#twilight of the gods jormungandr

[sigyn-foxyposts]

"Twilight of the gods jormungandr"

I will just pretend nothing bad happened and embrace genderfluid jormi that chooses to be a pretty lady because she likes it. She's safe and sound with her family 💙🐍

[lokiinmediasideblog]

So for those that are planning to watch Twilight of the Gods and haven't yet. My review is the following:

It's very much a Zack Snyder plot but without the bad Snyder tropes of past movies (thinking especially of 300 here). It's edgy, has beautiful visuals (Snyder projects often do), and has plenty of equal opportunity sex scenes. Plenty of bi characters. Do they look like they'll kiss? They will and much more...

There are very interesting designs. I loved the voice acting and I'm glad Thor sounds much better than in the trailer (I think they edited what he actually says to avoid spoilers).

My main disappointment is the cliffhanger ending. I hope there's a S2 with some non-cliffhanger ending. I fear for the possibility of Netflix not renewing it and think all Netflix series seasons should never on cliffhangers.

It was definitely made with a lot of research. It takes its liberties, as there's some major differences, but I love how they adapted and altered things from the myths for the story's purposes. A lesser "not-like-Marvel" adaptation would have made Loki a Fire Giant/God a la Wagner. But they had the spider association instead!!

Something I really liked is that they made Loki sympathetic without turning him into an actual child. It's something I've seen a lot, and I'm just like "Cowards, there's plenty to work with without turning him into a child!" Loki feels very much like myth!Loki. He's very sympathetic, but you'll never forget that if he's helping, it's because the goals currently align. You'll be crying at the club for Loki, then go like "Oh shit! WTF Loki!?"

GOW has done antagonist Thor the best so far. For people whose Thor is their blorbo-from-myths (because some follow me), I must warn he's currently very much like Homelander (murderous, physically abusive, predatory) but without a fully developed reason to why he's like that YET. They implied interesting things, such as a fear of eternity and wants to die. If there's a second season, I hope it develops that further to make Thor more interesting. I didn't understand his weird fucked up relationship with Jormungandr, and don't think it was necessary to turn Jormungandr into a sexy snake lady to make Loki and his family sympathetic.

I thought his powers were very cool though and you're like "No wonder this guy is so hard to defeat." Like do you ever go like "How the fuck can this guy with a hammer defeat so many people? The plot armor is ridiculous." Here you won't. Actual storm good powers. And there's some very cool shit like he can do. Fight scenes are great.

[neopuff]

same character

[lullabyofthejotnar]

I remembered that one time when someone did a little bit of a rant on my post about media refusing to have accurate mythology depictions and it got me kinda thinking. Alongside the "Anti-DEI" Gamerbros, you have the "myth accuracy purists". Now, the difference is that usually, unlike the Gamerbros™, their complaints are not coming from their bigotry. But, they can still be annoying to deal with. I get why someone would be dissapointed with inaccurate depictions — Especially since there are some straight up horrendous and popular ones, which caused people to spread misinformation to the point said misinfo is accepted as the correct one.

What I don't get, however, is knowingly engaging with a series that advertises itself as being pretty much a mythology fanfiction or even a satire of them. Then getting mad there's no accuracy.

[thorarms]

I tried with twilight of the gods. I really did. I sat through so many bad pronunciations, so many weird stylistic choices. But jormungandr as a sexy lady broke me. I cant do this anymore

[kazz-brekker]

slightly cowardly of twilight of the gods to genderbend jormungandr the world serpent into a woman for the purposes of her having a situationship with thor but also it's very funny so i'll allow it

[whencyclopedia]

Fenrir

Fenrir is the great wolf in Norse Mythology who breaks free from his chains at Ragnarök, the twilight of the gods, kills Odin, and is then killed by Odin’s son Vidarr. Fenrir is the son of the trickster god Loki and brother of the World Serpent Jormungandr and the jotunn Hel.

Continue reading...

[runningw-thewolves]

Loki Devotional Ideas: Halloween Edition

(Do you seriously think our loveable God of “fuck around, find out”, “constant sugar high insanity” and “what’s the worst that could happen?” wouldn’t love a holiday about dressing up scary, watching scary movies, telling scary stories and pranking people?)

- Watch horror movies. Any will do! Slashers (e.g. Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween), Splatter (e.g. Saw, Hostel, Hellraiser), Monster (e.g. American Werewolf in London, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon), Sci-Fi (e.g. Alien, M3GAN, Predator), Psychological (e.g. The Woman in Black, The Ring, Silence of the Lambs), whatever floats your boat! (Yes, this does include kids horror.)

