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May 21, 2015 10:02 AM Subscribe
Medieval Reactions to modern situations. [SLTwitter, some illustrations may be NSFW]
Title Tweet. [NSFW]
"Best of" roundups: Mirror, BuzzFeed, Comedy Central, Neatorama.
Bonus: The Toast explores the middle ages.
Title Tweet. [NSFW]
"Best of" roundups: Mirror, BuzzFeed, Comedy Central, Neatorama.
Bonus: The Toast explores the middle ages.
Sorry what does harvesting the d mean?
I mean the photo is pretty self-explanatory tbh
posted by showbiz_liz at 10:13 AM on May 21, 2015 [7 favorites]
I mean the photo is pretty self-explanatory tbh
posted by showbiz_liz at 10:13 AM on May 21, 2015 [7 favorites]
"The D" is short for "the dick", typically meaning intercourse involving receiving male genitalia. I would imagine that "harvesting the D" would imply getting a lot of intercourse involving receiving male genitalia, likely with multiple unique partners. Sort of like picking penises off of a penis tree.
posted by codacorolla at 10:14 AM on May 21, 2015 [35 favorites]
posted by codacorolla at 10:14 AM on May 21, 2015 [35 favorites]
MetaFilter: Sort of like picking penises off of a penis tree.
posted by Gelatin at 10:15 AM on May 21, 2015 [13 favorites]
posted by Gelatin at 10:15 AM on May 21, 2015 [13 favorites]
These are funny but I thought the criticism from actual medievalists was sort of interesting
posted by prize bull octorok at 10:18 AM on May 21, 2015 [12 favorites]
posted by prize bull octorok at 10:18 AM on May 21, 2015 [12 favorites]
El HematocrÃtico de Arte has been doing something like this for a while, only in Spanish + mock-French, mock-Italian, mock-English and so on.
posted by sukeban at 10:39 AM on May 21, 2015
posted by sukeban at 10:39 AM on May 21, 2015
These are funny but I thought the criticism from actual medievalists was sort of interesting
Their argument is 100% legitimate, and the historical pedant in me totally supports it, but I still found myself all "lighten up, Francis of Assisi."
posted by zombieflanders at 10:42 AM on May 21, 2015 [22 favorites]
Their argument is 100% legitimate, and the historical pedant in me totally supports it, but I still found myself all "lighten up, Francis of Assisi."
posted by zombieflanders at 10:42 AM on May 21, 2015 [22 favorites]
I mean the photo is pretty self-explanatory tbh
Yeah well I'm at W and I assumed the photo was NSF it.
posted by Ratio at 10:44 AM on May 21, 2015 [6 favorites]
Yeah well I'm at W and I assumed the photo was NSF it.
posted by Ratio at 10:44 AM on May 21, 2015 [6 favorites]
Nuns and the Penis Tree, Roman de la Rose, France 14th century.
More on Roman de la Rose: The work's stated purpose is to both entertain and to teach others about the Art of Love. At various times in the poem, the "Rose" of the title is seen as the name of the lady, and as a symbol of female sexuality in general.
So images of genitalia as flowers is consistent with the text of the book.
I'm not sure, but the artist might have been the splendidly named Master of the Prayer Books.
posted by maxsparber at 10:53 AM on May 21, 2015 [3 favorites]
More on Roman de la Rose: The work's stated purpose is to both entertain and to teach others about the Art of Love. At various times in the poem, the "Rose" of the title is seen as the name of the lady, and as a symbol of female sexuality in general.
So images of genitalia as flowers is consistent with the text of the book.
I'm not sure, but the artist might have been the splendidly named Master of the Prayer Books.
posted by maxsparber at 10:53 AM on May 21, 2015 [3 favorites]
I think calling a medieval picture of a penis tree "Not Safe for Work" is exercising what they call "an abundance of caution."
posted by yoink at 10:54 AM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by yoink at 10:54 AM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
Nuns and the Penis Tree, Roman de la Rose, France 14th century.
I thought it was directed by Ken Russell.
posted by Gelatin at 11:18 AM on May 21, 2015
I thought it was directed by Ken Russell.
posted by Gelatin at 11:18 AM on May 21, 2015
That is some prickly fruit!
posted by Kabanos at 11:23 AM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Kabanos at 11:23 AM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
These are funny but I thought the criticism from actual medievalists was sort of interesting
I thought it was a bit po-faced and ridiculous. No, this really isn't harming mediaeval scholarship, or failing to open the doors of learning. Because it has nothing to do with those things. It is some jokes.
This bit, in particular, makes me feel the whole argument is ridiculous.
"It’s as if @MedievalReacts is afraid of any distraction from their base humor, when it could use comedy and the past to bring people into art history, or at least give a shout-out to the libraries that make these images part of our online dialogue. "
That's because if it did that no one would follow it, because (a) a tweet is only 140 characters and (b) it would be distracting and weaken the joke. People are following the feed because it makes them laugh. If they are interested in the images they'll do an image search and find them. But the majority wouldn't ever see them if the feed was slathered with worthy attributions, because they'd stop following.
Criticising this feed's focus on "base humour" makes about as much sense as criticising a history course for not having enough jokes.
posted by howfar at 11:33 AM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
I thought it was a bit po-faced and ridiculous. No, this really isn't harming mediaeval scholarship, or failing to open the doors of learning. Because it has nothing to do with those things. It is some jokes.
This bit, in particular, makes me feel the whole argument is ridiculous.
"It’s as if @MedievalReacts is afraid of any distraction from their base humor, when it could use comedy and the past to bring people into art history, or at least give a shout-out to the libraries that make these images part of our online dialogue. "
That's because if it did that no one would follow it, because (a) a tweet is only 140 characters and (b) it would be distracting and weaken the joke. People are following the feed because it makes them laugh. If they are interested in the images they'll do an image search and find them. But the majority wouldn't ever see them if the feed was slathered with worthy attributions, because they'd stop following.
Criticising this feed's focus on "base humour" makes about as much sense as criticising a history course for not having enough jokes.
posted by howfar at 11:33 AM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
@MedievalReacts and the Weird, Money-Making World of Parody Twitter Accounts
posted by Hartster at 11:35 AM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Hartster at 11:35 AM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
I dunno man, a penis tree is a penis tree. Work might interpret it as shrubbery covered in dicks.
posted by lydhre at 11:36 AM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by lydhre at 11:36 AM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
HR: "So, how did your prior employment end?"
Interviewee: "Oh, you know, the usual. Using company resources to view 14th century French artwork depicting nuns harvesting penises from a penis tree."
posted by zombieflanders at 11:42 AM on May 21, 2015 [25 favorites]
Interviewee: "Oh, you know, the usual. Using company resources to view 14th century French artwork depicting nuns harvesting penises from a penis tree."
posted by zombieflanders at 11:42 AM on May 21, 2015 [25 favorites]
See now if these accounts were providing context we'd all know that the Tree of Dicks was a widely-recognized metaphor that dates back to Aristotle
posted by prize bull octorok at 11:48 AM on May 21, 2015
posted by prize bull octorok at 11:48 AM on May 21, 2015
I don't know what it says about me that this is the one I literally LOLed at.
posted by brundlefly at 12:28 PM on May 21, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by brundlefly at 12:28 PM on May 21, 2015 [4 favorites]
The slang used seems odd to me, possibly because I'm completely out of touch; but it sounds like a mixture of British or Australian slang (mate, mum) with another kind of slang that's lately attributed to "Black Twitter" ("the squad," roasting, fam, etc).
posted by clockzero at 1:11 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by clockzero at 1:11 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
Any word yet on when the Middle Ages will end???
posted by Twang at 1:15 PM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Twang at 1:15 PM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
The slang used seems odd to me, possibly because I'm completely out of touch; but it sounds like a mixture of British or Australian slang (mate, mum) with another kind of slang that's lately attributed to "Black Twitter" ("the squad," roasting, fam, etc).
Multicultural London English
posted by howfar at 2:26 PM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
Multicultural London English
posted by howfar at 2:26 PM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
Kinda funny how much of the lexicon from that MLE wikipedia page is copped from AAVE without noting that as an influence.
posted by klangklangston at 2:46 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by klangklangston at 2:46 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
The MLE Wikipedia page cites and links to AAVE as an influence. It's not a great page, to be honest, but (like all emerging dialects) it's a fascinating way of talking.
posted by howfar at 2:50 PM on May 21, 2015
posted by howfar at 2:50 PM on May 21, 2015
What happens when you go medieval on Amazon.
posted by 4ster at 3:05 PM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by 4ster at 3:05 PM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
I would totally plant a penis tree.
Pedantry aside, though, I wish there was a stronger norm of crediting images without expecting people to reverse image search everything.
posted by Dip Flash at 3:39 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
Pedantry aside, though, I wish there was a stronger norm of crediting images without expecting people to reverse image search everything.
posted by Dip Flash at 3:39 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
Man, I was really hoping this wasn't another friggin white-kid-who-learned-how-to-"talk-black"-from-/r/BlackPeopleTwitter-and-is-making-money-off-it, but:
19-year-old Cathal Berragan, who runs @MedievalReacts as part of the Social Chainposted by nicodine at 3:53 PM on May 21, 2015
(from article linked in prize bull octorok's comment)
Aaaand just saw that I missed the Multicultural London English link.
posted by nicodine at 3:54 PM on May 21, 2015
posted by nicodine at 3:54 PM on May 21, 2015
yoink: ""Medieval" meaning, apparently, "pretty much anything before the 19th century.""
Nope.
posted by RobotHero at 4:23 PM on May 21, 2015
Nope.
posted by RobotHero at 4:23 PM on May 21, 2015
I think I got more out of the medievalist criticism article than the jokey twitter stuff (which I honestly thought was kind of lame). Tons of my images have been used around the web with zero attribution, and it's really infuriating. Granted, the images that Barragan are using are in the public domain, but still, if he attributed his images to his sources, that would be nice. On Tumblr, people who reblog art and photos without attribution to the original artist or photographer is a big problem, and I see this as a further symptom of that.
posted by suburbanbeatnik at 6:56 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by suburbanbeatnik at 6:56 PM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
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