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Aug. 3rd, 2013 10:49 pmWhat I did today:
- Laundry.
- Finished knitting the first sock of a pair while listening to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. You guys, I am really enjoying revisiting Harry Potter - it is pretty great. I love everybody so frelling much - even many of the characters I used to find annoying. And, oh god, so much fanfic.
- Read a large chunk of the Eyrbyggja Saga, which I bought a while ago but never got around to finishing. Every time I read an Icelandic saga, I just want to buttonhole people and tell them at length how awesome they are. 1/3 genealogies full of people with amazing and sometime hilarious names, 1/3 battlescenes during which people make up poetry, 1/3 Law and Order: Medieval Iceland - seriously the best. This one has witches, a guy who, I swear to god, speaks in nothing but poetry (his mother is one of the witches), a bunch of guys having a battle on top of a haystack, ghosts, many many lawsuits, and a heated argument - during which several people died - about whether people were allowed to piss in a certain field*. And I'm only about halfway through. Icelandic sagas are amazing.
- Spent a ludicrous amount of time wandering through the Universal Monsters and Bride of Frankenstein tags on tumblr. About which two observations: 1) I'm not really sure why I surprised that Bride of Frankenstein tag is about half full of vaguely pornographic drawings, but I sort of am. I mean, I'm not complaining. I'm just mildly surprised. 2) Oh god, I am so full of ridiculous feelings about all of these ridiculous monsters and it has been far too long since I watched any of these movies, when do I next have time for a marathon of all of them?
It has been a good day.
*So, this one dude is a priest of Thor and has built a temple and declared that this one field on his land is Holy Ground and thus it is forbidden to desecrate the field by shedding blood or pissing on it. That's fine, except then the field ends up being where they hold general assembly meetings for the district, and there's a group of people that are really kinda tired of having to walk all the way to the beach just to take a leak. So this group of people talk among themselves and decide that they don't care about the sanctity of the field and the Man can't tell them where they can and can't piss! And another bunch of people who are friends with the guy who owns the field find out about this. They see the Free Urination League coming, pull their swords, and flat out attack them. And of course the other guys fight back. Eventually, the fight gets broken up, but there's already like seven guys dead by then.
Then, because this is an Icelandic saga and we've just had a fight scene, it's time for legal drama. It is eventually determined that a) the one group of dudes shouldn't have jumped the other group of dudes but b) the other group of dudes shouldn't have planned to piss on the holy field. So everybody's wrong and therefore nobody has to pay the fine for killing people they weren't supposed to kill. The field is now officially desecrated because of the bloodshed, so they find a new field for the assembly and declare that people can piss on it as they like.
Yes. That is a thing that happened.
- Laundry.
- Finished knitting the first sock of a pair while listening to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. You guys, I am really enjoying revisiting Harry Potter - it is pretty great. I love everybody so frelling much - even many of the characters I used to find annoying. And, oh god, so much fanfic.
- Read a large chunk of the Eyrbyggja Saga, which I bought a while ago but never got around to finishing. Every time I read an Icelandic saga, I just want to buttonhole people and tell them at length how awesome they are. 1/3 genealogies full of people with amazing and sometime hilarious names, 1/3 battlescenes during which people make up poetry, 1/3 Law and Order: Medieval Iceland - seriously the best. This one has witches, a guy who, I swear to god, speaks in nothing but poetry (his mother is one of the witches), a bunch of guys having a battle on top of a haystack, ghosts, many many lawsuits, and a heated argument - during which several people died - about whether people were allowed to piss in a certain field*. And I'm only about halfway through. Icelandic sagas are amazing.
- Spent a ludicrous amount of time wandering through the Universal Monsters and Bride of Frankenstein tags on tumblr. About which two observations: 1) I'm not really sure why I surprised that Bride of Frankenstein tag is about half full of vaguely pornographic drawings, but I sort of am. I mean, I'm not complaining. I'm just mildly surprised. 2) Oh god, I am so full of ridiculous feelings about all of these ridiculous monsters and it has been far too long since I watched any of these movies, when do I next have time for a marathon of all of them?
It has been a good day.
*So, this one dude is a priest of Thor and has built a temple and declared that this one field on his land is Holy Ground and thus it is forbidden to desecrate the field by shedding blood or pissing on it. That's fine, except then the field ends up being where they hold general assembly meetings for the district, and there's a group of people that are really kinda tired of having to walk all the way to the beach just to take a leak. So this group of people talk among themselves and decide that they don't care about the sanctity of the field and the Man can't tell them where they can and can't piss! And another bunch of people who are friends with the guy who owns the field find out about this. They see the Free Urination League coming, pull their swords, and flat out attack them. And of course the other guys fight back. Eventually, the fight gets broken up, but there's already like seven guys dead by then.
Then, because this is an Icelandic saga and we've just had a fight scene, it's time for legal drama. It is eventually determined that a) the one group of dudes shouldn't have jumped the other group of dudes but b) the other group of dudes shouldn't have planned to piss on the holy field. So everybody's wrong and therefore nobody has to pay the fine for killing people they weren't supposed to kill. The field is now officially desecrated because of the bloodshed, so they find a new field for the assembly and declare that people can piss on it as they like.
Yes. That is a thing that happened.
