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Content: Major Character Death, Angst, AU: No Curses, Blood and Injury, Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 237 Spoilers
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Direct Continuation of: An Addition to Change
Red flashing and waving navy blue faded into the background as your gaze fell onto something shinning amongst it all.
You approached it, wading through navy bodies and hands that shot out to stop you. You would not be halted, you would reach your destination.
Black hair that usually shot out in every direction, spilled flatly against the pale forehead, soaked by the onslaught of rain. Usually vibrant violet eyes were now dull and stared beyond you. His usual dark ensemble of clothing was stained darker.
You reached your hands out, gently bringing his head into your lap. You wanted to say something. There were so many things that you wanted to say, but every time you tried to say something your brain stopped you. So you simply sat and stared into those once familiar violet eyes.
You don’t know how long you sat there, but eventually someone rested their hand on your shoulder.
“Satoru.” You whispered, pausing before looking up at him. “Where did I go wrong?”
You don’t know what kind of expression you were making, but it was enough for his jaw to drop and to take a stumble away from you.
Your gaze fell back into the violet.
Megumi was having a rough adolescence. You would consistently get calls from his school, detailing you about his latest fight and that he would be staying late as punishment. You simply apologized. There was no need to say that he wouldn’t do it again, because you knew that he would do it again. No need to make an ass of yourself.
You would wait for him to get home and confront him over dinner.
His answer was always the same: “I’m just doing what’s right.”
But was it really right when he was cracking jaws with his knuckles?
You decided to have Satoru try his hand at calming him, but that only seemed to aggravate him. Suddenly he wasn’t just beating up bullies and instead kids who “bothered him”. He wasn’t staying to himself anymore and instead began hanging around some upper classmen named Sukuna. He came home later and later, bloody and bruised.
You had your suspensions and they were confirmed when you stumbled upon Sukuna and his…friends while running errands. His friends called him by name and you quickly glanced in his direction. You didn’t need to stare because the arm and face tattoos were enough.
Sukuna was a gang leader
and Megumi was apart of that gang.
You and Satoru’s attempts to help guide him away from Sukuna’s gang only lead him further and further away from you and closer and closer to ruin.
You only wish you could have known just how deep ruin was for your dear Megumi.
"Satoru, where did I go wrong?”
One sentence that haunted him since it came from your mouth.
And when he looked at you.
You were crying, but your face was as blank as your gaze. Reminiscent of the violet ones that lay in the lifeless body in your lap.
He knew.
His worse fears had been realized.
Gojo Satoru was in fact not the strongest in the world. He was not a god who walked among men. He was human, he would die and the world would move on without him.
He sighed deeply, pinching the bridge of his nose while tightly closing his eyes.
“Is this how you felt, Suguru?”
All I can say is wait for the next chapter of JJK because
Below are several quotes pulled from Thomas Harries’ Hannibal that involve Margot Verger and her physical appearance as well as her hormone use.
Page 54
A broad-shouldered person with short blond hair swung down from the saddle, handed the reins to a valet without looking at him. "Walk him back," the rider said in a deep scratchy voice. "I'm Margot Verger." At close inspection she was a woman, holding out her hand, arm extended straight from the shoulder. Clearly Margot Verger was a bodybuilder. Beneath her corded neck, her massive shoulders and arms stretched the mesh of her tennis shirt. Her eyes had a dry glitter and looked irritated, as though she suffered from a shortage of tears. She wore twill riding breeches and boots with no spurs.
Page 233
"How many states with death penalties could Dr. Lecter be charged in?" Margot asked. Her voice was scratchy but deep like Mason's from the hormones she had taken.
Page 269
How curious, the voices in this room. Krendler's careful bu- reauese, Doemling's pedantic bray, Mason's deep and resonant tones with his badly pruned plosives and leaking sibilants and Margot, her voice rough and low, tough-mouthed ��as a livery pony and resentful of the bit. Under it all, the gasping machinery that fmds Mason breath
Bold is dialogue in the show, said by Mason.
Page 297
Flat on the bench now, Margot standing above him at his head in her spandex shorts. The juncture of her thighs and abdomen was knurled like a baroque frame and her massive torso seemed to reach almost to the ceiling.
Page 316
Margot liked Barney, she liked the way she was one of the guys with him. He was the only person she'd known who was cool like that. Barney was very smart, and there was something a little other- worldly about him. She liked that too.
Page 329
Margot was putting up the currycombs and some hackamores. Her hair was paler than the hay, her eyes as blue as the inspection stamp on meat.
Page 330
A complete set of farrier's tools was on a workbench. She picked up a farrier's hammer, this one with a short handle and a heavy head. With her great arms and chest, Margot might have been a farrier herself, or a blacksmith with particularly pointed pec- torals.
and about judy a little.
Page 236
"Judy and I want to have a baby. We want to have a Verger baby, our own baby."
Page 238
"I haven't had the pleasure of meeting Judy in all this time. Cordell says she's bowlegged. How long have you two been an item, Margot?" “Five years.”
And a quick note on the below quote. Hrt doesn’t work like that, at least not with testosterone. But I think that this is Margot trying to protect herself. She’s not interested in sex with men and she’s definitely not interested in Mason being involved anymore than he already unfortunately has when it comes to her reproductive system.
Page 237
"I've messed myself up. Mason. I shriveled my ovaries with all the stuff I took. And I want Judy to be part of it. She wants to be the birth mother. Mason, you said if I helped you — you promised me some sperm."
Link to copy I pulled these quotes from Here.
its my understanding that Margot Verger is a butch that takes t. yes its possible that she took it as a performance enhancer but the effects described are ones i understand to be from long term use. Margot wanted to take it and continued to do so.
#but real shit he’s been working on this overall subject matter for over a year now and it is insane the stuff he’s dug up and learned about
My Top Posts in 2022:
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Cary Elwes & Leigh Whannell filming “the love scene,” Hacking Into Saw: Behind the Scenes (2004) (x)
196 notes - Posted November 16, 2022
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Sparkle on! It’s wednesday! Don’t forget to be yourself!
368 notes - Posted July 6, 2022
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saw 2004 homophobic lawrence cut
1,635 notes - Posted January 19, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
not to be a tumblr old or whatever but i remember when the sapphic label/flag was first making the rounds on here and one of the first things that came in the wake of it was a push to make a comparable label/flag But For Boys. and the flag i remember seeing was pretty much verbatim the sapphic flag, But Blue, and it’s like.... man not everything needs to be about us! we don’t need to have our own version of everything! and we ESPECIALLY do not need it to be all in blues/greens “so everyone knows it’s about men” like that is KINDERGARTEN level gender roles and cis/heteronormative!!!
and another thing that kills me about it is that like. there ARE flags that are specific to the identities of gay men that have been around for fucking ages! there’s a bear flag that’s been around for decades and looks awesome! there’s a twink flag that’s existed since at least 2000 and it breaks my heart that it’s so underused/hard to find because it’s SOOOOOOO cute!!
honestly though what it really comes down to is respecting and honoring the culture and history of gilbert baker and his rainbow flag. it is NOT anyone’s fault that the rainbow has been so co-opted by corporations, and we don’t do our community any favors by forgetting what the rainbow flag was created to represent. is it not beautiful that the rainbow flag is for all of us? all of the colors standing together to hold us all, just like we’re all supposed to look out for each other?
