Best wishes. This is important work and you know it. 🙏

I think about your article all the time. Time/energy/interest willing, please consider developing your thesis here into a book. 🙏

I enjoy these posts of yours.

Those nails look like a cool iridescent beetle shell!

Calling all American folklorists, pop culture critics, historians, and artists! Please take a look at the call for proposals for Crossroads, a magazine dedicated exclusively to folk horror in the United States. Our first issue will be dedicated to the 1970s.

Bottom left/#3 is my favorite of this bunch. That's wild!

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what the gender

I almost forgot about THAT. There is such a dizzying constellation of stupid shit he has said and done that it is impossible to remember it all.

Scammer energy

Oh if only that were included in Paul Bettany's fervent introduction...

The mid and far grounds of this piece are so interesting, too. I know he was going for the atmospheric haze effect but it also seems a bit otherworldly...

I see "uu" 🥤🔥💜

Excellent connection. Horrifying, but it feels apt. I will always remember the look in the baby monkey's eyes

How do we even treat some of the underlying problems here. Third places? Emotional intelligence/resilience training? Critical thinking training? Four day workweek? I'm not even joking. People busy, stressed, overwhelmed, isolated, desperate for attention and praise. They deserve better.

I want this on a tank top

Thank you! 🙏

Interesting...

My face went on a journey reading this. But I'm left intrigued. Thank you for sharing.

What an interesting focus!!

I can't get enough of thoughts on Grimdark Medieval. Let it out, brother

When I went to UMD they had a puppet program and sometimes you would find a puppeteer in your class. Usually led to us begging them to bring their lil guy to class some day. Amazing how quickly a goofy, friendly puppet becomes real to a room of spellbound adults. Magical memories :)

I saw this photo of yours the other day and I thought to myself, "Huh! I guess there are two monuments like this, then." Hahaha! I hope you enjoyed your time here.

Your comment affected me and, mentally, I am putting a hand on your shoulder. I understand!

I would be interested to know your thoughts after you're done with these.

What an interesting idea!

tell me why~

An open manuscript, with miniature and text surrounded by a green border with multiple silver and gold illustrations of pilgrim badges

Detail of border; there is also a pearl

Pastedown of a different manuscript with metal pilgrim badges sewn into the book

I feel like I haven’t posted enough Book Stuff on here lately, so here’s another amazing thing from the Château de Chantilly: a book of hours manuscript with a trompe l'oeil border of sewn-on metal pilgrim badges next to a book with ACTUAL sewn-on metal pilgrim badges 🤩

Titivillus nowadays masquerades as autocorrect

You see 5 symbols used by Hernando Colón in his library catalogue. The images of this thread are from J.M. Pérez Fernández / E. Wilson-Lee: Hernando Colón's New World of Books" (2021).

If you ever thought that searching a library catalogue is complicated, be reminded: this is how a book (in manuscript or print) in octavo with five pages or more and less than ten was categorized in a sixteenth-century European collection (from Hernando Colón).

A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory