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#maybe this is why it feels a little uncanny #the action doesn't move through the form. it just turns a sharp 90° angle into resting pose at the hip

except looking through google images maybe caracals just.... do that? and now I'm even more confused 😭

one thing that does bug me a bit about this mount is the tail. like it's not flipped up like I'd expect for this dynamic action, it's not purposefully curved downwards intentionally, or curved around the muscle of the thigh, and it's not like the inner form broke or anything. it's just. like that. on purpose.

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#YOOOO GUESS WHO FINALLY FOUND A SURGEON

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one thing that does bug me a bit about this mount is the tail. like it's not flipped up like I'd expect for this dynamic action, it's not purposefully curved downwards intentionally, or curved around the muscle of the thigh, and it's not like the inner form broke or anything. it's just. like that. on purpose.

#maybe this is why it feels a little uncanny #the action doesn't move through the form. it just turns a sharp 90° angle into resting pose at the hip #except looking through google images maybe caracals just.... do that? #now I'm even more confused 😭

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No time to explain, just get in

#taxidermy #vulture culture #i love this

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Home Safe!

(plus feet pics more angles on the paws because it's hard to see what those things are actually doing in most of these. impressive how little she actually wobbles when you realize she's balanced entirely on one back foot! the wood pieces are just set dressings even if the one looks like it could be reinforcing the front paw)

(bonus butt-pic lmao)

#taxidermy #vulture #vultureculture #odd #oddities #Columbus Oddities and Curiosities Expo #she definitely needs a good wipe-down before bringing her downstairs #suggestions for what to use to rebuild the ear Tufts are SUPER appreciated btw! #I don't have access to lynx which would probably be the easiest option for caracal ears #but I'm kinda at a loss. horsehair maybe???

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realized when it was pitch black out I still hadn't gotten my new gal from the car. wasn't able to drag her into the hotel room on Sunday so just covered her with some shawls and hoped for the best no one decided to break a window and poke the ominous black mass lmao :') plus side, meant no Looks when I got home either so like. win-win?

she looked so Done with everything getting her out and into the garage though.

#taxidermy

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How do I put a filter on my posts that stop anarchists from scolding me about the labor movement in the notes unless they are an active member of a trade union

#uspol #too tired to add anything coherent but yeah. what op and commenter are saying

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attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you

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It’s almost Passover :)

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don't forget the Torse (Table Horse)!

Masterpost

#earthbound #tumblr in a nutshell #art #(this is fantastic op) #gif

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*very* glad I got the hotel for another night, absolutely NO way I'd have made the drive home with how I was feeling leaving the expo.

also going through my gallery I'm just now realizing I *did* see the caracal the first day........ at a completely different booth across the expo center for an extra 200 bucks(???)

sooooooo... yeah that's apparently a thing. I did stretch my budget by 50 bucks (bad) but I had budgeted in about a 100$ grace amount. so not *good*, but I can obviously still pay the monthly bills and such. been saving for this event the whole year so it's all good. 👍

I'll do a full spread of my loot when I'm home and don't have to carry everything from one end of the hotel room to the other bc half of this place has no lights in it for some reason(?)

#I did mask the entire time and actually saw a few other people also doing so! #I only had pics of her (the caracal) in the other booth bc I snapped a pic of the fox mounts there for consideration #taxidermy #vulture culture #oddities #Columbus Oddities and Curiosities Expo

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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Meanwhile, in Scotland.

#me @ me: don't say it... don't say it... #vid

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aaaand the answer is.... *drumroll*

NEITHER!

i went back for the goat and then saw they'd put more taxidermy out as people had bought the ones previously in those locations.

so i got a fullbody caracal for 50 bucks more than the goat skull and 100 less than the lowest priced raccoon on the table. she literally cost less than a *squirrel* im screaming

i am. SO GLAD i went back home halfway through the drive down to get the rolly cart lmao. shit's heavy :'o

these two are the bigguns that I'm debating between tomorrow (if they're still there obv)

left is a stunning g.oat, right is a n.yala (not k.udu) and both of them are just. 👌👌👌👌👌

I'm not sure if I wanna keep with the African skulls (this event is the only place I get African animals), I've already nabbed a waterb.uck today(!!!) but at least on ebay there's no full skulls, just horns.

on the other hand, LOOK AT THE G.OAT. ALSO I HAVE NO IDEA THE BREED SO I CAN'T EVEN LOOK THEM UP 😭

#taxidermy #vulture culture #ears need a lil touch-up but hecking heck y'all #there's a reason this seller's booth is the first stop each year #(though they sold the giraffe last year so now it's harder to find them lmao rip) #I got a lot of looks getting back to the car lol #find it hilarious how scandalized some people that *literally bought tickets to this con* are by generic normal taxidermy #like. my dudes. #anyway i also nabbed a giraffe vertebrae so that's fun #and some free-range goat scapulae to paint from the farmer that raised the animals themselves #:3

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#lol he is crazy enough for sure #but also Arceus was smart enough to send a dude so obsessed with safety it has become part of his personality to offset the chaos created #Ingo is like Mythbusters chaotic. top of the line safety regulations to do the dumbest shit in the name of science - @roaringdragon

I am furiously shaking your hand right now this is fantastic

also obsessing over this new(???)(never seen it before???) addition to Ingo's bulbapedia page:

Ingo's Japanese name, Nobori, literally means "up-train", but is also close to the word yamanobori, which means "mountain-climbing". His role in Pokémon Legends: Arceus as the warden of Sneasler, a mountain-climbing Pokémon, may be a reference to this.

"so we need to make a mountain warden" "hey remember that one npc that like 2% of players actually made it to in that one game a decade back? I have a hilarious idea."

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(also this makes the aus where the pearl clan give him a name in their language (Nobori) because he can't remember his own? even more hilarious)

#pokemon