#''it's a fucking mandola'' ~ will probably

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s, t, x, and y?

thank you!

S is coming at the end with a lil ficlet below the cut :3

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending, about anything at all (gender identity, sexual or romantic orientation, extended family, sexual preferences like top/bottom/switch, relationship with poetry, seriously anything)

Autistic Halt damnit, you can't convince me that man is neurotypical

X - top 5-10 characters who are yoUR PRECIOUS BABIES AND YOU WILL DIE DEFENDING THEM

Data from Star Trek, Will from RA, Tiffany from Discworld, Temeraire from Temeraire, and Sherlock Holmes from the original stories :3

Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)

Gothic literature :3

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

Will had been having a hard time since coming back from Skandia. Halt had thought he was improving over the summer, but with the first snowflakes now falling Will had retreated into himself, becoming more quiet, shivering whenever he looked outside.

And Halt thought he might have found something that would help.

'Just delivered,' the vendor said, placing it on the counter. 'I put a rush on it for you.'

Halt opened up the case to check inside, and as soon as he saw it, he remembered that sunny day in fall.

'When did you get a lute?' Halt asked.

'It's a mandola, actually,' Caitlyn said, plucking the strings. 'A mandola has eight strings tuned in pairs, but lutes have ten strings.' She played a couple of notes. 'Mum got it for me. Ever since...well, since I got ill, Mum's been hoping I could do something "productive", as she called it.'

Yes, that sounded like their mum, indeed. 'Do you like it?' he asked.

Caitlyn smiled. 'I think I do! Listen to this.' And she played him a small little tune, the opening bars of the Ballad of the Sunrise Warrior.

'That is nice, yes,' Halt said. He couldn't stop his mischievous grin. 'Looks like a nice lute.'

'It's a mandola!'

'That will be seventy royals,' the vendor said.

Seventy royals was quite steep on a Ranger's salary.

Halt paid it, and tipped him five extra royals for having it delivered so quickly.

~

Halt was pouring coffee when he heard Will come in. 'I got the wood all chopped,' he said. 'And the horses have fresh oats—What's that?'

'Some kind of lute,' Halt said, not turning around.

He heard Will walk to the table and open the case, then a quiet intake of breath. It really was a well-made mandola - Halt knew enough about music to know that much.

The vendor had included a small selection of simple music sheets and basic instructions for playing. Will spoke up again after a moment. 'This says it's a mandola. It's similar to a lute, but not quite. Did you buy this?'

Halt shrugged, picking up the mugs of coffee to take them to the table, but before he could take a step Will hugged him tightly from behind, half knocking the wind out of him and almost sending him staggering. After a moment Will let go and went back to the mandola case, and ran his fingers over the strings. He looked up at Halt. 'Can I try it out now?'

It was the first time in a while Will had shown genuine interest in something, and despite his effort to maintain his gruff demeanour, Halt knew some of his relief showed through. 'Oh, all right. It's just a lute, it's not like you can do much harm with it.'

'It's a mandola,' Will said, looking back at it.

'That's what I said,' Halt said, taking his coffee and sitting by the fire. 'A lute.'

[nuclearblastuk]

