• Mothra@mander.xyz
    2 months

    Maybe whoever commissioned the artwork asked for a “scalloped design on the border” and the artist took it too literally Love it though

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Not fair. I also see a non-mussel bivalve, a crab, a gastropod, uhhhh… what looks like the offspring between E.T. and an anomuran decapod, I can’t even fathom a guess at those cockroach mice things…?

    Edit: On reinspection, the red demon has the most “it’s a living”-ass face possible.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
      2 months

      The cockroach mice might be that they had only heard about or seen other slighly less terrible drawings of lobsters.

      Edit: Oh wait, thats the ET thing.

      The cockroach mice are little paisley looking ones.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        That’d be really weird given how detailed the crab is, because the astacids – lobsters and crayfish – are globally distributed like crabs. The E.T. thing doesn’t even have the right number of limbs, which is why I had to either invoke infraorder Anomura or assume a bilateral congenital limb defect.

        It’s actually like the product of trisexual reproduction between E.T., a lobster, and an arachnid.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2 months

    That one demon on the left just looking bored AF. (Eating me again? Ok, fine. Let’s get it over with!).

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
    2 months

    Dudes being eaten by a hell otter. Thematically correct illumination. Hell otters after your golden souls in their shells.

  • fubarx@lemmy.world
    2 months

    Important to wait 30 minutes after a meal before going swimming, or starting an art project.

  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2 months

    The marginalia of medieval manuscripts are often pretty wild. Just my personal theory, but I always thought it seemed like one of the places where the artists could inject a little of their own ideas, elaborating on the subject or drawing parallels, using symbolism, maybe little in-jokes for the client (hours books were made for one person), etc. Sort of like the extra panel of an xkcd comic.

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2 months

    If you like medieval marginalia, go play Pentiment. I played it with a friend who was a medievalist, and ze said that all of the weird marginalia were ones ze recognised from real manuscripts. Very cool

  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
    2 months

    Stuff like this makes a bit more sense when you think about how Autism has been a thing for a very long time. This is the kind of shit we still get up to now.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    “About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”