#the fox is reynard

[glavilio]

Bellin the Ram and Reynard's father from The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox, illus. W. Frank Calderon (via etc.usf)

#art #archive #furry #sheep #fox #reynard

[enchantedbook]

'Reynard the Fox' by Josef Wolf

#josef wolf #reynard the fox #fairytale #illustration

[bonefall]

Bit of a random one but rereading the parable of the squirrels got me curious: how would clan cats (or just thunderclan in particular) view black/melanistic squirrels? Have any of them ever seen one? Im not sure how common they are in the uk, but i know they can be relatively prevalent in areas that have them sometimes

Black squirrels are nothing more than a simple morph! They get common in areas that have melanistic genes present as a result of simple genetic drift, though I've seen it proposed that black fur is an advantage in cold areas.

The gene is rare in the populations the Warriors come across, so they almost never see it. In spite of ShadowClan's unwillingness to control the gray squirrel population, ThunderClan is so aggressive about it that the pool stays shallow. Red Squirrels (pishkaf) do not have this gene. Only Gray Squirrels (chakchak) do.

So every time a black squirrel manages to occur, it's treated like a dire omen. Even ShadowClan takes it seriously.

Black as a color is associated with day and night cycles, because of Moon Shadow, Sun Shadow, and Shadowstar. Gray Squirrels are associated with war and benefit at the suffering of others. These things together herald great upheaval-- so cataclysmic that it would likely not be an "honorable conflict."

If you came to your Cleric with this omen, they would be struck with a look of terrible alarm. They'd be interested in its context, what it was doing, if it was eating anything, what its surroundings looked like. Someone like BB!Runningnose, interested in supporting Brokenstar's ambitions, might spin it as a positive sign.

Most Clerics would announce that the squirrel needs to be killed IMMEDIATELY, and launch a massive hunt to destroy it. What would come next would likely depend on the culture of the time, but for the most part I can imagine some sort of mass "purification" ritual. The whole Clan trying to identify how they can avoid the cataclysm, one of the few times where they see a glorious war as a bad thing.

The cat who kills the squirrel would likely earn an Honor Title. It's also very likely that the body of the animal is treated as a very powerful material-- burned to ash to prevent its use in forbidden magic or carefully preserved and made into something special, no in-between.

(Thinking about it... thanks for the idea I'll totally do this for Brokenstar's Cataclysm lmao. The sinew of the black squirrel is probably used to re-string Runny's acorn necklace.)

#Note that this is why Clanmew doesn't use a generic term for squirrel #Reds and Grays have maaaaassively different cultural meanings! #You can make Pishchak or Chakaf on the spot but it would hit weird to a Clan cat. #Closest English example; it's like calling a fox a 'reynard' or a wolf a 'lupine beast' #Clan culture #Pishkaf om chakchak #Squirrels #Gray squirrel #Red squirrel #Better Bones Au

[uwmspeccoll]

Fabulous Friday

What would one show in a series called Fabulous Friday? Well, fables of course! So, for our first set of fables in the series, we present The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox, Newly Corrected and Purged from all Grossness in Phrase and Matter. When I first encountered this book in our collection, quite by happenstance, I thought I was looking at an early 16th-century imprint, but in fact it was printed in 1701 for Edward Brewster in London. That was a little surprising; why would an early 18th-century book be printed to look like a 15th- or 16th-century book? It turns out there was something of a tradition in printing the English-language Reynard in facsimile and using the same late 15th-century cuts for the following two centuries.

William Caxton, of course, was the first to print an English translation of Reynard in 1481, but it was his successor Wynkyn de Worde who first used woodcuts to illustrate his own edition of Reynard in the late 1490s. Those same woodcuts appear to have been used in subsequent editions well into the late 17th century. Edward Brewster was the last printer to own de Worde’s blocks, but by his time the blocks were too worn to be used properly. So, Brewster recut a new set based on de Worde’s original, and had his own initials “EB” carved into the image, as can be seen here.

Brewster published his first edition of Reynard with de Worde’s original blocks in 1662. His second edition of 1671 was the first to use the revised cuts, which continued to be used in subsequent editions of 1676, 1681, 1694, and finally our own edition of 1701. There are a few curious idiosyncrasies in our copy. Among them is that the cut in C1 is printed upside-down. This is also true in previous editions at least as far back as the 1681 edition. There appears to have been no attempt to correct the situation. Another is that the main text, set in a Gothic typeface, was printed on small sheets of paper, with little breathing room for margins. However, when marginalia needed to be added in a more contemporary Roman face, narrow strips of paper were adhered to the edge to increase the surface to be printed. In this way, the pages of the book have two different sizes intermixed throughout the book!

-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Fabulous Friday #fables #Reynard the Fox #Edward Brewster #woodcuts #Wynkyn de Worde #The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox Newly Corrected and Purged from all Grossness in Phrase and Matter.

