Via Greengableslover 🧚‍♀️

hi sorry i have a question. how do you become a person. how do you develop the will to be a person. i have sadly proven unkillable

you have to be sincere. you have to stop being sad that you haven't been killed and take up the burden of loving yourself and taking care of yourself. and when I say love yourself I mean pretend you are an angel sent down by God for the purpose of loving and healing one specific person, yourself. and when I say take care of yourself I mean pretend you are an alien zookeeper and your only job is to look after a single human being in the Earth enclosure, you. after a few years of practicing this, you will develop the ability to like yourself and enjoy your own company, and you'll know enough about yourself to take it from there. I'm ordering you to do this, whether you have the "will" to do it or not, out of pure self-interest, because five years from now it will have made you good company and I prefer the human world to be populated with good companions. little lanterns against the inhospitable night of the age of Iron.

Emerald Moth (Geometra papilionaria)

JOY HAS A HABIT OF RETURNING. BTW

I am not a person who follows any particular religion or form of spirituality, though I do study mythologies of all kinds. Paganism is something I'm highly fond of. Which is why it's so satisfying to see how Loki's mere presence in discussion creates such chaotic upheaval and passionate argument, regardless of which version (popular fiction, modern pagan, or mythology) is being discussed. It's the closest thing I've seen to proof that a god exists and is extremely pleased with himself.

LOKI’S POWERS

Fairy kisses

The Ritual (2017) dir. David Bruckner

For @mythologicalnet‘s event: “Siblings”

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