#goat farming in england

[wattophotos]

Friendly goat wanted to be friends

[chartaimaginem]

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[milkywayan]

tfw you see some stupid post that paints medieval peasants eating just plain grey porridge and acting as if cheese, butter or meat was too exotic or expensive for them, and have to use all your inner strength to not just reblog it with an angry rant and throwing hands with people. so i will just post the angry rant here

no, medieval people did not only eat grey porridge with no herbs or spices, they had a great variety of vegetables we dont even have anymore, grains and dairy products, not to mention fruits and meats, all seasonal and changing with the time of the year. no, medieval food was not just tasteless, maybe this will surprise some of you but you can make tasty food without excessive spice use, and can use a variety of good tasting herbs. if you'd ever tried to cook some medieval recipes you would know that. medieval people needed a lot of energy for their work, if they would only eat fucking porridge all of the time they would get scurvy and die before they could even built a civilisation. they had something called 'pottage' which was called that because it was cooked in one pot. you could leave the pot on the fire and go about your day, doing stuff and come back to a cooked meal. they put in what was available that time of the year, together with grains, peas, herbs, meat etc etc. again, if you would try to make it, like i have with my reenactment friends, it can actually be really good and diverse.

dont confuse medieval peasants with poor people in victorian england. dont think that TV shows what it was really like. dont think that dirty grey dressed people covered in filth were how the people looked like.

they made use of everything. too poor to buy proper meat? buy a sheeps head and cook it. they ate nettle and other plants we consider weeds now. they foraged and made use of what they found. hell, there are medieval cook books!

most rural people had animals, they had chickens (eggs), goats (milk and dairy), cows (milk and dairy), sheep (milk and dairy) and pigs (meat machine), and after butchering they used ALL THE PARTS of the animal. you know how much meat you can get out of a pig, even the smaller medieval breeds? the answer is a lot

if you had the space you always had a vegetable garden. there are ways to make sure you have something growing there every time of the year. as i said they had a variety of vegetables (edit: yes onions are vegetables, for those who dont seem to know) we dont have anymore due to how farming evolved. you smoked pork in the chimney, stored apples in the dry places in your house, had a grain chest. people could go to the market to buy fish and meat, both fresh and dried/smoked. they had ale, beer and wine, that was not a luxury that was a staple part of their diet.

this post ended once again up being longer than i planned, but please for the love of the gods, just actually educate yourself on this stuff and dont just say stupid wrong shit, takk

[chateau7afra]

Folklore in Fargo

Spoilers ahead, Sailor.

One of the things I loved about Fargo this season so far, is the incorporation of Folklore, suberstition and God. We meet Ole Munch (Sam Spurrell) in the first episode. He seems to be a regular hitman of sorts, who is set on Dorothy (Juno Temple) He comes across a bit excentric and the way he talks and dresses seem very anachronistic. We also learn, that Dot is not the regular homemaker and loving mum, she seems to be. Munch and his handyman set out to kidnap Dot. Munch and his handyman aren't able to capture her and the handyman was killed in the process. We get to know Roy Tillman (John Hamm) who was the one who sent Munch on his mission, but because he failed the task, Roy is not paying Munch, which sets off a rather bleak storyline in which Roy and his son Gator (Joe Keery, my love) try to kill him. He escapes! The most intriguing thing about Ole Munch is one, the ritual he performs at the Tillman Farm. He kills a goat, covers himself in it's blood and leaves a message for Roy over his Daughter's beds. And two, the flashback to Wales in 1522. See now, this is where it gets weird. And where I had to google some stuff.

We see a character, dressed in what seems to be clothes of the lower class, entering a house full of upper class people who are in mourning, dressed in black and weaping. We have a funeral on our hands here. The poor person looks like Ole Munch. Is it him? Is it an ancestor of his? We dont know. On the belly of the deseiced is a plate with food. When Munch enters the house, there is a tense energy in the room. Munch walks up to the dead body and consumes the food offered on the plate in an almos animalistic fashion. The people in the room gasp, some of them disgusted, some of them afraid. Or both. Before Munch leaves, he gets two silver coins. Which must have been a lot of money back in the day, I did not research that. But we clearly witnessed some sort of ritual happening. It turns out, sin eating was a practice rich people took part of in Wales, Ireland and England in the 1600s. A willing poor person was invited to literally eat the sins of the deseaced person, so they could be welcomed at the pearly gates, with a clean record. All the sins are transferred, to the person who ate the food. A grewsome fate for people at the time, but hey, a mans gotta eat. The world is bleak, so I don't go with the rational reason in fiction, ever. I like to think that Ole Munch ate so many sins, that he became a spirit, that can not die, who is forced to wander around the earth forever, and for some reason chose america. His very beautifully written monologues would suggest that. They almost sound shakespearian.

