#iceland netflix

[dream-this-nightmare-over]

i just want to thank trapped series for not putting makeup on thorhildur's face to make her look like doll by hiding her blemishes and real skin, but leaving her bare face and showing young girls everywhere normal is beautiful and that there is nothing to be ashamed of. i love european cinematography because it doesnt shy away from depicting in their series and movies real world exactly as it is, as grim and avarage and unglamorous as reality is. that's what makes it so easy to be pulled in those series and movies. the feeling of familiar. no one is unreachable deity with unrealistic filtered and washed out appareance demanding to be praised or otherwise whole thing will flop.

[juliabarghest]

Vidar Jutul (Ragnarök).

Digital art without a tablet (I use a computer mouse 🐭💻).

Actor: Gísli Örn Garðarsson. TV series: Ragnarök (NETFLIX).

[hjartasalt]

It feels so weird when I see people in other countries where shows are on other streaming services than I'm used to

They don't have House on Icelandic netflix believe me I checked

[dramastream]

First Love: Hatsukoi 初恋 (2022) dir. Kanchiku Yuri

[alwaysmicado]

Tag game

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Choose a movie, hobby, animal, character, color, country, season, album, food.

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[unnursvanablog]

me, an Icelander, when the Norwegians in Ragnarok start talking in 'the old tongue' or whatever that is which is just half-baked, oddly prononched Icelandic

[stevenvenn]

Ben Frost - Kapitän (from 1899 Original Soundtrack) Have you caught this amazing new Netflix show 1899 from the creators of Dark yet? The film has them teaming up with Australian-Icelandic composer Ben Frost again for the soundtrack and it’s great! The music really adds to the haunting and mysterious aspects of the show for sure. It’s also cool to hear how Ben Frost recorded some of the sounds by visiting a ship in dock and sampling the atmosphere, horns, and knocks on different surfaces to create his score. 

Go watch the show and listen to the soundtrack now on Bandcamp!

[love-and-deepspace-wiki]

Random Facts: Xavier

Xavier's Music Collection

We've all seen the intro sequence for the game. As always, the obscure details intrigued me. So, today, I'm going to talk about this particular scene. Shout out to Rachelcookie321 on X for the image and their CD identifications!

Collection List:

In order from the right side of the screen to the left side, here's what I could identify. But from what I discovered, Xavier is a big fan of Leonard Bernstein!

"Passando Per Laterra • Purple Dawn • The Seven Stages • Variation 10"

?

"Bernstein Conducts Beethoven"

?

?

"Two Step (...)"

"Symphonic Dances & Rumble • West Side Story"

"Üegar Stjornurnar Falla • Katie Mahan"

Another "Passando Per Laterra"

"Waiting For Nobody • Alone - The Forest Sings • Allegretto Leggerenete"

"Four Anniversaries: 3 • For David Diamond (July 9, 1915)"

Another "Üegar Stjornurnar Falla"

Another "Bernstein Conducts Beethoven"

?

"Blue Danube Waltz"

Another "Waiting For Nobody • Alone - The Forest Sings • Allegretto Leggerenete"

"Champions of Folly • Roy Harris, Bold Lovell"

Another "Passando Per Laterra"

"Hovhaness A.: Lousadzak / Shatakh / Achtamar / Tziakerk"

Collection Details:

Passando Per Laterra • Purple Dawn • The Seven Stages • Variation 10

"Passando Per Laterra" translates to "Passing Through The Earth". The words beyond that were identified by Rachelcookie123, but I've been unable to find any matches for this one.

Bernstein Conducts Beethoven

Album by: Leonard Bernstein

This is an album of Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven symphonies, recorded between 1958 and 1964.

Symphonic Dances & Rumble • West Side Story

Composer: Leonard Bernstein

This musical is a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, telling the story of star-crossed lovers in 1950s New York. The score is a mixture of jazz, Latin rhythms, and Broadway style.

Üegar Stjornurnar Palla • Katie Mahan

Composer or Performer: Katie Mahan

Katie Mahan is an American pianist. In Icelandic, this translates to "When The Stars Fall", but I've been unable to find a work/performance of hers by this name.

Waiting For Nobody • Alone ~ The Forest Sings • Allegretto Leggerenete

Composer: ?

This one stumped me. Couldn't find anything at all about it.

