The amounts of time I have enjoyed watching and reading Vinland Saga is beyond what words can say. Yesterday morning I was once again deep into my re-read of the manga and I came to this here panel that I made me fall in love with Bjorn all over again

The gang is fleeing from the fearsome Thorkell the tall and are stuck on a bridge to cross a river. A very shallow part of the river. The horse pulling the sled is clearly tired and probably also quite stressed from the trip and the yelling and the dread and terror of the men that's right beneath the surface but very much palpable to the poor animal, which is only getting more anxious and tense as they move. Literally everyone behind the sled is screaming and crying at the horse and the driver of the sled to get a move on. Everyone just wants to survive a potential clash with Thorkell which seems more and more inevitable by the hour, if not by the minute. Everyone is scared. Everyone is scared that Askeladd will not be able to get them out of the situation alive because Askeladd's luck and ability to make the right decisions have seemingly run out.

And then we have Bjorn. Well to be fair I wasn't entirely certain it was him to begin with until I took my phone camera and zoomed in. Gotta love being nearsighted sometimes... Anyway. The camera confirmed that it was indeed him standing there, to the right. And the more you take a look at the situation, the more it makes perfect sense that it is him:

Neither is he screaming or yelling. Nor does he seem affected by the fear or anxiety of the men in the very least. I'm sure he understands their fear all too well. He's shown us time and time again that he understands them very well and spoken up for them to Askeladd on more occasions than once. Yet here... He's standing, not seeming the least affected by the screams, comforting the tired horse. From the following panels it is kind of implied he's led the horse and sled over the bridge since he's no longer next to Askeladd as the sled and the men are passing him.

Now that I think about it, I believe this goes very well hand in hand with what is going to happen next in the manga and anime, and that these events are driving home the main point about Bjorn's nature, not only as warrior but most of all as a man: that he is a steadfast man, in personality as well as in his loyalty and trust in his leader and friend, and that he's not easily influenced by the fear of others but is cool, collected, even serene as he looks ahead, even in the face of death and betrayal. His experience on the battlefield is one part of his strength, but his greatest strength of all is his conviction, his understanding of others, and his unwavering trust and loyalty to those he deems worthy.

I love how he's said that he's not on the battlefield for the spoils of war and the riches he can earn but for the fun of battle and enjoyment of killing.

And while that may be true, there are aspects in his behaviour throughout the series that to a certain extent indicate the opposite to be the case, that he may not be as bloodthirsty as he seems when it comes down to it, something that makes his character differ majorly from Thorkell the Tall, with whom he shares this enjoyment of battle and killing.

Much unlike Thorkell, he doesn't seek out fights and provoke others to get one, and he doesn't jump into the fray of battle headfirst, either. Instead, Bjorn seems to have a bit of a distaste for unnecessary bloodshed, torture, excessive violence, and particularly brutal deaths. I mean, every time such event has occurred on screen, Bjorn makes remarks on the nastiness of it, which is a pretty good indicator of the level of empathy this man is capable of, even if he doesn't do anything to stop or prevent it unless necessary. If he did, I have my doubts he'd have chosen to be a viking, or been part of Askeladd's men let alone his right hand man in the first place.

Sure, he had no scruples to let the young Thorfinn duel Askeladd, and even seemed to find enjoyment in the idea like the rest of the men, but when the little boy lost control and was kicked around on the ground as a result, he told Askeladd to stop if he didn't want to kill the boy. Sort of put into perspective the scene where he himself took Thorfinn hostage and threatened to cut off his head if Thors didn't drop his sword. I suspect that while he probably meant what he said, he may have done so purely to retake the control of the situation and to make Askeladd's plan succeed, and not because he actually wanted to harm the boy, or he would have done so when Thors was under their control. Same when he found Thorfinn in the forest after landing in England. He could have easily handed Thorfinn's ass to him when Thorfinn attacked him, but didn't. Instead he talked to him. Tried even to talk some sense into the grieving boy, and left when he wouldn't listen and attacked. It's quite nice to note that Bjorn since then has looked out for Thorfinn more than once after he became "part" of Askeladd's men, in his own, subtle ways, and generally been looking out for others around him as the story unfolds.