But how does this play into the bigger theme of Fargo S5? Well, if you think about it, the whole season is about unpaid depts and consequences. Dot ran away from Roy and the farm, because of domestic violence. In Roy's book, she owes him, because she made a pledge to him, when they got married. Ole Munch sees a debt not paid, because he didn't receive paymant for "eating the sin" of kidnapping Dot. Dot's husband's mother, who is a very rich lady played by the brilliant Jennifer Jason Leigh points out "What is the point of being a billionaire, if you can't get someone killed.", while on the phone with an ex-president, apparently Bill Clinton, if I remember right. It's like, we never got over the sin eating, because with money and power, you can pay your way out of any circumstance, be it kidnapping or murder. There is always going to be someone who needs the money more than their soul. And there is always going to be someone who takes advantage of that. Roy Tillma, quotes the bible a lot. He thinks of himself as a right and just man and leader, even though he likes to bend the law to his will. He does not give a flying fuck about the law as it is "dictated by washington" and funds a right wing militia with taxpayer money. He is the law of the land. These scenes sent shivers down my spine.

Anyway. All of the storylines in this show are so amazing and worth writing about. Go watch it, you won't regret a second.

[mybeingthere]

Robert Plant with a goat at his farm in England, 1970.

Robert Plant (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

[castleofcuntdracula]

For profoundly normal reasons that are regular,

I'm going to do a brief historical challenge in sims, with Renfield! I'm too lazy to go ALL-in on it, but I'll be following some of the rules. Mostly I want to use the randomness of sims to sketch out what his family might have looked like.

So far we have Cordelia and Benjamin, and their two daughters, Margaret (toddler) and Edith (infant).

Rules and more under the cut:

obviously, Robert Montague Renfield can't die, but everyone else still can! For the edwardian era, I will be doing birth/death rolls as follows:

every time someone ages up, roll a D100, if they get below 10 they automatically die

roll a d4 every time someone gives birth, if they roll a 4, the baby doesn't survive

roll a d1000 every birth, if they roll under 10, mother dies, if they roll under 5, mother and child both die

roll a d1000 for any twin births; if they roll below 30, one infant dies, if they roll below 20, both infants die, below 10, both infants and the mother die

parents "try for baby" every day, unless a pregnancy is already ongoing or the household is full

roll a d20 for every illness, if they roll a 1 they die

And for other/general rules:

Robert will be the first boy born to his parents

He can attend day school until he ages up to Teen, but after that he will be moved to a boarding school.

His sisters will attend day school until they graduate.

electricity will be available only as lighting until Robert ages up to child; after this, they can have a radio. Bathtubs only, no showers, and the home will be "off the grid" until Robert is a child.

no prohibition because this is England

his family can afford one servant, a maid-of-all-work.

they don't live rurally, so they can't have any farm animals besides chickens & and one each of miniature goats/sheep

no medicine can be used (antibiotics have not been invented) but home remedies are ok

No tropical fruit (not introduced to the uk yet)

After Robert ages up to young adult, he will join the military career for 1 in-game week and be moved to a different world (because time is deranged in this game). When this week is over, he will get one trait from the truama traits listed in the cutecoffeegal rules. I will roll a d6 every day of this week, and for every 1 I roll, add a fear.

After his daughter ages up to child, he will go to castle Dracula! If I'm not bored of it by then, I'll flag him to never age, and let everyone keep on aging and having kids and stuff without him.

[allwaswell16]

—Fics by allwaswell16—

[ 40k + ]

Ace of Spades (series) [E, 90k, pirates, fic post]

Part One: Ace of Spades [E, 78k, fic post] Living as a sheltered omega in a farming village has not prepared Harry for life aboard the most notorious pirate ship to sail the Atlantic. Or Louis is a pirate, Harry is his captive, and no one is who they say they are. Part Two: St. Elena [NR, 1k, fic post] When Harry’s illness worsened, the crew of the Ace of Spades sailed to the island home of Captain Grim. An Ace of Spades timestamp from Zayn’s point of view Part Three: Ace of Hearts [E, 10k, fic post] Louis Tomlinson, the alpha Duke of Yorkshire, had returned to England to stay now that he’d married and mated. But since his husband was also the omega he’d once held captive aboard his half-brother’s pirate ship, he held back from pushing Harry into parenthood. With the Ace of Spades now docked in London, Harry spent time with his friends from the crew and remained a bit oblivious to his alpha’s deepest desires. What he was aware of was his best friend’s hurt and his mother-in-law’s wish for more than friendship with her oldest friend.

Consequences [E, 78k, amnesia, fic post]

Two years ago Harry let his powerful family come between him and the love of his life, something he deeply regrets. Louis has tried to move on from their devastating break up. Sometimes, he even thinks he has. It only takes one moment to freeze them back in time.

