#elfred

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I have no explanation for this. Anyway. Runs away. My ramblings under the cut

Okok so,, my thoughts are very unorganized for this so bear with me please.

Mainly the reason I did this is because I got it into my head that it would make sense for Slickwell to go live in elvenmoor since he's seemingly part elf (because of his ears) and it's also not near rudistan (and kinda not known in enchancia).

I also really like the idea of slickwell or greylock knowing about elvenmoor and/or living there, just because I think it would be nice to give them a bit of a background with it. I also noticed that pretty much all of the elves we see use a lot of gold accents (like greylock in his vest!) So I made this outfit for slickwell to use :D

I think it'd be nice if they knew each other tbh, also greylock seems like he would get along well with the other elf from that episode (elfonso). Also it's really funny how all the elves have silly names like that, but slickwell and greylock could just be explained by them just being part elf, or them having a second name that is silly like that.

Also also it's a crack hc but I like to think that slickwell could do all that stuff he did with the cart of cups during the song because he used that magic the elf queens used to move plates and silverware around :3 source: i made it the fuck up, but I think it would be neat

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Kerstkleurplaat bij de Meerpeen

Kerstactie: 'Kerstkleurplaat bij de Meerpeen'

WIERINGERMEER – Nu de Kerstdagen in rap tempo naderen hebben we bij de Meerpeen een leuke actie. Voor de kinderen is De Grote Meerpeen Kleurplaat op de site gezet. Hoe leuk is dat? De kleurplaat kan gedownload worden, uitgeprint en kleuren maar (dus niet op het scherm gaan kleuren a.u.b.). De kleurplaat kan ingeleverd worden bij de volgende winkels: Jaaps Jeans & Sportswear in Wieringerwerf,…

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Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen was a Danish explorer who is most notable for his role in Arctic exploration, in particular the Thule expeditions, which took place between 1912 and 1933. While on one of these expeditions, Freuchen got caught in a horrendous blizzard while in Greenland. The weather was so bad that he took cover under a dogsled. When the blizzard ceased, he realised he was buried under a thick layer of snow, unable to move. After being stuck for 30 hours under the dogsled, clawing and digging at the ice and snow, Freuchen used another tactic - he fashioned a knife out of his own frozen faeces and chiselled his way out. It took him three hours to crawl back to base where he then realised he had severe gangrene on his toes. He then amputated his toes with pliers and a hammer.

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Holidays and Days of Note for September 22, 2024

Autumn Equinox, First Day of Fall, Starts at 8:43 Central Daylight Time

Mabon: Festival in honor of the Welsh god Mabon son of the Goddess Modron, though it has also been attributed to Queen Mab of the Fay. Started at Sundown on the 21st and goes until the 29th.

Alban Elfred (Druid)

Higan (Japan) Meaning, the Other Shore or Heaven. Day to honor the dead.

Chusok (Korea)

Elephant Appreciation Day

International Rabbit Day

World Rhino Day

International Day of Radiant Peace

National Ice Cream Cone Day. As Ice Cream Day was in July, should we leave the cones empty or perhaps put chicken salad in them?

National Legwear Day

National Wildlife Ecology Day

First day of Spring in the Southern Hemisphere

Hobbit Day, being the birthdays of both Frodo and Bilbo Baggins

National White Chocolate Day

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I think it’s actually not Fred but ElFred. Call him Alfredo

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In Star Eater, Kerstin Hall Creates a World Like No Other

Molly Templeton Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:30am

Engrossing, horrifying, and vivid, Kerstin Hall’s debut novel Star Eater is a hard one to talk about. This is in part simply because there’s so much there there—so much inventive worldbuilding, so much carefully structured power, so many things I want to exclaim over. As with many complicated things, it’s occasionally boiled down to something both accurate and not, a hook like “cannibal cat-riding nuns in space!”

This description isn’t wrong, but it’s nowhere near the whole picture, either. There are cats the size of horses; there are cannibal not-really-nuns and horrifying zombies (called Haunts); there is something weird about the world of Aytrium, with its Pillars and vague references to the Edge. But this isn’t a book about the meticulously created world. It’s about corrupted power, and the sacrifices necessary for change.

Star Eater expects you to pay attention from the very first scene, when we meet Acolyte Elfreda Raughn in the midst of what ought to be a typical day. The ritual she’s performing with other Sisters is casually discussed, but like so much else in this novel, central to the world Hall builds. In Aytrium, everything has a reason, a cause and effect, from the terrifying Haunts that appear in the fields to the food shortages to the visions that plague Elfreda.

