confusing (and occasionally terrifying) Three Railway Engines era?

James. 100%.

So, as said, the humans loved him. He came over to Sodor with his own primary crew, but the other crewmen were all eager and jealous for ‘their turn,’ while everyone just found him… a breath of fresh air.

This loco appears to think about exactly two things in all the world: Paintwork and passengers.

We. Love. It.

And James, who spent most of his L. & Y. working career anonymous, ignored, and neglected, absolutely glories in and gets used to all the attention in about two minutes flat. The staff are one of the rather many things about Sodor that he just loves.

So it’s a nicely vicious cycle of mutual delight.

Gordon and especially Henry are pretty envious about James’s popularity. (Henry more so than Gordon because Gordon has a regular, and very devoted, crew. I mean, they bitch at each other all the time, but they also adore each other. At this point, Henry hosts a merry-go-round on his footplate of ‘latest victims trying their hand at getting him to steam properly.’)

That said, James is terrific for helping to finish wiping clean the slate that their last batch of engines had left such a hopeless mess. He’s the Rebound Engine, making burgeoning neuroses vanish and giving everyone new life and hope. No wonder Gordon and Henry couldn’t keep up the hazing longer than a few months before being all like ‘yeah, the short, mouthy asshole is now our new brother. (don’t tell him, though. this shit’s embarrassing.)’

#chatter #ttte #ttte headcanon #ttte the big 3 #ttte james #ttte henry #ttte gordon

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acetechne · 6 years

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It occurred to me in spite of all the silly comics and dumb AUs i do about Red, I don’t think I’ve ever formally introduced her. So here is Red Deer, for once on her own and not overshadowed by her idiot friends.

I’ll preface this with my Edmontonian bias as usual; truly, Red Deer is more than a pit stop and there was one time I actually stayed a whole week instead of a whole hour! Amazing.

Bio Stuff Below!

BASICS

Name: Red Deer Human Name: Elaine “Red” Hartley Founded: 1882 (135 years old in 2017) Sign: Gemini PHYSICAL

Body Type: Long Tall Sally at 5′9″. Flat chest. Rail thin (+ some muscle) and just as rectangular. Hair: Red/Auburn, would be above shoulder length when down. Tufts in the centre. Eyes: (Light-Medium) Brown Ethnicity: White-passing Metis (English/Scottish + Cree/Blackfoot/Stoney) Other: Freckles. Nose is like a little v shape. I sometimes draw her with antlers because it’s cute lmao.

PERSONAL

General: Quiet and stable but not shy and very chatty with friends. The perfect blend of jock and nerd. Should be a natural arbiter but isn’t. Likes: SPORTS, cash monies, cute beavers who break her heart when they die, technical arts (sculpture, glass blowing), doughnuts, milkshakes, caramel surprises and other sweets, columbines, her heated garage, fossils, parkland, being central AB senpai, reading, baking, cooking, country radio. Dislikes: people not stopping to chat, people asking which NHL team she likes or who don’t care about women’s hockey, being constantly asked to mediate The Battle of Alberta, getting forgotten or left behind or not taken seriously, people surprised that yes she is actually the third biggest city thanks very much, when hapo reduces her entire personality to ‘i’m lonely, want a doughnut’

HISTORY

- natural crossing point on the Red Deer River for thousands of years - named because the local Cree were like ‘so yeah this is elk river’ and the Brits were like ‘wtf is an elk that looks like a european red deer or whatever’ - literally founded by people who got tired of going back and forth between Ed/Cal and decided to lay down in the middle in defeat - perfect balance of farm/ranch - also the site of a NWMP fort like Cal, occupied by the Montreal Fusiliers during the NWR in 1885 - secretly has a little bro (North Red Deer) - big debate about whether to have the demonym “Red Dearies” or “Red Deerios” but decided on the standard (boring) “Red Deerians” - generally quiet and uneventful which probably is why she’s called Dead Rear sometimes lmao

