The DM Has A Jackalope NPC Guiding Us To The Next Plot Hook. One Of Our Druids Is Using Speak With Animals

Tympanum from the Saint-Denis church (Montmoreau-Saint-Cybard, Charente, France), XIIth century.

“You just wrote your medieval fantasy setting to have medieval gender roles and homophobia and prejudice because you secretly fantasize about being able to be sexist and homophobic in a land with no PoC without any pushback! It’s fantasy, there’s dragons and wizards, it doesn’t have to have prejudice unless you, the writer, want it like that! In *my* D&D setting, there’s no sexism or homophobia, so that gay transgender women of all races can be holy knights fighting to protect the good kingdom from the endless hordes of the evil dark race that has threatened its borders for a thousand years!”

Literally everyone: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO A TANGLED PLANCE AU

Me: Okay, but i dont think think this is what they meant…………..

Bonus:

Pidge is still confused by magic XD

Also yes, I did them swapped because i really wanted to draw lance in a ponytail 👌👌👌

Weird Medieval Marginalia

So I got to see an epically cool manuscript of Arthurian romance (Beinecke MS 229), written in French sometime in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. It contains many fully illuminated illustrations, but the most interesting thing about it turned out to be the marginalia.

All the big images were the same kinds of scenes of knights fighting, people going into or out of buildings, people lying in bed, occasionally people on boats or talking, etc. After a while they just felt repetitive. But there are these little cartoons in the margins, and they are WILD:

I mean I don’t even know what’s going on here.

Apparently knights fighting snails appear in a lot of manuscripts. We have no idea what they mean. Might be the medieval version of a meme.

What even is that gray thing?

Knight riding chicken.

Derpy horse.

A very weird-looking unicorn.

Rabbits hunting people. (RUN AWAY!!! RUN AWAY!!!)

Balancing act.

Baby Yoda in the corner there.

WHAT

There’s plenty more, but that’s as much as I can fit into one post. And this is all one manuscript!

there's a (justified) focus on that one particular illustration from le Roman de la Rose in the general public, but i feel like we need to talk about this one from the same manuscript (BNF français 25526) some more

don't ask me wtf is going on here

Man fighting a beast

Add MS 24686 f.12v

Source: The British Library

First 18 lines of the Canterbury Tales, illustrated