Happy birthday, etoilepb!

[oloriel]

Heeeeeave...ho!

[Also, totally an excuse to show off my new LJ icon. Courtesy of Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel... and some 15th century cat that apparently felt the need to sign that book! XD]

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[satismagic.livejournal.com]

ICON LOVE!!!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Isn't it the greatest thing? I feel sorry for that poor scribe, but at the same time, it's a huge relief to know that it's not just us soft-hearted, modern people with our spoiled house-cats... nope, it already happened to the ancients!

(Of course, considering the familiar (child-replacement) relationships some nuns presumably had with the cloister cat - the only pet officially permitted per the Benedictine rule, although this was apparently flouted a lot - some of those medieval cats may well have been as beloved and as spoiled as ours are today. But still!)

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

ICON SQUEE! I love that!! :D

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I loved that medieval cat walking on the manuscript.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

It made me squeal when I first saw it! So perfect. (Well, unfortunate for the scribe, of course...)

Your delirium cat is quite loveable as well, though!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Srsly! When I was still working on my absurd Silmarillion manuscript project, our cats toyed with the quills or walked across the pages all the bloody time. I now feel validated because THAT TOTALLY HAPPENED IN REAL HISTORY. :D

[sermanya.livejournal.com]

At a museum somewhere in the Burgenland, I found a roman tile with a roman cat's footprint on it. :)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

XD Awesome.