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A drawing of a naked person being dragged away by a green demon; the drawing is surrounded by a border with various drawn mussels and clams. The caption reads “Monk 1: What are you drawing? Monk 2: A poor soul being dragged to hell by demons. Monk 1: Cool! And what are you planning to use as a border? Monk 2: I’m thinking freshwater mussels. Monk 1: That’s really perfect.”
Monk 2: I sure hope my painstakingly hand drawn illumination won’t be nitpicked by some smug jerk from the future.
IIRC mussels were “unclean”, so would that jive with the whole demonic sin thing?
Fun fact: it’s “jibe” not “jive” - https://www.grammarly.com/commonly-confused-words/jibe-vs-jive
Please don’t take this as me being an asshole, it’s just that English is my second language, and I find this kind of stuff fascinating.
TIL.
TIL, thanks for sharing.
Deacon: “Brother Ted, you’ve messed it up again. I clearly said I wanted a demon with giant muscles!”
Brother Ted: “But that’s what I did. You can clearly see the mussels all around the border!”
Those demons… one is so over it, the other is shocked by the same exact thing for the 468733 time.
Middle-ages cloistered monks really had a lot of time on their hands and no other entertainment, so yeah, crazy art of whatever comes to mind.
Weren’t they also often chained to the desks to meet their deadlines tbf?
The first thing that comes up on a websearch is books being chained to desks, to keep them from getting borrowed. I can’t imagine monks chained to their desks will be motivated to do good work, let alone fine art like illumination. Especially if they’re under a deadline, which would serve to propagate errors and misspellings.
…and hell is inside a gigantic otter?
Well, have you ever been inside a gigantic otter? If you know, you know…
Very strategic leg placement there.
The demon’s face says he doesn’t mind.
Looks like his eyes are bugging out from being kneed in the groin to me.
Fresh water mussels with a side order of tortured soul, yumm
