#and never recommends me any

[arunneronthird]

my favorite type of anime is the kind where a characters life derails so painfully you go back to the first episodes and dont recognize them

[lazylittledragon]

Question about tattoos, if that's alright! If not, please feel free to ignore this. I have four tattoos, but none were handpokes. I've always been curious about getting one done, perhaps across my hand. Is it truly so painless as you described in the comic? Can you find a professional artist willing to do them? I had one tell me that none would, which was disappointing. Thank you for your time ❤️

based on my experience - YES. it was maybe 2/10 pain for me, it hurt less than getting my ears pierced. it takes a long time and you can kind of feel your skin like. popping. which is a bit weird. i can't say anything about the most painful areas for tattoos but to compare, i have one on my inner bicep next to one of my more painful machine tattoos and i hardly felt the handpoke at all.

you can ABSOLUTELY find professional handpoke artists!!! the idea that you can only get them in someone's dirty basement is outdated, most handpoke artists work in studios and they can be just as clean and professional as machine tattoos. also you can have a nice nap which you don't usually get with most tattoos

[horror-aesthete]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Salò o le 120 Giornate di Sodoma), 1975, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

[cuties-in-codices]

Where do you find these manuscripts? Is it like a website or do you find it randomly??

hey, thanks for the curiosity! lenghty answer below the cut :)

1)

medieval manuscripts are typically owned by libraries and showcased on the library's websites. so one thing i do is i randomly browse those digitized manuscript collections (like the collections of the bavarian state library or the bodleian libraries, to name just two), which everybody can do for free without any special access. some digital collections provide more useful tools than others (like search functions, filters, annotations on each manuscript). if they don't, the process of wading through numerous non-illustrated manuscripts before i find an illustrated one at all can be quite tedious.

2)

there are databases which help to navigate the vast sea of manuscripts. the one i couldn't live without personally use the most is called KdIH (Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters). it's a project which aims to list all illustrated medieval manuscripts written in german dialects. the KdIH provides descriptions of the contents of each manuscript (with a focus on the illustrations), and if there's a digital reproduction of a manuscript available anywhere, the KdIH usually links to it. the KdIH is an invaluable tool for me because of its focus on illustrated manuscripts, because of the informations it provides for each manuscript, and because of its useful search function (once you've gotten over the initial confusion of how to navigate the website). the downside is that it includes only german manuscripts, which is one of the main reasons for the over-representation of german manuscripts on my blog (sorry about that).

3)

another important database for german manuscripts in general (i.e. not just illustrated ones) is the handschriftencensus, which catalogues information regarding the entirety of german language manuscripts of the middle ages, and also links to the digital reproductions of each manuscript.

4)

then there are simply considerable snowball effects. if you do even just superficial research on any medieval topic at all (say, if you open the wikipedia article on alchemy), you will inevitably stumble upon mentions of specific illustrated manuscripts. the next step is to simply search for a digital copy of the manuscript in question (this part can sometimes be easier said than done, especially when you're coming from wikipedia). one thing to keep in mind is that a manuscript illustration seldom comes alone - so every hint to any illustration at all is a greatly valuable one (if you do what i do lol). there's always gonna be something interesting in any given illustrated manuscript. (sidenote: one very effective 'cheat code' would be to simply go through all manuscripts that other online hobbyist archivers of manuscript illustrations have gone through before - like @discardingimages on tumblr - but some kind of 'professional pride' detains me from doing so. that's just a kind of stubbornness though. like, i want to find my material more or less on my own, not just the images but also the manuscripts, and i apply arbitrary rules to my search as to what exactly that means.)

5)

whatever tool or strategy i use to find specific illustrated manuscripts-- in the end, one unavoidable step is to actually manually skim through the (digitized) manuscript. i usually have at least a quick look at every single illustrated page, and i download or screenshot everything that is interesting to me. this process can take up to an hour per manuscript.

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in conclusion, i'd say that finding cool illuminated manuscripts is much simpler than i would have thought before i started this blog. there are so many of them out there and they're basically just 'hidden in plain side', it's really astounding. finding the manuscripts doesn't require special skills, just some basic experience with/knowledge of the tools available. the reason i'm able to post interesting images almost daily is just that i spend a lot of time doing all of this, going through manuscripts, curating this blog, etc. i find a lot of comfort in it, i learn a lot along the way, and i immensely enjoy people's engagement with my posts. so that's that :)

[lucaswarmhotchocolate]

whenever I go to add tags the first three are always harrymort, Harry Potter, voldemort. if that gives you any indication of the brainrot levels going on. and I still have so many saved to my drafts

[undertale-fic-librarby]

Featured Fic Friday!

Welcome to Featured Fic Friday! A day where I, or someone who suggests one, tell you about a fanfic that I really enjoy! Spoiler's under the cut! Today's featured fic is...

A Dog in the Cat House by SoloShikigami (General Audiences, Complete)

Nightmare has lived happily with his three cats, Dust, Killer, and Horror. But one day he comes across a poor dog in need of a home, and hey, he could always use a guard dog. But will his three cats get along with the newest member of the family?

A short but cute fic, I enjoy the concept behind it! It's a little unusual to find a fic where most of the characters are animals, but the author does a good job of writing the characters regardless!

Spoilers ahead!

I think it's a really cute fic with an interesting premise, having Cross as a dog in what was previously an all cat house.

