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Published: 2009-10-15 14:47:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 8342; Favourites: 159; Downloads: 112
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I had drawn this fetus, and I sat and stared at it and tried to figure out what to do with it, and god help me, it wanted to be a Christmas ornament.And then I asked my boyfriend, who I think sort of wonders how he came to a point in his life where "Do you think I should make this fetus into a Christmas ornament?" is normal conversation.
"The problem," I said, "is that the fetus as imagery has been completely comandeered by pro-lifers. You see a fetus, it's on some idiotic billboard, or it's been chopped up for protest signs."
"...kay..." said the boyfriend.
"They've completely co-opted fetal imagery, and I want no more of it."
"...kay..."
"IT'S TIME TO RECLAIM THE FETUS!"
He put his head in his hands. "So I'm going to come home, and you'll be wearing a jacket with "FETUS" written on the back in duct tape, and when I say something, you're gonna say, "It's okay, I'm taking it back"?"
From this we can determine that A) my boyfriend is a very patient man and B) he's watched a lot of Kevin Smith movies. And also that maybe I shouldn't be allowed to have my pencil and sketchbook that late at night.
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Dunno why but this is kinda cute... I get a sence of "life" from it... Maybe its because I am about to have a holiday baby myself or the fact that I always saw the holidays as a form of a "new beginning". Its probably cause Christmas is so close to New years that its like one of the last few hurrah partys before starting over again.
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It does have a sense of life to it.
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Everyone at my house loves this thing, we would love to have one on our tree!
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I started to feel bad about laughing when I saw the image... and then I read what you had to say about it... and laughed even more... and stopped feeling bad. lol.
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Ursula Vernon, you are my favorite person on the entire internet. I really mean it. You, above Randall Monroe, Cleolinda, Studio Foglio, and everyone else here, are my very favorite. I like you more than I like videos of Carl Sagan, and even my real life friends on facebook cannot compare.
-Noelley B, avalonmaiden
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I've said it before: I totally love how your mind works
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But the good thing is he's supportive, yes?
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......maybe it's for the best that I'm deploying far away from my art supplies....I totally want to make one out of sculpy now......
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Then, clearly, I have watched a lot of Kevin Smith movies too.
TAKE BACK THE FETUS!
Incidentally, I'd love to give this as a Christmas gift to the prolifers whom I see protesting on my way to work EVERY DAY.
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Fetuses (and especially fetal christmas tree ornaments) are so cute! I never understood why no one else found the adorable rat fetuses in science room as lovely as I did, but still.
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Love it.
I want one.
I think these would sell. Christmas trees need more grotesqueries.
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This reminds me of something my brother did. Like yourself, he hates the pro-life displays. He expressed his distaste in a slightly more direct manner, though. He walked up to the people running the display, sat down in the chairs they had provided, and began making dead baby jokes.
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I knock over the signs they post along our highway. I have no problems with their opinions, but... eh. They're so in-your-face, all-the-time about it. 
Aaaaanyway. You are going to get a fetus ornament for Christmas. I'm going to make lots, to go around.
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I would totally buy one. Creepy yet chic. I can see it wearing a Santa hat too.
You are very lucky to have such an understanding boyfriend.
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Fetii... phalloi... fetii... phalloi? Which is more bizarre? Which would be more amusing above my fireplace?
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i like it!
now were can i find a glass maded one for my tree?
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I HATE those posters. There's a guy from a nearby church that posts them near or in our college every opportunity he gets. Why not show something positive about feti like this? X3
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Alternately, they would make good earrings as well...
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You should have put the cap where the umbilical cord would be.
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I have no idea what's so endearing about fetuses, but there ya go. I wouldn't actually mind having something like this...
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FETUS POWER!
Good to know I'm not the only one who enjoys doodling fetuses (feti?)...
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I am relishing the prospect of showing this image to a classroom full of serious art students and professors.
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...This really shouldn't be as adorable as it is...
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hahahaha classic moment XD both in your life and in clerks2 
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I do believe I like your boyfriend.
Long live Kevin Smith!
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You have no idea how happy this makes me. No idea.
And your boyfriend quoting from "Clerks 2" totally made my afternoon. 
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I think I've been looking at your art/reading your LJ too long. I looked at that and thought, yeah, I see why it needed to be a Christmas ornament.
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fetuses are pretty little beautiful things. More life than anything else in them! Plus, they pretty much all look alike in the beginning stages!
Fetuses rock.
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Alot of the pro-life pictures bug me because fetuses are just plain weird looking anyways, but I can support this. Pro-Ornament!
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This is the most beautiful and simultaneously disturbing thing I've ever seen.
But I love the artist's comments more. What a lovely story.
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Thats..both facinating, yet odd.
And now I can't help thinking it would look better with just a string trough a small hole. This just looks like it is wearing a hat.
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You say this like Hat Fetus is a bad thing.
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Nah, it just looks silly, next thing it is going to get a cane and start dancing....XD
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It looks like it's hanging from a shriner's hat. XD
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You're gonna sculpt one someday, yes? It's too... too... extraordinary not to be realized in 3D.
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I'm totally sculpting one of these for Christmas!!
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holy shit. once I get home over Thanksgiving break and am reunited with my sculpting tools, I'm making a fetus ornament.
You're an inspiration.
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