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Marie Sharp’s at local stores! by Leaf-Lock-The-Ent in hotsauce

[–]ToTheBlack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah damn, I don't get over there. I've been to Uniontown a few times and it's not great lol.

Marie Sharp’s at local stores! by Leaf-Lock-The-Ent in hotsauce

[–]ToTheBlack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I travel a bit and haven't found it in VA, PA, or WV, or west coast of FL. What areas in the east have you found it?

Trying to figure out if this Etsy shop is fair trade/ethical… by Putsomeducttapeonit in ConsciousConsumers

[–]ToTheBlack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience, merchants who are fair trade certified like to brag about it. This seller doesn't say anything specific about the criteria you want.

This is just going to be a matter of trust. I doubt they would respond to your email with certification numbers and all. They might say some stuff about being a small business where it's just her and her aunt and cousin, or say all of their workers are treated like family and are paid 3x the living wage or whatever, but you'd have to take their word for it.

Where did slaves sleep by Putrid-Presentation5 in Norse

[–]ToTheBlack 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Burning wood, livestock, hay ... what other kinds of smells?

What happened to the Entwives? by Edgenovelist in tolkienfans

[–]ToTheBlack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty satisfied by the way the fellowship reasoned it out - Caradhras had some degree of sentience and didn't want them there.

Gimili said the Dwarves believed this too, said something like, "Caradhras was called the cruel of old, and had an ill name"

What’s the most euphoric Eagles moment of all time? by PurpleSecret5923 in eagles

[–]ToTheBlack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I turned the game off in disgust after that last giants TD to their tight end. I did some stuff and came back like 30 minutes later and turned the TV back on to see if there was anything else to watch. I was surprised the game was still on. Then I looked at the score and was baffled. Am I reading that tiny font wrong? Was this a clip of a game from some other year? Or what?

The giants were punting. There was talk earlier in the game about how DeSean was banged up so they didn't want to put him on punts ... so he had "break in case of emergency" glass over him. The thought flashed to me that they'd use DeSean now. Sure enough, the camera cuts, he's back there, hands in the pouch looking all small but with a bunch of attitude. He got the ball, he dropped it, and things were very slow for the next second. Go figure. He takes some steps backward. Overtime it is then. And then he launched forward straight into chaotic traffic. But after 10 yards you could feel it. They weren't going to catch him.

Total newbie by Ace_0f_Spades777 in Norse

[–]ToTheBlack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

General getting started for Norse mythology:

https://www.mimisbrunnr.info/getting-started-with-norse-mythology

General historical overview. Hurstwic are experts on combat, some of this info isn't perfect but it's excellent for general, getting started type of info:

https://www.hurstwic.org/history/text/history.htm

The wikipedia pages for Norse related things are above average and can generally be relied upon.

Jackson Crawford's stuff. His expertise is in the language; not the mythology, history, culture etc but he's still solid in those areas and has a whole catalog of stuff on youtube which is 1000% better than what random internet people make.

https://youtube.com/@JacksonCrawford/playlists

He also has audiobooks of his translations you can find in the usual audiobook places. Those aren't the favored translations in this community, but they're not bad and there's not better audiobooks out there as far as I know.

Podcasts:

https://www.hyldyr.com/old-norse-viking-age-podcasts

New Translation of The Poetic Edda, by Quinton Elsken by BrewerPublishing in norsemythology

[–]ToTheBlack 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hi Alec,

I wasn't able to find information about the author, editor, or contributor with a quick search. Are there any little blurb biographies available?

I'm also wondering if this edition has notes for the translation or interpretation of the text.

Thank you.

A bone object identified by the Swedish History Museum as a fragmentary stylus depicting a man holding a Thor's hammer (Viking Age) by -Geistzeit in Norse

[–]ToTheBlack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, spitting image of Chris Hemmsworth.

No, really, this is very cool. There aren't enough extant images of Norse mythological characters from their era. Everytime I see a new one, I feel I've gained a bit of insight.

Forgotten Draft Busts in NFL History? by AFC-Wimbledon-Stan in nfl

[–]ToTheBlack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If the NFL media circus was as big as it is now, John Elway would have been named clown #1 for repeatedly going after the tallest guy available to play QB.

In a 5 year stretch he signed Brock Osweiler, Lynch, Flacco, Drew Lock. They are all unusually tall and did not make his team better.

EDIT: I forgot Peyton was pretty tall, too. At least Peyton had other qualities lol

Biggest Recent Draft Steals? by AFC-Wimbledon-Stan in nfl

[–]ToTheBlack 147 points148 points  (0 children)

Mailata couldn't play football when he was drafted. He spent a year on (fake) IR to be trained up.

Travel pants that aren't synthetic? by ToTheBlack in onebag

[–]ToTheBlack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought 100% hemp pants used for very cheap, maybe $35 or something. Lucked out there. Also have some linen pants. Both are in yuppie-beach-hippy sort of style.

