#Ramsbottom

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Ramsbottom pug por Nigel Por Flickr: Shunting demonstrations at Ramsbottom with the Pug , 14th October 2023

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Peel Tower - Ramsbottom

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Starlink Ramsbottom

Starlink Installation Ramsbottom, £200.00 fixed feeHere we have a Starlink installed up in Ramsbottom by Andy and Ethan for a neighbour of one our previous installations, the property was on a remote hillside with a terrible connection of 2mbs which was trying to be shared over a large stone built property.The neighbours had there system up and running now for about 4 months and were more than…

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Lloyd and Willard Ramsbottom - Stuart McIntosh Photo

This old photo of Lloyd and Willard Ramsbottom reminds us of the attention to clothing detail in that era Stuart McIntosh photo In Western European countries, boys would be dressed like this until anything from 2 to 8 years old, with some boys documented wearing dresses into the late teens. “Boys’ dresses were often made in brighter or darker colours and in plainer or stronger fabrics, and…

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Someone j work with has the funny minions last name

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Despicable Me 4, 2024

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rewatching a gameplay of Bioshock Infinite reminded me that I had once a goofy ahh steampunk/fantasy au for Aardman universe. I posted earlier about it here on my old blog -> https://www.tumblr.com/trouser-consumer/741733919149473793?source=share

basically an AU where everyone is either a steampunky human or a supernatural immortal creature. The Super Smash Bros rosters being these:

Mrs Tweedy = ice queen, her heart is frozen and she drains life from living creatures cuz it helps her Feel(TM). Does not care how many innocent people she hurts in the process yippee. Also Ginger once defeated her and banished her for years, and her ego is hurt because she let a mere human destroy her

Mr Tweedy = fire king (they are divorced lol and he has retreated deep underground to dwell in loneliness)

Dr. Fry = The Sandman, currently allied with the ice queen in destroying the world simply because it's funny

Reginald Smith = a rancid capitalist human businessman who ended up accidentally allying with the Sandman and Ice Queen (doesn't even remember how it happened but there's no way out)

Lady Tottington = Mother Nature, she does her best in keeping the land and its creatures alive during these trying times </3 also trying to ward off Lord Quartermaine (who is either just a stinky ass human nobleman or Lord Death himself, havent decided yet)

the chickens = A peaceful farmer village that is also not afraid to fight literal gods :)

Wallace and Gromit = a couple of steampunky inventors just tryina make a living and help people with their goofy ahh inventions

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credit.

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<3

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AVL oc time! — Silas and Dagmara? Oh, they go way back.

They love to argue, and when their arguments get too intense, they love to kiss eachother. ON THE MOUTH. Between meetings, perhaps. - Or even on secret dinner dates, that are definitely not dates, or anything unprofessional like that.

This is what decades of suppressed feelings and attempts at keeping things 'strictly professional' does to people, I believe.

They love to hate each other, but they hate how much they actually love each other.

Like healthy adults ought to! /jk

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Ramsbottom passing por Nigel Por Flickr: A Lancashire and Yorkshire scene recreated at Ramsbottom on the East Lancashire Railway gala

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Yey

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Silas Ramsbottom being the one to take Gru and his family to the safe house is so cool to me. If he didn't send Lucy to find Gru in Despicable Me 2 the two of them wouldn't have ended up together. Grunior wouldn't be here if there wasn't for Silas.

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Starlink Installation Ramsbottom

Starlink Installation Ramsbottom, fixed price guaranteed £200.00 complete. Here we have a new Starlink installation carried out by Andy and Ethan in Ramsbottom outside Bury for a remote property on the slopes of Holcombe Hill.The customer has been putting up with 2 mbs copper connection to BT which was becoming more of a problem as now one of them was working from home also with two tennagers…

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Charles Giles of Ramsay Accident and Genealogy

October 1950 Charles Giles of Ramsay met with an unfortunate accident on Monday afternoon while working on the road between the Tannery and John Waddell’s farm. Along with Mervin Mitchell and Harvey McIntyre, he was engaged in cutting up a tree with a crosscut saw. The tree had been knocked out by a bulldozer but was not altogether down. When the men were working the stump bounced two or three…

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Headcanon and story time (related to Despicable Me 2)

All right, I know everyone is onto DM4 (or rather, a certain cockroach man), but I've been way too enamored with a headcanon that I have stemming from DM2, which has since evolved into an ongoing AU/alternate continuity fic that further explores it in its own way. Ready to hear it? Because this'll be a long one.

(Spoilers for Despicable Me 2 and a warning due to mentions of death. Also, I will rant a bit, not out of outright hate, but because I wish things were handled better.)

*deep breath

I have this headcanon that Silas Ramsbottom is Lucy Wilde's adoptive father.

Yes, this man.

Now, before you think that's ridiculous, before you go "No way, Silas? That big man who was kind of an arse to Gru in 2 is Lucy's dad?", I can explain that, beginning with a personal story.

See, back when trailers for DM4 were being released, I decided to throw in my lot to the Despicable Me fandom for the first time by writing a future fic featuring a grown-up Gru Jr. following his parents' footsteps as a newbie AVL agent. Following that, I also decided to write another Despicable Me fic that is my take on what happened with Lucy's parents, who were killed by a villain when she was a young girl.