An amnesia au

Until (series) [E, 62k, cowboys, fic post]

Part One: Until [E, 38k, fic post] Rural Eagle County, Colorado wasn’t the type of place to find a famous musician or actor. At least not until songwriter Louis Tomlinson showed up with pop star Niall Horan to visit his uncle’s horse ranch, and they just happened to find themselves next door to a reclusive former movie star. Part Two: Need [Niall/Shawn Mendes] see Rare Pairs post Part Three: Still [NR, 2k, fic post] Louis has settled into his life in Colorado with Harry, their horses, and of course, Lacey the goat. And now the day has arrived to finally marry the man who makes this place feel like home. A wedding time stamp for the Until universe

Looking Through You (series) [E, 49k, famous/not famous, fic post]

Part One: Looking Through You [E, 42k, fic post] Just as Louis and Liam were starting out in the music industry, writing and producing for up and coming artists, a fateful meeting with new pop singer Harry Styles changes everything. Four years later, just as Harry is set to embark on his next world tour, a drunken confession causes a rift between once inseparable friends. As Harry tries to make sense of his feelings for Louis, he begins writing his next album to express them as it may be the only way to break through the walls that Louis has built between them. Part Two: We Know Where We Belong [E, 7k, fic post] After four years of friendship, pop star Harry Styles and his songwriter/producer Louis Tomlinson realise their feelings for each other go far beyond friendship and probably always did. Their path to falling for each other wasn't an easy one, but now they're together and in love. As Harry embarks on his next tour, some of their old issues arise again.

Just Hear This (series) [E, 46k, Pride & Prejudice, fic post]

Part One: Just Hear This and Then I'll Go [E, 44k, fic post] Former boy band member Louis Tomlinson can’t stand pompous indie artist Harry Styles, but with a new record label to launch he is going to have to endure his pretensions to snag up and coming new artist Liam Payne, who happens to be Harry’s oldest friend. Luckily, Liam seems to be very interested in 78 Records and maybe a little more than interested in Louis’ best friend. Too bad Harry won’t be making this easy on any of them. Or a modern day Pride and Prejudice--Louis is Elizabeth, Harry is Mr. Darcy, Zayn is Jane, and Liam is Mr. Bingley. Oh, and Niall is Mrs. Bennett. Obviously. Part Two: Don't Need Permission [M, 2k, fic post] Indie artist Harry Styles has become captivated by former pop star Louis Tomlinson after their paths begin crossing because Louis hopes to sign Harry's friend to his record label. They haven't always seen eye to eye, but Harry is confident that his feelings for Louis must be mutual. (He's wrong.) Or a time stamp from 'Just Hear This and Then I'll Go'. The 'Dangerous Woman' karaoke scene, but this time from Harry's point of view.

[Back to masterpost]

[blogger360ncislarules]

The residents of Britain’s Yorkshire Dales are feeling the ramifications of World War II as Season 4 of All Creatures Great and Small picks up in 1940. The enchanting PBS series, based on the popular books by James Herriot, begins its new season with rural veterinarian James and his wife Helen (Nicholas Ralph and Rachel Shenton, above) a year into their marriage, wondering if the time is right to start a family, aware that any day he could be called to duty.

“In some ways, it feels like the exact reason why they should have a child,” says Shenton. “And in some ways, it’s the exact reason why they shouldn’t.”

For the actress, this new season is also the chance to show another side to her usually poised character, who moved away from the family farm after her wedding last season to take up residence at Skeldale House, where her husband lives and works.

“I think we see something different from Helen,” Shenton muses. “She’s good at being there for other people, and I think this is the first time that she’s needed a bit of help and had to say, ‘Actually, I’m not OK.’”

Like the rest of the Skeldale gang, Helen misses Tristan, who was called up to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps the previous Christmas. (His portrayer, Callum Woodhouse, doesn’t appear in this season’s seven episodes.) That leaves Tristan’s irascible brother Siegfried (Samuel West) and James overwhelmed at their practice and having to train book-smart student vet Richard Carmody (James Anthony-Rose), whose barn-side manner leaves something to be desired.

Siegfried also takes on an administrator, Miss Harbottle (Neve McIntosh), to try to get the practice in tip-top shape. She’s everything her name suggests. “What I quite like about that particular character and dynamic is that it breaks the house and unites the house,” Shenton previews.

As for the critters, a ferret with a lump, a lethargic tortoise, and a gas-passing dog all have appointments at Skeldale, where a couple of goats get Siegfried’s goat. Fortunately, for the actors they were pros. “They train the goats with food and sound,” Shenton explains. “There were these really loud horns, and then a shake of a food [container], and the goats would know to go to the next bit of their blocking.”