- Listen to spooky tunes. I don’t just mean Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, Ray Parker Jr’s “Ghostbusters”, and so on; listen to the Silver Scream albums by Ice Nine Kills, “Halloweentown” by Dark Divine, fucking anything by Motionless in White or Rob Zombie. The spookier, the better!

- PRANKS! Give someone a quick scare, but remember to do clean up/soothing afterwards!

- Give Loki his own Halloween bucket and put some candy in it for him.

- Spooky tarot readings! Use tarot or oracle sets themed around horror in any way. I have an oracle set literally based on horror movies (and it has a card called “The Trickster” based on IT and it is 100% a Loki card. I’ll talk about it in detail another time.)

- If you have some sort of statue or digital representation of Loki, why not dress him up? You can even ask him if he’d like anything in particular.

- Decorate your house how YOU want to. Get out the lumbering, scary animatronics or stick to the kid friendly banners and plastic scene setters and lights. Whatever works for you!

- Indulge in whatever spooky delights you desire. Read that shitty CreepyPasta from 2009, read that Goosebumps story, watch Twilight, play old horror/scary Flash games, eat chocolate till you poop nothing but it, listen to zombie apocalypse ambience, play with your Monster High dolls, WHATEVER! JUST. INDULGE.

- Carve a pumpkin. Give Loki a pumpkin as well (sure he can’t physically carve it in our realm but you could always use your minds eye to translate what he carved as close as you can). Make pumpkin pie from the insides.

- Enjoy the autumn leaves falling, the nights growing longer, the full moon in the sky and all the hallmarks of the autumn season.

- Give out candy to trick r treaters. Laugh at their horrible jokes (convince them you genuinely found it funny), play along with their “tricks”, compliment their outfits. Loki loves kids, and you bet your ass he’d love them going home happy with not just candy but someone playing along with them!

- Draw horror art, write horror stories, create spooky music. Use the time to be spookily creative. And it doesn’t need to be groundbreaking - if you wanna make a Jeff the Killer rip-off, you go and you make that Jeff the Killer rip-off!

- For those who observe Samhain; include Loki in your celebration/tradition, even if only a small inclusion.

- Tell Loki a scary campfire story from your youth. Hell, if you wanna ask him to tell you one, go for it!

- Include his family if you can! Leave candy or toys for the twins, include wolves or snakes in your decorations for Fenrir and Jormungandr, make a foam tombstone dedicated to Hel and Garmr, make decorative potions themed around Angrboda and Sigyn. Whatever way you can think of to include them, it’s worth a shot!

- For pet owners; if your furry buddy is alright with it, dress them up or give them seasonal items! Not all animals (e.g. cats) like dressing up, so try for Halloween themed toys, bedding, enrichment and treats! Bonus points if you dress up your companion to resemble Fenrir, Jormungandr or Sleipnir.

- Get scented candles or incense that fits the season. Pumpkin, cinnamon, rain, apple - there’s plenty of options out there!

- If you do any Halloween baking, invite Loki or leave him some of your baked goods.

- Have a pumpkin spiced latte and OWN being a basic White bitch for five minutes. You enjoy every slurp of that pumpkin spiced latte like your life depends on it. Don’t matter if you are POC, disabled, LGBTQIA+, whatever else - if you wanna be a basic autumn White bitch for a minute, you go and be that basic autumn White bitch! (Bonus if you add whipped cream or anything else you like just for the Hell of it.)

- In summary; HAVE FUCKING FUN. Indulge yourself, play along with games and pranks, take in everything the season has to offer.

[vlovann]

Twilight of the Gods: Mythosyns

(Inaccuracy & Stupid Shenanigans Countdown)

Rankings:

S/6 - This is actually in the mythology or accurate to our pagan ideas of the gods

A/5 - Passable; As they should, not going above and beyond; Doesn't break immersion

B/4 - Could've done better or more research; could've asked a pagan; will continue with caution

C/3 - True Neutral

D/2 - Don't like it; okay?; Breaks immersion

F/1 - Absolutely not

Misc: no = automatic 0, comment out of number, silly

goofy, +/ - (.5), E/1.75, etc.

Let's Benean - Episode 3: “You Will Gladden His Ravens”

(I need you readers to know, my girlfriend and I have been wanting to make a Loki story for…A WHILE basically since we’ve started dating a couple years ago…only 2 episodes in and I think we’ve found the push we needed…anyway

Onward, mortals!)

