#new age tattoo

[omegalomania]

why yes i am getting emotional abt joe trohman finding out he was bipolar type 2 at almost 40 and dallon weekes finding out he was on the autism spectrum at 40. just think its important is all.

[rabbitprayer]

People who are terrified that some kind of pagan influence is going to taint their Christianity are wack. It's incredible what can be baptised in the name of the Trinity! There are people out there who think halloween and yoga are demonic. Meanwhile Mother Teresa was out there opening her first hospice home in an old Hindu temple to the goddess Kali. Grow up!

[sofarsogoodsowhat]

AUUUUGHHHHH MY HEAD HURTS SO BAD

[buglaur]

raffy!!!!!

[sqtorux]

i want a tattoo so badddddd

[theygender]

I've got too many games I want to play and not enough free time 😭 I still need to finish my BG3 playthrough but since Endless Ocean: Luminous came out I've been playing a lot of that instead. Also just got back into Wizard101 last night. Started playing House Flipper again last weekend. Still need to finish BOTW so I can start a TOTK playthrough and finish Pokemon Shield so I can start on Pokemon Violet. I've been fighting off the urge to start up a new Skyrim playthrough for weeks. My brother just told me that Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is getting ported to the Switch. And now I'm suddenly feeling inspired to replay DAI... And throughout all of this I'm also playing the hell out of DragonVale on my phone. Someone just pay me to play video games all day please

[tpup]

20 is such a baby to me and idk if that's fair or just me projecting bc who I was at 20 seems sooo far away

[statementlou]

Hello, do you think is possible that we will get a FITF live album? Louis and the band sound so good on tour.

they doooo! I love Steve's arrangements and additions to the songs so much! Honestly I have no idea; on the one hand it seems like Louis might be more focused on moving towards new stuff, like we are still in FITF mode but by the time it came out he had had it forever and now he's well into LT3 and probably feeling more excited about those new songs and sounds; on the other hand he is very good at working the industry stuff and all the angles and it's basically free money, right? He has said FITF was a further step towards the sound he wants most rather than the finish line, so it's possible that as happened with Walls as he works more on the new one he is getting less enthused about sharing the old stuff; but I think adding Steve's arrangements and just moving away from some of the songs seems to have lessened that this time around, so maybe that isn't a factor. Here's the thing though: the only way it would happen or make sense I think would be if it was recorded pretty recently, like one of the UK shows; the show was still being tweaked and gelled and cooking until then. But if they wanted to make vinyl (and surely they would? fancy double vinyl of live albums is SUCH a thing), that is very very long process of waiting around these days. First you have to get lacquers made (this is the physical thing that the recording is cut into that all the records are duplicates of- if you want quality it has to be more or less handmade by an artisan) but one of the two places left in the world that made those burnt to the ground in 2020 so there's a super long wait time on that. Then it just has to get made; but there are basically ten large scale factories left (again, in the WORLD) that press records so that also has a very long wait time... so it would take forever and the thing is I think we're getting LT3 in the late fall/ early winter (I bet he's using this month to finish it up so it can begin this lengthy process). So I kind of don't think so, like I guess they could do a CD/ cassette/ digital only in late spring and make so much money, and it would be fun, but who knows. Either way, I just hope Louis has Steve do some production work on LT3, I like his sounds and ideas a lot, and that he keeps him around to do his tours forever!

[doriansbutt]

felt like doing some art before work, and I miss my dragon age ttrpg character Mio…..

[poet-to-none]

De Landen Nation happy hour begins. Drink up 🩸🍸🍺🍷🩸

[ruinedcarpet3]

@ Sadieslime

[sapphyreopal5]

Lesson of the Day: Do your research before you get inked

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So ladies and gentleman, I present to you a lesson he may learn a little too late. Exhibit A, Jared's semicolon tattoo on image 3 makes sense, given his history with depression and suicidal ideation going back to Project Semicolon. Not sure about the letter F but it could be short or abbreviated for "fight on" or "fighter", such as seen here (one tattoo on this site being "f;ghter"). No need to elaborate much further on this one really. It's Charlie's Nordic rune inspired tattoo I want to delve into instead.

Exhibit B, image 4 in the Instagram post above is Charlie's newest tattoo. Given what I talked about here yesterday and the synchronicities I've been seeing with wolves coming from the Pads' way and even Charlie's who is affiliated with them. From his last post yesterday, it wasn't too hard for me to figure out what this tattoo is but had never seen this particular "rune" before. This tattoo is a modern take on so called "bind runes", meaning a combination of 2 or more runes.

Problem is, this is actually not even a bind rune that really means wolf, but is more likely a so called runic sigil or a personalized sigil based on what research tells me. Funny thing is though, whoever first made this "rune" spelt the word wolf in English and made this symbol, NOT how it's spelt in Old Norse. As you can see in this image I found the original one on Pinterest shows, really sure you can technically say this symbol contains 4 runes from this view below.... but this is not how combining Norse Runes to make it mean something actually works.