There are no infodumps here, but there is a lot of backstory, carefully woven into the plot and revealed gradually as Elfreda is swept up into a complicated conspiracy that reaches to the very center of her world. Like all Sisters, Elfreda was born into the Order: their power is inherited and inescapable, and brings with it certain responsibilities, some of which are deeply distasteful. There are things Elfreda can live with—the Haunts, the bureaucracy, even the hallucinations. But when it comes to replenishing her lace (the magic power wielded by Sisters) and the Renewal ceremonies through which new Sisters are bred … El will never fully accept those things.

And it’s that resistance that sets her story in motion.

There’s also a capital-R Resistance among the ordinary people of Aytrium, who don’t have an abundance of love for the Order. But while the Sisters’ power is absolute, it’s also fractured. The Resistance falls somewhat by the wayside, narratively speaking, because the Order is plenty busy tearing itself apart.

As Elfreda is drawn into the power struggles among Sisters, the details of her life begin to grow more important: There’s the mystery of her mother’s early martyring, the tragic story of her friends Mille and Finn’s parents, the horrible murder of her work supervisor. With so much at play, the sprawling cast can get a little hard to juggle, and some of the relationships never quite click. (Also, the gender/power divide makes me wonder how trans and nonbinary people fit into this world.)

But much of what interests me in Star Eater goes beyond the details, and the characters, and into the shape of the story. It begins slowly, a precisely paced adding-up of things that are weird (to us, or to Elfreda) or horrible or somehow out of tune. There’s a beautiful detail about a song the workers sing—and the much bloodier version of the lyrics that were sung years ago. Who changed them? How? And what were they hiding?

The shape of the story is a pyramid, and at the start we can only see the point, the things Elfreda notices as she goes about her increasingly tense days. There’s much she takes for granted, and a reader has to wait to fully understand. But as the novel progresses, it’s a steady passage downward, learning more, putting pieces together, revealing more of the whole, until at the end, so much happens so quickly that at first, it feels a little rushed.

But this is a story about change centuries in the making. The tale began with the Eater herself, a figure now passed mostly into myth, who saved Aytrium hundreds of years ago. It ends with Elfreda, whose role is somewhat foreordained and yet also up to her. The arc of the story is the arc of this whole world’s existence. It takes time to build a new world, to lift it up from the ruins of the old. It takes much less time to tear it all down again.

Star Eater is a magical consideration of what it means to destroy a power structure. It’s an intimate, gripping exploration of what people are willing to do to maintain the systems that they believe maintain the world; it’s also a story that asks what doors might be opened if we could truly envision a world unlike the one we live in now.. Hall mixes her unique worldbuilding with familiar tropes—the chosen one, the love triangle(ish), the conspiracy, the mentor figures, the loss of a mother—and the combination creates a book that feels both familiar and unnervingly strange.

It’s a struggle to think of a book that Star Eater is more than vaguely comparable to. There is one scene that recalls a ghastly twist on an element from The Handmaid’s Tale, and Hall’s immersive worldbuilding reminded me just a bit of N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, on a smaller and far less geologic scale. But I read Star Eater right on the heels of Hannah Whitten’s For the Wolf, and saw unexpected parallels between the two: worlds where women have power but it’s still used against them; stories that make explicit a struggle between power and freedom, power and choice. Both are books that say this is how it’s been, but not how it has to be—and stories about how in order to rebuild, you have to be willing to face the truth of what came before.

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Listen/purchase: One Day by Elfred Fleischman

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Nieuwjaarsfeestje op peuterschool de Meertuin

Lokaal nieuws: 'Nieuwjaarsfeestje op peuterschool de Meertuin'

SLOOTDORP – Het nieuwe jaar werd op peuterschool de Meertuin in Slootdorp op een feestelijke wijze onthaald. “Afgelopen woensdag hebben we op peuterschool de Meertuin in Slootdorp het nieuwe jaar ingeluid met de kinderen en ouders. En bij een nieuwjaarsfeestje horen natuurlijk oliebollen! Op de peuterschool hebben we al flink gespeeld met onze eigen gemaakte oliebollenkraam. De kinderen en juffen…

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french and german forenames + roman place names

