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vaguely-concerned · 1 year

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this is a great video essay that puts into words some stuff I've been trying to express for a long time around why I tend to find a lot of mainstream (English-language mainly) reinterpretations of Scandinavian folklore and Norse mythology hmm... at best tedious and at worst actively alienating and annoying, while also being fair to the realities of triple A game development and the legitimate writing reasons that the studio chose to structure the game/story the way they did. if you just want to hear some cool things about scandinavian folklore and myths and see some banging art, it's also a good time that way!

#shit it's på norsk #after having to suffer marvel's version of norse myth I have lost all patience for having the stories I grew up with #told back to me worse without all the stuff that actually makes it what it is #this goes for pretty much all mainstream 'viking media' for me honestly #Youtube #there's so much actually incredibly cool material to work with and yet they always choose the most boring road lmao #one day I may have to write a fantasy novel based on voluspå just to process all my previous disappointments #it's got it all! it's got the frame narrative! the dramatic irony! a dead seeress who's real pissed about being woken up in the morning!#and she gets pretty bitchy about it and it's great!#it's got odin being forced to grapple with his ultimate fear: the fact that he can't control everything #(to my mind odin has always been a slightly... not pathetic exactly but pitiable figure. he's so scared all the time. everything he does #he does out of fear because he knows what's coming and he's willing to be cruel and break the codes of society to stop it. and he won't)#but no no give me cain and abel in horned helmets again it's fine

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