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  1. Narwhal Narwhal

    Unrelated but I also love the way the pomegranate was used as a symbol for the human heart in Kyousougiga (which also doubled, aside from some stuff that would be spoilers for some character arcs, as a neat allusion to the myth of Persephone in the narrative) http://i.imgur.com/IxmEFGO.png

    Sunday, 10-May-15 23:50:28 UTC from web
    1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

      @northernnarwhal Neat. It has a huge culture of its own in the Mediterranean, also old Jewish tradition called it a holy fruit.

      Sunday, 10-May-15 23:52:07 UTC from web
      1. Narwhal Narwhal

        @awolditzy Yeah, I've seen it connected to both Judaism and Christianity in the past. I've also seen it represent everything from fertility to good luck. It's a pretty diverse symbol as far as fruits go and can definitely vary from culture to culture.

        Sunday, 10-May-15 23:56:09 UTC from web
        1. Scribus Scribus

          @northernnarwhal Fertility.... good luck.... Getting lucky? http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/822844

          Sunday, 10-May-15 23:57:02 UTC from web
          1. Narwhal Narwhal

            @scriba Next time I want to ask someone out I'll just ask them to eat pomegranates with me!

            Sunday, 10-May-15 23:58:03 UTC from web
            1. Scribus Scribus

              @northernnarwhal Good plan. Got a farmers' market nearby?

              Sunday, 10-May-15 23:58:52 UTC from web
        2. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

          @northernnarwhal The veritable superfruit, and I don't mean Ales-tier superfuit.

          Sunday, 10-May-15 23:57:48 UTC from web
          1. Narwhal Narwhal

            @awolditzy It's one of my personal favourite fruits, right beside bananas and blackberries among some others.

            Sunday, 10-May-15 23:59:03 UTC from web
            1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

              @northernnarwhal For the last year I've had a banana a day, pretty much. Pretty neat to cook with too, as in to make gluten-free pancakes with. Outside of that, cherries and oranges/lemons/limes in the summer.

              Monday, 11-May-15 00:00:29 UTC from web
              1. Narwhal Narwhal

                @awolditzy One of my best friends moved here from Venezuela a few years ago, and there they don't have lemons, and what we call limes they just call lemons. So when he first got here he had a few funny experiences where he had to wrap his head around the fact that there were yellow lemons and that what he had called lemons were called limes.

                Monday, 11-May-15 00:04:00 UTC from web
                1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                  @northernnarwhal Haha, it's like that in my homeland also. We used to be a huge producer of citrus fruits, i.e. lemons and oranges, in our part of the world.

                  Monday, 11-May-15 00:05:35 UTC from web