1. Made by a non-pagan, perverted man: Ew/6 (0)

2. Jormungandr is a sexy trans lady: A (for as they should)

3. Ew, Thor. Fuck off: F

4. Loki, the ominous cockblocking dad: S (for papa of slithery lil snek)

5. NO. NO. GOD. PLEASE, NO!!: F (for put that thing back where it came from or so help meeeee! So help me, so HELP ME! That thing as in Thor entirely)

6. Cheating on Sif: Unfortunate S for accuracy :(

7. bAldr? LIKE HE’S YOUR PAL-dr, bAldr????: NO! (0)

8. Kitty scruff Libzarb Loki: S (because he just rolls with it)

9. Accuracy of Freya and Odin’s relationship: S

10. Loki didn’t shapeshift bosoms when talking about bosoms: F

11. Loki drinks Freya’s breast milk: Ew/6 (0 for this isn’t even a chaotic extreme actual Loki would partake and he has been a milkmaid before. This was someone’s fetish, probably Zack Snyder’s, so…fire him)

12. Dwarves turn into stone when they die. This is accurate: S

13. The apples were not taken from the Vanir. They were a wedding gift to Idunn by Ivaldi, her father: F

14. Freya wasn’t the queen of the Vanir. She was traded as a hostage during the war, along with Freyr and Njord (Their father): B (for acceptable confusion, but come on)

15. Egill said the gods spit in a well, but no mention of Kvasir, God and Traveler of knowledge: B (for could’ve added, “[…] and with the birth of Kvasir, the war was over.”)

16. Bindrude on the weapons, but no explanation, so probably not a real or accurate bindrune: C

17. Oh now you say it right, Thor: Inconsistency/6 (0)

18. Roll Credits/6 (0)

19. Kid didn’t deserve that. Fuck you, Odin: L Odin (for 0)

20. Wow, Thor respects Sigird’s title more than Lief. Lief saw it as a sexualizing trait!: I’m not sure what to make of this/6 (D?)

21. Thor sounds (and looks) like a fake hippie guru: F (for he’s trying to sell me CBD oil and will not accept “I’m allergic” as an answer)

Mythosyn count: 53

Out of

6x21= 126

42% despite all the S’s, it has LOST points.

Verdict:

[electricscreaming]

for the ask game: merlin and jormungandr, 10

oh hi!

10. What is their main character arc in the story? Where do they start and how do they develop? Do they get a happy ending or is their story a tragic one?

for jormungandr:

much of its story revolves around the city's own ragnarök.

do you remember this from canto 7?

that's it! the twilight of the city. funnily enough, came up with it before the release of this part.

jormungandr is an outskirts monster that can be "bound" to almost anything. it was imprisoned to the wall in District 25 preventing the outskirts from pouring into the city for many many years... until it managed to break out, which weakened the wall's defenses so very much, and stole one of the bodies it managed to find to use as its own.

so it's immensely distrustful of humans at first; distrustful and very violent. hell, it was kept as an honest to god prisoner in limbus company before being allowed to act as a sinner. but its arc is about starting to see the good in people, after so many years of abuse, and learning to trust again - all of that while the threat of ragnarok looms over its head, and it was all its fault.

it won't survive, but maybe it will have been worth it.

(merlin under the cut before this gets too long)

merlin, on the other hand, has a fuzzier thematic to their story. it's more of a tale of how you should probably talk about your problems and trust people rather than do... you know... what they did...

because merlin lost her "heart" in some Ruins underneath the city in exchange for "magic". among other things, the loss of a heart implied loss in capabilities to distort and manifest EGO, but also much of their emotions and cognitive abilities, such as feeling fear.

to have these things taken from you were a pretty big shock, since she's been used to them for their entire life... and so she's doing anything to get them back.

this includes so much lying and cheating and manipulation. merlin is a schemer and does not care about using people to further their goals; they joined limbus company because they saw a new, useful tool. they're 100% a little shit when they join.

when the time comes and they're forced to drop the mask, it's nasty for everyone, especially themselves.

they won't get their heart back by the end of it, but they'll still be alive and undergoing a forced redemption arc. no one in their workplace trusts them anymore and they'll have to build up this new trust from 0.

[lokiinmediasideblog]

I found the series entertaining and it's a good shiny toy in my enclosure.

BUT...

I think my least favorite part of Twilight of The Gods, past my huge complaint of the cliffhanger is the portrayal of Thor and Jormungandr's relationship. It's unnecessary to turn Jormungandr into some sexy snake lady (who for some unexplained reason has to fuck Thor) that Thor banished as a child to make Loki's family sympathetic. They're already sympathetic without that!! And swings too hard on the other direction.

