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THIS IS SO COOL
woah
This is from ‘Beasts of Burden’, a really cool comic about a bunch of dogs (and one cat) protecting their town from the supernatural things that threaten it. It’s spooky and sad and really just fantastic. At one point they teamed up with Hellboy. Everyone should read it (if you don’t mind some pretty dark things happening. it is not a cheerful comic but it is a good one).
Hey! So, I loved this comic, and still think about it occasionally, and tonight it was linked to me again with just the right timing so that I hyperfocused and squirreled off to go read everything! They aren’t really numbered well, but the Wikipedia page has a list of them in release order and what anthologies to find them in!
But given that it’s a pain to seek out each one one by one, I’ve got a list of links in order a smidge further down! Please try to support Dark Horse Comics if you can, but if you’re broke like me and still want to read, the Internet is a beautiful place. According to the wiki page, there are at least two more installments to come, scheduled for May 1st and June 5th, but there’s no real update schedule for the series as a whole.
Do note: they are graphic, gory, and sad, with a lot of body horror. But they’re really fantastic.
Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites contains:
1. Stray
2. The Unfamiliar
3. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
4. A Dog and His Boy
5. The Gathering Storm
6. Lost
7. Something Whiskered This Way Comes
8. Grave Happenings
9. Sacrifice (Hellboy Crossover)
Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch contains:
10. Food Run
11. Story Time
12. The View From The Hill (the one in this post!)
13. Hunters and Gatherers
14. What The Cat Dragged In
15. Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men
This is one of my favorite series ever and I’m so glad it’s finally getting proper collections instead of one-off anthology appearances.
Warning, though, the story about Hazel and her pups will *destroy* you.
I’d like to add on that there’s a great crossover of Beasts of Burden with Hellboy!
Last night, I dreamed there was this really popular youtube channel called “WolfpackDan”, and it was a guy who literally lived with a pack of wolves in the forest, just documenting daily life.
Now, I need you to understand that Dan was not some sort of Coyote Peterson type. He looked and dressed like someone who would pretend to get drunk off of non-alcoholic beer and say “bruh” unironically. He looked like the “bro I am straight up not having a good time” guy. But there he was, literally living in the forest with a wolf pack, recording and uploading videos with his phone.
One of his videos opened with him talking to the camera about “yeah, the pack went hunting today and just made a kill”. He turned his wrist to pan his phone over his shoulder, where four wolves are pinning down and tearing into a whitetail buck who is two gasps away from death.
“We’re actually hoping to make two kills today,” he added, panning his phone the other way to show two more wolves latching onto a second deer. “The Old Lady’s pups are growing really fast and it’s getting harder to provide for them. Once they can join the hunt, that’ll be a huge weight off everyone’s shoulders.”
He panned back to the first deer, where the wolves were now tearing into the meal. “I’m really hoping they’ll leave the pelt on this one intact,” he said. “I need a new cape. Winter is coming, guys.”
The last shot of that video was him running through the trees with the pack, with a still-bloody deer hide draped over his shoulders.
I can’t remember any more of his specific videos, but the gist I got from them was that he actually was a contributing member of the pack (hence the “we”) and had been raised at least partially by the wolves themselves. Not sure how they raised him into this dudebro-looking twenty-something with a name like Dan, but they did?
Where did he get his phone? How did he pay for his data? Who taught him English? Why did he dress like that?
I have so many questions for WolfpackDan.
I don’t know why this is getting a lot of notes tonight, but I’m excited for all the attention WolfpackDan is getting, and I hope that–in whatever universe he exists–he’s getting a huge influx of subscribers and is living his best life.
how many times do i have to tell you! before you can test for your muppet license, you need to get your learner's kermit
This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far.
I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.
A barn rasing: a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.
because you cannot, you CANNOT, build a barn on your own, and without it, you will not be able to survive.
What a fuckin’ gem of a sentence. “What we did today was a barn rasin”
pagutheshadydealer asked:
So since you are one of the weirdest tumblers j have ever followed, I just wanted to warn you about something I just learned. You can have mental sex but there is no mental condom
biggest-gaudiest-patronuses answered:
That’s why y'all have so many OCs
