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One of Loki's names was ( Sky Walker )

Another was ( Far-Traveler )

and sometimes he was referred to as the ( Bound God )

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Oddly enough, this is turning into a bit of a love story between Angrboda and Gabriel ... while his marriage to Sigyn is more of friendly compromise between two people who don't have *that* much in common except harassment from an authority figure they both have to deal with. I don't know what's going on with these two relationships...

Getting out of Hell by some applied metaphysics isn't worth much if you wind up in Niflheim in nothing more substantial than a flannel shirt.

( Sam has all the luck, Gabriel has no sense of modesty, and Hel has an interesting morning... )

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I'm not quite sure where this is going, though Sam is going to spend at least a few days in the Mist Hall, and they have to discover just how shaky Gabriel's continued existence is, considering he's kind of a figment of Sam's imagination and his own shattered Grace at the moment.

This is from "The Apotheosis of Sam Winchester" (working title) -- aka 'the six months Sam Winchester spent in Jotunheim in the hall of the werewolf king playing security blanket to a traumatized archangel'. It's going to have a lot of Norse culture and some Indo-European magic in it -- I've been reading The Horse, The Wheel, and Language which really makes you notice the commonalities across European and Indo-Iranian religion, like the importance of *chariots* as a metaphor for godly power.

( Sam awoke the next day covered to the neck in feathers again. Gabriel tended to cling asleep, and had entirely too many limbs to lay over Sam when he was. )

I'm a little surprised that Fenrir has apparently turned out to be a *Huffelpuff* of all things. And while I had planned to have Kali be the one who freed him from his imprisonment, I think now it might have been Sigyn freeing her step-son. As an Ásynjur, she could get to the island that he was trapped on, where a mortal or a Jotun couldn't. And she certainly has a reason -- in the form of two dead sons -- to want to make things difficult for her extended kin.

One of the things that I got from the CON.txt procrastinator's panel (oh yeah, I definitely needed to be there) is that it's okay to post fragments.

So, congratulations everyone, you get a fragment today.

This is from "Son of Laufey", the Gabriel backstory that I've been working on -- since SPN let me play in one of my oldest fandoms (aka Norse mythology), I'm just running with it.

( Gabriel is fascinated by the baby. It's tiny and fluffy, and he helped Angrboda create it, though she's done most of the work. He holds it to his chest and marvels at the soft feel of the newborn's fur and flesh. 933 words )

Should I use the thorn -- þ -- and eth -- ð -- when I use Norse names and words, or is it easier to read if the names are transliterated as long as I'm consistent?

Even though 750 words has buggy javascript after I hit the 750 word goal, it's worked out pretty good for me so far. I might actually get some of my long story ideas written if I can keep it up.

Look what I got done today -- a bit of Sam's tale of ( the six months I spent in Jotunheim in the hall of the werewolf-king, playing security blanket to a traumatized archangel )

I'm trying to come up with names for the Jotuns that don't reference Odin (hard) or Thor (very hard), because the Jotuns are basically the same kind of beings as the Aesir and the Vanir, as they keep intermarrying. And it doesn't make sense that the Jotuns would venerate beings that are that much like themselves...

The Viking Answer Lady has nice lists of attested names with meanings, and I've decided that the Jotuns are more likely to reference Iron, Frost, Ice, and Snow in their names -- and the Wolves are going to references the Sun and the Moon especially often.

BARRY: ( There's a morgue for the League's enemies three stories below the meeting room? ) -- Blackest Night #1

Except now I want Piper to be responsible for publishing an expose series on this and other abuses by the Justice League -- Rathaway Publish might own newspapers, and it'd be fun for the heroes to deal with a PR disaster of such epic proportion. Especially since at least a few of the people they dug up for their little 'morgue' have families that would have objected -- and maybe a few were never proved to be supervillains legally?

Especially because I have this idea about Barry going to try to 'reason' with the chief editors at the paper breaking this story, and being told it was the publisher who okayed/pushed for the story. When he goes to confront 'Mr. Rathaway', Barry thinks he looks familiar, but can't place him until Wally runs in and has a fit at Piper, who stands there and takes it, mulishly and with bad grace.

Piper is *pissed* about the grave-robbing, possibly because the heroes tried to exhume James Jesse from where he was eventually buried (Chicago, by his fellow FBI agents? Central City, by Piper?) and Piper decided to finally use all the useless, filthy money he inheritated and run the news arm of his family's publishing company to watchdog the heroes. He's figured out he can do a lot of good with good old-fashioned muckraking journalism, and is thinking about trying to hire Lois Lane away from the Planet...

Wally has yet another "oh for god sake, PIPER!" moment, and then a "Oh, fuck, what stupidity did the League come up with *now* that I wasn't told about because they knew I'd argue with them?"

After that, I don't know... maybe Piper has really managed to retire from brawling with super-types because he doesn't win fistfights, and has finally figured out that you can do a LOT more damage if you can grasp the levers of power -- and what else is he going to do with his parents' money, after all? He's already gotten foundations and endowments running for most of his pet charities -- now it's a matter of 'prodding buttock' on a politcal level, to steal from the great Pterry...