#on the 2nd day of my factory job they put me on a machine with exposed glue over temps of 300°f with basically a 'good luck dont get burnt'
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
i think rewatching leverage would fix me
69 notes - Posted November 25, 2022
#4
me through gritted teeth: ice adolescence is coming. yoi will return. ice adolescence is coming. yoi will return. ice adolescence is c
159 notes - Posted July 21, 2022
#3
like yeah. this IS funny. its funny the whole blue website is making fun of the other blue website crashing and burning. but theyre not your friend. theyre not joking with you because they have a personality.
it is a company. with financial interests. and tumblrs board of whatever has learned with shit like blaze and failed campaigns before that if they make it weird and ironic and different enough that ppl will buy. bc theyre marketing their brand. this is their brand now--irony and hellsite (affectionate) and being the last weird and genuine semi popular social media.
and thats whats dangerous. bc yall dont seem to realize that. tumblr is not any different from other social media at its core. this website sucks, in a fuckload of ways. and i know its been funny the last 6 months hyping up "god it sucks but at least its not facebook or twitter" but it feels like some ppl here took that seriously and now feel obligated to defend their Favorite Corporate Social Media With A Badly Paid Twitter Intern as if they lost their sense and become one of those ao3 defenders constantly talking abt "keeping the lights on!!!"
yall just look embarassing with this shit and then rbing posts abt leftism and bullying advertisers off
275 notes - Posted November 11, 2022
#2
i hope all of u transmisandry truthers realize that ur literally parroting terf ideaology by trying to subscribe to the idea that transmascs are Oppressed Because Of Their Sex. like. there is no such thing as afab oppression. trans men face transphobia and misogyny, which includes mistreatment AND lack of access to resources. that is not unique to trans men. women experience misogyny in society, and society doesnt believe trans men exist/are men, therefore = trans men get treated as if they are women, which includes mistreatment and difficulties obtaining resources. this is not hard to understand. there is no special form of oppression that trans men face that is unique among transphobia or in queer community. its just the combined result of misogyny and transphobia. it is not sex oppression (which doesn't exist). it is not ppl "hating men" and applying that to trans men. it's not transmisandry. get over urselves.
366 notes - Posted July 29, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
some of yall r getting dangerously close to not being able to recognize fascism in prettied up words just bc it sounds as radical as socialism
“RESULT OF RIOT: Soldiers Bar Japanese From Immigration Building Area,” Vancouver Province. May 14, 1942. Page 25.
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Soldiers surrounding the immigration building, where 130 Japanese rioted on Wednesday, had orders today to bar Japanese visitors from the ramps at the foot of Granville and Burrard, to prevent recurrence of yesterday's outburst, when the inmates of the building broke windows, hurled rubbish to the grounds and played a fire hose on soldiers.
The Japanese, who are held in the building because they refused to entrain for work camps without their families, began "yammering" early Wednesday afternoon in protest of a new rule barring visitors.
FRAME BROKEN
A steel-grated window frame was broken loose and dropped to the ground three storeys below and a fire hose was turned out of the open window. Toilet paper and newspapers were thrown out as the Japanese waved and shouted to friends gathered on the waterfront ramp.
Austin C. Taylor, chairman of the B. C. Security Commission, which ordered the men held when they refused to report for work camps, termed the outburst "more playful than anything else."
"There was nothing malicious about the trouble," said Mr. Taylor. "Some of the Japanese just got a little fed up about being kept in the building and jot a little exuberant. There was more yelling than anything else."
PLASTER NOT BROKEN.
He denied that plaster had been pried loose from the walls and thrown out. He said he had visited the building and found no evidence of it.
Mr. Taylor said that until Wednesday Japanese girls and wives of the men housed in the building had been allowed to talk with them at a distance through iron-grated windows. Stopping of this practice, he said, was probably the cause of the outburst.
Army guard reinforcements were posted on the ramp and crowds of Japanese visitors compelled to withdraw beyond shouting distance of the building. To day guards said they had orders to keep Japanese south of the Marine Building, and to keep them away from the ramp extension of Burrard and Granville.
“Statement in House: Japs in City Rioting Will Be Interned,” Vancouver Province. May 14, 1942. Page 1.
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By TOUCHY ANDERSON.
Daily Province staff Correspondent
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OTTAWA. May 14 - One hundred and thirty Japanese who rioted in Vancouver immigration hall will be interned. Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell announced this determination in the House today. He said that the men had previously refused to proceed to an Ontario road camp.
Troops today stood guard over the immigration Building at the foot of Burrard to bar Japanese visitors and prevent a repetition of the outburst in which windows were smashed, rubbish hurled out and a fire hose played at on soldiers.
Guards at the building where the Japanese are held will be increased, Mr. Mitchell said.
MOVE FAST AS POSSIBLE.
Coast Japanese were being moved east of the Cascade Mountains as last as possible, he told George Cruickshank (Lib., Fraser Valley) who asked questions about the disorders at Vancouver.
Mr. Mitchell said the Hastings Park camp, where Japanese are held prior to being moved east of the mountains, is not a permanent establishment.
Mr. Mitchell gave figures to show that, out of a total of 22,084 Japanese to be dealt with in the movement away from the Pacific Coast, 4300 had been removed from the so-called "vulnerable" points and a total of 9313 had been handled in the whole movement to date.
On May 11 last there were 2555 individuals at Hastings Park clearing station.
Road camp developments had taken 2285 males, distributed as follows: Blue River Yellowhead, 1290; Revelstoke-Sicamous, 417; Hope-Princeton, 237, and Schreiber, Ont., 341.
TO INTERIOR.
Movement to abandoned British Columbia towns had absorbed 1021 Japanese, distributed as follows: Greenwood, 812; Kaslo, 185; Slocan, 22, and Sandon, 2.
Movement to sugar beet fields was progressing. Alberta had absorbed 1635 and Manitoba 720.
Japanese who have undertaken to support themselves if assisted in finding a location have been moved to the total of 316 families distributed as follows:
Christina Lake, 80; Bridge River and Minto City, 150; Lil-looet, 51, and Westwold, 35.
Picture caption:
MORNING AFTER Peace was restored on the waterfront today as armed guards stood between the immigration building and Japanese who sought to visit friends and relatives there. Wednesday a riot broke out in the building among 130 Japanese detained for refusing to go to work camps without their families.
