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Does anyone have a favourite place to find all the stories about Loki from the lore? I need to refresh my memory of them, but can’t remember what all they are or where to find them. Even just a list of what to look for will help. So, yeah, thanks in advance.

Þrymskviða: Loki and Thor crossdress to get Mjolnir back

Reginsmál: Loki pisses off a dwarf and inadvertently causes the Volsung Saga

Lokasenna: Loki crashes a party and challenges the gods to a rap battle

Völuspá hin skamma: Loki eats a witch’s heart and becomes the “father of all monsters”

Skáldskaparmál: The abduction of Idunn by Thjazi, Loki tying his balls to a goat to entertain Skadi, the seal fight with Heimdall over Freyja’s necklace

Gylfaginning: The birth of Sleipnir, Loki’s binding, the visit to Útgarða-Loki

Despite making this post in August, this post spikes in brief periods throughout the year, depending on when folks like to start.

Reading all the cool costume projects people are working on

You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.

Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:

He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.

Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:

And this:

Yeah this is also the guy from the truck thread going around. That's what prompted this post and in retrospect I should have said so explicitly.

He claims he just uses AI to translate his posts from Japanese. He also says the art on his website isn't AI generated. I think he is full of shit on both counts.

I only gave a couple of examples but even on a brief look through his twitter it was apparent that he posts a LOT about UK politics to the point where he's quite patently British. He is a Restore supporter which is a party that split away from mainstream far right party Reform due to feeling they weren't right wing enough.

It might not surprise you to hear he does not seem to know shit about Japan? Both the salsa story and the truck story failed the smell test for people who are familiar with Japan. There's also a story about going to a potluck where he seemingly couldn't come up with a single Japanese dish for the character to cook??

Legion mother is sort of a generic term across the board. For an example Astartes from different chapters would use Legion Mother with each other since it has no implications other than being their Primarchs wife, that and in official circumstances it’s considered their formal title, ie Corax’s wife would be introduced as Lady Corax, Legion Mother of Raven Guard.

This is not a full list since I’m not as familiar with some legions so I may make a part two one day

The social breakdown of the assassination attempt is the only time Maia is permitted to appear outside the Alcethmeret without any jewellery, and the only time anyone verbalises the impracticality of the imperial costume. It being Kiru to express disdain for it (Kiru, who has existed outside of the court structures in a job in a charity hospital (320), and who is markedly older than the rest of Maia’s direct attendants, who are all young men) finally legitimises Maia’s feelings of resentment for something that everybody else considers at the least normal, and at the most, mandatory. It creates a sense that someone, at least, recognises Maia as a person before an imperial figurehead, even if it is not usually thought prudent to say so.

+ my two previous analyses:

‘I cannot make the answer other than it was’: Reading Queer Futurity In The Chronicles of Osreth

Vulkan reviews the craftsmanship on a masterwork power sword

WIP and rambling below the cut!

In a sense, Beckett is constantly walking in circles. He is too proud, too stubborn to accept the idea that no vampire ever truly has control over their own existence. Time and again, he throws himself against the «inevitable». He hunts endlessly for answers to questions that, in the end, don't actually matter — because all the meaning is found in the search itself.

He begins by denying Gehenna entirely; then, he seeks proof that it is merely a cycle; and finally, he realizes that he was never truly haunted by the prospect of the apocalypse. Instead, he was driven by the sense of purpose that his wanderings gave to his unlife.

He studies the Jyhad, dissecting its roots and seeking a way to escape the vicious cycle of Eternal War — only to break free by accident. In the end, his diary — the result of centuries of work — falls into the hands of Kemintiri, and dozens of vampires find themselves dangerously compromised. The very act of losing his unlife's work becomes the moment he finally steps outside the cycle he spent so long trying to understand. The scene where Theo Bell, Talley, Hesha Ruhadze, Lucita, Fatima, Sascha Vykos, and all the others find themselves digging a hole in the Egyptian sands together is utterly comical. Yet, if you stop laughing, it represents a true apotheosis — a rare victory over the Jyhad itself. It’s the moment when one fussy, restless vampire accidentally forced a crowd of others to unite. Regardless of their age, their generation, their Sects, or their deep-seated hatred for one another, they worked side-by-side. Even if most of them were furious at Beckett for his blunder, they were there, together.

Then there is the later scene where Anatole — whom Beckett had been bitterly resentful of since their time in Jerusalem — saves both him and Lucita from a brutal collision between the Anathema and the Alastors. It serves as one final, powerful reminder: the Jyhad may be one of the curses of Caine, but it is not inevitable. It is not inescapable.

«All his frantic efforts of the past nights, indeed of the long years of his quest, and it was only the words of a mysterious ancient and the final actions of one who had abandoned her humanity, that led to any revelation, any truth of the Kindred purpose. And it was only this: It didn’t matter.

It didn’t matter what God had intended when he reached down and smote a farmer who had shed the blood of man. It made no difference what God had intended Caine’s offspring to be. An object lesson, a plague on mankind, a catalyst to force the nations of humanity to work together—none of it mattered.

For the Kindred, while cursed, had still enjoyed the greatest of all God’s gifts. Free will. The ability to choose, as Lucita did, each his own purpose, his own meaning». (с) «The Final Night»

Free will and the right to choose, my dear, silly vampire. The very things you’ve always excelled at.