yohunny:crash-bang-boom:teejay-kay:andrewfreudwebber:calloffyourghosts:lesbianlegbreaker:alexdallyma
yohunny:crash-bang-boom:teejay-kay:andrewfreudwebber:calloffyourghosts:lesbianlegbreaker:alexdallymacfarlane:handful-ofdust:the-doctor-to-my-tardis:silencedrowns:opiggynukkao:tinnyhouse:pajama-pangolin:isthiswittyenoughforyou:sharkchunks:awildofnothing:apiphile:jaggedfragments:Nothing could make me more curious about your taxidermy than this.I need this as a t-shirt as “zoologically improbable and/or terrifying to small children” sums me up.Finally I know what I want inscribed on my tombstone when I die.I remember the news article, this is the lion that was removed:THAT IS FUCKING TERRIFYINGOH MY GOD THAT IS HORRIFIChahahaI’M LAUGHING SO HARD OH MY GODI can’t remember the last time I actually laughed this hard at something on tumblr. Oh my shit.ZOO-LOGICALLY IMPROBABLE DOESNT FUCKING COVER ITI’ve reblogged this before, but not with the lion attached. OH GOD THAT LIONIT’S BACK WITH THE ACTUAL ANIMALAHHHHHHOh god, I recognize that lion. It’s mentioned in Still Life:Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom (which I recommend). This reminds me of that meme cat that’s like “how you feel when you’re wearing socks and step in water” that I spent 15 minutes trying to find a picture of on the internet but cannot. JESUS FUCKING CHRISTMAS WHAT THE HELL IS THAT DEMONIC MUPPETjust stopped by to tack on my favourite xxAlways fun with some bad taxidermy but I’m gonna do a bit of postbusting! The sign and the lion aren’t related. The sign is from an art project at the Harvard Museum of National History: http://jenbervin.com/projects/this-object-has-been-removed#1Meanwhile, the infamous lion (nicknamed Leo) is placed in Gripsholm’s Castle in Sweden. Here’s theory on why the lion looks like it does: Say that you’re a Swedish taxidermist in the 18th century. You have never seen a living lion, so when you’re sent a lion pelt and some bones to cobble together you go to the best existing source you can think of: heraldry.When you look at it from the side you can kind of see what they were going for! -- source link
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