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they, útlendingur norse studies phd student in iceland, crazy person (mythology, monsters, minority religions, medievalism)
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current saga translation: man secretly goes to see a necromancer in the middle of the night, necromancer's response is to give him a doleful look (mikla ógleði) and go "for what reason are you bothering me? come back tomorrow" necromancer holds regular business hours i guess

I'm not being funny but we all know that the reason Musk hates Zelensky so obscenely and vitriolically is because he's Jewish, right

Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?

My dad told me once every winning politician he worked for was a person who could remember the names, faces, and concerns of literally everyone they'd ever met. That John Mulaney bit about Bill never forgetting a bitch is not an exaggeration, but it's like minimum to qualify for the Senate

the best-loved politician is the one who is so effortlessly charismatic they feel like they're looking at you through the crowd of thousands. I honestly don't think there's much more than that for 70% of people. Most people vote on rizz

started rewatching house with my fiancee and she was like hmmm so you say you watched this religiously as a teenager it explains...a lot

All of the people cheering on Luigi and saying that he did nothing wrong when he executed a premeditated murder make me really uncomfortable. Once you say that he’s justified, I can’t trust that you aren’t going to say political violence against more people is justified, and that’s a real bad path.

Love that Gaukurinn with no notice and no dates says on a Friday evening that they're "closed for renovations" bro what is going ON over there!!!

Pritzker/Buttigieg '28: history's most efficient khanagate

I'm also mad that when this is over there's going to be a reflexive ban of ketamine as the indefensible drug of evil viziers. That stuff works soooo well for treatment resistant depression and he's increasing the stigma by being both evil and embarrassing

I know the circumstances are different as I have never been an addict or even a heavy user barring a few bad months early covid but that Elon video is fucking embarrassing. If you can't fake sober when you're not then don't go outside, goddamn

relistening to buffy sainte-marie after, you know, the thing, it's really striking how kitschy a lot of her songs are. qu'appelle valley has so many...i'd call them safe tropes that it's kind of discomfiting

Omfg the last part

I have a fever of 103 which is a relief because I assumed the mild hallucinations that were edging my vision all day were just medication failure. Nope I'm just boiling to death

I tried to make a little batch of lightly sugared apple topping for my morning skyr but ended up here on the couch eating a caramel apple syrup thing straight out the saucepan which I guess is a win

trying to convince a friend with slightly dodgy norse tattoos (he's a norse academic, he's allowed) to run for office because said tattoos make him right-wing coded and he can ride that to bipartisan victory and then left-wing rule

it’s so sad that Kanye West passed away shortly after releasing Graduation. I bet he would have gone on to do incredible things if he hadn’t tragically died 18 years ago

I'm fully aware I need to go to the grocery store and then to Sorpa with the cans but I can hear the wind howling at can't breathe speeds and what if I just starved in a pile of unrecycled cans instead

Can Bill Gates or Soros or some weird nameless vampire bribe the DC police to take Elon in for ketamine possession (I'm sure he's also got a bucketful of research chemicals and shrooms on him at all times)

I see we're in the part of the novel virus epidemic where the unpopular governor of New York starts showing more leadership than the White House by actually taking preventative measures Kathy is a nicer person than Andrew was so I'm hopeful the arc won't end the same way

One of the underrepresented (to my eye) reasons why South Africa didn't carry the momentum from Mandela was because Thabo Mbeki decided AIDS didn't exist. Unspeakable avoidable pain. I hope they get murder charges at the end of this

Oh boy just read about the stop on the HIV vaccine Millions of people are going to die just from that one. Actual crime against humanity

me, working on a translation based on a quite strict diplomatic transcription: why in the name of all that is holy did you people bother writing this if you can't spell

Thing is I think they already know this? My DC gossip isn't fresh but my impression is that everyone violently despises him on a personal level and hates he won the lottery when he snagged The Most Charismatic Person To Ever Exist Ever In The History of the World (who also hates him)

Turns out this wasn't new ADHD meds working! It was just hypomania! Yaaaay

That would be Neiþingi

rich white girl from a republican power family in the south lies about being trailer trash, spends months telling her fans not to vote for democrats, and is now oozing that she loves trans girls? if you loved trans girls you would have made sure their rights were not being eliminated kayleigh

i never want to hear anything chappell roan says ever again

I'm watching The Aristocats for the first time as a childless man in my 40s and getting VERY mad at Edgar for not realizing that even if the cats inherit the estate "first," they're CATS. You've inherited everything! They won't spend money! Just take care of them! The tuna bills won't break you!

Friend's cat takes great pictures

Picked this topic specifically to avoid doing a boring survey but no one else has done the boring survey either so now I gotta do the boring survey, which is so boring that I played Skyrim for way too long in protest at the very thought