#sky treader

[skaldish]

Funny thing I've been doing recently is whenever I accidentally drop food on the floor or whatever, my brain immediately goes "Well I guess that's Loki's now." And for some reason it feels better. I feel less guilty about throwing it in the trash knowing Trashman Supreme's gonna have at it.

[skaldish]

Since this sounds like a very Loki thing to do (lol), I wanted to share this story with you.

My friend speaks of seeing a man with red hair a lot as a kid. Sometimes even in public and he would try to run and catch him, but he’d disappear just as quick as he spotted him.

One day, when he was still a very young kid, his family had a bonfire on a beach, and when they went inside, he spotted the man sitting by the fire (which they had already put out). He snuck over, and in hindsight he knows he wasn’t doing a great job of it because he apparently saw the man stifling laughter lmao.

He popped up to try and surprise the man, but he had already appeared over at a forest clearing nearby.

“This SMUG BASTARD,” I remember my friend saying. He put a finger up to his lips, WINKED, walked behind a tree, and a deer came out the other side.

He apparently tried to chase the deer down and ultimately failed to catch up.

But yeah, just wanted to share that story with you because it’s funny, and a fond memory of that friends’. 🤭

Aaaah I love it. Thanks for sharing!

[skaldish]

Ah yes. Loki. The original Swedish Fish.

[skaldish]

Ok, I'm looking for that one folklore from Sweden about how Loki acts as the tooth fairy, and when children lose a tooth they cast it into the fire and say something like "Loki, I give you an old tooth for a gold tooth!"

But I want to know what the original Swedish is and, like, specifically what region this is from. (I'm getting something like Lokke~Luku~Luki~Nokk(e) but it's like, from a paper so idk if this is actually how it goes).

Any takers?

[skaldish]

The bane of my existence—the notion that Loki is a "god of fire"—was apparently first proposed by Jacob Grimm.

I'm beginning to notice that if the things in Heathenry don't lead back to Blavatsky, then they lead back to the Grimm Brothers.

[skaldish]

I told Odin and Loki they're not allowed to be together in the same room as me, so now they're taking turns rotating in and out like they're on opposite sides of a revolving door, and I should've seen this bullshit coming but here we are.

[skaldish]

Writing retellings of Norse mythology where Loki's involved is hilarious, because I'll be writing that one scene where Loki disguises himself as a woman to ask Frigg what can kill Baldr, and she'll say "I didn't get an oath from the mistletoe to not kill Baldr, because I thought it seemed too young."

But instead of wanting to write "And upon hearing that, the mysterious woman vanished," like it has in the Eddas, I feel the strongest urge to write:

And upon hearing that, the mysterious woman looked down at her bare wrist and said with great urgency, "Goodness me, would you look at the time! I've left my Dutch in the Oven for too long! Gottagobye~!"

The Loony-Toons-ass logic of this guy.

[skaldish]

My man Loki's got the very unique skill of getting into some predicaments.