this is missing the point to a huge degree but seriously the people murdered by ICE were named "good" and "pretty" at what point does one recognize what the universe is trying to say there

shout-out to my other enby norsists love your work but. man. I have to think about that in my real life. I want to spend my academic life thinking about, like, anything else

yes I am a nonbinary person in Norse studies no I don't do absolutely anything on gender no not even that I know you're about to bring up the fucking horse no no NO yes we exist

Gobber definitely had at least one threeway with Valka and Stoick

The answer to "why have you watched the Icelandic dub of How to Train Your Dragon four times this week" is I missed the critical period of language acquisition and now I have to watch kids' movies until I die

I have watched the Icelandic dub of How to Train Your Dragon four times this week. I'm like the only person who enjoys Jay Baruchel as Hiccup but I must admit whoever they got as Hiksti knocks him out of the park

Hee hee hee

I imagine that's how Harry Turtledove goes about his day

I'm going to finish this PhD solely so I can tell people wanting to complain about the deeply weird germanic myth interpretations in my unreadable fantasy novels that the degree says they're correct actually. I know more than Snorri did about Bronze Age Swedish rituals, therefore I win

me in, like, 2014: i will write a beowulf fic for yuletide :) me now: so after unferth vomits up the evil magic his necromancer grandfather stored in his body, one of the other youths sworn to hrothgar smears it over his body, triggering a vision of proto-"odin" and also a grand mal seizure

opa left apartheid south africa because he was so autistic he couldn't understand why everyone was being so racist as that was illogical. which is one of the funnier ways to break the cycle

This is a bullshit blueanon account. That is not what the call-up was announced as. Walz is not sending the NG to fight DHS. He is not starting a Civil War. It is a normal call-up for public safety and crowd control. Stop listening to dipshit random accounts.

I laughed so hard when I recognized the voice. Incredible meta joke

Eminent folklorist and #selkie expert Dr. Terry Gunnell has a cameo in the 2012 Baltasar Kormákur movie The Deep, where he reveals that Gulli survived swimming 6 hours in a winter sea because he has the body composition of a seal

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

The death spiral for any mental disorder is when you start believing that nothing at all can ever get any better, and that all advice is useless.

Hey nerds come hang with us (norse nerds) (nœrds) #medievalsky #viking

not only did I kill the sacred deer I wrapped the venison in bacon and broiled it before anointing it with the sacred garlic cream sauce

if you didn't cry on election night 2016 you got it wrong. many of these types were bullying the people who cried. why are they allowed to make noise in public

A villain Robin Hood might be fun! It might also be terrible, but a movie that treats the hunt for Hood like the hunt for Bin Laden is at least a new take. Adults should be able to enjoy art they have structural political disagreements with

Okay, why are we getting so mad these days about the historical accuracy of things that were never history? The Odyssey isn't a historical chronicle, Robin Hood didn't exist, and The Northman was a terrible movie because Eggy focused on visual accuracy over a good story

I have a secret subfascination with neolithic and bronze age sacrificial customs. Hey fun fact incaprettamento was used mainly by the Sicilian mob and by neolithic matriarch-centered agrarian fertility cults

>national identity based on Icelandic >Complain foreigners don't speak Icelandic >Don't pay Icelandic teachers >Jack up university costs >Defund other language programs >Language dies (speed run) >Why did the foreigners do this

Weird how both Sky and Starfish get hounded off the site for zero reason whatsoever, and they're both queer This is purely coincidental, I'm certain of it

Went and touched grass but it all died

Quiz for insane long covid conspiracists in my replies What is more ableist A. You ignoring my lived experience as a medically fragile individual B. Me pointing out not everything is long covid If you answered B, you have to send these people $300 dreamsfromtheheartcamp.org/how-to-help/

I'm not going to be lectured on ableism by anyone who hasn't had >two palliative open heart surgeries. If you don't know what a Blalock Taussig is don't tell me I'm caring for the welfare of others incorrectly. Get the fuck out of chronic illness spaces before you ruin the life of anyone else

If you see someone saying "My mom getting misdiagnosed with long covid delayed her healing process and I hope other people don't needlessly go through that because of toxic online communities" and read it as ableist, you're either totally devoid of empathy or in a cult. Fuck is the matter with you

In nwn2, if you kill Gann's or Safiya's mother in front of them, they, you know, immediately try to kill you. unless you're already at max approval, in which case they still loathe you the rest of the run though tbf at least karlach leaves after helping you slaughter the grove

This is the plot of The Shape of Things by Neil Labute

Ahem. Hello #medievalsky or #vikingsky I wrote an article about identity & antisemitism in Old Norse hagiography I deliberately chose a teenytiny fragment to illustrate that Jews in Old Norse studies are a rich, understudied topic. I hope you like it 🤓 periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/sc...

my mom has just mentioned that Bill Clinton used to hit on her all the time when she was pregnant in 90-91 and had to go to the office to drop off things for my dad, and that she enjoyed it because he was actually smooth as hell. uh good to know mom

I love hallucinogens, I do think they can assist a bit with introspection, but spending thousands of dollars on travel just to incite terrifying psychotic episodes while a local indigenous person looks on with bemusement seems, you know, unhelpful.

I read an article once that said the ayahuasca-using tribes use it as a tool for crossworld communication rather than personal journeys, their shamans treat tourists completely differently than locals, and its use probably only started being a thing 50-300 years ago. Maybe don't take the witch trip

Ragnarök was inevitable for the gods, and so is the deadline for our #CFP for the 2026 conference. #Medievalsky ! Tomorrow is the last day to send in your submission!

I am caramelizing onions for the first time in a while and I am truly baffled at myself. I used to do this twice a week??? What the hell kind of free time did I have in 2019

#Medievalsky Want to present your work in Reykjavík where the sagas take place? There is still time to submit! #CFP @mediumaevum.bsky.social @jaema.bsky.social We hope to read tour submissions soon! Deadline is December 8th!

sir I only know how your voice sounds because of you going on a movie podcast to discuss Andy the Talking Hedgehog so this is weirdly unsurprising (tbf I think you said it was a Bad Bad Movie)

medievalist. have you seen game of thrones/have you seen the northman

why do people on the baldur's gate 3 subreddit get like homicidally angry if you suggest that ketheric thorm hated aylin at least in part due to raging homophobia

I'm teaching next semester and if this is what is normal for a college junior these days I'm going to rework the class into Sycoraxsetebos Summons the Shade of EB White So He Can Scream In Agony

One (1) spine found in Indiana Republican

Human faced man

same feeling as mikki kendall. Oh the lady who harassed the mother of a dead baby over livejournal bullshit is here to tell us about feminism. Do we have, like, anyone elsee

it's distressing that vaspider seems to be building a following on this site because their legacy on Tumblr is a loooooot of random hate campaigns against teenagers not expressing current orthodoxy

lmao

was convinced for 5+ years by ex friend that taking medication for bipolar disorder made me insufficiently leftist and thus not actually gay if I hadn't believed that I'd probably have more friends

There were Christians and at least one wealthy person from sub-Saharan Africa in Britain centuries before Anglo-Saxon pagans

The documentary Clan of the Cave Bear has a new release

After a morning going to every store I could think of, I have confirmed that I bought every single available bag of fresh cranberries* in Reykjavík >:) TO ME ARE THE SPOILS *there were four