#time for some cows!

[ronkoza]

soft kisses

Tórarin belongs to @littleulvar

#original character #dnd character #stjerne #tórarin #because it was some time i posted these two in their original cow form #and all they need is simple happiness and soft love

[floorpancakes]

#revolutionary girl utena #utena spoilers #rgu #rgu spoilers #twitter repost #the way touga clearly has some kind of care for her and their shared situation but still acts the way he does is so tragic and fucked up tbh #anyway cow dream sequence is an endless fountain of meaning the more context you get and times you watch #getting raw and philosophical over funny cow

[avanii]

Have some more Camerupts! Every cow I draw turns into one it seems, whoops. They're just so fun, such good shapes, just a silly beast with wee volcanoes on its back. I love them.

#camerupt #realistic pokemon #pokemon oras #pokemon rse #team magma #pokemon art #avanii's art #some more battle poses this time #bottom left is based on that lil look they give you when you have high friendship in ORAS and you send it out for battle #just a lil side look like I gotcha imma win this battle for you #TOO CUTE #I love cows and I'm upset I can't pet this one #fanart #pokemon

[mishapen-dear]

i keep thinking about minecraft mechanics and all the old history bad keeps referencing like. did he every troll vesuvius by throwing shit into his inventory to fill it up. did issac newton hold the apple in his offhand. was the offhand even an option back then. when qbbh fell to earth was hunger nonexistent but for the howling pain of wounds that could only be healed by food. were people just frantically chowing down on pork while atlantis collapsed. they couldnt even swim animation

#qsmp badboyhalo #all their beds got broken no wonder their spawn was invalid </3 #what about the witch hunt #the witch trials. imagine someone pulling stacks and stacks of rope out of their inventory #the library of alexandria makes even more sense in a mc context tbh stuff used to go up in flames SO fast #but also. Imagine. theres just pigs dying for food all the time until one day cows and chickens ALSO start dropping food #ans theb theres the qsmp islands where all these mods are present #some of them different on different islands #which implies that everything off the island is normal mc but on the islands its modded #because no one is every surprised by pressing e for inventory but they Sire Are Surprised by nightmare stalkers #also lemme know if this appears in the mc tags and ill edit if

[dicketysplit]

following @bovineblogger has reminded me of the cows that graze on my local heath at home - this year they were in a different spot than usual, so we got to go and visit them on our Christmas Day walk!

they were very curious (this one licked my sister just after the video ended, lovingly coating her in snot) and they were very excited that a couple of other people had brought them a big tray filled with grains! i wish i could add more than one video per post - merry cowmas 🐄

#bovineblogger #usually they’re a. not here at christmas and b. much further away on the Heath which is farther than my dad (and. tbh. me now) can walk to #so this was a treat!!!!! #they moved (I won’t make the pun it’s too easy) on the 28th December #there were some babies too #beautiful baby cow eyes #and one bull whose horns were starting to come through (also a baby) so he was scratching his head on a thorny bush #having the time of his life #merry cowmas

[stardryad]

Fluffy cow,,,

|RedBubble|

#this is mewpet fault btw #she keeps showing me highland cow pics #AND PLUSHIES #i made it some time ago but might as well post it while im working on some stuff :> #highland cow #cottagecore #digital illustration #cozy art

[bonefall]

As a big sibling with a lil sib with epilepsy, when they read TBC they Honestly thought if they got struck with lightning reciting the lord's prayer they'd be cured like Shadowsight is from their epilepsy. I had a discussion with them on how that's not how it works, but ge was so upset they took it away from Shadowsight that he hasn't picked the books back up and has stated that 'he hopes Ashfur wins and starts a new religion.,'

I do not even know how to respond to this besides saying that your little sibling is 100% right to be pissed and I now also hope Ashfur wins and starts a new religion.

