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Record numbers of protesters all over France today. Images from Paris, Toulouse, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Rennes, Lyon, Lille, Marseille.

Major highways and bridges along with train stations, ports, warehouses and refineries blocked by demonstrators and unions, many universities and high schools blocked by students, Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe & Palace of Versailles closed to tourists, 25% of workers on strike in the national electricity and railway companies, 15% of all civil servants on strike. Protests were organised in every major city and many smaller ones. Could have added a lot more pics of huge crowds in Strasbourg, Nantes, Limoges, Orléans, Nancy, Annecy, Brest, Mulhouse, Pau, Montpellier, Rouen, Le Mans, Bayonne, Toulon, Tours...

And kudos to Brittany for consistently out-Brittanying itself this month, between the nurses who brought out the catapult again while playing the biniou, and the fishermen who sent a tractor to face down the police’s water cannon Transformers-style, your protests have a special place in my heart.

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 :)

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.)

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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 :)

clanmew-ish question here:

if a human were to ever listen to different cats speak clanmew, parkmew, etc. (different dialects) would they be able to tell the difference? does it sound different to them? had say, a human who owns a cat then later encounters a clan cat and heard them both speak, would there be a difference in the kittypet’s dialect and the clan cat’s dialect that the human can actually notice?

are the humans able to decode / kinda of understand what the cats are saying if they pay attention to say, erin’s project? say one cat keeps saying “Krrrp” at a stone then would the humans figure out that “Krrrp” is the cat word for stone? and if they do, can they figure out other cat words? and finally, if they can, can they “talk” to cats like pointing to a stone and going “Krrrp” and having the cat actually understand them?

Laypeople cannot; Researchers eventually can.

It's EXACTLY like cetaceans. The noises don't hit human ears quite right unless you're extremely familiar with the sounds a certain pod makes. Orcas have "accents" and you can call a dolphin by playing back a recording of its name, though we haven't proven actual grammar and language yet.

Clanmew is not discovered until sometime around 2030 or later, though, despite the project starting in 2008 when a cat attacks a bulldozer and sets off a chain of events that finally allows a program to get funding. Other languages aren't discovered until much, much later.

Generally though, in-universe, humans have a hard time speaking cat words and vice versa. It's not impossible, but it takes a ton of training and most housecats are just as laidback and uneager to please as their real counterparts.

(Though out of universe, it is possible to speak Clanmew and I make sure all words are technically pronouncible. Because it's more fun that way.)

Baby T'Rahni'hk! ft. The haircut her mom gave her.

If they happen often, the memes are made; and when the memes are made... they become a symbol! A story is created - that's how things become more entertaining, and then history is made.

LCK + Favourite Entrances and Victory Ceremonies - Spring Split 2023 Regular Season

Feat. LSB Envyy, KT Lehends, KDF LCK, BRO UmTi, T1 Gumayusi, HLE Kingen, LSB Willer, T1 Keria

Some uuuhm,,, RV doddles

here's the lap harp i got the other day + a messy rendition of flu game :^) ignore the mistakes. ignore them

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Every day my job situation gets more goddamn stupid

(...) for Your Body is The Land,

and The Land is Our Body,

Bridging [Essence] and [Thought],

[Water] and [Blood],

Great Spirit, Great Ancestors,

We Honor you.

i need to work on learning spanish again

Been doing some Pokémon fan region concepts for the past, uh…. technically 12 years? But I have some designs that I’m finally happy with and I wanna share them! Have some silhouettes cause I think they’re fun. I’ll share the full designs later (probably on their own seperate blog)!

Any guesses?

lit the only reasons i portray the twins as fluent in german despite not growing up there is bc their mom is german and their dad originally wanted to pursue work as an interpreter and had learned numerous language so he was more than eager to raise his kids multilingual

I just finished reading the third chapter and

GOD

do I love the kids being kids. Iris and Hau aren’t even adults but yet they’re expected to act like one. These two fuckers still have a strong “do it for the vine” mindset that they have to keep down when in public. Also the dedication it takes to build a whole region in minecraft by themselves is astounding. I get bored after one week

Also Steven is the kind of person who would have a legitimate chest full of every kind of ore. No cheating he mined it all himself. Most likely to die from a warden though, imagine his panicking when he encounters his first one

Omf I'm so glad you like it cjmdnd

But yeah the Leagues do be a lil fucked up for letting kids just become fucking champions but hey at least Hau and Iris have each other, and the other champions are letting them enjoy their childhood wc is nice uwu

And the do it for the vines mindset😭😭🤣 that's so real tho they would recreate vines fr ncmdndmd low-key wanna draw that now too😭

And yeah holy shit y'know bc it was getting a bit long for me now I actually planned on writing in how Steven already saw diamonds and even iron while exploring the cave they found, and Hau says smth along the lines how if Steven's a pokemon he'd probs have Super Luck as an ability as he got spawned in a world w a cave and finding diamonds early on. Cynthia would be jealous w that tho she'd probs steal his diamonds and iron for herself when he's not looking and when they're playing together tho let's be real—

Hau and Steven not being equipped to fight mobs like the Wither or the Warden that they just start panicking and they call in Iris and Cynthia hahaha

ok i’m going to be honest with all of you. the fact that there aren’t more video game themed travel posters specifically for games i enjoy makes me want to kill myself