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it's for science. eat it

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TB/X brief summary

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Excalibur v4 #22 (2021)

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The Evermore Grimoire: Mythology

The Golden Apples of Idunn only grow in Asgard and can only be picked by the goddess Idunn. The apples are what granted the Asgardians their youth, vigour, and virtual immortality. They grew on a tree in a garden on the east side of ‘Hall of Valhalla’ in Asgard. At point Loki, the trickster god kidnapped the goddess after a dispute with a giant named Thiazi. Without Idun’s apples, the gods quickly began to age and their hair turned grey. When Loki was found to be the one behind all this, he had to choose between paying with his life or bringing Idun back home to Asgard again.

artwork by IrenHorrors

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This may be your experience, but it is certainly not universal. There are definitely communities of the very poor and hungry that do not share food because they simply cannot and expect to feed themselves and their families. Famine makes people make difficult decisions when it comes to hospitality. My grandfather's family experienced famine before he and his brothers came to the US. He was always reluctant to share food with others and stockpiled quite a bit of nonperishables just in case.

It drove my Italian grandmother crazy and they fought hard over it sometimes.

Even in the US, the supposed "land of plenty" it was not always culturally expected that you would feed guests especially when times were tough (looking at you, Great Depression). This is where the huge number of cultures in the US becomes obvious bc in some places it would be unthinkable to not offer food or drink and in others it simply wasn't done.

There are very large German and Polish communities where I come from and I know they were not prone to sharing food when times were hard either (here, obviously, not talking about those countries).

So I guess my point is that traditions around hospitality greater differ around the world due to a number of factors. Affluence is only one of them.

the 'will people feed you' discourse rn is very funny and hopefully a wake up call to some of the rude freaks scattered out there across europe, but I do want to note that the cultures we're talking about are cultures of the affluent. literally everywhere I have visited, working class people share food as a matter of course. everywhere I have visited, working class people push drinks and snacks on you the moment you walk in the door. there's a layer to this conversation that only exists among people who have the choice to be miserly and unaffected by their neighbours behaving the same way.

the first time I experienced being completely shut out of another family's mealtime, it was when I was a teenager on an exchange trip to the netherlands. I was staying with this family, and literally reliant on them for food and housing. The day I arrived they explained to me what time mealtimes were, and that I would not be fed unless I arrived at the table on time. One morning I was running a little behind because I had trouble figuring out how the shower worked, and when I came downstairs my hosts were already eating. They hadn't set a place for me, and they all ignored me and continued conversing in dutch. When I timidly tried to serve myself, they gave me look as if I had just walked in off the street and started raiding the refrigerator. They were an intimidatingly affluent family.

one morning the mother had to drop me off early at my work placement, before the building opened. I was sitting outside on a wall for like 50 minutes by myself with nothing to do, and an older lady running a food cart nearby started chatting to me (she wanted to know I was okay, because I was like 15 and not in school, and was very interested to hear that I was on exchange from scotland). she offered me a free breakfast, and when I said I'd already eaten she gave me a drink and a packet of crisps to keep for lunch, and kept trying to make me try fried things that were apparently dutch specialities but were way too much for me at 8am. she was very sweet and funny, and had infinitely more in common with the poorer dutch students who I would meet at a separate pan-european thing later than with any of the kids or parents around the upper middle class academy we were paired with that year. people are people everywhere, some are just more inclined to worry about appearances than others.

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WIZARD COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENT: Please stop attaching knives to weather balloons and just letting them go

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mullet obi-wan kenobi is the best thing in this world

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tim was so mad about being ‘fired’ from robin (it was at best a forced promotion) as if every robin before and since hasnt also gotten fired or otherwise forcibly ejected from the role. come on man. i thought you wanted to be a part of the club? this is what being robin is about. it’s a tradition

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I love Dragon Age 2 because you get to lead a pack of raging bisexuals around a dumpster fire of a city while being a TOTAL sarcastic bitch if you choose to be with the option to have hate sex at any opportunity but also if you sit and think about it all for too long you will realize this is actually the saddest game you’ve ever played

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father daughter bonding

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niece? daughter? grand daughter, maybe

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the other day I saw a tweet where someone asked why pride flags only had colors instead of featuring flames, explosions, and dinosaurs and my brain thought, you know. that seems exactly like the kind of flag they might have on the boiling isles

also please appreciate my flag it’s so small in the comic I spent longer making it than I did drawing the panels

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