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A drawing of a naked person being dragged away by a green demon; the drawing is surrounded by a border with various drawn mussels and clams. The caption reads “Monk 1: What are you drawing? Monk 2: A poor soul being dragged to hell by demons. Monk 1: Cool! And what are you planning to use as a border? Monk 2: I’m thinking freshwater mussels. Monk 1: That’s really perfect.”
Fresh water mussels with a side order of tortured soul, yumm
Middle-ages cloistered monks really had a lot of time on their hands and no other entertainment, so yeah, crazy art of whatever comes to mind.
Weren’t they also often chained to the desks to meet their deadlines tbf?
I love these because it give us a glimpse into oldschool metaphors that were so, so obvious at the time. Like of course you’re going to slap down some mussels on that hell talk because it’s an unclean abomination.
And of course you’re gonna give a pregnant women a pomegranate, and make sure jesus has a pelican. Why wouldn’t jesus be hanging with a pelican? If not, at least make sure he’s holding a fish and there’s a shepherd in there somewhere.
The illuminaries were memelord shitposters.
IIRC mussels were “unclean”, so would that jive with the whole demonic sin thing?
Fun fact: it’s “jibe” not “jive” - https://www.grammarly.com/commonly-confused-words/jibe-vs-jive
Please don’t take this as me being an asshole, it’s just that English is my second language, and I find this kind of stuff fascinating.
TIL, thanks for sharing.
TIL.
Old medieval pages look so fascinating. Too bad the letters are so beautifully drawn that I can’t even try reading what each word says.
It’s probably in German if that helps you.
That makes it even worse, I don’t speak German.
Very strategic leg placement there.
The demon’s face says he doesn’t mind.
I feel like this is what happens when 2 people work on different parts of a project without any kind of coordination between them
Monk 3: Monk 2 had drawn a kickass devil and asked me decorate the borders with fire, but I am out of red ink, the mussels will do.
Though, I suspect they were likely separated by time more so than organizational inefficiecy.
…and hell is inside a gigantic otter?
Well, have you ever been inside a gigantic otter? If you know, you know…
They are super rapey
Monk 2: I sure hope my painstakingly hand drawn illumination won’t be nitpicked by some smug jerk from the future.
They really didn’t understand humans I guess.
Don’t be shellfish.
This could literally be a Dwarf Fortress randomly generated inscription.
Those demons… one is so over it, the other is shocked by the same exact thing for the 468733 time.
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Bot account
Those large comments, multiple each minute?
Hopefully it’ll get banned soon.
Like it’s crazy. I’m obsessed with this botb right now. It talks so much.
