| Frustration [after the feast] (tag: Loki) |
[22 Jun 2014|11:24am] |
This was starting to get ridiculous. Sigyn was not a terribly impatient person, nor one given to fits of paranoia, but she was starting to feel both of those things creeping into her life at an exponentially expanding rate. And she didn't like it at all. Doing her best to keep from giving in to the urge to simply stalk Loki, she threw herself into attempting to better her skills with the sorts of crafts the other maidens had already mastered. Instead of distracting her, however, it was simply adding to her frustrations.
( Truthfully, though, she was starting to get a bit worried. )
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| So... It's Fake, Then? - long, long ago [tag: Eros] |
[18 Jun 2014|09:21pm] |
Note: Reference point, pre-marriage for Harmonia. Pre-pubery, actually. So I'm going to say we're probably looking 12-13ish for her, age wise.
Harmonia had been studying things carefully, in which by things where other girls. Most of them were mortal and she had no idea how old they really were, but her best guess was maybe around her age. Maybe. But, things were wrong, somehow. She wasn't sure how, but they were. The mortal girls had extra plumpness in parts they were supposed to -the same places most of her relatives did. But her relatives were all older. Shouldn't she have this by now, too?
She wasn't that young. Well, okay, she wasn't old either. But some of these mortal girls were getting married off already. Harmonia had been watching them. Some of them even had boys coming calling after them and there was love involved. It sounded and looked very romantic. Harmonia wanted that. She wanted to be curved and beautiful and have some boy come calling after her and have her father be happy for them and then she could get married ( and have a lot of babies and live happy forever. )
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| I Don’t Think I’m In Kansas Anymore (tag: Hel) |
[25 May 2014|08:53pm] |
Anubis was in one of his moods. Some days what happened really bothered him. He knew it had all happened a very long time ago, but sometimes the sting of it was still there. He had been the ruler of the Underworld. Sure, he had been young, but he thought he had been doing a good job. All the dead were where they were suppose to be. Ammit was well taken care of, too. Everything was done right.
( so why did they take it all away from him? )
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| Good Morning! [pre-marriages] (tag: Loki) |
[21 May 2014|04:03pm] |
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Thor was wide awake. He'd been awake since it had been dark out, waiting for it to be light enough to get up and do something. Yet, despite the first grey light of morning coming through the window, there he laid, in his bed, staring at the ceiling. Which was far less interesting than it could have been. Maybe he should put some carvings up there. Maybe he should make some carvings up there. ( Maybe he should get up before he got some stupid idea like knocking down a wall. )
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| The Best Laid Plans (tag: Frigg, then Loki, then Sigyn) |
[01 May 2014|10:07pm] |
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Thor loved feasts. Everybody got together, ate, drank, laughed, told stories and sometimes fought. It was the best of all worlds all in one room, and Thor couldn't imagine how anybody could have a bad time at a feast. Well, most of the time. There was one person he was pretty sure was having a bad time tonight. But really, ( it was for his own good. )
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| Time For Some Thrilling Heroics (tag: Loki) |
[26 Apr 2014|04:12pm] |
Thor was nearly bubbling over with energy. He paced around the large expanse of his hall, from room to room, irritating anybody he encountered with his exuberance. When that was not enough to keep him from feeling like everything inside his body was vibrating, Thor ventured outside and continued his bouncing walk, trying to expend some of the built up tension in his body. Every few minutes, he’d look at the eastern horizon, and then he’d curse. Because the sun was taking forever to rise this morning. And he’d been up far before dawn because he just couldn’t sleep.
