Hoyt’s Huns

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

hoytshuns1So it occurs to me I should give some sort of explanation — you see, I was so happy I could breathe that younger son brought home a different kind of bug, so by last night I was feeling okay but what’s technically known as dead.  Too dead even for book covers.

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And lo and behold there was an Asterix near me.

A few notable Huns:

(And I didn’t do a lot of you because I either had no time/energy or because there was no suitable image for you.  You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find free clip art of female fighters.  As for Wayne Blackburn being nice — he is.  Why last month he only ate HALF of a troll’s liver.  AND he used a fork and knife.)

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106 thoughts on “Hoyt’s Huns”

  4. Looks nothing like me, failing completely to capture my caricature.

    Where’d you get the baby picture of Undead Gaius Iulius, though?

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    2. BTW – don’t think I didn’t notice you casting me as the Obelix equivalent: dumb, unaware of his own strength and prone to breaking things.

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      1. Yes, but two things: first, I always had a soft spot for Obelix. Second — this is the internet. Your strength is of the mind. As for breaking things, I don’t know. CACS hasn’t complained.

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    3. “There’s a special place in Hell for handicapped people. It’s mandated by the ADA.”*
      Among the lessons, lesson week 9, is how to tell offensive jokes like that, Wayne. Great for the image.
      (*) – I stole that joke too, which is lesson week 10.

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  8. Two things:
    This post is really good. I like these.
    Second, is anyone else getting notified of posts that then don’t appear on the blog? It’s happened twice in the last few days, first with the latest chapter of Elfblood (which fortunately shows up at MadGenius Club) and just now with a post titled Free Men.

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      1. Ah, it appears that’s what it is. That’s a USEFUL glitch. I don’t mind advance notice, but I was afraid I was missing the comments.

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      1. Oh my, that’s incredibly cute. Brought a smile to my face as I’m starting work — thanks.

        If she wants to see more “birdies”, by the way, I got my avatar image from a public-domain painting by Robert W. Hines, who did a lot of bird paintings for the Fish and Wildlife Service. They can be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Hines — and the FWS’s copyright policy is, basically, “All our stuff is in the public domain and you can use it freely”. So all those pretty bird pictures on that Wikipedia page? All available for anyone to use, however they want.

        Sometimes, a government agency actually does something right. Makes a nice change. (Would make a far nicer routine, though.)

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      1. Wait, wait, I thought RES was the one who does things that “just aren’t decent” with puns!

        The carpapult doesn’t seem to have the range, so I’m going to have to go with an alternate means of revenge. You may find a generous helping of nam pla added to your breakfast cereal when you least expect it. :-P

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  14. Heh.

    I would always be very willing to go for raids on land. I get terribly seasick. You don’t need a storm or heavy weather for that, some gentle swells will do it. My father worked in ships occasionally until the mid-70’s, and I did one trip with him and mother to Dublin when I was 12. On the return trip we had some of those on the North Sea, and I puked for three days.

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        1. If I remember your height right, yep, definitely taller. My hair still hasn’t gone all grey, but it has lost the slight reddish tint it had when I was young, and there are a lot of grey hairs mixed with the brown. My eyes are more grey than blue, and rather dark shade of that, still.

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      2. Scopolamine, I don’t know if you can get it there, you can’t get it here without a prescription, but you can get it in Canada. It is supposed to be very good for seasickness, much better than Dramamine, but I have never taken it. I have taken Dramamine, but since I have never been seasick, with or without it I can’t give a personal observation of how well it works.

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        1. Hm. All I have ever tried is the stuff which is given out free on the ferries between Finland and Sweden, and I have no idea what it is, they give it as tablets which have been taken out of their package beforehand. It works, but at least for me it eases the symptoms, does not eliminate them.

          Mostly I just avoid ships. And boats. Or the whole sea. I like water only as long as I am able to see the bottom from the surface. Swimming pools are fine.

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          1. Phenergan, Compazine, Zofran. All of them prescription here, but VERY effective. They give them to patients receiving cancer treatments. Younger son says that they helped when we gave him some of my wife’s, when Dramamine didn’t help much at all.

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      2. We also need a shelf for Thomas Sowell. Also for Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. Sowell gets mentioned here as often as RAH.

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        1. Yeah, but while I add books if I recommend them here, not everyone does.

          I’ve added Sowell since there are several books by him, and also Theodore Dalrymple, but we could stand a few books recommended by those who have read them for those shelves.

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          1. Hmm. We have Eat the Rich — I added it — but someone who’s read All The Trouble In The World will have to add it. (I have scruples about these things. 0:)

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          2. I do not add books to that shelf, but if I did I would add O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance and Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut — each of which I have read sufficiently to endorse.

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      3. I recall someone asking for more young adult books on there a while back, so I joined tonight and added a few, will go back and add few more later.

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      2. I’m beginning to worry about the number of times my back brain puts dinosaurs into my books. Of course, being a T-rex with only two fingers per hand would explain a lot about my typing skills . . .

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              2. Would you like to specify your rank in the Council Guards, before the battle? Captain Blackburn has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? As in “Captain Blackburn, ignore the rampart built of the bodies your fellow guards. Just go kill the finest swordsman in the world.”

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  22. Cool! I always wanted to go a-viking. (Since people in this area get all het up about a simple friendly bar fight). Are we going to be raiding for chocolate soon? I’m out…

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    1. hoytshuns7*

      This is why I’m half afraid to meet you in meatspace, either you would beat me up, or we would both end up in jail. :)

      *I blame it on the Irish.

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        1. You do have the horns already . . . [ducks pedant about to remind world that Vikings didn’t wear horned helmets]

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  24. Oooow…. *wipes tears from her eyes*

    LOVE IT!

    Especially since I still harass my husband about being an elf.

    The Princess wants me to explain what is so funny.

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  25. Cool. I’m not skilled at troll slaying myself but I love to see the Huns take the trolls out with cool logic, well-reasoned arguments and varying degrees of mockery.

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    1. *chuckle* I’m usually late a slow when the underbridge dwellers come around with their poorly crafted puerile argumentation, personal attacks, and bizarre twists of fancy. I do enjoy seeing the Huns defending this little patch of the internet with style and verve, too. *grin*

      I like this place. There are few like it on the internet, where folks are unabashed about sticking up for what I think is right. It’s also a lovely thing that Odds are welcome here. And stand in good company.

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  26. Love the images and the insinuation to Monty Python, say no more

    if you ever draw me I want the Winged shoes of Hermese and a beer mug in my hand.

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  27. These are great! I’d say more, but I’ve been outside where my phone gets the internet for long enough that my fingers are getting chilled through the gloves. Gotta go back into the heat and thaw out before going back to work.

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  29. The Book Loving Dragon was a picture of him reading a book with a “Do Not Disturb” sign next to him. [Wink]

    Oh, the “Do Not Disturb” applies to salesmen and Trolls, not Barflies and/or Hoyt’s Huns. [Smile]

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    1. Grumble Grumble.

      That should be “wants a picture” not “was a picture”. [Embarrassed Grin]

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