MANNAZ & WYRD

Eira Olfrið Loptsjarsen. Inclusive Norse polytheist, Loki devotee, bioregional green witch and textile artist, vitki-trainee and aspiring pagan monastic. Internet old and mom friend. Queer as in identity is an ongoing lifelong process of shredding social constructs and shedding harmful normative behaviours. She/They. White supremacists and TERFs not welcome here.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Alberta premier warns separation could cost $400B. Separatists, economists and Brexit scholars have thoughts | CBC News

Almost $400 billion of transitional costs, plus somewhere in the neighbourhood of $25 billion to $50 billion in annual costs. That was Alber

Almost $400 billion of transitional costs, plus somewhere in the neighbourhood of $25 billion to $50 billion in annual costs.

That was Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s early estimate of the price tag facing her province should it separate from Canada.

“I think it’s responsible for us to be very forthright about the cost associated with what is being proposed, so people can make an informed decision,” Smith said Monday.

Read more.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland @abpoli

[finngualart]

live unfaithful husband reaction

[rain-44]

The embrace that feels like home

[gatheringbones]

tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”

[quasarkisses]

i needed this as a background

[spectrexviiii]

[lokeanwelcomingcommittee]

Hi everyone!

Our inbox has reopened to asks & submissions. We are going through older asks and answering them slowly, so please don't be jump scared if something you asked 1 year+ ago is randomly answered!

I would love it if y'all could send us some asks/submissions with (or tag us in posts regarding):

Lokean art (of all types, crafts count!)

Altars

Prayers

Poems

Lokean-owned businesses (preference for art/crafts/etc)

Uh

Like literally anything loki/lokean/norse just don't be a meanie

THAT'S ALL BYE

-R

[tilviljunarkenndr]

Njörðr I don’t think that’s the point he’s trying to make here.

[tilviljunarkenndr]

Yeah I REALLY don’t think that it’s the adultery he’s complaining about. Njörðr you’re missing the point.

[tilviljunarkenndr]

“Your culture is fraught with inbreeding and your family makes the house of Habsburg look like a suburban cookout. I tried to draw your family tree and it was a straight line. This is why your son turned out the way he did.”

“Lmao you were PREGNANT 😂😂😂😂😂👌👌💯💯🫃🫃🫃😱😱😱”

[pragnificent]

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

[thingsamylikes]

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

[lemonsharks]

always reblog money snake

[oberonsson]

Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring

[anarcho-wormism-deactivated2019]

😮

[garrettauthor]

Oh NO.

[treacleaergia]

me, a sheltered noblewoman: Pray who is that brave knight? Dame Archer:*turns around* me: gasp! *instantly in love*

[dirtyriver]

Alicia Archer

[ex-sang-uination]

my bi heart………

[ohmightysmiter]

I’VE NEVER SEEN THE ADDED PICS

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

[nyx-belial]

*dies*

[garrettauthor]

Oh shit.

[notlostonanadventure]

GAY KNIGHTS

[unicornofdarknessstuff-deactiva]

Fellas I’m real gay

[thecarrott]

@0hheytherebigbadwolf HELP!!

[0hheytherebigbadwolf]

Every June this inevitably winds up back on my dash. And I appreciate that. And I will reblog it. Every time.

[rockitcat]

Hey, it’s @archerinventive, and the Pride Knights!

[dychelicerae]

[obligate-rebel]

Hagall is the rune which gives its name to the middle of the three commonly used ættir ("families"), which posed a little problem for those who thought that the ættir should all be named after deities. By the mid-20th Century, replacing Fé's ætt with Freyr's, or sometimes Freyja's, was practically traditional, and it was at one point proposed that Hagall had been a god.

As far as I can tell this probably originates with Helmut Arntz, whose Handbuch der Runenkunde was in many other ways one of the most sober runological works to come out of Germany at this time. Arntz refused to toe the Party line that runes were the world's oldest script, derived from Bronze Age petroglyphs. This was an important strand in the Ahnenerbe's fantasy that civilisation was founded by the Aryans, variously located in either Germany, Scandinavia, the North Pole, or Atlantis. Arntz's vocal opposition to this brought him under suspicion, and eventually led to the loss of his academic career.

Early English-language rune divination authors initially picked up the idea of Hagall being a god, and it is found in work by "Athene Williams" (Murry Hope), from whence it was copied by Michael Howard and Ralph Blum, but the idea failed to really take off and it is usual now for people wanting deities' ættir to change the name to Heimdallr's.

[poeticnorth]

I'm putting together an e-anthology about the Brittonic pantheon (I'm including Welsh & Arthurian figures for this as well). Details on my Lay of the North Sea blog

Seeking Writers For E-Anthology

For a while now, I’ve been wanting to put together a collection or rather an anthology of poems, myths, prayers, rituals, and so on revolvin

[theflaminggoat]

Wanna print yer own Progress Pride Hammer stickers? Files free on my 🔗Ko-Fi~🌈

[morbidmomma]

Not so humble

[shiverandqueeef]

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[lokeanwelcomingcommittee]

The committee blog has been restored!

-Mod R (the LWC founder who abandoned this blog for a decade lol)

[rainbow-runes]

I hate the way runes look as just colorwork knitting, so I've been working on a project to make knitting charts for all the runes as smooth cables. No more jagged edges! I'm still doing the rune in contrast colors, which involves changing colors mid-cable. I have to make two stitches into the same gap to get the effect I want. The increases and decreases make it a bitch to chart. It's a complete bear to both knit and chart. Sooooo. Is anyone interested in these charts? Or a description? I'm willing to share the secret sauce, if anyone wants to join me in locoheim.