Day 15: Norse - Angrboða, the Jotunn wife of Loki

I saw a video of two men arguing sitting next to each other with the caption "me fighting with my sibling but refusing to separate" and all I could think about was norway and sweden, like that is such söta bror vibes

ekte søskenkjærlighet 🥰

I’m 99% sure queen Margrethe was invited to Charles’ 8000 hour long coronation last year and just went

N Ø K K E N

Hello :) I don’t think I’ve been here yet, do you take requests? Would you perhaps consider drawing-

Teen-High-Binder Transmasc Normal?

i sure will try!!

normal oak says bind safely yall

real talk tho guys be careful if ur embroidering ur binders cause first of all it might be itchy, second of all it might make the binder yk, not stretchy, and that would be bad!!

This sound is the only thing I can ever think about when I watch this scene

lounges across a chair with a cup of tea. you know, i could do a little bit of aroblogging. for old time's sake. for new time's sake? 'cause there's a thought i've been rotating for a bit, something i've been wanting to knit into a piece of poetry - maybe some day, just not today. it's something i've not seen discussed very much, or at all, really - probably because i haven't been looking in the right spaces, or looking at all. probably because it's going to make me sound kind of pretentious or arrogant, but i'm used to that, so: it's just - the strangeness of being an aroace person people keep falling in love with. i think "kind of person people keep falling in love with" is just something that happens if you're a person who's comfortable with yourself, or when you have a lot of interpersonal relationships, or if you just share much of yourself with other people. just, having contact with people around you in some way. feelings happen when they have the opportunity to grow! i don't know how it works! but i've been that person, at least a little bit, you know? it kind of happened as i grew older and grew into myself. it was very confusing, too, because like okay, i like myself, but i'm not necessarily expecing others to like me, it's great when they do but i wasn't banking on it! what!!!! it's very sweet and all but it also means - facing the conundrum: do i Want this, or do i just Want to Want it, or am i just Curious about what it would mean to Have it? i've Tried, and i still don't know. personally, i'm glad for having tried, because otherwise i'd be asking myself for the rest of my life what it would be like to Try, and that's a me thing. i'm not immune to the yearning! you'd think being aroace would make you immune to the Yearning. i want my money back? it also means - that no, i'm not aroace "because i can't get some," i promise, but it's not an argument i should have to make in the first place. it's such a strange spiral of an accusation, because in the world i live in there's nothing shameful about being single or a virgin regardless of orientation. to me it's a relief to not have to have sex with another person, but apparently i live in a society and in that society that's such a fundamentally alien notion i'm impossible to relate to. sorry about that.

it also means - i have to be the person who rejects people, and there's always so many stories about being the person who gets rejected, and there's mountains of sad songs and sympathy for being the Rejected One, the Lonely One, and of course, learning to handle rejection with grace is an important, painful thing. never got many saturday morning cartoon lessons in how to reject, though. not just in romantic pursuits, but in general. always running the treadmill of the scarcity mindset and You Must Never Hurt Anyone For Good Reason and there i was, crying my eyes out at my childhood friend's trampoline in the sunset telling him i'm sorry i can't love him back that way, and there i am, replying to the kindest social media DMs with i'm sorry i can't be your friend but it's not something i can force - i know it hurts, and who would we be if it didn't hurt, and if i didn't hurt you i would have to be the one to carry the pain. it's hard to make relatable, i guess? always the fucking relatability! i know a lot of people can't Relate. because we're young and lonely and yearning and starved, because we're social animals, even if we're fiercely independent or enjoy the solitude. not to make assumptions! i know we're all different and want different things from life! but there's not a lot of frameworks for how to fill our cups when every beverage we're offered is the wrong flavor. i know coke makes my teeth feel weird but there's so, so many commercials for it, and it looks tasty in all of them, and i haven't had a drink in forever, how do i not crave it? i'll still show up to the party asking for a water and everyone is gonna give me the weird looks. am i sure? am i sure? i'm tired of feeling like a wrecking ball, i say. uhhh okay idk what that is about, they'll say, but water? that's a little boring, isn't it? we have so much soda, though. there's coke, coke, and vanilla coke. just tap water, please and thank you. hope i don't ruin your party.

no more sad disphoria hours now it's time to get lost in the woods 👆 goodbye everyone

you guys don't understand how counterculture my pastels are in sweden. there are six people at this bus stop and i'm the only one not wearing all black

Was tagged and cursed for a selfie by the vicious witch @fernweh-s

As an aggressive wizard staring at a lamp, I tag and curse @dead--bambi @clarascanio @pragmatic-particle @whats-her-name32 @cuttlefishbones @gluecksteht-jedemgut @freakzshow @dystopian-heathen @jessvz

Do, or do not, t'is up to thee.

Harald Hardrada and George Maniakes as they should have been 😚. Let the rivalry begin!!

Ma, the trolls are in the garbage again!

I am a person

And for that I am glad

I have plenty of good in me along with the bad

And I’m not in trouble, and nobody’s mad

I just am, I just am, I just am

And I look the way that I look in my clothes

And I feel the way that I do about the size of my nose

I no longer have the energy to give half a damn

I just am, I just am, I just am

And I am pretty decent

Doesn’t matter what you say

And I’m trying

To be a better version of myself each day

So every time I try to rip my self esteem apart

I’ll restart, restart, restart, restart, restart

And I don’t need your love

To give meaning to my life

And I’ll meet a lot of people

Who may not be that nice

And sometimes I’ll be wrong

But will I ever be right?

I just might, I just might, I just might

And sometimes the day won’t go just as I hoped

And I will have more seasons

Where I struggle to cope

Will I ever feel better?

Will my future be bright?

It just might, it just might, it just might

And everything has balance

What comes up will come back down

But no matter what the planet

Will continue to spin around

So every time I wonder

If I’ll ever see the light

I might, I might, I might, I might, I might

- Emily Anne (@emhahee - Tiktok)

Helene Schjerfbeck, Toipilas (The Convalescent), 1888

Do you have any thoughts on the Nordic Family? I saw in a Headcanon post you mentioned Denmark & Sweden smashing beer glass over each others heads. So I wanted to know your thought on the other guys. Do Denmark, Norway, & Sweden view each other as brothers? What about Iceland? Is he Norway’s young brother/quasi-son? I’d love to know!

Okay so... Disclaimer, as with the Atlantic Archipelago/UK+Ireland, I am pushing as far back as my knowledge goes and extrapolating and then roughly holding what was true when they were quite young forward into modernity. I am fairly well versed in the 8th-11th century but after that things get rather fuzzy. That said, a-viking we go.

I do think they view themselves as having kinship ties but less blood and biological and more a complex network of swearing fealty, political alliances and a very deep sense of comradery at various points in history. In medieval Scandinavia, bands of young men would reeve and raid to make their living before settling down and to go to war, a leader had go convince multiple of those war bands to follow him. The so called oath rings are usually much older but the Eddas and Sagas and other Scandinavian literature have a lot of oath swearing and hierarchy. Scandinavians also practiced fosterage, where boys were raised together to create bonds between families.

So all that said, my answer is sort of. Brother is the word they will use in peacetime but less as a familial term and more to mean the opposite of oath breaker.

Iceland I do consider Norway's son. The Icelanders were mostly of Norwegian origin and were fleeing from Harald Finehair, a shitty Norwegian King ans Norway later more or less conquered Iceland. The ties are complicated and strong.

i literally don't care i'm going over there and becomign that boy's personal chef. (leans over partner to gently wake them) do you want chicken noodle soup i made the noodles myself and also raised the chicken too. it died a fierce warrior but not without honor or an unfulfilled life