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Ep 160 - Weird Medieval 3: Let's Rank Some Little Guys feat. Weird Medieval

Added 2024-03-28 15:13:44 +0000 UTC

patrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. new bonus episode will be out Friday morning.

folks, we couldn't do a series on weird Medieval shit without talking about our favorite weird Medieval little guys who show up in marginalia of illuminated manuscripts from the era. and to do so, we brought on Olivia Swarthout, aka at Weird Medieval on twitter, to help us out. we discuss why humans love to think up and draw weird little guys, what it means, and why they're still so fascinating to us today. then, in the last half of the episode, we each do a tier list, ranking 25 weird little guys from Medieval marginalia, it's a whole lot of fun! enjoy!

if you want to do your own tier list of these weird Medieval guys, then you can do so at this link: https://tiermaker.com/create/rank-the-weird-medieval-guys-16945815

there is some slight reverb on the tracks occasionally but we have done our best to edit as much out as possible.

attachments: here are the tier rankings that we ended up with, starting with Olivia's, then Eleanor's, then Luke's. there's also a detail of some various pieces of marginalia from the Aberdeen Bestiary, which we reference.