And how even in his final days and moments, he still expresses this subtle form of care, revealing how well he understood Askeladd, Thorfinn, and the rest of their comrades is both heart-rending and beautiful at the same time.

Overall, I find Bjorn's character and his dynamic with the others quite fascinating, and there are many more instances in the manga and anime than I mentioned here that can show us even more of this, but I'm afraid I'll just be losing my focus and get less coherent than this messy post already is, lol. I'm aware of the fact that Bjorn's laid-back, friendly nature at some point is meant to make the Viking group that Thorfinn becomes a part of as "easy to to stomach" and sympathetic as possible considering some of their less than honourable actions over the course of the story, but I don't really mind that. Because it is working. Bjorn was quick to get my attention from the beginning, and the more he revealed of himself the more I came to love him. I love how brutal he can seem only to turn out to be one hell of a Teddybear on the inside, expressed in his own, sweet, subtle ways. I will absolutely miss him when Vinland Saga second season hits the streaming services in a few weeks 💖🐻

for ur reference

adam could easily be 12+ few in some screens tbh but at MINIMUM he’s 10-11 feet tall.

he’s not even standing up straight and lucifer is still at chest level

even next to lute, who i’m estimating to be around charlie’s height based on her screens with vaggie.

and guess what

it’s literally biblically accurate for him to be a giant. a lot of people believe he was between 12-15 feet tall in the bible.

so. there you go.

adam is tall and fat.

& here’s some adam tummy to end the post for those of u who don’t accept that.

Adams Past Thoughts

(English isn't my first language so sorry if I make mistakes)

After finishing HH I got to thinking, was Adam always the way that we see him in the show.

Because he, Lilith and Eve were created without original sin. So it wouldn't make sense for him to be a complete idiot from the beginning.

Here's what I think could be a possibility on what happened (after all we don't know how biased Lilith's book is):

First he and Lilith are created

Maybe he didn't really boss her around and it was more like a situation of a sibling telling the other sibling what to do (I know they where married but it's the only example I could think of)

"Just because you're older doesn't mean you can tell me what to do" kinda way (since Adam probably was made first)

But it was not supposed to be an order from Adam more like a suggestion

So Lilith walks of and meets Lucifer

Heaven realises Lilith won't work as a wife and they create Eve from Adam

Eve is a lot more naive than Lilith

Adam is explicitly told to look after her and make sure she is alright

He does just that and they both are happy together

Lucifer and Lilith create the fruit

And in a rare moment where Eve isn't with Adam she finds the tree

Eve eats the fruit

She gives it to Adam

He eats it too because he loves Eve and doesn't want her to endure the punishment alone

Everything goes downhill from here

I believe they were not really capable of feeling negative emotions before they ate the fruit

Eve being the first to eat it develops a lot of doubts towards Adam

Why wasn't he looking after me? That's what he was supposed to do now we are stuck in a world filled with danger and death

Adam ,who before the fruit didn't care about Lilith leaving him, was now starting to yearn for the woman he never had. She was supposed to be his and now she is with the most hated being of all creation.

They never really expressed the thoughts they had after eating the fruit with eachother

Resentment started building up without them really noticing

They still held love for eachother and tried to survive in a world full of danger

It went alright in the beginning

They had two kids

Everything seemed to look up

But of course Cane kills Abel

And that was the last nail in the coffin

Adam and Eve could not cope with the loss of both their sons (let's pretend Seth never becomes a person in this story)

They still tried to stay together

But the resentment grows bigger

Love turns into hate and a lot of hurtful things are said between them

They separate and go there different ways

And lets pretend Eve really did have something with Lucifer

As soon as Adam hears about that his hate for Lucifer and Eve just grows bigger

What is wrong with these women? What is it about this Lucifer?

He develops a lot of doubts about himself in his living life. Which causes him to develop the fear of being left by anyone who he lets into his life.

