Organization is the best way to Procrastinate

Studyblr for whatever my hyperfocus is this time. Is it botany? witchcraft? look you get what you get.

[artfulendeavors]

Ya boi demanded some artistic attention/ offering (and it’s true I have been neglecting him 😭) so here’s a lil loki doodle in between serious business stuff. Was feeling a pirate/ vampire/ howl vibe if you can tell

[alexidoesart]

Loki disguised as the Bridesmaid, from the myth of the Þrymskviða!

Its been ages since I made one of these, I'm happy to be making phenakistoscopes again!

[northen-star]

✶ .　he said "draw me like one of your french girls", i said "bet"

just kidding, but not really. this art piece is a submission for the Lokean & Norse Myth Discord Server Art Contest!

heavily referencing the greek statue of Bacchus eating grapes as well as other references (like the sofa).

you can also say this is my contribution and devotional art for Lokabrenna & July for Loki, so yeah! hope you all like it <3

DO NOT REPOST OR USE AI © northen-star

[elizatungusnakur]

"Loki sits and tells legends to the Asgardian children on a long winter evening."

Artwork by Lotur Norn / Norna Severnaya on VK.com

Please also, in your efforts to reblog, go support the artist directly at the sources provided. :)

[mark-gently]

i learned a new pangram today:

Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.

[deadhaven]

One of my favorite kennings for Loki is "farmr Sigvinjar arma", which translates roughly to "the cargo of Sigyn's arms". Add a little Gustav Klimt to the equation, and you have an idea that's been plaguing me for months.

[the-elf-witch-from-space]

Ми просто відчували: це любов

[aaeternamque]

The Spirit of Spongecake Day and the Passage of Time

I'm 33 now. I've got silver hair coming in my hair and what beard I've managed to grow thus far. Today I got groceries and there are strawberries in my fridge. I was maybe 19 when I made that offering and in many respects that part of my life feels like it happened to someone else.

Not in the sense that I've turned away from it, but that key choices I made in my mid-20s allowed me to grow into who I am now. (And who I suspect I would have always been, had it not be for many factors in my personal life.) My circumstances have changed, but the past housing and food insecurity is never far from my mind.

When the offering was made, I certainly never expected that anyone would remember it after so long. Nor would I have believed that some people still mark it on their calendar as a low-effort, low-cost way to honor Loki with sweets and humor. I put the photo out there, but to was the Lokean community who decided what it was. You all, still, decide what it is.

As my circumstances have changed and I'm lucky enough to be able to, I plan on making a donation to a local food bank in my area on Spongecake Day. The amount depends on how much I'm able to save, but at least a few hundred. I say this not to pat myself on the back but to consider how Spongecake Day's meaning, for me, has grown as I have.

The core of the original offering was that I didn't have a lot of fresh food and offered what I had, even though I wanted to hoard it all for myself. Times, especially in the US where I live, are such that many families are struggling to get food or other things they need. For me, as an adult with some expendable income, Spongecake Day is more about paying it forward. Helping others. I strongly believe that if I have the ability to help, I am morally and ethically obligated to do so. And I believe this is what Loki might expect as well. I am, again, speaking for myself and my practice.

I see Spongecake Day as a day of humor, silliness, taking joy in the small things we can do and that no act of devotion is too small. I also see it as a reminder to care for others in our respective communities in any way we can. Especially in this current political and social climate, when government systems are unable to care for their people as they ought to.

Ultimately, the choice is not mine to decide what Spongecake Day is or will be in the future. Or if it indeed has a future. It's up to the Lokean community at large. It doesn't belong to me. It belongs to all of us.

[lokeanwelcomingcommittee]

This is so heartwarming, and what a beautiful message. I'm sorry you received the initial response that you received, but I've always loved that the community rallied and turned it into something fun (and sort of a "fuck you" to folks who want to dictate others' practice).

Spongecake Day is very much alive and breathing. The bard quite literally sing of your tale, LOL!

Donating to a local food bank is such a lovely idea - I'll take up that tradition too, and I encourage others to do so!