Result was slight damage and a great litter on the ground outside the building. A clutter of paper, a bed-spring, chairs and iron bars broken out of a window-frame on the fourth floor where inmates "yammered" Wednesday and turned a fire hose on soldier guards. Japanese are seen leaning out of the windows through which they tossed the rubbish and shouted to crowds of Japanese visitors nearby. Lower right picture shows a Japanese woman waving to a relative in the building. Lower left picture shows rioters, told they would be interned, who had to clean up the mess.
[AL: More about this riot, the context, and resistance to internment here.]
Suryakumar Yadav becomes first player to smash 50 T20I sixes in a calendar year
Oct 03, 2022 09:22 IST
Guwahati (Assam) , October 3 (AF): Suryakumar Yadav became the first batter in the history of cricket to smash 50 sixes in the shortest format of the game in a single calendar year.
He reached this landmark during the second T20I match against South Africa at Guwahati.
In the match, the wristy batter scored a brilliant 61 off just 22 balls. His knock entertained players and fans alike and was decorated with five fluent fours and five sky-high sixers.
Now Suryakumar has a total of 50 sixes in the 2022 calendar year. His distant rival is Pakistan's wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan, who had hit 42 sixes last year. New Zealand's veteran opener Martin Guptill is at the third, with 41 maximums during the 2021 calendar year.
Coming to the match, India was put to bat first by Proteas and they scored a massive 237/3 in their 20 overs. Explosive knocks from KL Rahul (57 off 28 balls), Suryakumar Yadav (61 off 22 balls) and Virat Kohli (49* off 28 balls) helped the Men in Blue reach this total.
Spinner Keshav Maharaj was the only bowler who looked good for Proteas, taking 2/23 in his four overs.
Chasing 238, South Africa lost opener Temba Bavuma and Rilee Rossouw for a duck, thanks to pacer Arshdeep Singh's (2/62) opening spell. Aiden Markram and Quinton de Kock had a 45-run stand before Markram was dismissed by Axar Patel (1/53) for 33 off 19 balls.
Next, de Kock and David Miller had a 174-run stand for the fourth wicket but fell short of a win by 16 runs. Miller scored a brilliant century, 106* in just 47 balls. de Kock scored 69* off 48 balls.
KL Rahul won the 'Man of the Match' award for his 57 off 28 balls.
The final T20I will be played on Tuesday at Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore.
Following this, the three-match ODI series between both teams will start from October 6. (AF)
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“Yeah see this bicep it used to be yours but now its mine!, just like your spot on the wrestling team will be now that you’re all weak and puny"
215 notes • Posted 2021-10-17 02:45:09 GMT
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Hey! I really love your stories. Could you turn my boyfriend and me into two hot Korean guys. He's a great kpop fan and I want to help him to get a little bit closer to be like his idols.
You suddenly open your eyes to find yourself in a gym surrounded by Korean men, you look in one of the many mirrors to see you have become one yourself.
You decide you wanna play with yourself a bit so you go looking for a more private spot, while doing so you spot famous kpop idol Wonho working out.
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230 notes • Posted 2021-05-22 16:30:59 GMT
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This honestly gives me more one shot fanfiction than male tf story but it’s an idea i had and i still like how it came out. And i enjoyed being able to write about my favorite superhero and couple
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Billy Kaplan also known as Wiccan Had got in an argument with his boyfriend teddy. So he tried to use his magic so him and his boyfriend could understand each other better.
However things didn’t go as planned and he ended up accidentally switching bodies with his boyfriend.
Teddy was shocked to suddenly find himself inside of the body of his boyfriend. Billy explained to him what had happened and than proceeded to try and undo it.
However it seems when they switched they’re powers didn’t switch with them, which meant teddy now had his boyfriend’s reality manipulation powers. Since teddy didn’t understand how to control his powers it might take a while for them to switch back.
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237 notes • Posted 2021-03-12 16:35:03 GMT
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Brooke was your average semi nerdy high school girl with brown hair, blue eyes, and glasses.
She was in the school hallway eyeing Chet Jackson the high school’s Football team captain and resident hottie
She wanted him so bad just as every girl in the school did but she knew he was way out of her league she’s give anything to be with him, Before going to sleep that night she saw a shooting star and said “i wish chet jackson was into me” after that she went to sleep that night not thinking much of it.
She woke up the next feeling different her body was much heavier her Tits were also now bigger however... they weren’t tits She got up and rushed to the mirror shocked to see her or should i say his overnight transformation
The trolls have gathered around to see the Mother North dance at midnight in the Trollheimen fjellområde as they listen to this epic NORWAY pllaylist I put together!
Takk!
Are you ready? Have you your wits? This is the it....
NORWAY PLAYLIST songs are right here to listen to:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1_gH0U66TKasbEjdbkPxeW7
001 Folket Bortafor Nordavinden - Ur Is Ka Ha So
002 Satyricon - Commando
003 Arcturus - Fall of Man
004 Dimmu Borgir The Serpentine Offering
005 Borknagar - The Eye Of Oden
006 NORDJEVEL - Sunset Glow
007 WArduna - Fehu
008 Z-off - Hurra For Norge Norsk punkrock
009 Shakma - Night of the coven
010 Duivelspack - Yggdrasill
011 Enslaved - Path To Vanir
012 Kalenda Maya- Villemann Magnhild
013 Mental As Anything - Beserk Warriors
014 Chontaraz - Rondamauh
015 Manes - Menn På Helveg Hastar
016 Norske Gutter - Hvem Faen Tror Du Du Er
017 Iron Maiden - Invasion
018 Solefald - Oslo Melancholy
019 Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
020 Slegest - Blodets Varme Gjennom Meg
021 Old Man's Child - The Millenium King
022 Covenant - Bizarre cosmic industries
023 In The Woods - I Am Your Flesh
024 Satyricon - Ageless Northern Spirit
025 Golden Core - Rúnir Skal Rísta
026 Inferno - Metal Attack
027 Nordvegen - Ullensvang
028 Arcturus - Ad absurdum
029 Ánne Máddji Heatta - Madji at Dawn Light
030 Eldrim - Heimkomst
031 Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Approaching / On Arrival