Another pro was a cute gray tabby named Humbug, who plays Oscar, a cat that shows up in the second half of the season and wins Helen’s heart. “He’s worked on sets since he was a very little kitten, so he’s used to being around people and he’s confident,” Shenton says. “He was super good and affectionate.”

One four-legged cast member missed some days because he needed a real veterinarian. Derek, the fluffy Pekingese furball who plays pampered pooch Tricki, had a health issue and this season split the role with a dog named Dora until he was able to return. (According to the folks at PBS, “Derek continues to be the ultimate professional and settled straight back into the business of filming.”)

In quieter moments, the friendship between Helen and housekeeper Mrs. Hall (Anna Madeley), who wants to divorce her absent husband, deepens. (Helen is still the only one at Skeldale House who addresses her by her first name, Audrey.) “That was probably one of my favorite strands,” Shenton says. “Anna and I are great friends off-camera, so it was really nice to have scenes with her.”

Madeley and Shenton also performed together on another project, a podcast drama called Gladstone Girls that Shenton wrote about pottery makers in the north of England fighting to be able to wear hair curlers to work on Fridays. The multitalented Shenton and her husband, Chris Overton, are already Academy Award winners for best live action short film, for The Silent Child in 2018.

As for the future of All Creatures, producers have yet to confirm whether there will be a fifth season but Shenton is hopeful. On a show where emotions are understated yet still deeply felt, she appreciates how truthful the series is to the time period and that part of the country.

“These are farmers. Nobody had time to be super emotional, you had to get on with it,” she says. “Often what’s nice is the things that aren’t being said. Your heart breaks sometimes because [characters] either can’t find the words or just don’t need to. They know it, you can feel it, and that’s always lovely.”

[swashbucklery]

So anyway for those of you who were like wow we sure learned a lot about Fantasy Textiles but gosh what a relief that @swashbucklery shared all of their textile opinions: sucks to be you! I was chatting with @badlance the other day about Wildwood textile headcanons specifically and I have So Many Additional Thoughts.

Semi-Self-Sufficient Commune Textile Economies In Rural England The Wildwood Which Is Made Up: A Tumblr Post

So. A lot of this is pinned in the assumptions from my previous post, which supposes a decentralized artisan economy in which we have skilled makers producing textiles on a small scale in local cottage businesses. This is underpinned by some of the costuming decisions that we see in the Wildwood episode.

So.

1. Cloth Cloth is going to need to be constructed from a base fibre, and in the forest they're unlikely to be able to access cotton or flax farmed on a large scale without clearing large swaths of forest exclusively for textile farming, which is inefficient at best. Assuming that trade is limited, you are then looking at what textiles can be grown, raised, or foraged close to home.

Wool is an excellent textile substrate, and certainly you can raise sheep on pasture that includes woodland quite effectively as long as it's a low-density forest that has enough ground vegetation. This again is not the large-scale type agriculture you might be thinking of where there are hundreds of sheep that need industrially produced feed and pasturing. It's more like - this is Dave and his ten sheep. Small flocks, with decentralized grazing territory. Which, again, for that scale of production may be plenty, especially if you're raising a multipurpose breed. Sheep have value both as a meat animal and as a textile-producing animal, and you can make truly stellar cheese from sheep's milk. They can lamb every year which gives you a nice circular economy of - you lamb in the spring, have more lambs than you need to maintain your flock, shear their wool in the autumn, and then enjoy a nice lamb dinner if you have more sheep than you can overwinter yourself. Goats would also work, but you get different fiber out of them that is less practical (although can be blended really well with wool for harder-wearing garments), so I'd say probably more likely a sheep-goat mix heavy on the sheep.

(This would also be a way of connecting with larger economies; raising and selling livestock or meat could be an important way of bartering or earning coin for things that they can't produce themselves.)

Depending on the breed of sheep, a lamb fleece will give you 2-4 pounds of wool and an adult sheep typically gives more, and two to three pounds of wool is easily enough for a large adult garment, so that's a new sweater or blanket every year per sheep.

You can knit or weave with wool yarn, which would also yield blankets and bedding.

(Now here we also get into climate, because:

is it warm enough for the sheep to be able to graze on forest pasture year-round or are we looking at having roving shepherds that are moving sheep between summer and winter pastures. Are those regions microclimates within the Wildwood or are they venturing elsewhere (presumably out of the mountains) in the winter?

is it too warm to wear wool garments for part of the year? Does it get cold enough for wearing wool garments to be practical? If they're needed only for outerwear or bedding for a few weeks a year, that puts even less pressure on the wool systems.

I would actually be inclined to assume that they might have seasonal pasturing areas, if only because it explains the need for a larger territory than just their village + forest requires.)