The way the author writes the characters makes it known what they think & how they feel even without any dialogue spoken between them.

[sexisdisgusting]

ok followup to last question: what games do you recommend anyone with a switch ABSOLUTELY get?

[fire-fira]

Me when looking for neurodivergent representation in fiction:

Also me when I come across "all neurodivergent people do X" posts/videos/etc.:

When I tell you, this shit is infuriating...

[ebonytails]

sorry my post is just to complain but guys i literally hate adobe after effects. i can not explain to you the mental torture and how LOW it has brought my mental health because I *need* to use it for my post production class because it's "industry standard". ADOBE After Effects has made me write off the entire film and video production industry as a turn off and I never want to do it ever again.

The amount of times this has crashed on me where I lost everything? 5+ hours of work? 8+ hours of work? It's my fault for not saving sometimes but I also have auto-save on. it didn't save anything so im just left with nothing.

You want a trip to burn out town really quick? Use adobe after effects in an academic setting where you have no choice but to use this program.

I have never in my life TOUCHED a program SO TERRIBLE that it made me never want to do anything about that form of art/media EVER AGAIN

[3dogbones]

I saw your tag on the repost.. and i must say... I think almost all of the art of kissing @freshlyepic has done..i think are all because of me, i say, i am the one that likes kisses its SO SILLY.. especially when its fresh frfrfrfrfrfrfrfr /silly/Lh/ns

Oh my gyatt… YOU BOTH HAVE A KISSING OBSESSION. SMH.

Sssiiiigghhhhh guess I’m the 3rd/69th wheel… OH OP AND I DREW SUN AND SHLYEP, but the British gets to be British epic now, because British 😎👍

Sorry to say this, but it’s facts that sun does look like a female human version of Gumball Waterson… 💔💔💔💔

Tried a bit of a cutsie style with this one rrrrrr I agree 100 percent with Shlyep, drawing humans is pain

but sun isn’t that bad to draw because you don’t have to deal with the weird human ears and the hair really helps with the face shape!

P.S. watching The Disastrous life of Sakai K rn…

oh no… I already…

I already have a feeling I’m gonna hyperfixate on this show 🤯🤯🤯

IT’S LIKE MP100 BUT MOB IS FED UP WITH EVERYTHING AND HAS HORRIBLE LUCK AND IS AN ONLY CHILD, I MIGHT LIKE THIS BETTER THAN MP100 OMG IT IS SO WONDERFUL TOP TEN FRFRFR AND I HAVEN’T FINISHED THE FIRST SEASON EVEN‼️‼️‼️💙💜💙🖤🖤💗💗💛🖤💗💛💛💞💚💚💖💞💚❣️❣️❣️😻😻💓😻💘🧡💘💘💟💟💌💝 I especially love so far how Kusuo explains all of the animation choices with him using psychic powers LIKE BRO THAT IS SO COOL?!?! Such good writing

Love the main character. Omg. “No mister magician, I don’t want to hear your monologue, I just wanna skip cutscene irl.”

also that one line “IiiaiAMm nut afRAAAiiiDd oEf the wAehhtaah” AND THEN DROWNING IN INCH DEEP WATER IS HILARIOUS I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH

[skunkes]

Super good luck on yr procedure adventures cheye!!! Such an awesome thing I hope to do myself someday. Best of luck !! 🐈‍⬛🕊️

Thank u!!! Im waiting on call back from the surgery scheduler neow 🧿🧿🧿

[marlynnofmany]

I have a new story to write, so I can submit it to a Thing, and all I know is that I want it to be about shapeshifters.

To the money bin story seed folder!

I do love swimming in here.

[the-witch-of-woods-beyond]

actually kills me every time i start losing my mind over a ship only to find out they have no fans and i can’t binge read incredible fan fictions or metas on them for days on end.

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

Hey guys? I Really fucking love shuichi

[canisalbus]

you've probably gotten this a lot but.... machete is so harrowhark nonagesimus-core

People keep telling me that and I'm not quite sure what they mean ´v`'

[challahbeloved]

I went to the Jewish bookstore today. Here are some titles I didn’t buy, but if you’ve read them, I’d like to know whether you recommend them or not.

In Forest Fields: a unique guide to personal prayer

Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought by David Biale

On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz: 25 Years of Pre-Dawn Car Trips, Mind-Blowing Encounters and Inspiring Conversations with a Man of Wisdom by Arthur Kurzweil

Stop Look Listen: Celebrating Shabbos Through a Spiritual Lens by Nehemia Polen

On Being Free by Adin Steinsaltz

My Grandmother’s Candlesticks: Judaism and Feminism, A Multigenerational Memoir by Diane Schulder Abrams

Festivals of Faith: CONNECT and GROW with the JEWISH YEAR by DISCOVERING Is ESSENCE by Rabbi Moshe Wolfson

Why We Tremble

Inside Teshuvah by Miriam Millhauser Castle

Opening the Gates of Teshuva: A Contemporary Commentary on Rabbeinu Yonah’s Shaarei Teshuva by Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

Knocking on the Gates of Teshuvah: Comments and Insights Rambam Hilchos Teshuvah by Rabbi A. Levin

Life After Teshuvah: Five, Ten, and Twenty Years Later

Vegetarianism, Ecology, and Business Ethics: Three Essays of Judaic Insights into Contemporary Concerns by Daniel Sperber