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#278251 kegisak Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:09:23 PM

@Con: Agreed. Those Norse fuckers were badass. Even the 'humiliating' shit they did was pretty hard core, when you think about it. Especially since half of them were done to win bets. Thor needs to win a bet? Dress up like a woman and sneak into a giant's hall. Loki needs to win a bet? Turn into a mare, seduce a stallion and give birth to an 8-legged foal, because why not.

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edited 2nd Sep '12 2:10:04 PM by kegisak

#278252 condottiera Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:09:33 PM from Chicago

@Count: Ha ha, I hear that.

Norse gods also tend to do considerably less animal fucking.

Except for Loki, cause he's a freak.

Ninja'd on the horse thing there. Man, that's kinda fucked up, isn't it?

That pagetopper is HILARIOUS. It is wrong on so many levels.

edited 2nd Sep '12 2:10:50 PM by condottiera

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#278253 Count Dorku Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:11:36 PM from a Time of Eclipse

Technically Thor needed to win that bet to get his hammer back.

But thanks to you I'll forever imagine him as Barney Stinson's head crudely photoshopped onto Arnold Schwarzenegger's body, so thanks for that.

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#278254 kegisak Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:11:43 PM

I know, right? It was actually one of my favorite myths when I first read it, just because it was SO far out there. Among Other reasons...

Also, Heya Apple!

Was it? I read all the myths years ago, so I've only a very vague knowledge of most of them now...

edited 2nd Sep '12 2:12:49 PM by kegisak

#278255 Japanese Teeth Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:13:26 PM from Meinong's jungle

Really, I think any attempts to derive sweeping elements of canon about the world from details are going to end nonsensically because the creators just didn't intend for them to be taken that way.

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#278256 condottiera Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:13:44 PM from Chicago

Loki is technically a transvestite, isn't he?

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#278257 Count Dorku Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:14:59 PM from a Time of Eclipse

@Kegi: Well, if we're thinking of the same incident, it wasn't really a "bet" - a giant stole Mjolnir and demanded Freya's hand in marriage to return it. Loki, being something of a cock even when he was a "good" guy, proposed dressing Thor in drag and trying to represent him as Freya, leading to a lot of very thin excuses for why the goddess of beauty was the size of a house and ate three whole cows at the pre-wedding feast before Thor grabbed the hammer and laid waste to the proceedings.

edited 2nd Sep '12 2:15:11 PM by CountDorku

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#278258 Japanese Teeth Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:15:32 PM from Meinong's jungle

Man, I really need to brush up on my mythology.

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#278259 d Roy Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:16:54 PM from University at Buffalo

@JT - Start with Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Through endless struggles with his flawed human nature, a great man is born.

#278260 Meta Four Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:17:15 PM from home

What about the the calculations of Rainbow Dash's speed based off of the angle of the cone in front of her during the Sonic Rainboom that show that her final speed is over mach 5 before the rainboom, increasing massively after it? If you don't pick and choose what details matter, you end up with very silly bits of "canon" that the creators obviously didn't intend.

Hmm. Good point. Considering that Flash itself can fail to compile correctly and make Scootaloo lose her wings briefly, I'm not inclined to take visuals 100% literally. I'm mainly Watsonian when it comes to the writing.

He played one beat and my life flashed in front of me.

#278261 condottiera Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:17:51 PM from Chicago

I find myself looking at myths a little differently now, though, because Tom Hiddleston is strangely attractive.

Man, I should stop thinking about this right. Now.

Yeah, I like how that never really explains itself to you. It is about the characters, not magic.

edited 2nd Sep '12 2:18:26 PM by condottiera

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#278262 Blissey 1 Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:18:52 PM from a random Pokècenter

Loki needs to win a bet? Turn into a mare, seduce a stallion and give birth to an 8-legged foal, because why not.

an Avengers crossover fic used this to explain Pinkies Cartoon Physics abilities by having her being distantly related to Loki.

I thought it was clever.

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#278263 Count Dorku Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:20:26 PM from a Time of Eclipse

It would certainly explain that multi-legs scene in the episode with Cranky Doodle Donkey. She's suppressing her form you are comfortable with to extend her Sleipnir-legs.

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#278264 Japanese Teeth Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:20:30 PM from Meinong's jungle

@Meta: Like I said, extrapolating from stuff that was just supposed to be visual shorthand rarely ends with consistent results.

@D roy: Perhaps, if by some miracle I have the time. Although I might start with Norse stuff instead.

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#278265 condottiera Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:22:06 PM from Chicago

Okie doki Loki, right?

Hoo, boy. Loki has all the best scenes in The Avengers, though. The part where he is listening to Wagner's Loki motif and is totally chill, and just shoves down that guy and puts that machine in his eye like it's nothing?

That was poetry in motion.

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#278266 kegisak Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:22:43 PM

@Count: Ah, right, now I recall! Thank you very much.

@Con: Eh, I don't think you can count as a transvestite if you can be whatever gender - or animal - you feel like.

#278267 condottiera Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:25:58 PM from Chicago

I am still kind of obsessed with how awesome that movie is a little bit.

I think I should take a few deep breaths and lie down.

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#278268 storyyeller Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:26:53 PM from Appleloosa

If you don't pick and choose what details matter, you end up with very silly bits of "canon" that the creators obviously didn't intend.

Like the fact that hammerspace is a law of natures and Ponyville has tons of identical twins?

Life is simple: it has no nontrivial normal subgroups.

#278269 condottiera Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:29:43 PM from Chicago

@story: Those were Changelings. Don't make me break out Lyra Tsoukalos again.

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#278270 marston Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:30:02 PM from America

Wow.

http://muffinshire.deviantart.com/art/EqD-ATG-II-Day-8-A-Pony-Trying-Something-New-320167830

#278271 condottiera Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:32:15 PM from Chicago

@mars: I looked at some more in that artist's gallery. Did you see The Graduate one?

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#278272 marston Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:34:30 PM from America

@Condo: Yep. I also found this one too.

http://muffinshire.deviantart.com/art/EqD-ATG-II-Day-12-Pony-Getting-a-Makeover-320973219

#278273 Sinclair Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:36:00 PM from Deep Space

@Kegisak: I just had the most disturbing vision of a Pony fanfic ever.

Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.

#278274 condottiera Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:38:07 PM from Chicago

@Sinclair: Yeah, I know, that picture is so hilarious.

Loki is such a creep.

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#278275 kegisak Sun, 2nd Sep '12 2:38:43 PM

@sinclair: ... dare I ask what? heh.

Also hello, since I don't think you were around last time I was on! You wouldn't guess, but I WAS one of our big posters here. Trying to get back into it. Work, and all.