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Interacting with Medieval Iceland
Just made a new Instagram account for the Hall (@Fjorn_the_Skald over there). I know it’s not the best digital map of Iceland around, but here’s the first post, which promotes my interactive map of medieval Iceland for a general audience.
It needs a lot of work, so if anyone has suggestions for improvements, please do let me know! I haven’t had much time to work on it, with the chaos of my Master’s program and all, but I hope to improve it soon!
@edderkopper
Dark blue-ground festival kimono decorated with sea creatures, first half 20th century. Cloth: cotton; tsutsugaki (freehand resist) The John R. Van Derlip Fund and the Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation.
Concept: Baba Yaga, except instead of a scary cannibal grandma she’s a smirking vodka aunt (vodka great-aunt?) who freely hands out apparently sound – albeit often slightly self-destructive – advice, and it’s not until much later that the implications of the advice she’s given you finally click and you’re like OH GOD DAMMIT.
And the sea rushes in to take away your grief. The salt burns but it is clean, and you ache but you are whole, and the dawn– it glistens on the horizon. You stumble to the shore, and the ocean kisses your heels. You will carry your pain with you, but you can still hear the waves in your ears.
when welcome to night vale said: “Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first, and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us, we can cope with that. We can do this together you and I.”
reasons manannán is hot:
blue
got a cloak of mists
self driving boat with ye olde google maps
funny as fuck
cool sword (that forces liars to speak truth)
will keep you well fed eternally on pork dinners
his horse runs on water and that’s just cool ok?
BIG SEA
weird shit lives in him
i really want pork now
original theory: succubi are always women, incubi are always men
facts: in fact succubus comes from the latin word “succubare” which means “to lie under” and incubus comes from the latin word “incubare” which means “to lie on”
new improved theory: incubi are always tops and succubi are always bottoms. gender doesn’t matter at all.
List of Books to Read Before You Die
1. Any book you want
2. Don’t read books you don’t want to read
3. That’s it
4. Congratulations you did it
This.
NSFW ban fail
Reblog if you’re still seeing porn bots despite the NSFW ban. I’m still seeing them. Plenty of legitimate followers seem to be blocked from my feed, however.
This Blog Is Unrepentantly Pro- AO3!
This blogger remembers when we didn’t have AO3.
This blogger remembers when we had to put disclaimers at the head of our fics and pray that someone didn’t take it into their heads to sue us for what we created.
This blogger remembers brilliant artists and writers getting decades of work obliterated on LJ because someone who wanted to tell people what they were allowed to create went running to someone who wanted a profit, and told them the artists and writers had been naughty.
This blogger remembers just how hard the creators of AO3 worked to build the thing we all seem to take for granted now.
This blogger watched friends dive into the creation process so heartily and determinedly that they all but disappeared from the writing/gaming/artistic side of their fandom for YEARS while they worked to make the archive happen.
This blogger remembers the sense of giddy wonder that there would possibly be LAWYERS involved, willing to defend our right to create these works, and not leave us hanging at the mercy of corporate legal teams.
This blogger is aware that she reads between twenty to fifty books’ worth of material every year on AO3, and is never REQUIRED to pay a penny for the privilege of getting access.
This blogger is aware that she will not ever see advertisements on AO3, and that her personal data and reading preferences won’t be sold to advertisers in order to raise the money that AO3 needs to pay for the services they provide.
This blogger is aware that AO3 is, and has always been, a labor of love; by fans, for fans, and not for profiting off fans – and this is what makes it unique in the whole of the media universe.
This blogger has NEVER taken AO3 for granted, and has ALWAYS been damned glad to have access to it. Even in years when this blogger didn’t have the means to support it financially.
I wasn't talking about getting love. I'm saying that if you ask the gods for things like wealth, health, love, and wisdom; you should give something just as equally valuable. Now a days milk and honey doesn't really count as sacrifice like back in the days. Back then jt was the source of people's livelihood. Now we give it just as a little gift. I think that if we are to ask something from the gods it should be something out of our comfort zone, a real sacrifice to modern age humans.
1.) You don’t have the guts to talk about this without the Anon filter, so I’m not totally convinced you’re not trolling me
2.) We don’t live in the Dark Ages anymore, we don’t do human or animal sacrifice. We don’t dismember ourselves. Anybody advocating these things is dangerous.
3.) If you feel like you need to give your god $500 and a new car in order for it to be valid or whatever, don’t let me stop you.
I’m gonna be over here with all my fingers and toes thanks.
my mom’s friend: you don’t want kids? my kids don’t want kids either. what’s wrong with you?
me: I am responsible for the residency and daily lives of some 37 trillion cells Deborah, not including the survival of innumerable microbes and the maintenance of the complexly constructed biome with which they inhabit. I am a very busy human Deborah, my schedule is a bit full, and I don’t have the attention to spare for the well-being of another complex multi-cellular organism.
Frigg and Sigyn sitting down around the hearth fire to crochet and gossip
Sol and Idunn giggling in the kitchen baking apple pies decorated with pie crust suns
Freyja and Mordgud working out at the gym together as gal pals do
Sif and Sigyn trading parenting tips over coffee at the local coffee shop
Mordgud dragging Hel to go see the latest nerdy movie trending for an all female cast
Hel and Eir gently comforting Sigyn when time catches up with her and memories weigh her down
Eir making hot tea for all the goddesses for the weekly book club meeting
Frigg redecorating the homes of the other goddesses whenever the mood strikes and they’re willing
Sol and Jord out in the kitchen garden, tending to the herbs and poisons, as they are apt to do
Jord and Mordgud walking late into the twilight just to watch the stars come out and the sky to dance
just goddesses without boundaries doing what they do
It’s really great to have someone’s support before you accomplish something big because that’s when you need it the most, so here’s some friendly ghost support for the times before people recognize your greatness!
