#odin helgheim

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Prelim Poll 28

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[anewgayeveryday]

Today's LGBT+ Character is;

Gunnhild from Ragnarok by Odin Helgheim-Bisexual and Polyamorous

Requested by Anon (You didn't specify but you usually ask for anon so)

Status: Alive

[sigyn-foxyposts]

So for a while now I've actually been reading this book series, called Ragnarok. It's a Norwegian published book!! And of course our favorite trickster is there~✨

And out of boredom I made another Sigyn, no problem! 😌

Without spoiling too much of the lore within this book, Loki is a Raven and has been on the run for quite sometime.

My take if Sigyn was ever going to show up (not sure if she will so..) Is that she's at home and taking care of her remaining family and is very confused about the situation Loki is in and why he is just gone?! She tries her best to find out what he is hiding and where he is. Because our gal SEEKS answers! 😠

Personally I am torn on her design, it's a little too silly but still so pretty in a way!!

English translations:

1. Why didn't you say Anything loki..?

You've been gone for a long time my love, Me and Hel are starting to miss you.

2. Well, have you found him yet? *referring to Loki*

[its-to-the-death]

I just wanted to say thank you for giving the lesser known ones a proper chance. Some only take characters that get lots of suggestions, which leads to mostly the same characters over and over unfortunately (I won't tag the ones I have in mind as I don't want them to get harassed but people have probably seen some of them themselves). So I'm very happy that they get their chance to shine here and possibly get people interested in them..!

And if it's okay; to voters, rather than getting upset that the characters you are curious about aren't available in English and ignoring it or sending lots of messages to the creators who can't do anything with the situation. So may I suggest filling in the survey over at Seven Seas Entertainment:

https://sevenseasentertainment.com/

(near the footer)

One can also tweet at publishers one like, but I don't know how powerful this is anymore after the website was... Corrupted for lack of better words. Messaging on Instagram could work, maybe.

If you want/can, can you mark those not published/printed in English yet with 📖 for novels (Royalty Witches, Mystical, etc.) and 🗨️ (Ragnarok, Gryphoon, MiniMonsters, The World God Only Knows, Soluna, etc.) for manga, graphic novels, and comics (given that's how things are sorted in the survey. You can't suggest games and shows there though, although Limited Run and Fangamer might listen for games (although most games are region free now 💕) . Diskotek Media can work for shows maybe. I also recommend putting in things as "[story] by [author]" to make them easier to find. So for example Phenomena by Ruben Eliassen (📖), Ragnarok by Odin Helgheim(🗨️) I know it's tagged wrong on booksfromnorway.com, keep in mind that not all Norwegian books are there and the ones that are, have their titles translated, but it's mostly right about which has been licensed of the ones there), etc. As some titles can be rather generic. Other countries probably have websites like that but I do I know a mangafansite that has some information (mangaupdates.com, but it's far from perfect and has some creeps). But yeah, maybe if we work together, maybe more will get licensed! As most of the creators deserve to have their works published around the world!

Thank you for your time! 💕

I definitely use submissions to gauge which characters are more popular, but I don't think it's fair if you guys submit someone who will never make it into a poll. This sounds so cool!

[aerglona]

Friendly reminder to suggest any foreign stories you may find interesting into Seven Seas Entertainment's survey (on top of the PC page and near the footer of the mobile page) or any publisher survey you may know about.

Including to Royalty Witches📖 above do I recommend:

(I recommend writing [book] by [author] or pasting the urls to make them easier to find. Those marked with 📖 are "regular" novels, those marked with 🗨️ are comics/graphic novels)

Phenomena by Ruben Eliassen. Started coming out in the same time as hp but doesn't have its flaws (casual racism for example). The heroine is an aroace lesbian elf with frost powers, this in the "boyfriend of the week" in many tv-shows. The story is about her and her twin brother being chosen to save their people from slavery, how much of a burden this is when put onto children, and their growth from 10 to 17. The author has promised to add a non-binary character to book 9 (as of book 8 he's self-publishing. His abusive ex has given him a lot of debt, so please support him! He and the story are amazing!)📖

Dragens Øye by Cha Sandmæl/@cha-c-san. Non-binary author and non-binary main character. Aside from what's mentioned in the link, they later get a buff girlfriend. There's also gay and bi characters. 🗨️