BIASED HAPO FACTS

- i’m biased but rdc is amazing and 10/10 would recommend to people thinking of doing some art stuff, seriously it’s a gem and if you’re in high school check out their summerscapes programs because you get to experience dorm life and meet chill people from around the province and spend ALL DAY learning and doing cool stuff!! - this is more of a red deer river fact but one time for paleo class i went to red deer with phil currie (yes The Philip J Currie) and he told us about the time decades ago he went for a little raft down the river without bringing sensible things like a map or a water bottle or anything because he wanted to find some bone bed joseph tyrell took a photo of once so he just was like... wandering around the badlands with no way of contacting anyone and half delirious with dehydration with this photo and he just turned around and There it Was and then we all disappointed phil currie who promised to identify anything we picked up and when my classmates approached him he’d say ‘oh that’s an ankylosaur wrist bone’ or something amazing but every time we brought him something he’d say ‘that’s a rock’ - the doughnut mill’s best doughnut imho is the orange creamsicle. who would think of an orange creamsicle doughnut??? a genius that’s who. also peter’s drive-in has the Best chocolate milkshake i’ve ever had and i’m lactose intolerant and i would have drank that whole goddamn thing with no regrets were i not kindly sharing it with my lovely chaperone. why would you Ever waste your time going to an average fast food chain when those two places exist. - currently looking for red deer artists to listen to if they exist because i don’t actually have any so hmu if you have music recs. I’m really annoyed that the cbc music site is so hard to search and i wish i could find music by location on there so maybe i will write an angry letter. - every time you tag a picture of the rockies with red deer on instagram, part of her soul dies because it’s a Lie - i’ve been downtown red deer exactly once in recent memory and that’s when the greyhound home from Calgary stopped at the station lmao. Apparently there’s actually a city beyond Gasoline Alley, Amazing!

#projectcanada cities #pc: red deer #hapo art #photoshop #digital art #city refs

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outdoorfishingwarehouse · 6 years

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Great Plains Bass Fishing

The Great Plains states of North and Mount Rushmore State, NE and Kansas provide a good form of quality fisheries for each black bass and smallmouthed bass bass.

Opportunities are plentiful for anglers wanting to specifically target high finish bass. several anglers additionally agree that early season may be time to focus on big gun on several fisheries. This month, we have a tendency to break down a number of the region’s high water for targeting a number of the most important bass through the input of several state fisheries biologists, tournament anglers and guides.

NORTH DAKOTA

North Dakota isn't continuously extremely thought to be a bass fishing region. this can be partially due to geographical location and also the overwhelming quality of walleye fishing, however this unnoticed state quietly boasts many fisheries that give anglers with quality bass fishing.

Lake Sakakawea, created by the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River, is a huge 382,000-acre reservoir at full pool. And whereas this reservoir is on several high walleye lists, this destination additionally has associate below fished smallmouthed bass bass population. The sheer size of this reservoir offers several locations and patterns, however smart numbers of smallmouthed bass bass may be found throughout the reservoir. a number of the very best population densities are found on the east and mid-section of the lake. high locations embody Beulah Bay, Hazen Bay, Garrison Bay, Steinke Bay and Wolf Creek, however smallmouths may be found concerning points and bars and different underwater structure wherever there's rock, boulders and gravel.

Avid bass tournament angler Eric Vossler additionally adds Spiritwood Lake close to village, N.D., as a perennial producer of quality smallmouthed bass bass. This tiny lake had at one purpose boasted the Peace Garden State state-record smallmouthed bass and boasts numbers of quality fish. Rocky shorelines and weed flats usually hold smallmouths and crawfish imitating soft plastics and jigs usually shine.

The current Peace Garden State state-record smallmouthed bass, advisement half dozen pounds, 13 ounces, was caught on Lake Darling, situated north of the community of Minot. This long, shallow reservoir is known for manufacturing massive smallmouths. Gravel and rock shorelines usually hold bass, notably within the earlier a part of the year.

Part of what will create North Dakota’s bass fishing opportunities very smart across the board is that the lack of fishing attention devoted specifically toward bass. Walleyes ar king during this region of the globe, however additional anglers ar discovering the thrill of bass every season.

