Scriptorian

(this is the uncensored version - it shouldn't be a problem for the Patreon terms, being for Patrons-only)

There already was one called "Librarian" - the elf, and then one called "Librarian2" - seen above, and I couldn't call this one "Librarian2 II" or something (though I named the working files "librarian2b". I don't think a "scriptorian" is the same thing as a librarian at all, even in the Middle Ages, and I'm not sure it's even a word, but here we are. >_<

I don't think anyone should be reading this post anyway, when they could be looking at this beautiful image. ^_^

For those of you celebrating American Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving!

Don't forget that it's also Native American Heritage Month for a few more days. Read, for example, Dr. Yvette Running Horse Collin's research about the presence of horses and horse culture in pre-Columbian North America (pretty solidly refuting the long-held idea that horses were introduced by the Spanish), or read about the debunking of the "Bering Land Bridge" theory (and its racist origins) - there's a great six-part series about it on newsmaven.io but the links from part to part are broken on the site so it takes some searching. I can't remember if that series also mentions the countless centuries of sea trade with the Pacific Islands, which I had never heard of until I learned about it recently! But... it's why the Maori people of New Zealand have sweet potatoes, for example. There's a LOT (most) of what we've been taught about the history of our Indigenous people that is wrong, and was taught wrong on purpose, to justify and rationalize the agenda of treating them badly (read also about the doctrine of discovery, and how the Catholic Church required explorers to portray everyone they met as "savages" and "cannibals" because those were the only people they were allowed to rob and enslave and dispossess of their land - like I said, it was an agenda). It's good to challenge those preconceptions and learn some real, interesting stuff about some real interesting people with a real interesting history!

Or you know, just enjoy some products of thousands of years of indigenous American agricultural science (did you know the Inca people of South America had a stadium-sized lab for breeding and testing crops at different altitudes?) and have some:

Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, green beans, cranberries, pumpkin, squash, peanuts, sunflower seeds, chocolate, avocados, maple syrup, chewing gum, or you know... aspirin, if you need it.

As Americans (and Canadians who already had their Thanksgiving last month), I mean jeez, it's the least we can do to learn a bit, and be thankful for all they created that has become so important all around the world! ^_^

(Okay, I went off on a tangent there! Not trying to be preachy or anything, I love history, I love to share my passion for learning history with people whether they want to hear about it or not ^_^''''''', and I'm always FASCINATED by learning the difference between real facts of history and the stuff we're taught in school - basically a public school education effectively teaches you no real history and a bunch of lies that you have to learn the truth about in college. University history professors always say year one is just undoing the brainwashing from public school) >_<