After he died he hears all about how great he is being the first man and all

And over the years he starts believing that he can do no wrong and it was only his wife's and Lucifers fault that everything went to shit

And even though deep down he wants a meaningful relationship he opted to just go for hook ups in fear of losing someone again

And after a few thousand years those things develop into the kind of person we see in the show

But this is just one possibility

I hope it is understandable what I'm trying to convey

Please share your thoughts with me.

What do you think happened all these years ago?

God I fucking hate Olaf the snowman so fucking much holy shit. Holy shit, every frame he's in, every scene, every gif, every jpeg, he's got this painfully vacant, stupid as shit, fuckass look on his stupid lumpy face. Absolutely no part of his ugly as sin piece of shit character design is endearing. His stupid fucking legs? Who the hell makes a snowman with legs. His dumb flaily fucking twig arms? His shitty, lumpy bastard head? The three thousand percent unnecessary dumbass shitass fucking SNOW BUCK TOOTH that no snowman has EVER FUCKING HAD IN tHE HISTORY OF GOD'S GREEN FUCKING EARTH? God, I hate him. I hate him so much. So FUCKING much. Every time I see a stuffed toy Olaf or an Olaf gif or a shitty goddamn commercial, it ignites my primal rage response and I'm overcome by the need to punt this shitty little homunculus into the fucking sun. "Bhurr blur, I'm Olaf the fuckshit snow fucker, I like warm hugs". Fuck you. Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. You look like Tow Mater summoned a patronus. Your dumb fucking twig hair makes your whole shitty head look like a hairy skin tag. I hate your dumb fucking lumpy carrot nose and your stupid, empty googly eyes and your over-the-top goofy ass upbeat asshole personality. Any scene he's sad it invokes all the wrath and fury of a spoiled child having a meltdown over a chocolate bar in a w*lmart checkout line. And I know its irrational. That's the worst part. I know he's just a shitty fucking side character in a stupid fucking children's movie, I know it doesn't matter, I know I shouldn't care. But that's part of the problem. The part where no matter the might and fury of my hatred, the locus of my homicidal intent is alltogether inconsequential. I find myself laying awake in the dark in the early hours of the morning consumed by the spirit of Wrath itself, all the force and might of a flaming hurricane directed at a bottle of piss in a ditch by the highway. The absurdity of it all burns me to my core. What better things could this energy be directed towards? And yet my disdain for this stupid, useless, insubstantial failure of endearing character design utterly eclipses the intrigue of all other pursuits. I hate him. I hate him on a level of my mind reserved for the worst of the world's array of sinners, and I can't even begin to justify it. Shitstick the snow dick is, for all intents and purposes, the animated corpse of all of humanity's saccharine pretenses- every condescending, passive-aggressive statement of meaningless upper middle class suburban drama distilled into a single, hateable form. The fucking. Fuck. I have no words. There is no cuss or epithet in any language that can encapsulate the height of the emotions I am experiencing. God, I hate him so much. I hate him so, so fucking much. I want to light his ugly little dumpster body on fire. I want to graphically beat him to death with his own stupid fucking nose. I want to punch him to death. You know that weird feeling you get, when you see a picture of something so cute you find yourself overcome with the bizarre, inexplicable urge to squeeze it? It's EXACTLY like that, except instead of cuteness it's disgust. The wordless knowledge that his existence as a fictional work is evidence of all the failures of mankind. I find myself possessed by the will of a Holy Angel gone rogue with the belief that God has made a mistake, and I alone must correct it. This is the trial by which Samael himself fell from grace. This wild, meaningless rage. A thousand blades of shining steel cast with inhuman force in the direction of a plastic grocery bag floating on a breeze. What horrors must I have committed in a past life to be plagued by this torment now? I must Unmake this fictional snowman

Adel Sabi's baby tots sketches

another good time to post this

My New Year resolutions

Actually finishing paintings

She saw her moment and got glossed up for it

If the gore in a gore/body horror movie is mainly cg then what’s even the point