That subscription thing is pretty cool, I wonder why they stopped?
I have this weird, irrational annoyance at collectors. BOOKS ARE MEANT TO BE READ, OKAY?
Well, iirc, Thor's hair colour is never mentionned, only his beard colour and since I have a Norwegian friend with blond hair, a red beard and brown eyebrows (all natural and the colours are similar be distinctly not the same), it's entirely possible for him to be blond in the myths. I completely understand your feelings of WEIRDness and WRONGness, though. that's how I feel about any adaptation of the myths that doesn't have redhaired Loki.
All the adaptations I've seen that dealt with the hair cutting myth have had it happen after Loki sleeps with her. (I really really like the interpretation that she asks Loki to do it.)
I had no idea about that piece of trivia from the deleted scenes, it's awesome. Instant headcanon.
That's a pretty cool way to merge film canon to myth canon, although 11th century seems super late to have the Aesir visit Earth: not only is that when the Norse religion starts losing ground to Christianity, but it's often thought that Fimbulvetr refers to the Little Ice Age circa 600CE. I certainly place the Aesir/Frost Giant war on Midagrd shown in the first movie at that point in time.
It was super cool. Yay, conventions! (Although, from what I undersatnd, French conventions are slightly different from US conventions.)
Aww, man, that is super cool! I shoudl definitely start paying more attention to costuming.
Over here, although the art is kind of terrible, hahaha.
Lol, yeah, it's going to take a while, unless you assume that conscience!kid!Loki has a physical existence inside Noh-Varr's ship (because of the imagination engines). And then he could troll the Young Avengers, who have no idea he's not their Loki!
It's pretty annoying, because the US-comics-in-english store only sells US comics in English and fuck it, maybe I just wanted to pick up Les Quatre de Baker Street at the same time as Black Canary/Zatanna: Bloodspell, you know? So I mostly buy my comics at the local comc store which sells French comics and US-comics-in-French, but I don't buy US-comics-in-French, for reasons. (Reasons: a) Panini publishes Marvel and used to publish DC and the translation work is atrocious (why is Sue Storm's first name suddenly Jane? Why do you translate Hawkingbird two different ways IN THE SAME FUCKING BOOK?), b) Urban Comics publishes DC, but it's all nu52/postreboot stuff, which, lol now (unless it's Demon Knights. I might make an exception for Demon Knights) and more importantly, c) I made a deal with myself a long time ago that my book buying habot would follow this pattern: original language if I can read it, whatever's easiest to find if not. /tl;dr)
That is awesome!
There's really not that much incest in Norse myths. I mean, they're not Greeks (Greek/Roman mythology's entertaining enough, but damn if it isn't rape-and-incest central).
I feel kind of awkward discussing film canon, because I know shit all about it except what's in the movies themselves. I mean, I could blather on and on about my theory that Idunn's apples + genetic drift is what created the Aesir/Jotnar divide, if there exists a physical divide at all and not one that is mostly cultural in the myths, but for the movies I'm like... "the Odinsleep wasn't convinient, it was Odin having a heart attack when faced with Loki's rage. Take heart meds, Odin".
Hum, this is embarassing. I don't want to come off like I victim-blaming, because the incident described in the Gesta Danorum is pretty fucking clearly rape, but. It's the Gesta Danorum and when I was a LOT younger, I decided I wouldn't read/take as canonical anything post-Snorri (possibly including Snorri) himself, because they were ~wrong and ~biased and ~anti-pagan/pro-catholic church propaganda. So that's why I never knew aboout Rindr.
That said, I am saddened to say that I am not really surprised by how well rape-by-seduction-by-seidr fits with Odin's overall personality.
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Re: Part Two
Date: 2014-06-24 08:59 pm (UTC)I have this weird, irrational annoyance at collectors. BOOKS ARE MEANT TO BE READ, OKAY?
Well, iirc, Thor's hair colour is never mentionned, only his beard colour and since I have a Norwegian friend with blond hair, a red beard and brown eyebrows (all natural and the colours are similar be distinctly not the same), it's entirely possible for him to be blond in the myths. I completely understand your feelings of WEIRDness and WRONGness, though. that's how I feel about any adaptation of the myths that doesn't have redhaired Loki.
All the adaptations I've seen that dealt with the hair cutting myth have had it happen after Loki sleeps with her. (I really really like the interpretation that she asks Loki to do it.)
I had no idea about that piece of trivia from the deleted scenes, it's awesome. Instant headcanon.
That's a pretty cool way to merge film canon to myth canon, although 11th century seems super late to have the Aesir visit Earth: not only is that when the Norse religion starts losing ground to Christianity, but it's often thought that Fimbulvetr refers to the Little Ice Age circa 600CE. I certainly place the Aesir/Frost Giant war on Midagrd shown in the first movie at that point in time.
It was super cool. Yay, conventions! (Although, from what I undersatnd, French conventions are slightly different from US conventions.)
Aww, man, that is super cool! I shoudl definitely start paying more attention to costuming.
Over here, although the art is kind of terrible, hahaha.
Lol, yeah, it's going to take a while, unless you assume that conscience!kid!Loki has a physical existence inside Noh-Varr's ship (because of the imagination engines). And then he could troll the Young Avengers, who have no idea he's not their Loki!
It's pretty annoying, because the US-comics-in-english store only sells US comics in English and fuck it, maybe I just wanted to pick up Les Quatre de Baker Street at the same time as Black Canary/Zatanna: Bloodspell, you know? So I mostly buy my comics at the local comc store which sells French comics and US-comics-in-French, but I don't buy US-comics-in-French, for reasons. (Reasons: a) Panini publishes Marvel and used to publish DC and the translation work is atrocious (why is Sue Storm's first name suddenly Jane? Why do you translate Hawkingbird two different ways IN THE SAME FUCKING BOOK?), b) Urban Comics publishes DC, but it's all nu52/postreboot stuff, which, lol now (unless it's Demon Knights. I might make an exception for Demon Knights) and more importantly, c) I made a deal with myself a long time ago that my book buying habot would follow this pattern: original language if I can read it, whatever's easiest to find if not. /tl;dr)
That is awesome!
There's really not that much incest in Norse myths. I mean, they're not Greeks (Greek/Roman mythology's entertaining enough, but damn if it isn't rape-and-incest central).
I feel kind of awkward discussing film canon, because I know shit all about it except what's in the movies themselves. I mean, I could blather on and on about my theory that Idunn's apples + genetic drift is what created the Aesir/Jotnar divide, if there exists a physical divide at all and not one that is mostly cultural in the myths, but for the movies I'm like... "the Odinsleep wasn't convinient, it was Odin having a heart attack when faced with Loki's rage. Take heart meds, Odin".
Hum, this is embarassing. I don't want to come off like I victim-blaming, because the incident described in the Gesta Danorum is pretty fucking clearly rape, but. It's the Gesta Danorum and when I was a LOT younger, I decided I wouldn't read/take as canonical anything post-Snorri (possibly including Snorri) himself, because they were ~wrong and ~biased and ~anti-pagan/pro-catholic church propaganda. So that's why I never knew aboout Rindr.
That said, I am saddened to say that I am not really surprised by how well rape-by-seduction-by-seidr fits with Odin's overall personality.
On a less depressing note to end this on, have you heard My Brother, My Enemy?