Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Valhalla / Viking Victory https://youtu.be/6Bc10sJNBVw via @YouTube

CATTLE DIE KINSMEN DIE
I TOO SHALL DIE
BUT I KNOW ONE THING THAT DOES NOT DIE
THE FAME OF ONE WHO HAS DONE WELL

https://youtu.be/TMiTg9imUyE

"Today was a good day." *coughs up blood* "A good day. Go."

https://youtu.be/TWu8vCk-b1U

"Ha ha, got you!"

"It's a man. It's a man. It's a man!"
"Cheer up, little brother. There are more!" #MovieQuotes

https://youtu.be/ev6JbofFtJ0
"You couldn't keep a cow out of this place"

I SAW A RICH MAN'S HEARTH BLAZING BRIGHT
WITH A COLD CORPSE OUTSIDE THE DOOR
IT'S BETTER TO BE ALIVE
THE LIVING CAN KEEP A COW

* predictably puts on the Thirteenth Warrior soundtrack *
* equally predictably, mimics drawing and loosing arrows - with non existant bow, arrows or thumb ring - during the "The Tatars! The Tatars!" part *

* proposes sequel in which Puss, exiled from the Kingdom of Granada, must travel far north with 12 wolves to defeat an ancient evil *

den trettonde djur ska inte nordlige djur

I fess up that during the "Mama Luna" part of Puss in Boots the Last Wish, I couldn't *not* think of the line "My name is Ahmed ibn-Fadlan, ibn-Rashid, ibn-Hamid, ibn-Alabas, and things were not always thus."

https://youtu.be/N7bpELoTsDE

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64348902

I love how communist types are eager to point out only the atrocities that support their POV, rather than accept that *no* government is actually good and *any* government needs to be highly transparent and accountable otherwise people *will* suffer.

I'm reminded that the biggest reason I didn't wind up in the military is that I grew up in an area which pushed the Army at me, and all it would have taken is the right recruiter promising me work as a helmsman, diver or translator, and I would have made a probably *terrible* decision.

listening to patriotic music to get psyched up for phone interview

aye aye twas Moby Dick that dismanted me, Moby Dick that made me a poor peggin' lubber forever and a day! I'll chase him 'round Good Hope and 'round the Horn and 'round the Norway Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up! And this is what ye have signed for men, to hunt the White Whale until he spurts black blood and rolls fin out! #Arrrr

ahem.

Oh they calls me hangin' Johnny
AWAY BOYS AWAY
they says I hangs for money
OH HANG BOYS HANG
oh they says I hangs for money
AWAY BOYS AWAY
cause hangin' is so funny
OH HANG BOYS HANG
oh that first I hanged me granny
AWAY BOYS AWAY
I hung her up so canny
OH HANG BOYS HANG
oh I hanged me sister Sally
AWAY BOYS AWAY
I hanged my whole damn' family
OH HANG BOYS HANG
oh I'll hang a ruddy copper
AWAY BOYS AWAY
I'll give him the old dropper
OH HANG BOYS HANG
oh I'll hang the mate and skipper
AWAY BOYS AWAY
I'll hang them by their flippers
OH HANG BOYS HANG
oh they says I hangs for money
AWAY BOYS AWAY
cause hanging is so funny
OH HANG BOYS HANG
oh we'll haul and hang together
AWAY BOYS AWAY
we'll hang for better weather
OH HANG BOYS HANG

honestly I know folk songs which aren't about hangings. Most of them are just about death in general.

Did you bring me a little silver?
Did you bring me a little gold?
What did you bring me, my dear friends, to keep me from the gallus pole?
We didn't bring no silver!
We didn't bring no gold!
You know we're TOO DAMN POOR to keep you from the gallus pole!

listening to Howard Shore again

Spears shall be shaken! Shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun's rising! Ride now, ride now, ride for ruin and the world's ending! #ForthEorlingas #WestuTheodenHai

face it "the world's (second) richest man" in a period of unprecedented, ultimately unnecessary poverty would be very hard to like, harder still if he inherited money from something shockingly unethical and made his money from dubious products, impossible for a transphobe aiding antisemites and totalitarians, and worse than impossible for an uncharismatic jackass personally responsible for completely wrecking the functionality of a much-trafficked social media site.

Reading this old WEG Star Wars module has me stoked to run or play, it really is my favorite TTRPG; and reminds me I’m curious about Andor, since that sounds like a take on the SWverse which I’d find interesting.

Oh no! this coffee shop has NIN on the speakers and I need to drop whatever I’m drawing to doodle people in trenchcoats doing backflips firing twin mini-Uzis instead…

Wait they moved on to Death Cab for Cutie. I’m good.

combining "people dissing WotC announcements" and the "Van Helsing" soundtrack gets me back to the idea of running Vampire the Dark Ages but Ravenloft, except then I face the players basically seeking to diablerize what's basically Cain in Barovia.