A Better Writer Than I, Can Probably Put Words To This. :)

OH MY (singular) GOD. Reading this comment thread is bad for my peace of mind (and leisure time, apparently). I already have Thor/Loki induced insomnia, why are you doing this to me?

so Vikings fans, not that I have really been keeping up with fandom and sure Ragnar/Athelstan is cute but you know what would be really awesome?

Floki ramming Rollo really hard

that would be so awesome

aw!

Hipsterrific ebook covers for fics I’ll be downloading, because #xmentales said I should share them. Theme: black, white, and red. Free to use, no attribution needed.

Sources (don’t delete the text below, please):

Beloved of ravens: Bird outline from Clker.com.

Boden’s Mate: Bishop chesspiece from Clker.com.

Charlotte Francine Xavier (WIP): Knotted rope and ring from The Free Dictionary. I just really like the imagery of the rope as Charlotte’s telepathy, with the metal ring representing Erik.

The Waste Land: Woodcut from Olaus Magnus’ History of the Northern Peoples.

The Winter of Banked Fires: Compass from Wikipedia.

Your soul is a chosen country: Based on Leyendecker’s Arrow Collar ad. Also an ever-so-tiny amusement for myself.

A slice of perfection

Starring: Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona

(by I am Ted7)

I have had guests non-stop for the past month, for the past week it's been very close girlfriends staying with me. Early this morning we had this exchange:

Her: what are you doing up so early?

me: research for a story I'm writing. 

Her: (looking over my shoulder) Wow, that guy's built like a house. 

me: (very quietly) Yeah. 

Her: (eyes going glassy) A nice house!

my favorite line in all of cinematic history 

Loki and Thor...of Arabia!

Alright, first things first, WARNINGS, in various combinations: possible spoilers, slavery, racial slurs, war, Holocaust references, implied underage, implied incest, intoxication, underage drinking.

Problem: want to create something, but don’t feel like drawing. Solution: make mock book designs of favourite fanfics for type practice. Consider this to be the cousin of this series. Typography isn’t my forte, but hopefully there shouldn’t be too many atrocious choices made there. Do drop a note if that isn’t the case OTL In retrospect, most of these would probably not make very good covers because they’re on the understated side, but then again, I wouldn’t want curious visitors going through my bookshelves to get too curious either.

Links to the fics: 10th Century Boys series by khaleesian - Powered historical AU with VIKINGS. You can’t go wrong with that.

Father Charles series by Yahtzee - Sensitively-written, non-preachy, non-bashing fic on religion? Yes, that is possible. Also one of the very few kidfics I enjoy reading in this fandom, which is quite a feat tbh.

fool me once, fool me twice by musical emjay - Two broken people in a quietly destructive relationship. Will rip your heart to shreds.

A Deeper Season by etirabys - Will also rip your heart to shreds, but will attempt to patch it up afterwards.

Would follow

this book on norwegian folklore i’ve been reading just makes me want to make a sideblog exclusively for translations of folk legends and pictures of foggy forests

i should probably resist the temptation to do this…..

You ain't been had, 'til you been had by the Chief.