A couple of surprises

On Hearthstone, there are special "golden" cards that are animated with special effects. Besides that and their higher worth/cost, they're just the same as normal cards. But I like them. Anyway, I decided to try my hand at making my own on Adobe Premiere. These are three gods from the Argae mythos. They're really low resolution because I wanted to use them on my Argae forum, but it turns out they're too big to put as avatars anyway. Go figure. Oh well. A fun idea and a nice gateway experiment for making GIFs.

And that's the sign that I need a vacation

Battle of Finnsburg Reading

I decided to try my hand at reading Old English aloud. Here's a passage from the poem on the last post.

Anglo-Saxon Translation: The Battle of Finnsburg

I'm learning Old English! And what better place to preserve my translations than Pretzel Lectern? This particular piece is an intense epic battle poem, but sadly only this fragment survives.

Blog Design overhaul?

So... what do you think of the new Pretzel Lectern? I thought the old version looked a little juvenile and flashy, so I tried to streamline it a bit and improve the overall appearance. But what do you think? Do you think it's boring now? I welcome your input as followers of my blog, so if you like the other way (or something more similar to the old way) better than this style, I would appreciate your feedback.