Above is the Twitter post describing Lucy's short backstory. This is back in 2015. 2015! Two years after DM2's 2013 release!

Anyway, after seeing that tweet and browsing through Ao3 and Fanfiction.net for Despicable Me fanfics, I was disappointed to find so few fics that explored that part of her life. Yes, I know that Gru is the protagonist of the mainline films, but does it hurt to shed some light on the character who becomes his wife? Y'know, someone who's one half of a couple, and (ideally) just as important as the other half?

Sigh. Of course, we never see this bit about her in the films: not during a conversation between Lucy and another character, not even a mention or a flashback (though correct me if I'm wrong and overlooked a movie that does mention or hint at it; if not, my point stands).

Not long ago, I brought this up with a friend, and I hypothesized that the reason why this was never implemented in some way in the films is because it's too dark for a kids franchise like Despicable Me, even though I can argue that several other kids series have elements that are as dark or even darker than that: my friend brought up Frozen 2 and Elsa dying, meaning you could definitely insert legitimately dark moments into a kids film. Hell, I can bring up The Lion King, which has Mufasa dying to the wildebeest stampede after Scar lets him go, traumatizing Simba; in fact, Mufasa's death impacts Simba even in adulthood, showing that childhood trauma can have an effect even after growing up.

In any case, it IS possible for a kid's film to be quite mature, but Lucy's backstory? Just thrown into the wind, especially in regards to the films after DM2.

Like, can you imagine the effects of such an event on her psyche? What would Lucy think of villains after her parents died? Would she ever have thoughts of revenge? Forgiveness? Would she hide it from her husband, the kids, or even her past dates? (She mentions having gone on a few bad dates in DM2 and that's the reason why she keeps a lipstick taser.) What would her life be like after they died: would she live a mostly normal life, or would she be trained to be an AVL agent at a fairly young age? Heck, would Silas know that her parents died when a villain attacked them, and would he and the AVL do something about it, perhaps avenge their deaths?

So many questions, so much wasted potential.

(Here's me crossing my fingers for a TV series that'll probably never happen, because I think Lucy's past could be explained well in that format.)

But now I'll turn to a much lighter note and the real cut of lamb of this post.

Going back to my headcanon that Silas is Lucy's adoptive father, I noticed something interesting in DM2.

During Gru and Lucy's wedding, notice the number of frills on Lucy's dress and Agnes' dress? They're both the same, and if you think about it, Agnes was the one who was the most enthusiastic about the idea of Lucy marrying Gru, implying she looked up to Lucy in high regard and thus wanted to dress up like her for the wedding.

"But Vulture! What about the note saying 'same color as Lucy's usual attire'? What's that got to do with anything?" That's likely to show how much Gru loves her, to the point he dresses up with the same color she usually dresses up in. You know what Lucy's usual getup looks like? If not, here you go.

Light-ish shade of blue, right? Now, look at this.

Maybe I've taken crazy pills or need to have my eyes checked, but I don't recall seeing any other AVL personnel having something that's just as light blue on them. I'm pretty sure in reality it's all just to help create a unique character design, to make them stand out from the generic AVL agents, but yeah. It's just something that I noticed, there's nothing to officially confirm that Silas and Lucy have some sort of close connection with each other other than they're both with the AVL.

But given my observation of "character dresses a bit like another character they admire or at least respect," you can sort of see why I have that headcanon.

I still find it interesting how Silas is around Lucy in comparison to when he's around Gru, in that he's never actually antagonistic toward her or any of his other spies and doesn't doubt her skills. Of course, since one of them is essentially a former criminal, it makes sense that he'd have some animosity toward Gru. Heck, I'm pretty sure Silas might've even been hostile to Gru way back then after Minions 2 since Silas told Gru to "stay out of trouble, kid," only for Gru to break that promise by becoming a thief anyway. However, given that Silas appears at the wedding and even helps Gru, Lucy and their children move to a safehouse in DM4, it's clear that things got better for both of them.

About the fic that I mentioned earlier in this post, I based it on this headcanon specifically, along with a few others that I wrote down on a list. There, Silas adopts an orphaned Lucy shortly after her home was destroyed by a villain and her parents were killed. Traumatized that she survived but they didn't, she often gets worried and nervous, even having a hard time at a new school. She also has to contend with living with Silas, who has his own problems to deal with, from being in charge of the AVL and a few things from his past, including his own family. (And yes, I did create OC family members, and Silas' relationship with them is... a bit complicated to say the least.)

All in all, I wanted to try my hand at writing something that explores familial themes, struggles, and dynamics, especially since I feel they aren't handled as well after 2. Plus, I get to play with some tropes and elements present in the canon Despicable Me films (and, rather appropriately enough, other spy/espionage works like James Bond), except instead of a(n ex-)supervillain with his adopted daughters, it's with the AVL director and his (fan'verse) adopted daughter.

*sigh* And now this post is done! It's been a long one, but I just wanted to type out my thoughts on a few things related to a fic I'm currently working on and because I feel upset that things could've worked out better in canon.