2nd place in Derby #40: Motherhood, with 512 votes

Sheila! I heard you’re expecting! Congratulations! Oh, Sheila, you have to see my specialist, Dr. Hornbill. He’s the best. The best. You know how worried Robin and I were about the ticking noise coming from our egg? Oh, it wracked our nerves, I should tell you. You know how it is; your mind automatically assumes the worst, god forbid. How about yours? Does your egg tick? Like a ticking noise? Like: tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick? No? Well, Dr. Hornbill was so reassuring. He explained it’s perfectly normal. And he’s very precise! I’m just on my way to see him now, in fact, because our due date is in three minutes, or Dr. Hornbill’s going to induce.

This shirt was designed by: radiomode, making art about a tense family dynamic. radiomode’s own mother has always regarded radiomode as a ticking time bomb.

Wear this shirt: to practice bird husbandry in your Victorian aviary, or soft-boil an egg in your kitchen.

Don’t wear this shirt: to soft-boil an egg in your Victorian aviary, or practice bird husbandry in your kitchen.

This shirt tells the world: “My biological clock is TICKIN’ LIKE THIS [stomp foot]!”

We call this color: Navy Bluebird

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