The other textile substrate that I see as being more dominant in the Wildwood subsistence economy is going to be grass-based textiles. Specifically: nettle.

Nettles grow as a weed in a lot of forests ~in regions like the Wildwood~, and can be harvested and spun for fiber much the same way as flax. If you're curious, there's a super crunchy how-to guide here. This will spin up and can be woven into a textile fairly similar to linen, which would be fairly durable and easily made into garments.

I also feel like the Wildwood ecology would likely have some kind of indigo plant growing wild nearby. We see a lot of green textiles, and a very common way to dye green using only plant-based materials is to dye a fabric yellow and then overdye with indigo blue. Yellow dye can be found in a multitude of dye plants (onion skins, marigolds, many others), but blue is much more particular, and would need special attention and knowledge. So knowing this, you would certainly have - a number of spinners and weavers skilled enough to have spinning wheels and floor looms, I think, for larger production. You might have one dyer per community, but this might also be something that spinners and weavers would do themselves.

You also wouldn't necessarily need - like, you would have specific weavers and spinners, but they wouldn't need to be exclusively responsible for all textile production. Ruth Goodman talks in some of her books about the ways that knitting and other repetitive textile work were also things that skilled operators could do without looking, as a way to pass the time in the dark when artificial light was not widespread or particularly effective. That thing of like, spindle-spinning by hand around a fire is something that even the warriors could help with, if they were really running a self-sufficient commune. So in addition to artisans you'd have people weaving and spinning and sewing for their personal use.

It's also important to understand, in this type of economic system, the value and expected longevity of garments. If it takes your neighbour three months to spin and weave enough cloth for a new coat, that coat had better last until it disintegrates. So you see more mending and patching garments together. There is also clearly a culture of - like we see that some of the characters are given clothing to borrow for the party, which is quite sweet. But we also see the significance of those textiles being understood by the characters as - not a gift, but on loan, because of their value.

The above also really highlights the significance of the gift that Jade gets, having her own set of leather armor. Not just because it marks her as part of that society but because of the labour and material value of that type of gift. Which brings me to:

2. Leather I also think the Bone Reavers would 100% be doing their own leatherwork + leather tanning. Like, I know the "skull-boiling cauldron" line in the show was (kind of) a joke, but honestly - if you need the infrastructure to make elaborate bone masks, you for sure have the infrastructure to do DIY leather tanning. Researching that more is not for the squeamish, but if you google "brain tanning leather" there are tons of resources that can explain it more fully. This is a traditional practice among a lot of the North American Indigenous peoples, which could potentially point to the idea of the Reavers - if not amalgamating with, at least learning closely from comparable cultures within the Wildwood.

Raising cattle on a large enough scale to make leather armor probably wouldn't be realistic without a fairly vast territory, but the technique works with lots of types of hides, so sheep and deer would be more accessible alternatives.

And that’s enough textile feelings for today, folks! I hope this was useful, I love talking about little details of domesticity and especially in the context of fantasy worldbuilding.

[echoestm]

❝Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?❞

Name/s: Black Phillip. Lucifurr. The Devil. The Horned One. Goat-man. DOB: 1630 AD Sign: N/A Gender Identity: assigned male at creation Sexual Orientation: without limits or boundaries Relationship Status: groom to many a witch, warlock, and damned soul Profession: tempter, defiler, corrupting influence Interests: Life. The forbidden. Dancing. Hedonism. Evolution. New places. New peoples. Signatures for his book. Souls. Religious affiliation: Egregore born of Puritanical beliefs in the 1630's. A deviation from the Abrahamic roots that speak of Satan.

Like the true devil of old, He is a being that has gone by many a name. He has been named for Kings and paupers alike. He's been called by his color, his prominent horns, his sex, and beyond. To the family that would become immortalized alongside him in New England, he was Black Phillip. A sire goat bought to breed with their nanny goats, to fill their meager farm with their brood and all their makings. A thing that would not come to pass. Yet, someone must have remembered the silly babblings of Jonas and Mercy, the twins who named him, because it was this name they later printed in their pamphlets about him and the exiled family he drove to ruin and damnation.

In truth, he came into being on a ship long before them. He is born of the whispers that made long cold nights a little easier to bear, frightening tales told 'round candlelight. As unbeknown to him as to his creators, he is a hybrid of ancient pagan imagery married to diluted Abrahamic belief turned into Puritanism. Cloven hooves. Curling horns. A goat who walks on his hind legs. One who turns into a man sometimes. The devil come to tempt them all, and from whom they must turn away and stay pure.

