Deltitnu?

I've been really inspired by T. Kingfisher's book What Moves the Dead this week. I spent too much money at the book store and that one was an instant hit. It's creepy, it's crawly, it's got everything I love in a book, and it's covered in a thick layer of fungus just how I like it.

This sticker is a nod to the funky foliage we all know and love. I also learned the difference between a rabbit and a hare.

Fairytale Vibes

Sweetrock by melgillman

CW: animal death// Something Nice by draconym

Different Stories Resonate with Different People (’eat shit & die 233′) by bpatrick via Akimbo Comics

Spring Comic by tomb-of-madeline

CW: referenced suicide// The Fish Wife by melgillman

CW: gore, death// Zombie Dog collaboration, original by sangcoon with addition by grimbarke [source link defunct]

Not from tumblr users but significant to the site’s lore: The Two-Headed Calf by Laura Gilpin [repost]

life after death by Justin McElroy

Monster/human Friendship by phantomqueen

Midnight Radio by elcomics

Scaredy Cat by Heather Franzen (rebloggable ver.) [tumblr link credits artists blog, work is frequently reposted without credit]

CW: body horror// Eleanor Rigby was About Zombies by ghostabletoastables [source link defunct]

How to Train Your Dragon by emmatheward

Mom Knight (Lady Tilda and the Dragon) by smgoetter

Parasite and Girl by saccharinescorpions

Goldilocks and the Constellations by earthsong9405

Frog and Scorpion by fluorescentnova

On the Importance of Space Travel (Princess of Pluto) by Svetlana Chmakova [link from original artist’s blog, work is often reposted without credit]

Nice Does Not Mean Good by tooquirkytolose

Erwin and the Method Demons by santapau

CW: animal death, sad but uplifting// p much all of jenny-jinya’s Loving Reaper comics, but this one sticks out to me

a decent exorcist by pocketss

Other (Mostly) Lighthearted Comics

Untitled. by that-house

Sphinx Couple by trackalaka

strange bog girl makes a friend by pocketss

Be Good to Eachother by Naterade

Crab’s Lost Love by Gunshow/K C Green

The Holiday Boar by guavajagular

Cyborg Date on the Waterfront by Adrian Ricker

take him back by charminglyantiquated

Hatching Pumpkins by iguanamouth

Cassandra by 16ruelaverrerie

CW: mentioned animal death// Wooly Bear’s Birthday collaboration thread [original urls appear defunct]

midsummer’s night dream redraw/study/whatever but its utenanthy

original reference under cut

"This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We've got extra pronouns here."

"Female? He told you he was female?" "She," Angua corrected. "This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We've got extra pronouns here." She could smell his bewilderment... "Well, I would have though she'd have the decency to keep it to herself," Carrot said finally. "I don't think it's very clever, you know, to go around drawing attention to the fact." "Carrot, I think you might have something wrong with your head," said Angua. "What?" "I think you might have it stuck up your bum."

Sir Terry Pratchett - "Feet of Clay"

This is CARROT being the asshole. Carrot who has, throughout all the prior books, been depicted as basically the best of all possible people. He is noble, brave, considerate, kind. He is the good guy in the entire City...

... and yet, he grew up dwarf, and has picked up their more conservative views on gender identity.

Discworld dwarves start out in the books as basically a people without visible gender differences (thanks to the woman growing beards just like the men) and using "he/him" pronouns as their default. Anything else is seen as breaking the most basic of social conventions. (Dwarf dating is described early on as being two dwarves who like each other spending an inordinately long time trying to find out, as tactfully as possible, what gender the other dwarf is)

Carrot does immediately adopt the "she" pronoun for Cheery, which is but wishes she didn't make such a fuss about it. He's prepared to tolerate her choices, but he doesn't APPROVE of them, and thinks that that is enough.

Carrot, because he IS Carrot, does learn to open his mind on this subject, perhaps his final frontier of bias, but I do love that it's addressed as something he has to work on, and succeed.

1) I don't have the book to hand, but when Cheery comes out she changes her name to Cheri, because "sometimes, when you shout who you are to the whole world, you need to do it quietly." It's such a beautiful expression of coming out being a process, and one that needn't be undertaken all at once.

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