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trickerydickerydock replied to your photo “My colors on Rags Morales’ pencils/inks for Dynamite’s James Bond...”

That looks professional as hell, goddang

Thanks!! I get to color those Turok covers too and I’m chompin at the gottdamn bit to color some dinosaurs

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In honor of Father's Day, do you suppose any of your multitudes of children have something planned for you, good or ill? (I ask because I saw a very large dog and very larger snake squabbling over whether to say the barnacle-caked shipwreck full of Nordic loot was from both of them or to take individual credit. Ship = snake, Impressively huge tree = pup) ((Also there may or may not have been an army of redheaded kids trying to fit a finger-painted card the size of a small country in a mailbox))

Ah, sounds like some of the >nonuplets and some of the original brood, yes they came around last night and Joshua is currently fending off historians from taking my ship with a stick. At least that’s what I hope he’s doing, unless the historians have snatched the stick already. Or he went off to tip Marek 45% on a Frappucino. No reliable unpaid workforce these days anymore.

Matter of the thing is, I try not to celebrate any of the regular holidays because for one, calendars and I have an on-going feud (The calendars started it, but it’s very personal and slightly sexual in nature and I won’t get into detail). Furthermore, I simply have too many children to spend a single day with all of them because…let’s say none of us cope very well with receiving divided attention so even if I divide it by region and spend different days dedicated to honouring your parents or one parent of a particular gender, it gets messy. Sharing food, adoration or chairs around a table while under the influence of alcohol not part of our not-genetic not-code. And since I can only be in so many places at once (12 to be exact, unless one of them is a bicycle shop and I’m very determined, such are the rules of chaos) usually I prefer to spend individual days with them that have personal meaning like the days of their birth, their naming, their teething, days of religious significance, days of personal significance, Saturdays, the days of their wedding or – since some of them were mortal and crossed over into Hel’s realm or are in fact Hel – the day of their deaths. Also, they tend to live all over the Nine Realms and times works differently in different places and some of them don’t have means of transport and you can’t just uber over to Midgard from Muspelheim. Takes Ages and Ratatösk isn’t the best driver. Keeps totalling against the same tree.

But another vital part of the make-up of a proper Lokisbarn is – aside from contouring sharp enough to peel an apple on – that we don’t really like being told not to go somewhere. So when I tell them not to, they see it as a challenge to visit me (not that I would ever do that on purpose 😉 ) so the Starbucks in currently drowning a bit in strange inter-Yggdrasilian visitors, all kinds of devotionals etc. greetings written on paper, wood, carved into stone-plates, carrier pigeons, faxes, painted vases, painted turtles and all other means of communication. It’s a bit of a mess and neither Marek nor the guys sorting things into bags labelled ‘biohazard’ appreciate my children’s thoughtful gifts as much as they should.

So yes, things went a bit out of hand with my kin that did come to visit in person but really, I spend most of the night with Fenrir. It’s been a while since him not being chained somewhere for all eternity didn’t coincide with me being chained somewhere for all eternity so some frolicking in the forests and hunting together and disrupting traffic on motorways and stealing watermelons occurred.

In other news, Sleipnir contributed a wonderful song and learnt to play the guitar for the occasion.

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trickerydickerydock replied to your post “Do I love Thor? Yes. Am I sometimes jealous that he can lift my...”

To be fair, Thor only lifted Jormi when he was still a growing noodle. Jormungandr is now a very mature world-hugging grownup snake. Thor could be juggling mountains in his spare time and not be able to heft your scaliest son. Side note: Considering these past umpteen centuries/millennia were spent literally shaking all of Scandinavia due to your torture-twitching, you should technically meet and/or outmatch Thor in the weightlifting department by now.

@trickerydickerydock Ah, Scandinavia is not that hard to shake I fear, a lot of dowels were missing when we got it and none of us really understood the illustrations in the manual. Also it looked a lot less like genitalia when we saw it at the shop, but I’m still proud we figured it out. As for Thor: It’s better not to challenge him to things. He's a sore loser. And a sore winner. And a sore holder of the second place in the Throwing Things at Baldr-Contest. Still insists that Hödr only beat him because he had sprained his wrist the day before and honestly? His bad mood ruined the entire funeral for me.

