CitizenSissy

[CitizenSissy @CitizenSissy]

@NOLARad @KarenAttiah @washingtonpost That’s why there was an arbitration hearing, Sunshine.

Don’t know about you, but when I read the opinion page, I expect opinions.

[CitizenSissy @CitizenSissy]

@CoffeewClassics Mary Oliver
Ogden Nash
Maya Angelou

[Johnny Cadillac @lippyent]

❤️ 🇺🇸 🐕 🐎 🐴!!

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Dolly Parton is a rich woman, but instead of obsessing about building a golden ballroom, she has made more than 300 million books accessible to children.

Be more like Dolly.

[CitizenSissy @CitizenSissy]

@Dovidcc @covie_93 Pennsylvania voter here: That’s a no.

[Covie @covie_93]

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

[CitizenSissy @CitizenSissy]

@neeneeruth He’s scared and hiding. He’ll emerge for food, which is why you need to bait humane traps near your house.

[CitizenSissy @CitizenSissy]

@neeneeruth Knock on doors and hand neighbors flyers. My cat got out a few years ago and was under a nearby shed. Neighbor said “that’s who’s under the shed.”

Contact TNR organizations and bait traps. Kitty is scared and hiding, but will emerge for food.

[CitizenSissy @CitizenSissy]

@Rottentothecaw @PempressP You’ve just jinxed yourself.

[CitizenSissy @CitizenSissy]

@cogonnaya @luxemiaa Nope. Mom should instead set the example of paying for a window seat instead of guilt-tripping the actual seatholder.

[Covie @covie_93]

The people who built gallows to execute a sitting VP on Jan. 6 are demanding that you turn down the temperature.

[Fit_Fusion @FitFusion__]

This is genius 😎

[CitizenSissy @CitizenSissy]

@stuffierescue So very, very sorry. The disease is awful.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Before the chocolate eggs and the pastel baskets, the medieval rabbit was something else entirely. Flip through enough 13th-14th Century illuminated manuscripts held in British Library and Bibliothèque de Verdun, and you will find something deeply strange in the margins. Rabbits. Enormous, furious, heavily armed rabbits. Rabbits wielding axes at kings. Rabbits laying siege to castles. Rabbits shooting hunters in the spine with bows and arrows, tying them up, hauling them before a rabbit judge, receiving a guilty verdict, and joyfully beheading them. Rabbits roasting hunters over open fires and boiling their hounds. One rabbit, in the Smithfield Decretals illuminated in London in the 1340s, presides over an entire multi-page revenge sequence that unfolds like a comic strip across the manuscript margins. It is extraordinarily violent, meticulously illustrated, and clearly someone's idea of a very good joke.

These images are called drolleries, and they belong to a tradition that peaked between 1250 and the 15th century, drawn in the margins of serious religious texts by the monks copying them. The concept is called le monde renversé, the world turned upside down. Medieval artists loved depicting reality in reverse, hunters being hunted, prey becoming predator, the powerful made powerless. Rabbits, being the most docile and frequently eaten animals in the medieval world, were the perfect candidates for this role reversal. In real life they were on the menu at every feast and hunted daily with dogs and arrows. In the margins of manuscripts they got their revenge in spectacular and extremely graphic fashion. The earliest known killer rabbit, found in the Arnstein Passional from around 1170, shows two rabbits who have hanged a human hunter and are standing on their hind legs pointing and jeering at the body.

Not everyone found this funny. The Cistercian monk Bernard of Clairvaux complained about the drolleries in terms that feel remarkably modern, asking what these ridiculous monstrosities were doing in the cloisters and what purpose was served by such unclean monkeys, fierce lions, and monstrous centaurs. He also noted, with some irritation, that even if the foolishness caused no shame, one might at least balk at the expense. He had a point. These books were extraordinarily costly to produce. Someone was spending serious money on manuscripts decorated with rabbits committing war crimes.

For several hundred years the medieval version of the Easter rabbit was carrying an axe, had an outstanding grievance against humanity, and was depicted in the margins of the most sacred books in Christendom getting extremely satisfying revenge. The Monty Python killer bunny was not just an invention; it was a history lesson....

© Eats History

#archaeohistories

[Covie @covie_93]

@atrupar Did they call the protesters "fucking bitch" after shooting them in the head??

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

An amazing poem.

• Paul Durcan •

[CitizenSissy @CitizenSissy]

@ProfDuff Save me one with ricotta filling! 😀

[Gladstone 🇺🇦 @TreasuryMog]

More importantly though, today is also Saint Gertrude of Nivelles day.
Saint Gertrude is the patron saint of cats, cat lovers and gardeners.
Take extra naps and enjoy special treats to celebrate 🐈‍⬛🐈