Maybe whoever commissioned the artwork asked for a “scalloped design on the border” and the artist took it too literally Love it though
But those aren’t scallops! Clearly they asked for them to be muscled
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.
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.
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 congenital limb defect.
Around here we call them cockamouse.
That one demon on the left just looking bored AF. (Eating me again? Ok, fine. Let’s get it over with!).
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
It’s clearly a watery grave
Exactly. Its a giant fish mouth coming from the bottom.
Important to wait 30 minutes after a meal before going swimming, or starting an art project.
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.
I agree with a little, varying on age and sex, but too much and you’re just a silly goose!
The octopus looks sexy.
That is a seal
Dudes being eaten by a hell otter. Thematically correct illumination. Hell otters after your golden souls in their shells.
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.
“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.”
Day ruined, thank you
