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“Tour Guides”

Fat Horse No. 8

It’s the year of the horse and I’ve always been a horse girl at heart, so I’m finally taking advantage of the excuse to fill the world with fat little horses! These felted friends are about the size (and shape!) of an apple, and if you happen to have any apples to share I’m sure they’d help you out! Some might say this is a donkey and not a horse, but if they want to hang out with the fat horses I’m not about to tell them no

the unicorn tapestries won the poll, but not by much!

the video of the mug spinning at the end if the timelapse does this piece better justice than the pictures, mugs are hard to photograph

I decided one of the hounds from the other tapestries could break free too

I was feeling very raw and emotional when I drew this yesterday because of the TADC finale (which then of course got me thinking about "i saw the tv glow" and my own real life experiences with trans suicide). It was a little bit draining emotionally when it got a lot of attention on bluesky, so I wasn't going to post it here. but I decided I will anyway, because the sentiment is still true.

So, genuinely no hard feelings, I get where y'all are coming from, but that was actually kind of my entire point

The Rosetta Stone was and is real.

This is indisputable. You can go see the Rosetta Stone on display right now!! I'd say you could even it touch it, but there's museum glass in the way, so that the oils on human skin can't further degrade this 2,000-year-old stele, which is one of the most important surviving historical texts in the world.

The Tower of Babel is not real, and it never was.

The Tower of Babel is a millennia-old religious story about a mythological tower, which serves as a mythological explanation for the origin of different human languages. Yes, there are some religious historians who speculate that the myth was inspired by one or another physical tower, but no, that doesn't prove anything other than "this is how many people in this cultural explained or understood that sort of event."

The Rosetta Stone, on the other hand, is an object of translation that actually exists

Photo credit: By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved from Wikipedia article "Rosetta Stone." https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3153928

That picture is of a real object. It is not of a picture of a 3,000+ year old myth.

Our attempts to understand each other will not result in us being struck down by some force from on high!

And the true path to a world where we can all understand each other does not involve us all speaking the same language. That's racist bs