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"Angrboda" by R.N. Laing

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The gods love the gays. ✨

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Apparently I never posted this Loki piece on here and that is a C R I M E😭 I am so sorry pls forgive me lol

Anyway here’s Loki with Freyja’s falcon cloak

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Topic 3: Mythology

In Norse mythology, Freyja is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and possesses a cloak of falcon feathers.

Freyja has numerous names, including Gefn, Hörn, Mardöll, Sýr, Vanadís, and Valfreyja.

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Loki and Fenrir appreciation post!

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Quotes and sayings that I associate with or was shone to me by Fenrisulfr

Some of these really spoke to me so I hope they speak to you as well

"Bite the hand that beat you"

"Your anger is a gift, use it"

"You are what you surrender to"

"Nobody smart plays fair"

"Kid, get off the ground. Spit your blood and bare your teeth. Go down savage, go down fighting."

"We came from dirt, we have to swallow it"

"I fear no evil, the shadow is mine and so to is the valley"

"I don't make threats, I make guarantees"

Through some of these words and the rough few months I've had, they really showed me a way. to not feel hopless and that I don't need to rely on others to feel whole.

Hail Fenrisulfr, the braker of chains

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norse mythology: parenting edition

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Chest binding (tape) as a devotional act for Loki because affirming my gender is the closest thing to shapeshifting I can get

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Wexor Tmg

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You shouldn’t have to be trans to get any sex characteristic-related surgery. It’s not a limited resource. Plenty of cis men get implants and cis women get breast reductions. From Colby Gordon today and Leslie Feinberg in Transgender Warriors (1996).

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have you any adaptations of norse myth as complete as the eddas but in a more accessible format? or a modernized english translation? ive tried reading the eddas a few times but struggle with the archaic language so i prefer other texts, including those on your site, but they all focus (understandably) on the more well-known stories while only briefly mentioning others. they solve the antiquity of the eddas but in the process omit lots of gems! am i chasing unicorns here?

It's out-of-print, but I generally recommend d'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths for a first-time read.

It's a children's book, so the authors gloss over a few of the cruder things (such as Loki tying his balls to the beard of a goat to make Skadi laugh), but the way they've chosen to adapt these oral stories into a linear book-format is nothing short of brilliant. They've woven a shocking amount of extant and historically-attested tales within the book, and being that it's a children's book, everything is very easy to read and understand.

They objectively did a spectacular job with how they organized everything. I think it helped that Ingri d'Aulaire was Norwegian and grew up with the oral tradition. It's clear to me that she didn't need to rely on how these tales are formatted in the old Icelandic sagas; she knew how to restructure them while still conveying the same information.

One thing to note about this book, though, is that it's not designed to give you the same experience you'd have with the oral tradition, nor is it intended to fulfill the same anthropological function. Its purpose is just to share the cultural stories. But the fact it's extraordinarily successful at fulfilling this purpose is why it's my go-to recommended retelling at this point in time.

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since my last sketch the weather turned and we've had a lot of hail and thunder storms and i was compelled to draw... him :^)

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you can't waste your life btw it's just not something that's possible to do. your mere existence is already a precious and valuable use of your time. the time you spent becoming who you are now was inherently worthwhile