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Happy World Ocean Day! The ocean has been perfecting 🪼 this 🪼 design for more than 500 million years. That's right, sea jellies are older than the dinosaurs! They have adapted to our entire world ocean: from tropical to Arctic temperatures, deep sea to shallow reefs, and freshwater to saltwater, jellies are found in every ocean environment.

THAT IS NOT FREEHAND. THE HAND IS NOT MOVING FREELY. WHAT DO YOU THINK FREEHAND MEANS? That's like saying "Look, I can move my finger in a perfectly straight line!" and then running your fingertip along the edge of a table.

Also you're severely limited in the size and placement of the circle if you do it that way. Plus, if you're using a marker, you get ugly splotchy bits where you stopped for half a second and more ink seeped out.

If you want to use your hand as a meat compass that's fine, whatever, but don't lie and call it "freehand" and don't pretend it's impressive. If you actually want to draw circles freehand you need to practice for a while.

It's actually not that hard to sketch a decent circle if you fill up a dollar store sketchbook or two with practice.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.