Reading Diary - Kalevala: Vainamoinen
- Joukahainen and Väinämöinen
- Are the songs how they do magic?
- OMG, it’d be fun to do a nerd version of this listing of facts
- Star Trek vs Star Wars, lol
- or original vs reboot
- J sounds like he’s reading off an encyclopedia for dummies
- This is probably a big teaching song so kids can learn their history
- story idea - bard school, kid asks why they sing this one
- Songs are how they do magic - neat
- Seriously, what do you offer a mage who can obviously do anything he wants with a little magic?
- Good God, you can just promise your sister to save your own life? Ugh, men!
- Okay this girl is vain and stupid, Momma’s got the right idea
- Väinämöinen and Aino
- Random voice asks for adoration, I would have run too
- Probably wouldn’t have sobbed all day about it, though
- This girl is ridiculous - if you have to have an arranged marriage, an old guy who will die soon to leave you a wealthy widow is ideal
- …. she killed herself because of this. Brat.
- “Since I heard the cuckoo calling” sounds like a great title for something
- Väinämöinen Goes Fishing*
- fishing for a bride, that’s a new one
- She… certainly changed her tune quick. Guess being a fish teaches you life lessons (or she finally got the brat slapped out)
- The only people with sense in this epic are the mothers
- Joukahainen’s Revenge
- You’re gonna try this again? Really?
- Singing for a good shot is a funny notion, but doesn’t appear to have worked
- Don’t brag - gosh you sound like Paris right now
- Paris basically shots people on accident while hiding behind a pillar then jumps out and goes ‘hah! I hit you! Got you sucka!’ That’s why he manages to kill Achilles - he’s a bad shot who gets lucky and hits the only vulnerable part on Achilles
- Väinämöinen and the Mistress of Pohjola
- What happened to all-powerful mage? Like dude, call fire from heaven or make sea turtles carry you or something!
- Oh no, not the plot-point eagles!
- Oh God more crying. Why do epics always have such large amounts of sobbing?
- Aren’t you a mage? Do a Point-Me!!!
- Oh how the tables have turned
- Also, why do you want to go back? Things weren’t going so well there
- I feel a shield of [insert hero] ekphrasis coming on here
- Forging the Sampo
- Oh look he can do magic again. Is it a local thing?
- …. you never saw the daughter. Excuse me sir, I’m calling bulshit
- Golden girdles sound painful
- If his is the only smithy around, he’ll never be out of business
- That sounds like a very dangerous workplace
- Did he get the girl? Did he not? Is that what the next one’s about?
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