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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I saw this on an ao3 appreciation post on tiktok and i cant stop thinking about it its so perfect

Ao3 screenshot saying: Notes: English is not my first language and I don’t want it to be. Any mistakes are made out of pure hatred and disrespect for this language. The English have taken enough from this world, I will not let them have my tongue as well. Thank you.

Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Iceland is a volcano Iceland is an earthquake Iceland is an avalanche Iceland is a shipwreck Iceland is a snowstorm Cattle-killer, harvest-failure, hunger-maker Experience it.

Streetsign ad for a tourist experience that states: Iceland is a volcano - experience it.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Tonight we stay in Borðeyri right next to the shoreline. The waves probably crash into the window during storms.

View from a window of the very nearby sea at Borðeyri, Iceland.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is the joy they would deprive us of.

Two famous art pieces. Above: Frieren drawn from below in a flawed perspective. Below: Famous art restoration failure of Ecce Home, Christ crowned with thorns.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Fountain pens are nice. But most often only on good paper. Good paper is good for everything. A Blackwing pencil or a Cinnamoroll gel pen will write beautifully on good paper, just like a Sailor 1911 will. Paper, paper. I love paper. #fountainpens

Writing sample on lined paper of a Sailor 1911 L in medium-fine, Sailor blue-black ink; Pilot Falcon in soft-medium, iroshizuku yama-budo ink,; Cinnamoroll gel pen in black; and Blackwing 602 pencil, along with each writing instrument on top of the page.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Non-Icelandic speakers, you’d better pray you get this book by @hildur.bsky.social in translation sooner rather than later. It made me tear up a dozen times at least.

Cover of the novel “Kasia og Magdalena” by Hildur Knútsdóttir.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Image from RÚV (Ragnar Visage) of the eruption that just started, again, in Grindavík. It lies right through the defensive walls and the new fissure is 500 meters from the nearest house in town.

Eruption in Grindavík, fissure volcano approx. 500 meters from the town of Grindavík.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Just another night (I cannot emphasize that enough).

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hosting an “election cafe” is a big tradition in Iceland, where the political parties host an open house where you can drop by to get a waffle and coffee. For the first time ever, the election cafe for Void and Invalid voters (perhaps the most ignored demographic) is held at Tjarnabíó theater.

Chocolate cake with a children’s drawing of a face, as well as text: “Election cafe for Void and Invalid votes, X-oops”.

Plate with cake, waffle, and a pin labelled Void and Invalid.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

This printer is the gift that keeps on giving. (My wife is a fashion designer for 66North.)

Polaroid instant photo printer with a photo of George Costanza in a Gore-Tex parka.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Hell yes, finally I won't have to make up bedtime stories for my child and can instead outsource it to chatgpt's plagiarism machine. This is exactly what people want and need in their lives. This is how they actually choose to sell their garbage. Ghoulish.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

And someone made this meme on reddit for a character in the story, which warmed my cold-blooded heart.

A meme format where a big lizard warrior holds a small lizard sorcerer, text beneath stating: I’ve only had Xetakti for a day and a half, but if anything happened to it, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

This quote is spot on!!! Honored to be part of this lineup at Reactor/Tor. There are some books there that I’ve got to read!

The book is a wild ride and should appeal to anyone who might like the idea of magical human skulls that operate as music/audio devices, highly restrictive schools of dark Norse sorcery, tribal human-bird warrior clans, exiled huldufólk (Icelandic fairy people) who feast on human memories, hostile scorn pole-based magical attacks, and clumsy golems made from unwashed laundry.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Eruption started in Iceland just outside Grindavík, apparently by the defensive barriers erected to protect the power plant. We’ve been waiting for this for weeks, they were just letting people back into the area.

Eruption images just outside of Grindavík.

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