Unholy contortions are the best compliment - eviltoast
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      6 months ago

      They’re called marginalia and they came from bored scribes or monks or whoever doodling.

      People studying texts find them and document them along with them texts. Some of them are pretty hilarious.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldOP
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      I watch a lot of history documentaries and one of the channels is ‘chronicle - medieval history documentaries’ channel on YouTube. I just discovered they used to have someone post memes and have recently restarted that (in the community section)

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      6 months ago

      reddit has r/trippinthroughtime which is all posts like this, one of my favorite subs sometimes. i laugh and laugh