Teaching, nerdosity & other debauchery

no no that’s a bop, i love it

i’ve been watching enough pbs kids that i think i’m ready to make a which little creature from pbs kids are you quiz for exactly 5 people 

cable WISHES she could do this! which little creature from pbs kids are you!

Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going “what the fuck… what the fuck…”

Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelers’ tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).

So unicorns are real

I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASED  to find out this is, in fact, the case.

Every time this post crosses my dash I just think how sweet and pettable the Questing Beast looks, then I scroll down and am confronted with the baleful eye of a giraffe. 

How could you NOT fall in love with the glow of the moon and stars, the warmth of the sun, the ancient life within the trees, and the sweet melodies of the winds?

I am the target market for this map.