032 Sirenia - The End Of It All
033 Byrdi - Solsnu (feat. Kjell Braaten)
034 Bard Spec - Fire Tongue
035 Eirik Jarl - Norse song
036 The Open Mind - Thor, The Thunder God
037 Seidrblot - Skeggöld
038 Black Moon Circle - The Machine On The Hill
039 Sigmund Eiks - Knepphallingen (Hardingfele)
040 Satyricon - Now, diabolical
041 Amberian Dawn - Valkyries
042 Gåte - Huldra
043 Enslaved - Waruun
044 An Danzza - Rúnatal (Canción Rúnica de Odín)
045 Burzum - Belus' Død
046 Abbath - Harvest Pyre
047 Aura Noir - Abbadon
048 Beatles - Norwegian Wood
049 INCULTER - COMMANDER
050 KAUNAN - Halteguten
051 Mortiis - Across The World Of Wonders
052 Skuggsa - Kvervandi
053 Covenant - Planetarium
054 Kampfar - Daimon
055 Adrian von Ziegler - Vinterns Drm
056 Blind Guardian - Valkyries
057 Ulver - The Argument, Plate 2
058 BigBang - Girl In Oslo
059 Gorgoroth - Bergtrollets Hevn
060 Emperor - Curse You All Men!
061 Tom Trussel - Oslo City Blues
062 Vazelina Bilopphøggers - Borghild
063 Dosdfall - Hemlig Vrede
064 Dimmu Borgir - Progenies of the Great Apocalypse
065 Kryst The Conqueror - Valhalla
066 The Dogs - Oslo
067 Enslaved - Eld
068 Solefald - Loki Trickster God
069 Dunbarrow - You Knew I Was a Snake
070 A-ha - Take On Me
071 Ulver - Høyfjeldsbilde
072 Mayhem - Freezing Moon
073 Skambankt - Balladen Om Deg
074 Djerv - Headstone
075 Arcturus - Raudt og svart
076 Øystein Sunde - Bleieskiftarbeider
077 Wardruna - Helvegen (The Way To Hel)
078 Ihsahn - Unhealer
079 Kampfar - Dominans
080 TNT - Seven Seas
081 NRK Til Dovre faller - 1814
082 skuggsa - Rop Fra Rynda - Mlt Fra Minne
083 Iskald - Innhøstinga
084 Kvelertak - Rogaland
085 Svarttjern - Hellig Jord
086 Renaissance - Northern Lights
087 Fred Åkerström - Oslo
088 Concrete Steps - Big Fish
089 Trevor Morris - Northern Lights / Entry to Kattegat
090 KaadaPatton - L'absent
091 Adrian von Ziegler - Einherjer
092 Enthroned - Skjeldenland
093 Jokke og valentinerne - her kommer vintern
094 Styx - Man Of Miracles
095 Residents - Arctic Hysteria
096 Martine Kraft - Himmelfot
097 Red Harvest - Anatomy of the Unknown
098 Audrey Horne - Out of the City
099 Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
100 Trevor Morris - If I Had A Heart
101 Immortal - The Rise of Darkness
102 Sepulcher - Corporeal
103 Mysticum - LSD (from Planet Satan)
104 Empyrium - Under Dreamskies
105 Slagmaur - Norwegian Giant
106 Aeternus - Fyrndeheimen
107 Thorns - Existence
108 Solefald - Crater of the Valkyries
109 Tristania - Libre
110 Trevor Morris - North Sea Storm
111 Arcturus - The Chaos Path
112 MAYHEM - A Grand Declaration Of War
113 Manegarm - Odin Owns Ye All
114 Kampfar - Hymn
115 Dimmu Borgir - Gateways
116 Dødheimsgard - The Snuff Dreams Are Made Of
117 Satyricon - The pentagram burns
118 Enslaved - Midgards Eldar
119 Folque - No har Jonsoknatta kome
120 Nekromantheon - Rise Vulcan Spectre
121 Iron Maiden - Invaders
122 Tsjuder - Throne of the Goat
123 Einherjer - Naar aftensolen rinner
124 Mork - Holdere Av Fortet
125 Nidinger - Baldrs Draumar
126 Arcturus - Du Nordavind
127 Green Carnation - Into Deep
128 Darkthrone - Too Old Too Cold
129 Pagans Mind - Through Osiris Eyes
130 Kvelertak - Blodtørst
131 Tristania - Year Of The Rat
132 Ulver - I Troldskog Faren Vild
133 Cirith Ungol - The troll
134 Eliwagar - Huldresagn
135 Vårsøg - Fram kom ein skreddar
136 Amethystium - Solace
137 Audrey Horne - Bridges and Anchors
138 Gayte - Til Deg
139 Nanci Griffith - St. Olavs Gate
140 Folque - Liti Kari
141 Hin Onde - 24th of September 1155
142 Trevor Morris - Ragnar's Sail
143 Enslaved - Ruun
144 Purple Hill Witch - Astral Booze
145 Thulsa Doom - Machine of Oslo
146 Svarttjern - Code Human
147 Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga
148 Darvaza - A New Sun
149 LUMSK - DUNKER
150 Solefald - Tittentattenteksti
151 Raga Rockers - Fritt liv
152 Isengard - Landet og Havet
153 In The Woods... - Pure
154 Communic - Conspiracy
155 Dimmu Borgir - Vredesbyrd
156 Arcturus - The Arcturian Sign
157 Gorgoroth - Carving A Giant
158 Panopticon - Norwegian Nights
159 Asmegin - Blodhevn
160 DumDum Boys - Lunch I Det Grønne
161 Taake - Nordbundet
162 Gehennah - Deadlights
163 Trønder Thunder - Tordenskjold
164 Årabrot - Maldorors Love
165 Misotheist - Blood Of Rats
166 Windir - 1184
167 BLOOD RED THRONE - InStructed InSanity
168 Deathhammer - Chained to Hell
169 Satyricon - Die By My Hand
170 Myrkskog - Bleeding Wrists
171 Ring Van Mobius - End of Greatness
172 Valkyrja - Crowned Serpent
173 Kjøtt - Hvit Hud / Svart Skinn
174 The 3rd And The Mortal - Why So Lonely
175 Voluspaa - Ferden Går Videre
176 Abyssic - Transition Consent
177 Myrkraverk - Nær Døden
178 Romantic Noise - Sagitario
179 Shining - The One Inside
180 The Devil and the Almighty Blues - Distance
181 Manowar - Thor (The Powerhead)
182 Djevel - Det Svartner Paa Likbleik Hud
183 Øresus - Angst
184 Turbonegro - City Of Satan
185 Gåte - Sjå Attende
186 Immortal - Where Mountains Rise
187 Cor Scorpii - Fotefar
188 Cadaver - Hypertrophyan
189 Hugsjá - Ni Døtre av Hav
190 Kalandra - Brave New World
191 Borknagar - Up North
192 Ved Buens Ende - You That May Wither
193 Alestorm - The Sunkn Norwegian
194 Brød & Sirkus - Frykt
195 Burzum - Jeg Faller
196 Djevel - Et Menniskes Hele Korpus Og Legeme
197 Helheim - Ymr
198 Leaves' Eyes - Farewell Proud Men
199 Sylvaine - Mørklagt
200 Enslaved - Convoys To Nothingness
201 Gaahls Wyrd - Ghosts Invited
202 Hagalaz' Runedance - When The Trees Were Silenced
203 Dismal Euphony - Et Vintereventyr
204 In Vain - Image of Time
205 Khonsu - The Malady
206 Arctic Sleep - Pine Mountain
207 Flametal - I Am A Viking
208 Dimmu Borgir - The Sacrilegious Scorn
209 Trevor Morris - Vikings Attack
210 Wongraven - Tiden Er En Stenlagt Grav
211 Endstille - World Aflame
212 TYR - Eric the Red
213 Synthetic Gentlemen - Kick
214 OBLITERATION - Detestation Rite
