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jabberwockypie:

karpad:

copperbadge:

jabberwockypie:

arinrowan:

toastoat:

met-greekroman-art:

Limestone votive pine cone, Greek and Roman Art

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Limestone

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/242331

Hee hee

For ritual purposes.

*nods sagely* Definitely some very important rituals going on there.

Guys this thing is 7” in diameter. If you can get that into your ritual use more power to you. It will almost definitely require prayer.

also, it’s limestone. porous, flakey, gritty limestone. Genuinely a terrible idea.

While Sam makes a valid point, I think it’s also worth noting that something being a terrible idea has, historically, stopped very few humans from Doing The Thing.  As evidenced by emergency rooms across the country.

Hey, guys, maybe it’s actually a votive, like it says. But of a butt plug. (You cannot tell me the Greeks and Romans didn’t make butt plug offerings.)

lovepsychothefirst:

isaiahmustafa:

Watson and I feel that, in order to do our best work, the chemistry needs to be right.

#see THIS is what makes Sherlock in Elementary so unique#a lot of versions of Sherlock#or pretty much Any modern crime drama would have the brilliant detective calling the other detectives ‘idiots’#or ‘amateurs’ or basically insulting their intelligence and ability as detectives#here Sherlock is both acknowledging their skill as detectives and crediting that to their Captain’s leadership#while also acknowledging that he can’t work with them because THEY don’t like him#all the while he is accepting as fair because he’s self-aware to know he’s not easy to work with#there are ways to depict an anti-social genius without being a huge asshole to everyone#and this is it

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

elizabethan-ho:

loptrcoptr:

kawaiite-mage:

spikedbat:

joss whedon: loki tortures and murders people for fun, and, despite being the god of CHAOS, is a fascist who says things like “it’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation” 

taika waititi: loki is an annoying little shit who day-drinks, puts on theater about himself, and fucks his way to the top

joss whedon: loki and thor are gods, so they always talk proper and posh and in cryptic riddles so for no reason. it makes them seem more powerful and mystical.

taiki waititi: one time when they were kids loki turned into a snake because he knows thor loves snakes and then thor went to pick up the snake and then loki turned back into himself and screamed “yueagh, it’s me!” and then he stabbed thor

Taika Waititi has a deeper understanding of Norse mythological accuracy than Joss lol

It’s because Joss Whedon looks at all mythology and religion through a Christian-atheist lens. You can see it in Buffy and even a little in Firefly too. Even when he writes about other religions and their deities and practices, it still comes back to Christianity.

He wrote Thor and Loki as modern Western Christianity would portray Jesus and the Devil as opposed to how they actually are in mythology or the comics

That…is a really good addition as to why Whedon gets Thor and Loki
wrong and why Taika did a far better job with their
characters/personalities in Ragnarok

Taika also comes from a cultural background that includes trickster gods in its oral tradition.