Happy New Year Everyone!

I want one!

the origin of Carol of the Bells, ukrainian folk song Shchedrik

i have this writing style i like to call “uncertain.” it’s where the narrator isn’t really sure what they’re talking about either

A crow in four movements.

Sometimes your song can’t start until you go some place to reflect.

They've carried off the suet cage twice. They don't need instructions 😃

instructions

🐣Granny-core’s Guide to the Norwegian Easter🐣

I loooove easter!! 🐣

I know easter is very much a religious holiday, but the Norwegian way of celebrating has become pretty far removed from it’s roots, at least for those of us (like me) who aren’t religious. We still have some very established traditions, which I greatly enjoy, like:

🏔️ Going to your cabin (or staying at someone else’s if you don’t have one. We also have some public ones that people can use for free).

🏔️ Skiing! Especially if you bring an orange and some chocolate wafer (there’s one that’s almost like a slightly less sweet Kit Kat).

🏔️ Paper easter eggs filled with candy.

🏔️ Easter marzipan! Commonly yellow, always delicious.

🏔️ Sunbathing in the snow, with most of your clothes still on.

🏔️ “Påskekrim”, which literally translates to “Easter crime”. Perhaps the oddest Norwegian easter tradition is watching crime shows, reading crime fiction, or listening to crime radio shows. Often older crime stories, like the ones about Poirot.

🏔️ Easter quizzes, commonly on the radio, tv, or at your cabin with your familiy or friends.

🏔️ “Påskeris”; twigs you bring in and decorate, often with wooden chickens and eggs (see the photo). Will often start to get tiny little leaves, which gives me that lovely spring feeling.

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SwanQueen IS intentional

I keep seeing posts saying that SQ wasn’t intentional in the beginning, but then they started adding it when people saw it as romantic.

AND I AM SHOOKETH

THEY made it queer from the start, people simply picked up on it. When they shot the Pilot and the first couple of episodes, there was NO AUDIENCE yet. Emma was queer coded and I’m not just talking about that shot of her kicking off her heels after the job (aka fake date with a stupid dude). I mean, just fucking look at her here!!

Think about it for a second!! If the show was always just supposed to set them up as RIVALING MOTHERS (lmaooo), why the fuck did they write Henry out of the scene as quickly as they could?! The kid was there for a couple of seconds and then out of their hair! The whole drinking thing also makes it more erotic/romantic/passionate… I mean, remember that overview shot of the hallway with Emma following Regina? I mean the whole thing could be the set up for a porn. And the way Regina hands her the glass, how they look into each other’s eyes… If they didn’t want to set SQ up, they could have gone for apple juice or whatever.

Why the shy “Hi” and the staring at each other??? That’s a classic romantic meet cute!!! Sit your ass down, imagine that you are writing a scene of an adoptive mother meeting her child’s birth mother. This is so not what you would end up with unless there was something else on your mind. (No, a curse and a Savior doesn’t explain it either.)

And then the second episode, still no audience response yet when this was written and shot.

Emma is wearing almost nothing for NO GOOD REASON. The whole scene is threatening and seductive. If it were just threatening, it would NOT HAVE LOOKED LIKE THIS. I MEAN, I AM SURE THEY BOTH WANTED TO JUMP THE OTHER AND ONLY AFTER THAT GET RID OF THEM, YOU FEEL ME??

So excuse me, but DON’T LET THEM OFF THE HOOK for ANYTHING! The writers invited a female queer audience, and they got it! Nobody is fucking delusional, okay?! or I’ll punch a… lesbophobe. It was always there, they put it there! If you think they didn’t create Swan Queen, then you’re taking the blame off of the writer’s shoulders. End of the story. Merde.

THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT

Steve’s butt is very disappointed in someone.

[From Avengers #23, 1999.]