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(Source: King Arthur had three sons, from Rutland Boughton)

I have been on T for a decade, this is how a trans man’s body looks after a decade on testosterone. When you comment that a drawing doesn’t look “masculine” enough, you are basing that on shitty made up ideals that you refuse to investigate or unpack.

Look at cis men and how their bodies also fold and squish and age, and how they sometimes have wider hips or carry fat. I am a gay man, and I like big burly hairy men, and I like soft squishy men, and I draw both. I like romantic imagery, and romanticizing parts of my body and other people’s body.

Now, if you consider the Volsunga saga version of Sigmund and Sigurd's story to be canon as opposed to the more chivalric Nibelungenlied, then one must consider how Odin is an active figure who appears at key moments in Sigmund's story, and Loki is a major part of the backstories of Fafnir and Regin.

Where I'm going with this is it raises the implication that along with all the Christian elements and the Celtic Otherworld, the Norse/Germanic gods also exist in some shape or form, which itself raises questions about the general cosmology of this Heroic Age.

I'm sure one can try to weave together something clever and coherent out of all this, or perhaps even leave it incoherent and purposefully ambiguous.

from culhwch and olwen