#lily-blu

It really depends which of my OCs you ask! For Shio, she wants, one day, for the world not to need saving for five minutes. She'd like to study anthropology and linguistics full-time. For Conroy, he wants to open a library to peoples from all walks of life, unrestricted and free. For Ava... She doesn't really have a plan. One day, she'd like to return home to Dalmasca, but there needs to be a conclusion to the Garlean war thing before she really feels safe doing that. Mostly, though, she just wants to be with her wife.

For Gologa, he has attained what was his future goal - Bozja is freed. Now, he wants to spend his time with his Queen. He's content.

Phoebe barely remembered her father. She had only met the man a few times as he had returned for the annual mating season. The memory that sits just on the brink of her subconscious is of the two wooden dolls he had gifted her one spring. He had painstakingly hand carved them into the rough shape of small vieran children. She had kept them close to her, playing with them often.

“Psh, me? Crush on someone?” Syla scoffs, rocking back in his chair for a moment. “I believe it should be the other way around of who‘s crushing on me...!”

Oh! you found Christopher Bjornson and his terrifying cryptofascist website. He runs a blog/company that focuses on hypermasculine marketing and trying to recruit people for his ...group? Idk what to call it - but they go pretend to be Viking warriors in the woods and learn to wrestle and make beard oil or some shit. He’s trying to capitalize on ‘Forn Sidr’ to drive sales. It’s ridiculous. If it’s any comfort, he’s the only one that demonstrates Forn Sidr that way and he doesn’t even consider himself a Pagan. 

I have lots of resources listed on my blog in the #resources tag. Unfortunately finding sources in English that aren’t rife with misinformation, UPG masquerading as canon, or a thin undertone of white nationalism is exceptionally hard. I definitely recommend focusing on trying to understand the culture around Norse Paganism through academic articles and papers published on the significance of different concepts in Norse worldviews and in Norse animistic beliefs. Academia.org is a great place to start. I also have links in my resources tag to a Norse occultist, Arith Harger, who’s also a scholar of Norse History. I’d also suggest looking through the archive for @thewitchofthenorse.

I’m also, slowly, working on my website to be a helpful resource for beginners. Unfortunately, it has a backseat to finishing college and my job at FSOA. Working on it though.

Tags to look through on my blog are gonna be #resources, #beginner, #norse, and #forn sidr.