Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore

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Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore
I did this on the train to work bc silly me didn’t have a Halloween post bc silly me posted it like two weeks ago instead.
This meme comes around every year and every year I think it’s the funniest thing in the world.
‘Tis ween my fellows!!
Isopod
British Library, Harley MS 3244, c. 1236-1250, folio 64r
Illuminated Internet (2024-2025)
gadzooks! my game? It be'eth changed!
Medieval garden vase, ready for the kiln!
I found a botanical manuscript and was possessed
Im going to be listing a few pieces from this series for sale on kofi soon, so give me a follow there if you want to be notified!
Preview of Basilisk, my personal favorite of my risograph comics, and the project all my other recent medieval-inspired art descends from.
Styled after medieval illuminated manuscripts and printed using a custom color palette requiring 5 risograph inks (including metallic gold), Basilisk asks the question: what would drive a teenage girl to create a monster?
Physical copies available here (also digital here). To brag for a moment--this is my masterwork of riso printing and is even more impressive in person.
Book of Hours of Charles d’Angoulême, c. 1475