Sar Cousins

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UK comics n illustration person --- they/them SITE >>> https://sarcousins.co.uk/ SHOP >>> https://tocsidiser.bigcartel.com/

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Jar of Moles (Grant Zoology Museum, London)
crittery dozened things each pink snout snootling
formaldehyde up it's bamboozler which poor fuck
had to collect them out in the dirt with a shovel
here moley moley  	BONK . I’m only gonna
put you in a jar and let tourists go eww at you
for the next two hundred years god look at me
for two hundred years I’d do anything look 
mummy, one of them’s licking the glass—
honey it's dead  velvety sweet sardined hope
their ghosts are friends teeming in a molish
afterlife dark and circular everything worm-
flavoured tasty buggy snackerels what if 
you smashed the mole jar? vinegared
moles spilling out flaccid & swimming
everyone screaming someone saying Freddy
you gotta get us a new jar of moles—
—goddammit boss I  never asked for any of this
A jar of wet preserved moles, the jar is very full and all the little hands, feet and snoots mark it as both upsetting and fascinating

In terms of mythological context, they are supposed to resemble kobolds from german folklore (being small and primate-like) more than they are lizards or dogs. But obviously I took liberties lol. The fake cartoon ones I drew are how they would be stylised (vs. lizardy/doggy ones)

Fake animation cel showing a pair of kobolds arguing. They are cel-shaded and stylised like an 80s cartoon, looking like goblins. The painted cave background shows miscellaneous rocks and glowing bracket fungi. Subtitles read: "Where is she?"

It's the full line-up for SCARF 2026! Far too many people for me to tag in this post but WHAT A CROP 😙🤌✨ October 10th 2026 at Trafalgar Warehouse, Sheffield, S1 4JT - completely free entry, and we'll have some freebies for the first 50 punters through the door! Put it in your diaries 📒

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