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buggery

Political cartoon: Fandom and SixApart

Jul 20, 2007 17:43

Last night brown_betty, in between writing brilliant posts and comments about the "clarification" (I do not think that word means what they think it means) of LJ's permissible content policy, she came up with a brilliant idea for a political cartoon about the whole mess ( Read more... )

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ratcreature July 20 2007, 22:52:53 UTC

woobie!sheep indeed!

buggery July 21 2007, 07:17:35 UTC

Sheep are kind of terrifyingly woobie in the real world, at least when they're young. I had the good fortune to visit the Hebrides just after lambing season about 12 years ago, and so there were lambs everywhere. They bounce instead of running or walking, they want to investigate everything so their mothers are always chasing after them baa-ing out warnings, and they all have huge soulful blue eyes. It wasn't enough to get me to stop eating lamb, but I can certainly understand why so many people have that reaction.

It was a great experience to have inform my choices in illustrating the sheep in this cartoon, obviously.

ratcreature July 21 2007, 08:09:04 UTC

Oh yes, they are very cute. In my family we used to go look at the newborn lambs in season sometimes, before Easter when they are traditionally eaten here. I mean, we had to make a trip a bit outside the city limits to go see them, but spring is quite nice there because the farming is mostly fruit trees with pretty blooms. And it is one of the nearest vaguely nature thing you can easily get to.

There are sheep in some of the real inner city too, mostly around the harbor and in the neighborhoods near the river in general where they maintain the dykes, but it's just not very bucolic, what with being just a mix of residential and industrial areas, and not that many sheep either, mostly just what you need for the dykes.

buggery July 23 2007, 23:20:14 UTC

In English variant spelling is usually employed to distinguish "dike" (meaning an earthwork embankment to confine or control water; when built along a riverbank a dike will more often be called a 'levee' in US English) from "dyke" (a lesbian; a homosexual or bisexual woman, especially a butch or mannish one; this term is often perceived as pejorative, particularly when used by non-lesbians).

I lived in Holland for two years, and saw plenty of dikes (in Nederlands "dijk") but none which made use of sheep... just either wind power or another standard electrical power source. So, um, what do sheep do for a dyke exactly?

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nwhepcat July 20 2007, 23:13:02 UTC

That is just made of awesome!

buggery July 21 2007, 07:18:22 UTC

Thanks! (Did you tell Betty, too?)

nwhepcat July 21 2007, 11:20:27 UTC

I have now! Thanks for the reminder.

thete1 July 20 2007, 23:24:26 UTC

I really love this a lot. *hugs all the little sheep*!

buggery July 21 2007, 07:18:57 UTC

Te/Fandom OTP!

petronelle July 20 2007, 23:25:06 UTC

I am very fond of this.

buggery July 21 2007, 07:19:21 UTC

::beams::

rubynye July 21 2007, 03:26:25 UTC

*pets the fluffy sheep*
*fangirls you*

buggery July 21 2007, 07:20:23 UTC

::wins::

So is it just my brain going, or does one of the sheep remind *you* of you, too?

rubynye July 22 2007, 21:55:23 UTC

*giggle*

My first reply was "they're all too cute to look like me!" but I know you won't let me get away with that.

They are quite adorable sheep, though. Which one do *you* think looks like me?

buggery July 23 2007, 23:26:05 UTC

The one standing on the imaginary line between "from another, as a shepherd" and "divideth his sheep" if it extended all the way across the drawing.

Um. It looks more like you in the larger version; I sized the final image down to spare everyone's bandwidth and keep the cartoon to a comfortable viewing size. Maybe I'll crop the you-ewe out to a separate file and upload it at its original size so you can see?

Or maybe I miss you so much I just see you everywhere.

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