215 Judas Priest - Halls Of Valhalla
216 Urarv - Red Circle
217 Old Man's Child - Doommaker
218 Abbath - Winter Bane
219 A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV
220 Eldrim - Attergangar
221 Nan Madol - Tidal Waves
222 Vreid - Lifehunger
223 Acârash - Cadaver Dei
224 Triosphere - The Sentinel
225 Vargvrede - Song of Betrayal
226 Vemod - Å Stige Blant Stjerner
227 Emperor - Inno A Satana
228 Eivør - Í Tokuni
229 Arcturus - For to end yet again
230 Enslaved - The River's Mouth
231 Nidinger - Ash Yggdrasil
232 Covenant - Planetary black elements
233 Khold - Forrykt
234 The Wretched End - Tyrant Of The Mountain
235 Voluspaa - Av Sin Klokskap
236 Solefald - Jernlov
237 Vredehammer - Viperous
238 Hellish Outcast - Partition of Lust
239 An Danzza - Rnatalins Rune Song
240 Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring
241 1349 - Nathicana
242 Sirenia - Spor 2
243 TAAKE - Nattestid Ser Porten Vid 1
244 Virus - Black Flux
245 Blood Red Throne - Requiem Mass
246 Edvard Grieg - March of the Trolls (Orchestral Version)
247 Tidfall - Prophecy Horizon
248 Limbonic Art - A Void Of Lifeless Dreams
249 Lindy-Fay Hella - Three Standing Stones
250 Borknagar - Winter Thrice
251 Panopticon - Håkans Song
252 ULVER - Nowhere (Sweet Sixteen)
253 Vondur - Panzer Legions Of Vondur
254 JORN - Traveller
255 Disiplin - Liberation
256 Beyond Dawn - When Beauty Dies
257 Ruphus - Inner Voice
258 Leaves' Eyes - Norwegian Lovesong
259 The 3rd & the Mortal - Death-Hymn
260 STORM - Noregsgard
261 Satyricon - Hvite Krists Død
262 R. Stevie Moore – Norway
263 Lucifer Was - In Anadi's Bower
264 Susane Sundfor - White Foxes
265 Kjeld - Betsjoend
266 Kari Rueslåtten - Sørgekåpe
267 Green Carnation - Sentinels
268 Agenda - Suffer
269 Mortiis - Tribute to Euronymous Unreleased Outro
270 Sirius - Sidereal Mirror
271 Insidious Disease - Betrayer
272 Gehenna - Through The Veils Of Darkness
273 The Deviant - Atomic Revolt
274 Varde - Halvdan Svarte
275 Carpathian Forest - He's Turning Blue
276 Ragnarok TV show - Outro
277 Sâver - How They Envisioned Life
278 Dold Vorde Ens Navn - Drukkenskapens Kirkegard
279 MANES - Young Skeleton
280 Nattefrost - Nekronaut
281 Cadaver Inc. - Primal
282 Ida Maria - I Eat Boys Like You For Breakfast
283 ragnarok - En Verden Av Stein
284 Mari Boine - Chasing Myself Into Reality
285 Death By Unga Bunga - Don't Go Looking For My Heart
286 Hexvessel - The Tunnel At The End Of The Light
287 Urgehal - The Iron Children
288 Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
289 Theatre of Tragedy - Der Tanz der Schatten
290 Wardruna - Kvitravn
291 Einherjer - Dragons of the North
292 Thale OST - Thale theme
293 Hedvig Mollestad Trio -Bewitched, Dwarfed and Defeathered
294 Motorpsycho - Spin, Spin, Spin
295 Susperia - Vainglory
296 MYRKUR - Jeg er Guden, I er Tjenerne (Live at the Mausoleum)
297 ICS Vortex - Odin's Tree
298 1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse
299 PRISTINE - You Are The One
300 Tristania - Beyond the Veil
333 Immortal - Where Dark And Light Don't Differ
444 Folket Bortafor Nordavinden - Odin
666 Satyricon - Mother North
Songs are right here at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1_gH0U66TKasbEjdbkPxeW7
Have I missed a song or band?
Let me know.
Takk!
Laurits/Loki as a queer character in Netflix’s Ragnarok
Spoilers for season one of Netflix’s show Ragnarok!
I binged the first season of the Netflix show Ragnarok yesterday, and felt compelled to write something about it. This is somewhat hastely written, so I apologise if the arguments are not as well thought out as they could be, but I wanted to write something. So here we go:
In the Netflix show Ragnarok we meet the two brothers Magne and Laurits as they move to the Norwegian town of Edda with their mother (Ragnarok 2020a). The audience and the characters soon realise that this town is not quite normal, and something mysterious is afoot… It becomes clear that Magne has been bestowed with some sort of magical powers and has been put in the role of Thor in the battle between Norse gods and giants. However, it is less clear what role Laurits is supposed to play. In this text I will claim that he is the Loki to Magne’s Thor, and that is especially interesting in regards to the queerness of his character.
So, first of all, why do I think Laurits is Loki? I think the first point that should be made here is his and Magne’s physical descriptions.
Here we see Laurits sitting furthest to the left, with a green jacket, and Magne sitting to the right of him (with blue jeans and a red t-shirt). Magne and Laurits very much look like how one would imagine Thor and Loki, especially a contemporary audience who has seen the Marvel version of them:
But even beyond Laurits’ looks and brotherly relation to the Thor character, there are parallels between Loki and Laurits. There is his slightly deceptive and trickster like nature, such as when he plays pranks on Magne (for instance by messing up his essay for class when he was supposed to look over the spelling) (Ragnarok 2020a, 22 min). Then there’s also his affinity with the Jutul family, who are actually giants (the name seems to be a play on the old Norse word for giants, jǫtunn). The Loki of Norse myth is often associated with giants as well and might be giant or half-giant (Hume 2019). In the series it is also hinted at several times that Laurits has some sort of magical connection to the giants, for instance at the school dance (Ragnarok 2002b, 31 min). It is also hinted at that the father of the Jutul family, Vidar, has had an affair with Laurits’ mother Turid previously (for example: Ragnarok 2002b, 11:30 min). This makes me wonder if Laurits’ parents are in fact Turid and Vidar, making him half giant… If that is the case, he would have a sort of double cultural heritage, that of humans and that of giants.