The word for wolf in Old Norse is Úlfr or Ulf, which is a common name in Scandinavia and even in parts of England. Below is how you actually write Ulf using Viking Age Runes, specifically Group A.

In other words, this symbol Charlie got a tattoo of is NOT the real combination of 4 runes, let alone this is not even how you'd spell out wolf in Old Norse using Old Norse symbols. Below, you'll see that this symbol he got a tattoo of REALLY is just a combination of 2 symbols for the Old Norse letters O and F. The F symbol below is the Fehu rune, which in short means "cattle", "wealth", and "abundance". The O symbol is the Othala rune, which in short means "home" or "heritage".

What are you really saying with this tattoo Charlie, you felt most at home living on Jared and Gen's "homestead" with their chickens? Is this really a funny way of saying "FO" short for "fuck off"? Or, did you just do a super brief Google search for "Wolf" and "Rune" and saw this on multiple websites and said "I'm gonna get this rune for my tattoo, 'cause I like wolves. The wolf is my spirit animal!"

This Reddit thread contains a wonderful comment in response to a Reddit user who got the same tattoo Charlie did. Funny in the video below, someone linked to in that same Reddit thread a professor named Jonna Louis-Jensen (who retired from the University of Copenhagen) was mentioned in this video. There's a good infographic of how Bind Runes work, how they DON'T work, and how they could've worked. The wonderful comment is as follows and perfectly summarizes what I couldn't on my own (I don't know that much about Old Norse runes admittedly):

Mathias_Greyjoy * 2y ago Sorry, but nope. That's not actually how runes worked. Looks like this was an attempt at a bindrune. Bind runes especially suffer greatly from misinformation and misconceptions, such as that they were created by mangling together several futhark runes to make some magical symbol or sigil. This is a new age interpretation of how Bindrunes work. Bind runes are used to save space in writing, not make up magic sigils. Check out this infographic to learn more about what bind runes were and weren't-

Rune letters don't have any individual meaning, magic or otherwise. The runes did have names that also represented things, such as Fehu which means "cattle; wealth" (but it doesn't represent a lucky symbol) and also represents the f and v-sound in the Younger Futhark and Futhorc alphabets. Many of these names are even contested and debated today. But the Norse did not actually stick single ᚠ letters on things and expect to become lucky, wealthy or protected. Anything claiming they did is unattested and not based in anything historic. The runes individually were never thought to influence magically. We know runes were used in some magic contexts, and runic amulets and charms have been found. However, the details are pretty much unknown, and anything claiming otherwise is entirely modern. We have no evidence or reason to believe "Rune magic" existed in the context of single individual runes having any magic meaning. They are characters representing one or more of the sounds used in speech. For instance, there is no such thing as a rune for Family, Loyalty, Love, Strength, Courage etc. They are letters used for writing, like ABC. We don't associate Latin letters with specific meaning, like "A represents wealth or B represents luck". Letters are sometimes used as initials and acronyms sure, like getting initials on a tattoo or necklace. But nobody looks at the letter B and thinks "Ahh yes, B is a letter of nature and fertility. It represents the pollination of flowers and production of honey. It is a letter that gives us the power we need to achieve new beginnings as well as the power to fly and communicate through dance. That's why I wear a B necklace.” That's not how the runes worked in Norse culture. If you see people talking about runes this way it's a modern religious thing they're doing, it's not based in anything historic. In our Latin alphabet A, B, C, D and R aren't magical on their own, but with them you can write magic formulas like "Abracadabra". We do have evidence of those formulas and charms from historic inscriptions, unlike the approach of "this rune represents wealth and good luck". That's how magical runes were: for making charms and formulas, and perhaps even the simple action of writing and reading was seen as exceptional and magical. But they aren't individual sigils. They would sometimes be used in single cases (similar to how we write "u" instead of "you" in text messages), but that's about it. Nobody carved single runes into things (like your necklaces here) to represent "wealth" or "good luck" or whatever. What is much more common is actually invoking it by writing it all out- "Thor grant me good luck" Or "Thor cast out this sickness, protect me". etc. if you want to call that a "spell" then that's how runes have a connection to magic. Give this video a watch and you'll see what I mean. (Real, Historical) Rune Spells

Lesson of the Day: Do your research before you get inked, so you don't look like a fool by those who do.

[lancehenriksen]

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[papakhan]

Please go and comission @noodle8 and look at this amazing art!!!!! 100/10 experience THANK YOU SO MUCH

[fifteensjukebox]

truly nothing like the girl i had a crush on in college (and in two separate conversations i suspected it might be mutual) posting from the beaches concert that leandra is an icon and also i found out s few days ago she and her bf just broke up

[men-men-everywhere]

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