#quartering

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Great Grey Owl quartering the ground by Ian Duffield Via Flickr: Whipsnade 06-03-2015 5D2A7784

[julieschulerart]

Q is for Quartering art to download

[doomspaniels]

Developed a new minimal-effort game for days of painful flares that do allow some walking time.

* Collect scented go-find targets and dog treats.

* Walk straight out of house to nearest fenceline, conveniently covered in grapevine so you can't see the far side (or any convenient visibility block handy).

* Walk short distance along fence, throwing scented targets over the fence, to where the dogs can't see them.

* Walk around corner of fenceline, indicate far side, and tell dogs to find the scented targets.

* Wait while they bring all the targets, and both get treats for each one (it's a team effort!)

Wow, you can really see Guinevere's Spaniel Oscillation (moving in a zig-zag) even in pictures taken more or less every few seconds in a vaguely thataway-ish direction. (also that she glances my way in the pause while galumphing, to see if I have suggestions or changes)

* All right, they found the last one! Dog candies jackpot!

* Time to go bac--oh, look at those faces. Okay. Walk back along the fenceline, throwing the targets back to the ground on the first side.

* Repeat search for targets, jackpot, and go rest.

[a-book-of-creatures]

There is such a thing as too much quartering in heraldry

Imagine rolling up to someone and his shield looks like this

[racefortheironthrone]

Did medieval nobles also "take their sigils too seriously" like those of Westeros?

Not so much, in part because real world heraldry was way more complicated and often less figurative than Westerosi heraldry. It’s a lot harder to think of yourself as actually or metaphorically being a single thing when your coat of arms looks like this:

I mean, where would you start?

Rather, I think we should think of it like this: GRRM simplified heraldry so that his characters would take their sigils too seriously, allowing him to use that imagery in his thematics and internal monologues. The Stark sigil being just a wolf rather than an abstract mosiac means that it makes sense when the actual direwolves show up and he starts introducing warging; the Targaryen sigil being solely the three-headed dragon means that the prophecy of the Prince Who Was Promised “pops” more than it would otherwise; and so on.

[securityunit-ese]

To what seems to be everyone’s dismay. I don’t mind the spaniel tendency to zigzag 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think it’s cute 💛

[kill-uz]

Goretober day 10