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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I'm sorry I missed the viewers who turned up to my first livestream in years, after =Ski-Machine left I kind of gave up hope that anyone else would come, so I just concentrated on drawing. I hope those who came to watch enjoyed it anyway and I dearly appreciate the views that I had! Thank you all!

From what I wrote on tumblr regarding the WIP (because I'm too tired to think straight and write a new version.) only edited:

A new seasonal design! This is my Rimarian Thanksgiving card. It should be noticed here since I’m sure people are confused that Rimarians, Escavians in particular have combined Halloween and Thanksgiving as there is too much energy involved with two seperate holidays for a non-industrialized agricultural civilization. With the two holidays meshed together the holiday is a much bigger and more awesome shindig anyway with a lot of partying, parades, community dances, competitions such as horse racing or produce and people generally being grateful. Those of my beta readers who have gotten to the Thanksgiving sequence of Emperor’s Blood (if any lol, everyone’s so busy!) will recognize it; it is a festival of thanks, life and death where a whole lot of apple cider is consumed by all. (And a festival in which children get sugar highs.) The animals in this illustration are a silkie chicken and a foal, as horses are sacred.

Rimer has turkeys imported from Gaia but they don’t have the same buzz there as they do here. Turkeys have survived because they can scare the crap out of native predators (seriously, who isn’t at least slightly terrified of turkeys?) and because they are large birds, they provide a lot of meat which is usually fed to a farmer’s dogs or cats - remember, this is a society which came from a colony where it was more important to feed meat to domestic carnivorous species which the colonists knew would be vital to their survival. Humans, being omnivores did not need meat like the colonial dogs and cats did, so they fed any meat they had to them. (Which resulted in a culture which doesn’t eat a lot of it, if any at all. A farmer would rather give his old hen to his prize hard working border collie which he needs for his family’s survival than to eat the meat which is so hard to come by for himself. He believes his dog needs it more than he does.) I’m not saying most Rimarians are uber vegetarians, just that meat has been severely devalued in their culture due to its lack of availability in the first years of the colony and government efforts to purposefully devalue it, so it lacks the apparent cultural importance which our culture places in it.

Value in a larder to a Rimarian is having a cellar chock full of root vegetables to get him through the winter and a good flock of laying hens for plentiful eggs which he can eat and trade. Often when an animal like a sheep or chicken dies its body is traded to be made into dog or cat food rather than eaten. Cats are highly valued as protectors of cellars and food stocks. Very few humans in the colonized areas hunt and most avoid closed areas such as forests because of predators.

So, that's how Thanksgiving is celebrated in Escavia. It's a pretty awesome festival and I kiiinda wish that I could attend it lol. It would be like the world's most awesome agricultural fair in every town up the coast of Escavia, Tarn, Grottailia and Thundarica - think parades, heavy draft pulls, livestock competitions, harvest, agricultural, sewing, knitting and baking competitions and horse races. (Which are way more awesome than the modern horse races which come to our minds.)

Oh yeah and there's tons of free baked goods! FOOD!

(c)Rosanna P. BrostAll Rights Reserved.

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I'm sorry I missed the viewers who turned up to my first livestream in years, after =Ski-Machine left I kind of gave up hope that anyone else would come, so I just concentrated on drawing. I hope those who came to watch enjoyed it anyway and I dearly appreciate the views that I had! Thank you all!

From what I wrote on tumblr regarding the WIP (because I'm too tired to think straight and write a new version.) only edited:

A new seasonal design! This is my Rimarian Thanksgiving card. It should be noticed here since I’m sure people are confused that Rimarians, Escavians in particular have combined Halloween and Thanksgiving as there is too much energy involved with two seperate holidays for a non-industrialized agricultural civilization. With the two holidays meshed together the holiday is a much bigger and more awesome shindig anyway with a lot of partying, parades, community dances, competitions such as horse racing or produce and people generally being grateful. Those of my beta readers who have gotten to the Thanksgiving sequence of Emperor’s Blood (if any lol, everyone’s so busy!) will recognize it; it is a festival of thanks, life and death where a whole lot of apple cider is consumed by all. (And a festival in which children get sugar highs.) The animals in this illustration are a silkie chicken and a foal, as horses are sacred.

Rimer has turkeys imported from Gaia but they don’t have the same buzz there as they do here. Turkeys have survived because they can scare the crap out of native predators (seriously, who isn’t at least slightly terrified of turkeys?) and because they are large birds, they provide a lot of meat which is usually fed to a farmer’s dogs or cats - remember, this is a society which came from a colony where it was more important to feed meat to domestic carnivorous species which the colonists knew would be vital to their survival. Humans, being omnivores did not need meat like the colonial dogs and cats did, so they fed any meat they had to them. (Which resulted in a culture which doesn’t eat a lot of it, if any at all. A farmer would rather give his old hen to his prize hard working border collie which he needs for his family’s survival than to eat the meat which is so hard to come by for himself. He believes his dog needs it more than he does.) I’m not saying most Rimarians are uber vegetarians, just that meat has been severely devalued in their culture due to its lack of availability in the first years of the colony and government efforts to purposefully devalue it, so it lacks the apparent cultural importance which our culture places in it.

Value in a larder to a Rimarian is having a cellar chock full of root vegetables to get him through the winter and a good flock of laying hens for plentiful eggs which he can eat and trade. Often when an animal like a sheep or chicken dies its body is traded to be made into dog or cat food rather than eaten. Cats are highly valued as protectors of cellars and food stocks. Very few humans in the colonized areas hunt and most avoid closed areas such as forests because of predators.

So, that's how Thanksgiving is celebrated in Escavia. It's a pretty awesome festival and I kiiinda wish that I could attend it lol. It would be like the world's most awesome agricultural fair in every town up the coast of Escavia, Tarn, Grottailia and Thundarica - think parades, heavy draft pulls, livestock competitions, harvest, agricultural, sewing, knitting and baking competitions and horse races. (Which are way more awesome than the modern horse races which come to our minds.)

Oh yeah and there's tons of free baked goods! FOOD!

(c)Rosanna P. BrostAll Rights Reserved.