#Sjon

[soracities]

Coral, spread fingers, birch twigs, a loosely knotted fishing net, crystals, river deltas, ivy, mackerel clouds, women’s hair…diverse as these phenomena are and formed from opposing elements, nevertheless they all revolve around the invisible joints, their opposite forms touch even though they are far apart…and if I imitate their form, reaching my arms to the sky—moving them together and apart in turn, waving them to and fro—then [I am] no longer alone…I am the brother of all that divides, all that curls, all that intertwines, all that waves…

Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale (trans. Victoria Cribb)

[gennsoup]

Everything grows from something else, as if nature were forever having second thoughts, pausing, pursuing a new idea or changing its mind halfway.

Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale

[cristinaboncea]

Mánasteinn. Băiatul care n-a existat niciodată | Recenzie literară

Prima mea întâlnire cu Sjón a fost una plăcută. Îl asemăn cu Don DeLilo ca stil, acum, după ce am terminat de citit scurta poveste despre Mánasteinn. La o primă impresie, cred că mi-ar face plăcere să citesc și alte lucrări de-ale autorului. IntroducereDespre ce este vorbaCe mi-a plăcutConcluzie Introducere Am cumpărat cartea exact pentru că îmi doream să parcurg o carte scrisă de Sjón, după…

[tomhardysprostate]

am i insane for thinking they filmed another ending and removed scenes from the helicopter and they're probably on tom hardy's phone because he had an extra on set film it- oh that's already been done by jensen ackles. never mind

[castielsprostate]

anybody got a future man link? it said it was on videoland but. it's not fucking there 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

[magdaclaire]

tagged by the great, the incredible, the iconic @castielsprostate, thank u bestie vik

last song: jealousy, jealousy by olivia rodrigo

currently watching: not a damn thing

last movie: visual media and i do not work well together

sweet/spicy/savory: in order, sweet, spicy, savory. my grandmother has always baked sweets and my dad has always had a robust pepper garden, so sweet and spicy are very homey for me

relationship status: guy with romantic trauma voice i am very healthily single

current obsessions: currently hyperfixated on smosh, with several lifelong special interests filling in the gaps- spn, music, education.

last thing i googled: gabumon digivolution map

tagging: @krondarling, @mrcowboydeanwinchester, @atomicrebelomega, @gaywerewolftransgender, @castielsupernatural, and honestly if you wanna do it just say i tagged you, no one checks, babe

[rastronomicals]

9:17 AM EDT July 22, 2024:

Dungen - "Andra Sidan Sjon" From the album Stadsvandringar (October 2002)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Swedish Psych/Prog

[jayceewarhammerman]

This weeks episode gave all my favorite “S”s

Slaughter

Spiral

Stranger

Suspicion

Secrets

Sam

Selia

SJon

SMartin

[faithdeans]

isaac????? isaac is this you??????? cody shot me into another dimension?????? cody!!!!! they shot me into another dimension with the crab gun??????? i am surrounded by crabs?????? the dash is crabs?????? WHAT HAVE THEY DONE

SJONNIE?? SJONNIE Y YOU'RE BR BREAK ING U P SJON A ARE YOU TTHERE RE ??? SJ-

[adito-lang]

Equivalent word endings Norwegian-German

I've been collecting examples of equivalent word endings I've noticed between Norwegian and German, which I've tried to organize here. Memorizing these endings isn't useful, since there are also many exceptions (ex. barndom/Kindheit), but with time I've come to intuitively know a lot of them and their function, which helps me a lot when I'm reading Norwegian.

Nouns

-dom ➡️ -tum -else / -ning / -ing ➡️ -ung -eri ➡️ -erei -het ➡️ -heit / -keit -inne ➡️ -in -isme ➡️ -ismus -sjon ➡️ -tion -skap ➡️ -schaft -ør ➡️ -eur

Adjectives and Adverbs

-ende ➡️ -end -lig ➡️ -lich -løs ➡️ -los -isk ➡️ -isch -vis ➡️ -weise

Verbs

-ere ➡️ -ieren

[soracities]

“[Snorri Sturluson] says in his Skálda, or Handbook of Poetry:  ‘It is a metaphor to call the sword a serpent and name it rightly, so that the sheath is its path and the baldrics and fittings its skin. That is to stay true to the nature of the serpent, for it slides out of its skin and also to water [...] A metaphor is thought to be well conceived if the notion that has been adopted is maintained throughout the verse. But if a sword is called a serpent, and later a fish or a wand, or changed another way, people call it monstrous and regard it as spoiling the verse.’  Balderdash, I say, let the sword turn into an adder and the adder a salmon and the salmon a birch twig and the birch twig a sword and the sword a tongue…Let it all run together so swiftly that it cannot be separated again.

Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale (trans. Victoria Cribb)

[gennsoup]

The cat may seem inclined to do nothing but lick her fur but we would soon be overrun by mice if we hanged her for vanity . . .

Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale

[hagatha-christie]

Had a real weird reading month, but here we go anyway

The fine The Blue Fox by Sjon: the epitome of "well! that was certainly a book!". Pretty sparse but for me personally the prose wasn't good enough to be sparse. Counted toward my Reading Around the World Challenge for Iceland

Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy: not as messy as I wanted it to be, but still love that genre of book/film that's like obsessive girlhood friendships. RATW Challenge for Switzerland

You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian: look, this was cute and I generally really like Cat Sebastian books and I like the 1950s setting.

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice: great concept but so-so execution. I don't think I would have liked it as much if I hadn't listened to the audiobook. RATW Challenge for Canada

No Word from Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza: I googled "books for fans of The X Files and this came up, specifically for fans of the episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space". Very silly, very quick, this was pretty enjoyable. RATW Challenge for Spain

The good:

One Hundred Poems by Seamus Heaney: I am a #HeaneyHead for life

currently reading a Dan Brown book (whatever! it's summer!) and Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett which is beyond beautiful so I'm really savoring it

[tomhardysprostate]

you thought the poolverine stopped when i'm in jail?? when i hit my daily post limit?? you fool. you absolute buffoon. wade and logan are going at it in every single way and it's infected my brain like a worm

[castielsprostate]

silent contribution to the worm party: dirt and worms <3 (pretend i'm on anon bc i can't send images on anon but that was the silent part work with me here sjon)

screaming thank you anon ilysm you are SO correct @deancodedinthewater

[magdaclaire]

hierophant and death? ✨

the hierophant: do you believe in ghosts?

i do! it's half spiritual and half "energy cannot be created nor destroyed," so where does it go?

death: what are three things you want to do before you die?

if it's things purely about myself, i wanna obtain at least one graduate degree, i wanna publish a novel, and i want to love someone like setting myself alight. things with other people, i wanna meet my sister's kid, whenever she's able to have one. i wanna see my godkids and my niece and nephews to adulthood and beyond. i wanna go on a couch surfing world tour to meet all my friends in person.