#my messages are as open as my asks

[i-drop-level-one-loot]

Would you like to discuss monster ocs with me? (im looking for some monster lover friends)

[sawxwhxrex]

how’s the view from down there?

[7odaworld]

Whatever the morning brings I hope it leads to an amazing day regardless! Good morning sunshine!

[aubeezz]

It's that time of year where I cry and sob and hold out my hands for some help B'] !! A few weeks ago, my Ipad decided to bust! Its power buttons broken and the batteries been shitty for a few years :'3 I'm opening 4 comm slots to slowly work towards saving!! I use PayPal for income! Any reblogs would be appreciated! Dm If interested <3

EDIT!! Slots are full <:3 Ty all!!

[flowerysubmissive]

Friday is just around the corner, who’s excited? This over worked pup can’t wait for the weekend to come 🐶💕!

If you like my tits consider tossing me a coin ~♡

[madame-fear]

Baby, I want you to take a close look at this beautiful picture

He’s so sad. But is so beautiful and I love him because he is my husband.

…But there is something I can’t quite look at…

Look at this

LOOK AT HIS HANDS? I AM SO WET RIGHT NOS

I HAVE SEEN SIMILAR PICTURES LATELY!!! There’s one where you can notice just how wet his eyes are... Poor little man,, he’s going to be our revengeful himbo— I don’t know how I will tolerate this season without crying... I STILL INSIST ON WANTING GHOST LUKE, JUST A CRUMB 🥺

They have heard our prayers and gave us curly, hot king Jace 🙏 LOOK AT THOSE VEINS!!! ZOO WEE MAMAAAA, BABY HE LOOKS SO PAINFULLY BEAUTIFUL 🤤

Imagine kinky Jace placing his hand on your neck, or holding you firmly by your chin to kiss you on the lips... Or tightly gripping your hips to fuck you hard. S2 Jace is going to give us so much smut material. 👀🤭

[lilac-set]

Reminder: even if trump wins, we’ll be ok. The presidency isnt the only political position that matters, he wont be a dictator, the president doesnt have the power to remove every other part of government that keeps the president’s power in check. Also politics isnt the only thing that matters. Even if we lose some rights (which he cant singlehandedly do) we still have community, we still have activism, we’ll always be ok. We survived one trump presidency, we can survive another. We survived before gay marriage or transitioning were legal, if we have to survive that again we will. Please, no matter what happens, promise to stay alive. Youre valuable, youre important, and youre going to be ok. Its better to be overprepared than underprepared. Im not asking you to lose hope (im doing the opposite of that), im asking you to practice coping ahead, get all your coping skills ready, determine now to stay alive, because i dont want any of you to make any rash decisions later in case we get bad news and emotions are high. Make a safety plan if you need to. Make sure you’re gonna be ok

[ink-the-artist]

forgive me if you've been asked this before or if its annoying, but how did you learn to use colored pencils like that? your art is so special to me.

ty :) I took an art class for a few years where our teacher had us buy prismacolor pencils as one of the art supplies and had us use them kinda like paints, pressing down hard right away and blending the colors together. its not how youre supposed to use them she was just trying to teach us to use color and ig this was more to the point. I picked them up again years after i stopped going to that class just bc they were there and i wanted to play around w them a bit and ended up actually enjoying it when doing it on my own terms lol

[bd-wlf]

I NEED SOMEONE TO DISCUSS SHERLOCK HOLMES WITH

[rainbowdelicsunshine]

Anyone wanna come to my inbox to chat??

I'm just really bored and wanna talk about anything that comes to mind!

[7odaworld]

Among the etiquette of drinking coffee ☕ Inhale its scent and let it caress the cells of your head calmly 🤯🥰

[traumasurvivors]

While it doesn’t really bother me, and I just delete the messages, I want to bring attention to this because not everyone is okay with having trauma details dumped into their inbox.

It feels like a common theme on the internet nowadays honestly. And I’m mostly making this post to ask people to be mindful. There are still real people behind these screens. And dumping such details to someone without their consent can be triggering for them, exhausting or any number of things.

