I drew an homage to this Norman Rockwell painting for the cooking/food themed comic anthology Pots and Panels, coming next month to Kickstarter!
It's got some big names attached like Steve Niles and Phil Hester. I also drew a two page story for it. Show it some love!
"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)
satisfying
it is easier than people realize to make fascists afraid, because fascists are fucking cowards
Religious art leaves out the best part and it’s such a goddamn shame. Livestock, Agriculture and Food is an integral part of any culture and we all need to be pushing for more realistic sheep in religious art. #FATTAILSFORJESUS
“How think ye? If a man have a hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains and listen for the clappeth of it’s itinerant cheeks?” - Matthew 18:12, the bible
CLAPPETH….
There’s tons and tons of different breeds. They all store fat in their tails, but fall into two main categories: WIDE tails and LONG tails
Wide tails store fat in the rump area and have no visible tails.
Long tails store fat in the tail itself, which vary in length in different breeds. In the olden days, people took pride in breeding sheep with the longest tail. They are not so popular today as it’s hard to find a decent tail cart on Amazon.
Speaking of Tail carts, they come in different styles and designs. We dont have any that are actually preserved, but old drawing of them show different wheels harnesses.
Some of them are literally just skateboards
Back in the day, breeding sheep with long dragging tails was all the rage. Nowadays different tails types have been developed to prevent them from dragging their tails on the ground. Such as the “folded tail” or the “Only fat at the base” Tail
Despite fat tail sheep being the most common sheep breeds in the world, most people in the west have never heard of them. The West likes Wool Sheep. Fat tails are strictly meat sheep and have little useful wool. They also do poorly in colder climates
There’s a huge community of shepherds on youtube that script, choreograph and shoot elaborate videos for their sheep complete uplifting music to highlight their best qualities (for sale and stud) It is fantastic. Such as this one:
People kept bringing up Fat Bottomed Girls. Ya’ll are wrong. These are fat bottomed BOYS. Sheep are often continuously bred, so the females are constantly getting pregnant, giving birth and nursing.
That’s very hard on the body, so they can’t build up as much fat as the boys.
The fattest sheep, the ones with the truly VAST tails, rocking them little carts are ALWAYS males.
This is why the Bible specifically states that ONLY the rumps of the Males are to fit to be offered to the lord……
Picture: God desiring the tail
“And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the WHOLE rump” -Leviticus 3:9
I mean… look.
Arguably these are just minor details and doesnt matter….
But beyond it’s teachings the bible is also a work of literature about life in the ancient world. And on some level these kinds of small details bring a sort of richness to these depictions of real…
Ancient people bred out sheep with huge butts, took the largest sheep butts, set them on fire and prayed over the burning butt. It checks out.
How can hilarious big butt sheep have existed for millenia and escaped being well known in popular culture everywhere. They’ve gotten off scot free for too long. Meme these fools at once.
While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.
Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly own subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.
The families have been saying the whole time it isn't about the money - it was about stopping Jones. And this is the most effective way to stop Jones.
Natural History in Zoological Gardens, by Frank E. Beddard. Illustration by Winifred Austen. 1905.
I keep meaning to ask and I keep forgetting it: Have you seen that new digimon Oblivimon??? Specifically have you seen its card art to get a proper look at the top of it??
Yeah I can't believe that weird robot hamster thing I didn't care for has another of the coolest final evolutions in the franchise now
this is still my favorite sketch from this show and my favorite closing line of dialog
tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse
wheres seasons greasons
its that time of year again
It doesn’t have to be
its not optional
I took my second ADHD pill a little too late I guess because it was suddenly 4 am and I made this thing about why parasitic organisms are shaped like ways and how to consider that for your fiction settings. Raw text version below the cut for people with busted seeing:
I mean how can I not add a parasite to this
Pathogen assigned: Nanophyetus salmincola
Cause of nanophyetiasis, type of trematode flatworm
(Image from here)
Spread via: Ingestion of infected fish
What a little animal !!!
this is a verified and vetted fundraiser sponsored by gazafunds (twitter) + i spoke to feras myself
i will literally draw you any character of your choosing if you donate either 5$ or 10$ or more to his fundraiser (just dm me the receipt!) and if you can't donate please share 🙏
I know that the word ‘shaman’ has Manchu roots but does modern shamanism have anything to actually do with tungusic culture?
Nope. Neoshamanism is some weird neo-romantic notion about a simple and primitive time before priests when Shamans filled the role of therapist, priest, and corporate peyote self-help guru. It is a theology for Joe Rogan listeners.
“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
- Vincent van Gogh
"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?
I've been looking for such archives, thanks
