Jane • She/Her • Ace/Pan • ♑️ • Profile pic art is mine. Title quote from "The King's Men."
I think if you said that to the medieval artist they’d just go, “oh good you understand my vision”.
Like… that’s 100% what they’re going for. Does the tweeter think it looks like that by accident?
I apologize, but I'm taking this as an excuse to infodump just a little. I am excited to tell you a number of things.
First, it is genuinely medieval; that's a pilgrim badge. This particular photo may actually be a replica of the original -- I'm not sure -- but it's a medieval design.
Second, it's definitely supposed to be a vagina. It might also represent Jesus's side wound, but it's primarily a vagina. We know this because the "anthropomorphic vagina" thing is a recurring motif in pilgrim badges and a lot of those badges also have dicks, a context which I think makes the intent clear. (And, of course, there are plenty of badges that are just dicks.)
Third, nobody is exactly sure why this is a thing, but there is some ongoing academic debate on the subject. I've seen arguments for different theories, including:
Fourth, two badges have been found with this design, and it has developed a colloquial name -- here's an excerpt from an M.A. thesis by Lena Mackenzie Gimbel that mentions it. (I was just doing a quick check through the library catalog to make sure I could verify this was a real design, and then I found this source and had to show y'all the screenshot.)
ALTI love the Middle Ages, and so much of it is just objectively friggin' goofy. Also I will be referring to kings as "god's favorite munchkins" in future, thank you.
Reminder that the characters in the Canterbury Tales - some of the raunchiest stories available in any age - are religious pilgrims.
Medieval pilgrims were, at least some of the time, horny as fuck.
I did a work exchange at a museum in the netherlands for a bit when I was 16, and they had a whole cabinet in one of the stable storage rooms just dedicated to drawers and drawers of pilgrim badges shaped like dicks. big dicks, small dicks, fat dicks, skinny dicks, dicks in hats, regal dicks, dicks disguised as birds, dicks disguised as beasts, dicks disguised as pilgrims, ornate dicks, crude dicks. the curator who showed me around was so defeated like "we have no idea what to do with them all. people keep finding them and sending them to us. every time someone digs up a water main they find another dick badge. we have so many already."
New year, new obsession 🦊
I'm glad I looked past the first sentences of aftg, which really made me want to just close the book and never open it again. After a while, I somehow fell in love with that mess 💓
No specific scene or anything, just thought about how I imagine Andrew, Aaron and Kevin could look like (kind of at least)
All i wish for 2024 is every creator to start that project they’ve been thinking about, write those fics they have been planning, make messy art, and to have as little burnout as possible.
one of my favorite things about listening to music is at the end of the song when you hear the musician laugh or talk to other people it's like they switch from some ethereal being back into a person
This was supposed to be for the 2023 aftg big bang, but the author of the accompanying story had some trouble crop up irl, so i’ve been waiting for them to finish so i could show it off..
Alas, trouble seems to still be brewing, so i’ve decided to show it off after all since i’m honestly quite proud of it.
So have a smoke-jumper Andrew (iirc) looking out over the area he’s keeping track of.
I honestly had kind of a hellish time getting this to look right, but i’m very happy with where it ended up lol
big believer that writing doesn't always have to be writing. sometimes writing is going for a walk. sometimes writing is rehearsing your characters' dialogue in the shower. sometimes writing is putting a song on loop and staring at the carpet. sometimes you need to hang out with your story instead of writing it
Did I watch this several times?
Did I giggle every time?
This is a masterpiece. I don’t think you need to have even read or watched Pride and Prejudice to appreciate this, though of course if you actually know Pride and Prejudice this goes from funny to hysterical.
Many of you might be unaware but if you’re a transphobe there’s a 98.7% chance that your brain is replaced with mushy peas within the first five years.
If you do x-rays that many times you will fucking die
TERFs after x-raying themselves every time they have a drink to make sure there's no penises around
