#zoomorphization

[batri-jopa]

Look at these cats and their human versions series by Gerrard Gethings (gezgethings on Instagram):

[sigs-gurney]

Decided today that the coworker who called me the r-slur is not, in fact, a cat as I have imagined many of my other coworkers to be, but a husky.

Huskies are

Stubborn

Easily offended

Escape artists

Not particularly interested in pleasing their people

Cool-looking

Don’t normally get along with cats very well

This fits that coworker perfectly. He is convinced of the idea that everyone likes or should like him, but at the same time makes no attempts to help others or make their life easier. He often manages to worm his way out of his tasks usually by finding a lull in business where he can just slip under the radar and leave without consulting anyone, which has become a common occurrence because his appearance tricks people into thinking he is upstanding and trustworthy. He also takes criticism very very harshly, even if you are trying to help him.

Side note on the criticism thing:

He also has a tendency to flirt with any girl of his age, usually unsuccessfully because nearly all of the girls he’s flirted with are actual lesbians. And I mean like 85% of them. At this point it ought to be obvious when they are holding hands and both have the same shoulder-lengthened haircut with curtain bangs, but this child usually goes for the girls traveling in pairs bc he has this idea that if he hits on one and it doesn’t work the other will bite.

And when I, a queer and somewhat gender-nonconforming woman, helpfully point out some of the indicators he missed on whether or not these girls are even attracted to men at all, he starts ranting about how I’m “ruining his game” or just saying that cause I’m jealous and “get no bitches”.

Teenagers amiright?

That’s not exactly 100% related, but it seems like something a husky might do if it were human (continually trying to engage play with another animal who is clearly not interested and maybe even afraid)

So yeah, I think husky characteristics fit his testosterone-fried behavior pretty well :)

[chiropteracupola]

c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.

[thoodleoo]

this is who you're asking to work 40 hours a week btw

[heliosail]

A pinisi solar sailor. Pinisis are medium sized ships popular with merchants. They are powered only by solar sail. This is an official piece of art for the game done by myself.

[yebreed]

Bird, Tiger, Serpents and a Pair of Antlers: Warring States Art Device

Another remarkable sur of the pre-Taoist period.

The sculptural group is dominated by a mighty Bird, whose wings are complemented by antlers. Some have rashly classified it as the Phoenix, according to another version it is a Crane. However, I would warn against light-minded ornithological typing. The thumbnail Tiger serves as a pedestal for the Bird, pressing two serpentine bodies with its paws. The coiled snakes are devouring a pair of fliers.

The artifact may turn out to be a drum stand common at the time. Other figurines of antlered birds standing on tigers are known. This common motif unites the spiritual animals of the Lower and Upper Worlds. The amalgamous zoomorphic imagery is probably of shamanic origin.

Antlered and winged beings were also a widespread pattern in depiction of the zhenmushou (鎮墓獸), tomb guardians. The solemn or ferocious creatures served as the owner's spiritual animals in the afterlife and guides on the ascent to Heavens.

The entire lacquered wood sculpture group is painted black with subtle gold and red ornamentation. The object was unearthed from the Tomb No. 1 in Jiuliandun (九連墩1號墓), Zaoyang, Hubei. Now it is in Hubei Provincial Museum (湖北省族館).

Photo: ©湖北省族館

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldElephantDay 🐘:

Drawing (Zoomorphic Calligraphy, Elephant)

North India or Pakistan, possibly Lahore, late 19th c.

Black ink on paper

“Ornamental calligraphy in the form of a running elephant, saddled with a double-seated high saddle. The whole embodies the name and titles of a Nawab of Jasra.”

V&A IM.19-1916

“See letter of Hendley to Caspar Purdon Clarke, December 31 1915 on NFMA/1/H1596, Hendley Family, where he notes that these were from 'the bazaar' and are the originals of those published by him and Chaubey Bisvesvar Nath of Jaipur in the Journal of Indian Art. Several of the calligraphic birds and animals reproduced in the Journal are signed and give their place of origin as Lahore, or the Lahore bazaar.”

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Celtic Design of Interlaced Dogs // The Tortured Poets Department (The Black Dog Variant) – Taylor Swift

[batri-jopa]

Check out these dogs and their human versions series by Gerrard Gethings (gezgethings on Instagram)

[thesilicontribesman]

Zoomorphic Iron Age Fitting, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

[almostarts]

Pierre Toulhoat, "Pitcher,"

Keraluc, France, c. 1950,

Glazed ceramic,

7 h × 8 w × 4 d in (18 × 20 × 10 cm)

[dvin-chronicles]

Armenian zoomorphic letters

[cuties-in-codices]

upside-down kiss

in an illustrated alchemical roll ("the ripley scrolls"), english/latin, late 16th or early 17th c.

source: London, British Library, Add Ms 5025, fol. 1br

[blueiscoool]

ANCIENT CYPRIOT ZOOMORPHIC AKSOS VESSEL CYPRUS, MIDDLE CYPRIOT, 1900 – 1600 B.C.

[jadeseadragon]

Ancient ceramic vessels from around the world featuring animals.

[nicolagriffith]

Celtic-style interlace as drawn by the master scribes of Early Medieval insular masterpieces such as the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels can be almost infinitely complex. I'm a beginner—finding joy in small beginnings, and slowly getting more confident as I proceed...