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chonk_fox89 t1_is9x4xb wrote

I have absolutely no idea what the fuck I just read. Is this some reference I'm not getting?

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marphod OP t1_isa07l8 wrote

WRT Sigyn and Skadi, quite probably.

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Norse mythology. Loosely and briefly, in punishment for everything he had done, Skadi (Ice Giant/Goddess) entrapped Loki in a cave, using the entrails of his son as the bindings, and set a snake above him, dripping toxins into Loki's eyes. Sigyn, Loki's wife, stood by with a bowl to collect the toxins, but when it was full, she stepped aside to empty it. Loki, wracked with pain, shook so violently, that that's how we get earthquakes.

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WRT to Schrödinger's Sparrow, it is just a play on the classics quantum mechanics thought-experiment (Schrödingers Cat). (You likely know this one already).

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With respect to Grunthar, no. no reference in particular. Just a stupid random fucking Viking returned from Valhalla in avian form to fuck up my sickness-addled sleep-deprived mind.

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(Edit: There are also very brief throw away references to Les Miserables, "Row, Row, Row your boat", Babylon 5, the late painter/PBS personality Bob Ross, the trope about superior European windows, and the HHGttG. The last 2 are very weak references.)

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chonk_fox89 t1_isb3n1k wrote

What was the B5 reference? It hurts my brain to read it again 😅

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marphod OP t1_isc6yal wrote

"No bird today ... . Bird tomorrow. Always Bird tomorrow."

Replace Bird with Boom, and attribute to Ivanova.

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