and now, random Olaf Tryggvasson’s saga!
Then the earl said to his chief archer, Fin (or who was a Finn and an expert archer), “shoot that tall man by the mast.”
Fin shot, and hit Einar’s bow as he was drawing it, and broke it in two.
“What was that,” the king asked, “that broke with such a noise?”
“Norway, king,” replied Einar, “from thy grasp.”
body image, ethnic, medical mention
A minor minor body image thing;
My hair reflects my ancestry, and my mother used to go on about the curls in my hair (especially after she finished chemo), and as such, when my hair is between “regulation length” and “grew out for months” is messy and I have real mixed feelings about it.
Meanwhile I see all these photos of trans friends whose hair is about as tangly messy as mine, yet they don’t seem bothered by this at all.
Y’all make me proud of you, kids.
Here have a weird journal entry about my grandfather and his stuff. https://brushwolf.dreamwidth.org/646698.html
Something I think is neat; one of my fave movies ever, The Thirteenth Warrior, has a lot of callbacks to a different favorite movie, The Seven Samurai. I realized recently that Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack, which is otherwise its own thing, uses wordless male chorus as a reference to the similar chorus used to denote the villagers’ misery in Samurai!
ready player one crankiness
Oh yeah and it’s 2018 not 2017. I blame 45, I’m gonna be saying we’re in 2017 two years from now.
ready player one crankiness
I’d postulate “Geek Culture” is an attempt to easily define pattern and identity in an increasingly more chaotic mass of information, but also y’gotta ask who makes bank off that?
Counter example, if I say “intellectuals must love Kurosawa, Bergman and Leone” that’s obnoxious at worst, but if TOHO says all intellectuals must love them, and coincidentally Toho happens to own a batch of Bergman and Leone films, that’s not exactly a sheer love for high falutin’ film.
ready player one crankiness
See to me the point of Liking Geek Stuff is it appeals to you and HAPPENS to be geeky. It’s like my Dad’s pseudo intellectualism; you like Verdi, Dvorak, Stravinsky et al because that’s the good shit, not because it’s intellectual shit. The need to live genuinely in the short time I have; Circle Jerks, Against Me and Rollins Band do the same things for me as Sibelius and Schostakovich. Look it’s 2017, do what you will is the whole of the law, an it harm none. (1/2)
Let’s post a selfie while I’m waiting at Kinko’s for housemate to print their business cards!
https://awoo.space/media/JlUM28M3MQPRH3jAy6w
You can get Funko Pops at Kinko’s. Watching, judging with those black eyes, like a doll’s eyes, an’ then they bite down an’ ye hear that horrible high pitched screamin’... farewell an adieu t’ye fair Spanish ladies, farewell an’ adieu, you ladies of Spain... 🎵 #arr #moviequotes
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
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