8 days of happiness

[essayel]

Yeah I forgot yesterday, but then yesterday was the type of day where I'd have put something like "I'm happy today because the dog wasn't sick on my shoes". yesterday was just - *snarl*.

But today - I saw this on vashtan's journal and it made me very happy because the song is called Atay, and my story about him [4th C BC Scythian warlord who told Phillip of Macedonia where to stick his phalanxes] is coming along fairly well, though I'm getting frustrated with things like not being able to find out the exact dimensions of the wagon they used to live in, and whether they had musical instruments and whether they WERE as tall as they appear to be from some of the pictorial evidence or is is just artistic exaggeration.

Still the video is fun, if 1500 years too late, and displays the level of ferocity I'm going to have to write a few times *practices grrrring*. It'll make a nice change from schmoop.

Comments

[britalone.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is indeed a thing of beauty. You picked out those two characters and made up a story about them? I'm chatting to a clever lady!
Do you think they saw the two dragons eating the horse? ;o) Or is that symbolic of one empire defeating another?
As you can see, I'm out of my depth here!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Anyone can make up a story. It's when it comes to committing to writing them down that I have problems.

There are places in the desert where fossilised bones of dinosaurs, and their nests and eggs, can be found on the surface. The variety of dinosaur had a head with an eagle-like beak and it would be easy for people to see the skeletons and say "Oh wow, look, a HUGE four legged eagle!!" and since eagles have wings, bingo, that's a gryphon! Griffin, however you want to spell it. The Scythians seem to have loved them and put them on all kinds of things.