So he comes as he is predicted to. In the guise of a jet-black goat with formidable horns. An ornery thing. Always sold with a mile long list of warnings regarding his temperament, his stubbornness, failings that drive down his price and make him available to even the most impoverished. The scents of desperation and ambition on them are sweet to his nose, and will often get a small performance of good behavior out of him to further seal the deal and get him a ride to a new home, where he may listen and learn— observing all that is lacked, all that is had, and then some. All the better to sweeten his tongue when finally he decides to loosen it and make his offerings, his barters of assistance in exchange for their hand in his book.

[wattophotos]

Nice strange animal not sure what it is?

[phanfictioncatalogue]

Fics Named After Animals (2) Masterlist

part one

A Moment of Spiritual Connection With A Bumblebee (ao3) - natigail

Summary: Dan loved how you were able to connect with animals in a different way than with people, even though he felt a bit awkward after his mistake.

a week in the life of steve the pigeon (ao3) - possumdnp

Summary: An outsider-POV from Steve the pigeon’s perspective (based loosely on Phil’s new video, “Trying to Catch and Rescue a Wild Pigeon”)

Barbie Horse Adventures (ao3) - Fictropes

Summary: Sometimes friends force you to get over your worst fears, sometimes you meet your soulmate in the process.

Beetles In The Bath (ao3) - yikesola

Summary: It has been a long while since we knew such warmth. Some of us venture out. Maybe we shouldn’t have. Maybe that was unsafe.

Birds of a Feather Steal Together (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Dan never expected anything remotely interesting to happen during his summer job at a petting zoo. But when he catches a boy with bright blue eyes and a cute laugh trying to smuggle a bunch of ducklings out of the farm, things take a much more interesting turn...

Caturday (ao3) - vvelna

Summary: A cat appears in Dan and Phil's kitchen.

did you know penguins mate for life? (ao3) - sierraadeux

Summary: Phil takes care of fifty penguins at work and another twenty-five at home, though the latter wasn't exactly his choice.

fish dads (ao3) - plinth_of_life

Summary: Dan and Phil can finally bring their adopted betta home. They watch their new fish with admiration and anticipation of the future.

fish makes three (ao3) - watergator

Summary: dan and phil get a fish

greatest of all time (goat) (ao3) - SebbyLestowell (lafbaeyette)

Summary: Phil returns home from a trip with a surprising new visitor, and Dan is rightfully flabbergasted at the situation.

AKA

The One Where Phil Adopts A Goat

Kill Phil Or A Llama? (fanfiction.net) - Amy788

Summary: Small changes in Dan's live shows mean the world to Phil.

Kitten Love (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Phil finds a cat, and brings it back to the apartment. Dan is not amused.

Long-Horned Beetles and Dusty Archives (ao3) - chiridotalaevis

Summary: Dan was climbing up the marble steps of the museum full of dread and resentment. It was Sunday morning, and all his classmates were probably still asleep, or nursing their hangovers from the party before. But Dan couldn’t do that, no. Because Dan skipped too many classes in his General Biology course, he now would have to make it up with extra credit. By working at some sort of museum with some grad student that needed help sorting bugs. Yuck.

Spoiler: the grad student is Phil.

Night Moths - camisadan

Summary: Dan and Phil are camping, Dan needs to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night but is too scared to scared to go on his own.

Of Cats and Dogs (ao3) - GabbyGums

Summary: Dan gets roped into taking care of his friend's dog.

And somehow Phil manages to get hold of a cat.

This can only mean chaos.

Spiders and Spells (ao3) - Full_Moon_Lover

Summary: Phil was never great at transfiguration but thought he was getting better. At least he did until Professor McGonagall paired him up to work with Dan Howell. Dan is nice but there's just one problem. He's Phil's crush and Phil is prone to make mistakes when working under pressure.

The Admiral's Birdcage (ao3) - QuietBubbles

Summary: Daniel, an orphaned ward, has never set foot outside the Great House at the top of the High Street. His guardian, the powerful Admiral Malock, grows ever more obsessed with him, and hatches a terrible plan to keep him by his side forever. With Daniel approaching his twenty-first birthday and longing to see the world, Malock will go to any lengths to keep him prisoner. But when Philip, a young clerk, discovers Daniel trapped in his birdcage, a secret friendship leads quickly to love. Though there is danger at every turn, Philip knows he has to set Daniel free… Alternative Victorian England. Old-fashioned romance, fluff, obsession, danger, and smut. Also a cute kitty! Enjoy!

The Cat Brought Them Together (ao3) - yeahthisaccountisinactiveso

Summary: "Quick, catch that cat! It stole my wallet!"

The Great Cat Rescue - dxnhowell

Summary: Dan is a lover of cats, and has been obsessed with them ever since he was a little boy. Now, he runs the biggest and only cat rescue in London. But, things are starting to get very stressful and he might have to shut down, but not if Phil has anything to do with it.

