Obsessed forever with the “Two Monks Invent...” series on The Toast by Daniel Mallory Ortberg. It’s one of my internet happy places and I hope it never goes away.
Two Medieval Monks Invent Art
Two Medieval Monks Invent Maps
Two Medieval Monks Invent Some More Art
Two Monks Invent The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Two Monks Illustrate The Old Testament
Two Monks Invent Biblical Art
Two Monks Invent Denominations
Two Monks Invent Dinner Parties
Two Monks Invent Bestiaries
Two Monks Invent Writing
Two Monks Invent Religious Iconography
Two Monks Discover How Tall Women and Horses Are
Two Monks Discuss Alexander the Great
Two Monks Learn How To Draw Hands
Two Monks Invent Renaissance Art
Two Monks Invent Byzantine Art
Two Monks Invent Horses and Armed Warfare
It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification
I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable
the existence of "maybe", "perhaps", "perchance", and "mayhaps" suggests there should also be "maychance" and "perbe"
latin word of the day: ranunculus, a little frog, tadpole
i need to stand ankle deep in a creek about this
"the three dots on the side" call her by her REAL NAME.. Meatballs Menu
anyone who thinks dostoevsky's writing is dry and humourless is missing out on passages like this
sorry for romanticising the mundane. i have little else
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