It's a snake day
Jan. 9th, 2017 04:43 pmI took a short nap earlier, and during it, I had a dream in which I was at home, my mom asked me to catch a spider and take it outside, and when I got outside, I opened the container I'd trapped it in and let out not just a spider but about a dozen tiny snakes. So of course when I woke up I immediately went and grabbed my book of animal symbolism (because this is obviously a spiritual message, and has nothing to do with the fact that I haven't bothered to put on real clothes today and thus I'm still wearing my Slytherin pajama bottoms.)
Snakes are actually an animal I consider one of my totems, so it was good to read that bit again because I'd honestly forgotten most of it and a lot of it is still true. I have such a thing for death and rebirth symbols, and I forgot that's a snake's primary meaning... hence this icon, because I just went through some of the pile of house quote icons that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lostinstars linked me to the other day, and in the midst of saving all the things that amused me with sarcasm, I wasn't expecting to find one I might actually say in all seriousness.
But there were some funny things in there, too, like how if I'm trying I can outstare someone I know who regularly intimidates people by staring at them. Snake trait - they have no eyelids.
The thing that really made me laugh though was how I'd recently realised that in my list of totems, I'd managed to represent every class of creature that can fly (herons are birds, butterflies are flying insects, bats are flying mammals) and I might just have something of an obsession with wings. So I got to this line: "In many Meso-American societies, the serpent or snake was depicted as feathered and flying." This is a reference to Quetzalcoatl, but what do you know, I even picked a flying reptile! Good job, me.
[edit] Looking through more of the Slytherin icons, I found one that reads "Oh, that is despicable. I love it!" and I'm pretty sure I actually did say that the other day with regard to a roleplay plot. I think my exact wording was "monstrous." Oops? lol (But really, you know you'd love my despicable roleplay plots.)
Snakes are actually an animal I consider one of my totems, so it was good to read that bit again because I'd honestly forgotten most of it and a lot of it is still true. I have such a thing for death and rebirth symbols, and I forgot that's a snake's primary meaning... hence this icon, because I just went through some of the pile of house quote icons that
lostinstars linked me to the other day, and in the midst of saving all the things that amused me with sarcasm, I wasn't expecting to find one I might actually say in all seriousness. But there were some funny things in there, too, like how if I'm trying I can outstare someone I know who regularly intimidates people by staring at them. Snake trait - they have no eyelids.
The thing that really made me laugh though was how I'd recently realised that in my list of totems, I'd managed to represent every class of creature that can fly (herons are birds, butterflies are flying insects, bats are flying mammals) and I might just have something of an obsession with wings. So I got to this line: "In many Meso-American societies, the serpent or snake was depicted as feathered and flying." This is a reference to Quetzalcoatl, but what do you know, I even picked a flying reptile! Good job, me.
[edit] Looking through more of the Slytherin icons, I found one that reads "Oh, that is despicable. I love it!" and I'm pretty sure I actually did say that the other day with regard to a roleplay plot. I think my exact wording was "monstrous." Oops? lol (But really, you know you'd love my despicable roleplay plots.)