Another cultural aspect that is interesting to look at is the parallels between the Loki of myth and the culture of the indigenous Sámi people in northern Scandinavia and Russia (Laidoner 2012). For one, the land of the giants seems to somewhat resemble the description of the Sámi peoples land, in regards to geographical location (north, on the borderlands). Similar to how Sámi was (and are) seen as “other” by Scandinavian people, so were the jǫtunn seen by the æsir (the gods). Laidoner also sees parallels between Loki and historical Sámi shamanism (noadi). She writes:
Loki’s potential links to the cultural world of the Sámi might perhaps first and foremost lie in his combination of being both a jǫtunn and (possibly) an áss and the fact that he seems to lack a home and a clear cultural background (…). This certainly makes him a very untrustworthy outsider among the æsir who, irrespective of the fact that their own ancestry goes back to the jǫtnar, frequently show hostility towards them. Loki’s jǫtunn background, and the possible connection between the Sámi and the jǫtnar whose headquarters seem to have been placed in an area that corresponded to the Sámi territories, allow us to place the focus of the following discussion on Loki’s potential affiliation with Sámi culture, where ideas of symbolic soul travels, cosmic oppositions and ambiguity seem to form a natural part of human existence, something most clearly reflected in the noaidi-tradition. It is difficult to overlook the fact that many dualistic ideas of the same kind are also embodied in the Loki figure. Besides being borderline jǫtunn and áss, a curious relic of Loki’s possible connection to the Sámi-world can perhaps be found in his everpresent duality. This duality is shown in several contrasting qualities, such as existing in both male and female form and being a father and a mother, representing aspects of both good and evil (to the extent that such clear distinctions existed in pre-Christian times), being a causer and resolver of problems, a thief and a bringer of valuable objects, all of which again seems to be in accordance with the functions of a noaidi. (Laidoner 2012, 69)
So, as we can see, Loki crosses borders between both cultures and genders, and both of these aspects make him seem untrustworthy. We can also see a parallel here to how indigenous people have been seen and are seen still today. Now, to return to Laurits, we can see some of these aspects here. Laurits move between different worlds, from the luxury of the Jutuls and the popular kids at school, to his rather less glamorous home-life. As I mentioned above, I also think there’s a possibility of him being half Jutul. But he also most definitely plays with gender borders.
I have previously written on this blog about characters moving between genders, for instance regarding Varys in ASOIAF/GoT and Alex in the “Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard” series by Rick Riordan. As mentioned in the latter text, in that story Loki is presented as genderfluid for similar reasons as I outlined above with his changing of sex/gender. In the analysis of Varys, I wrote about how he was perceived as a transgressor of both borders of gender and ethnicity, with being a eunuch from “the East”. (I there relied on texts about the historical eunuchs in for instance Ancient Greece (Llewyn-Jones 2002; Nikoloutsos 2008)). Similar to what Laidoner writes about Loki, one can see that the fluidity of Varys is connected to his movement between different gender expressions as well as cultures. Here I want to briefly touch on some more theoretical background that might be useful when understanding the crossing of borders with gender and ethnicity. Emma Bond writes about the experiences of trans people who also crosses borders of nations, and how they are seen as transgressors in double ways (2018, 71). She further writes that those who permanently inhabit this liminal space between borders, this site is often experienced as a place of alienation and violence (2018, 97). So, throughout these different examples we can see that people who cross borders of gender and ethnicity are seen as suspicious, and perhaps doubly queer (in the sense of non-conformity to norms of sex/gender/sexuality, which is of course also bound up with norms of ethnicity).
In the show, Laurits is seen crossing gender borders several times. One clear example is during the school dance, where he shows up with eyeliner, skinny jeans, and his mother’s old shirt (Ragnarok 2020b, 22:30 min). At the same dance it becomes clear that he has somewhat of a crush on the popular boy Fjor Jotul (who might be his half-brother if my theory is correct… but I’m also not sure if the Jutul family is actually related in the way they claim…) (Ragnarok 2020b, 24:36 min). This is of course also a break with gender norms, that dictate that men should be attracted to women. Then in the last episode of season one Laurits shows up to the school’s celebration of the national day dressed as the school’s headmistress Ran Jutul to mock and criticise her (Ragnarok 2020c, 31:40 min). Here he cross-dresses, perhaps in a similar way as the mythological Loki has done at times. He also plays the role of the trickster very well. Throughout the season it has been somewhat unclear on whose side he is on, but here at the end he helps the “good guys” (mainly his brother), but of course in a mocking manner. This illuminates the dualistic nature of Loki that Laidoner describes (2012).
Overall, Laurits can be seen as portraying several aspects of Loki. He is a trickster, but also a somewhat fluid character in regards to his heritage/culture and gender/sexuality. He moves between different spaces, inhabiting the liminal space between borders of good/evil, feminine/masculine, etc. This portrayal of a queer character is very interesting, and I hope in the event that the show is renewed for a second season it will explore this further. I should however mention the risk of showing a queer character as a deceiver, this could of course play into stereotypes about queer and/or trans characters. This is something that I write about in the previously mentioned text about Alex from the Magnus Chase novels. But I also think this can be portrayed well and interestingly if the audience is shown a contrast between how Laurits is perceived and who he is. A similar element was most definitely present with Magne in season one. So overall, this portrayal of a queer Laurits/Loki is quite interesting and promising.
References
Bond, Emma. 2018. Writing Migration through the Body. Springer: Cham
Hume, Kathryn. 2019. “Loki and Odin: Old Gods Repurposed by Neil Gaiman, A. S. Byatt, and Klas Östergren.” Studies in the Novel, (51)2: 237-308.
Laidoner, Triin. “The Flying Noaidi of the North: Sámi Tradition Reflected in the Figure Loki Laufeyjarson in Old Norse Mythology.” Scripta Islandica 63 (2012): 59–91.
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. 2002. “Eunuchs and the royal harem in Achaemenid Persia (559-331 BC)”, in Eunuchs in antiquity and beyond, ed. Tougher, Shaun, 19-50. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales.
Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos P. 2008. ”The Alexander Bromance: Male Desire and Gender Fluidity in Oliver Stone’s Historical Epic.” Helios, (35)2: 223-251
Ragnarok. 2020a. New Boy. [TV-show] Netflix, 31st of January.
Ragnarok. 2020b. 541 Meters. [TV-show] Netflix, 31st of January.
Ragnarok. 2020c. Yes, we love this country. [TV-show] Netflix, 31st of January.
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Flashing red and waving navy blue faded into the background as your gaze fell onto something shinning amongst it all.
You approached it, wading through navy bodies and hands that shot out to stop you. You would not be halted, you would reach your destination.
Black hair, that usually shot out in every direction, spilled flatly against the pale forehead, soaked by the onslaught of rain. Usually vibrant violet eyes were now dull and stared beyond you. His usual dark ensemble of clothing was stained darker.
You kneeled down, reaching your hands out, and gently brought his head into your lap. You wanted to say something. There were so many things that you wanted to say, but every time you tried to say something, your brain stopped you. So you simply sat and stared into those once familiar violet eyes.