The Pet Surprise (ao3) - pasteldanhowells

Summary: Phil is going to his boyfriend’s apartment for the first time, and he certainly didn’t expect his boyfriend to have a pet snake in his apartment.

[starandsims]

Henry Carter

Cheerful | Good | Loves the Outdoors | Domestic | Big Happy Family

I’m Henry Carter, a man of the land through and through. My roots run deep in these rural New England fields, where I’ve spent my life. We weren’t wealthy, but we had everything we needed, and that’s always been enough for me. My family has been tilling these same soils for generations, passing down the knowledge and love for farming. 

I’ve always been a cheerful one, finding joy in the simple pleasures that nature offers. The great outdoors, the rolling hills, and the calming rustle of leaves in the wind have always been my sanctuary. There’s a peace that can’t be described which comes from working the land, a sense of satisfaction in creation which I’ve always cherished. 

My parents provided me with unwavering dedication, they taught me the values of honesty, resilience, and the importance of family. I was the oldest of my siblings and I felt a responsibility to set an example for my younger brothers and sisters. We shared a small, modest home, but it was filled with warmth and love. Those early years taught me the value of the land and the satisfaction of a hard day’s work. It was a time when we didn’t have much, but we had each other, and that was everything. 

When Jane came into my life, it felt like the missing piece of my heart finally fell into place. She was the miller’s daughter, no stranger to hard work and the daily chores that come with it. We both grew up in families where everyone pitched in, regardless of who they were. Our shared experiences taught us the importance of family and unity. 

Together we built not only a family but a home for that family. We built it with our own hands just before our youngest, George, was born. It will be part of our family for generations, a sanctuary filled with cherished memories. Children, horses, cows, goats, sheeps - you name it, we’ve raised it on this farm. 

Now we find ourselves welcoming a new member into our household, Rosalie. She’s from a different world, one of privilege and wealth. It’s a significant change for all of us, but we’re more than happy to open our doors to her. Jane and I have always believed in the power of love and family, and Rosalie is family now. We’ll do everything in our power to make her feel at home and help her find her place in our humble, yet loving, life. 

[mintywolf]

A Long Road Home - Author Notes

Page 19

I cannot be stopped with my ostensibly medieval fantasy world children in Victorian-era clothing. (Except when they have like 1930’s-40’s clothing.) The 1800’s is actually about as far back as kids’ clothing goes, as a separate style from just a smaller version of adult clothing. And while Exandria is aesthetically very (and wonderfully) diverse in terms of culture and fashion, Tal’Dorei and Whitestone in particular has a definite Tudor-era England vibe but I refuse to apologize for Babytilda’s pinafore and bloomers. I gave Gelvaan a kind of 1800s frontier + Depression-Era South flavor based exclusively on the local accents combined with Imogen’s description of a typical grandma figure as wearing glasses and a bonnet, haha. (So far I have been neither proven nor disproven in this regard.)

I deliberately included an image of Imogen holding a baby horse because it is important to me (and the narrative, eventually) that she is strong enough to pick up and carry Laudna. I used “baby horse” as a standard of measure here (and in Remember Us) because it’s likely something Imogen would have had experience lifting. Depending on the breed of horse, though, a newborn foal can weigh between 100-150 pounds so it’s entirely possible that Laudna, who seems to get canonically lighter every time someone has had to move her, weighs less than an infant horse.

Imogen celebrating her birthday alone with a strawberry shortcake is actually a whole subplot later on so I won’t touch on it much here except to verify that that is what she’s doing.

The barn cats are, once again, real. These are my twins Vex and Vax Lulu and Linus. (Lulu is the one with the freckle, Linus is the one with the mustache.) Although after I drew this I realized they’d probably still be alive at the time when the whole family disappeared one night and made myself really sad. :( Both here and in Remember Us I’d included the detail of Tillie’s goats being sold both to show how hard things had gotten for the family, and to make sure they weren’t still there to starve to death locked in the barn when all three Bradburys never came home that night. But then I also introduced chickens and a plow horse to the narrative that I never accounted for. :| Now I have the deaths of all these fictional farm animals on my conscience.

[jermainec]

Blog 1- Supernatural/Paranormal Films

Hi, this is my first blog entry. The topic I chose was paranormal/supernatural films. I chose this topic because I’ve see film or movies like “Paranormal Activity” directed by Oren Peli and “The Conjuring” directed by James Wan and I felt that I might be able to discuss some important content about this specific topic. This genre is a pretty popular genre. Many individuals like these types of film because they don’t feel a sense of fear and it may make them laugh. It also may be the fact they might believe in ghosts, demons, or any supernature phenomena.