Aceric Acquel Acquelix Acquiter Adeleine Adeleinium Adolaudre Adolfgane Adriette Adrotagen Albernae Alena Alenafrum Alene Alentium Alfredrin Alfrieth Aliese Alieth Aliner Almuth Aloise Alvie Amalice Amalter Amalvii Amélane Andale Andra Andrich Angelix Angise Annelina Annes Ansgarete Ansgaria Antelle Antonia Antua Antum Apollrato Arlentium Armina Arminium Astian Astramna Audreata Aurielle Aurine Auréliebke Aus-petel Banna Bannah Baptistia Barah Bastia Bastin Benedith Benoa Berner Bevagnès Bovium Briedemann Caenise Calcarolf Camien Camiliam Camuella Camulodis Carolf Carolitum Caromain Caromantum Cassa Castellum Castin Cefalaine Chalk Chane Charome Chaëlle Chris Christinum Clars Clate Clatium Claura Clottom Clémentium Concang Conderice Corachard Cordina Corentiane Corin Cornot Cédrich Célietric Célisbeth Daedard Dagmarine Damina Damium Dania Danie Danuellene Davidemar Davidenium Denia Densca Diedrice Dietel Domina Donata Durnold Durnot Dustia Dylanda Edikt Eilheino Eilherwig Elfred Elmin Elmut Elmuth Emilondine Emmandate Emmannavio Emmanne Emmanum Emmeriann Ental Entimo Erine Estellae Estelsa Etrin Etrude Eviève Fabiennald Fabii Falaire Fanièle Fanne Fanon Fanonum Felika Felinae Ferdine Ferrathieu Flore Florencent Florentine Florin Forum Forumnovic Francina Frand Frandate Franka Freder Fredria Fried Frieter Gabin Gabrichelm Gabrick Garrian Geniselle Georgar Georgard Georgeno Gerdia Gerdiane Gerharold Germa Gillae Gillaude Ginium Gotte Gottlie Gotto Gretchelma Gretelle Hannelika Heidemanum Heidensca Heinhold Heinium Heinovum Heleia Helentin Heliariede Helina Helix Hella Helle Helmarine Helmine Herae Herberta Hercelyne Hilian Hilipons Hilippe Hilmar Hislausent Horstin Huguvalium Huntemnae Ingridunum Intelli Intempeda Intempedum Intempeia Interae Irmain Isabeth Jacque Jacquel Janie Janièle Jeancina Jeanck Jeanlucie Jeanmarine Jeanpier Jerma Jessicana Joachaël Joachieu Johamedikt Johane Jonald Jonalinae Joëlles Julise Karianavio Karieter Karlette Karst Katricum Kerst Kerstentia Klaume Klauricum Lagenoa Laude Laudia Laume Lette Leviève Lionelika Lonia Lonique Lorentin Lorentine Lothalk Lothmar Louel Lucienna Lugueriano Luguvalter Luntelseph Luntum Madele Magust Magustin Malica Malter Manuellae Marcellmut Margar Marguerice Marian Marichen Maried Mariedemar Marin Marium Marole Marthur Mathier Matthie Matthier Maurence Mauria Maximelda Maximily Meinri Meinz Melvina Michane Micharl Milia Mireinz Miriae Mohaniel Monferry Monicole Montian Morgenoît Muria Muriam Myril Mytis Mytisten Mélie Nacob Nather Navennick Nicang Nicolan Norbara Noémil Olandrea Olica Olice Olivie Ortotor Othard Ottom Pascar Patric Patricina Patrid Patrine Patriner Pedard Phieu Philda Philde Phildegard Phine Pierrae Pierraeta Pollona Pompedum Porton Portotor Poten Praea Praeva Rachim Racum Randrey Raymona Raymonaldo Regilla Regulanuel Reillae Reille Reine Reinovium Reinrad Rence Rentianon Ricine Robianavio Robias Rogerma Rogert Rolica Rolivis Romagali Romago Ronia Ronika Rosinae Rosinann Rusent Rusentium Rutta Régise Régisèle Régory Rémie Sabella Sabelle Salie Salieb Sanderin Sandre Sandré Sentua Severich Soluni Stabin Stefanne Stéphanna Susande Sylves Sylvin Sébastin Sébastine Sébastram Sévele Taormine Taorminna Timiglia Timond Tobin Torres Trimonium Ulrichen Ulrick Ulrik Ulrika Ulubrieder Uttium Vagnès Vales Valie Variel Venjamina Vennaldo Verculamin Verula Victodo Vince Virginise Véronia Waldo Wenza Wenzo Wilheidi Wilhella Wille Willena Xeniacca Xenise Yanna Yannelorey Yannine Yanny Élina Élodile Élodunum Émilip Érice Érichèle Étien Éverona Éveronia

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I went slightly insane with the idea of Alfred the Elf;;;

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AYO??? @sparescribbles