atheists who get Extremely Mad when confronted by any form of ‘mysticism’ make me so tired…. like…… this world is rich with strange, unique ideas. it’s so utterly human to cling to the patterns of stars, to worship the moon, to imagine unseen forces as human reflections with life and personality. there is no harm in exploring these outlandish theories!! for the most part, it’s not ‘Crazy People Insisting They Know The Future’. it’s just people— regular people—seeing reflections of themselves in oral history and stars and playing cards.
let people have their fun. none of us know dick shit about how the universe works, anyway.
very soft, very pure. head tilt is excellent and endearing. shading makes adorable chicken look nice and round. good start. 10/10
google chicken has similar proportions to apple chicken but is significantly less cute. shading is bad, face is worse. the red beak is unsettling and upsetting, and the little hair tufts are not working for him. 3/10
awful. could be easily mistaken for any kind of bird, not just a chicken. bold lines take away the round appearance. this bird would steal from you without remorse. 1/10
a round boy, a soft boy. pear shape is nice but could be improved upon. beak and eye ratio is off, but soft colors and shading ultimately make up for it. a good chicken. 7/10
a very small chicken. beak and eyes look very nice, and hair tuft is done right. not as round and cute as apple chicken, but good nonetheless. 8/10
perfect boy. beak and eyes are lovely and wonderful, body is soft and rotund. excellent hair tuft makes him look elegant and handsome. i love him so much. i would lay my life on the line for this chicken. very cute. 16/10
eye shape is nice, but beak and eye placement is not. the shading makes it look like this chicken has cheek bones which is scary and unappealing. he looks sad and confused. 3/10
would be cute but, the mouth. those dead eyes. this chicken has stared into the void and the void has stared back. his soul is being sucked out and he will never feel emotion again. 1/10
bold choice to have legs sticking out of the eggshell. little blushies and mickey mouse eyes work well. hair tuft is a little distracting but otherwise very lovely bird. 8/10
disgust consumes me. -5/10
this is not a bird, it is a murderer. head tilt is a sick parody of the apple chicken’s head tilt. this chicken is plotting the destruction of you and your loved ones. he doesn’t have a motive; he doesn’t need one. killing is a pastime for him. -1000000/10
very nice face. egg shaped head is little strange, but you can tell he means well. eggshell is a bit big, but otherwise, very good all around. 8/10
very good hair tuft! eyes and beak are a bit oblong, and body is a strange shape. however, tummy patch and simple coloring are very pleasing. 7/10
good and happy and wholesome!!! she is bursting out of her eggshell with joy!! pure and lovely bird, 900/10
listen just because a song was written before 1920 and has a fiddle in it doesn’t make it a sea shanty
I saw a ‘sea shanty playlist’ with finnegans wake in it and I almost died
a sea shatny is an unaccompanied work song with a call and response structure just because a folk song is about the sea doesn’t make it a shanty
actual tall ship sailor here! this isn’t quite accurate. there are two main categories of sea shanty: working shanties and fo’c’sle shanties.
working shanties are (obviously) songs sung while working. they typically have a steady beat and a call and response format – useful not only for keeping a massive crew all hauling on a line / heaving on a capstan together, but also for not becoming mind-numbingly bored as you do this for hours on end (raising an anchor could literally take an hour in the days before hydraulic windlasses and propeller-driven ships. last time i did it, even with using the ship’s engine to get us over the anchor, it took about fifteen minutes of constant work to get the anchor up). there are subcategories of working shanty based on what kind of work you’re doing (short haul, long haul, capstan e.g)
fo’c’sle shanties (short for forecastle, where the common jack tar would sleep/hang out) are another story. they were sung purely for entertainment, sort of like campfire songs. as such, they are much freer in form – they often aren’t call and response, and they rarely keep as steady a beat.
either of these two categories can be accompanied! the shantyman would often play the fiddle while standing on the capstan as it rotated, and of course in fo’c’sle shanties anything goes. besides, if you wouldn’t slam a traditional irish tune for having guitar playing chords behind the melody (an innovation that only came about in the 1970s, and piano accompaniment in the 1920s, prior to which everyone just played the melody in unison), there’s no need to slam a shanty for having accompaniment, even non-traditional accompaniment. it makes stuff sound nicer!
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