Author: Madeira Darling

Madeira Darling is a snarky mystic, devout Satanist, serious Marxist, laughing dominatrix, and writer from San Fransisco where they live with their boyfriend in a house full of altars to their various demons.

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Thousands of years ago, somebody looked at a flock of sheep and went, “well, they aren’t cold.”

Guys. Guys.

It’s so much better than that.

So once upon a time, goats and sheep were essentially the same animal, and all of them had hair. Now, you can do some stuff with hair, but you can’t do a lot, so mostly sheep/goats were kept for meat and milk.

Except then a mutation showed up, and some of the sheep/goats had WOOL instead. And someone realized that 1. you could spin that shit, and 2. then you could WEAVE that shit, and 3. IT GREW BACK.

Generations of selective breeding ensued. Two visibly discrete species emerged, one primarily for meat and milk, and the other primarily for wool. They also have different behavioural characteristics, because independence was not helpful in a sheep, so it was bred out of them. Sheep remain one of the few non-draft animals that we farm even though they are not delicious.

The most similar part of sheep and goats that remains today is their skeleton. On an archaeological dig, you find THOUSANDS of bones and bone fragments that can only be identified as “sheep/goat”. It’s incredibly frustrating, but also kind of hilarious after you’ve spent enough time in the sun.

ANYWAY, human beings have always been smart and surprisingly good at changing nature because they want a sweater.

The entire knitting community needs to hear this.

Oh man I’m so glad I can add this to my arsenal of responses to people who say all GMOs are made of poison.

Um there’s a blatant error in this post, mutton is delicious and how dare you?

lark-in-ink replied to your post “I just used Marxian analysis to explain the problems currently…”

Can/did u post it here

I didn’t cause it’s in a forum thread with a lot of responses but baaaaaaaaaaaasically “recasts” (counterfeit dolls) are causing real problems in the doll hobbiest community and have caused a couple of companies to fold in recent years.

Recasts used to be poorly made and easily distinguished and thus less of a problem, however, nowadays they’re often quite well made, sometimes better made than the legit dolls and it’s causing problems in the resale market and all sorts of places.  Annnnyway, legit dolls are handmade, made to order objet d’art and thus quite costly, however, there are people who want these not as handcrafted art works, but as mass produced leisure activities and basically for their purposes the artisanal nature of dolls isn’t socially necessary labor and so they won’t pay for it