Just a PSA: kittens are FUCKING RIDICULOUS. Trigger for this: kitten likes biting things. When he gets very excited about this sweet biting game, he starts to forget to close his mouth between finding things to bite. This combines AMAZINGLY with his tendency to launch himself through the air, legs akimbo (dude can jump, it's pretty impressive), so ( Read more... )

Title: I loved them best
Word count: 645
Pairing: Kjartan/Bolli/Guðrún
Summary: After Kjartan gets back from Norway, things go a little differently at the first feast in Laugar.

Notes: Written for
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So I want to talk about Laxdaela saga, because I've finally finished a reread. First, here are two awesome things ( Read more... )

What are you reading now?
I'm a tiny way into Great Expectations. I have never read a full Dickens, and have always in fact avoided him like the plague because I thought he was boring and depressing. For the teacher training I'm doing soon, I have to read at least one Dickens, and I chose this one because a) I remember my dad trying to read it to ( Read more... )

Yes, it's another entry about Vikings. SORRY. ( I need to work through my feelings about episode two )

I have to be entirely honest, "okay, FINE," is the spirit in which I watched the first episode of Vikings. I had decided not to! I was okay with that! But then people kept posting about it, and I was like, "it has all these things that I like," and getting more and more unsure, and finally I heard that they actually bother to use some Old English ( Read more... )

I have been watching:
- Call the Midwife, and I have torn through all fifteen episodes in three days because ugh that was amazing. I cried quite a lot, despite being fully aware that the show was gleefully sitting there thinking, "hahaha, now the audience will cry", and I am pretty much completely in love with everyone (PARTICULARLY SISTER ( Read more... )

1. Hello, new people I have added! I found you all on
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This comic is pretty awesome: Wovon zur Hölle redet der?

I have a thing about three miles wide about the way to use language in media. I think we all know this, since I spend a ridiculous amount of time frothing at the mouth about Merlin's use of Old English, which is not the right early mediaeval language, goddammit. Ask me how! (No, don't, the ( Read more... )

One of my kids has asked to see some Old Irish. OH MY GOD YES I KNEW MY DEGREE WOULD BE USEFUL EVENTUALLY. TAKE THAT, HATERS.

(I'm spammy because I've been in Tokyo all day, and now my brain hurts. It's been a long week. And I didn't see any geisha, but I did go on a boat and see a Statue of Liberty.)

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