Four Anniversaries: 3 • For David Diamond (July 9, 1915)

Composer: Leonard Bernstein

Four Anniversaries is a piano composition written by Leonard Bernstein in 1948. It consists of four movements, each dedicated to a specific person in his life. Xavier has a CD of the third movement, written for David Leo Diamond. David Diamond was also an established composer and this movement reflected his unique style.

Blue Danube Waltz

Composer: Johann Strauss II

This is a consistently popular piece in any classical musicians repetoire.

Fun fact: Among other uses in popular culture, this is the song used in Netflix's show "Squid Game" to announce the start of arepertoire.

Champions of Folly • Roy Harris

Album by: Roy Harris

Roy Harris was a popular American composer in the 1940s. "Champions of Folly" is a specific album of his music and "The Saucy Bold Robber" is a piece from that album.

Hovhaness A.: Lousadzak / Shatakh / Achtamar / Tziakerk

Composer: Alan Hovhaness

This is a recording of pieces by Alan Hovhaness that includes: Lousadzak, Shatakh, Achtamar, and Tsiakerk. Alan Hovhaness was an American composer who was one of the most prolific of the 20th century. While his official catalog includes 67 symphonies and 493 opus numbers, a true tally of his total works comes in at more than 500 surviving works.

Bonus CD:

The subsequent part of the intro scene shows Xavier selecting one CD and putting it into a CD player. On the CD are the words "Deep Space Legend: Beyond the Universe".

[ride-the-gutsfuck]

Movies to watch instead of Lords of Crap!!

1) Metal Lords (language English). On Netflix. Can be cringe at some points but yk it's Netflix metalheads what can you do

2) Heavy Trip (language Finnish). AWESOME MOVIE FIVE STARS and there's a sequel coming in late 2024!

3) Metalhead/Malmhaus (language Icelandic). On YouTube. Woah a woman in metal this is bonkers!! Is not even focused on being a woman so another awesome movie.

4) Deathgasm (language English). Never seen New Zealand metalheads before AND SO MUCH GORE SHOWN ON SCREEN! AWESOME!!

[thepagansun]

Respect Neo-Pagans and Our Gods!

Although they probably will never see it (or care), this post is meant for Hollywood, Netflix, Marvel and all other industries and streaming platforms that are hosting shows based on but twisting pagan or polytheist "mythology" or ancient religions such as Gods of Egypt, Immortals, Clash of the Titans, Thor: Love and Thunder, DT17, Supernatural, Kaos, Twilight of the Gods, Blood of Zeus, Percy Jackson, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Record of Ragnarok, American Gods, Lore Olympus, and God of War games, etc.

The trend of creating content that demonizes, humiliates, or insults our Gods is upsetting and unfair. Creative and artistic license is one thing, but it's a double-standard for content about the monotheistic god or religions to be treated with respect even when under academic criticism while are ours are depicted as one-dimensional, villainized and humiliated. We are asking for that same respect.

Yes, content about any kind of "mythology" is fun, but the modern world needs to please remember that these were and still are RELIGIONS to many people around the world, myself included.

People worshipped these Gods, listened to their stories around the fire, married under their vows, raised their children, went to war, and but also built magnificent structures, wrote literature, prayed in their temples, and many more!

In fact, we still have vestiges of their worship! The names of the months and days of the week in the Western world come from Roman or Norse/Germanic Gods, the Olympic Games were originally dedicated to Zeus, the Hippocratic Oath was originally a prayer offered to Apollo, people from all over the ancient world visited the shrine and oracle at Apollo's Delphi, and many more examples.

And while yes, sometimes people were sacrificed to some pagan Gods (not so much the Greeks or Romans), but are we really going to pretend that many more people haven't died in the name of Christianity or Islam??

Lord Zeus wasn't just some womanizer, he was also King of the Gods, Father of Gods and Humans, the God of Hospitality, Oaths, Lightning, Law, Order, Authority, Monarchy, etc.

This was also Lord Zeus of the ancient Greeks:

This was also Lord Odin of the ancient Norse:

This was also Lady Hera of the ancient Greeks:

This was also Lord Ra of the ancient Egyptians:

This was also Lord Huracan of the ancient Maya:

Even if you personally don't worship these Gods, at least respect the fact that your ancestors did. Imagine if 100-200 years from now your descendants start making movies and shows that demonize or humiliate Yahweh, Jesus, Allah and Mohammed, etc.!

In fact, neo-paganism is the fastest growing religion in the United States: https://commonwealthpolicycenter.org/paganism-is-americas-fastest-growing-religion/#:~:text=Paganism%20is%20one%20of%20the,a%20broader%20form%20of%20paganism.