Also, I don't understand WHY or what Jormungandr gains from fucking Thor. And is it consensual? Because Thor banished her as a child.

I thought she was Jarnsaxa at first and was disappointed to find out she was Jormungandr. And does she have two aspects existing simultaneously? Because the giant snake is also there while she's a sexy snake lady.

And what did Loki mean that he would do a deed for her? As if trying to spare her from it? Was Loki going to shapeshift...

It confused the fuck out of me and is unnecessary in my opinion.

[thissmallplace]

Twilight Of The Thunder God -Amon Amarth

There comes Fenris' twin

His jaws are open wide

The serpent rises from the waves

Jormungandr twists and turns

Mighty in his wrath

The eyes are full of primal hate

Thor! Odin's son, protector of mankind

Ride to meet your fate, your destiny awaits

Thor! Hlödyn's son, protector of mankind

Ride to meet your fate, Ragnarök awaits

Vingtor rise to face

The snake with hammer high

At the edge of the world

Bolts of lightning fills the air

As Mjölnir does its work

The dreadful serpent roars in pain

Thor! Odin's son, protector of mankind

Ride to meet your fate, your destiny awaits

Thor! Hlödyn's son, protector of mankind

Ride to meet your fate, Ragnarök awaits

Mighty Thor grips the snake

Firmly by its tongue

Lifts his hammer high to strike

Soon his work is done

Vingtor sends the giant snake

Bleeding to the depth

Twilight of the thundergod

Ragnarök awaits

Twilight of the thundergod

Twilight of the thundergod

Twilight of the thundergod

Twilight of the thundergod

Thor! Odin's son, protector of mankind

Ride to meet your fate, your destiny awaits

Thor! Hlödyn's son, protector of mankind

Ride to meet your fate, Ragnarök awaits

[violetrose-art]

This is how I imagined Jormungandr, the serpent large enough to encircle the Earth and son of Loki

[hopelesspyromaniac]

I wrote this lovely cow poem about Jormungandr in the comments section of a cover of Twilight of the Thunder God and thought I’d share it here too.

My name is snaek

My skin is hard

I wrap around

All of Midgard

My tongue is poison

When I’m displaced

Then Thor will come

I’ll lick his face

[freddyblack78]

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God

There comes Fenris' twin

 His jaws are open wide

 The serpent rises from the waves

 Jormungandr twists and turns

 Mighty in his wrath

 The eyes are full of primal hate

  Thor! Odin's son

 Protector of mankind

 Ride to meet your fate 

Your destiny awaits 

Thor! Hlödyn's son

 Protector of mankind

 Ride to meet your fate

 Ragnarök awaits 

 Vingtor rise to face

 The snake with hammer high

 At the edge of the world

 Bolts of lightning fills the air

 as Mjölnir does it's work 

the dreadful serpent roars in pain 

 Thor! Odin's son

 Protector of mankind

 Ride to meet your fate

 Your destiny awaits 

Thor! Hlödyn's son

 Protector of mankind 

Ride to meet your fate

 Ragnarök awaits

 Mighty Thor grips the snake

 Firmly by its tongue

 Lifts his hammer high to strike

 Soon his work is done 

Vingtor sends the giant snake

 Bleeding to the depth

 Twilight of the thundergod

 Ragnarök awaits 

Twilight of the thunder god 

Twilight of the thunder god

 Twilight of the thunder god

 Twilight of the thunder god

 Thor! Odin's son

 Protector of mankind 

Ride to meet your fate

 Your destiny awaits 

Thor! Hlödyn's son 

Protector of mankind 

Ride to meet your fate Ragnarök awaits

[whencyclopedia]

FENRIR is the great wolf in Norse Mythology who breaks free from his chains at Ragnarök, the twilight of the gods, kills Odin, and is then killed by Odin’s son Vidarr. Fenrir is the son of the trickster god Loki and brother of the World Serpent Jormungandr and the jotunn Hel.

He is also known as the Fenris Wolf (also given as Fenris-wolf) and Vanargand (“monster of van”) usually understood to mean “creature of expectation” because he was prophesied to participate in the destruction of the gods. His name is pronounced Fen-rear, and he was born of the union of Loki and the giantess Angrboda. A prophecy foretold that the children of Loki would cause the gods of Asgard trouble and so they were taken from Jotunheim, land of the giants where they lived with their mother, and brought to Asgard. Odin then hurled Jormungandr into the sea, dropped Hel into the depths of the realm of Niflheim, and, eventually, had Fenrir chained to a rock. All three children would avenge themselves at Ragnarök.

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