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“Margaret Atwood says, “if you get hungry enough (…) you start eating your own heart.” Mine ate me. What does that make of this hunger?”

— i’ll bite the hands that feed me, Grace Moloney

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Poem 1710

For a persistence hunter I am easily pursued— All manner of tireless hungers Draw closer, while I ebb and wain And move in fits, with aimless purpose They stalk without effort Along the path of least resistance

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"Well, if you're not gonna force prisoners to do free/cheap labor, what else can you do with them?" Reform their antisocial/criminal behavior? Educate them? Let them go??? Start seeing prisoners as human beings instead of an underutilized economic resource????

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What are the purpose of bindrunes? I see lots of Heathen crofters make them but no one seems to have a straight answer about them or what their purpose is

Historically the purpose is probably saving space, most of the time. Other times it's probably to look cool. I mean, the thing is, like with most things related to runes, they're kind of just there when archaeologists find the thing they're written on, so the "why" is something speculated about after the fact.

It's suspected that some magical staves such as these were constructed by making bindrunes and then stylized to make the composition less clear:

For more on different types of bindrunes, see this post: https://thorraborinn.tumblr.com/post/180651108938/hello-one-day-i-saw-that-a-witch-had-a-rune

In modern times people use them to make Austin Spare-style sigils for religious/ritual/magical purposes, not really dissimilar to these staves above.

I think it would be best to say that there is no set purpose, just a set of techniques that can be deployed for any reason that the artist desires.

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"A similar association between heart and knowledge is featured in a second poem from Eddukvæði, namely in a few surviving stanzas of Vǫluspá hin skamma that are included in Hyndluljóð. “Loki af hjarta // lindi brenndu, // fann hann halfsviðinn // hugstein komu, // varð Loftur kviðugur // af konu illri, // þaðan er á foldu // flagð hvert komið”, the poem goes (Hyndluljóð, 2014, p. 403, st. 40; “A heart ate Loki // which lays in the embers, // and he found half-cooked // the woman’s heart, // pregnant of the evil woman // Lopt soon was, // and thence among men // all the monsters came”). Here, the woman’s heart is described as hugsteinn, “soul-stone” or “thought stone”, a puzzling definition which has been variously interpreted in previous years, with attention spanning from gender-related references (Clover, 1993; Clunies Ross, 1994, p. 184) to symbolic culinary ones (Borovsky, 2002, p. 12, fn. 5). Actually, the latter interpretation is based on the premise that eating the heart would give the eater specific attributes, depending on the organ’s degree of cooking: if Borovsky mentions the fact that the half-roasted heart (“halfsviðinn”) eaten by Loki made him “soft and cool” and gave him the ability to give birth to monsters, the fully roasted heart of Fáfnismál (“steikja”) made Sigurðr óblauðast[r], “least soft”, other than able to understand the language of birds. Interestingly, the hearts offered to the spákona Þorbjǫrg are more generally described as “búin” (“prepared”, “cooked”), and seem to have not affected her personal qualities, other than giving her knowledge about the future of the nearby environment."

- from "Eaten Hearts and Supernatural Knowledge in Eiríks saga rauða," Andrea Maraschi

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I am kind of proud of that Photo. Australian Raven spotted on Kangaroo Island/ South Australia🇭🇲

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日常 (Nichijou), Keiichi Arawi

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Look man it's taken me almost 30 years to figure out a fraction of who I am and maybe that's an indicator of how slowly I learn or maybe that's just how long it takes for us to rid ourselves of the toxic sludge adults filled our cups with as children but I will fill my own damn cup from here on out

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I won't tell you you're not a burden. But your burden is one those who care about you have chosen to help carry, just as you help carry the burdens of those you care for.

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how would you write Black Lives Matter in norse/runes?

Given my followers had to correct me like...three times on my last merch designs with runes, I'm probably the least qualified person to ask this lol

Followers, any help?

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Meeting older queer people is an experience I hope we all have when we need it. It’s a reminder that, even though it might be hard at times, we can persevere. Persist. Prosper.

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One might sense gods everywhere, even within one’s own self. What if I am I but penetrated by divinities? We have loosed these gods ourselves, they are our finest creation.

Alice Notley, from Certain Magical Acts

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Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

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‘No Work, No Prisons, No Alienation’

Graphic by Vezael

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The Flower Moon in a cobalt sky

© riverwindphotography, May 26, 2021

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“Last Light”

½ of the paintings I did for a recent exhibition “Unveiling Visions”