I have an almost encyclopedic knowledge of fish from the atlantic basin, specifically in and around the south east US and Carribean.

It freaks people out sometimes when I just start reciting fish facts whenever the rare occasion this comes up.

It's from me living partially on a boat as a child and tearing through books about fish while dreaming of being a marine biologist until the cold hard reality of for-profit education hit me in my early adulthood.

What are your weird topics and skills?

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I am an expert in wierd 17th century Pastoral Operas in a Scots dialect that was already archaic when the pieces were written.

    I know more than I should about Minoan infulences in Apulian pottery of the LHciii to the late pre-geometric period.

    • The_word_of_dog [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Please recommend me a 17th century pastoral opera in a Scots dialect. That's way too niche not to be cool.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Well, it's technically early 18th century but in a 17th century style. The Gentle Shepard by Allan Ramsay, Father of Scottish poetry and of his namesake son, noted painter and Stuart supporter.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_zkIFldxbs here is the opening song.