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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

branewurms

what does oh d fuckin abbot even MEAN

a-spoon-is-born

an abbot is the head of a monastery so it just means “fuck my boss” basically, an abbreviation of “O damned fuckin Abbot”. this is what it looks like:

Brasenose College MS 7, f.62v

wisteria-lodge

very important, as is to my knowledge first attested instance of word ‘fuck.’ (it’s older, it’s just usually censored in some way)

andletforsakendidodie

❤️

#history #q

tvandfilm

Russian Doll (2019-present) Matryoshka (S02E07)

#russian doll #q

a-fall-of-stars-deactivated2024

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Gentle Spirit

#if you cannot say the thing at some point you will scream it #the unhealed wounds of boyhood destroying the man he could have been #it's 'maybe if this one thing had been different everything wouldn't have different but *i* would have been different'#hotd #q

peglarpapers

the terror (2018) // the meditations of marcus aurelius, trans. maxwell staniforth

#the terror #web weaving #q

seamayweed

Aemond is your brother. We are family. You may cuff him about as you wish at home, but in the world, we must defend our own.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 1x01 // 2x01

#god i hope they don't lean into this too much that would be really boring BUT #this parallel is beautiful #also the way that aegon's written being the writers clearly being aware that they fucked up with how they wrote him last season #still annoyed that they don't seem to be leaning into the green kids being each others ride or die because they had no choice in the matter #this becoming a bigger thing as alicent grows distant from them could actually work #but hey whatever sometimes you just have to accept the slop you're given #hotd #hotd spoilers #q

slothful-rabbit

I laughed so fucking hard at this

paint-lady

#lgbtq

dailyflicks

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON TWO Episode 1: A Son for a Son

#i mean if daemon were king nobody would be fucking off to essos faster than rhaenys lbr #the incoherent writing of it all #the not having the chance to do a final pass to tighten it up of this scene #i mean not this bit of this scene #i think this show being so far from good but also so close to being good might be my villain origin story lmao #hotd #hotd spoilers

jeyne-arryn

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.07 | 2.01 | 2.02

#it's the horrors they have the horrors in common #and love #but also the horrors #hotd spoilers #house of the dragon

witheredoffherwitch

😭😭😭

#UM #this had not occurred to me #god daemon's an idiot #hotd spoilers #hotd #i mean also the writers but in this instance i'm happy for the idiot to be daemon because yeah #he's not a man who thinks two moves ahead at all

visenyaism

i think the whole “jon has a secret targaryen name and it’s aegon/aemon” thing is just kind of goofy because the whole point of it all is that he has no name but what ned gave him. Ned named his adopted son after his adopted father. that’s love that’s so much more than the whole azor ahai prophecy that’s everything. however if we’re doing goofy name theories “what if lyanna gave jon a stark name before she died and that name happened to be theon” is my favorite contender

#honestly think Jon has a Targaryen name and it is visenya #all it took to protect him from the curse of that name was being fate touched and beloved of multiple sets of gods #though I think it would be funny if before everything went to complete shit #that Lyanna threatened to name Jon maegor if Rhaegar didn’t pick a boy name in addition to a girl one #so he has a targ name but not like #one anyone would want #game of thrones #ASOIAF

elcoffin

WIP

my heart belongs to greens

#gorgeous #alicent hightower #helaena targaryen #aegon ii targaryen #aemond targaryen #hotd #fan art

dcminions

DERRY GIRLS S1E06

#derry girls #q

welightthewaysource

#do NOT get excited it’s going to be bad #but at least it will be pretty #hotd #q

shrapnelthots

It's Pangur!

This took longer than expected but I had a lot of fun working on it! I've loved Pangur's vibes for forever, so it was about time I made fanart

@pangur-and-grim

#art #q

stonesense

the fantasy genre turns people into royalists so fast. i’m not even talking about return of the true king fairytales here but i mean, like, when there’s a “who will become king/queen!” plotline and people immediately start genuinely talking about who has the rightful claim. can we all sit down and first agree that none of these people “should” be king or queen because that isn’t a thing that should happen to people. what century are you from. divine right isn’t real go back to sleep

#the most boring way to watch hotd is to argue who should rule #a) nobody should have that job that job features ultimate power #b) nobody who would make a good politician is actually in the running #that’s the point!! the system is bad!!#hotd #q

lucidloving

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

#web weaving #q

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