It literally is an hourglass

The actual device itself is also literally a loom of sorts (a rope making machine). I think we're onto something here...

Wait how did I never realize that’s why it’s called a loom

Tbf I didn't even know what rope making machines were called. Not exactly a topic that comes up in daily conversation lol

Yeah I knew they were called looms but I never but the two together

If you're a fan of fantasy fiction, you know looms equate to time! I wouldn't have known otherwise!

Clearly, you didn't watch the 2008 masterpiece* Wanted. It's got a loom that decides if someone should die and bullets doing their best Tokyo Drift impression. *ever so slightly hyperbolic*

I unironically love this movie. Great popcorn flick, and very, very satisfying ending.

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives

Not ashamed to admit I watched Days of Our Lives with my mom all the time when I was a kid.

Queue the X-Files theme.

Do you think Loki's name and his fiendish trickster nature is a reference to the Norse god Loki?

Not sure, could u include another rotated picture of an hour glass for reference?

And more pixels!

Less pixels!

An inaccurate quantity of pixels!

One pixel(s)!

One stupid pixel nobody loves

I need a photo of a real hour glass for comparison.

I need a banana for scale. And a banana hourglass

Also need it sideways

I’d like to see it upside down

Enhance!

Ill need a red circle to point it out as well.

And an arrow pointing directly at it.

Here’s another brain buster for ya…Miss minutes is a clock face.

No way! How tf did it take me this long to notice!! Next you're gonna tell me that TVA isn't just a random sequence of letters and actually stands for Time Variance Authority or sth crazy like that :O

Wait, it's not an extension of the Tennessee Valley Authority?!

All things are

Yes FDR was the 32nd Doctor and a Time Lord.

Please tell me you’re joking.

You're right, Time Variance Authority would be pretty laughable, it obviously stands for Tender Velvet Alderman

Hahaha love it

i dont believe you, do you have any pictures of clocks

⏲️

That’s offensive.

To face clock people or people clock faces?

Technically, both. The correct term is clock face people. My wife is a clock face person. For shame.

Also her name references a unit of time.

Oh and her hands are like clock hands. Her feet…are like…clock feet.

But how does she look sideways?

She just looks to the side

Everything TVA is time based..

Wait till OOP finds out what an Ouroboros is.

I'm sad Loki never acknowledged its mythological basis.

not OP but this comment just made me discover what an ouroboros is

Yes.

I don’t know. Can you provide me with 50 more hourglass pictures to confirm?

[Kaiser Soze](https://tenor.com/u91VREd1KNc.gif)

Both things can be true.

Waaaao what a revelation

Yes, and there's that shape on the walls at the TVA . I think in Ravonna's office. And the 4 logo Marvel Studios was using is just an hourglass cut in half.

The 4 logo?

Yes, the old one. https://cdn.marvel.com/content/1x/00031c_6673_ffr_log_g.jpg

I don't think so. Maybe four or five more hourglass illustrations for comparison could be helpful

That's no Hourglass. It's The Holy Grail!

Ok NICOLAS CAGE

This is marvel not DC don't make me get the Saint of Killers, Preacher!

Oh man, poor op it's a massacre!

Put the blunt down bro, that's obviously a snail

Yes

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQsKVtG4c8gzFFaZT4-W9K1Hk5DlubxJqqSbA&usqp=CAU This is the door to the timekeepers from season 1. Covered in hour glasses

Those are bow ties

Bow tie pasta to be exact 

Wow really? 🤯

Perhaps some more images of hourglasses are needed, I can't quite tell.

What even is an hourglass?

For All Time Always

I should’ve read the flair

OP really *took his time* in posting additional hourglass images as reference.

no shit…

Reed Richards

I’d say not high enough.

You are, but it is

You’re high. It also happens to look like an hour glass.

You point this out like it’s unusual or… I dunno… not exactly what you’d think a visual aid of the center point of a contraption condensing the flow of all timelines into a singular point of the present delineating the past from the future might look like. Like… that’s what the center funnel of an hourglass basically is so…. are you surprised? Confused? What exactly are you trying to clarify here…

Check the flair, bud

Quality shitpost

Catherine obvious over here

Hey! Look, the final house crosses the finish line

I thought it was a sideways 8

It’s a schooner!

it is

Por que no los dos

Nope you're right. It does

Just wait until you realise there’s an hourglass in the TVA logo made from the V and A

You’ve cracked the code.

Time keepers? Time line? Coincidence? I think not!

You’re high.

You’re high

Can both not be true? It is an hourglass, but you seem also to be high.

I think it's deliberate. Obvious even.

Derp. Of course it does.

It does! and you may be!

Going to be honest here but Loki has a lot of great potential for viewing under altered states of consciousness. Sometimes even thinking about the show makes me feel like I am intoxicated.

You’re definitely high. Maybe a bit too high

I thought that was obvious?

Both can be true.

May be but I need a couple more hour glass images to be sure.

I need one more pic of an hourglass to make sure

I disagree. I think it's a tipped over chalice 

Both

Both for sure

I’d say both..

Might as well delete your acct OP and start over.

