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akreon:

Lesser Demons - Gwent Card by akreon

mayphenix:

peacockandyagi:

chromalogue:

kirkspocks:

odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

Oðinn spake:

Bright the sun shone | at the time of Þor’s birth,
And bathed his count'nance fair.
Loki, wolf-father, | the trickster, the liar,
I found on the cold pavement
While returning in glory | from a grand hunt
For a 3 AM quesadilla.

@mayphenix

@peacockandyagi Bless you

renamonkalou:

The light

❄️ Ioana Forna

6 Novels & 2 Novellas for those who love a little wicked, magical fun! Soul Marked has a new home with these tales … Trickster fae, dark elves, fairy queens, Mercutio(!), dragons, witches, vampires, shifters, and even the devil himself all get their due. Christine Pope, Kate Danley, Anthea Sharp, Jenna E. Johnson, Alexia Purdy, and Debra Denbar all contributed some of our favorite books! We thought our fans might like to get them all together. Pick it up at Amazon and Enjoy! :-D

theartofwingingit:

satsekhem:

girlandfox:

anaputuwet:

lavenderbiscuits:

anaputuwet:

girlandfox:

anaputuwet:

THIS WEBSITE IS SAYING RA CRIES BEES CAN ANYONE CONFIRM

Wiki says:

“In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra when they landed on the desert sand.”

Don’t let Ra cry around sand.

oh my god

@theartofwingingit we need a meme level picture with the words “save the bees” on top and “make ra cry” on the bottom

I chose to go in a different direction with this

furiousqueerious:

phoebebishopwright:

A deer wanders quietly in a church in France.

old gods

iwilltrytobereasonable:

vrabia:

medievalpoc:

siavahdainthemoon:

kibumunnie:

soufre-de-paris:

GUYS THIS IS AMAZING

SERIOUSLY

6000 YEARS

STORIES THAT ARE OLDER THAN CIVILIZATIONS

STORIES THAT WERE TOLD BY PEOPLE SPEAKING LANGUAGES WE NO LONGER KNOW

STORIES TOLD BY PEOPLE LOST TO THE VOID OF TIME

STORIES

@siavahdainthemoon This is relevant to your interests

@kibumunnie this is absolutely relevant to my interests, I thank you for thinking of me

I’d like to add this to the pile of evidence for the people who get all “but HISTORICAL ACCURACY” when it comes to whiteness and fairy tales. Because apparently some of these stories could nearly predate the ability of human beings to evolve light skin, and definitely are older than the ability to digest animal milk.

Will we see the discourse goalposts move to pre-historical accuracy?

Snarkiness aside, I really wish the disciplines would communicate more in matters like these, because I think that the implications for our greater cultural consciousness regarding human mythology and modern sociological structures are kinda cool?

so i went and read the study because i was curious what these stories actually are and the data they use comes specifically from indo-european speaking societies so it’s not a worldwide thing. but the method they used is pretty amazing. 

anyway, the only story they could confidently trace back to the bronze age (the bronze age!!) is ‘the smith and the devil’. three other stories (’the boy steals the ogre’s treasure’, ‘the animal bride’ and ‘the grateful animals’) have a +50% likelihood of being part of the proto-indo-european story corpus. 

and here are the other stories that can be traced at least one level up from current european languages:

eyes #660

Okay, what has Omega done to the timeline now?

hinducosmos:

Lord Shiva (via Pinterest: VINOD KUMAR)

cutepetclub:

From @this_girl_is_a_squirrel: “