They were giving us Mavis Beacon in first grade, before half the kids in my class could read fluently

The "submissions" link there is giving me a 404

This post has made me realize that part of why I like Cory Booker is he seems like a strange person underneath that effortless charisma. What was he doing with Rosario Dawson

this woman depresses me because in the initial profile she said her family didn't believe her when she reported a rape so she felt like she couldn't factor that in to her decision even though she wanted to

there were huge spoils of war sacrifices in denmark every 6ish years for 300 years. I imagine at some point Ecglaf looks at Æschere and goes "what are we doing here man" and they go try it with the Jesus Wizards

it interests me that modern neopagans never seem to consider that a person in 342 CE maybe had reasons for wanting to convert to a pacifist religion that weren't coercion or political expediency. throwing half your shit away on blood sacrifices must have sucked

there's a new drug that makes you feel like you're shrinking but don't worry it's not hobbit forming

I would daresay that for some women that's the primary predatory type of guy in their lives

I grew up hearing from my mom that her father had brought a msn back to life during surgery. I just found the case report he wrote about it in 1960. She didn't tell me he brought this man back via BREAKING OPEN THE STERNUM AND MASSAGING THE LUNG WITH HIS HANDS.

Lestat S3

Have you considered that your personal aesthetic tastes should maybe fall slightly below producing sustainable energy in the climate crisis. Privileging aesthetics has led a lot of places to lose out on clean energy. How are you missing his point so bad

Movie where historian pulls a Finnur Magnússon and confidently translates a runic inscription (it's cracks in the stone from weathering)

You have to work on craft more than you think you do.

The discord server of critique partners is less than useless if no one there is an editor, published, or a writing teacher.

Why is every cat named Luna

Did you know the Azov battalion had, at its peak, 400 members and that Ukraine, headed by a Jewish president, is currently defending itself from a genocidal right-wing state? Ukraine objectively has a much smaller far right problem than America. Don't pick on people for their nationality.

I am convinced Tom Lehrer quit music due to something having to do with his espionage career. Man was so deep that his cover story was nukes.

Also he had the same early life as Ted Kaczynski and I'm begging someone to write a play or something about that

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

"A bloo bloo bloo our noble and pure language is dying :(" well MAYBE if you deigned to listen harder or, God forbid, use context clues when faced with accents instead of being god's specialest baby, more people would learn the damn thing. This is never going to stop driving me insane

Okay look yes I know that Icelandic having a lot of load-bearing vowels means that correct pronunciation is important but if I am POINTING AT THE OBJECT, it does not matter if I am using í instead of i. You understood me, go to hell

If you are having difficulty with time or energy, you can just pick up a bunch of frozen meals. Those are cheap and there's a million options. You can get a workweek of dinners for the same as one Mickey D's delivery. Three store brand large frozen pizzas do for the whole week. C'mon people

Baktus :)

Some of the most ardent takeout defenders are describing levels of dysfunction that mean they shouldn't be living independently. They're lying. That is an awful thing to lie about. Lying about prices is annoying but the lying about severe disability is sociopathic. Don't do that.

Learning how to budget and cook are basic adult life skills and takeout is almost never cheaper. It's fine to get it but it's just not less expensive. Can everyone stop lying about their degree of impaired executive function. Please. It's really obnoxious!

So? This is not the case now and you know it. This was affordable in premodern times because the cooks were not paid an obligatory minimum wage. Stop being a little snot. Times is changed, go make a pot of bolognese

unsure having your nascent preteen homosexuality awakened when you're on supplemental oxygen is the best way to have it awakened but on the other hand, look at her

i was watching TV in the pediatric ICU when this happened in front of my very eyes. seeing this either kept me there another day or got me out early. i took the newspaper with the picture on it out of the recycling bin when i got home. a bolt from the blue of pure lesbianism

He's writing it with Sjón 😬 the script for the northman was so bad it made everyone I saw it with stop enjoying Sjón

Environmental storytelling in #iceland: closed but previously opened container of fermented shark in parking lot of grocery store, next to a car with rental plates

Unfortunately, this is a not feeling empowered to safely work in a red state as a sexual minority issue, especially as half of my sad underemployed academics groupchat aren't American citizens...

Richard Cole comments that Norse studies is escapist, which is sort of mean, but I do think that explains both the masculinist rightwing popular and queerish leftish scholarly interest. (I am definitely guilty)