Man its amazing how much this topic gets posted in, in just 24 hours.

Responding to this post:

Admittedly when I first saw the wendigos I thought "Oh my, they're gonna turn out to be servants of Discord or something." But then Twilight called them wendigos, and I sighed with relief.

EDIT: Blasted pagetopper, why you so page-toppey?

Ummm, I thought this was funny.

edited 23rd Dec '11 12:31:12 AM by MoeDantes

The thread is super fast, isn it? I had to speed read about 50 pages. Ginger is going to explode or something as far as I can tell.

@Dante: I ws thinking "Children of Sleipnir!" when I saw them.

Sleipnir?

This mythical Norse horse whom Loki was Mr. Seahorse for.

I am pretty sure they warred the shit out of each other.

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

Can we stop with the history debate? Flamewars start over weighty matters such as this. On-Topic Conversations is to the left of the forum; take it there and discuss it properly.

Fran, he dropped the subject specifically because it was a sore subject for him. Whatever your opinions on the matter may be, they are no longer relevant to this thread and bringing it up is just pointless flame baiting. Please stop.

edited 23rd Dec '11 1:44:22 AM by Crowfall

Has there been a new one this week?

You're expecting Fran to stop because s/he's doing something that might offend somebody? My, Crow, you have been gone awhile haven't you?

Also, Loki wasn't exactly Mr.Seahorse for Sleipnir, considering it happened when he turned into a mare.

Ah, so Loki was Sleipnir's ma.

Better.

Wouldn't that defeat the entire point?

Also, the correct gender neutral pronoun is "they", %insult%.

edited 23rd Dec '11 1:52:50 AM by thefran

I seem to have a habit of being gone for the more heated discussions.

Sleipnir was also the horse Odin rode, wasn't he?

I don't remember that bit, sadly. All I recall was that the Norse Gods could be as bad a bunch a jerks as the Greek pantheon.

techwishlist: an ignore list that can hide annoying posters. Or a banhammer, whichever is less trouble to be gifted with.

edited 23rd Dec '11 1:54:33 AM by AceOfScarabs

I wasn't going for gender neutral, I'm just not sure of your actual gender. You strike me a a guy, but the name suggests otherwise.

And yes, Sleipnir was also Odin's horse. And the norse Gods weren't that bad... some of them could be pretty harsh, but on the whole they were at least pretty ambivalent towards humans, as opposed to the Greek gods who revelled in fucking with mortals... literally and figuratively.

edited 23rd Dec '11 1:56:19 AM by kegisak

I just want to get back on the Order of the Crescent Moon and The Other Six. Good times, looking forward to more world-creations and all that stuff. Invigorating.

Going to bed, it's almost midnight and I have to get up in about five hours. One would tend to think I would realize that this sort of thing is bad for me by now, but I'm a slow learner.

Plus I like nights.

'Night, pvt.

Greek gods were indeed tremendous jerks.

It does? O_o Huh. Okay then.

Yeah, the Norse deities can be pretty big jerks. That whole Sleipnir thing was the result of trying to cheat someone out of their deal. But in their defense, I don't remember nearly as much rape as in the Greek pantheon.

edited 23rd Dec '11 1:59:37 AM by Crowfall

The Greek Goddesses fill quite a few examples of Disproportionate Retribution, and Zeus was a serious philandering rapist. No wonder Hera was always mad at him.

Norse gods were reasonably decent, but poor Balder didn't live very long because Loki was a jackass who interfered with the chance to ressurect him.

edited 23rd Dec '11 2:04:07 AM by AceOfScarabs

From what I know about Norse mythology, there's a good explanation for that.

We are not quite sure what Norse mythology used to be, but the Norse gods as we know them are more or less heroes, a lot like Hercules, later retconned to be gods. That, and it is definitely arguable whether you cal siðr religion. And Eddas as we know them are written in post-Christian Scandinavia, thus meaning Ragnarok is affected by Revelations rather than vice versa.

Greek mythology? Now, this was another thing entirely. Greek gods were dicks, and so were greeks themselves, and unlike whatever it is kids learn in school, no, it didn't decline as the civilization developed. Actually, the opposite of that. For example, the minoans. When the continental Greeks were still drawing heroes on their vases, minoans developed actual abstractionism and were playing with free form. This is huge. This is a marvelously developed civilization. What did they also do? Oh, they just snatched a bunch of naked girls and boys and told them to perform gymnastics around enraged bulls, whoever is trampled is a sacrifice to the sun god.

Now I am getting kind of sidetracked, but I hope you get my point.

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I actually have this theory that "nation" (as in ethnos) and "religion" are pretty new concepts, and for most of the human history a "religion" and a "custom" meant the same.

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Fran might as well be short for Fransisc. It is actually short for Frankenstein.

edited 23rd Dec '11 2:16:30 AM by thefran

Yeah, all the Norse stuff we have was written down by a monk centuries after the fact. So there's no knowing what they were like originally. Its possible the worst stuff was left out.

Ummm, can we please go back to discussing My Little Pony, pretty please?

I mean Norse and other mythologies are interesting and all, but they're 20% less awesome when you could be talking about Rainbow Dash.

I got a challenge for all the fanartists in this thread: draw a ponified version of Nemesis. Give me nightmares.

There was actually a user-made thing like this. PM a user named Ponicalica about it. It requires Google Chrome tho.

edited 23rd Dec '11 3:59:03 AM by MoeDantes

Equestria's hazards seem to include the Monster Manual as well. Fun stuff.

Dashie is awesome, but her brand of awesome is different from that of the Wonderbolts.

Wot, no Firefox version? I am kinda disappoint. Challenge accepted, I'll get on it once I get home from work.

edited 23rd Dec '11 4:06:45 AM by AceOfScarabs

I'm not a jerk, I'm just confrontational.

Rainbow Dash is a daughter of Thor.

edited 23rd Dec '11 4:10:51 AM by thefran

Great, so we have a new guy who thinks that Pinkie's completely infallable. I think I might cry.

And you know what?! You know fucking what?! Party Of One is probably gonna make him angry at the mane cast!