Staying in an A-frame with a mounted jackalope. Is this peak Airbnb kitsch (y/n)?
@dev @steve the house my extended family owns in eastern Maine (near Sunday River and Mt Abram) for years had a deer head above the mantle until some summer renters throw it in the lake and it got a bit decrepit.
At Christmas one year about a decade later, after the older generations were sleeping, the cousins were feeling nostalgic, retrieved it from the basement, and swapped it back into its rightful spot, replacing a painting of a loon.
@dev @steve as an experimental control, we also swapped one of my uncle’s portraits in the stairwell with a portrait of Jesus.
In the morning, my grandmother hadn’t even made it down the stairs before saying “hey who replaced Jody with Jesus” and switched the portraits back.
But it literally took 4 hours and a neighbor coming over and saying “huh I thought you got rid of that” before anyone noticed the deer was back
@steve @dev not that they hadn’t all seen it (it’s impossible to miss!), but it was so deeply engrained as “the way things were supposed to look” that it just didn’t register as being at all out of place, even after a decade of absence.