( There was an adventure to be had! )
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| Running Away (open to anybody that knows where Holda's homestead is) |
[24 Apr 2014|08:50pm] |
Several months after this thread
Sigyn moved some brush to get a better look at the rocks she thought she'd glimpsed as she strolled through the woods. When she did, she found not what she was looking for, but the minerals in the rocks would still be useful so she picked them up. She was running low on paint, so it was time to make some more. Though she already knew she wasn't going to be allowed to grind up the stones anywhere near her foster-mother's home. ( Holda had a bit of an issue with the pounding sound. )
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| Seduction? (tag: Loki) |
[22 Apr 2014|02:28pm] |
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It had taken Sigyn some time to get an idea of what Loki’s schedule might be. Mostly because she couldn’t simply ask. People would wonder if she’d started asking about a known philanderer, they’d want to know why she wanted to know. ( And she certainly couldn’t tell them. )
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| Sisterly Advice [shortly after marriage to Thoth] (tag: Tawaret) |
[09 Apr 2014|10:06pm] |
Seshat was, by nature, a learner. Though some might think that given her proclivities she'd be a know-it-all, Seshat recognized that she did not in fact know it all. But she wanted to. She had a constant hunger to discover new information that she didn't have before. So she never hesitated in tracking down ways to feed that hunger, particularly when she found a topic that was completely unfamiliar.
( Except this time. )
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| Necessity – shortly after Aesir-Vanir War [tag: Freyja] |
[20 Jan 2014|08:32pm] |
There were so many perks to being able to claim Alfheim for himself. The first was, of course, that it was given to him so he wasn't even arrogant in claiming it, or so Freyr liked to think. The second was that the weather over his hall was whatever he really wished it to be. The third was that it was far away from Asgard and whatever hold Odin seemed to think he may have had over Freyr, his twin and their father. The fourth was the fact that what happened in Alfheim stayed in Alfheim because there was no one that had any reason to snitch and Odin's rules for Asgard didn't govern him there.
Freyr didn't really hate the Aesir. It was too strong of a word. He just didn't care for how they did things and changing things they had no business changing. Like his marriage. Freyja was Freyr's. He loved her over every other, his twin suited him perfectly. ( Together they would have beautiful and perfect children. )
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| What IS This? [The Golden Age] (Tag: Ninkasi) |
[06 Jan 2014|01:48am] |
Aset hated it when her beloved husband roamed the world. She understood, and even agreed with, the necessity of teaching mortals the laws and morals of the gods. If Ma'at was to be upheld, the gods couldn't do it alone. During his journeys, Isis managed things in Kemet, and had already proven she was up to the task. But they were lonely times.
Asar always made up for his long trips when he returned. Besides the blissful things a husband and wife did when they were separated for long periods of time, he also regaled her with tales from the lands he visited. Some were amusing, some confusing, and some were just delightful. Upon his most recent return to Kemet, he told her a tale that was nothing short of bizarre.
( She had to see the truth of this for herself. )
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| Little Scamp Scampered Off... [Ancient Egypt] (tag: Hermes) |
[05 Jan 2014|08:19pm] |
After This.
When Thoth heard that young Hermes had come to see him, there was no hiding that it pleased him. The boy was smart, clever and rather anxious to see and learn new things. Delightful qualities to have. He was very, very fond of the boy. He'd been told there was an extension of xenia so it might have been a bit before he'd actually see the kid.
Except that several hours passed, enough that he noted the change in the set of the sun and still Hermes had not been brought before him. Perhaps he fell asleep. A full stomach and having thirst quenched with beer could have understandably caused a certain degree of drowsiness and the Greek was more than welcome to stay and rest.
But come the next morning, Hermes still did not come before him. ( Strange. )
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| Questions [A few weeks after Loki brings the children to Asgard] (tag: Loki) |
[04 Jan 2014|12:48pm] |
Hel was getting worried.
When Daddy brought them to Asgard, he told her and her brothers that this was their new home. She had figured that their mother would be joining them soon. At first, there was a lot to explore and learn about this new place, and filled with excitement, the days passed. Hel was too young to have any real concept of time, but she began to realize that her mother really should have been here by now. There had been too many sleeps, of that she was sure.