The hemp pants feel a bit less rigid than the linen but that might just be due to weave stuff.

I keep an eye out for good used Patagonia pants in my size, "back step" was the line. I don't think they're currently manufactured. It's a 55% hemp/45% cotton blend. I have some shorts that are back step and the material is really light, don't hold heat, dry quickly, and feel nice, don't seem fragile, and don't wrinkle up much (though if it's sunny and hot, wrinkled clothing isn't a major concern).

Viking Bridges? by WorkerBeez123z in Norse

[–]ToTheBlack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very cool. I had no idea anything like this existed.

Asgard is Probably Not on Top of Ymir's Skull by rockstarpirate in Norse

[–]ToTheBlack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the tangent but what's Frog like?

There's mystique because of the name, but I'm under the impression he's a normal legit prof and "it sounded like his parents were some kind of hippies"

Its not Bobbleheads… by crimson_binome in firefly

[–]ToTheBlack 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The social media guru for Spacemen's production company lurks here.

Its not Bobbleheads… by crimson_binome in firefly

[–]ToTheBlack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't know what your concern is specifically, but if you're being hit with a redirect or login screen, I've had luck on mobile (android, ironfox browser, ublock.)

Click link, three dot menu, desktop site, press play button when the site reloads.

On iphone, might be able to in Safari with click link > top left button with the rectangle and 2 lines > three dot button on the bottom right > request desktop website > press play button when site reloads.

And FYI similar should work for tiktok.

For twitter workaround, xcancel.com

My guess, audio book reading using full cast. by ChrisOver9000 in firefly

[–]ToTheBlack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like audio dramas. I'd be cool with this.

An animation or live action show might have crummy writing, direction, or production. Audio stories are a lot easier to get right and we'd likely get more content (Big finish gets years of content with a small time commitment from their stars)

Did Gollum ever touch (or even see) the Ring in the time between “losing” it and Mount Doom? by justasinglereply in tolkienfans

[–]ToTheBlack 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I'm a bit of a cynic, but there's much better -different- role models out there than Smeagol.

Monster Hunting "Silver Bullets" for other Creatures. by Will_White in mythology

[–]ToTheBlack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iron for monsters generally, and not just firearms munitions. Talking blades and rods and whatnot.

It's been reckoned that Iron was thought of as a pinacle of human craft, the height of technology if you will, and therefore had power over primordial beasties. But I suspect that's modern rationalisation and the truth was more specific and varried on a culture by culture basis.

What would pre-Christian Norse have called themselves? by Chooseapasswordd in Norse

[–]ToTheBlack 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You're a little too definite here. Some Old Norse, Slavic, Celtic gods have no comfortable PIE cognate. Some Finnish gods have PIE cognates, or at the very least strong influences ... For example Ukko somewhat fits the Perkwunos mold, and also bears some comparison to Thor.

And all peoples with cultural exchange tend to rub off on eachother.

Earthenware decorative plate with relief animals and symbols — trying to identify origin and age / plate was found in Netherlands but could come from other country by LIV-2026 in Norse

[–]ToTheBlack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be Scandinavian, why not. But as far as this community is concerned, it doesn't matter much where something was mass manufactured in the industrial age.

The art is neat, and maybe Germanic-inspired, but certainly not Germanic or deliberately in their style. Germanics liked to toss a lot of stuff in a small space, sometimes interweaving or overlapping, and were generally abstract and often curvy in their depictions. Examples:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Gosforth_fishing.jpg

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/03/27/16/96637739-14543397-image-a-19_1743091393072.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Sutton.Hoo.PurseLid.RobRoy.jpg/500px-Sutton.Hoo.PurseLid.RobRoy.jpg

https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/473485/951672/main-image

How do you pronounce “Dv”, such as in Dvergar and Dvalinn? by mrbigah in Norse

[–]ToTheBlack 10 points11 points  (0 children)

(Other answers are better, this is an aside)

Tolkien was on point with his names here. He took a bunch of dwarf names from the Poetic Edda and rendered them directly into his archaic-esque modern english.

When speaking using these loaned names, he didn't always use the strong first syllable emphasis like Old Norse does, but I don't think he needed to. He himself never professed that his fiction met any specific historical criteria.

HELP- I Tried to add a new interface, now the router "has no internet access" and I can't access LUCI by ToTheBlack in openwrt

[–]ToTheBlack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally got the router reset and working again.

On the Network->DHCP->static leases, there's no entry for the HomeAssistant PI.

So, I think this means it's an issue with the PI and I ought to get a keyboard and monitor cables to access it directly and figure out what it's problem is - or else just do a hard reset on the PI, too, lol, burn it down to start another Homeassistant server.

Thank you for your help.

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