they think the sky ends blue

don't you wish you did too?

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

It’s infuriating how so many women were (and still are) discriminated against for being female

[wanderingchaos]

she also killed and dissected a rabbit so that her peter rabbit would be as ACCURATE as possible. all the magic of countless children’s childhoods was built upon the bones of a single bunny’s sacrifice. how delightful. how horrific. what necromancer could dream of such impact with a single stroke of their blade.

[whetstonefires]

(celebrated children’s fantasist) diana wynne jones said that she once wandered into beatrix potter’s yard by accident as a kid and got chased off because beatrix potter disliked children, which really fits into the rest of this quite neatly

[brawltogethernow]

diana wynne jones Is hysterical like does she have an anecdote about personally irritating every famous English novelist (whirlibird)

[duck-satellite]

👀

[jadedownthedrain]

I love Burnum Burnum ❤️💛🖤

[cumaeansibyl]

more about Burnum Burnum

text of the declaration:

The Burnum Burnum Declaration England, 26th January, 1988

I, Burnum Burnum, being a nobleman of ancient Australia do hereby take posession of England on behalf of the Aboriginal people. In claiming this colonial outpost, we wish no harm to you natives, but assure you that we are here to bring you good manners, refinement and an opportunity to make a Koompartoo - ‘a fresh start’. Henceforth, an Aboriginal face shall appear on your coins and stamps to signify our sovreignty over this domain. For the more advanced, bring the complex language of the Pitjantjajara; we will teach you how to have a spiritual relationship with the Earth and show you how to get bush tucker.

We do not intend to souvenir, pickle and preserve the heads of your 2000 of your people, nor to publicly display the skeletal remains of your Royal Highness, as was done to our Queen Truganninni for 80 years. Neither do we intend to poison your water holes, lace your flour with strychnine or introduce you to highly toxic drugs. Based on our 50,000 year heritage, we acknowledge the need to preserve the Caucasian race as of interest to antiquity, although we may be inclined to conduct experiments by measuring the size of your skulls for levels of intelligence. We pledge not to sterilise your women, nor to separate your children from their families. We give an absolute undertaking that you shall not be placed onto the mentality of government handouts for the next five generations but you will enjoy the full benefits of Aboriginal equality. At the end of two hundred years, we will make a treaty to validate occupation by peaceful means and not by conquest.

Finally, we solemnly promise not to make a quarry of England and export your valuable minerals back to the old country Australia, and we vow never to destroy three-quarters of your trees, but to encourage Earth Repair Action to unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, peaceful purpose.

Burnum Burnum.

[galacticjonah]

No time for that now.

Taliesin fckn did that. He just made Molly do that?! 

[invaderxan]

when you a words writing and meaning sense make words to

[uncleromeo]

If you hard. Then you hard.

[duck-satellite]

"Graphic designers are definitely a waste of money, we don’t need one.” 

[beggars-opera]

The best notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks

Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages

Oh, my hand

The parchment is very hairy

Thank God it will soon be dark

St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing

Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink

Oh d fuckin abbot

Massive hangover

Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job

Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night

If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral

I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today

Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark

11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again

Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God

If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen

[lunapocalypse]

Finally wrapped this up and maaaan, my hand hurts. First time doing any kind of cross hatching and the inking took forever. But whatev’s, had a blast making it and desperately had to get it out of me. I’m looking forwards to more Jester moments. >:}D

[fanonical]

if you’re a wizard and not an expert calligrapher what even is the point

[beanprincess19]

Critters during the first episode of Critical Role Campaign 2

[agentromanoffsir]

some carrie fisher tweets to brighten your day

[toodrunktofindaurl]

i’m still screaming

[tachonis]

wow i love mollymauk and yasha

[littlenimart]

2018 is officially the year of the disaster gay!!! thanks @marisha for giving us Beauregard!

[toodrunktofindaurl]

That’s what friends are for!

[calligraphybymoya]

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Aaaand one more, just because it’s almost Friday. #illuminatedletterday! (#notathingday 😉) . (Okay, it’s not almost Friday, it’s only Wednesday night for me and I’m ahead of most of you. But I’m impatient.) . This time I tried letting the instacoll (the yellow substance that the leaf gold sticks to) dry for much longer than before. I think it worked better; I have a little less wrinkling on the gold. Still not very happy with it though! . This is an Ottonian letter C - characteristics are the red outline (instead of black) and the block colour section. Only a couple of dots this time! (Still used the Kemper tool though 😉) I’m getting a little bit better at outlining … but only a little. Probably going to need more than three letters’ worth of practice before I’m any good at that 😂 I used gouache but next time I might try sumi for the outlines. . . . . . #illuminated #gilding #illuminatedletters #medieval #sca #ottonian #mediaeval #learningcalligraphy #instacoll #goldleaf #24ktgold #storybook #fairytale #art #melbourneart #melbourneartist #gouache #gouachepainting #lovemyjob #makesomethingbeautiful #oldschoolskills

[ornerine]

The gang’s all here! I had the enormous honor of doing the character art for Critical Role’s second campaign; here are the Alpha portraits of the new party!

[comicherald]

[duck-satellite]

like that’s great and all but what if they did it five years ago