the cats are alive, the cats are dead

Vulture Culture-specific sideblog of briggsnotmyers. Will contain bones, furs/pelts, discussions and pictures of dead things and what to do with them. Also featuring some spiritual feelings I have.

[sabertoothcattery]

Had a nightmare which involved shapeshifter people living in the nonexistent wilderness in my backyard but I think one of them was Spirit?? Except she had these pale yellowy green eyes where I always pictured her with yellow/golden eyes? But apparently that's a shade wolves can actually have. She stayed as a wolf all the time bc she hated her family and wanted to stay out of their human drama, and dream me was like Mood because my dream family was also awful. I was 3 generations away from a shapeshifter, I couldn't shift but I could understand people in their animal forms. My aunt had been a shifter but she had been locked up in an attic for most of her life and then killed for being "a freak." The leader of the shapeshifters (a lion) found out we existed and wanted me and my dream siblings to marry back into the group but my parents hated the shifters and tried to send us away somewhere except our plane crashed. So I tried to join the shifters but some creepy stuff happened and then I met maybe-Spirit who told me it was better for me to stay away. Actually now I think about this she reminds me of the wolf girl from the Den of Shadows books...

[sabertoothcattery]

Watching a Blue Whale Get Vacuumed Is Surprisingly Satisfying

Even the ocean's behemoths get a little dusty sometimes.

Please enjoy the Whale Bath

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Me:  Alright, man, I got, uh, a bottle of Mike’s, and some incense I bought at a head shop that just says “fruit” on it, and, like, a candle, and some bread, and my deep and all-consuming love for you, and a whole lotta personal shit.  Let’s do this.

Odin, high upon his throne in Hildskjalf, rubbing his temples:  the hell does this bitch want this time

[sabertoothcattery]

Updates

GOD it’s not letting me upload photos atm but I found a four-point buck dead in my stream two days after Thanksgiving and I got him out last week and he’s beautiful! There have been a lot of downed trees this year clogging up the water and I’m fairly certain he just got tripped up in them and broke something and then drowned (he was under one and on top of another two). This happened to a yearling doe probably ten(?) years ago, that was the first bone I ever touched actually. 

You know how your body can sometimes go 100% but then it forgets how to do literally anything else? Yeah I hauled this waterlogged boy who probably weighs more than I do up and out to his new resting place and then hyperventilated while walking home nearly blind, took a whole shower, then almost barfed. idk yall. he wasn’t even that stinky. His name is Shallows and he’ll probs be good to go by spring break. If something was desperate enough to dig up and consume my groundhog goop something will probably eat him.

I guess for now that he’s a yearling, the teeth will prove it given time. Dad struck another visibly young one with the truck a few weeks ago. That’s all the deaths I know of. The most dad’s seen together recently was 16, plus the 6 known fawns of the year (now probably minus 1 or 2) so maybe around 20 total now. Nobody’s seen any bucks since the season opened.

We also have 2 or possibly 3 foxes. One bright orange fluffy red, another tall/lanky oaky russet red, and possibly a grey based on Dad’s description but I’m not certain. Neither appears to be Brokenleg from last winter, so he’s moved on in one manner or another.

[natural-selections]

Even though this woolly rhino was born 8000 years BC (Before Christmas), it’s still willing to try new things!

[gecko097]

A small portion of my collection (Oh and thats a house sparrow btw and the Morning Dove was taken legally with a hunting license)

[glittergroovy]

[kaijutegu]

this is the arctic fox mount of positive vibes, gentle faces, and comfortable posing. seeing this mount will protect you from the harsh gazes, zoologically improbable expressions, and deeply flawed concepts and execution of bad taxidermy.

[lemortdarthur]

Self care isn’t always washing your hair and wearing nice clothes. Sometimes, it’s doing more difficult tasks like summoning an ancient entity to help around the house or finding the right number of bones and the right drink to appease the old gods that hang around you.

[devinellekurtz]

The wolf mother Mor lived with her daughter Awyr in the eastern plains. In the sun they travelled and played. In the moonlight Mor hunted and then together they feasted. At dawn one day Mor returned to find Awyr slain by a young hunter. She cried to the star god Eruhan and asked him to bring her daughter back, but Awyr’s spirit had left her little body. “Though you seem to meet her here, flesh to flesh, your child is somewhere far beyond. You can chase her for eternity in the living realm but you will never reach the place she’s gone. She is always just over the edge of the horizon. If you wish to leave this earthly form, you can join her before she reaches the depths of the current. If you choose this path, neither you nor she will ever see another soul again.” Mor agreed to the terms of the star-god and was swept away by a strong wind. Eruhan was so moved by the mother’s love for her child that he granted her the ability to walk among the living when the sun shone and to join Awyr beneath the current when the moon rose. Mor found herself each night in the dawn between life and death, the space between earth and the current of the stars. There she found Awyr and they live together each night in a place just beyond the living world. They run through the same fields but don’t disturb the grasses. Sometimes you can hear them, softly, in the distance. They speak of things to come far beyond the horizon where they meet. Some call this the language of the leaves.

[kalkydri]

Ivory-billed woodpeckers, Campephilus principalis at the Natural History Museum, London

[lynayru]

Skull doodle. Critique is welcome.

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[briggsnotmyers]

We wish you a merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas

and a happy 

new deer!!!!!

[fab-bladesmith]

Raven Folder High Carbon steel blade, hand-carved ebonized oak handle.

[sabertoothcattery]

one of the reasons i first followed you is because I thought you were super cool, and I still think you're super cool.

im so fucking touched by this knowledge??? you are so kind please accept this dancing pikachu in lieu of a physical hug and please also know that i love you????

[duncantheartist]

All of the ‘already dead’ insects that I found over a week in France and in the last few days in Norfolk. These are going to form an artwork that will include all of the dead insects that I have found in 2018. Work in Progress.

[sabertoothcattery]

Miriam?

http://sabertoothcattery.tumblr.com/tagged/miriam

Miriam is a doe I found roadkilled a few years ago. I hauled her off the road and put her to rest in little glade that forms where walnut trees kill off most other growth in their area. A big, very red doe came by the next day and sniffed her body for a while, and I like to think it was a forest spirit. Ever since, I’ve left animals I couldn’t salvage there, and occasionally spoiled meat from the fridge since it’s far enough from any house that I don’t think animals would associate it with humans. Miriam’s head rests now in our front flower garden with some other broken skulls.