[artworkofolivia]

medieval illumination feat. a dnd party 

"Local idiots nearly die facing the dreaded Marilith. They blame Mordan, who put them up to this."

(The font is 'king harold' and is based on the Bayeux Tapestry. The latin is from ye olde goog'le tranlsate so latin scholars please kindly avert your eyes haha.)

#dnd #dungeons & dragons #dnd party #dnd art #medieval #this was so much fun and 90% of my motivation was due to the horrific fox #it's the artificer's construct companion and he sounds horrific #something something the reynard tapestry #my art

[ultimateanthropoll]

Massacre Round 21: They robbed me of all my belongings

Crazy Redd (fox; Animal Crossing) vs. Capper (cat; My Little Pony the Movie) vs. Garfield the Deals Warlock (cat; The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs. Reynard the Fox (fox; Reynard the Fox)

Submitters say:

"i just know his cock is massive and swinging in the breeze behind that apron." (Redd)

"he's got fancy gay cat swag" (Capper)

"I mean he's not technically a cat but whatever, cat enough" (Garfield)

"like the og nick wilde" (Reynard)

#idek if Garfield is a scammer but from 2 minutes on the wikia i don't trust him 🤨 #anyway y'all should know Reynard is from like medieval times he's Furry Heritage so show some respect #massacre round #crazy redd #animal crossing #capper #my little pony #my little pony the movie #garfield the deals warlock #the adventure zone #reynard the fox

[isitfurbait]

Reynard the Fox

I wonder if Reynard was a kind of influence albeit subtly to the Robin Hood adaptation. Overall, though, I like to think about him as a historical folklore character rather than a public domain character used for Disney adaptations. He's kinda a center of cultural zeitgeist that features an anthropomorphic animal from its outset. He's a traditional folklore anthropomorphic fox from conception, and already that makes this an interesting character in that regard. I fully accept this as furrybait.

#furrybait #reynard the fox #hazel #anonymous

[thatdogmagic]

Okay, are werefoxes a thing?

Potentially! I don't know yet!

I've tried to limit a lot of my worldbuilding to what's happening in the here and now, lest I just stay caught in WIP hell forever.

Foxes do have a place in a specific thread of werewolf culture, though, appearing primarily in the Fox Hunt, a form of execution.

A human or werewolf is fitted with a fox mask and pelt - both sewn straight onto skin - and sent off running into a designated chunk of territory. Nearly all werewolves in the immediate area will be there in attendance to hunt the victim down and, once caught, wait for the others to harry and tear them to shreds.

Death isn't immediate. It's brutal, and reserved primarily for those that threaten to reveal werewolves' existence to outsiders.

In theory, anyway. In practice, as you might imagine, it's not always that cut and dry.

Why it's a fox has to do with Reynard and Ysengrimus. Though Reynard is recognized as a folk hero, the 'man of the people,' humiliating the church and undermining its leadership, the choice of species wasn't lost on werewolves of that era. Reynard's own pointless cruelties - specifically, the rape of Ysengrimus's wife in the actual RL text - are a stark reminder that commoners see wolves in every devil that exists, and will betray them accordingly. Often horrifically.

#werewolf #werewolves #reynard #fox #werefox #dogasks #doglore #thatartmagic #ch: Esther #not to be confused with Hester

[sinereous]

#fox #fox with keys #keys #symbolism #personal art #digital art #illustration #animal art #fantasy art #digital #Reynard #Gris #pagan #paganism #unlocked

[glavilio]

keith ward's reynard the fox illustrations (via splog)

#i just bought a copy of the book #sooo excited #reynard #reynard the fox #furry #anthro

[enchantedbook]

'Reynard the Fox' by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, illustration by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach, 1857

#reynard the fox #goethe #fable #Illustration #animal illustration #old illustration

[eagle-longing-for-siwa]

Reynard the Fox 1846, Granger

#reynard #reynard the fox #art #artwork #fox #foxes #o praeclarum custodem ovium lupum #praeclarum custodem ovium lupum

[lonesomecowboy]

fox guy 🦊‼️

#his name is reynard and he is a fox :] #em.jpg #my art #fur #foxes

[silverspadesss]

there is definitely not enough time left in the season to explore this properly but if the fox is reynard and pib in another life was tybert, they actually have a really long and bitter history together.

according to the reynard stories (and a couple of aesop’s fables) they once were hunting partners and quite probably partners in their trickery too, possibly going into stories like pinnochio’s together. and then they were caught by a huntsman and while they ran from his hounds the fox told the cat the multitude of tricks he had to get them out of this. the cat, apparently out of fear, ran away and hid, the one trick he could think of, and left the fox to die. the fox very narrowly escaped and, feeling betrayed by his former friend, hated the cat ever since.