Ville Poter by Victor Nordal. Trans author and those foxes are gay. 🗨️

MiniMonsters and Dinokid by David Ramírez. A mlm comic artist who who posts lots of trans support things. MiniMonsters is about the shenanigans of a group of monster kids. Dinokid is about some kids gaining the abilities to transform into various creatures, one of them gains the ability to turn into whoever the kid wants, and choses to become a girl, she's instantly accepted.🗨️

Soluna by Camilla Dahlstrøm. One of the main characters is a gay ace trans man and his sister is arobi. 🗨️

Mørkalven by Helen Kaldheim/@helipeach. Has 2 trans characters, one of them a main character.🗨️

Edelmot by Victor Sotberg and Odin Helgheim (Ragnarok🗨️ by Helgheim is even better in my opinion but this is about stories with lgbtqia+ characters, Ragnarok has no focus on romance so who knows). The main character is bi and gets a boyfriend in the second volume, they even kiss 🗨️

IS - Otoko Demo Onna Demo Nai Sei (IS 男でも女でもない性) by Chiyo Rokuhana. About intersex people. The first volume is a anthology but the rest is about Hoshino Haru, who is trans masculine and eventually falls in love with a guy (and no "falling for him makes me feel like a girl"), and he meets many different intersex people who feel different about it. 🗨️

Forbi Stjernenes Port* by Benedicte Luane Kristensen and Sam Einar Engh Syftestad. Syftestad is non-binary and the heroines are implied to be crushing on each other, and some of the characters also appear to be poly. As the website isn't translated, the story is about Paprika who finds an alien who crashed onto her planet and brings her home. The alien Kabaiel is there to find the starry gates to find an energy source to save her planet. It's an adorable sci-fi! 🗨️

Goshiki no Fune (五色の船) by Yasumi Tsuhara. Alternative universe set during WW2. About a group of 5 "freaks" who put on freakshows to earn for a living. One of them is a trans woman who had to have both of her legs amputated due to gangrene. Their love for each other and their conflicting pride for the attention yet shame they try hiding even from themselves. 📖

Saiki Kusuo no ψ nan (斉木楠雄のΨ難) by Shūichi Asō. the anime is translated, not the manga. The protagonist claims he was going to be born a girl but that felt wrong and swapped into a boy with his tremendous psychic powers. He's also strongly implied to be aroace, despite what parts of the fandom might tell you. 🗨️

Sket Dance by Kenta Shinohara. (for some reason they didn't renew it for the new website. Like with Saiki above, the anime is translated but not the manga and the anime isn't finished) A trans boy appears near the end and they accept him with open arms. If anything is he one of the more "normal" kids overall. 🗨️

* same editor contact person as most of the others, like Dragens Øye, but for some reason not on that website.

Already out:

Hunter × Hunter (a main character's little sister is trans and he loves her just as she is)

Dr. Stone (a character has unspecified gender and their boss is proudly bi/pan)

Gintama (needs a new and more accurate/respectful translation**, many gay characters and some trans, maybe a little crude by American people, but beloved by the lgbtqia+ community in Japan)

Boys Run the Riot (made by a trans man. About a trans boy's journey to self-acceptance and he befriends an X-gender who realises they're bi after thinking they're only attracted men)

Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare (author is X-gender and is about a group of lgbtqia+ people hanging out together)

Claudine (was as respectful and caring as a story from the 70s a few years after Japan's trans ban could be. It's a tragedy, so be warned)

Is Love the Answer (about an aroace young woman who who realizes that they might be x-gender)

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (charming RPG and one of Mario's partners is a trans girl, they accept that part of her straight away)

Zombie Land Saga (funny dark comedy, but one of the girls being trans is treated seriously and respectfully)

Otomen (at first it shows the dumb "man runs away to become a woman" cliché so I didn't give it a chance at first but later did, but when she actually appears she gets the love and care she deserves while not treating her leaving them as okay)

Already out (By friends of some of the authors in the previous list of ones that aren't out):

Snøkattprinsen

Oppfinneren

Nordlys

Ravneringene

** the translator swapped jokes with his own and made this very Japanese series very American.

Seriously. I'm starting to block y'all on sight it has been quite long enough of a campaign to get you weaned off this terf's books and shows (and now games!)

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[yourfavwillpay]

The Fenrir Wolf WILL pay!

[phenomena-fanclub]

Dette er en nendoroid hvis du lurer:

Del med alle du kjenner!