Some overview of paranormal/supernatural film is a genre of unexplained stories that leave mysterious and questionable thought. These types of film involve ghosts, demons, goblins, witches, or any other strange creatures. This genre focuses on a making the audience feel a sense of fear or wonder which sometimes can terrify people’s thoughts on reality. Paranormal/Supernatural films draw from mythologies, cultural beliefs, and or legends. I say this because there is a lot of history where individuals talk about actually seeing ghost and demons that may have haunted them or someone else. Which is another reason why I say it leaves people questionable about reality. These films open peoples imagination then which leaves many individuals contemplating about the chances things like this will happen. Two films I want to touch base on are, “The Sinister” by Oren Peli and “The Witch” by James Wan.

First, “The Sinister” is a popular film. A base overview of this film is that a new family moves into e new neighborhood and house. Prior to moving, the husband never told the family who died and what happened in that house. Apparently, the house they moved into was a previous site of a grisly murder. While Ellison was researching his lasts book, he discovers some odd videos of the home that unraveled a scraggly hair ghost which began lurking their home. Oren Peli does a great job by incorporating haunting sounds and cinematography mixing it with supernatural phenomena of a true crime. The second film, “The Witch” by James Wan is another popular film of supernatural/paranormal activity. We touched on the film in our course. This film is about a puritan family in New England in the 1600s. This family is kicked out of their community, and they had no place to go. The family then established a farm in New England. Their son went missing, then they believe Thomasin had turned to witchcraft. There was a goat that they believed to be possessed. Luring people into the darkness and chaos. James Wan does a great job with jump scares and horrific scenes that leave audience in questionable thought. His supernatural film shows blood scene and unimaginable things while examining themes of a family.

[suitsusboth]

Hey again, it’s the love light gleams anon! Omg I loved, loved, loved yesterday’s update. It was soo in-keeping with the Evie/Beckett dynamic when she first arrives at the cabin and he’s desperately wanting to kiss her, hold her, ask her to stay forever. Your chapter had that pining, yearning, emotionally repressed combination of Anthony and Beckett down so well! Would you ever consider writing a future chapter from Anthony’s POV or swapping perspectives? I’m super curious what he was thinking when poor Kate was self-doubting thinking she made him uncomfortable and that he doesn’t return her feelings!

Also, Kate’s ideas for the farms are so great! Reminds me of some of the farms I’ve visited in upstate NY and New Hampshire that have all these seasonal related activities such as apple-picking, bakeries selling apple-cider, apple cider donuts and apple pies etc, pumpkin patches and hay bale mazes. Then of course the Christmassy things for Winter. Cute baby goats for everyone! Lol now I’m getting carried away. But thanks again for the new chapter, you captured so well how there are so many things Anthony wants but doesn’t feel he can ask for. I’m so glad he has Eggnog to keep him company until Kate can return to Aubrey!!

PS ketchup on eggs is absolutely horrific! I’m with you and Ant there. So excited about Kate’s return to the farm and hoping for another Michael cameo!! 💕

hi hi hiii!

i'm glad you enjoyed it!

it's been interesting trying to meld them sort of, but i still want them to feel like kate and anthony. they are definitely different from their canon counterparts but hopefully you see them peek through. anthony is grumpy just like beckett and he's certainly not as wound up as canon anthony but he has that melancholy vibe still. family comes first to him still (he still thinks he knows best, but in a modern!verse he's been put in his place a bit more). love and loss still terrify him. and he's the nicest man in england aubrey (even though he grumbles most of the time). he's going to be different from beckett in a few ways -- he doesn't suffer from aversion of too much noise, but he doesn't like bit sudden noises (you find out why later).

kate i feel like i haven't quite hit the mark with. i don't think she's too similar to evie other than being burnt out at her job (which is fine with me tbh). she doesn't have the need to go anywhere -- that's why her trips such a big deal. she's be content to live her life in the same place, doing the same things for almost a decade. she's not a risk taker, she's not impulsive, she avoids change. i just don't know if i've captured her voice. idk.

as for a POV change i'm thinking about it, orrrr i'm just going to write a one shot from anthony's pov what he thought all through december. yet to decide. but i do know he's just met the most stunning girl who looked so alive on that empty street, who seems to be attracted to him too, who fits in with his friends/family, and is thoughtful and kind. snag is, she's only here for a weekend and his house is her only refuge. what creep makes a move on a girl when she's all alone in a place she doesn't know, a little tipsy and too late to go anywhere else if she's uncomfortable? could never be him. besides, it's not like she's going to visit again anytime soon. ;)

don't we all just want a little life on an idyllic farm? sign me up.

tbh i know anthony is more of a cat guy but i just saw that pic of the dog i used for the moodboard and had to incorporate it.

michael will be back a few times in this fic, so no worries there ;)