Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Vanner och Frander = Basically they drink for three solid days trying to decide how to marry their cousin off and she decides she’s not having any of it and runs off to join the elves instead.

DIG through the ditches and BURN through the witches I SLAM in the back of my KOBOLD TWINK

PSA: Dennis Leary is not the same as Timothy Leary.

Everyone else at the wildlife refuge were either 1) families with kids and not that much interest in their surroundings beyond the walk and 2) serious birder types with huge telephoto lenses and badass camera setups.

TIL if you start playing Turisas’ “The Varangian Way” album about a batch of vikingr roadtripping through Russia, while leaving north Seattle, you should get to the last track about the magnificence of spired, many-storied Constantinople as you drive through Tacoma.

Th' Scotsman woke to nature's call an' stumbled towards a tree
Behind the bush he lifts his kilt an' he gawks at what he sees
An' in a startled voice he says to what's before his eyes
Ah don't know where yew been mah boy but Ah see you've won first prize
Yippie ai yay
Yippie ai yo
Ghost riders in th' sky!

"the Emperor's winebags" they aptly have named us
though we come from far
diversity is what unites us
we are the Varangian Guard!

does *everyone* singing along to "Sweet Transvestite" go up on toes, if they aren't wearing heels

y'all do sing along to "Sweet Transvestite" right?

rediscovering a song that was on the Oldies station in A^2 a lot (the Oldies station came in dependably all over town; I listened to it a lot in the 90s) leads to uh, stuff from the Doctor Demento compilation album I *also* listened to all the time in A^2

subtweet, the feels when someone shares a beautifully disturbing pallid sculpture with exaggerated anatomy and you immediately click on it thinking it's a photo of a sphinx cat and are about to go nuts over kitty enjoying a very long stretch.

oh you're kidding, you mean [phrase redacted] has ALSO become a code word for right winger bullshit?

okay, yeah I know it isn't *supposed* to be a song about werewolves, but work with me here.

sitting around in boxers, eating pretty much everything middle eastern from Trader Joe's and listening to The Cure. (Falafel with humus and zhoug, dolmades with vegan tzaziki and lemon juice.)

although "mural of a knife wielding spider god" turns out to be different from what D&D led me to hope for, I'm utterly delighted by the surviving pigment

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mural-knife-wielding-spider-god-found-peru-180977360/

Suggested Fresh Irish Scents for soaps?

Irish Spring! With a name pleasantly reminiscent of both The Troubles AND the Prague Spring! With fresh Irish scent! "Mnnn, smells just like the collected works of Seamus Heaney!"

See, I can tell that while using antisemitic stereotypes Rowling isn’t actually an antisemite, because if she were, she’d have said utterly reprehensible stuff platformed by the BBC and Guardian etc and it would have been considered just cool. * waits for corrections to roll in*

A while back I read this article about Japan’s surrender behind the scenes m and something that really struck me was politicians certain that Japanese citizens would just get used to American bombing. It obviously struck me as similar to this bs.

“Consider the benefits of dating a Slavic woman” the ad says. What, never winning an argument? A partner who enjoys pickles as much as I do?