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Following our gut feeling we brought the mixing duties back to Jens Bogren's Fascination Street studios, where our Nuclear Blast debut was produced. And regarding the album artwork it soon became very clear to us, that we'd love to work with the fabulous Travis Smith (www.seempieces.com) again, who already created the front covers of our albums 'Spirit' (14 years ago!) and 'Everything remains as it never was'. And we're honestly excited with the result! The frontcover shows spectacular scenery in central Switzerland, a so-called 'vulva cave', as it was sought to mark sacred rites of fertility and celebrations of life in ancient times! The artwork mystically and beautifully expresses the 'Ategnatos'' very core and essence! Once again it was a pleasure to work with Travis!" And together with the revealing of the first album details , Swiss folk metal leaders ELUVEITIE also announce their European tour in support of this upcoming masterpiece. ELUVEITIE will join forces with the legendary metal-act LACUNA COIL from Italy and the nu-metal-newcomcers INFECTED RAIN from Moldavia. ELUVEITIE states: "Our last few months have been extremely intense, creating 'Ategnatos'. Now we simply cannot wait to bring our new songs to the stages and to share our passion, pure fucking metal and heartfelt Celtic mysticism with you all! And all the more we're excited to bring such great bands with us! We feel honoured to team up with our fellows of the heavyweight institution called LACUNA COIL and also with the amazing wizkid that is INFECTED RAIN, whom we've shared festival stages with a few times already!" LACUNA COIL adds: "Transformation is a process and as life happens you need tons of new music! That’s why we are really excited to team up with ELUVEITIE and our buddies in INFECTED RAIN for this fantastic tour package. The bill is pretty diverse and interesting and we can’t wait to bring it around Europe. We will play some of our classic songs and introduce some new tunes! We know this tour is going to be rocking, and we know the fans are going to enjoy this as much as we are!" Lena from INFECTED RAIN comments: "2019 appears to be very promising for Infected Rain! A lot of new releases, new relationships and new places to visit. We are excited about all of this and especially about the Autumn tour that is going to end the year so perfectly. We are going to support two great bands and amazing people on tour for more than forty shows around Europe. We are honored to share the stage with Eluveitie and Lacuna Coil." 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USA     Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, FL - 70000 Tons of Metal 09.02.              MEX    Mexico City - Circo Volador (w/ NE OBLIVISCARIS) 10.02.              CR       San José - Peppers Club (co-headline show with Overki   12.02.              CO       Bogotá            - Ace of Spades                       14.02.              RCH     Santiago - Theater Cariola 15.02.              BR       Sâo Paulo - Carioca Club 16.02.              BR       Belo Horizonte - Mister Rock 17.02.              BR       Brasilia - Toinha Brasil Show             19.02.              BR       Curitiba - Teatro Bom Jesus 23.02.              D         Wacken - Wacken Winter Nights 05.04.              CH       Lausanne - Les Docks 13. - 15.06.     CH       Interlaken - Greenfield Festival 19. - 22.06.     DK       Copenhagen - Copenhell 23.06.              B          Dessel - Graspop Metal Meeting 25.06.              PL        Krakow - Mystic Festival 27.06.              I           Bologna - Sonic Park 10.07.              H         Dunaújváros - Rockmaraton 11. - 13.07.     A          Leoben - Area 53 Festival 11. - 14.07.     CZ        Vizovice - Masters of Rock 19./20.07.       S          Gävle - Gefle Metal Festival 01. - 03.08.     D         Wacken - Wacken Open Air *SOLD OUT* 02. - 04.08.     F          Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans - Sylak Open Air 07. - 10.08.     E          Villena - Leyendas del Rock 11.08.              UK       Derby - Bloodstock Open Air 14. - 17.08.     D         Dinkelsbühl - Summer Breeze 15.08.              F          St. Nolff - Motocultor Festival 08.09.              D         Selb - Festival Mediaval Recordings of »Ategnatos« took place in their beloved New Sound Studio with their engineer of choice Tommy Vetterli. “Yet it was radically different as we only had four weeks to record this time around – as compared to the eight weeks we had for ‘Origins’.” By taking mixing duties to the skilled hand of renowned studio wizard Jens Bogren in his Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, ELUVEITIE returned to the very spot where they mixed their now legendary »Slania« album more than ten years ago. With »Ategnatos«, the dedicated nine-piece not only worked with a real string quartet (a premiere!) and granted Fabienne Erni‘s sublime mastery of the harp the room it deserved; they also undertook a holistic upgrade resulting in some of the most catchy, most aggressive or most epic tunes the Swiss Metal nobility has ever offered. ELUVEITIE are: Jonas Wolf | guitars Matteo Sisti | whistles, bagpipes, mandola, bodhran Nicole Ansperger | fiddle Alain Ackermann | drums Chrigel Glanzmann | vocals, whistles, mandola, bagpipes Fabienne Erni | vocals, celtic harp Kay Brem | bass Michalina Malisz | hurdy gurdy Rafael Salzmann | guitars --- More info: www.eluveitie.ch www.facebook.de/eluveitie www.nuclearblast.de/eluveitie

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