Members of Ásatrù, heathen religion of Iceland, honoring the Norse Gods:

Members of Hellenism, honoring the ancient Greek Gods:

Members of my religion, Nova Roma, honoring the ancient Roman Gods:

Traditional African religion:

Traditional Maya religion:

Members of Wicca at Stonehenge, the biggest Neo-Pagan religion in the world with 3-5 million practioners worldwide!

Our Gods are our RELIGION, not just your "mythology!" And both They and we, their followers, deserve the same respect you expect for your religions.

And they at least would never condemn you to an eternal fiery pit simply for not believing in them, unlike some other god I could mention.

They are here. We are here. They exist. We exist. And we are not going anywhere.

[megamindfandombookclub]

New episodes airing on Thursday, June 20th!!

Part 2 of Season 1 will air on Peacock in two days!

Here is a list of sites curated by Megamind Fans to help others watch:

"Megamind Rules!" Show Availability:

USA: Streaming platform: Peacock https://www.peacocktv.com/ **Date: ** March 1st AUSTRALIA Streaming platform: Stan https://www.stan.com.au/ Date: March 2nd UNITED KINGDOM (Unknown) Other Countries: Currently unknown. You may need to consider getting a VPN to use Peacock from your location. (The UK and AU have trademarks set, so it's likely you'll be getting it as well.)

"Megamind vs The Doom Syndicate" Movie Availability

USA: Streaming platform: Peacock https://www.peacocktv.com/ **Date: ** March 1st AUSTRALIA (Note: Unconfirmed, but assumed. See <#983559635455856651>) Streaming platform: Stan https://www.stan.com.au/ Date: March 2nd (?) UNITED KINGDOM Streaming platform: Sky Cinema https://www.sky.com/tv/cinema Date: April 7th

(Below info is pulled from FlixPatrol https://flixpatrol.com/title/megamind-vs-the-doom-syndicate/streaming/)

BRAZIL Streaming platform: Amazon Prime https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0GQ8FGUVP06TWTZLX0J4XOJNKM/ ALGERIA, BAHRAIN, CHAD, EGYPT, IRAQ, JORDAN, KUWAIT, LEBANON, LIBYA, MAURITANIA, MOROCCO, OMAN, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, SOMALIA, SOUTH SUDAN, TUNISIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, YEMEN Streaming platform: OSN https://osnplus.com/ DENMARK (Megamind mod Dommedagssyndikatet) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.dk/film/megamind-mod-dommedagssyndikatet-2023 FINLAND (Megamind vs. Tuomiosyndikaatti) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.fi/leffat/megamind-vs.-tuomiosyndikaatti-2023 ICELAND Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.is/movies/megamind-vs-the-doom-syndicate-2023 NORWAY (Megamind og Dommedagssyndikatet) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.no/filmer/megamind-og-dommedagssyndikatet-2023 SWEDEN (Megamind och Undergångssyndikatet) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.se/film/megamind-och-undergangssyndikatet-2023 Other Countries: Currently unknown. You may need to consider getting a VPN to use Peacock from your location. (The UK and AU have trademarks set, so it's likely you'll be getting it as well.)

If you do not see your country in the list above, this list below should be able to help.

The creative team is constantly subjected to bullying by trolls online. Please do them a good turn and leave them a positive review on IMDB or on their social media pages.

This show means a LOT to a ton of people. Please practice kindness wherever you can.

If it helps, Adam Lambert sang the theme song and he also plays a MAJOR character! If you can't do it for us, do it for him??? (does he use he/him pronouns? internet search wasn't clear.)

[juliabarghest]

Gísli Örn and Nína Dögg.

Pencil, paper.

Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir and Gísli Örn Garðarsson (fan-art).

[runwayrunway]

So, about LGBT pride planes

Okay, okay, I've talked about liveries. Sort of seems like that might be the thing that I do. But I would be remiss if I didn't mention something else - potentially the most revolutionary move in aviation since the invention of the airline itself.

This...is actual promotional material for a real airline, that flew planes for money, and was ostensibly a company. This is a screenshot from this actual airline’s announcement that their new plane will be registered TF-GAY, made over Snapchat. We live in such an incredibly normal and plausible universe. This was posted by a company which, at the time, filed taxes and had employees. Said employees probably wore suits. They had offices. They were registered with the Icelandic government. They flew airplanes daily and this was their job. They posted this on Snapchat. This was widely covered by news. People discussed this as a massive step forward for LGBT equality. It was posted on Snapchat by a real airline.

