Ramblings of the Odekiisu

Apparently, using euphemisms such as 'blue hellsite' and suchlike for websites/brands/people etc is now called Voldemorting.
Now, my mind immediately jumped from this kind of periphrasing of names to Old Norse kennings. That's an interesting comparison, but unfortunately I'm not enough of a linguist to delve deeper into this - anyone have any thoughts on this?

A ton of historical cookbooks, arranged by year. Note: apparently some of them are racist.

I've been listening to linguistics podcasts while sewing; specifically, en clair and Lingthusiasm. They're great.

As an aside, job search related news: I didn't get the job I interviewed for. Oh well, saves me from having to decide whether or not I'm willing to do night shifts.

I’m shamelessly stealing the idea of a daily sort-of ‘reblogs’ link post from this person :P

So, here are 2 interesting things I came across in the past few days: 

• Fandom history - 2 reblogs of the same original post, but with different replies to it. Started off from some of the AO3 “discourse” going around the tumbles. I was looking for something else on my blog, then found these, and re-reading them was especially relevant to the state of things right now.
• An important message about feeling sad

 

In other news, I got my first job interview! Ever! (Note: I have very little idea how to job interview. Any advice is appreciated. It's going to be on the 28th.) We shall see how it goes. I’ll have to figure out how I can convincingly pretend to be An Actual Functional Adult. Also, I’ve started working on one of my sewing projects again, and I’m gonna try and finish it before the new year (though I’m not entirely sure if I’ll manage that, because I still have to finish making everyone’s Christmas presents… eek!)