[characterswithcolorsnamesfight]

If you haven't filled the survey completely yet, can you please send in [Phenomena by Ruben Eliassen] which Azur is from among the novels? The Norwegian publisher is treating it like crap these days and print fewer and fewer copies rather than celebrating its 22nd anniversary and being grateful for it being one of the first (and best) Norwegian fantasy book series. It was the one that made people start taking the genre seriously in Norway so it'll be depressing if it just disappears..!

Cool things for it's time and still is:

The hero has a love interest, the heroine doesn't, the author has later said that she's an aroace lesbian.

A 12-year old girl becomes friends with a guy in his 20s, they do not end up together and stay friends for the rest of the series.

The author manages show don't tell in a book, and discusses the weird misogyny that was around in the 2000s rather than acting like it never happened.

While there's unfortunately some implied r**e, are the ones doing it not glorified or end up with their victims. One of the victims is a man and treated as just as terrible as the other one and is never joked about.

One tribe that were used as slaves take the cousin tribe of the tribe that kept them as slaves as their slaves, this isn't treated as okay.

Adults aren't always right.

The protagonists both have ADHD but are presented as intelligent in their own ways despite being twins.

Is just very good.

Oh sure ! This seems really promising and rather woke for a 2000s book (some of you need serious updating and should come with special warnings but we love you 2000s series)

Here's the survey for those who'd like to help ! Reminder : we're talking about Phenomena by Ruben Eliassen (Norwegian book) and Ragnarok by Odin Helgheim (Norwegian comic). All hail Norway !

(Just a thought from someone whose country has a heavy colonial past : Not sure the "ex slaves turn easily into oppressors when given power" is actually a good take since I believe the "they'll do the same to us if given the occasion/as revenge on us" was the kind of saying used to oppose the end of slavery. It doesn't mean the book doesn't have great takes or that the author and readers are racist, just that it's possibly a poor/clumsy take)

You had me at twins with different personalities ! (I'm joking, I was into it when you said fantasy from Norway and I realized I didn't know what Northern fantasy looked like as a genre) If they translate it, I'll do my best to get my twin to read the copy I'll get

Funnily enough, my favorite kid/young teen series is a French series who never had been translated which title is Phaenomen (from the Latin noun, all the chapters have a Latin title). It's about kids with different kinds of disabilities (unnamed but quite reminescent of autism and other mental or physical disorders -with a supplementary 'magical/sciency' touch but I promise no magical superhealing stuff- : dyspraxia, hypermnesia, migraines, hyperfixations, hypersensitivity to light, difficulties to communicate, anger management issues etc.) who flee the special needs type of clinic they're in and find themselves in quite a lot of trouble as they try to survive together as a makeshift family and run from some powerful Templar sect who's taken an interest in their uncommon abilities (special vision, superspeed, soul manipulation... all are the other sides of their disabilities)

It's been a while since I've last read it but I used to reread it several times a year. Some stuff in it might be problematic (ableism-wise) but I also have autistic friends who love the series too

If anyone else wants to mention childhood/teenagehood/pasthood reads not translated into English from their own countries, don't hesitate ! (Also works for movies, games and whatnot)

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Fanart for a bunch of Norwegian Comic book artists! Top left: "Lotta" from "Nordlys" by Malin Falch Top right: "Thyra" from "Ragnarok" by Odin Helgheim Bottom Left: "Kha" from "Dragens Øye" by Charlotte Sandmæl Bottom Right: "Syv" from "Snøkattprinsen" by Dina Norlund Comic Norway is on a roll

[thesinglesock]

so idk how available Norwegian published comics are internationally but if they’re not you're all missing out on some real gems like:

Goku dragonball fighting a seagull with Luffy onepiece on the roof of a classic viking age gildehall

(this is from Ragnarok by Odin Helgheim btw)

[lesserknownwaifus]

[characterswithcolorsnamesfight]

Hi, Blåtann here is the bluetoothed old man here. Hope that helps.

If you post this, for anyone wondering, he's from Ragnarok, it's not licensed yet in English, but you can suggest it and other foreign series not licensed yet in this survey from Seven Seas Entertainment rather than asking the author who can't do much on their own unfortunately. I recommend putting it in as [Ragnarok by Odin Helgheim] rather than by itself so they won't mistake it for with something else.

Thank you, it does help !! I've edited the poll

I love comics and I'd love to read Ragnarok, I'm definitely asking for a translation in the survey and hope others will too !

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