I'm glad I'm not the only one going NICE AMERICAN GODS CROSSOVER FIC, KRIPKE.
Not that I mind him pulling from Gaiman-verse at all. Quite the reverse.
We were having the same discussion: that, like, okay, Mercury, maybe, he's kind of a bitch, but like...Odin? He's a pretty big deal in his pantheon. And unless you were going to specifically bring up the concept that deities draw their power from belief, and so they were all weakened by lack of people believing in them...yeah. Luci definitely took them all out way too easily
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The minute we got to the Elysian Fields Hotel, I was like, "Oh, THAT'S where we're going... :D". I suppose the intersection of the magical and Americana made it vaguely inevitable.
I rather liked the bit where Odin was all "Now, if we were to have a PROPER apocalypse..." though that's slightly off-topic. And, now that I think about it, surely the rest of the pantheons, good and bad, would be interested in maintaining their status quo? Durga could have brought Mahisha along and had him go get exploded since he has been made her bitch anyway.
IMDB informs me that he is Zao Shen, or the Kitchen God. I would have guessed Susano-Wo, but he was speaking Chinese.
I wanted to CLEAN MY SCREEN OFF after seeing that. I'm generally really, really not squeamish, even with other people's IRL bodily fluids, but that was just painful to watch.
Yeah, as soon as I saw the hotel sign, I was like..oh, boys. Oh, boys. What made you think this was a good idea?
(OFF TOPIC BUT ARE YOU AWARE OF THE AMERICAN GODS HALLOWEEN EVENT BEING HOSTED AT THE HOUSE ON THE ROCK THIS YEAR?!)
I generally enjoyed Odin a lot (and yes, I liked that line particularly, too). And I also was wondering...where the rest of the everyone's pantheon was? Like, did no one else want to play or were they for some reason all that were left..?
Hrm. Still not too familiar with him, but "Don't mock my world turtle!" is ll I really need to enjoy him.
I am absolutely not squeamish about most violence, and I can handle pretty explicit sex. It is hard for fiction to scare me. But you put something that is just that gross in front of me and I am just... ...well to be honest I kind-of covered my eyes and ears and whimpered to block out the sound until he left. I just cannot do it. (And, that actor plays the Trashcan Man in the miniseries of The Stand, and that character is SUCH A CREEPER and that's all I can really
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Nothing that goes that well is ever a good idea. NOTHING.
(I had not but OH MY GOD that looks fantastic. There had better be zillions of photos posted).
I would have liked to see the hotel bursting with gods - because, dude, it would be! For a moment I got all ticked off about the lack of Native American gods (is Iktomi too much to ask?), but then remembered that a lot of tribes do not take kindly to having their mythology fucked around with.
(I am trying really hard to go. But that mostly depends on my employment for the summer, which, contrary to my until-recent beliefs, is...not something I have, at the moment.)
Yeah! Ditto! I felt like there was a curiously small sampling?
Also, about the Native American gods...like, most major mythologies, I kind-of feel like...not that anyone should be disrespectful of anyone's deities, but, like. Greek, Norse, Egyptian gods? Everyone knows about them, no one..."owns" them. (Also, they are much more like characters now, in my opinion, than actual...deities? They aren't really...worshiped, anymore.) Hindu and Judeo-Christian gods(and angels), etc, I think deserve more respect, because they are revered. They're really important to someone, even if it isn't the writer, per see. But still, they're familiar and widely known and...kind of what I am not-very-clearly at all trying to say is that I don't feel like nearly as many people are familiar with Native American mythology, so I do feel like the people and tribes
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Not that I mind him pulling from Gaiman-verse at all. Quite the reverse.
We were having the same discussion: that, like, okay, Mercury, maybe, he's kind of a bitch, but like...Odin? He's a pretty big deal in his pantheon. And unless you were going to specifically bring up the concept that deities draw their power from belief, and so they were all weakened by lack of people believing in them...yeah. Luci definitely took them all out way too easily ( ... )
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I rather liked the bit where Odin was all "Now, if we were to have a PROPER apocalypse..." though that's slightly off-topic. And, now that I think about it, surely the rest of the pantheons, good and bad, would be interested in maintaining their status quo? Durga could have brought Mahisha along and had him go get exploded since he has been made her bitch anyway.
IMDB informs me that he is Zao Shen, or the Kitchen God. I would have guessed Susano-Wo, but he was speaking Chinese.
I wanted to CLEAN MY SCREEN OFF after seeing that. I'm generally really, really not squeamish, even with other people's IRL bodily fluids, but that was just painful to watch.
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(OFF TOPIC BUT ARE YOU AWARE OF THE AMERICAN GODS HALLOWEEN EVENT BEING HOSTED AT THE HOUSE ON THE ROCK THIS YEAR?!)
I generally enjoyed Odin a lot (and yes, I liked that line particularly, too). And I also was wondering...where the rest of the everyone's pantheon was? Like, did no one else want to play or were they for some reason all that were left..?
Hrm. Still not too familiar with him, but "Don't mock my world turtle!" is ll I really need to enjoy him.
I am absolutely not squeamish about most violence, and I can handle pretty explicit sex. It is hard for fiction to scare me. But you put something that is just that gross in front of me and I am just...
...well to be honest I kind-of covered my eyes and ears and whimpered to block out the sound until he left. I just cannot do it.
(And, that actor plays the Trashcan Man in the miniseries of The Stand, and that character is SUCH A CREEPER and that's all I can really ( ... )
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(I had not but OH MY GOD that looks fantastic. There had better be zillions of photos posted).
I would have liked to see the hotel bursting with gods - because, dude, it would be! For a moment I got all ticked off about the lack of Native American gods (is Iktomi too much to ask?), but then remembered that a lot of tribes do not take kindly to having their mythology fucked around with.
It's turtles all the way down!
Um, sure! I would be willing to dip my toes in! :D
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(I am trying really hard to go. But that mostly depends on my employment for the summer, which, contrary to my until-recent beliefs, is...not something I have, at the moment.)
Yeah! Ditto! I felt like there was a curiously small sampling?
Also, about the Native American gods...like, most major mythologies, I kind-of feel like...not that anyone should be disrespectful of anyone's deities, but, like. Greek, Norse, Egyptian gods? Everyone knows about them, no one..."owns" them. (Also, they are much more like characters now, in my opinion, than actual...deities? They aren't really...worshiped, anymore.) Hindu and Judeo-Christian gods(and angels), etc, I think deserve more respect, because they are revered. They're really important to someone, even if it isn't the writer, per see. But still, they're familiar and widely known and...kind of what I am not-very-clearly at all trying to say is that I don't feel like nearly as many people are familiar with Native American mythology, so I do feel like the people and tribes ( ... )
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