Ancient Order of the Reveeting Society

On this day in history March 9th, in the year 1935, Wisconsinite heroes fought a valiant duel for the rights of Wisconsin cheese, and in doing so brought civilization and culture to Iowa! This is the story of the Great Limburger Duel of Dubuque! youtube.com/watch?v=dRYKYE…

@CLilletias @MbarkCherguia I believe all art should be public domain, and so all mine is. Feel free to share it wherever!

@ReveetingOrder @MbarkCherguia Would you mind if I shared your artwork in a Chinese online community, together with an introduction to the strange creature it depicts? Of course, I would clearly credit your X account and indicate the source.

Do you see a DOG or a CAT??

@CLilletias @MbarkCherguia Any time! It's my duty to share the Wisconsin Lore.

@ReveetingOrder @MbarkCherguia Thank you for your reply

@CLilletias @MbarkCherguia Comes from old newspaper articles, and I'm pretty sure those can be found reprinted in Hidden Headlines of Wisconsin by Chad Lewis. amazon.com/Hidden-Headlin…

@ReveetingOrder @MbarkCherguia What a creepy creature! May I ask where the records about it come from?

@TruthScarier Thanks! I've actually posted the Brown's Lake demon before (though here's it again so you don't have to dig for it)! It was a really fun one to make since the description of it was rather specific, with a lot of descriptive details to work off of.

@ReveetingOrder Love your art, do you know about Brown's Lake demon? Pretty neat cryptid I read about in Chad Lewis' book

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Grant County Wildcat. This is an obscure cryptid from the 1930's, and has the distinction of being the last legendary creature I came across in the course of my research, finding record of it in old newspapers.

Eventually two men gathered up their dogs and tracked the wildcat down, but when they saw the cat, and noticed its glowing red eyes, the dogs quieted down and the two men decided that whatever this wildcat was, it would be more trouble than it was worth, and so headed back home.

It was an exceptionally large wildcat, possibly a lynx or a bobcat that had wandered too far south. It caused a nuisance to rural communities in Grant County as it preyed upon chickens and even small pigs, and could often be heard yowling off in the forest.

@Thanos_Snaps @Devon_Eriksen_ > your home is worth what somebody pays for it - not what Zillow says it is. Please convince my local tax collectors of this. I'm paying like double what I was at the start. XD

Buddy, did you read past the first line? I'm not asserting the assets have not also appreciated. Everybody assumes adding detail and accuracy is an immediate attack on their tribe or position, good grief. It is not accurate to directly compare the cost of a bucket of apples yesterday to the cost of a truckload of apples today. There are factors at play, in addition to the general appreciation of the asset. While I'm (apparently) picking fights: reminder: your home is worth what somebody pays for it - not what Zillow says it is.

Dear small percentage of Boomers who can actually be told things: Here are some facts, to help you understand what Millennials are trying to tell you. Here is what the middle-class experience is right now. Not for losers, but for your average hardworking, but unexceptional, dude born in 1992. - No company pensions. Ever. No job offers this. - Laid off every 2 to 3 years. - No vacations. Ever. If you are lucky, you have 10 to 15 days of annual "PTO" (paid time off). But this is not vacation. This is your sick days. You can take a break with whatever's left over. - If you are not lucky, you have "unlimited" PTO. Which sounds nice, but in practice it means you get sick days and nothing else. - They pay social security taxes, but they know they will never receive those benefits, because the system will crash first. - Not promoted. Ever. - No annual raises. Instead, these are effectively pay cuts, because they don't match inflation. - Because of this, can only get a raise by changing jobs. Some judicious prevarication about salary history is recommended. - Good chance you'll have to change careers at least once, possibly more, as industries get rugpulled by offshoring or work visas. - Total mortgage cost on a median house in 2026 is 104,600 minimum-age-hours. This is 50+ years of full-time work. - For comparison, a 1972 purchase would be 23,750 minimum-wage-hours, about 11 years of full time work. What this all adds up to is that Millennials can't buy homes until they are past their child-bearing years. And, no, scrimping and saving doesn't change that equation. This is with scrimping and saving. I am not a Millennial. I am GenX, the child of Boomers. I do not need to be told how much Boomers forwent luxuries to save, and how hard they worked. I know exactly how much they did of each. I was there. I saw. They worked hard at the beginning of their careers, and lived frugally for about 5 years to save up a down payment. After that, things gradually eased up, bit by bit. Until, by retirement, a lot of them had nice fat stock portfolios and multiple rental property investments, and Caribbean cruise holidays. And this seems, to them, like a fair and natural progression. But as America has been hollowed out and by a corrupt political machine, those doing the robbing have left the Boomers whole, and placed the burden of that corruption squarely on the backs of younger generations. For Millennials, there's no light at the end of that tunnel. Just another tunnel. And another after that. They have been standing between Boomers and the reality of the modern economy for 20 years. At some point, they are going to break.