TF-GAY was an Airbus A330-300 formerly operated by Icelandic low-cost airline WOW air, given her registration as a shattering gesture of LGBT inclusivity in the same league as Stonewall and Obergefell v Hodges. She was just a regular A330 painted in a regular WOW air livery which happened to be registered as TF-GAY. 

I’ll be honest, I don’t think this is within the scope of this blog to rate, but if it were I would give it an A+. This is such a silly and pathetic gesture that I loop right back over into adoring it. The Snapchat announcement (I forget Snapchat exists, never mind imagine that it might be used by an airline) is so absurd that it may well be the thing that convinces me that I’m actually a Boltzmann brain because this could not possibly be real. I love TF-GAY. I’m very sad WOW air went bankrupt because it means I can never fly on TF-GAY. (She is now stored, having most recently flown for Batik Air with an unremarkable registration, though she was registered TC-LOL in the interim, which feels worth noting.) 

TF-GAY is an LGBT icon to rival whatever the most recent character who casually mentions having a same-gender partner the news is profusely lauding some or other Netflix show for is at the moment. She is sorely missed, along with WOW air’s other hits, like TF-DAD and TF-MOM. But that’s a story for another day. For now, have a lovely TF-DAY and thank you as always for reading. 

[papermonkeyism]

have you read/watched dungeon meshi? the way the author treats the usual slew of fantasy races (dwarves elves gnomes humans etc) is to classify them as different types of human (wherein humans are referred to as tallmen instead) and it always makes me think of your fantasy world, where elves/orcs/humans evolved from the same ancestor (which is a concept i love and that u should totally ramble about again at some point if you should ever desire 👀)

Not yet, I haven't. I've seen quite a bit of it through tumblr dashboard osmosis, and I am interested in getting into it, but once I decided to read it (after seeing some anatomical and intra species variation studies of the different peoples, specially orcs) and went looking, I found all the books were either sold out or cost like 50€ a book, so, nah. I am interested, but not international-shipping interested.

(And netflix is such a hassle, I have to text my brother to unlock it if I wanna see anything and hope he's awake/available to notice, despite me being included in the family account, because the stupid enshittification, and I just haven't wrestled the ADHD executive dysfunction to submission about it yet. Watching anime is an Event I have to focus on, because it needs my eyes on it, so I can't just put it on as a background noice. I miss my anime watching buddy.)

Haven't gotten around to it yet. -_-

My own setting ramblings? Okay, here's a little.

(Keep in mind this is very much still under construction, so things can change.)

So magic is a thing here. It's like background radiation, it exists pretty much everywhere, but there are some places that are like hot spots of magical influence, and that has a chance to affect living beings over time. Specially in hotspots that are also otherwise isolated (like a volcano on an island) keeping the creatures nearby staying nearby, so changes have more chances to accumulate over time and generations.

There are Old People, where the species of origin is basically so muddled over time you can't actually tell what they started as (goblins and Arcanth's people), and hominids, who are, well, human/human-ish (human, elf, orc, dwarf).

Of the humany peoples the orcs are the "newest" people. They're, well, basically think of Iceland. A bunch of human and elven sailors found an uninhabited island in the middle of an ocean and inhabited it, mingling for enough generations that all of them are mixed now, with the background magic subtly enhancing some of their features over time (they are taller, more robust and have display tusks that come from neither of the parent peoples). Their origin is basically within history.

Dwarves' origin is way, waaaaay back. Like neolithic times old. A lot more isolated (not much seafaring historically), dwarven origin home is a mountaineous island/peninsula. Short, extremely dense, long arms and shor spines and legs. Hairy. Great at tolerating high altitudes and low temperatures. Also great climbers! Historically (pre-orc times) they have had some trading with the outside world, but mostly only with humans, as elves tend to not tolerate the cold as well, and usually by said humans as dwarven muscle density makes it so dwarves can't float. (Possibly because of this, humans are the only peoples that still can breed with dwarves and have fertile offspring. Dwarf-elves are infertile.)

