OOTS #1082 - The Discussion Thread

[MReav]

Ew.

Point is, Loki don't need no Potion of Glibness. Loki is what Potions of Glibness aspire to be. Potions of Glibness are inferior knockoffs of Loki.

[Sir_Norbert]

I can see Xykon pronounced in various ways:

Soft z: /Φaɪkon/ (This could have zykon and cykon as homophones)

What on earth is a "soft z"? The sign you used, /Φ/, is a voiceless bilabial fricative, the Japanese f, which doesn't occur in English.

Perhaps you meant /ʒ/ (as in azure). But this arises from a simplification of /z/ + /j/, so neither "zykon" nor "cykon" could ever be pronounced this way. "z" at the start of a word is unambiguously /z/.

[8BitNinja]

Potions of Glibness are inferior knockoffs of Loki.

I'm using this next time I get into a conversation about one of the Thor movies

[Mordaedil]

Every time I see Loki on the screen, I just can't forget that this man turned into a horse to seduce another horse, got pregnant and gave birth to an eight-legged horse.

Or to a giant wolf.

Or the worm that covers the entire world.

He got around, is what I'm saying.

[GrayGriffin]

Every time I see Loki on the screen, I just can't forget that this man turned into a horse to seduce another horse, got pregnant and gave birth to an eight-legged horse.

Or to a giant wolf.

Or the worm that covers the entire world.

He got around, is what I'm saying.

I think he fathered the non-Sleipner kids in the normal way. Although admittedly the version of the myth I read just has the kids show up one day after Loki leaves for a while.

[Quebbster]

I think he fathered the non-Sleipner kids in the normal way. Although admittedly the version of the myth I read just has the kids show up one day after Loki leaves for a while.

Yeah, I think Fenrir, Jormungandr and Hel were all fathered by Loki (I think all three have Angrboda as their mother too) but I could be wrong there...

[Mordaedil]

Sadly, a lot of the myths are more or less lost to age.

[georgie_leech]

Sadly, a lot of the myths are more or less lost to age.

Eh... we do have a pretty good record of a lot written by someone who was an expert on the subject. But dangit if I don't desperately want to know what was on those missing pages.

[GreatWyrmGold]

According to my old typing classes back-in-the-day (we actually had to take those!)...

As did I. I used a more freeform style whenever my teachers weren't looking, though. (It helped a lot on the typing tests.)

Loki used to transform into a milkmaid and have kids with mortal men, for exemple.

Oh, so that's why everybody makes fun of him!

I mean, he also tried to sabotage the creation of those treasures due to not wanting to lose a stupid bet he made.

Hey, only half of them. (The other half were made by the first set of dwarves, recall.) And they wouldn't be commissioned at all if it wasn't for the bet, so I'd say he still did more good than harm that time.

[woweedd]

As did I. I used a more freeform style whenever my teachers weren't looking, though. (It helped a lot on the typing tests.)



Oh, so that's why everybody makes fun of him!



Hey, only half of them. (The other half were made by the first set of dwarves, recall.) And they wouldn't be commissioned at all if it wasn't for the bet, so I'd say he still did more good than harm that time.

It probably doesn't surprise you to learn that many modern re-interpretations have Loki as Genderfluid.