Get in touch!

Shoot me an email at GiveMeMyEpisodesSaban@gmail.com, or find me here on Tumblr! Technically you can find me on Reddit too, but I'm on there way less than I used to be. :P

Genuinely don't be shy about reaching out. :) I don't know how to set up comments on this thing, or I'd give you that option too, so I hope this is a good enough starting point for striking up a chat. I love this show, and I'd love to talk with folks about it.

Rarely Asked Questions:

If I'm lucky, it'll get me in touch with a new friend to nerd out about fan theories and maybe share fanfics. If I'm really lucky, multiple people like that.

Realistically, I'm setting this up for the next person that's in my boots: someone who weirdly remembered this show, fell weirdly back into it (hard), and can't find anything about it online. There's some stuff on AO3 and Fanfiction.net, but I remember there used to be other early-2000s websites set up about it.

There was one in particular that gave a grade for all the ships with Deirdre, and I remember her reasoning so, so fondly (agreed with Ivar getting an A, disagreed with Angus getting a D, agreed with the show pushing Rohan flatly and pushing Garrett a little less flatly). I can't find that site anymore. I'm assuming it got deleted over time, which sucks 'cause she had a fanfic about Ivar's sister coming to Kells. I don't really remember it, and I only skimmed it because I was in my 'snobby about OCs' phase, but I wish I could find it now. Not enough other Black fans in any fandom, least of all in one that's so ancient and apparently obscure.

Same for old Tumblr blogs. I wasn't on Tumblr back then - I was in my 'I'm on Cracked/Reddit so I'm snobby about Tumblr' phase - but I did run into an Angus/Deirdre blog that's gone now, sadly. All that stuff, all those fans... :(

So this is me shooting a Golden Record into the abyss of internet-space: I'm not holding my breath that any hardcore fans will find it (or exist), but if they do, they'll have another fan's rambling and analysis to keep them company. :) That's especially true if someone stops by after I've already switched to something else. Who's gonna be there for them? Past-Tartra, that's who. It's what I would've wanted to find for myself but couldn't.

... and then like maybe one of the actors finds this and goes "oh that's neat, let me read it, wow this is so charming and definitely not weird." maybe they look at the questions i very badly want them to answer and are like "sure here's the answer for you, gee i can't believe someone cares about my work enough to notice and ask such an insightful question." maybe they're like "omg i was actually always a massive fan of this show but i felt silly talking about it 'cause it was for kids and i was on it" and then we talk about it and agree it's fucking awesome and we're best friends and we hang out and plot a hypothetical second season - idk, it's a hypothetical, no one's gotta make a big deal over it

It's October 2024, so I'm 34 years old.

'Cause it's awesome - what do you want from me?

It's a kids' show. I'm waaaay out of the target demographic. If I was stumbling onto it now, no, it wouldn't click. But I watched it when I was eight and I still have fond memories of that, so as an adult, I can see the potential for building on those bones. I'm out here slapping it into being a whole new experience: angst where there wasn't previously angst, drama and murder and intrigue, the real horrors of war, grief, Game of Thrones-y plot, picking a character and saying, "lol you're evil now, let's see what happens," and a bunch of funny shit because I finally appreciate how hilarious King Fin Varra was. Obviously I'm doing the heavy lifting here, but there's so much I can draw from that only exists in my mind because the show exists.

So I love adding nuance to it. I love reading too far into unintended implications. I love drawing messy conclusions or revealing tragic origins for things happening off-screen or earlier in the characters' histories. It's a fun, compelling puzzle, and it's had me locked into it for a solid year now. Possibly a year and a half. I just keep coming back to it over and over.

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Because Angus is hot, okay?

That's the whole reason I liked the show in the first place - eight-year-old me went, "ooh he's cute, i'm gonna stare at him," and twenty years later, I still absolutely stand by that.

The first time I checked to see if my memory was right, I was damn-near holding my breath. But I called it: eight-year-old me had good taste, she doesn't miss, and then I checked to see what he looks like now and I'm still winning.

No, I don't want to talk about how hot the actor is. I already know that. He knows that. The show itself cast him so they could acknowledge it on a weirdly (but appreciated) regular basis. We know.

... but like idk if you want to talk about how hot the character is to every other character in the show and maybe make it relevant to some sort of plot where we kick up a fight, brew some jealousy, deeply wonder about how hilarious it'd be if he'd ever hooked up with Maeve then found out 'oops that's my best friend's mom' - yeah, I'd be down if you're down.

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Honestly? My favourite thing is just the friendship Angus and Rohan have. Love it, love imagining how much they had to rely on each other as kids, love having that get taken for granted now that they're older, love throwing something else in to make one of them think their friendship is taking on any sort of water... Just love it. Love almost ruining it purely so they come back stronger at the end. And I love seeing how that affects Cathbad's opinion of Angus too, since they've been a package deal for most of their life.

And then after that, basically everyone.

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But in PG-13 terms. Let's not get carried away; this still is a kids' show uwu

The operative word here is 'basically.' I can pretty much get on board with any ship by finding some angle to like about it. I'll have ideas where I've paired/grouped people together that fully contradict what I had set up the day before, too. So even though ten seconds of looking around will make it obvious what I find the most compelling, I'm open to chit-chatting about whatever. Individual character analyses is top-tier content to me.

I actually worked so hard to do that. :3 I'm still planning to make some adjustments - maybe a border of some kind around the textbox, maybe a cursor effect, maybe some midi music... I don't know how to make dropdown menus for navigation yet, but I'm 50/50 on whether I want them anyway. Having to click-click-click means way more to me.

Do you like the sparkles? I purposely sized it so you get that classic, "Uh, your background wasn't long enough" tile effect as you scroll. And look at the watermark - it's beautiful. I'm not changing it.

Also don't look at it on mobile. I did my best to make it look okay, but there's a giant, empty, purple box at the top because I can't figure out how to shrink the header size. :/ This is a "best experienced on desktop" site.