Creative BNs : Last-Minute Inspirations

by @EnnA

Late on your BN? Or sad that no-one ever sees your creative BNs? Well, here’s your chance to get inspired or share these wonderful pieces of art with your friends and fellow students.

This week we focus on Everything. What the ...? Well, Dr Simon Thomson’s usual answer to ‘what is allowed as creative BN’ is – yes exactly! – Everything. This can include audio, video, paintings, writings, collages, graphic novels, memes, etc. Here we’re giving you a few examples of those different genres hoping to awe and inspire you.

Last Note: Be aware that this is only a small selection of all the amazing creative works that have come in over the semester(s). We are aiming to make them publicly available here in this blog and on the Students' Artworks section on our website (of course, only with your consent).

Some elements of the Old English poem Andreas reimagined as a Saturday Night Live sketch

By Jannis Jakobs

The sketch below combines some elements of the Old English poem Andreas from the Vercelli Book with the typical characters and themes of a series of Saturday Night Live sketches centered around Ms. Rafferty,* a woman who is repeatedly and involuntarily involved in supernatural incidents with two of her friends. These incidents invariably take significantly worse turns for her than for her friends, who always have a wonderful time. Ms. Rafferty’s nevertheless cheerful accounts usually feature the loss of her pants, being molested by someone (little gray aliens or pre-human hominids, for example), and less-than-ideal manners of being returned to the earth or present. I believe that an island full of hungry cannibals would be right up her alley.

* Editor’s comment: Here is the real Ms. Rafferty in a SNL sketch (Disclaimer: The sketch contains profane language (of necessity). It is also slightly longer than the real Ms.-Rafferty-sketches, and less funny. I would advise the reader to imagine Kate McKinnon saying the lines of Ms. Rafferty).

Ms. Rafferty and the Man-Eaters

A wood-paneled office. Professor Jones and Cardinal Danvers seated at a large desk across from three friends on wooden chairs, from left to right a smoking Ms. Rafferty, Sharon, and Doug.

PROFESSOR JONES: Welcome! My name is Professor Jones, from the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Theology.

CARDINAL DANVERS: And I am Cardinal Danvers, of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints. We are very grateful that you came here today to provide the first actual eye-witness accounts relating to the story of Saint Andrew and the Man-Eaters.

PROFESSOR JONES: Indeed. Could you tell us how exactly you were transported into the past?

DOUG: Well, we’re three buddies on a road trip through Scotland, you see, and right across from some big-ass ruined church the brakes of my friend’s antique VW minibus suddenly stop working.

...want to continue reading? Here is the whole document.