You don't know how long you sat there, but eventually someone rested their hand on your shoulder.
"Satoru." You whispered, pausing before looking up at him. "Where did I go wrong?"
You don't know what kind of expression you were making, but it was enough for his jaw to drop and to take a stumble away from you.
Your gaze fell back into the violet.
Megumi was having a rough adolescence. You would consistently get calls from his school, detailing you about his latest fight and that he would be staying late as punishment. You simply apologized. There was no need to say that he wouldn't do it again, because you knew that he would do it again. No need to make an ass of yourself.
You would wait for him to get home and confront him over dinner.
His answer was always the same: "I'm just doing what's right."
But was it really right when he was cracking jaws with his knuckles?
You decided to have Satoru try his hand at calming him, but that only seemed to aggravate him. Suddenly he wasn't just beating up bullies and instead kids who "bothered him". He wasn't staying to himself anymore, and instead he began hanging around some upper classmen named Sukuna. He came home later and later, bloody and bruised.
You had your suspicions, and they were confirmed when you stumbled upon Sukuna and his...friends while running errands. His friends called him by name, and you quickly glanced in his direction. You didn't need to stare because the arm and face tattoos were enough.
Sukuna was a gang leader,
and Megumi was a part of that gang.
You and Satoru's attempts to help guide him away from Sukuna's gang only lead him further and further away from you and closer and closer to ruin.
You only wish you could have known just how deep ruin was for your dear Megumi.
"Satoru, where did I go wrong?"
One sentence that haunted him since it came from your mouth.
And when he looked at you.
You were crying, but your face was as blank as your gaze. Reminiscent of the violet ones that lay in the lifeless body in your lap.
He knew.
His worse fears had been realized.
Gojo Satoru was in fact not the strongest in the world. He was not a god who walked amongst men. He was human, he would die, and the world would move on without him.
Kuroo, one of the two dire wolves Megumi left behind, brushed up against him, whining softly.
He sighed deeply, pinching the bridge of his nose as he screwed his eyes shut.
"Is this how you felt, Suguru?"
There was a lot of present/past tense errors in here lol. A small bit of grammatical errors. And I changed a few things. Added the dogs into this (forgot I added them in the previous part).
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[Sadly, the bugs did bite Ann the previous night. But she is rewarded by the finest view she has ever seen, the bay of Vyborg, and sketches its fortress. Meanwhile, Anne is appreciative of the local costumes and food, and as usual entranced by the botany and geology. She even tastes the local seawater! Anne’s trusty parasol comes handy in scientific enquiry, not for the first or the last time. Her own sketch, of a bridge, is, uh, not very accomplished, but the engineering detail is recognisable. As ever on this overland trip to St. Petersburg, which is nearing its end, Anne writes and writes and writes, and this day’s entry is *very* full of researchable detail, including a stately home they pass by, which is perfectly identifiable from her notes, and which has a slightly tenuous lesbian connection...]
[up at] 4 3/4
[to bed at] 10 1/4
Damp morning Fahrenheit 60 1/2º at 5 a.m. I am all ready now at 5 35/” no coach house therefore paid for man watching the carriage last night -/50 and paid Gross this morning for paid yesterday for ditto ditto – -/50 – with all the exertion I have made it is 6 3/” when we get off – 3 minutes later than the time – damp hazy morning – forest immediately on leaving the station neither of us slept well last night – Ann much bit – we had nothing but plates and cups and saucers and knives and forks and table linen and our one double bedded room and servants room and paid 4/20 – Scotch fir this morning barked all round for a yard or 2 from the ground at 6 20/” little distant left fjord or lake – road red coarse as yesterday sandy but good tho’ much rain in the night – forest and little breaks all the way to Säcjarvi at 7 1/2 a lone house in the forest – small but goodish – as the gentleman said yesterday at Högfors one might sleep at
Nisalak 15 1/6 v[ersts] Helsingfors 237 v[ersts]
Urpala 16 4/6 v[ersts] Wiborg 44 1/2 v[ersts]
St. Petersburg 181 v[ersts]
Säcjarvi but Urpala seems a good deal the better of the two – same sort of forest and road as yesterday but less population and boulders not so strikingly large – the soil here a fine red gravel as yesterday and many examples of gravel-conglomerate boulders – more cattle this morning than ever before since Åbo – no sheep today as yet – so few in those northern countries can only be just enough to supply the inhabitants with wool and a little cheese and mutton – they salt the legs (the hams) for winter – the Russian male costume this morning very pretty and picturesque a white frock coat and red belt – or blue or dark and often bound with the same – the women wear a strong linen? dark with narrow red stripes for petticoats and a boddice a jacket . . . and a white handkerchief on the head – they all weave the red striped stuff – and I have seen many men wear it for jackets and trowsers
8 25/” several baggage little waggons and 1 horse and some soldiers on foot now at 8 25/” just crossed little bridge over little stream and crossed a broader stream some time ago the only two streams this stage so far – the forest too less swampy than the forests yesterday at 8 3/4 considerable break in the forest – unpainted hamlet (we pass thro’) – one of the largest flocks of sheep we have seen (recently shorn) – log houses the trees not flattened big boulders all among the cottages – peasants wear black leather gloves like our hedging mittens – hardly out of the hamlet before the young forest begins again (Scotch fir and birch, alder bushes everywhere in the swampy places) – but more break, and fields another hamlet (scattered) at 8 55/” and at 9 over neat little ochre-yellow and white-seamed station house at Nisalaks the older portion of the house under the same room unpainted flattened log-house – breakfast boiled milk and Wiborg (criks?)