Neil Gaiman explains Freyja's chariot
Krys Boyd: Where do you think the Norsemen came up with cats pulling a chariot?
Neil Gaiman: I think that it's a gloriously godlike attribute, isn't it? I mean, anybody who's tried to get two or three cats to do anything at the same time will know that getting cats to pull a chariot...you'd have to be a god to make it work.
This song gives me a lot of Manannan feels.
Swallowed by a vicious vengeful sea oh ooh oh-oh Darker days are raining over me oh ooh oh-oh In the deepest depths I lost myself oh ooh oh-oh I see myself through someone else
My Personality
Zodiac Sign: Aries | Taurus | Gemini | Cancer | Leo | Virgo | Libra | Scorpio | Sagittarius | Capricorn | Aquarius | Pisces |
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rat | Ox | Tiger | Rabbit | Dragon | Snake | Horse | Goat | Monkey | Rooster | Dog | Pig |
Celtic Zodiac [x] : Birch (the Achiever), Rowan (the Thinker), Ash (the Enchanter), Alder (the Trailblazer), Willow (the Observer), Hawthorne (the Illusionist), Oak (the Stabilizer), Holly (the Ruler), Hazel (the Knower), Vine (the Equalizer), Ivy (the Survivor), Reed (the Inquisitor), Elder (The Seeker)
Alignment: Lawful Good, tie between Neutral Good and Chaotic Good, True Neutral, Lawful Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil
Myers-Briggs: ESFP | ISFP | ESTP | ISTP | ESTJ | ISTJ (barely not ISFJ though) | ESFJ | ISFJ | ENFJ | INFJ | ENFP | INFP | ENTP | INTP | ENTJ | INTJ |
Four Temperaments: Sanguine | Melancholic | Choleric | Phlegmatic
Enneagram: The Reformer (Type 1) | The Helper (Type 2) | The Achiever (Type 3) | The Individualist (Type 4) | The Thinker (Type 5) | The Loyalist (Type 6) | The Enthusiast (Type 7) | The Leader (Type 8) | The Peacemaker (Type 9) |
8w9 6w7 4w5
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor | Hufflepuff (secondary Slytherin though) | Ravenclaw | Slytherin |
Ilvermorny House: Thunderbird | Horned Serpent | Pukwudgie | Wampus |
Soul Type (one test): Hunter | Caregiver | Creator | Thinker | Helper | Educator | Performer | Leader | Spiritualist |
Archetypes: Creator | Athlete/Hero | Rebel | Caregiver | Magician/Innovator | Royal/Ruler | Performer/Jester | Innocent | Orphan/Everyman | Explorer | Lover | Sage |
Brain Lateralisation Test: Left | Right | - 50/50.
Cerebral Personality Test: 1-10% | 11-20% | 21-30% | 31-40% | 41-50% | 51-60% | 61-70% | 71-80% | 81-90% | 91-100% |
Multiple Intelligences Test: Kinaesthetic | Linguistic (Top 1) | Logical | Interpersonal | Intrapersonal (Top 3) | Musical (Top 2) | Visual/Spatial | Naturalistic |
My Personality
Proud of my city.
this is the most powerful image on the internet.. reblog to join the circle
“Aw shit, I am a woman, friendless, hopeless!”
Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1
Shakespeare, but every instance of “alas” has been replaced with “aw shit”
“Aw shit, poor Yorick!”
-Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 1
“Aw shit, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!“
-Romeo & Juliet, Act 1 Scene 1
“O, no! Aw shit, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself.”
-Richard III, Act 5 Scene 3
“Aw shit, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave.”
Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 3
We've had a go at reworking some festive songs for Fallen London, what do you think?
Foxfire candles and jars full of honey, Urchins that carol, then steal all your money. Besuited devils that offer brass rings, These are a few of my favourite things.
We welcome any delicious friends to take a stab at it themselves! There are also plenty from last year.
for your own peace of mind, maybe dont pay too close attention to the lyrics of some christmas songs.
this is the christmas card im sending out. steve didnt know what text i was gonna put behind it when he drew the picture.
(You can get this on redbubble!)
and it turns out that clint, who has been humming christmas carols for weeks now, doesnt actually know any of the real lyrics, and has just been making them up as he goes along. this is his latest masterpiece:
Winter Soldier’s Gunnin’ You Down (To the tune of Santa Claus is Coming to Town)
You better watch out, you better not cry
You’ll probably bleed out, I’m tellin’ you why
Winter Soldier’s gunnin’ you down
He’s got a hit list, he’s starting a fight
He’s clenching his fist, it’s shiny and bright
Winter Soldier’s gunnin’ you down!
He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
His aim is really fucking good and he’s gonna assassinate
You better watch out, you better not cry
You’ll probably bleed out, I’m tellin’ you why
Winter Soldier’s gunnin’ you down
He’s yanking out wheels and firing guns
If you were smart you’d probably run
Winter Soldier’s gunning you down!
Winter Soldier’s gunning you down!
Major Depression: Slight Dysthymia: Slight Bipolar Disorder: Moderate Cyclothymia: Very High Seasonal Affective Disorder: Slight-Moderate Postpartum Depression: N/A http://www.depressedtest.com/
Give a man a guitar and he’ll play for a day, teach a man guitar and today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you.
Bragi, probably. (via incorrectedda)
Space Bisexual Aesthetic
Nebulous // Swirly // Cloudy
#bergen #norway #bryggen #seaside #harbour #ocean #mountains (ved Bergen havn (port))