brother humphrey

novice at farnham monastery and all round silly guy! :]

[brotherhumphrey]

it completely slipped my mind for a long time, but I finally got around to making a pinned post!

About Me: 

name:

novice humphrey (i've not completed my monastic training!! the 'brother' in my url is purely aspirational)

pronouns: 

he/him/himself

they/them/themself

monk/monk/monkself

pfp:

by our most Beloved and Cherished infirmarian, @monkbrother-thomas! for a most Modest fee he can create for you similar delightful illustrations; go commission him!!

my interests: 

chanting, herbs, healing, manuscripts, The Lord, reading, writing, walking through the herb garden, prayer, contemplation, Glee

dni: 

satan, brother eustace, terfs, klance shippers _______ (OOC: this is a 15th-century monk RP blog; my posts will contain elements of unreality. I tag everything with 'monkposting', so feel free to block the tag if unreality will affect you. my real life pronouns are he/she (alternately!) and i am an adult. farnham is a real place; farnham monastery is not.)

[brotherhumphrey]

to warm us up before hymns the prior has been making us play zip zap zop

[brothermonk-sam]

There was a rat in the monastery but he was banging out tunes on the harpsichord so I let him be

[monasterycat]

WHERE

[brothermonk-sam]

LEAVE HIM ALONE

[monasterycat]

:(

[pr0digus]

[brotherhumphrey]

rizz 'em with the schism

[brotherhumphrey]

the prior giving a lengthy sermon about god's bounty during dinner is kind of our equivalent of putting on a video essay while you eat

[brotherhumphrey]

in an effort to get us to focus more on the Lord, and not waste our time with earthly pleasures, the prior has taken one of our favourite games, Wordle, and made his own version for us to play. it is called Monkdle, and every day the word is Jesus

[brotherhumphrey]

my mutuals keep talking about this thing called 'hollow knight' so every time a knight comes to stay in the monastery, i check under his helmet, but so far there's always been something in there

[brotherhumphrey]

with the prices of pokopia AND tomodachi life, nintendo is making things realllll hard for those of us monks trying to obey our vow of poverty

[brotherhumphrey]

how to stay safe in the heat (monk edition)

embrace the cool, glistening darkness of the crypt and stay hydrated through licking the moisture off its walls

tiny sunhat to cover just the tonsure

[brotherhumphrey]

something that's been happening in the monastery, and the wider town now that I think about it, has been equal parts confusing and frustrating me recently. see, the townspeople keep going to the well and getting a bucket of water, then putting a bendy straw and a little umbrella in it and giving it to Brother Plagiarism, a monk who we all dislike (or at least i thought we did). he drinks it all and then they say 'oh please Brother Plagiarism! couldst you illuminate for us a new manuscript?' and he goes 'Certainly! Here's an all new manuscript in the 15th-century style!' then he goes in the scriptorium and just takes a manuscript out of the hands of whoever happens to be working on it. he goes 'i made it just for you!' and then demands another big bucket of water. and it's like. guys please. the well hath begun to run dry and he's not even creating these himself. can we lock in

totally unrelatedly, the person running this blog has very calm feelings about her peers using chatgpt

[a-mink-i-think]

if you were some kind of aquatic creature, would you be:

freshwater

saltwater

Voting ended onApr 11

please elaborate in the tags!! i want to know your thinking!!

[brotherhumphrey]

very important research taking place on my other blog. is this monk related? no, but i think the monk enjoyers will like it

[brotherhumphrey]

to raise awareness this World Autism Day the monastery will be having a Quiet Hour, to make it more accessible for members of the neurodivergent community! (this will be no different to any other hour of any other day, on account of the vows of silence)

[sister-rosalie]

Walking in the cloister yard today #mycloisteryardbutnotactuallybecausewehavetakenavowofpovertyandthereforedonotsctuallyownanything

[thelasttreeline]

they were lowkey just drawing anything back then

[catilinas]

from historyextra magazine. as additional sources i can offer you the author’s eel mapping project and eel dissertation

[brotherhumphrey]

some of the brothers put on a spectacular musical performance. brother thomas hath done the worm