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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... )

How the Raven Stole the Sun

Does the raven remember
when it spoke to the wolves,
calling out aerial reconnaissance,
cackling the pack to the prey?
( Read this poem! )