[i.d. three photos of a black and green crocheted bat wearing a green cloak. in the first photo the hood is pulled up to hide the ears and face. in the second photo it is pulled down. in the third photo the cloak is unbuttoned, revealing two toned wings. end i.d.]
@solariium made me a birthday/feast of the rose gift!!!!! a little crocheted veils, using the mr pages pattern!!!! (they modified it to be smaller and have the ruffle and bi-colored wings) i adore it so so sos soooo fucking much (and am likely to ask them to make more)
Can’t believe no one’s done it yet I will be the person to add the cowboys: Latin American focus.
Here is the Chilean huaso:
Gauchos, from primarily Argentina where they’re a large national symbol close to the level of cowboys in the US. Also gauchos are in Uruguay. Their pants are called bombachas and the other garment wrapped around them are called chiripas. They work in grasslands called pampas, known for being really fertile:
While they’re not as dressed up as the others or have as prominent of a culture, for a broader Latin American cowboy context, I feel like also adding llaneros, who are from Colombia and Venezuela, in the llanos region, a type of tropical grassland similar to the pampas, hence the name llanero. Pampas get annual flooding and these guys would go barefoot a lot, and you can see that the stirrup on the horse’s saddle is really different than what you’re probably used to seeing, to accommodate for that, which is what I want to point out as an aspect of plains cultures developing clothing/accessories/tools to suit the environment.
Cowboy culture happened wherever Spanish colonial influence and grassland biomes came together. They differ based on the grasslands having different climates (ex tropical in South America), and the local indigenous influence (ex, backtracking to gauchos, they would use this tool called bolas to catch animals, which were basically two balls tied to a string that you threw and it spun around an animals legs, and were an indigenous invention):
I would love to keep posting cowboy dress lol but will stick to the post’s theme of grassland of course.
Its still so funny that they even thought to put this in the game in the first place. Yeah sure to get 100% completion you have to actively break the terms of service on purpose. This is normal
thing I like about florida: sometimes when you’re flipping rocks and digging for bugs some feral poultry will approach you and sort of look at you like hail, standing-ape. spare a worm for a bipedal comrade? and then I have to go find a worm or roach for them and they follow me around for a while and forage for bugs with me and when I pack up to go they sort of get it like many thanks for the morsel. may your crop stay full, plumeless one
peacock was picky and refused worms, had to offer him a scarab grub. posh chicken