there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.
like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything
THE BOY
Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).
The lack of skvaders is particularly frustrating when you realize it forms the third point of a wonderful cryptid trifecta.
You got the jackalopes, which are rabbits with antlers.
And you got the wolpertingers, which are rabbits with antlers and wings.
And then… what? Do you escalate? That’s unbalanced, those two rabbit cryptids don’t have the same number of extra things, the wolpertinger is clearly the jackalope But More.
BUT with the skvader on the other side, balance is restored. Antler rabbit, winged rabbit, winged antler rabbit. It’s a classic Venn diagram of imaginary lapine beasts, and it’s only complete if you acknowledge the fucking skvader.
Good thing Ursula’s got our back, at least.
This is a really excellent point and I applaud your advancements in Cryptid Theory.
Today is the day you tell the cute guy in math class that it’s October 3rd, which means it’s also a year since That Inevitable Victorian Thing came out. Let’s talk about The Log Driver’s Waltz.
My favourite thing about this song is how 100% centred the girl’s feelings are. Every part of it is her thoughts and her plans. She respects her parents’ wishes, but still follows her own wants, which is a tricky thing to learn.
And at the end, it’s “so when the drive’s over, if he asks me AGAIN”, which implies he already has and she said no. Which is great self-knowledge.
So kudos to Wade Hemsworth, for writing a song in the 1950s that we still sing, and to Jennifer Phelan for a beautiful 2018 version (that you can get, bc it’s out now!). Both have made an impact on me.🇨🇦
Even if you don’t like Halloween you have to appreciate its position as the sole thing keeping Christmas from advancing even earlier into the year like a cancerous growth
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