Weird

[nirix5]

Working on this Bayeux paper has taken me in directions I never thought I'd go, academically. I know all about the Nazis now. I've studied the Ahnenerbe. I've got the real scoop on what happened to happened to Bunjes after the war. I've cried through a lot of war movies... I've laughed through a lot of war movies... all in the name of research. (It are fact that Hitler was denied admission to Hogwarts.)

What's also weird: knowing enough of my genealogy to know that a main branch of my ancestors crossed the Channel with William. It's like, dude. This thing is the story of my people! Except I don't like my people, I find them to be the aggressors in the whole situation. I like Harold, who seems like my kind of broken.

So, my people are the aggressors and very much beloved by the Nazis.

That's pretty weird.

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Comments

[magelette.livejournal.com]

My people are the Nazis. If that makes you feel better.

And they're also the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons, so I'm basically genetically engineered to be The Man that puts everyone else down.

[nirix5.livejournal.com]

But that was kind of their point with the BT thing... Vikings were Germanic and awesome and Aryan, and they took over northern France and became the Normans, who then took over England and killed off the inferior Anglo Saxons, so really the English as they exist today are really Vikings and therefore worthy of being incorporated into the Volksland or the fatherland or whatever wet dream eutopia the Nazis had. So, you're a Nazi and I'm supposed to be one? Whatever, let's go conquer some people (I'm eyeing the music department, as they are inferior to us in the most literal way.)

Did you know that Himmler had a Circle of Friends? It was like a happy-sunshineytimes-Nazi book club. They liked to talk about the BT and how awesome it was.

[magelette.livejournal.com]

Would this mean, then, that the BT invokes Godwin's Law just by existing?

Can you work Godwin's Law into your paper? I would love you forever. Not that I don't already, but...

[nirix5.livejournal.com]

I'm invoking 4chan as a legitimate audience with an iconography of their own, so why the hell not? This would probably be the place to do it.

[magelette.livejournal.com]

I seriously can't wait to read your paper (and to see the look on B's face) on Monday...