I love these weird, Alice-in-Wonderland-esque medieval illustrations. Do we have a tag for this kind of endearing and slightly shitposty content?

If this type of stuff got posted to e6 more and became its own genre I wouldn't mind one bit

Editor: There's too much whitespace.

Copyist: Well, it's the last page in the chapter, and there's only half a paragraph there.

Editor: Look, we're getting paid for something fancy, not blank paper. Can you draw?

Copyist: Umm, a little ...

Editor: Fine; just draw something in to fill up this area; doesn't matter what, nobody's going to really look at it too closely. No sex, though; remember, this is for the Pope.

Copying manuscripts by hand was labor intensive, exacting, and mind numbingly boring--the kind of task where great attention to detail is needed, so you couldn't let your mind wander, especially since most of the texts were quasi-sacred and typos could have drastic consequences.

So the monks and scribes doodled. And the sheer weirdness that resulted is proof that furries and other outre fandoms are hardly new.

henlofurret said:
I love these weird, Alice-in-Wonderland-esque medieval illustrations. Do we have a tag for this kind of endearing and slightly shitposty content?

if you want more, a quick google search for "marginalia" or more specifically "medieval marginalia" should do the trick (marginalia meaning notes/doodles in the margins). adding a new tag here wouldn't be too difficult either, would just need to find the proper images to tag.