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Jason Todd: “This is Alfred. He’s been serving the Wayne family since the beginning of time.”

Alfred: “Not quite, Master Jason. At the beginning of time, the Waynes weren’t around yet.”

#immortal alfred pennyworth #batfam #batposting #casual lore drops #cryptic nonsense is hilarious when spoken by a serenely polite hypercompetent butler

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Was inspired by @illegiblehandwriting1's amazing Dear Four Chronicles to write an epistolary between Time and Twilight, where Time writes to Twilight from before his adventure.

I saw that illeg's been working on a Wind one, so I hope I'm not stepping on their toes by writing my favorite LU pair

#dear four chronicles #linked universe #i love twi with every cell of my body

arsanatomica

Religious art leaves out the best part and it’s such a goddamn shame. Livestock, Agriculture and Food is an integral part of any culture and we all need to be pushing for more realistic sheep in religious art. #FATTAILSFORJESUS

hildegard-von-bloggen

“How think ye? If a man have a hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains and listen for the clappeth of it’s itinerant cheeks?” - Matthew 18:12, the bible

arsanatomica

CLAPPETH….

arsanatomica

I made this post a long time ago and never posted the follow up post, so here it is. Additional info on Fat tail sheep

Fat tailed sheep is not a single specific breed of sheep. It’s a catchall word like “Health care worker”.

There’s tons and tons of different breeds. They all store fat in their tails, but fall into two main categories: WIDE tails and LONG tails

Wide tails store fat in the rump area and have no visible tails.

Long tails store fat in the tail itself, which vary in length in different breeds. In the olden days, people took pride in breeding sheep with the longest tail. They are not so popular today as it’s hard to find a decent tail cart on Amazon.

Speaking of Tail carts, they come in different styles and designs. We dont have any that are actually preserved, but old drawing of them show different wheels harnesses.

Some of them are literally just skateboards

Back in the day, breeding sheep with long dragging tails was all the rage. Nowadays different tails types have been developed to prevent them from dragging their tails on the ground. Such as the “folded tail” or the “Only fat at the base” Tail

Despite fat tail sheep being the most common sheep breeds in the world, most people in the west have never heard of them. The West likes Wool Sheep. Fat tails are strictly meat sheep and have little useful wool. They also do poorly in colder climates

There’s a huge community of shepherds on youtube that script, choreograph and shoot elaborate videos for their sheep complete uplifting music to highlight their best qualities (for sale and stud) It is fantastic. Such as this one:

People kept bringing up Fat Bottomed Girls. Ya’ll are wrong. These are fat bottomed BOYS. Sheep are often continuously bred, so the females are constantly getting pregnant, giving birth and nursing.

That’s very hard on the body, so they can’t build up as much fat as the boys.

The fattest sheep, the ones with the truly VAST tails, rocking them little carts are ALWAYS males.

This is why the Bible specifically states that ONLY the rumps of the Males are to fit to be offered to the lord……

Picture: God desiring the tail

“And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the WHOLE rump” -Leviticus 3:9

I mean… look.

Arguably these are just minor details and doesnt matter….

But beyond it’s teachings the bible is also a work of literature about life in the ancient world. And on some level these kinds of small details bring a sort of richness to these depictions of real…

Ancient people bred out sheep with huge butts, took the largest sheep butts, set them on fire and prayed over the burning butt. It checks out.

Didn't mean for this to become my ATLA shitpost account...

but someone needs to stop me before I finish writing the dumbest ficlet in the history of AO3 or the ATLA fandom.

No? No volunteers? We'll see how y'all feel when Foggy Swamp!Zuko drops.

#atla #atla zuko #zuko's foggy swamp-sona #no i don't care about the mechanics of who adopted him in this au #but someone did and we gotta have words #hiya zu here im gonna kill ma dad #atla crackfic

Was thinking about that post where schoolkids can’t help but find mentions of Sokka in all their textbooks. And my historian-brain realized that he might have gotten additional things misattributed to him—such as the inventions by the canonically-anonymous Mechanist—like they’re “Mark Twain” quotes

#atla #atla sokka

I should make a collection on AO3 entitled “Zuko gets adopted by increasingly implausible parental figures.” First there’s the sensible options: Iroh, Hakoda, Piandao, the crew of his season 1 ship, a “nice Earth Kingdom family”. Then the out-there ones: the Yuyan Archers, the Herbalist from “The Blue Spirit”, June the bounty hunter, Bato, Jet, pirates. Then we dive into the ridiculous: the Herbalist’s **cat** from “The Blue Spirit”, the dragons from “The Firebending Masters”, literal serial killer Hama, and, of course, himself from the future

#ao3 fanfic #atla #my bb boy zuko #the boulder takes issue with ozai’s a+ parenting

lostcryptids

the problem with horror now is there is no men in little tank tops and booty shorts

To all the people in the notes wondering how we got anywhere before GPS: we got lost a lot. Like a lot. If it was a new place we would pull out the maps, we all had local maps in the car and then these huge huge huge books of maps called atlases and we'd have one for every state we'd be driving through

And before a trip we would plot our whole entire route, and go back over it every night at the hotel, and we would write all the directions down on a little note and someone would be in charge of navigation and making sure we didn't miss any turns.

For local stuff all directions would be described in reference to other things. You still see this when older folks give directions. Do you ever get the "do you know where the ruby Tuesday is? No? How about the Buffalo wild wings? Yeah okay so from there go down til you see a Wendy's and turn left..." instead of them just telling u the address so u can plug it into ur GPS? That's why.

I have fond memories of getting helaciously lost in Kentucky because we had to go around a bad accident, and we didn't have a Kentucky map because we hadn't planned on going thru Kentucky and we stopped at a gas station to get a map but they didn't have any and my dad came back to the car swearing up and down about these goddamn Kentucky communists who didn't even sell maps in their gas stations,

halomancer

This sort of language is still preserved in some backpacking communities, as well. I can’t count the number of times I’ve said something like “yeah, just head bayward until you hit the giant sequoia, and it’s the building with the ionic columns” and been told that my directions are utterly insane

headspace-hotel

Yeah this is also the norm in rural areas where the internet service might be...spotty

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

stabethadeathwhisper

The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.

His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing

thoodleoo

one of the funniest sections of pliny the elder's natural histories to me is in book 30 when pliny excitedly says that moles are the animal that magicians love most and then goes on to explain that it's because moles are creatures becursed and despised by nature itself

thoodleoo