Sif - Blog Posts
Scavengers of Lazure ♡
"two gaukren make their way back from the lazure ruins. theyve been searching for trinkets and cool things to bring back to their hideout.. theyve no need for food, so they mostly just collect whatever they think is interesting! that, and material to protect their stuff from the storms. they dont mind the rain, but when it storms, they risk getting washed away. despite this danger, imn is very nonchalant, and lazy.. sif doesnt understand them, but knows its better they work together. imn knows this place very well, so their knowledge is invaluable, even if they dont help much. and.. even if they didnt, imn is all sif really has. theyre alone together in this land, and they share a bond like siblings." -The Historian, 718sd
hi! thank you for checking out my art! this is week 4. took me about 3 hours, and was a bit experimental, but i hope you like it, and i hope you have a good xmas! much love ♡
Finally making that post about Loki
I hate how many people look at Loki (especially with a post-Marvel lens) and act like the Christian writers turned him from a generally heroic gender-fluid god into a Satan-esque villain. It’s like these people only read the parts of the myths that support this claim and then ignore every other myth that Loki is in.
First off with the gender-fluid stuff, he only turns into a female three or four times (one of them is theorized to be Loki but never outright confirmed). All of these times are a different race (Horse, Aesir, Jotun), and all situational. The horse is to lure away Svadilfari and stop the builder from finishing Asgard’s wall , the Aesir (never stated what race his is here) is to accompany Thor as his bridesmaid to make sure the plan works (and probably watch Thor be embarrassed by the dress he’s wearing) (Þrymskviða), another as the Aesir to learn about Baldur’s weakness to mistletoe, and the final one is to stop Baldur from coming back to life after Loki got him killed. I’m pretty sure Loki turns into a bird more often. Finally in the Lokasenna, he and Odin insult each other for doing unwomanly things, Odin doing magic and Loki giving birth to children (yes plural), and then Frigg (or Freyja) pretty much tells them to leave their skeletons in the closets.
Secondly, there is a post I’ve seen a couple times (and it is what inspired me to make this post) by @incorrectnorse-quotes where they got a message saying Loki is a faithful husband. The problem with this is that it forgets that Angrboda exists. Loki has had sex with three people that with children coming from them, and he claims a fourth. The three he has children from are; Svadilfari (Sleipnir), Angrboda (Fenrir, Hel(a), and Jormungandr), and his wife Sigyn (Vali and Narfi). He (and Odin at one point) claims to have had sex with Thor’s wife Sif. That claim is said by Loki during the Lokasenna, after Sif says he can’t say anything bad about her.
Finally while I agree that he isn’t the devil figure some make him out to be, he definitely isn’t what I would consider a good person (some people seem to think he is the nicest person in Asgard). For example, he once completely plucked out a woman’s (Sif’s) hair, for no given reason (an event which led to the creation of Mjolnir). Another example is the murder of Baldur (which we are probably missing some context to, but I’m working off the context we have), where he gets Baldur killed for “complaining about nightmares of his death.” My final example comes from the Lokasenna again, where the entire story is “Loki crashes a party, uses an old oath to stop from getting kicked out, insults almost everyone at the party (except Thor), admits to killing Baldur, then leaves.”
Also I’m not sure what version of the builder myth OSP was using, but in the version I'm familiar with the Aesir only agree to a deal with the builder (after shorting his time from three seasons to one) because of Loki’s advice, which is why they have him fix the problem.
All things considered, Loki seems to be Asgard’s resident asshole and occasional problem solver.
For a more in depth look I’d recommend this essay by Reddit user u/rockstarpirate, where he talks also about Norse gender views. (Warning it’s 21 pages)
I just did the first part of Yohane's bday step-up in sif, holy crap.
Me when people say Tezcatlipoca is the evil brother while Quetzalcoatl is pure good
BOTH OF THEM DID BAD THINGS AND BOTH OF THEM DID BENEFICIAL THINGS IT TAKES SO MUCH FROM THEM TO LABEL THEMNGOOD OR BAD
Me everytime I see a badly writen retelling that makes unecessery changes to the source matterial that add nothing and rather take away from it, and it's clear that the writter both hates and doas not understands the source matterial, or when I see a bad take that misinterprets the source matterial:
Everytime when someone potrays Demeter a bad, overbearing mother.
Or when Persephone potrayd as a cute Kawaii pink aesthetic UwU girl (thanks Rachel, we are suffering the conseqvences of you fethis comic), and Hades is potrayd as a lonely nice guy who never did anything wrong.
Or when Medusa is potrayd/talked about as a sad, lonely, tragic girlboss and held as a symbol for women's empowerment and protection who wanted revenge, when she did not do anything to help women.
Or when Perseus is potrayd as a villian, or when Andromeda potrayd as an unhappy wife.
Or when people blatently say that Romeo and Juliet is not a tragedy, ignoring that the fect that the hate between two families lead to multiple people's death, and how the only time when they realised that they unfound hatered was bad was when they children were already dead.
Or when I see people claiming that Thor was a bad husbend to Sif.
Or when the gods get declawd. This is for any mythology.
Or when Hera redused to nothing but a bitchy wife.
Whenever that happands. I think of this song.
I will probably ad more to the post when more of this comes to my mind. Feel free to add more.