I heard someone complaining "Why did they have to put pixel art on the Museum of Ethnography?!"
Reader, they are traditional cross stitch patterns.
I heard someone complaining "Why did they have to put pixel art on the Museum of Ethnography?!"
Reader, they are traditional cross stitch patterns.
I have seen it before, but it doesn't cease to astonish me to see people complaining about the X-men "becoming woke."
Like.
Dude.
My dude.
My dear little angry strawberry muffin.
THE X-MEN?!
Have you, like... literally... read any of the basic premise?
Ever?...
You know the dilemma folktale type where four men create a woman? Carpenter carves her, tailor dresses her, jeweler makes her jewelry, scholar brings her to life. And then they fight about who gets to marry her.
Well I just found a Tamil version where the woman dumps all four of them, saying they should care about her own qualities, and not bicker about who did what for her.
And then she goes to the king and requests a proper husband.
Win.
So in honor of #PrideMonth
I am reading an article about how every time ancient art depicts a goddess as sexually alluring, they always get labeled a "goddess of fertility". Even when there is no indication of children, pregnancy, or anything fertile.
The article argues that some goddesses were deities of sex and pleasure, without the maternal fertility aspect.
I am like 🤯 🤯 I have a whole entire archaeology degree and we never addressed this...
Saw this stork today, sizing up an ice cream truck outside the stork sanctuary. Wonder what they were in the mood for. 😄
Everyone in Brussels is all Manneken Pis this and that. But no one tells you about Ridiculously Jacked Baby Hermes 😶
I made a thing 😊 A medal for myself based on a Bronze Age Minoan seal. Original CMS IV 257, found in Malia. Dated LM I-II (so... roughly 3500 years old). It was red jasper so I used a red background. I think it's a crane, though the original publication just said "bird" 😅
Here's the thing, I'm not an artist or anything. But I love Minoan seal designs, and I think it is a travesty they're not more popular in souvenir terms, so I decided to get crafty 😄
Watched a teen quick-sketching people while standing (!) on the tram, and everyone was watching them smiling.
Yes. This is how #art happens.
#FolktaleMoment of the day, from a Hungarian Roma folktale:
A man sets out with a sword and encounters a sleeping 7-headed dragon. Not wanting to kill it while it is asleep, he lies down and snuggles it. The dragon wakes up later, sees the sleeping man, and decides to not kill it while asleep either.
(They do fight later on.)
My dad went to the movies and accidentally caught the Bob Marley movie... dubbed.
Into Hungarian.
I don't think he'll ever recover.
😅😅
Crowdsource: name movie (or TV) scenes where someone assumes a person will be unattractive / horrible, and then the person walks in and turns out to be stunning.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
I once again made a compilation of folktales for the occasion.
This time, it's tales where women save themselves. Because they DO EXIST. 😉 (*cough* #Damsel *cough*)
Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2024/03/folktales-about-women-who-save.html
#folklore #folktales #storytelling #women #WomensHistoryMonth
#TFL you do three hours of research into a story, only to finally remember you have already blogged about it two years ago... 😅
(granted, didn't dig this deep last time...)
Today in underappreciated mythology:
I'm digging into the story of Euthymus, a legendary (but real) Olympian boxing champion from the 5th century BCE. The story says that he defeated a ghost-zombie-werewolf monster in a boxing duel.
The monster was the ghost of one of Odysseus' sailors who violated a maiden in Italia and was stoned to death for it. His vengeful revenant kept demanding a tribute of virgins - until Euthymus showed up and banished him
Today's match is Horseshoe crab vs Vampire bat! Vote in the toot below!
3/13
I love it so much that Ryan Reynolds is just guerilla rebooting the X-men because Marvel could not be bothered to do it right... 😄
My new favorite #memes are the ones coming out of Louisiana in the wake of the #PolarVortex. 😆 Cajun husband says they are very accurate.
(And yes I do think dumb memes are the only acceptable use of AI)
Starting to realize that info dumping is part of my love language.
I'm like "Hey, look at these fascinating things I learned/ read about, aren't they shiny? And cool? I think you are a cool person and you might enjoy these!"
If I do this to someone, it's a sign of trust that they won't make fun of me. (I'v been bullied for it as a kid).
I don't know whether I am neurodivergent in some way, but people misread this a lot.
Me, after 60 minutes of bedtime struggle bus:
"I'm just going to pretend I'm asleep. I'm not going to react to ANYTHING."
Child creature: *Cheerfully walks a plush penguin up my arm and makes it pee in my ear*
Me: *immediately fails all Stealth checks*
😆 🐧
New #ToddlerDnD spells:
Protection from Food Which is Evil:
- turns any attempt at feeding into an AoE attack with a 20ft radius
Negative Sleep:
- casting time: 2 hours
- duration: 30 minutes
Cocomelon's Hideous Laughter
- deals 2d12 psychic damage per episode
- if you fail your Wis save, it will get stuck in your ears until the next Long Rest
Summon Other Parent
- if summoned parent fails a Wis save, this reverses the effect of any spell previously cast by first parent
Professional storyteller and author from Hungary. MA in Archaeology, MA in Storytelling, PhD in Culture Studies. I write about folktales, folklore, mythology, representation, role-playing games, and nerdy things. She/her#ttrpg #folklore #mythology #storytelling #archaeology #fedi22Hobbies and interests include #crochet, #beading, #archery, #travel, and #geology
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