Elves are potentially the oldest of non-human hominids, but whatever their origin land was has been lost to history. They steer towards nocturnal lifestyle (they have tapetum lucidum) and having a lithe build. Full elves are unable to bulk up in muscle the way humans can be, and even fat elves usually have skinny limbs from knee or elbow down, which gives them a disadvantage against cold weather. Natural elf features also include temperature sensitive albinism (pointed markings, like some cats have) and skin pigment in the shades of gray (think of hairless cat and dog breeds). Brown and solid colored elves aren't uncommon, but it's a sign they have human ancestors somewhere in their family tree.

Most orcs are solid (human) gray (elf), even though human brown tends to dominate elswehere in elf-human crosses.

Hilariously, the human contribution to the gene pool has been piebald markings. They didn't originally sport them themselves, but whenever there has been interbreeding with humans, pigmentless patches have just started cropping up. Having white markings is very common in orcs (sunscreen was invented by/with the influence of orcish sailors) and although it does crop up in human populations sometimes, it just means somewhere in your family tree someone boinked something non-human, and the result kept boinking humans.

[orchidblack]

Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's The OA stands as one of the more fascinating artifacts from the anything-goes era of Netflix-- an unfettered, deeply personal vision that somehow exists in superposition between love it or hate it. Their new Hulu series, A Murder at the End of the World, isn't as bugnuts, but after two episodes I'm totally on board. The show is a cyberpunk-tinged whodunnit that feels equally inspired by Agatha Christie, William Gibson, Stieg Larsson, and Alex Garland. Marling has half-jokingly mentioned Carmen Sandiego as an unconscious influence, but the vibe is far closer to the games of Hideo Kojima. Most of the action unfolds in a high-tech Icelandic compound straight out of Death Stranding, haunted by mysterious masked figures and AI holograms. As with Kojima, subtlety is in short supply-- the needle drops are defiantly dorky, the characters broadly archetypal (a Banksyesque artist critical of Silicon Valley goes by the moniker FANGS), and the ideas and emotions unabashedly big. If you like your gothic techno-dystopias with an undercurrent of aching sincerity, new episodes out Tuesdays.

[scotianostra]

Happy birthday to Scottish actress and model Freya Mavor.

Freya was born in Glasgow on August 13th 1993, but grew up in the Inverleith area of Edinburgh, her father is an award winning playwright and teaches at Napier University in the city , her great grandad was also a very successful writer, O H Mavor but used the pseudonym James Bridie. He also was instrumental in 1950 setting up a college of drama which has evolved into The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Freya says she got interested in acting after watching the Shining aged just ten! She spent time in France as a child and was educated there and at Mary Erskine's in Edinburgh

Her first acting experience was in school productions of Shakespeare plays. She made her professional debut in 2011, when she gained a lead role as Mini McGuinness in the fifth and sixth series of E4 Bafta-winning drama Skins. She gained this role after going through an open audition process, with more than 8,000 other teenagers auditioning for the show.

Since starting out Freya has gone on to a build a career between France and the UK. She has worked on features such as L'Empereur de Paris alongside Vincent Cassel, and indie films such as The Sense of an Ending by Ritesh Batra or La Dame dans L'auto by Joann Sfar. Her TV credits include The ABC Murders on the BBC and Il Etait Une Seconde Fois for Arte/Netflix, her time in France means she is bilingual, always handy for her acting roles over there. Freya was last seen in another Arte/Netflix show Twice Upon A Time, a sci fi/romance mini series filmed in Bordeaux, Paris, London and Iceland

Mavor has always expressed a love of the theatre and made her own stage debut in London for the play Good Canary, directed by John Malkovich, where she played a drug addict battling with mental illness.

Last year she starred in Balance, Not Symmetry about an American student who is living a privileged existence at Glasgow School of Art when her father unexpectedly dies. She has also completed a film called in 2019 called Gore but it is on hold due the controversy over one of the stars Kevin Spacey.

Last yaer Freya has returned in the second season of the British-American television drama series Industry shown on HBO in the United States and BBC 2 over here. She also starred in a joint BBC and Canal+ historical series Marie Antoinette, for which a second series has been commissioned.

Freya also starred in a stage play, The Other Boleyn alongside the excellent Alex Kingston

According to IMDb she has a series due to be released, Invitation to a Bonfire and in recent news she has been cast as the female lead role on HBO’s “Virtuoso,” a pilot set in 18th Century Vienna, it follows a class of young musical prodigies from all over Europe at the prestigious Academy of Musical Excellence. Mavor will play Marie, daughter of a prestigious Catholic family in Paris and the only girl chosen for the inaugural class of the prestigious academy.