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Listening to Gifts of the Wyrd podcast, Heathen urban planner Paul Mercutio of the North River Kindred recontextualizes the city as just as much a landvættir  connective space. To paraphrase Mercutio's thoughts: In the wild there are trees, rivers, lakes, mountains, and all of that is majestic and obvious in terms of connecting with nature. And going outside's all well & good, but in the intervening 1000+ years, man has gone from agricultural to urban and is unlikely to perform any sort of radical reversal on a large scale, so we have to find connective praxis in the modern context of the city's environment. If we look at the materials of the city we find that concrete was once air, water, sand, gravel, and eight other bits of earth cemented to make that concrete. Glass is just a sheet of heated sand. Steel is iron and carbon. These are all natural elements reformed into what makes a city. Also, your utilities are tubed, piped, and wired in what resembles a root syst...

Sometimes when people are struck by lighting  it leaves a phenomena known as Lichtenberg figures, branching lightning-like shapes where the current has caused blood vessels to burst, sometimes permanently scarring the skin. [crafted by user blabbit's father.] This lightning effect naturally occurs in what's called fractal wood , and can also be artificially made by attaching conductive rods to a transformer, juicing it up and letting the patterns burn into the wood's surface. When lightning strikes certain places, it leaves what's called fulgurite , fused tubes or masses in and sometimes above the ground, also informally called "petrified lightning". The high-voltage crystallization effect can be reproduced like the skin or wood above to make "lightning in a bottle" designs within acrylic spheres, blocks, or panels. [Note use of the hammer.]  All are the impactful fingerprints of Thor leaving his mark. #    #   ...