Victorian Thanksgiving Turkey & Cottage Greeting Card

With his beak frozen in a wide-open position as if screaming silently at absolutely no one, this magnificently plumed turkey — rendered in iridescent greens, blues, and reds that no actual turkey has ever achieved — struts with the unearned confidence of a middle manager who just got a parking spot with his name on it. Behind him, framed in an ornate gold medallion like a Renaissance portrait of someone's vacation cottage, sits a perfectly idyllic English cottage surrounded by pink roses, which raises the deeply uncomfortable question of what, exactly, a Thanksgiving card has to do with the English countryside. The Art Nouveau decorative elements flanking the whole scene — the vases, the geometric borders, the gilded patterns — give this fever dream a veneer of sophistication that only makes the turkey's open-mouthed intensity more alarming. 'A Joyful Thanksgiving,' it insists, as a psychedelically colored bird screams into the void.