#the bifrost

[allasters]

GPT IN OIL PAINT! It only took months, but I finished it!

Done on an 11x14 canvas :-]

[ender-of-the-sender]

Is that a Mechanisms reference?

[nothingshortofshocking]

Don't know if I've posed this already but eh

This is the Ratatosk Express for Midgard, calling at Yog-Sothoth who is the Bifrost, The Roiling Nuclear Chaos, the Centre of Reality, The Shattered Tatters of a Sane World, and Midgard. Delays possible.

Thank you for travelling with us today! We wish you a safe and pleasant journey.

[confusedgeckotree]

Random thoughts for the Bifrost / Void / Yog-Sothoth / whatever:

Swirling cosmic rainbow madness is FUN,

But hear me out:

Shits a fucking png. In real life.no matter what angle you look at it. No matter how far you move. It's the same gods damned still image of swirled rainbow madness. It's like an image burned into your corneas. Because it's so fucking big and you are so insignificant that no matter how close you are its still the same static image. Enough to drive someone to insanity. On security footage, it's the same. In black and white footage, it is the same cosmic rainbow mess but it's s t i l l.

[mendelmakes]

For the back of the cards I wanted to heimdall guarding the bifrost. After doing some reading I learned that heimdall and loki were often juxtaposed against each other in the mythology so I thought that would make a fun card. Heimdall guarding yggdrasil on one side of the bifrost and loki and his trickster flames on the other side.

[judahmaccabees]

[nikoisme]

"i'm gay", "i'm straight" okay and??? I am the serpent that shall poison the sky and boil the sea?? The land shall freeze eternal as yog-sothoth beckons us hence?? whose voice i heard when first we built the track so long ago??

[sea-parrot]

[cassettemoon]

Preserved in an instant

Alt under the cut

More green

[thelemonsnek]

Today? I bring you more blinkies. Tomorrow? Who knows :)

[image id: five blinkies based on the Mechanisms' albums. Each of them has the album's respective logo at both ends of the blinkie, and the album name across the center. The first is Once Upon A Time (In Space), which has a red background with white stars blinking in the background. The second is Ulysses Dies at Dawn, and has a blue background that fades into a yellow sunrise. The third is High Noon Over Camelot, which has a orange background, and three bullet holes punching into it. The forth is Tales To Be Told, and has a grey background, with the Mechanisms logo bouncing up and down. The final blinkie is The Bifrost Incident, and has a black background with a rainbow flashing across the text. End id]

[allasters]

Real time reaction to the shattered tatters of reality

[shyaringan]

redraw of my Lyfrassir Eda design from my old blog almost a year and a half ago waoh

once again, Lyf gets to be blue because I said so

[ceaseless-rambler]

"Killing me won't save your world"

L + ratio + don't care + didn't ask + any window with a hammer is also an emergency exit

[latent-thoughts]

I think the length keeps changing in every movie, especially post TDW.

Great post!

A (probably) speculative question, if you dont mind.

Do you know how many miles long the Rainbow Bridge is from it's starting point in the city/palace to it's end point at Himinbjorg?

I read on the wiki that in the MCU, Asgard is about the size of the continental United States, which made me realise we see only a fraction of it on film. And that got me thinking about the dimensions of the city. And the population and where they live. We know so little about Asgard.

Hey Anon, thank you so much for giving me another opportunity to ramble about Asgard!

First, let's take a look at the view from Himinbjorg AND the palace:

As you can see, The Rainbow Bridge is very long and Himinbjorg is so far away it looks like a mere dot. When in reality, the structure itself is massive. Here you can see Heimdall standing inside for size comparison. The bridge is also quite wide.

Now, let's look at Valaskjalf: The palace is ginormous (these pillars right here are chambers, as seen in the scene where Frigga fights with Malekith- one of them is hers, and they can be barely seen when looking from the city's borders)

The entrance in the lower middle used to be the throne room before they moved it higher up and that is a great example of how big the halls are

Now for the entrance gate-

This entire section right here is BEHIND the gate.

As you can probably tell by now, the gate is outside the city.

Here is the size of their horses for comparison

This one shows the bridge connecting to the palace

While I cannot give you the exact number as it is not stated anywhere (not even in norse mythology) and I don't plan on spending my morning calculating how long a horse is and how many would fit lol, I think this is a good way of seeing just how big Asgard is. Remember, the realm is much bigger than the city. There are mountains surrounding it which were not really shown or explored apart from some brief scenes in Ragnarok (but I prefer to not treat that movie as canon on anything else but the look of the realm)

(a post about the palace here)

[comput3rage]

God the loss of Loki's mind is such a good catalyst for the plot of the bifrost incident. Here's one of the most immediately recognizable figures in Norse myth. You know who she is even if you know nothing about mythology because of the endless pop culture portrayals of her. You hear her name and you know exactly what to expect. But the narrative will not give you what you expect. Because she's not Loki, not really, not anymore. And that absence is felt so severely by Sigyn and Thor that even after seeing her alive they continue to refer to her as if she's dead. By the way the first thing you hear about her is that she was supposed to be dead already. By the way she was destined to die from the start. By the way Loki is a ghost haunting her own body and a gaping wound in the lives of everyone who ever knew her. Three cheers for existing as an echo of your former self! Three cheers for trying desperately to recapture memories of a life you are afraid of living! Three cheers for Loki!

[alicemain0541]