#goat reads

[andsewingishalfthebattle]

Novice sewing pattern: Cut out shapes. Line up the little triangles on the edges. Stitch edges together. We've also included step-by-step assembly instructions with illustrations.

Novice knitting pattern: yOU MUSt uNDerstANd thE SECret cOdE CO67 (73, 87, 93) BO44 (63, 76, 90) 28 (32, 34) slip first pw repeat 7x K to end *kl (pl) 42 * until 13" (13, 13, 15) join new at 30 pl for 17 rows ssk 27 k2tog mattress lengthwise BO and sacrifice a goat to the knitting gods. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT "INSTRUCTIONS," I JUST GAVE THEM TO YOU

[hominoidea]

some potential koharu icons that i collected for purely selfish reasons

free for anyone to use :)

[canisalbus]

I tried to draw sheep Machete and goat Vasco (but I am not good at drawing goats, at all)

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[ballad-of-the-lamb]

Live ballad reaction to the new fishing animation?

the best friend you never wanted

[mountainhaunt]

feels like time for my favorite of john darnielle's new year's benedictions. he peaked at this one

[krysmcscience]

The Lamb is malicious in a funny way and the Goat is funny in a malicious way. No, I will not elaborate.

Anyway, everyone give thanks to the Lamb for interrupting what was sure to be a very boring and patronizing PSA from their grouchy cat hubby. Truly, they are doing God's work. Granted, the Lamb canonically is God now, so, uh. Mostly they're just doing their own work.

Speaking of their grouchy cat hubby, yes this is absolutely still Narilamb, Narinder is 100% into his goofy-ass spouse always no matter what and we all know it, he just wasn't expecting his brand new adopted kid to share the same single goofy-ass brain cell as the Lamb. :)

[shadowtraveled]

goats are frequently used as imagery to represent demons/the devil/etc and are one of the recurring animals referenced in the ars goetia's physical descriptions of its demons (as are lions, including a winged one), so i think having the demon appear to mithrun as a goat is useful narratively—his backstory establishes the nature of the demon as an ontological evil. it appears first as soft and small and white—almost like a lamb, which is similarly loaded imagery in the opposite direction—and grows huge and hungry and definitively goatlike. this tells you that the demon will first try to convince you of its innocence, but that the more it gives, the more it takes. by the time you recognize its true nature, it's too late.

but it isn't quite an ontological evil, it's just a living, starving infinity that will do anything to be fed. and the connotation carried by the image of a goat does not begin and end with the devil; as animals they're known for their voracious appetites.

when mithrun tells kabru his backstory, that is the audience's first introduction to the demon, the first confirmation that it even really exists, and having that sort of dual imagery sets the story up on both sides. we know now that we cannot trust the demon. later, we'll know that it's a creature driven by hunger like any other.

i think it tells us something about mithrun's personal arc too, though, particularly with regard to the revelations that mithrun is a deeply insecure person, that his true "last" desire was for it to finish him, and that he, like the other dungeon lords, missed the demon because it gave him love. a goat will eat anything, but his still spit him out.

[cowardlykrow]

"Hah, dude doesn't even know he's in my tamagotchi."

[anemonet]

Iterator can from my wips (please read that in the tone of blorbo from my show :) (that superstructure is a girl (he/it) to me)

[kaiasky]

this is nothing but my brain can't stop thinking about it

[molteasee]

Silmarillion Noldor Kings summed up pretty accurately 😂

Fëanor

Maehdros

Fingon (imo the last of the great kings)

Fingolfin

Maglor

Finwë

Turgon

Gil-Galad

Elrond

[jennyfromthebes]

If you’ve ever gone to a Mountain Goats show and waited in line outside for hours or gotten chummy with folks in the crowd, you know how deep the lore runs. It can make you feel small in the blink of an eye. Your undying love for “Cubs In Five” becomes instantly overshadowed by the guy with a tape recorder in his pocket who can recite setlists from 2004 gigs in states the Mountain Goats rarely make it out to anymore. But what’s beautiful about that scariness—even if you feel like your fandom is not enough—is that...there is such an undercurrent of love, affection and hope at every turn. At some point over the last 30 years, these people found Darnielle’s writing—be it via his boombox recordings or via the label-backed, concept-album concertos—and elected to devote a piece of themselves to loving these songs so much that, no matter what mix-and-matched setlist is thrown at them, they are ready to sing along with every note.

hey guys this tMG article is really fucking good and I think everyone should go read it

[robiinurheart33]

Soap being a huge nerd in comic books and movies so when he inevitably brings Ghost back to his childhood room his walls and tables are filled to the brim of comic book heros, sketchbooks, and just overall being a nerdy ass room

Ghost thinks it’s adorable, Johnny wants to die of embarrassment but never really could bring himself to take the posters down or sell mint-conditioned comic books.

[nartml]

"The audience not dumb. Shape the stories how you want, hey Drake, they're not slow"

And this is why, at his core, Kendrick is the better artist.

It's a reoccurring theme in his music.

He refuses to treat us as if we're stupid. He refuses to cater to the crowd. He refuses to baby anyone.

So he lets himself be as tricky with his sound as he wants. He trusts that if we want, we can catch all his clever references and all the double, triple, quadruple entendres.

Now, as an avid reader, this is a huge rule in writing in general.

Don't treat your readers as if they're stupid. Don't spell everything out to them because you don't want them to miss your metaphors, the messages you're trying to convey.

If you treat them as if their brains are smoother than Kendrick's delivery, you're going to attract an audience who wants, not to think, but to mindlessly consume.

If you treat your audience as if they're sharper than Kendrick's insults, you'll attract an audience fit to properly digest everything you put out.

He doesn't have a damn Pulitzer prize for nothing.

And he's not one of the greatest artists out there for nothing, either.

[pazpazpaz]

AAI2 SPOILERS🍡

some hair down🪮

[volvosandvampires]

Deliciously in dungeon, that is 👀

But also, the way that Dunmeshi progressively descends full on into horror and disturbing content is such a mood.