wait! What's the story about the spongecake? :o
Answering a couple asks at once:
Once upon a time, two years ago, late on the 4th of September, a Lokean posted an image of an offering to Loki of strawberry spongecake.
And someone took it upon themselves to exclaim how this was SUCH THE WRONG OFFERING TO MAKE HUFF PUFF IT WASNâT HANDMADE HOW IS DESSERT RIGHT HOW DARE U.
These were the days when there was often DRAMA IN THE LOKEAN TAG and this, as you can imagine, inspired some. But it escaped the Lokean tag and swept across broad swathes of witchypaganetc. Tumblr, and the vast majority of peopleâs responses were variations on: âWhatâs wrong with cake?â and âUh, itâs Loki - Loki appreciates sweetsâ and âWhat, now we have to own COWS so we can WHIP OUR OWN CREAM???â and âNot everyone can AFFORD FANCY OFFERINGSâ and were generally supportive and awesome. (There was also a confession of someone having offered Thor, the actual deity, pop tarts.) There was thoughtful analysis of historically-attested offerings that have things in common with the offered spongecake. (x)
The, uh, discussion shall we say, lasted for hours and hours, stretching across international timezones, hence the reason some people insist the holiday is September 4th and others mark it on the 5th (x). I say there is nothing at all wrong with two-day holidays.
Eventually the discussion devolved - or perhaps evolved - into people posting nothing but images of cakes.
And thus, in an event vaguely reminiscent of some mythic events, a controversial and upsetting event set off by, or rather on behalf of, Loki, ended up bringing diverse peoples together in a common cause: CAKE IS SRS BSNS. And a good time was had by all. Or at least most; the cake-hater probably didnât have such a good time.
(Later that month was the controversy over underpants with Mjolnir printed on them, but that is a tale for a different time.)
Hereâs one part of The Post and Ensuing Thread that Started it All.
Hereâs some art and poetry commemorating the event.
I tagged a bunch of things with a ridiculous tag I can never remember when I want to find the damn posts, so HERE. HAVE MORE HISTORY. Or hit my archive for September 2012, thereâs more in there.
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titsay
romaincrisis
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