Imaginary time capsule

Well, "Cuban". Featuring Che Guevara Fidel Castro "Philadel Kest".


( Ep. 7: 'Music and Revolution' )

I've been told that my dad, upon hearing about my mythology blog project, inquired about Ratatoskr. Seeing as I've been meaning to do an entry on the world tree Yggdrasil, which Ratatoskr calls home, I'll use that as an impetus.

( Yggdrasil and who lives in it )

Incidentally, my sister's been thinking about commissioning some sort of mythology-related mural for the nursery, and I suggested Yggdrasil. She likes the idea. It would be a pretty neat thing to have on a nursery wall, I thought.

Less than three days ago I had a moment of "Wait, it's May? Early May, surely? Let's check the calend-OH MAN MY BIRTHDAY. I'VE GOT ONE OF THOSE." I legitimately forgot about my upcoming birthday! That'll prove how focused I am on moving right now. But hey, I remembered in time.

Had a fine day: Express package from Mum with all sorts of odds and ends; Brunch with Maria; Bought a second-hand copy of L.A. Noire with some of my birthday money (a hardboiled crime thriller set in the 1940s? I think me and this game are going to get along very well); Saw The Hunger Games at the movie theatre (I think my favourite part was the visual look of the Capitol residents - I'm pretty sure "futuristic overindulgence" gotta be the most exciting words a designer will ever hear); Pigged out on junky take out and then cake.

Day deemed a success! Only it was really cold and wet out, which felt really weird because I literally can't remember any of my birthdays not being sunny and warm. But the bad weather can carry on for all I care; I've got leftover cake and L.A. Noire.

An actual Fujiko-centric episode in the Fujiko spinoff, by jove!

I'm left with more questions than ever. Except that all Catholic schoolgirls are lesbians, that's apparently a given.


( Ep. 6: 'Prison of Love' )

Just finished the main campaign of Revelations. Oh, Assassin's Creed, you were my favourite game franchise. What happened?

( Mild spoilers, mostly whining )


I'm really pleased to hear the next game is going to go in a new direction, because it's clear they've run this particular iteration into the ground. I'm still not as excited as I used to be, but I haven't given up on this franchise just yet.

A.K.A THE ONE WHERE LUPIN AND JIGEN FINALLY MEET. WOOOO.


( Ep. 5: 'Bloody Triangle' )

I'd like there to be a sort of narrative chronology to the myths we look at, but the Norse myths are very intricately intervowen with little sense of what happens when, so I realize I'm simply going to have to abandon that plan soon. Ah, c'est la vie.

But as for now, we're still talking about the time when the world was young, the Golden Age had recently ended, and the gods had to take arms in the first war there ever was.

( And then they cheated )

Now that I've properly introduced the Vanir, I'll apologize in advance for when I'll undoubtedly start using "Æsir" as a collective term for all the gods in Ásgard. In my defense, the fact that certain gods hail from Vanaheimr doesn't ever really come up again. We have some fun stories ahead of us though, now that we've thrown a couple of fertility gods into the mix!

I've hardly drawn anything so far this year, but here's my answer to the "draw yourself as the last video game character you played as" challenge.

( Tilly Stratford: Ace Attorney )

Anyway, lately I've been trying to get back in the drawing habit by doodling when I've got nothing better to do. Not gonna lie, there's been a healthy helping of Dick Gumshoe doodles. And Larry Butz. Showing once and for all that when it comes to liking video game characters, I really haven't got a "type".

Fans of Norse mythology, I haven't forgotten! In fact, now that I'm back in Bergen and have my books at hand (such as my precious Norse dictionary, the most expensive book I ever bought), preparing these entries is going to be a lark.


So, Yggdrasil's roots! We've established that one reaches cold Niflheimr where the dragon Níðhöggr gnaws on it, one reaches Mímir's well in Jotunheimr; so let's go through the last one (that we know about, anyway) and who tend to it: The three Norns. (Sorry, it's not the one with the dog - we'll get to that some other day, I promise.)

( The ones you blame when everything turns to shit )

Finally, I'd like to bring up a lovely 12th Century (two centuries after Norway was Christened) runic inscription found on a piece of wood from Borgund stave church in Norway that goes:

Þórir carved these runes on the eve of Olaus-mass, as he travelled past here. The Norns presented measures of good and evil - great toil they created before me.

So halfway through my train journey I thought "Hey, I still haven't watched that Lupin episode" and seeing as the car was virtually deserted I set up my laptop, hoping the battery would last through half of it at the very least.

It lasted four minutes. Not enough to get any sort of grip on what the plot was about, but just enough time to take in what is pretty much the first scene in this series to genuinely shock me.


( Ep. 4: 'Living in Love, Living in Song' )