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Bucky and Steve have brought some good beer to Thor and Loki's solstice party, but they wanted to do a little bit more.

"We wanted to make sure the Yule Cat wouldn't drag you away"

"No worries, Friend Steven! I have already bested Bygul and Trejgul in battle."

"Brother, you forget that mother's cats are not the only cats to worry about. This Yule Cat may be even fiercer."

"But if we fight side by side, no cat would stand a chance!"

"Or, we just wear the scarves we crocheted for each other."

"Your shield brother speaks wisely, Steven."

"Yeah, he usually does."

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PS. The Yule Cat drawing is from:
https://www.iizcat.com/post/4373/The-Christmas-Cat-of-Iceland-a-giant-terrifying-cat-that-gobbles-up-children-if-they-039-re-bad
The drawing is signed "Hugleikur 10" --probably Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic cartoonist.

"Please don't stab me..."

"But won't you be disappointed if I don't try?"

"The nine realms are so dull without your mischief keeping me on my toes."

"Thank you, brother."

"No, thank YOU."

:)

[Thor broke out the snuggie, all the better for hugging his brother]

***April Swap. Thanks to mahmfic for the awesome postcards! and to verdande_mi for the terrific fanmix! I am developing good ideas for your fics in response, and hope that I will get them done soon. I am sorry that April is kicking my butt. But I will get the fic done soon. :)

*** Why is April kicking my butt?
a. My Tax return is about 128 pages long. Criminey!
b. I played at SEVEN services between Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Wow!
c. I have a big grant and a big report due on Wednesday. Argh!

*** thus I have completely failed at writing all month due to hiding my head in the ground from fear of Easter, taxes, and numbercrunching. Zounds!

*** but I have a really good outline and start for my Sammy Messiah story. Yay!

*** LOKI. I want to write my next novel about the mythological Loki and how he functions in the mythos. I there is extremely rich ground to be explored there. Loki is, I think, a pot stirrer. He stirs the pot. The stew is tastier that way. He gives birth to monsters. He speaks the truth actually; in the stories he is tricksy but usually he is telling the truth but slant. Fic writers who admire the character in Marvelverse have cottoned brilliantly to the fact that he is womanish somehow. He is a lovely figure of our willfulness. I think he is a spirit of fire and air, a Prometheus, a bringer of tales and harbinger of turning the gyre. LOKI!!! Notice how lovely the word Loki is when you type it on a standard qwerty keyboard. :) He is a god of stories, like my other faves, Hermes and Thoth and Raven and Coyote and Kokopelli. I loved it in the recent comic (Loki Agent of Asgard) when the artist caught him in silhouette with his horns and the rough fur around his shoulders and he looked just like Kokopelli. :D It is a really excellent creative team. I hope they can keep it going!

*** Bucky! Not enough Bucky stories. Especially not enough stories about Bucky/Steve, Winter Soldier comes in from the cold, and his comics-verse backstory with Natasha is carefully handled. Does anyone see how the Winter Soldier looks like Lars Ulrich from Metallica back when he had a little more hair???

**** Can I just say how much I love these beautiful, sad-eyed Marvel villains? <3333333 Anybody remember Krycek?? His was the ship that pulled me into online fandom -- back in the mid90s when we had email listservs! Oh, back in the day, how the lovely heart-broken Russian triple-agent assassins would kiss their ex-partners on the cheek and call them tovarisch.... :D

*** Husband spent the weekend in Staunton VA carousing with fellow Bard treaders...

*** I had a huge event on Sat. and another on Sun. so I was wiped all weekend. whoosh.

**** Dean just keeps washing his sad sad face in everyone's LJ. I really fear that this coming season finale will truly be a HORROR.

Back to crunching numbers in the morning!

I've been pretty eager to see this movie, because of all the good buzz about it on my flist. Thanks y'all! My son and I went to see it yesterday during the day, because it is spring break. Overall, I liked it, tho I had a few qualms.
( SPOILERS about Cap2 under cut )

Two hour Shield event tonight? conflicts with new SPN?? Um..... that would be SPN natch.

A wonderful Passover to those who celebrate. For many years we have celebrated Passover at my church, but not this year, so my family had our own little Passover at home. I'm not Jewish (tho like Colbert, I am haplo group K!), but I respect the Jewish tradition very much. Many heartfelt prayers to those who were touched by the hate crimes in Overland Park, Kansas. ): After our seder we watched "Everyone Hates Hitler," one of my favorite Supernatural episodes. If Edlund had to leave SPN, at least he got to write Undead Nazi Necromancers before he went. Yay Golem! I hope the Men of Letters (aka Sam and Dean) cooperate with rabbis again sometime soon.

Words cannot describe how much this movie appeals to me.
Opening today in "select theatres" in the US.
Here is a FANTASTIC interview with Hiddleston, Studio Q with Jian Ghomeshi

( more about Art from Mr. Hiddles )

Now I am mainlining Loki fic. So good. :D But -- Why Loki?

My patron "god" has been one of the tricksters forever. Back when I was a teenager, I wondered which god or goddess represented me in the pantheon, as one does. It was Hermes, clearly the best of all the gods. Little wings on his feet, the aesclepius for a staff, a messenger, a musician, a clever thief, a good story teller, and the inventor of the alphabet. Awesome everything. Hermes it is. So I adopted the alchemical symbol of Mercury as my personal symbol. My husband, whom I hadn't met yet, had also done the same thing -- a follower of Coyote. Our son is named after the Raven. So I take the Tricksters pretty seriously.

I think you can just look at the Hiddleston casting and it tells you everything you need to know. If you look back into the history of the Marvel universe, at Kirby and the New Gods and the original conception of the Avengers as Heroes, you will find Loki there, hideous and evil. He was not Hiddleston, not at all. The genius of the movieverse was that they hired Kenneth Branagh to direct, and he cast an accomplished British stage actor (who is currently onstage as Coriolanus) and say to him -- this character has been grievously wronged. He's transforming from a Trickster, a god of mischief and creative chaos, into a full-on hard core villain. Make us care. So he did. Yes, his beautiful face and lithe form and actor magic to make us want him -- as my husband says, pretty people who look sad. All that, but so much more!( Read more... )

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