there just aren't enough guinea pig stories

[freyja]

so imagine my surprise when i get a lovely, author-signed picture book about a wily trickster guinea pig in the mail from a totally secret admirer.

my immediate thought, besides feeling my heart grow three times its size?? "photoshoot!"

i hope you enjoy, mysterious gifter :)

Comments

[eyeteeth]

I am the mysterious gifter, as you had probably already guessed. Just a little thank-you for letting me encroach on your space a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to include a note so you would know it was from me, but for some reason Amazon wouldn't let me do that. I'm glad you like it!

I like how the pigs always look really rapt and interested in whatever's going on.

[freyja]

it's an old photographer's trick called "keep taking pictures until the animal does the correct thing." i'm sure you know it ;)

i thought for sure it must be you, but didn't want to be like "OH HAI EYETEETH THANX FOR TEH BOOK LOL" and then have it be from someone entirely different who just ran across it, and some huge coincidence that it was the same book we were discussing earlier.

could happen i guess!

and thanks for thinking of me! besides it just being an awesome story as is, it's also gorgeously illustrated so i really enjoyed it.

[eyeteeth]

It makes me wonder if a lot of cultures have a tradition of food animals as trickster figures. Here we have Brer Rabbit (and his descendant Bugs Bunny). Do you know of any others?

Bonus: An entertaining playthrough of I Wanna Be The Guy!

[freyja]

i don't know if it's usually food animals so much as naturally smaller and weaker ones. there's anansi the spider; i'm sure someone eats him ;) i doubt there are any trickster cows, which makes me a little sad. i bet there would be a trickster goat though.

that guy's voice is hurting my ears!

[delphizyx]

whahaha, I love how they're totally involved in story-time.

ooo that part was skerry.

[freyja]

i totally cajoled and photoshopped them into that "interest" though. poor things had no idea why i was pointing a giant eye at them and expecting them to pay attention to me rather than it...

[saddestwookiee]

This wins.

[freyja]

people have such fascination with our guinea pigs! last and only time we hosted a prospie grad student she sent us carrot wars as a gift-- did we show you that?

they leave a lasting impression i guess, maybe because they're total weirdos.

[saddestwookiee]

haha Yeah, you did show me that a couple years ago.

In addition to being total weirdos, they are very tasty looking!