My newest digital painting of Loki!
Almost gave up with this halfway through, it really wasn’t working. Stuck with it though, kept coming back to it and having a look, and I’m really pleased I did! It’s taught me to stop abandoning my artwork if it feels as though it’s not good enough. All I needed to do was just spend more time on it. 🙂
Depression Palate™ means most things don’t taste good unless they’re heavily spiced, but Anxiety Stomach™ produces too much acid and gives me indigestion when I eat spicy and/or acidic things.
At least cookie dough ice cream still tastes good.
If you are having a bad day
Consider the time that DeForest Kelley (Bones in the original Star Trek) was on stage, playing a scene that had him stripping down to his boxers.
But in taking off his shirt he accidentally snapped the necklace chain he was wearing. And the charm that hung from it, an anniversary gift from his beloved wife Carolyn, fell off the stage and into the darkness below.
And he was so upset that he completely lost his focus. Peering into the darkness after his wife’s gift, he accidentally hooked his thumbs under the waste band of his shorts instead of just his trousers.
And pulled his underpants down.
On stage. In front of a full house.
And knowing that, I hope your day now seems just a little less bad.
DID HE EVER FIND THE CHARM
HE GOT THE CHARM IT’S OKAY HE GOT THE CHARM BACK
Seriously, I love you people
Amnesiac Cordelia in season 4 of “Angel,” which aired 2002-3, on what she does and doesn’t remember: “I know who’s president, and I kinda wish I didn’t.”
According to Wikipedia, Joss Whedon wrote this episode (“Spin the Bottle”). I really like the framing, with Lorne telling the story and occasionally popping up to narrate inside it.
Amnesiac Cordelia in season 4 of “Angel,” which aired 2002-3, on what she does and doesn’t remember: “I know who’s president, and I kinda wish I didn’t.”
the lock jammed on the front door of my shitty prewar apartment building so i just spent twenty minutes forcing it open while my very drunk neighbor sat on the steps nodding at my efforts and going “this is fun. being locked out together. we should hang out more”
he’s like 6’2” and jacked at one point he was like “try a kick. try… kicking it” so i donkey kicked it as hard as i could and it did absolutely nothing but he was still like “wow. more torque…. than i expected. you’ve got a surprising, uh. torque to size ratio” and i think i’m putting it on my resume
Triggered by another post I didn’t want to hijack:
Excalibur.
In the legends, Excalibur comes out of a lake (although some versions have Excalibur as the sword in the stone, those are later…the sword Arthur pulls from the stone breaks and he goes to get a better one).
From the “Lady of the Lake.”
Here’s the thing.
In northern Europe in the Iron Age all the way through to the early Medieval period, most iron came from bog iron. It was hard to smelt, because it was a rather low grade ore, but you didn’t have to mine it and it was a renewable resource (in about twenty years you could just come back and get more, because it formed constantly).
Meaning that the iron used to make a sword came…out of water.
In most fairy stories, fairies don’t like iron. So the vision of the Lady as some kind of fairy or elf? Not likely.
The idea of her as a druid? Maybe.
But what’s far more likely is this: The Lady of the Lake was a smith.
But….but…
The Celtic deity in charge of smiths and ironworking was Bridget, a goddess. The mystical associations with the Lady would fit with her being a priestess of Bridget…and thus, a smith.
IOW, Arthurian people, maybe we should not be visualizing the Lady of the Lake as a slender, graceful woman in a gown…
…but as a jacked smith in an apron.
Yes PLEASE!
Been thinking about this, and wikied bog iron and holy shit, I did not know bog iron was a thing, or that it was the primary source of iron for most of Northern European history. I knew anaerobic, iron-fixating bacteria lived in bogs because I knew they were responsible for a lot of the hydrocarbon production that makes the water shimmery and the air smell distinctively swampy. I did not know that they produced so much iron out of the water that they effectively made metal a renewable resource.
Next you’re going to tell me that Vikings had plastic from bogs, too.
I’m thinking it’s something a lot of Americans don’t know about because early Medieval history is not well taught here.
God forgot to give sins to the angels and thumbs to the goats, so that angels have more thumbs than they can handle, and goats have more sins. To this day goats and angels both adore and resent humankind for having BOTH thumbs AND a capacity to sin, in balanced and wieldy amounts. That’s a fact about the creation of the universe
……i can’t tell if this is shitposting or talmudic midrash
Surprise it’s both
Loki is the Philosopher King 