Always love when people get so mad about mythology
Like, it didn’t happen, it’s not real
Especially modern fiction based on mythology. Multiple layers of “some person made it up”
Like, Marvel’s Thor was single-handedly responsible for a lot of people’s renewed interest in Norse mythology and a massive chunk of it was just Jack Kirby coming up with wacky gibberish
Entertaining gibberish, but gibberish
Why is thor even blonde man, wtf. We know 3 things about thor’s appearance from the eddas
1: Redhead
2: Fiery eyes
3: Twinky enough that he can fit Freyjas dressWhich means we can conclude that Thor is a twunk, and no work has replicated this.
all the crossdressing and/or genderbending shapeshifting “as a joke” ““to trick someone”” was some of the more interesting things in nordic mythology and we’ve yet to see an adaptation do it justice
It even goes farther than that. Most magic, soothsaying, and divination was seen as feminine, so that we have attestations of several men/AMAB priests engaging in these practices often needed to cross-dress at the very least.
Loki got pregnant, Thor was a bride, Odin mastered the magic of women.
We need to petition a lore-accurate comic book series titled “Thor: Greatest Twunk”
I don’t agree. Mythology is part of culture and history. Works inspired by mythology don’t have to adhere 100% to it of course, but I would probably object if something was meant to be an authentic depiction of a mythology and they went out of their way to not depict the culture from which it originated. Like I’d be a little mad if I was watching something purported to be at least a semi authentic depiction of chinese myth and Yama is wearing a toga. By the same token I would appreciate it if more viking depictions wore tunics, and I am genuinely still mad at the fucking anime bullshit the National Museum of Denmark pulled for their depiction of returned Varangian guards.
fucking anime bullshit the National Museum of Denmark pulled for their depiction of returned Varangian guards
this?No they had these huge pictures hanging depicting actors wearing imagined varangian garb designed by some artist.
They were fully wearing silk yukata with one of those women’s bronze age belt plates and holding a semi authentic helmet.
The whole hall just outside where they used to keep the viking ship was covered in them.dang, doesnt seem to be any images online. i love a wildly inaccurate “reconstruction”. confusing greek and east asian silk has gotta be hilarious
I looked through my old pictures on my phone because I was sure I had taken a picture of it, but it was too long ago.
Weren’t the vikings such successful sailors/travellers that they directly interacted with Persia and China? Dudes was seeing the whole damn world tbh
they sailed to america as well somewhere in 800ad as well?
Leif Erickson or something I believe, yes, around that time. There’s remains of a viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Canada.
late 900s early 1000s
There is no evidence of which I am aware of that they reached China. But the volga trade route went as far east as modern day Uzbekistan and from there it connected to the silk road which allowed for indirect contact (Samarkand being a hub of both). It would be somewhat accurate to say they “directly” interacted with a Persian empire in the form of the Samanid.
Thanks, I was in fact remembering their volga trade route into the caspian. It was through this that they recieved some chinese goods but they definitely didn’t directly interact with China. I read an article about this like a week ago so my memory was a bit fuzzy :P
There was at one point a contingent of royal bodyguards in The Byzantine Empire that were entirely made of fucking vikings. Those guys got around to say the least.
Societies during the European dark ages were pretty connected. Not sure about china and persia specifically and directly though, lack of knowledge on my part.
Hey cool, let me try!
Norse mythology
Greek protagonist
“Olaf! Getten ze axen, ze woken are Greeking ouren gamesen! Typical cultural Marximedesists!”
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You know of all the ways to depict a scandinavian accent, this may be the wrongest.
Vit fóru til Miklagarðr ok ekki allr persónar veru hvítir! Hvat er sjá marksismr!? Furða!
spoiler
I suck at norrønt, but supposed to say: we went to miklagard (Istanbul) and not every person was white! What is this marxsism!?¹ [this is] sillyness/bullshit!
Pronounciation guide (approximate, idk true norrønt pronounciation, also norrønt was somewhat tonal and that isnt represented here. I also placed tapped r instead of rolled r where it made sense to me, but rolled r is i think appropriate everywhere):
/vit/ /fuːɾʉ/ /til/ /miklagaɾðr/ /ɔ/ /eki/ /alr/ /peɾʃuːnar/ /veɾʉ/ /viːtiɾ/! /vat/ /ær/ /ʃaː/ /marksismr/!? /fʉɾða/!
