Medieval cats from The Aberdeen Bestiary, circa 1200.

It’s super-fascinating because, while the faces don’t seem particularly feline to me, these are *clearly* drawn from actual observation - look at those classic kitty postures!

You can see more images from the manuscript and read about its provenance here:

We give medieval people too little credit. Sword fights are still fun

The bearer.

No real meaning behind this one, I’ve just had a growing appreciation for high medieval clothing. It’s not as fitted or shaped as later medieval stuff, but it makes up for that in layers, patterns, and materials. This one was based on 12th century noblewomen’s garb.

Commission for my friend Pavlos

Popular twitter account, Weird Medieval Guys just posted a crazy hyena eating a dude from “The Aberdeen Bestiary” and so I am posting the link in case you want some sick add high medieval illuminated manuscript clout.

Shirley Mallmann, Dior Spring Couture 1998 by John Galliano

By Mystical Antiquity

Balenciaga: Chevalier Armor Knight Boots AW21

hearing murph saying that his characters are all like secretly grizzled old knights makes me want an au with fabian as like the spoiled prince and riz as his knight bodyguard. they solve mysteries

Fooduary Day 23: Lollipop

Sugar on a stick is an unsurprisingly old idea, according to my sources they started to resemble lollipops in Europe in the Middle Ages. I had no idea how I was going to incorporate a lollipop stick into a medieval fashion and THEN I remembered the hennin (the very extra conical headdress). The design came together rather quickly after that.

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So annoying when people try to hold alternate-world fantasy to "historical accuracy" standards like. if I wanted historical accuracy I simply would have read/written historical fiction.

The only thing that should matter is if the alt world feels internally consistent/believable. Not "oh but back then" THERE IS NO BACK THEN. IT'S NOT REAL

and just because some aspects of the world (fashion, systems of government, levels of technology) feel consistent with a particular time period in our history doesn't mean that the author is obligated to stick to all other characteristics of that time period. The POINT of alt-world fantasy is to create a world in which the story they want to tell can work, and that's the metric I'm holding things to

Pretty please let her be in Junior year

also. a little preview of the kind of illustration the vending machine (romance partners edition) commissions will be :)

some apple exploration! 🍎🗡✨