Some unicorns are jerks and so are some bunnies

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Ouch, that's gonna hurt.



But then the monkey deserved it:



So did the bunny (see here if you do not believe me).

Still not sure why everyone was pissed off at those snails though (see them here).

From Book of Hours, Flanders ca. 1300 (Cambridge, Trinity College).

Comments

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Was the Monkey's name Trump? 

Book of hours?  Is that like a prayer book with pictures? 

Athena

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Yes, it is a Christian devotional book and the the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Interesting.  I wonder what spiritual significance a monkey, a rabbit, a unicorn and a snail had back then. 

I once encountered someone once who used the term to title a collection of images they Google then mashed together into colleges.  It was actually very empty and devoid of any real spirituality though - but perhaps to them it meant something.  I don't know. 

Athena

[slobberpuppy.livejournal.com]

They had a sense of humour, those illuminators!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh yes and it seems so much richer (and crazier) than ours today. But then they did not have to worry about micro aggressions and cultural appropriation I guess.

[slobberpuppy.livejournal.com]

It was a much smaller world back then, it is true!

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Internet wisdom says everything is a dildo if you're adventurous enough. Monkey is about to find out.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and it looks like they knew that way before internet. Those illuminated manuscripts have some crazy shit in them. Apparently we had much better imagination in those times.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

A quick look on any good slashfic/fanfic site indicates we still have a ton of imagination. Furry fanfic is pretty much just like the illustration, only it runs to 50,000 words.

[topum.livejournal.com]

You are probably right, I just didn't know what fanfic was until I joined LJ (and I still do not know what slashfic is).

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

slashfic is a subgenre of fanfic, specifically about romantic pairings. It was the first fanfiction produced, specifically kirk/spock romance fiction (hence the slash.) The other fanfics grew up around it.
(arguably unauthorized continuation novels, like sherlock holmes writings that weren't by Doyle, were the first fanfic, but the term wasn't applied until after kirk/spock slashfic became a thing.)

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

I'm always on the side of the snails *g*

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it still is an unsolved mystery why they appear as knights' adversaries so often in illuminated manuscripts.

[rockingthemike.livejournal.com]

omg! i'm laughing out loud to this so hard!

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Those medieval illuminated manuscripts are hilarious. And it looks like pot was strong then too.

[found-world.livejournal.com]

I used to know somebody who argued for the existence of fantasy-style dragons due to medieval style drawings. I got a chuckle out of thinking, "Look, look, rabbits used to be at war with humans!"

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in a couple of hundreds of centuries they might be imagining what our world was like based on computer games.