1. holstein 2. jersey

3. brahman 4. highland

6. texas longhorn 7. black angus

8. brown swiss 9. guernsey

10. watusi 11. hanwoo

im so so sorry im so sorry i've let you down

belted galloway honorable mention

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT + literary references

I’ve searched high and low for the wonderful original post because this is amazing and deserves to be rebloged but I hope this is good enough. As thundercrumbs said GET OFF THAT MANS FACE!

midsommer murders is wild because half the episodes are like "there's this village of 150 people in which everyone is weirdly obsessed with butterflies and hate each other. also the local school has a secret society" and the other half is "you know those local legends? yeah someone's committing ritual murders based on them. also the family in the big house has at least one incest case but good luck figuring out who slept with who" and you've got absolutely no way to know which will be which and also there are actors from Downton Abbey in it

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

Dart

Dark

bark

Lark

Lurk

Lure

Sure

Surf

Serf

Self

Seld

Meld

Mold

Mole

Hole

Bole

Bolt

Boat

Boar

Soar

Soap

Soup

soul

Foul

Fool

Foal

Coal

Coat

Cost

Cosy

Nosy

Posy

Post

Port

Fort

Fork

eleventh plague. emails. 

Pharoah, I hope this email finds you letting my people go

as per my last plague,

i have not stopped laughing at this

ok ill bite who is taylor swift

I don't know what paddington is doing on that list, but it made me think of the time someone drew a picture of the queen with paddington after she died, and we had scores of people losing their minds at the idea that paddington bear wasn't the same kind of communist as them

I love the sorrow in which you wrote this

The tragedy of growing up british & left wing is realising all your beloved childhood animals in waistcoats were monarchists to the core

I feel like in many ways "How'd he manage to grow up a middle-aged middle-class British man in Peru, anyways?" is the wrong question but it's still the one I am hung up on, years later.

Hold on let’s do this properly:

Paddington - regrettably a monarchist but in that specific immigrant way. The only actual immigrant on the list. May possibly just be a monarchist as part of the processing stage and is also canonically a child.

Winnie the Pooh - is canonically a stuffed animal, I genuinely don’t think he has this level of thought/agency and is not written as such. The real living breathing animals (owl, rabbit) are not just monarchists, but actively and cruelly bourgeois.

The Velveteen Rabbit - doesn’t wear a waistcoat but not a monarchist either.

Angelina Ballerina - a monarchist and a bit of a little bitch tbqh

The Brambly Hedge mice - really unclear. But like worryingly unclear. Clearly some kind of caste system in operation (lords and ladies) but not capitalist or explicitly feudalist either, it seems a thin overlay over their real political intentions: incredibly intense cheesemaking forming the backbone of a post-scarcity economy.

Beatrix Potter / Peter Rabbit - monarchists.

Richard Scarry - actually I can’t make a call on this one

Animals of Farthing Wood - I … don’t know.

Wind in the Willows - Toad’s a fucking Tory, but I feel like the Water Rat is kind of a comrade

Watership Down - unfortunately many of these rabbits are fashy, even the ones you like. Ursula le Guin said it, not me. They wouldn’t walk away from omelas. However, they touch a lot of grass - enough grass to not be interested in the house of Windsor - which is a point in their favour.

Redwall - monarchists, though not for the British monarchy. and also, somehow, Mouse Anglican verging on Mouse Catholic. Worrying, fascinating.

Oakapple Wood - monarchists

Hobbit - not a woodland creature but wears a waistcoat and is sympathetic to Thorin, Aragorn. Provisionally extremely monarchist and the very earliest interpretations of hobbits appeared to think they are somehow bipedal rabbits, which pissed Tolkien off.

Rupert Bear - British bear in clothes attributed partially for the decline in the usage of the name Rupert - but I don’t know a thing about him

The Highway Rat - all Julia Donaldson creatures lick the boot that crushes them, even the highway rat. Possibly not the Gruffalo. The Gruffalo however is the most naked that anyone has ever been, thus not an animal that would wear clothes.

The Narnia creatures - don’t all wear clothes, but THE definitive monarchists

Fantastic Mr Fox - not a monarchist. and in the wes Anderson film is not even British although the farmers and setting are (brilliant artistic choices, especially including an excellent but fucking random possum that calls the entire ecosystem into question: ultimately these are North American animals subverting and undermining the British landowners in a strange political statement whose intentions and direction are unclear.) Not monarchists, but what?

Viruses - possibly monarchists, wear coats, and present in children’s literature as exemplified by the Usborne “See Inside Germs.” Ultimately more data is needed.

Thoughts on Toad and Frog?

They’re American

This post is bigger than me now but:

I feel like this is us OP

Mechanical Principles by Ralph Steiner (1930)

Every time I see this post I interpret it as an abstract critique of pornography.

or abstract endorsement, it could be an endorsement.

and it’s kind of hot..? it’s kind of hot.

I was gonna reblog with “Eroticism of the Machine” before I saw your additions.

I’m still gonna reblog with “Eroticism of the Machine” though.

idk i've typed this out and deleted it like five times now i can't really articulate what i'm trying to say but i'm thinking about the tension between the 'cozy' sadness of folkmore and the sharp/bitter/acidic/unpalatable sadness of this record and like what it means to take on the label of a tortured poet, to yourself and to the world, idk

Pastel Ceramic Mugs, Decor and Vases by Olenka

Alpine lotus leaf flower