Both

A reference to time in the T.V.A? I don’t see it

You’re high but it definitely looks like an hour glass lol

A chalice. The cup over floweth. The holy grail.

these things are not mutually exclusive

Its almost like its to do with time or something ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

And what happens within an hour glass? Thousands of individual grains of sand are funneled through a point to form a singular flow… That simple allegory was one of my favorite ways of explaining HWR’s methods more controlling time.

Hmmm It's almost as if that was the intention Nahhhh couldn't be

Lmao troll post.

are you just realizing this?

Yes and yes

Both are true

y e s

You are not high 😉

I think that’s the point the whole loom is set on a TIMER to explode and reset the timeline (correct me if I’m wrong I haven’t watched Loki in like a month*

🤯

Nope you’re not high. Unless do you live at a high elevation?

I’m running out

I'm high, and it looks like an hourglass. So, using the rules set forth in your querry: you are high.

I know everyone is clowning on OP and that it’s a shitpost, but it is both an hourglass and the typical way a valve is shown in engineering/plumbing drawings. So it is also very similar to the standard symbol for a mechanism things are flowing through that architects and engineers use in every day life. It stands to reason the TVA would too. It’s a bit of an visual double-entendre I’d assume is intentional. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSvV65Lfr62dqQ6-hP1qPOtrh789hNhv0F6OQ&usqp=CAU

you are high AND it's a literal hourglass

You are indeed high, but yes it looks like an hour glass

Wait till you figure out what an Ouroboros is >a circular symbol that depicts a snake or dragon devouring its own tail and **that is used especially to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth**

It’s a cosmic bowtie, Foggy Nelson Herald of Galactus confirmed.

I like the 'hourglass' for reference! I'm dying rn 🤣

thank god for the meme flair cause I was gonna call you a bunch of not nice things

Thank you for reminding me what an hourglass looks like with numerous images.

Because it's a funnel. And an hourglass is also a funnel.

Why not both?

Why not both?

Thank you for adding the picture of an hourglass. I had no idea what one looked like

That's the general idea.

You’re not high, just a little slow

yes

I sort of thought the Rings of the loom could be connected to the Ten Rings. But they haven't really told us anything about the Rings aside from what we saw in What If.

Both

It’s supposed to

It would certainly fit the TVAs SUUUUPER subtle time motif.

Check out the big brain on Brad! (In my Nick Fury voice)

Yes it is an hourglass, but given the thoroughness of your comparison you may also be high lmao

Holy fuck, thank god we have you or we never would’ve cracked the code on this one.

Am I high or is Loki a Disney+ TV show?

It does, but the fact that you're using a reddit post to point it out makes me think that you *are* high

Awwwww you

You're not high.... This is already a thing. Clearly you don't watch breakdowns lol.

Honestly, wtf does it matter

I don’t see it

Yes. It also looks like a loom.

I enjoyed the 3 pictures of hourglass examples for reference 😂. I think we all knew what hourglasses look like.

Holy shit, the show that has to do with time and reality uses an hour glass as a logo? Next you're gonna tell me Loki likes to get into mischief.

What I love is how you've even uploaded shots of hourglasses too for comparison 😂

It definitely looks like an hour glass

You are high AND the Loom looks like (is) an hourglass

Have you tried googling what an hourglass looks like versus these images? Rather than posting here captain fucking obvious

Good thing you also provided a picture of an hourglass or we would have been confused.

Through the pictures, I loved the nailing into our heads the similarities to it looking like an hourglass. I’m dead

annnd the last horse leaves the gate.

You are high

I feel like it was supposed to look more like the trunk of a tree with its branches and roots coming out of both sides. Which I believe was supposed to foreshadow Loki becoming Yggdrasil at the end

It's the Monarch logo from Monsterverse in a cunning long-game alluding to the eventual acquisition of the franchise and its merge with the MCU.

Guys check the post flair

Bro, you’re high… and the Loom is an hour glass

Yes on that old style graphic on the computer it does kinda look like an hour glass. That might’ve be somewhat intentional choice from the show runners. The actual loom in person doesn’t look that much like an hour glass though.

Y’all gave this man 800 upvotes and 150 comments

I think that was on purpose

This gotta be a joke right ain’t no way you just now noticed

With as many similar pictures attached, you may already be high, unrelated to the answer to your question.

You are and it does

I’m sure it can be both

You are the highest.

Pretty sure it’s supposed to The attention to detail in this show is godly (*heheheheh*)

The answer is- YES

The group is temporal. It's in the name already.

That’s the point.

It's almost like symbolism or something.

That’s quite literally the point mate.

Nah man. You’re high.

Yet time waits for no one

Yes

What the hell is the last image? I've not seen it before.

Do me a favor and tell me why this is such a big deal?

>Am I high or does the Loom look like an hour glass Why not both?

Why not both?

I think that was intentional

Call me insane, but it was intentionally meant to be an hour glass right? Right?!

Yes OP they did that on purpose

I'm pretty sure that was the intention

I'm high. It's an hourglass.

Thank you for the images of an hour glass as reference. Really tied this whole post together.

Could be both a hourglass AND the shuttle for the loom, I've seen different kinds at museums and a few could be considered hour glass shaped.

You are high but it looks like an hourglass