SOUTH DAKOTA

South Dakota has many fisheries that habitually manufacture quality bass. The Mount Rushmore State smallmouthed bass bass state record was once more tamed 2016 out of Horseshoe Lake within the northeastern Glacial Lakes Region with a 7-pound, 3-ounce fish. In fact, the last 2 state-record smallmouths are caught on Horseshoe Lake. per guide Cory Ewing of Waubay Lake Guide Service, Horseshoe Lake remains one in every of the region’s best bets for encountering very massive smallmouths.

“On Horseshoe Lake, the fishing will typically be a grind wherever you don’t essentially catch numbers of fish however once you notice fish … they're usually massive,” explained Ewing. Ewing additional that this lake is somewhat completely different from a number of the opposite noted smallmouthed bass bass lakes within the space therein there's not the maximum amount classic rock structure which the structure wherever you discover bass is way less obvious. refined points and bars usually hold fish, and also the secret is to use aspect imaging to seek out a number of scattered rocks or another variety of cowl.

Roy Lake has long been called one in every of the region’s higher bass fisheries, however the numbers of massive smallmouthed bass are down in recent years.

Roy Lake’s smallmouthed bass bass piscary isn’t what it had been a decade past, however what surprises several anglers is that the quality of the black bass bass within the lake. Guide Ewing suggests targeting largemouths by fishing the banks, specializing in boulders, logs and laydowns. Weed flats also can hold massive largemouths, and anglers targeting these locations also will encounter smallmouths.

Reetz Lake is managed as a trophy piscary and holds smart numbers of smallmouthed bass bass, with fish over nineteen inches on the market. whereas catch and unleash practices preserve this piscary, this lake has gotten heaps additional attention in recent years. Ewing explained that fishing sharply and covering water is that the key on Reetz Lake. “Fish through water quick and take a look at to seek out fish that different anglers miss,” explained Ewing.

South Dakota’s bass fishing had long flown below the measuring system in giant half due to the recognition of walleyes during this a part of the country. however additional anglers appear to be targeting bass by design with every season.

“We have seen the recognition of smallmouthed bass bass, specifically, explode during this a part of Mount Rushmore State over the past few years,” noted Ewing, United Nations agency cites that he's taking additional guide purchasers out every season United Nations agency specifically wish to focus on bass.

NEBRASKA

Nebraska incorporates a wide selection of fishing opportunities, with many giant to midsize reservoirs gift. however due to environs, several of the state’s best fishing opportunities for black bass bass present itself on tiny lakes, ponds and pits. a number of the state’s highest black bass bass fishing takes place on personal land, wherever gaining permission is important.

In fact, a number of Nebraska’s highest black bass bass fishing may be accessed by shore fishing or from a kayak on tiny water. as a result of such a big amount of of those tiny ponds will get full with serious weed growth later within the year, early season may be one in every of the most effective time periods to seek out bass during this tiny water, notably from shore.

Because several of Nebraska’s larger reservoirs ar managed to produce irrigation water, black bass bass populations may be cyclic due to the shortage of weed growth and flooded terrestrial vegetation throughout tide cycles. These environments ar usually higher fitted to walleyes, white bass and catfish, however wherever the proper environs exists, the smallmouthed bass bass fishing is commonly noteworthy due to the rock and gravel substrate found in several of those NE reservoirs.

Look for Nebraska’s best black bass bass fishing on tiny water, whereas Nebraska’s massive lakes usually manufacture the state’s best opportunities for smallmouthed bass bass.

Nebraska’s Sandhill Refuge Lakes close to Valentine may well be one in every of the Cornhusker State’s best bets for high finish black bass bass. many Refuge lakes may be in public accessed within the Sandhills, with notable lakes together with pelecaniform seabird Lake, Duck Lake and West Long Lake. These shallow dish bowl lakes provide very little structure and ar historically tough to fish later within the summer once weed growth becomes serious. however these tiny lakes will manufacture some nice black bass bass early within the summer.

Lord Lakes, situated within the Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest, has a wonderful population of black bass bass, with fish over twenty inches attainable. Smith Lake WMA, situated in dramatist County, and Island Lake, situated within the Crescent Lake NWR, each ar high picks for black bass bass topping four pounds.

