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minus-squareMechanicalJester@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoWhen you look directly at her, presumably her face.
minus-squarebig_fat_fluffy@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoIt’s a metaphor for the intellect. A hundred competing thoughts, like writhing snakes. You are frozen by indecision. But that’s mythology for you. Literalised metaphors and vice versa.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoOoh. What other metaphors have I missed from Greek mythology. Is the minotaur a penis? Are sirens prostitutes? Is the cyclops a penis? Etc.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoVoldemort seems to be doing exactly that in this comic, with no ill effects. I wonder if he has some sort of immunity due to being a parselmouth…
minus-squareScubus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoLikely the horcruxes. Or, getting turned to stone is a euphemism and voldemort is impotent due to his experiments, which we do have some evidence for.
minus-squareOneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoOr maybe turning to stone is a euphemism and he’s bricked the fuck up, but just out of frame.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoAh, I had not considered the potential effects of the horcruxes.
When you look directly at her, presumably her face.
It’s a metaphor for the intellect. A hundred competing thoughts, like writhing snakes. You are frozen by indecision.
But that’s mythology for you. Literalised metaphors and vice versa.
Ooh. What other metaphors have I missed from Greek mythology. Is the minotaur a penis? Are sirens prostitutes? Is the cyclops a penis? Etc.
Voldemort seems to be doing exactly that in this comic, with no ill effects. I wonder if he has some sort of immunity due to being a parselmouth…
Likely the horcruxes. Or, getting turned to stone is a euphemism and voldemort is impotent due to his experiments, which we do have some evidence for.
Or maybe turning to stone is a euphemism and he’s bricked the fuck up, but just out of frame.
Ah, I had not considered the potential effects of the horcruxes.