#Legit I did not know that Shadow's epilepsy being taken away was so deeply upsetting to SO MANY people #I put it back because putting it back was just the right thing to do (even asked the small following I had at the time what type to portray #(they picked the full tonic-clonics. I would have just done localized or absence if they'd asked me to) #And I did all that research for one single anon who asked for an epilepsy herb guide #So holy cow I didn't know that SO MANY people were snubbed and upset by canon's choice to do that. I'm so sorry #Your little sib isn't missing anything btw they do just go on to confirm that Shadow no longer has seizures. #In book 4 of TBC they say that it was all Ash all along and that's what they've stuck with into ASC #I'm sitting on an essay about... That plot thread. The Ashfur Grooming one #But it's in my drafts because I was a bit afraid of controversy #because i think it was written poorly. Even on top of Book 4's pivot to retcon away Shadow's seizures #I know a lot of people like and are invested in the grooming subplot of TBC. But. I think it was executed AWFULLY #and its really telling that THIS is the plot they tout as grooming *by name* in-canon.-- #--and that Shadow has to 'pay' for what he 'did' in some way as if there was ever a choice in the books they wrote-- #--But seemingly didn't even seem to clock that what was happening in Spotted's H was grooming until there was intense backlash #and a big part of my contention is the way that Book 4 suddenly tries to retcon that Shadow was groomed from the time he was a child #when it was actually part of book 1 that Shadow was able to personally tell the difference between a real vision and Ash's suggestions-- #--BECAUSE he didn't have an accompanying seizure #So like... just know it's also NOT just 'you' if you connected to the character that was epileptic. It WAS there. It was a BIG part of him #Book 4 retconned it so that his epilepsy was part of a long scheme when before that point it was part of him #''ohh ur destiny is to see into the shadows'' BULL SHIT!! #bone babble

[waterdroid]

Oh my Lord, oh, we really did it now

I’m a monster and you’re my sacred cow

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Had had this idea for a Harrow illustration since someone pointed out “Los Ageless” by St Vincent is a very HtN song, hope y’all can read my chicken scratch handwriting!

#cw blood #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #htn #htn spoilers #harrow the ninth spoilers #the ''sacred cow'' line has aged... ''funnily'' #anyways hopefully once i have more time i can actually make some nona fanart #and make a part 2 of my dumb alecto predictions

[girlboyburger]

wish i had a consistent character to show for this, but since i don't i just used icons :0]

blank template for those that want it under the cut

#different urls at the time of posting each of these too. from uglyramen to vhsanimal to girlboyburger #slowly my lines get thinner and thinner... #this was rlly cool to put together actually. i ended up digging up like #2016 and before art too #like 2015 is when i became a furry #its rlly evident that i used to just mimic the art styles of furry artists with styles i like #like straight up i found pieces tht i traced (didnt post) from like. okamiwolven and ashketchumsays (i think they go by luxebites now?) #waves my hand #its neat. idk. ive stumbled across pieces in the wild of young slash newer artists clearly referencing or tracing my art #i never thought id be the artist that ppl would learn through like that #im not encouraging creditless tracing btw. but. idk. its hard to articulate the kinds of feelings i get from seeing the cycle #of imitating/tracing to developing your own style but w my stuff #i think it makes me feel nice #its cool that some ppl find my art inspiration or aspirational in that way #this isnt like a weird humblebrag or anything btw its just cool #its also RLLY neat to see the things i was clearly trying to do come through stronger over the years #the lines on the coat of otto in the first icon was my attempt at including crosshatching esque texture #and now i do that For Real with cow's hair and more recently with shadowing #shrugs #ive rambled for too long now. hello tag reader. i hope u have a good night #my art #art style timeline

[izhape]

no offense intended really but this genuinely must be coming from someone who has no experience around cattle. there's a huge difference between putting an animal out of its misery humanely because it will absolutely suffer and die a slow painful death and comparing this to disabled people is just so ucky to me....

