For #InternationalBeaverDay here are two wooden beaver effigies spotted at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian:
object name: beaver figure culture: Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) place of origin: British Columbia date: c. 1900 materials: wood, paint dimensions: 16.5 cm. I.; 15 w.; 28 h. NMAI catalogue # 21/1355
object name: beaver bowl culture: Tlingit place of origin: Klukwan, Alaska date: c. 1850 materials: wood dimensions: 33 cm. I.; 16 w.; 13 h. NMAI catalogue # 23/8417
fruit squirrels
I figured it would be a day before you began to bow down, but it's been two and NO NONE IS FOLLOWING ME!!! I am the Great and Righteous yet Evil Super Dictator named Floyd!!! in a few years, I'll be running earth, but no one cares. ERRR!!! I NEED FOLLOWERS!! Is this because I said super evil instead of Evil super??? sorry. I'm just trying to record my life as I approach my impending global take-over, yet I'm still not followed. Perhaps it's time to move to twitter...
HANDS OFF
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS THE TONED DOWN VERSION?!🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭😭
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"I have a retainer and a night guard" is something that a 17th century daimyo would say, but a trip to the dentist can leave you uttering the same sentiment...another testament to the kuge(公家)-like existence of jobs that supply dental plans....
“There’s no way that thing hatched straight out of the egg looking like that”
can we just nap all day
Can't stop thinking about how in the Boy and the Heron the old man went to great pains to create a world free of malice but was still unable to create a world free of suffering. So many of the beings there still had to fight and kill, not out of hatred but because the imbalanced empty world was more phantom than substance and there wasn't enough there to sustain all the life trapped in it. That suffering there is not a side effect of evil intent but a side effect of scarcity to the point where sapient beings had no choice but to consume one another. A beautiful microcosm plagued by chaos and death even as it cultivated amazing beauty and stood apart from time. Immune to age and ugliness but at what cost.
I’m still dreaming
Capitalist GF