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I'm glad to see your relationships with your wives are so good. Approximately three hundred and seventy-five thousand acres away from healthy. But good. I've got to wonder though, what about Glut, the fire giantess? I've heard she was your first wife, or perhaps first lover. Maybe had a pair of arsonist daughters by her, but that's about as far as the myths seem to go.

As I said, there were…others. Hot story short, since I come from lightning and wood and Glut is well…Glut we got on pretty much like a house on fire but after a while, it kinda grew a little cold. People (who are Odin) do say you never stay with your childhood flame. We did try a bit longer for the girls’ sake and I see them when I’m in Muspelheim (which I am when Sutur isn’t there), but also people thought it wasn’t the best match. Which is not true because together we’re far better than any match. Any rumours that my girls are hearth-fire are wrong though. For one because they’re horrible cooks - charred everything in that household - and also because I’d never let any of my children be domesticated like that and after what happened to mine and Angr’s babies I wasn’t sure what would happen to Eisa and Einmyria and more potential little girls I thought maybe it was better to put that on ice. I heard Glut is with Loge now which for one would explain why he got into an eating competition with me and also I heard he’s a real log in bed. I’m running out of fire puns.

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Is Jormungandr still napping in the sea? If so, has he had to deal with other giant but-not-quite as giant sea monsters grousing over their real estate? I've heard the Kraken is a rude neighbor.

Jörmi doesn’tdo as much napping as people think they do. I mean, it’s hard to tell because a)they’re a bit lazy and b) have no eyelids so you never know whether they’rereally sleeping or not. obv I know because I spent a significant amount ofmy life making sure they go to bed. By bed I mean the tree we wrapped themaround when they were little. Trees, plural, when they were less little. We taughtthem to weave themselves around the trees like a big, scaly wall around our hutin the forest, it was very adorable for us and disturbing for people who encounteredit. Also they flicker their tongue out really slowly when they sleep and really fast when they’re awake which is adorable to watch and when they sleep you can poke their tongue and they retract it a bit less slowly which I love and also sometimes people used to see her tongue emerge from some bushes and were like: “omg it’s a snake” and then they realised it was just a tongue and. Well, after a few days they were digested. But I disgress.

What I’m saying is they are awake sometimes too just saving on energy and being generally lovable.But yeah, some sea creatures have it out for Jörmi. Mostly because a) they can be a bit rude don’t know where they got that from and b) they tend to sprawl all over the grounds of the ocean and...flatten things. Archeologists hate them. Atlantis hates them even more. The Kraken. Well. The Kraken does try to fight Jörmi sometimes but you know- it’s about the size of some small island and Jörmi wraps around the entire planet so they’ve never gotten a good look at it and they think it's a tiny orphaned nest of snakes looking for a parent so they don’t mind and carry the Kraken around with them as it tries to 'strangle’ them. But in the end they’re related so it never really gets serious as are most sea-monsters and Hel and Rán are old friends and so Rán keeps an eye for my sweet darling.

Or maybe Ägir and her are worried that some of her own citizens might get into trouble, I don’t want to assume her motives but I’m sure she’s delighted by my baby. Who wouldn’t be.

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A cyclopean grump

@trickerydickerydock​ That's my fond nickname for him! (he's less fond)

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Sigurd the First Hero making C3. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.

Is fanart of Sigurd even something that like. exists naturally in the wild

[phoenixyfriend]

I'm trying to physically cram the essence of a backbreaking hug through the screen but am having some logistical issues. Failing that, a question of burning importance: Who would win in a mystical fistfight, Norse elves or Celtic elves?

The Ljósálfar win the beauty contest.

The Dökkálfar win the literal fistfight.

The Aos Sí win the magic tournament.

Loki videotapes all three.