Summer / Winter
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Plate LXXVI of Lives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton in the coyote chapter of Volume 1 part 2
Coyote in Summer Coat life study by E T Seton, Sept 1886
Art shows a somewhat grumpy looking coyote standing in profile while facing the right. The closer rear leg is a bit further back.
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P O O F 💥
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Winter in Summer
I work from home alone.
I raise my eyes to the window,
and
look out towards the hills, cows.
Magpies snap up worms from our lawn.
At lunch, I stand in thongs and a coat,
watching everything between heaven and Earth.
The wind wails of Winter, yet it is Summer.
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prophecy girl buffy au
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happy birthday gojo!!!! 12.7.23!!
because my hand writing might be hard to read:
page 1:
Dec 7th, After mission
page 2:
Satoru: Suguru... It's my birthday, you know.
Suguru: Oh? You could have told me earlier (Don't expect a present so late, though).
Satoru: I don't really care much about special days like that.
Satoru: Just an excuse for my clan to be more annoying than usual.
page 3:
Suguru: Really? I'm surprised you're not jumping at the opportunity to make people worship you for a day.
Satoru: Well, yea but- (Suguru: No shame....)
Satoru: I've just never spent it with someone else.
Satoru: Not anyone I cared about, at least til now.
page 4:
Suguru: Wh- Well, we were on a mission all day, does it really count? (Sucks to fight curses on your birthday.)
Satoru: But it was the most fun I've ever had on my birthday!
Satoru: So... Thanks (or whatever).
page 5:
Suguru: Wow, you actually said thank you!
Satoru: So what?!
Suguru: Maybe you are growing up, Satoru.
Satoru: I take it back!
page 6:
Suguru: Hahaha!
page 7:
Satoru: Hehe...
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So I went and had a look at how old Mikbell is for Reasons and because it’s very funny to me
He’s 22
“Oh 7 year age difference isn’t that long” it is when it’s almost 20% of your life, but isn’t when you’re unionising
Cuz see here’s the thing: Mikbell’s attitude towards Chilchuck is pretty fucking standard anti-union propaganda that bosses like to spread to workers
“They just want a cut of your money, you don’t need them, why would you share the profits of your hard work”
It’s also a complete and 1000% ignorance of the reason the union was started in the first place: people were literally using half-foots including Chilchuck himself as monster bait
(Big “capitalism consumes us all” metaphor energy)
Chilchuck made himself boss of all the half-foots on the island because he has Chronic Dad Disease and no one else was going to stop them from being mulched for profit
This is also why he always demands pay upfront, not after the job is over
Now, we don’t actually know when Mikbell reached the Island relative to Chilchuck, but since Chilchuck worked there as an adventurer long enough to be jaded, start a union, and become ubiquitous? It’s been a while
It’s also been long enough that a good chunk of the other half-foots cannot be original members, because they’d definitely have known about the succubus trap thing; starting unions is fucking hard work and people need to very clearly understand why they need the union, or you just get the Mikbell situation where no one bothers
Those original members would have told Mikbell exactly goddamn why they need that union and why they’re lucky as hell to have Chilchuck
They formed the union. They know exactly why it’s important
Now, we don’t know how much of Mikbell’s continued existence is pure luck of having met Kabru first instead of a succubus hunter party (or similar) vs how much is just the direct result of Chilchuck’s unionising having changed the Island’s work culture so that exploiting half-foots like that is no longer done
But hooooooo-boy does he look like a lucky little shit for having survived blowing off the guild that was specifically and recently formed to stop people mulching them for money long enough to be a dick about it
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Yes, my donkey situation really wasn’t promising 4 years ago! It was impossible to go anywhere near Pirlouit when I first bought him, he’d just run away and hide at the sight of humans (whereas Pampy could be haltered without a fuss). When he had that injury a few weeks after arriving here and nobody could catch him to clean the wound I thought he was going to die, it was awful. I contacted every vet I could (and it was one of them who told me “well either the wound heals on its own or the donkey dies, not much to be done”), and a donkey sanctuary, and a nature reserve in the region that has wild mountain goats, to ask if (and how) they catch their wild goats in case of disease, and I had the mason build a chute for the corral but couldn’t get Pirlouit in there... It was so stressful, and in the following year I spent so much time trying to get Pirou used to a) my presence, b) the halter, c) other humans, just so vet & farrier visits would be possible. But I didn’t think I would be able to do much with him beyond that, and definitely never thought I would ride him!
I think he either grew up as a feral donkey, left to his own devices in his pasture with very little contact with humans, or was badly treated in some way. I remember making a relieved post maybe 3 months after I got him, saying I was now able to sit in his vicinity and sometimes after half an hour he’d come and let me pet his nose. Which was huge progress! But any sudden movement and he’d be gone, and I couldn’t just walk up to him, he only came near me when I was squatting or sitting down and if I stood up no matter how slowly, he’d run away. It felt a bit hopeless at times.
We’re good friends now but he’s still quite scared of everything and everyone—cars especially. For the past year and a half I’ve been taking him on little walks along the road (like in this video) and gesturing at drivers to drive past us very slowly. Occasionally someone we knew stopped to chat and Pirlouit would get a chance to gingerly sniff the car and realise it isn’t an apex predator with a donkey-based diet but just a big metal box. When it comes to riding him, we started inside the tiny corral where he couldn’t escape and start running and throw me head-first into a thorny bush, then when I was reassured that he had more or less predictable reactions when I was on his back, I started riding him in the pasture, then in my woods where there’s no chance of encountering anyone. This month was my first time riding him out in the real world—we met strangers! And a tractor! And chickens he doesn’t know! It was all very scary but Pirlouit got through it bravely :)
@the-puffinry This is the pic I was talking about where he looks like a stuffed toy <3
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Classic Country Style And How to Achieve It, 1990
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@mothcrumbs preens you. preens you preens you preens you.
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you guys do realize that this europe jake is gonna be absolutely different cause its gonna be
winter europe jake
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rhulk, our disciple.... please assist us. we have forgotten our sunscreen and the pain is unbearable.
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