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WHAT IN THE WOOLLY MOTHERFUCK OF RABBIT IS THAT BIG GREAT CHRIST

danny devito lookalike for scale

if we keep going you think we could breed them big enough to ride like the worlds most jostling horse?

owners of the bigger bunny breeds say they behave better then the little ones, they dont do zoomies or try to escape they kinda just flop around like a curious basset hound without a fear in the world, very chill

I’ve seen Watership Down. They can’t fool me.

you know too much

Well that is one hell of a specific reaction image

not by a long shot!

lets see here theres the bunny siege

regicide bunny

mob enforcer bunnies

joust bunnies

posh falconry bunny

music critic bunny

dangerously sassy bunny

the other bunny siege, this time on the defensive

parade of the bunny clergy

two separate pipe organ bunnies were made by completely different people

be sure to watch the hot new anime ‘i suspect my squire is a hare’

bun on bun crime

there was also one where a bunny shot a dog with a crossbow, then  took the dog to a rigged court, where the dog was sentenced to death by a bunny jury, then hung; but i cant seem to find it again so heres a bunny hunting man for sport, thats just as good right

you may notice hardly any of these are the same illustrator, its almost as pervasive as the damned snail meme and we have no idea how many other illustrations of murder rabbits were lost to time

in conclusion- monty python was right all along and all D&D campaigns should include a race of dangerous 3 foot tall harefolk that have access to weaponry

@hrodvitnon

jeez what did they have against rabbits

Legit answer? It’s probably the same thing that created the illuminated snail memes, the monastery’s garden. Rabbits are common pest animals and monasteries often had to grow their own food so the monks may have just been super frustrated by the pests eating their crops.

Ok I lied I’m back cause I need to say more, specifically about this

you may notice hardly any of these are the same illustrator

This was bugging me so I doubled checked and a fair number of those examples are actually from the same manuscript, Bréviaire de Renaud de Bar (1302-1304). Specifically this

and 

Those are the only 2 I can confirm, but I suspect the other illuminations featuring that grey rabbit design are from the same manuscript. 

However, the point still stands. There were widespread rabbit memes. But the really interesting point is what that means. See the thing about illuminated manuscripts is everything that went into one was literally by the book. There was a very specific way to draw the letters, a very specific to illuminate the manuscript a very specific way to bind the book. These items were custom ordered and a client knew exactly what they wanted (often an identical copy of the original manuscript). These aren’t doodles or artistic expression the way we think of it, you had the specific styles you were the master of (sometimes you mastered a few even!) and that’s what you did. 

But this all means that the rabbit meme was so widespread that it became standardized. You had styles of rabbits to go with styles of what we now call fonts and styles of bookbinding. Like what the fuck that’s amazing

That theory’s all well and good, but I counteroffer that it’s really that Tex Avery, immortal rabbit-fancier, was working on his Magnum Opus for a very long time before animation became practical, and that history has mostly lost his early works on the subject of Ducks…

well, now we know where the inspiration for this came from

Originally posted by blondebrainpower