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The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866

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If the amount of happiness, immediate or ultimate, is increased by any costume, it is right to wear it.

It looks like the VS enhancement is taking a bit longer than expected so… let me entertain you with a Vulpix 4Koma, From the 1997 4Koma collection  ポケモン4コマ大百科 (Pokémon 4Koma Encyclopedia) by Takahiro Yamashita  やましたたかひろ. Turns out Mikon (Missingno. 081 and scrapped Pokémon in Spaceworld 97) was in Yamashita’s dreams in 1997 ahah  (this doesn’t mean Yamashita knew about the real Mikon, the 4koma is obviously based on Vulpix’ Pokédex entry

animated fantasy films just don’t make fucked up evil castles like they used to

[ID: king haggard’s castle from the last unicorn (1982), the horned king’s castle from the black cauldron (1985), and maleficent’s castle from sleeping beauty (1959) /end ID]

aesthetic of the day is fucked up evil castles

Story is wild

Little girl was part of a county fair agro-educational program where they raise an animal for a few months and at the end it’s slaughtered. Supposed to teach them about the economics of farming and stuff.

But the little girl loved her goat so much she was crying on the day her goat was supposed to be taken away, so her mom sent the county fair people an email saying “I’ll pay for the goat and any expenses. We’ve had several deaths in the family in the past year, I don’t wanna take away one more thing my little girl loves.” Technically the goat had already been sold at auction, so the mom was on the hook for about $1000, only about $70 of which would have been profit for the county fair.

The county fair people were irate and got law enforcement involved, over this “breach of contract”. They literally got a fucking judge to sign a search warrant, authorizing them to go to this little girl’s house and search every room and every cabinet or box “large enough to contain a small goat”. The sheriff’s deputies seized the goat, and whoever they gave it to immediately slaughtered it, though they were supposed to wait until some kind of agreement had been worked out.

In the county fair’s initial email correspondence with the girl’s mother, they made it clear that they were pissed off because the story of the little girl who loved her goat was circulating on social media making them look bad, and they felt the girl needed to be taught a lesson about keeping your promises or whatever. So they refused the mother’s offer to pay for it, and insisted they get the goat. Even if it meant sending the fucking cops into her house lmao.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair

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the congressman who bought the goat didn’t have any objections to the family saving the goat from slaughter either! it’s fucking insane that the cops were so eager to play act their swat commando fantasies that they played stooge to the benefit of no one except some self important local organizers!

Alternate link, LAtimes locks their stuff behind paywalls sometimes

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