Purveyors of deeply unimportant knowledge · est. MMXXVI
IGNOTUM PER IGNOTIUS
“the unknown, explained by the even more unknown”
The Department maintains an expanding archive of field guides,
specimens, and official notices concerning matters no reasonable institution would fund.
Findings are distributed on shirts, mugs, stickers, prints, and other approved substrates.
One dispatch per month. New acquisitions, divisional bulletins, no filler.
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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
Founded MMXXVI · Budget: undisclosed · Oversight: none
The Department of Obscure Studies is the world's foremost institution — by default, as no other
institution applied — for the collection, classification, and garment-based distribution of knowledge
that serves no practical purpose whatsoever. Our researchers operate in the manner of a museum gift
shop run by a sardonic engineer: vintage plates, retro instrumentation, and dry wit, maintained to
exacting standards nobody requested.
DEPARTMENTAL DOCTRINE
Article I. We are rigorous about things that don't matter.
Article II. All findings are peer-reviewed by nobody.
Article III. No matter shall be deemed too obscure; obscurity is the qualification.
Article IV. Findings are distributed exclusively on shirts, mugs, stickers, prints,
and other approved substrates.
Article V. The unknown shall, wherever possible, be explained by the even more
unknown. (Ignotum per ignotius.)
