Michelle Laughran

@misciel.bsky.social

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Avid historian of Venice, medicine/epidemics/plague, fashion/cosmetics & social/cultural history (she/her)

Recipe
4 x 4 tiled images of 16 portraits of Venetian doges with text overlaid that describes each one's story in a style that's reminiscent of the original shiba inu doge meme
One whitefaced capuchin monkey is sticking his thumb up the nose of another
Image of quote “It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." – Wendell Berry, “Standing by Words” SCANNED WITH QOTD APP
Image with quote “Oh my Cod, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.”
Painting of Pope Leo X painted by Fernando Botero with the words “y tho”
Photo of Serious Bean Co.’s Dr. Pepper Sweet and Sassy Baked Beans
Image of a pop-up card with a Christmas tree and a little guy wearing a toga and a laurel crown and a greeting that says “dies festi optimi tibi!”
Photo of a magnet that says “WELL BEHAVED COPPER INGOT MERCHANTS RARELY MAKE HISTORY”
Bronze statue of a young child augur with a ball in his hand, laid on top of a plastic crate after being excavated at San Casciano dei Bagni
3 gondoliers row an ambulance gondola down the Grand Canal in early 20th-century Venice