@Thanos_Snaps @Devon_Eriksen_ Sure the average home today may have more improvements, but even when you take apples to apples and look at the value of a single house, the market value HAS increased at a wild rate. No sense denying it!

@Thanos_Snaps @Devon_Eriksen_ Look, you said "the cost of the same house has simply increased at a wild rate is not accurate" And the same house increasing in value 2.5X over ten years is an increase at a "wild rate" no matter how you slice it.

@Thanos_Snaps @Devon_Eriksen_ > The implication that the cost of the same house has simply increased at a wild rate is not accurate Buddy, it's is. I bought my house 10 years ago. Zillow now says my house is worth 2.5x the amount I paid, and I've made 0 improvements. Same house, twice as hard to buy today.

So much of this is accurate. Only point of contention would be the adjusted average cost of housing. The implication that the cost of the same house has simply increased at a wild rate is not accurate; houses are far larger & lavishly equipped today, vs what boomers were buying. I don't dispute the mean or median home cost today is higher than it was during boomer-buying years, but it's not apples to apples.

@SuzThinks @Cryptoboyy_Aji Link it now so I can bookmark it if it looks good enough.

@ReveetingOrder @Cryptoboyy_Aji I will when they go on the market!.

Boomers: “Houses aren’t unaffordable. Stop eating out. Stop buying coffee. Learn to budget.” Also Boomers: “I can’t afford the property taxes on my fully paid off house.” Sir. You own the house free and clear. No mortgage. No interest. No lender. And the tax bill alone is breaking you. But you want me to believe the problem is my Chipotle order. The same system that’s pricing you out of a house you already own is the same system pricing us out of one we’re trying to buy. Maybe it was never about the avocado toast.

@Fair_and_Biased @DouglasHvc21255 See, it would be one thing if it were just people who wanted to get rid of property tax for everyone. That'd be swell. But politicians this week have been proposing exempting JUST seniors from property taxes, shifting the tax burden on the young, which is why it provoked anger.

@DouglasHvc21255 What’s unfair is paying for a home and a piece of property and not actually owning it because you will keep being taxed on it for the rest of time.

I’m a Millennial. I’m also shocked at the replies I got when I suggested that the elderly shouldn’t have to sell their homes if they can’t pay inflated property taxes. It’s clear to me that people carry a deep hatred of their parents’ and grandparents’ generations.

@scott_sher77917 @NEETzscheIDDQD Yeah. Whoever can man up and end it will be, unironically, the greatest generation in the country's history. It will require a generation willing to self-sacrifice, willing to have paid in and get nothing, who values saving their children from the system more than themselves.

@ReveetingOrder @NEETzscheIDDQD Couldn't agree more. But they paid in to support their parents. At some point one of us is going to be left holding the bag. It could very well be my generation. And I have paid in for years.

Boomers get an allowance from millennials/Gen Z. It's called Social Security.

@scott_sher77917 @NEETzscheIDDQD > Don't blame a generation blame the system See the issue is when people say "Yeah we need to end the Social Security system" one particular generation gets really angry and prevents that from happening. Blame the system, sure, but you can also blame the people keeping it alive

@NEETzscheIDDQD And so did their parents. The "boomers" supported them. Don't blame a generation blame the system. And stop all the whining. You are making all young people look like twats and they aren't. Put down your phone and get to work.

@ashleyschendel Heck, if they had even just worked towards "property tax relief for EVERYONE" that would probably have not produced backlash. My property taxes have effectively doubled since I bought my house, why do people care about the effects of such a thing on ONE generation but NOT for me?

@ashleyschendel Working towards lowering housing costs would reduce property taxes for seniors (as well as non-senior homeowners like myself) AND help the younger generations too. But when you propose only tax breaks for seniors you make it look like ONLY one generation's problems matter.

Property tax relief for seniors is getting framed as young people vs. old people, but the real problem is that nobody feels secure in housing anymore. Young families are getting crushed by rent, insurance, interest rates, groceries, and childcare. Seniors are getting crushed by taxes, insurance, utilities, groceries, and fixed incomes. Cheering when an 80 year old gets priced out of a paid off house does not make rent cheaper for a 30 year old. It just proves the system has gotten so broken that everyone is fighting over who deserves stability the least.

They could only be caught in very cold lakes, at a depth of 60-80 feet. They could only be caught during two months, during the Strawberry Moon (basically June) and the Green Corn Moon (basically August) and could only be baited using the strawberries or green corn.

The fur-bearing smallmouth bass supposedly originates from Ojibwe legends (though no Ojibwe source backs this up), and was not merely a fish but a messenger for the Great Spirit. You could catch one, give it a message and release it back in the water to carry your message to Him.

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Fur-Bearing Trout, Herring, and Smallmouth Bass. These are the three furry fish of Wisconsin lore.