#athingofvikings

[Image description: a screen shot of a tumblr reply chain that begins in the middle of a longer post. user spacelazarwolf writes “thank you for the context! this actually makes a lot more sense now.” user mithwitch writes “this is a new low for “nonzionist” tumblr. Suggesting there isn’t a genocide of palestinians is too wretched.” user the-library-alcove writes “And thank you for proving my initial point and all of the subsequent points on how you're viewing this solely as an ideological belief, and not one based on evidence. It's "wretched", not something substantiated.” athingofvikings writes “And another one who decided to block my original post... but obviously didn't read the whole thing because they're emotionally engaged with this. And I can say that because they missed that the-library-alcove is my main blog AND DIDN'T BLOCK IT.” Screenshot ends with more replies extending past, the post goes on.” End image description.]

So now genocide can only be recognized genocide AFTER THE FACT when it can be “substantiated”………..WTF (enjoy this free blocklist)

Spent all of my day making a family tree for ATOV and

I recently found myself sitting outside watching an Appalachian fiddler play with his friend. "All he's got in his head are fiddle tunes," his wife told me proudly, amid stories of how he awed students at a classical conservatory. I thought about how very many songs he must know, and how you keep them straight - if someone came to you and asked you to sing every song you know, where do you start? How do you ever know if you're finished?

Anyway I figure not-systematically-understood feels something like that.

(I'm also having thoughts about cultural Christianity as a way for modern Americans to understand what Price is calling a belief system as opposed to a religion - something like religion is not a separate thing you do at church, or praying before meals, but just an understood part of every moment of your day such that you don't even notice it's there.)

The 'worship' required by the Norse pantheon was not adoration, or gratitude, or even unreserved approval, and was thus utterly unlike the Christian relationship to the divine. The religion of the Aesir and Vanir demanded only a recognition that they existed as an integral and immutable part of human nature and society, and of the natural world, and that as such they possessed an inherent rightness - perhaps even a kind of beauty. If one wished to avoid disaster, it was necessary to come to terms with the gods, and the terms would be theirs, not those of their followers... a refusal to acknowledge the gods in this way could have dire consequences. It would also involve a contradiction, as such an act would be a denial of the undeniable. The question of 'believing in' the Norse gods was probably irrelevant.

(I note that Price leaves space here for the interpretation of gods not as natural but as human archetypal representations.)

Please, enlighten us then.

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AO3 Name: ShipMistress

Fandoms: technically 2, though I only wrote one short for Miraculous.

Number of fics: 42

Fic you spent the most time on: For The Love Of A Princess

Fic you spent the least time on: A Long Day.

Longest Fic: For The Love Of A Princess, 336k and counting

Shortest Fic: A Long Day, 329 words

Most Hits: For The Love Of A Princess

Most Kudos: For The Love Of A Princess

Most Comment Threads: For The Love Of A Princess

Favorite Fic You Wrote: I can’t answer that, I really like pretty much everything I wrote.

Fic You Want to Rewrite/Expand On: I still want to rewrite the ‘I SHould Go’ AU at some point. But I guess that’ll always stay a dream.

Share a bit of your WIP or share a story idea that you’re planning:

“A Dragon Hunt?” Hiccup paled, his whole body becoming rigid around her. 

Eret took another bite of his apple and nodded. “Yep. They just explained the rules and the plan for the next week. We have three days to prepare, then we’re all going to travel to Oramond. From there, we’ll start the Hunt on the following day. It’ll go on for three days before we’re all to meet again in Oramond. The winner will be whoever managed to kill a dragon and bring its head or, in case more than one accomplished that, the dragon species and size of the head decide. There was a ranking… Terrible Terrors rank lowest, than Deadly Nadders, Gronkles, Hid–”