Wiburg 29 2/6 Helsingfors 252 1/2
Säcjarvi 15 1/6 St. Petersburg 165 5/6
Kiskila 14 1/6
bread tied up in a sort of rose – and made tea, and took my pint bottle full away with us – all ready at 10 – off at 10 20/” from Nisalax we should have lived better here than we did at Urpala, I suspect – nice little station – a little meat on the fire boiling when we came in, and our milk ready in 10 minutes or 1/6 hour – In 5 minutes pass thro’ the little hamlet – and then rocky forest and big boulders again road coarse red sandy as before but good – forest, till 11 1/4 good river – 2 or 3 good wood yellow painted houses scattered about and little unpainted scattered hamlet – nice bit of open cultivated country – then road red sand (but good) and the soil red sand – still damp and rather hazy – (Reading Handbook article Moscow) – soon forest again – at 11 3/4 look down upon beyond us (left) the handsomest gentleman’s house we have seen in Finland, surrounded with park-like grounds – little hamlet scattered hereabouts – house and 2 wings – white with pea green roof – at 11 51/” our neat good yellow and white pilastered station at Kaskilä and broad sheet of water at a little distance – front – another pavillion-like gentleman’s house almost in front (to the right) from our station yellow with pea green roof and white corners and a white hexastyle portico (with pediment – the gable end) fancifully painted coach houses and stabling and unpainted barns and cottages scattered about the fine sheet of water coming close to the house – very pretty
Wiborg 15 1/6 Niserlax 14 1/6
St. Petersburg 153 2/3 Helsingfors 266 ½
hue – our stage last night to Urpala very picturesque – and ditto this morning – big boulders again conglomerate red granite as yesterday picturesque foresty stage to here – corn (rye) out in cocks here – soon Scotch fir forest again – the cranberry and moss and heather dispute as usual possession of the rock and boulder – 12 7/” a little farm and 2 little stacks of corn thatched with straw and then spruce branches laid on the tops – here and everywhere about they lay Spruce fir branches at the doors to keep one clean instead of mats when it is dirty as it always must be in wet weather was this custom of strewing branches in this way (as palm branches as our Saviour rode along etc.) originally to keep one out of the dirt? now at 12 50/” sandy and heavy road up hill in the forest – at 1 from the top of hill Wiborg in sight, and its fine islandy fjord, immense expanse of water and 10 arch wood bridge over arm of the fjord on left to which we wind down and cross (deals and big boulders) now a 1 7/” – beautiful wooded islandy expanse of water on each side – very fine drive from here – at 1 10/” cross another 10 arch wooden bridge – the large square tower and 3 small pointed towers of Wiborg full in view left from the bridge – fine wooded drive from here – the water right – damp very small drizzling rain – bouldery common just before entering Wiborg – at 1 20/” the 1st barrier and archway – then a 2nd archway and water and wood bridge 13 arches to cross a steamer lying at the quai – very fine view of fjord and tower, the old, brick castle close (right) on a little island – this was the large square tower I saw at the top of hill at 1 – enter the town at 1 25/” – at the Society’s house good Inn at 1 1/2 – sent Gross with my passport to the police – asleep – could not be seen till 3 – had my hair done and Ann and I out at 2 40/” took Gross to shew us the police – close to the gate by which we entered the town – recrossed the bridge on 20 wood pillars piers each formed of 5 – then up the fort-hill – near the bridge right on entering the town – beautiful view of the fjord and suburb to the westward – returned by the water side – observed the big pieces of red felspar in the porphyritic (conglomerate?) of the rocks – then on passing the bridge again and reentering the town turned left along the rampart – Ann stood sketching the old brick castle on a little island fjord or round moat all round – Ann sketched the old castle – its tower octagon that looked square in the distance – the 3 upper stories of the tower seem roofless – the fjord on this side (towards the sea) very beautiful islandy and wooded as far as one can see – the water on the opposite side the tower very picturesque but more like a pretty islandy lake – Deal sheds – a large raff yard near left (looking northwards) and little unpainted hamlet scattered a long way along the water’s edge – hamlets, too, right, and nearer, sweeping round to the town, a large handsome suburb with good church yellow with red roof and tower cupola pea green – Viborg a large town taking in its suburbs – a large handsome church in the large square opposite our Inn – 2/3 the men one sees are soldiers in their long, plaited-in-behind fawn-grey great coats – they look like monks or women? then along the rampart to a little postern gate – went out came in at 5 1/4 dinner at 6 to 6 3/4 out at 7 for a minute or 2 to see the church en face by it about 1/2 way or more towards the good suburb – then turned (right) towards the sea, along the outside rampart breast-work, of the fortress – went to the water’s edge – tasted the water – merely a little brackish – not at all salt – beautiful view from a round knoll of bare granite rock of each pier formed of five uprights with a spur from each side of the foot of each upright
on the top of the rock (right, on entering the town – and close to the bridge – some sort of fortification there) on the top of the rock large where bare, observed the same ochre-yellow moss I saw on the large old oaks in the park at Stockholm – and in returning by the water side a little of the blood-red moss I first observed north of Upsala – scraped a little off with the point of my parasol stick – it was pulpy and vegetable-like – tho’ the water trickling down it, made it look shining and so like recent blood, I almost thought at 1st (there being but a little patch of it) that it might be blood – the wide-expanded, lovely, wooded amphitheatric islandy fjord – the light at 4 3/4, beautiful – the dark distant boundary of pine forest backing the smooth light water very fine – Ann thought she had never admired a scene more – 2 brigs on the stocks here (little trading vessels) returned by the gate nearest the sea, the road winding within the outworks – then sauntered along the rampart within the walls – very fine view, nearly the same as before, of the fjord, but saw rather more of it – good town – a regular fortress – reminded me in this respect of Rocroi where we slept last year – came in at 5 1/4 – wrote a little dinner at 6 – very good fried Sprax a fish tasting a little like carp? excellent veal cutlet with currants on the top and lemon and I ate it with excellent preserved raspberry, and we very good preserved green gooseberries looking like olives and preserved candied lemon, and sago pudding, and good coffee afterwards – after dinner the opposite church door open, went in for a minute or 2 – a sort of priest or man about the church came to see what we should do – 2 candles burning at 2 silvery shrines – but nobody in the church – too dark to see much – back at 7 1/4 and had Grotza, but so long about getting and paying for Podoroshna and changing money and paying the bills that it was after 9 before all this was done – the small damp rain and haze cleared off between 2 and 3 p.m. and afterwards fine afternoon and evening Fahrenheit 58º now at 9 10/” p.m. our bill 16/20 – could get no copper money – pretended they had difficulty in giving me 2 five kopek pieces change against the bill – and in charging my money they gave me two 25 kopeck bills and one 5 kopek – 55 Rubles for my Finnish rubel notes some kopek notes 75s and a few 50s
“Wiborg bread tied up in a sort of rose” that Anne and Ann had at Nisalahti (today’s Chulkovo) station during this leg (click here for a recipe):
“another pavillion-like gentleman’s house almost in front (to the right) from our station yellow with pea green roof and white corners and a white hexastyle portico (with pediment – the gable end)” - the house Anne saw on the way and described thus is the main building of Kiiskilä Manor, where members of an important family of 19th-century Finnish intellectuals grew up, including Helmi Krohn, the first biographer of “the Sappho of Finland”, Isa Asp (image source):
A view of Vyborg in 1837, by Pehr Adolf Kruskopf (image source):
The Vyborg Society House (left), the inn where Anne and Ann stayed in Vyborg (image source). The building was destroyed during the Continuation War.
Vyborg around 1938, including the castle and the Fortress Bridge (image source), an earlier (but similar) incarnation of which Anne sketched in her journal in 1839:
The Fortres Bridge in the early 18th century (image source):
and in Anne’s sketch:
A view of Vyborg Castle, by Torsten Wilhelm Forstén, from 1840, a year after Anne and Ann saw it - and Ann sketched it (image source):
A view of Vyborg bay - “ Ann thought she had never admired a scene more“ (image source):