Being lonely sucks. Feeling alone is awful. And I’m sorry for that. But please don’t assume that internet strangers are okay with you sending them messages or comments about some trauma details.

[madame-fear]

So tempted do write a Reader who is a wife to cregan stark, and he sees how jace looks at her- and decides to share her for a night. Because she is such a good girl 🤭

Baby... Please picture me on my knees, clinging to your clothings and BEGGING FOR YOU TO WRITE THIS!!!

PLEASE DO THIS. WE WILL ALL BE GRATEFUL TO YOU. I NEED THIS URGENTLY,, BEGGING 🥺😭🙏🙏💗💗

[cuties-in-codices]

Where do you find these manuscripts? Is it like a website or do you find it randomly??

hey, thanks for the curiosity! lenghty answer below the cut :)

1)

medieval manuscripts are typically owned by libraries and showcased on the library's websites. so one thing i do is i randomly browse those digitized manuscript collections (like the collections of the bavarian state library or the bodleian libraries, to name just two), which everybody can do for free without any special access. some digital collections provide more useful tools than others (like search functions, filters, annotations on each manuscript). if they don't, the process of wading through numerous non-illustrated manuscripts before i find an illustrated one at all can be quite tedious.

2)

there are databases which help to navigate the vast sea of manuscripts. the one i couldn't live without personally use the most is called KdIH (Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters). it's a project which aims to list all illustrated medieval manuscripts written in german dialects. the KdIH provides descriptions of the contents of each manuscript (with a focus on the illustrations), and if there's a digital reproduction of a manuscript available anywhere, the KdIH usually links to it. the KdIH is an invaluable tool for me because of its focus on illustrated manuscripts, because of the informations it provides for each manuscript, and because of its useful search function (once you've gotten over the initial confusion of how to navigate the website). the downside is that it includes only german manuscripts, which is one of the main reasons for the over-representation of german manuscripts on my blog (sorry about that).

3)

another important database for german manuscripts in general (i.e. not just illustrated ones) is the handschriftencensus, which catalogues information regarding the entirety of german language manuscripts of the middle ages, and also links to the digital reproductions of each manuscript.

4)

then there are simply considerable snowball effects. if you do even just superficial research on any medieval topic at all (say, if you open the wikipedia article on alchemy), you will inevitably stumble upon mentions of specific illustrated manuscripts. the next step is to simply search for a digital copy of the manuscript in question (this part can sometimes be easier said than done, especially when you're coming from wikipedia). one thing to keep in mind is that a manuscript illustration seldom comes alone - so every hint to any illustration at all is a greatly valuable one (if you do what i do lol). there's always gonna be something interesting in any given illustrated manuscript. (sidenote: one very effective 'cheat code' would be to simply go through all manuscripts that other online hobbyist archivers of manuscript illustrations have gone through before - like @discardingimages on tumblr - but some kind of 'professional pride' detains me from doing so. that's just a kind of stubbornness though. like, i want to find my material more or less on my own, not just the images but also the manuscripts, and i apply arbitrary rules to my search as to what exactly that means.)

5)

whatever tool or strategy i use to find specific illustrated manuscripts-- in the end, one unavoidable step is to actually manually skim through the (digitized) manuscript. i usually have at least a quick look at every single illustrated page, and i download or screenshot everything that is interesting to me. this process can take up to an hour per manuscript.

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in conclusion, i'd say that finding cool illuminated manuscripts is much simpler than i would have thought before i started this blog. there are so many of them out there and they're basically just 'hidden in plain side', it's really astounding. finding the manuscripts doesn't require special skills, just some basic experience with/knowledge of the tools available. the reason i'm able to post interesting images almost daily is just that i spend a lot of time doing all of this, going through manuscripts, curating this blog, etc. i find a lot of comfort in it, i learn a lot along the way, and i immensely enjoy people's engagement with my posts. so that's that :)

[egyblackman]

Morning… is the flavor of beautiful beginnings mixed with the scent of… coffee

[rainbowdelicsunshine]

Heya!!

Wanted to let you guys know that my 24th is coming up next month on the 12th and I'm honestly pretty hype about it!

Hope that y'all will have good birthday wishes for me!?