#ruprecht

[oneearedcat]

Their first snow

[monsterhuggercomix]

later, satyr

[blegian]

ruprecht is getting big and is always hungry these days

[movieassholes]

This could be a documentary on assholism.

Lawrence Jamieson and Freddy Benson - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[monsterhuggercomix]

[blegian]

near death experience?

yesterday morning i woke up and checked on ruprecht (2 month old giant african land snail) and saw him deeply retracted. i was quite worried but since im new to owning snails i tried not to think too much of it, gave him some fresh food and left him for the day. when i came back a few hours later he had not moved and was still retracted further than he’s ever been. found an article for checking for a heartbeat w/ a flashlight and couldn’t see one. i started freaking out and made a frantic post on petsnails.proboards.com asking for advice. i followed a method recommended online for a similar case and after about an hour i started to see very small movement in his foot. still very worried for him, i carried on until he was nearly at his normal depth in the shell. he was reacting to air touching his foot at this point so i put him back in his tank with some extra insulation. is doing better this morning but still quite tired and acting stressed and skittish, not his usual self. so scared for my baby.

[maypoleman1]

6th December

St Nicholas’ Day

Source: The Book of Christmas, The Enchanted World, Time-Life Books

Today is St Nicholas’ Day. Nicholas was a fourth century bishop of Myra in modern Turkey. He was once travelling a famine-struck land when he stopped at an inn and was amazed to be offered a meal of succulent meat. Nicholas was suspicious and subsequently investigated the inn’s kitchens where he discovered the remains of three slaughtered male children the evil innkeeper had turned into a feast mixed with pork. The saint immediately reconstituted the trio and by so doing became the patron saint of boys. He later learned of three young maidens whose impoverished father planned to sell into slavery. Nicholas secretly left bags of gold in the slippers of the girls as they dried by the fire, on successive nights and so saved the family from destitution. Nicholas thus became the patron saint of unmarried women too and cemented his reputation as a nocturnal gift-giver, a tradition carried on by his distant relative Santa Claus.

As a result children in Northern Europe set out their shoes tonight, along with hay for St Nicholas’ white horse, in the hope the benevolent winter saint will fill them with toys and sweets. Good St Nicholas is also accompanied by a misshapen dwarf known as Ruprecht in Holland who carries a switch to use on the children who have been naughty not nice. In England, the Dutch version of St Nicholas was rolled up with the traditional white bearded medieval representation of the winter, Father Christmas. This jovial figure had pagan roots: he could trace his ancestry to Odin, the Scandinavian King of the Gods, who rode the winter skies on a six-legged horse at Yuletide, surrounded by elves and spirits, bringing gifts and good fortune to the righteous.

[oneearedcat]

miss my homeboy