Ireth
Myth Weaver
I actually don't know what movie you're referencing. Lol
It's 300. You know... "This! Is! SPARTA!"
I actually don't know what movie you're referencing. Lol
Nope. Still no clue....you haven't noticed "Sparra" sounds suspiciously like a certain city-state in southeastern Europe?
Okay now I get it. But tbh the two words sound nothing alike.It's 300. You know... "This! Is! SPARTA!"
Okay now I get it. But tbh the two words sound nothing alike.
Hey, I just remembered one. When trying to trick my MC into giving up his humanity and entering the Otherworld, the Faeries basically paraphrase some verses from W.B. Yeats' poem "The Stolen Child". That four-line refrain at the end of each stanza is so haunting.
I don't think I have, but I'll definitely check it out! Yeats is one of my favorite poets--he's the one who taught me to appreciate and embrace my Irish heritage.
I referenced Poe in a short story about ravens. I didn't know his name meant raven though.
At one point my protagonists visit a pub called The Lesser Weevil.
I've definitely laid a few Easter Eggs in my work (desperately erasing mental image) but I tend to hide them with anagrams. Alektin Sola is a character in my book responsible for great inventions and innovations. His scheming partner's name is Haimes Dotson. Another off screen inventor's name is Heriker Nhitz. They're all pretty obvious but none are main or even secondary characters so I don't mind if they're spotted.
I sometimes find them when I didn't intend to. I have a thief character who has a small stature and I imagine having a Cockney accent and there is a famous, small English thief of the same name who is similar in other ways. I, of course, bought an old movie and book about him off Amazon right away.
I know I have others but I can't think of them at the moment.