I hope to prove one day that, in the hands of an intelligent magpie, a quill pen has no less value than in the claws of a wolf or the paws of a fox.

J. J. Grandville, La vie privée des animaux.

Giant friendly crabs

tfw you want to be born but don’t want your mom to lick you to death

“She danced a saltarello”. [The pun is that saltarello, a dance, sounds like the French sauterelle, “grasshopper”, and both come from the same root meaning “to jump”]

Grandville, Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux.

Behold, a tortoise!

The ball was then interrupted by a great vocal and instrumental concert.

J. J. Grandville – La Vie Privee des Animaux

Good evening then, reader friend… till tomorrow

J. J. Grandville, La Vie Privée des Animaux

Ruggiero Delivering Angelica by Arnold Böcklin (1873). Just look at that orc! It’s got to be the prettiest fine art dragon ever painted. I love how it seems unfazed by the knight trotting up, and even Angelica seems awfully casual about being held hostage by a dragon.

That said, if you liked this don’t see the sequel painting with the dragon handily beheaded.

😦