With all the Northern Ireland discourse let's all pause and take a minute to remember when a lad in Belfast adopted an alligator (Fred) but ended up giving him to a pub when it all got a bit too much
Northern Irish slang I’ve confused my English stepsister with
- Pokey Van (ice cream van, a poke is an ice cream. I thought everyone said this until she started laughing at me in her stupid Scunthorpe accent)
- A dig in the bake (punch in the face. She kept thinking I was saying a ‘digidda big’)
-Quere/Quare/Quaren (really. Like ‘sure tescos was quaren packed last night. I say quaren more but my family says it every way)
- Eejit (idiot)
- buttie (they would call it a crisp sarnie and they don’t have chip butties when I tell you I near died)
- geg (funny?? I literally don’t know how to describe it but if I was carrying on with like my grandfather (Gerry from Derry Girls) he would say something like ‘your a geg missy’)
- lush (lovely, she just thought I was a weirdo and then she started saying it)
Alrighty she’s all settled and it’s time for a new character introduction! Everyone, meet Eirene Featherscorn - a disgraced Owl shaman who, after her Spirit’s corruption, in her despair turned to Jormag. Details are still being ironed out, but rest assured that the conversion was done under a lot of pressure and not so comfortable mental states.
But they didn’t make her their head guy in charge - no, Eirene was a scout, as she is fast and light on her feet as a thief, and one day, she was caught and not interrogated for information more harshly only on Nyra’s command. By the time of her capture, Eirene was aware she’d made a huge mistake and was deeply regretting it, but was not icebrooded enough to actually result in death after Jormag’s death.
Instead, she lives with her regrets, a new name the norn have given her, Featherscorn, and creepy icy, unsettling eyes. The white around her eyes isn’t a tattoo - it’s residue frost she cannot remove, a part of her skin, just as her desperate decision to turn to her people’s greatest enemy will forever be a part of her. To redeem herself, she hunts down the last of Jormag’s corruption in any corner of Tyria she finds it in.
Maybe she also hunts herself a girlfriend who can accept her for what she did? A norn can dream.
I just spent a few days in London for the Glory and the Beast concert and like. I know I made jokes about "eww London" but like
Holy fuck. London is so nice to get around. Hop on the tube for like £2 and go the whole way across it in like five minutes by just tapping your phone against two booths, no questions asked. Hop on the bus for like £1 and do the same around Kentish Town and Camden for the whole day. It costs like £16 just to get into Belfast and then getting around it at all is absolutely fucking miserable.
Fucking hells, London's public transit might just be the best I've ever experienced. Translink get your act together.
Really enjoying the DUP/UUP/TUV/Tories/Random gammon and a great chunk of leftist Brits absolutely losing their shit because Sinn Fein is heading towards being the biggest party in NI
Ack c’mere big lawd. Sure, ye weren’t ready for all this big hunk a Norn Irish Jedi, but y’ar nai!! By the way, at’s nat my lightsaber diggin’ inta yer thigh thur, if ye know what I mean! Ack, monely rakin’ yer bacon x
I always excuse my autism accent on the fact my dad is irish, which is true! it's just that... he doesn't have an irish accent. bc he deliberately gave himself a neutral english accent as a teenager.