«Axe gallant», date unk. photography © EWAN LEBOURDAIS (contemporary, French)
I love how ominous and cryptically poetic the ravens part sounds
I was really hesitant when my mom said she wanted to go to this wolf dog sanctuary several hours south of us. I didn’t want to be a tourist for a shady off brand zoo. But I looked the place up before agreeing. They’re completely aboveboard, all animals are spayed/neutered when entering the haven and they’re all given the space and respect they deserve.
The sanctuary serves as education and warning. Don’t get wolf dogs is practically emblazoned on every sign.
All the animals were high content, 95% wolf were most common. Their lowest was about 75% and his silly curled tail marked him as doggier than any of the others, yet he still had a sad story of being dumped in a shipping crate for days because he was too much for a house pet. Probably because he’s largely a wolf.
At the end the owner invited their two friendly ambassador animals to see if they’d like to say hello. They both did. I was politely sniffed and had my chin gently licked by the older male. The younger female demanded aggressive belly rubs and then set about biting the owner in a rough game that only she enjoyed.
Overhead ravens swooped in the treetops and made eerie eldritch calls to each other, like an echoing plink of water at the bottom of a well. It was honestly such a day.
Lumi, my favorite wolf of the day as tax he was huge and gangly and paced the fence staring at me, perhaps remembering the eighteen year old girl who had kept him in an apartment to be bred before he came to the sanctuary.
'The Sleepwalker' by Julius Diez, 1917.
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I really wish that the actual newspapers would adopt this model.
I get why the tapeworm one got popular, since it's the most high quality one I've made (so far) since I draw it myself (while also tracing over the EIAL cover)
1000 year old helical step well with 8 staircases twisting from 8 shrines, hidden for centuries, found in Maharashtra, India
Uzbek May Day postcard (1960s)
"May, Labour, Peace" is the traditional Soviet May Day slogan.
Please stop discrediting your ancestors' ability to tell stories by trying to find material/physical origins to their stories. Krampus isn't a cryptid, dragon stories weren't inspired by dinosaur fossils, every region has its own mythology and fae are only a thing in Celtic, English, and English-colonized regions, your ancestors were perfectly capable of doing things without help from aliens, and our world is weird enough that tales of mysterious strangers, mass disappearances, memories not lining up, and so on, are better explained as a product of OUR world than hypothetical other worlds/timelines. A lot of weird tales were spun by storytellers. Give some respect to their hard work.
Member of staff using the new pneumatic tube cash collection system, Sainsbury's, London Southgate, 1978. From the Sainsbury Archive.