i just. the potential for a glimpse of this relationship turned sour is so interesting. especially if pib ends up returning to the trickster realm to get his answers about the giants. we’ve seen in the afterlife scene their tense relationship with the fox’s jabs at cat and his immediate aggression when the cat starts to show a potential deviation from his trickster ways. it’s funny to see that through the lens of them being bitter after the divorce.

it also fits with the whole dilemma of tricksters not supposed to care or trust anyone, since it ended so badly. plus it would work thematically with pib being scared and leaving tomas to his fate in exactly the same way as he abandoned his former friend.

i’m just so excited to reunite with the tricksters now we know there’s something going on there. i can’t wait for what they’ll say to pib and pib’s potential big ‘i quit’ now he’s leaning more towards the life of a character than just an archetype. now he has something to fight for.

#neverafter spoilers #neverafter #d20 #dimension 20 #tricksters #pib #puss in boots #reynard the fox #tybert prince of cats #aesop #brennan and zac could ABSOLUTELY pull of this energy of bitter divorcees #or brothers depending on how you look at it. which would work as well. #ooh. tomas and marco and ricard #his two brothers. pib and the fox and the rabbit #also in a weird way kind of brothers. NARRATIVE FOILS BABEY

[the-swift-tricker]

the fox trickster spirit after watching pib help release the big bad wolf

#neverafter #dimension 20 #puss in boots neverafter #pib neverafter #the big bad wolf neverafter #reynard the fox #swift-tricker's posts

[bizarre-blorbo-bracket]

Round 1 poll 23: Judas Iscariot from the Bible vs Reynard the Fox from mideaval European Folklore

Propaganda under the cut:

Judas Iscariot

so i've always been sort of fascinated with the judas kiss as a thing in the bible. i was just always like dang it's wild that that exists. i would attempt to draw/paint/sketch it constantly in high school and i didn't really know why. the way i learned the name of the garden of gethsemane properly was one time i was feeling extremely faint as one does and as i was gripping my head on the floor of the bathroom, face a few inches from the tile, i just heard gethsemane, gethsemane, gethsemane repeating in my head over and over again. and i was like what the fuck is gethsemane and i looked it up and i was like OH. so fast forward a little little bit and i watch the last days of judas iscariot at a formative teenage year of my life and i am WOWED. i watch that last scene with jesus and judas MANY MANY TIMES. i'm OBSESSED i want to carve it out and eat it. after watching the play in full i show it to my actually catholic friend. she enjoys it. something about judas in that play clicks for me, and suddenly there's this whole context for my relationship with judas that makes a lot of sense to me, a traumatized former catholic. i become a HOUND for all media with judas in it. i am like a connoisseur and archive. i am just obsessed with it. i listen to clown bible in full. it makes me cry every time i listen to it. JUDAS by the reverent marigold WRECKS me because it's explicitly about judas as a scapegoat as an allegory for the trans experience with religion and it is a BANGER. like it's so good. i buy a copy of the script of the last days, of corpus christi by terrence mcnally, of judas by jeff loveness. i listen to several versions of jesus christ superstar in full and i am WOWED i did not expect it to be that good. someone on tiktok says that trans men's vocal chords thicken like cis men's on testosterone but don't lengthen, and that these shorter vocal chords make it easier for us to sing in a strong, natural falsetto. and i think about how jcs is full of really high tenors and briefly i start drawing red lines all over my life like, BOY HAS VISION OF GETHSEMANE AND IS TRANS BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE WANTS HIM TO PLAY A PRINCIPLE ROLE IN JCS??? and it's a brief lapse in sanity that i don't take seriously but one of my favorite jcs jesuses also had a weirdly prophetic vision of himself playing the part in jcs (i'm obsessed with him), and i'm like okay. i don't know what to do with all that information. anyway. i haven't played anyone in jcs and likely never will but i am still very attached to judas as like a mythological figure and symbol. i wrote an essay about him for an essay class that ended up being 19 pages unspaced. prof was warned beforehand that it was going to be long and she was very nice and encouraging about it um so thank god for that. yeah i have the absolute weirdest relationship with judas. and it has only been magnified with each new media and seeing people's various takes on judas as either redemptive/antihero/tragic figure/scapegoat/etc etc etc. currently obsessed with the parallels between him and jesus and him and mary magdalene in jcs. jcs ended up kind of extending the obsession to the three of them. i have a bust of jesus looking so so forlorn in my room. impulse buy. anyway. love him deeply obsessed with him turned me insane i think

Reynard the Fox

I feel like a mega weirdo for finding this medieval archetypal creature so endearing, especially considering the atrocities he commits in the stories he’s a part of. There’s just something so fun about a really old story about a bunch of morally grey animals engaging in shenanigans meant to satirize and mirror our society.

#judas iscarot #bible #reynard the fox #folklore