Daryl Bauer, fisheries reaching program manager for the NE Game and Parks Commission, cites the interstate eighty Lakes through central NE as another fishing chance that has big gun potential. throughout the development of the interstate, many pits and tiny lakes were created, and these various tiny lakes give public fishing.

“Some of those tiny lakes ar numbers lakes that manufacture heaps of black bass bass, however there ar some very big gun in a number of these tiny lakes partially as a result of they will be arduous to catch,” explained Bauer.

By NE standards, these tiny lakes usually have very clear water, that makes a number of these giant fish spooky and tougher to catch. Bauer usually catches these larger fish by fishing when dark by throwing shallow running original Rapalas and Husky Jerks or typically victimisation topwaters.

Lake McConaughy is one in every of Nebraska’s assets fisheries. And whereas this state’s largest reservoir, situated close to Ogallala, is famous for manufacturing massive walleyes, this lake incorporates a smallmouthed bass bass population that's obtaining additional attention. oxyacetylene by an expensive forage base of alewives and shad, this reservoir habitually kicks out smallmouthed bass bass over eighteen inches.

According to native guide and accomplished tournament angler Rob Rowland, the south finish of this reservoir offers ideal smallmouthed bass bass environs.

“We have high riparian right currently, therefore flooded trees makes a number of these locations tougher to fish,” he noted. “But rummage around for bass on the rock points and gravel bars,” suggested Rowland. when the bass leave their beds within the spring, Rowland usually finds bass on these locations in eight to twelve feet of water however can typically slide out as deep as twenty five feet throughout the center of the day. Drop-shot rigs and tube jigs shine on McConaughy.

Fisheries scientist Daryl Bauer additionally additional that some massive black bass bass also are commencing to show informed McConaughy due to the recent high water cycle, that has created the proper environs for black bass bass accomplishment.

Bauer believes that the Missouri River System that borders NE and Mount Rushmore State is presently the state’s best smallmouthed bass bass piscary for locating nice fish. Anglers will usually notice smallmouths concerning sedimentary rock bluffs and rock points upstream from Gavins purpose Dam. Downstream from Gavins purpose all the thanks to metropolis, rummage around for smallmouthed bass bass on sand bars and stream holes.

Areas of the stream wherever there's no direction produce heaps of excellent smallmouthed bass bass environs, and anglers will explore sandbars and riffles that hold bass.

Besides smallmouthed bass bass, the backwaters of the Missouri River additionally hold smart populations of black bass bass. Target wood cowl like laydowns and boulders to seek out largemouths.

KANSAS Like the state of NE, most of the most effective black bass bass fishing opportunities for giant fish happen on tiny lakes and pits each public and personal, whereas the larger smallmouths will usually be found on reservoirs due to similar environs limitations.

Milford Reservoir continues to be one in every of the helianthus State’s best bets for smallmouthed bass bass over three pounds. Classic rock points and gravel structure ar high bets for Milford smallmouths. high shows embody casting shallow running jerk baits over shallow boulders or drop- shotting off the break line throughout the mid-day.

Other high Kansas Reservoirs that ar capable of manufacturing massive smallmouthed bass bass embody Melvern, Wolf Creek, vale Elder Reservoir and Perry Lake. Wolf Creek presently incorporates a high population of smallmouths, with several tiny fish. however fish over seventeen inches ar gift.

Glen Elder Reservoir presently incorporates a stable bass population, whereas Perry and Melvern Reservoirs have smaller smallmouthed bass bass populations however tight probabilities for encountering fish over sixteen inches.

Several tiny to midsize reservoirs and cooling lakes in Kansas provide the proper variety of environs for black bass bass, and La Cygne Reservoir leads the pack for manufacturing big gun. La Cygne is systematically one in every of the state’s best waters for public access massive black bass fishing. This 2,600-acre reservoir could be a cooling lake that basically shines for giant bass through the spring, fall and winter. target weed beds and riprap with crankbaits, soft plastic worms and white skirted spinnerbaits that imitate shad.

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