-R

[theflaminggoat]

Loki and Váli 🎣

If yer a member of my Ko-Fi, you've been seeing this piece progress~

Loki teaching one of his sons how to read the water, wind and sky while fishing. Kept getting Queer elder feelings while rendering this about teaching kids how to navigate a world that would gladly see you dead. :(

[secondlina]

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[lastoneout]

this is my entire stance on the "american food is bad" discourse summed up

[thebeatleshermajestydotmp3]

Listen man, its a work week, you just got done your shift at the dollar store, youre in a rural area and the local waffle house is a 35 minute drive away and driving from the waffle house back home will be another 45 minutes, so what youre gonna do is youre gonna pick these four bad boys up from the dry goods aisle, drive home, cook some Carolina long grain rice with a little bouillon cube stirred into the cooking water, and in a separate skillet, youre gonna add a tsp of veggie oil or if youre lucky some butter and cook down some of that garlic. Then add a little extra oil and if you have spinach or any hearty greens, youre gonna throw them in your skillet with some salt and cook them down, if not thats okay. But youre also gonna transfer your rice from the pot into the skillet with your garlic (and veggies if youre lucky) and stirfry that rice for a minute or so. The bouillon cube didnt quite season your rice to your liking, so youre gonna throw a little extra pinch of salt. Perfect. Then youre gonna turn off the flame and add parmesan to taste. You take a look in your fridge and you see that you have a little parsley left from the last time you were able to clock out early enough to stop in at the local Food Lion and its still in good condition. Youre gonna wash that parsley, dry it, give it a quick chop, and finish your fake risotto with it and a couple splashes of lemon juice.

You have some rice left over so you know whats for dinner tomorrow night and you can sleep soundly. Country girls make fucking do.

[lastoneout]

Peer reviewing bcs prev knocks it outta the fucking park.

[ladybrythwensinclair]

Hail Loki

Hail to the mighty and loving One Hail to the cunning Lie-Smith Hail to the progenitor of mighty beings Bless and walk with us this day

[ladyshinga]

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[sourcreammachine]

[voidpaws]

ok anyways. post this beast

[foxonrollerskates]

I HAVE THE OTHER PART TO THIS PHOTO

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[sashayed]

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

[feminist-space]

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[baddywronglegs]

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

[shrewreadings]

Не верите. Доверите.

Do not trust: verify.

[blaquesails]

In her last years, along with her sons, daughters and grandchildren, she added at least 16 tigers to Ranthambore’s population. What would have happened to Ranthambore without her is unimaginable, but she rode out the crisis years, and finally handed the prime range of the lake areas to her daughters to fight it out. She moved several kilometres away to lead the last years of her life. Her teeth were worn out — one was broken, and as the years rolled by, she lost all of them and still managed on occasions to kill and eat deer. Though she was helped by the park management, I still could not believe her ability to survive. By the end of 2015, she was the world’s longest living wild tigress. I saw her in early 2016, scaling a mud wall with such surety — it was just astonishing. Twice in her last year of life, she walked back to her original range of the lakes, spending a week each time at her old haunts. Few other tigers fought with her. They seemed to accept the fact that she was the grand old lady of the lakes.

— Valmik Thapar, “The Machli I Knew: Remembering the grand old dame of Ranthambore National Park”

[professorsparklepants]

The turn of the century was very troubling for tigers. Big hauls of tiger skins were reported across India and the booming illegal trade in China had put a price on every tiger’s head. It was in this climate that Machli conceived her first litter. There was a severe drought in 2002 and most of the lakes were drying out; it was at this time that the tiger–crocodile conflict was at its peak. One hot afternoon, while Machli and her cubs fed on a sambar deer, an enormous crocodile tried to join the feast. Machli’s devotion to her cubs was legendary, and to protect her food and her cubs, she raced towards the 12-feet crocodile. Her ferocity was unimaginable and the battle lasted nearly an hour. Machli smashed its head with her powerful paws — the crocodile died a slow death but Machli had rewritten the natural history of tigers for the world to see. It was the first recorded encounter of a fight between these two predators and remains etched in the annals of natural history. Fateh Singh had been proven right — she became a star as several BBC documentaries recorded her life. She was the tigress of the lake and entertained every visitor with her unruffled demeanour. More than anything else, she stirred the soul of those who saw her. Her base for herself and all her litters was the ruined Mughal summer palace at Rajbagh on whose balconies she lazed and watched the world go by. Today, her daughters do much the same.

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

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Not brushing your teeth??

In THIS economy???