( So she went to find Daddy. )
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| Conversation [after the Titanomachy] (tag: Styx) |
[09 Oct 2013|10:05pm] |
Lottie set the basket down on the banks of the river and pulled out the blanket she'd tucked over the top. There was little doubt that she would be here for some time, so she might as well get comfortable and it was her favorite blanket for sitting on. It wasn't the sort that would work well on a bed, it was a bit too thick so it didn't conform to a prone body. But that thickness made it fantastic for things like picnics or staring at clouds or talking a sister out of a sulk.
( Actually, that wasn't really fair. )
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| Misplaced Affections -550 BCE -Samos, Greece [tag: Hera] |
[07 Oct 2013|09:45pm] |
Hedylogos was standing in the temenos, looking at the dressed and adorned statue with not only an affection but a deep level of concentration. There was, unfortunately, a limit to what he could do or say. The temple had been not only rebuilt, but redesigned. It was much larger, much more elegant and even though he had no hand in the planning or the labor involved in the build, he still felt it was not enough. When one considered the great temples of Zeus that graced the known world, this was not sufficient. But, Flattery was limited.
It was unfortunate, he often thought, how women were treated. The mortals saw them as nothing, and in the case of the Athenians, were preferred to not exist as anything other than a birthing machine. The men looked to Zeus, his king, for how to behave. It was why mortal men -especially the Athenians, philandered with frequency, sired bastards as will, sometimes beat their wives and then... sometimes even worse.
( If he ever married, Hedylogos knew he would never be so cruel. )
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| Unexpected Turn Of Events [ancient times] (tag: Frigg) |
[05 Oct 2013|04:07pm] |
This was not something Odin had anticipated. It wasn't even in the realm of reasonable expectations.
Laying there beside Frigg, he had come to one rather astonishing conclusion- he didn't want her to leave. Not in terms of wanting further companionship for the night, but in the long-term view of not wanting her to leave ever.
( How had she done that? )
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| Look Homeward, Angel [long ago] (tag: Loki) |
[30 Sep 2013|09:50pm] |
Very shortly after this.
It was a quiet morning. Holda had decided to show off a bit for her guest, so there was a thick blanket of snow layered over everything, bending the boughs of the pines surrounding her home, muffling all the noises of the forest. Sigyn loved mornings like this, when there was nothing but cold air and wood smoke on the chill breeze. Her hands were wrapped around a mug that was heated by the contents within: hot, mulled cider from Holda's cellar.
( There was something about being home )
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| Growing Pains [a long, long time ago] (tag: Freyja) |
[30 Sep 2013|09:24pm] |
Thor was not pleased. And when Thor was not pleased, everybody knew about it. Thunder rolled, lighting crackled, furniture was smashed, crockery was smash, and there was a lot of yelling involved. When Thor was upset, it was a rather loud affair.
( But how could he not be upset? )
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| Seas Best Not Navigated (Tag: Rosmerta) |
[28 Sep 2013|03:13pm] |
Manannan, a Thírna nan cheó (Manannan, Lord of Mist)
éist le ár ghuí agus osclaím nan n-geatai bíseanna (Hear our prayer and open the Spiraled Gate.)
Manannan, a Loingseoir Mhór (Manannan, Great Navigator)
Stiúradh sinn, (Steer us,)
Más é do thoil é, spré do clóca-cheó (If it please you, spread your mist-cloak)
agus beir gach a Tír na n-Óg. (and bear away each to Tir na n-Óg.)
Bloody mortals. Bloody stupid, power-hungry, increasingly foolhardy mortals.
The seas and the land had been echoing with the death chants of the land of Eire all night, and the great Ferryman of the dead could only ignore the prayers for so long. One foolish Roman general had chosen to set foot on his land, and the people of the Tuatha de Danaan struck back with all the ferocity of a bear. While the general had turned back, choosing instead to write his letters back to his emperor on the other side of the Muir Éireann, the incursion had left Manannan Mac Lir in a foul mood.
( The kind of mood maelstroms were made from. )
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