#Olafsson

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The Librarians 3x3 - "And the Reunion of Evil"

[x-files-polls]

Martin Wells: Considering he was a one off character who had the entire episode centered on him, he did a great job carrying it and making you care. Really compelling.

Olafsson: Idk I just love his vibes

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To jog your memory, here are the episodes they're from:

Redrum: After his wife is murdered, a lawyer friend of Doggett's tries to clear his name of the crime but the days regress backwards.

Død Kalm: Mulder and Scully are called in when a boatload of survivors from a U.S. Navy destroyer escort are found. What particularly catches Agent Mulder's attention is that all of these Sailors appear to have aged many decades in the course of a few days. Mulder and Scully travel to Norway where they find a civilian fisherman who is willing to take them to the ship's last known position.

[theres-music-in-you]

Lovely photos of Ari Olafsson as the Phantom and Maria Conneely as Christine in the Middle East/European tour. (x)

[ivarthebadbitch]

I know where your smile is, Harald, because I get to see it every day. If you ever want to find it again, all you have to do is meet our son.

[cheminer-poesie-cressant]

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Ma nuit secrète, mon hôtel des ombres.

Ma nuit luisante, ma chambre d’oubli.

J’armure ma silhouette du parfum de ton passage

et j’avance vers toi au dos de ta compagnie.

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(Dans la portée des ombres, extrait)

© Pierre Cressant

(samedi 22 octobre 2005 - vendredi 24 janvier 2025)

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[300yearschallenge]

After Theodore left Charles Elias shouldered his repsonsibilities and work.

Most of it were things he'd seen Theodore do, but there were still times he felt lost or wished he wouldn't have to do most of the work alone.

He filled the void with his cats. And with Laura and Mr. Isak.

Charles Elias wasn't sure if it just felt different being around them now, or if they'd let him closer than he used to be.

For a time Laura watched over him at dinnertime to ensure he ate, until she was satisfied he wouldn't refuse food anytime soon.

Mr. Isak dragged Charles Elias out of the cabin on many different errands, teaching him new things each time.

In the summer he helped Mr. Isak buy a second cow, a beautiful brown one they named Dagny. In the winter Mr. Isak brought Charles Elias out into the biting cold on the snowladen ice to hunt seals. Looking for the ice holes the seals would use to come up for air.

Life moved on slowly, painfully at times, but as the months went by Theodore's absence got a little easier to tolerate.

Historical Info / Nature Info

The brief mention of sealhunting is based on a historical practice that was very common in the winters in the Baltic Sea.

Back then when the sea froze people tended to head out in 2 man teams to hunt for seals, looking for the ice holes seals would use to come up for air.

The clothing is based on the following drawings from the three chapters of Edward Daniel Clarke's third volume of Travels in various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. In the selected chapters he described a journey across Åland in the winter of 1799.

It was a pretty fascinating look at Åland from that era, written in that era. Do note that I have heard that the descriptions of some counties (especially countries in Africa and Asia) and its inhabitants are quite rascist (!!) so if you want to check out the book for yourself be wary.

(ignore my thumb lol)

Back to seal hunting! As you can see in the pictures the clothing a seal hunter would wear was quite specific. It consisted of a sheepskin coat, sealskin boots and a fur hat. With them they'd have a gun for shooting the seal as well as (what I believe is called) a boat hook. The hook would be used as a sort of walking stick, used to test how solid the ice is before stepping on it, and the hooked end could be used to quickly pull up things/people that fell through the ice.

The type of seal hunted would typically be the grey seal (there's three species of seal in the Baltic Sea, but the grey seal is most common around Åland). The grey seal is found in the Baltic Sea as well as in the Atlantic Ocean (and are absolutely adorable).

image from wikipedia

The reason they were hunted were for their waterproof pelts, as well as the fact that they are fairly large and have a lot of fat, which was highly desirable for people, especially in the lean winter months.

However, as human populations rose and technology developed seal hunting started to put a very large strain on seal populations. In 1980 the grey seal population in the Baltic Sea was at its lowest, but with more protection put in and limitations on hunting the population has slowly risen since then.

With hunting of seals limited the current biggest threats to the seal populations in the Baltic is human noise pollution, boats and fishing nets as well as toxins and pollution. But there's still a lot of work being done all throughout the Baltic to protect and care for the seals and the sea as a whole! ^w^

[lasaraconor]

[allthefights]

[soffiisims]

1315

There were almost nothing left to bury from my mother and my father. The whole sauna burned down. Only the stones stayed in place. All else was just a big pile of ash. We gathered all the bones we could find and took them to the churchyard to be buried. We didn't need to wait or arrange deathwatch. There was no point.

My uncle was devastated to hear about his sister's passing and the way she and my father went. Hunger, pain, suffering, grief and flames.

"The Watcher save us", I heard him murmur to himself.

No one is safe from the Watcher's rage, I thought bitterly. For thinkig like this, I might be next. But would that even matter?

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[lostinmac]

Touch (2024)

Dir. Baltasar Kormákur

[crystalclaire]

a playlist to help you romanticise your life🪻

[dailydccomics]

blood and found family Justice League America #85

[s-memorando]

Ólafur Ólafsson: "Sotto una pioggia gentile"

Questo libro è stato segnalato dal gruppo di lettura della Biblioteca di Bagno a Ripoli, che frequento per aver dei contatti interessanti qui nel mio territorio. Autore islandese, di Islanda, terra che amo moltissimo, in questo libro non c’è niente. Si tratta di una storia d’amore interrotta sul nascere che si svolge quasi interamente tra Londra e il Giappone. Intrecciata alle vicende del…

[dk-thrive]

A calm sea but waves high as a mountain breaking inside my head.

— Kristopher (Egill Olafsson), “Touch” (2024). The film is based on the Icelandic best-selling novel “Touch” by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson.

[ivarthebadbitch]

Where do you go when you've lost everything? You go back home.

[vera-dauriac]

My Spotify Wrapped highlights

I love you, Bach. I love you so much. You keep me sane. If all my owned music got factored into this as well, there would just be more Bach. (Olafsson at #4 is primarily from my obsessive listening to his Bach album.)

And this just makes me giggle.