Robin Lo, 23, agender (they/them), Swedish. - Main fandoms: Les Mis, Shakespeare, Merlin, Dirk Gently, LotR,
Hamilton, various other musicals...I have been thinking about witchcraft a LOT lately...
- Check out my Dirk Gently sideblog at gently-holistic!
tbh the most accurate les mis adaptation would have interjections lemony snicket a series of unfortunate events style
like imagine. monsieur madeleine going about his business, running the factory and stuff and then stepping out of nowhere a man says “the audience must realize by now that this man is indeed not monsieur madeleine but the convict jean valjean. this is called deception, but in some cases it does more good than evil” and then slowly disappearing again
(Required reading. The goat goes up today. Given what happened last year, by the time this post goes up the goat may well have been destroyed. As a Capricorn this is obviously an issue near and dear to my heart.)
ARIES: 2015: A 26-year-old man was arrested fleeing the scene of the burning goat with a singed face, smelling of gasoline, and holding a lighter in his hand. Under questioning, he admitted to committing the offense, adding that he was drunk at the time and that in retrospect, it was an “extremely bad idea”. TAURUS: 2008: The goat, which burned, was not treated with flame repellent (Anna Östman, spokesperson of the goat committee, said the repellent made it look ugly in the previous years, like a brown terrier). GEMINI: 1988: Gamblers were for the first time able to gamble on the fate of the goat with English bookmakers. Given that the goat survived this year after being destroyed for 17 of the last 20 years, gamblers probably got screwed over. CANCER: 1998: The goat caught fire again, during a heavy blizzard. LEO: 1976: A student drove a souped-up Volvo at the goat’s rear legs. VIRGO: 2001: On December 23, a 51-year-old American artist, Lawrence Jones, was apprehended, lighter in hand, as he watched the goat burn. He told police he had been misled by Swedish friends, who insisted torching the straw goat was a perfectly legal Swedish tradition. LIBRA: 2015: Iceland builds its own goat in front of an IKEA. Due to faulty wiring in its Christmas lights, it self-immolates. SCORPIO: 1968: The goat survived–good news for the couple that had sex inside its body. SAGITTARIUS: 2009:Hackers DoSed the webcam monitoring the goat, immediately before setting the goat on fire. CAPRICORN: 2010: Though the goat survived, on 17 December, a Swedish news site reported that one of the guards tasked with protecting the Southern Merchants’ goat had been offered 50,000 kronor ($7,350) to leave his post so that the goat could be stolen via helicopter and transported to Stockholm. AQUARIUS: 2005:
Burnt by unknown vandals reportedly dressed as Santa and the gingerbread man, by shooting a flaming arrow at the goat.
PISCES: 1997: The goat survives, but is hit by fireworks.
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if you work with or have done research on the Elder Fuþark runes, you may have noticed that there are lots of variations on the names. & i mean LOTS, e.g.:
there are a couple of reasons for this:
HOWEVER, most actual runic inscriptions in the Elder Fuþark are actually in Proto-Norse, the intermediate stage between Proto-Indo-European and Old Norse. A lot of the discrepancies between the attested names & their names in other Germanic languages (i.e. Gothic and Old English) is due to this fact (Orðstírr has a good intro to Proto-Norse sounds especially re: runes)
modern English is missing many of the sounds and letters that existed in early Germanic languages, so variant spellings are different ways of rendering them in our limited 26-letter alphabet
many sources on runes come from magickal writings from many decades ago, and because language science is constantly evolving, so has our reconstruction of Proto-Germanic. thus, many of the names are based on outdated reconstructions.
most magickal writings on runes are not written by historical linguists who study ancient Germanic languages
luckily i regularly study & use Proto-Germanic, & based on our most recent & accurate reconstructions, the names for the Elder Fuþark would have probably taken the following forms (text in /slashes/ is IPA phonemic transcription; where names are different, this is due to differring names in the different attested langauges, or variation within Proto-Germanic dialects):
if you would like more in-depth explanations for each of these, HERE is a good source (where we differ, i’d note that this source leans heavily on the Norse variants because our oldest attested uses come from Proto-Norse)
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“ Les Amis de l’ABC [1/?]: Marius Pontmercy
(Andrew Smyth)
“I have a headcanon that Marius is a linguist who bakes as a hobby, so this is a reflection of that.
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“ Les Amis de l’ABC [2/?]: Enjolras
(Ruby Tandoh)
“Transmasculine Enjolras is everything to me, and he looks really nice in yellow
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