#txt #no shade to this person i understand where they're coming from but. it isn't kind at all to make these animals suffer for some moral high #ground. source: lived on a ranch and my family are ranchers #it's not because 'its just an animal' that's a cruel way to see it #also my rancher family is INDIGENOUS we know how to properly take care of animals they are not colonizer settler ranchers. to clarify #this is about the two-headed calf that got popular on here for a while #anyways um. cows can't tell you how much pain they're in a majority of the time. it's great that we want to try our best to help them live #a happy life even if it's short it is genuinely a nice idea but in reality she was going to get sores and infections and she was in constant #agony

[shyshitter]

y’all look at these wips i found🥺🥺

#rip to all art requests i started and never finished #some of these are super old holy cow #from classic spnblr days #i miss her #also i am actively drawing something rn so hopefully ill post something else tonight or tomorrow :) #ive also been very sad and grieving so that might not happen who knows #wouldn’t be the first time ive promised and not delivered #spn #spn art #my art #supernatural art #supernatural #deancas art #dean winchester art #castiel art #destiel art #castiel #dean winchester #deancas #destiel #sam winchester art #rowena macleod #sam winchester #rowena Macleod art #samwena #sam x rowena

[clotpolesonly]

i wonder what kind of money laundering scheme the Lynches had set up, cuz ain't nobody nowhere believed that that cattle farm would make them multi millions of dollars

#Niall Lynch #Declan Lynch #TRC #tags by me #i neeeeeeeed to know how Niall made his fairy market money look like normal legit income #and not illegal magical artifact trade and smuggling or whatever #cuz they ended up with $9 mil in trust for the kids and presumably a decent amount of money for regular usage and for Niall himself #a good amount in a business fund for whatever dealings needed dealing #how many off shore accounts did Niall have? did he pay taxes on anything?? how much can a herd of cows conceivably make??? #he had to have had some shell companies and ''foreign investors'' and idk a bunch of laundromats in downtown henrietta or something #i'm already headcanoning that Declan ended up in charge of the operation by the time he was like 14 #his eye for detail would be invaluable in washing that money i'm just saying #and he would need to know everything to be able to keep it going once Niall was dead so he had to have been deeply involved #i'm just saying

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Daughter of the House of Dreams: A Fragment

Author's Note: This is the opening to a long-abandoned "Sleeping Beauty" retelling that I no longer plan to write, but I still like it as a piece of prose, and it sparked my enduring interest in second-person narration, so it feels relevant, and why should long-dead authors be the only ones who get to have their unfinished fragments published?

If you ever travel to Monetta City, be sure to visit Faraway Lane. Walk past the glittering new shops, and the shoppers in their bright silk dresses and top hats, and you'll find a cozy stone shop at the end of the street. This shop isn't grand and mighty like the other shops. It won't sniff and turn you away if your clothes aren't the latest fashion. It's a grandmotherly old shop that shakes its head at the prancing and preening of the younger shops, and invites you in instead. It holds no wares in its windows; it hardly has windows at all. But it has a warm and wide wooden door, with a shingle hanging above—Alessia Day, maker of dreams.

Don't ponder the sign's message too long—it means exactly what it says. Just slip inside, shut the door behind you, and look. Don't breathe too deeply, unless you want a week of crazy dreams, but allow yourself one gasp of astonishment. You won't be able to stop yourself. No living person has failed to feel awe toward the rows and rows of shelves, longer than streets and taller than palaces, filled to bursting with glass bottles in such bright colors that the dresses in the other shops' windows would weep in envy. Some bottles are the size of thumbnails. Most fit comfortably in the palm. Some are as large as breadboxes or steamer trunks or carriage horses, but the shelves manage to fit them all. And each bottle is filled to the brim with dreams.

If you don't understand, ask Alessia Day. You'll find her at a counter half a mile from the door, polishing bottles and humming a song you've heard but can't remember. She's an old woman now, and proud of it, but squint your eyes and start to daydream, and you'll see her as I remember her—a willow-wand girl with shining brown hair and eyes that sparkle with half-formed jokes.

