A fake marriage between two best friends because they need money? SIGN ME UP.
I only read the first four chapters, so I don’t really know how the story will unfold, but I’m definitely buying the book. I can’t believe a book was written specially for me.
-Got his start as a teenager. He was supposed to by lying low in the basement under the club where his Uncle worked, but he had access to an electric guitar, sound equipment, and alcohol, and stuff happened. Finding himself surprisingly popular, Megamind decides to roll with it. Destiny is weird sometimes.
-Metro Man is wildly jealous, but he can’t admit it, because that’s Not Done among Superheroes. You can’t just say you’d rather be a Rockstar.
-Minion is his manager, and also sometimes roadie and bodyguard
-Legendary special effects at concerts. LEGENDARY
-It is generally believed that the whole “alien” thing is a costume/gimmick
-Various fans and groupies have come forward claiming to know aaalllll about what Megamind’s REALLY like under the leathers and paint. However, they disagree on his skin-color, hair (or lack there of), and contact-lenses (or lack there of). This has led to a LOT of rumors.
-Megamind is having a blast. Roar of crowds, music, custom-made robots, lasers, smoke-machines…
-His entrances are universally dramatic, and also legendary.
-Confusion about why they want the music video for that one song to indicate a narrative of unfaithfulness in a relationship. The lyrics we’re CLEARLY about fighting dirty in the school-yard and rebelling against unfair policies set by the teacher! How is that not Obvious?!
-Roxanne is either a reporter, or a fellow Music Star
-She has been dramatically rescued by Metro Man at least once, and they are widely believes to be a couple.
-They meet at some event directly related to their jobs, and much of it is caught in camera.
-They meet again when he is avoiding paparazzi via a Very Creative Route. She sees humor in the situation.
-He doesn’t know what to do with these sudden new feelings, so he decides to shout/scream/sing about them on stage. His next tour and album are a big hit.
-Despite this, it takes afes for them to realize that the attraction and interest/feelings are mutual
This beautiful gif was prepared using data from the long-lived Landsat series of earth orbiting satellites, You are looking at the course of the Padma River in Bangladesh and how its course has varied over the last 30 years. This is a textbook example of river erosion processes. When rivers begin to meander, they evolve by growing their meanders wider, until the meander finally gets too sinuous and the river finds another path. Pick a point where the river bends and watch what happens – the outer bank of the river erodes and sediment deposits on the inner side of the curve, making the river arc farther outwards. The outer side of the river that is eroding is called a cut bank, and sediment is deposited on the inside of the river building a point bar.
Triggered by another post I didn’t want to hijack:
Excalibur.
In the legends, Excalibur comes out of a lake (although some versions have Excalibur as the sword in the stone, those are later…the sword Arthur pulls from the stone breaks and he goes to get a better one).
From the “Lady of the Lake.”
Here’s the thing.
In northern Europe in the Iron Age all the way through to the early Medieval period, most iron came from bog iron. It was hard to smelt, because it was a rather low grade ore, but you didn’t have to mine it and it was a renewable resource (in about twenty years you could just come back and get more, because it formed constantly).
Meaning that the iron used to make a sword came…out of water.
In most fairy stories, fairies don’t like iron. So the vision of the Lady as some kind of fairy or elf? Not likely.
The idea of her as a druid? Maybe.
But what’s far more likely is this: The Lady of the Lake was a smith.
But….but…
The Celtic deity in charge of smiths and ironworking was Bridget, a goddess. The mystical associations with the Lady would fit with her being a priestess of Bridget…and thus, a smith.
IOW, Arthurian people, maybe we should not be visualizing the Lady of the Lake as a slender, graceful woman in a gown…
This had never, ever occurred to me. But after careful consideration: YES PLEASE.
I can’t believe I got to my forties without thinking of it myself!
i like this, but i think it’s more likely that the lady of the lake is an echo of the primarily female water pilgrimmages that happened across the north from the late stone age up to, quite possibly, the 1400′s or so. still water, particularly the black water of bogs and the unlit water of caves, symbolized both death and birth. these women may have been shamans, or they may simply have been spiritually motivated people, but whether they were magicians or not they were very probably midwives and physicians.
so rather than a muscular smith, i visualize a wise but gentle elder who has brought souls into the world and seen them out for many years. the sword she provides comes out of the water of birth and death; that is to say, it has a soul.
related thought: the lady of the lake was said to be ‘clad in white samite’. samite was a silk cloth from the east; people who would have access to it in england were royalty, and those who had traveled as far as the silk road. like, say, a doctor and holy woman who had taken the water pilgrimmage through the caves of eastern europe.
yeah, the more i think about it the more i like my shaman/midwife headcanon.
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