Today the Department of Awesomely Good Deeds salutes Mustafa Efe, Imam at the Mahmud Hüdayi Mosque in the historical Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey. In addition to his religious and community leadership work, Efe is a devoted animal lover with a great big heart. Last year he began welcoming the city’s numerous stray cats and their kittens into his mosque. Efe refers to his feline visitors as “guests” and wants them to find safety and warmth within the walls of his historic mosque, particularly during the cold winter months.
One mama cat was observed bringing her newborn kittens into the mosque one by one. She carried them in her mouth up the stairs and over to the safety of the mosque’s pulpit, where she proceeded to groom and feed them:
On Facebook Imam Efe wrote, “The kitty has found the heart of compassion and mercy.” Meanwhile other feline guests are known to sit in on Imam Efe’s sermons alongside human congregation members.
If the Loki tv show is real and happening I hope they make him use his magic for fighting and defense. It seems like in the films, they slowly forgot he had magic and made him only use knives. I liked how he was in the first movie, you get to see how all the stuff he can do.
I want to see Lokis’ eyes turn green with his magic.
I bought this pewter Dagaz rune pendant at the Renaissance fair yesterday. It’s supposed to symbolize a breakthrough or positive life-transformation. It also occurred to me that the meaning (day, dawn) coincided with the title of one of Nietzsche’s books, alternately translated as either “Dawn” or “Daybreak,” but the German title is actually “Morgenröthe,” literally “morning red,” so that doesn’t quite work.
Later I looked up about more about rune meanings and discovered that ansuz, the “messenger rune,” is the one associated with the god Loki. Maybe I’ll look for that online or at my next weird street fair.
I bought this pewter Dagaz rune pendant at the Renaissance fair yesterday. It’s supposed to symbolize a breakthrough or positive life-transformation. It also occurred to me that the meaning (day, dawn) coincided with the title of one of Nietzsche’s books, alternately translated as either “Dawn” or “Daybreak,” but the German title is actually “Morgenröthe,” literally “morning red,” so that doesn’t quite work.
I just remembered another convenient plot hole in TR. In the scene where Thor forces Loki to reveal himself, why Loki doesn’t have Gungnir with himself?
As we’ve seen in other movies Odin doesn’t carry Gungnir with himself when he is in his home/palace. But it’s not logical for the king to not bring his weapon with himself when he is out of the palace and among other people. What if someone attempts to kill him? Loki specially is a person who doesn’t trust others with sth like his life. He would think of possible dangers and has backup plans for them. He would think of sth possibly goes wrong and his cover’s blown, and then the guards might turn against him. He wouldn’t leave a weapon like Gungnir in the palace. Just imagine how the scene would have played out differently, had Loki had Gungnir to defend himself against Thor. But no, according to TR, Loki isn’t intelligent enough to think about sth like that!
I think if you analyze TR deeply enough, you will find that it is the sea of motherfucking holes.
I mean, she looks amazing already because Cate Blanchett is an actual goddess, but she would have been legitimately SO TERRIFYING and deeply eerie/unsettling and heartwrenchingly compelling. Mmmmm.
Anyway I’m just grooving on this AU now. I love Kirby’s art and the idea of doing an homage to him but like as a monumental capstone to the trilogy, GdT at the helm would have been INSANE—and also did you see the lighting in Crimson Peak, the dude would have just nailed the aesthetic left right and center
And I’m sorry but I can’t stop— the idea of not just Hela, not just Thor but Jotun Loki in GdT’s hands is making me weak
I would write that AU if I were half as creative as GdT… but since I’m not, I can only imagine it vaguely and wistfully.
Loki is the Philosopher King 