¹ not meaning “what is this, marksism!?” But rather like “this is marxsism wtf!?”. Word order implies meaning and grammar that can be hard to translate between languages. Its not a question of whether or not its marxism, its an assertion that it is marxism and an expression of outrage/frustration/wtf that gets formed as a question-sentence.
The video game where gruff man kills greek gods got unbelievable when they introduced a black.
The video game where a greek guy literally emigrates to Midgard, where he then starts hopping realms to kill off Norse gods (tbf in self-defense), and then the game ends by
God of War 2018
teasing most/all other cultures’ pantheons are real in this game’s universe, too
Not that any of these tourists know or care about that, of course.
When the next game features the egyptian pantheon, surely they’ll be upset that too many white people are involved?
It’ll be a toss-up between
’s being upset that Cleopatra isn’t a big booba lady they can goon to, or giddy that they can kill a bunch of brown-skinned gods. Which reminds me, Kratos is depicted as having tan/bronze skin in the original game, before he’s cursed to have his skin covered by the white ashes of his dead family. Dude is literally only depicted as white because of a terrible curse put upon him by the gods.im gonna be honest, if cleopatra isn’t a big booba lady, i’ll be immensely surprised.
I know the og series was infamously horny, but the new games are actually very tame as far as sexuality goes! I can’t even think of any characters that showed cleavage. Tonally, they are very different from the ps2/ps3 games set in Greece.
The entire plot of GoW 2018 is that Kratos’s wife has just passed, and so him and his son take off to fulfill her last wish to have her ashes spread “across the tallest mountain in all the realms” and it’s all very somber. (Aside from all the gods and minions that you have to go John Wick on along the way.)
And since it’s been a few years since I played, I wanted to look into it to be sure I remembered right, and I found this interesting article (aside from some mild ableism) God of War’ reinvented: From sex games with Aphrodite to deconstructing masculinity
He get another wife? Is he immortal or something? He still have god powers from taking Aries place or whatever he did in the first games?
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Killing gods is always self defense
Viking grave
ring that says “For Allah”
Blue Man Group getting cancelled for doing blueface
Subsaharan Africans among the Vikings was always feasible, if uncommon. We know the Germannic Vandal tribes made it to at least North Africa (supersaharan?) after the Roman Empire collapsed and Vikings were ruling England by 900 CE, and trade was crossing the Sahara for the wealthy Kingdom of Ghana if nothing else.
You don’t have to tie yourself into knots dragging Vandals and the Rhoynar and the first men into this. The víkings raided muslim lands in Iberia where they freely attest the existence of black people (“Blue men”), and while it is quite likely they would sell any such captured person before getting home, you could have the descendants of captured slaves taken as thralls instead of sold off going viking (Remember viking is a profession not an ethnic or cultural group) along with the descendants of their slave masters.
Which is sad.
Like the idea of a black viking implies sad stuff. Plausible stuff, but sad.
Chuds cant be bothered to watch the 1999
documentaryfilm The 13th Warrior starring Antonio Banderas.It is not a good movie necessarily, but the story that the book by Michael Crichton is based on (minus Beowulf) is itself based on the writings of Ibn Fadlan about his time with the Volga Vikings.
i’ve been a tv director for a decade so i am uniquely qualified to tell you the 13th warrior is a good movie necessarily.
Tech companies: Why are you booing me? I’m right…
Even the AI can’t draw a swastika
Swastikas are probably against the llm’s tos like porn or violence is I’d hazard a guess. But it can still mock up a white german ss soldier from what it looks like.
Perhaps, but I still think it’s funny that not even the Nazi robot can do a swastika
Yeah you’d think Grok would be the one but even that is censored too, so.
Teal’c ! My man
I mostly remember Christopher Judge as the voice of Magneto in xmen evolution
Indeed?
came here for this one lol, thank you :>
im blue bada dee bada die (i’m not im a cracker)
I hate that this chud uses Gally as their avatar. Fucking pea brain shit.