Tell this girl how pretty she is (she'll laugh and call you crazy) and ask about her dreams. She'll tell you of her stock and sell you any dream you ask for—daydreams and pipe dreams, dreams of love, dreams of adventure, dreams of loved ones lost and loved ones found and people you've never met but wish you had. She'll show you dreams of lush and perfect islands, dreams where fishes fly through the air, and dreams where people swim the seas with fishes' tails. She'll pull down dreams that last a second but linger a lifetime, dreams that fill a month of stormy nights, dreams that fade on waking and dreams that drown out memories. If you let her, she'll talk of dreams until you drift off, and she'll bottle up your dream while you doze.

But if you're smart (I know you are) you'll step to the counter with a clear glass bottle, empty of everything but air, and ask for her story instead. She'd distill it in a dream for you, and be glad to do it—I once saw her whip it up in half a minute, and I'll bet she's even faster now. Buy the dream, but don't drink it right away. You won't be ready for it. Linger in the shop a while. Hear the story first from Alessia Day's lips, in that voice of hers that's sweeter than singing.

You won't believe half of it, but when you stagger from the shop and wander the empty, starlit streets, you'll ponder over passages until you stumble into bed at sunrise. And when you wake, the world will be different—you'll see tiny footprints on the windowsills, know things about the shadows on the walls, tip your hat to creatures in the corner of your eye, and realize there is another color no one else can see. You'll laugh and call it your imagination, but every second Tuesday, you'll start to wonder if the old woman was right, if the things she told you were true.

If you drink the dream she made, you'll know. I'll understand if you don't—some things are easier not to know. But if you do, and dream through her story, come to my house and ring the bell. My man will let you in—he'll know you by the wonder on your face. He'll bring you to my study, set you in my oldest, softest chair, and get us both settled with a steaming pot of tea. Then, once you've finished babbling, I'll close my eyes and tell you my part in the tale.

#the bookshelf progresses #i had completely forgotten the story that this was supposed to be the prologue to #then over the weekend i found the plot summary again #it was actually pretty cool #it was about this girl whose family served as the most prestigious dream-makers in the nation #because they provide dreams to the famed cursed and sleeping princess #and then she discovers that the princess could have been woken a bunch of times over the century #but her family prevented it because they didn't want to lose their cash cow #and then of course she has to find a way to break the curse #i don't know why i thought having this random dude as narrator was the way to go #(unless the story morphed a lot between initial idea and whatever story i intended to write with this prologue) #he was probably in the prince role #and would marry the princess while remaining friends with alessia #beyond that i have no clue what i was going for #(also i don't think i would do the 'he teams up with this girl and marries someone else' plot if i did it today #because i hate marian halcombe situations where the hero develops a strong dynamic with his adventure partner #only to for some inexplicable reason marry someone pretty and boring) #anyway today's a day where i want to write and don't really have time to #so i'm just posting this instead

[hella1975]

'fucking brunch' 'FUCK brunch' i love this show

#im watching the bear again #they get me fr #also the sydney-tina rivalry? that is so fucking real #ive been lucky ive never had anything like that personally but ive heard some HORROR stories #my mum when she was waitressing through her twenties talks about it like she was fighting wars #and honestly she was. like pissing off the male chefs is part of the job but my GOD if you have a female chef and you piss her off? death #my mum pissed off this chef once who was this really rough woman and for the rest of my mum's time at that job #this woman made her life hell. like all subtle things but she'd hold my mum's food back or she'd make it bad so the customers wouldnt tip #etc etc like she was fucking HORRENDOUS to the point my mum had to quit in the end im pretty sure #and my mum is NOT an easily cowed woman she would have only left bc the impact on her finances was so severely detrimental #that she had to swallow her pride. all bc the woman thought my mum had a bad tone ONE TIME #the bear

[chacerider]

happy birthday ryou (2013 -> 2022)!

#tokusatsu #kamen rider #deno #den o #art #fanart #artwork #art retrospective #... holy cow #as much as i shudder to look at my NEARLY A DECADE OLD art #i gotta admit! I've actually developed some skills! #not as much as I'd like! but some!! #also lol that jump from 2015 to 2017 #that's what having the time to run a daily art blog does for ya huh #imagine if i had that kind of time nowadays... #i'd be too powerful #so it's for the best that i don't. #anyway ilu ryou happy birthday for until forever.