I'm trying to get back to writing drabbles again. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the ability to keep to a word count. I was able to maneuver this into 125 words. That's a start, right
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Thank you! I relieved that I actually managed to write something, and the the fact you liked it makes me very happy indeed.
Heh, despite a passion for Norse mythology that I had in my early teens, it was indeed Sandman that gave me the idea for the title. The ficlet was just a vague idea until I thought of the scene with Loki and Sigyn beneath the world. Then I knew I had to write it.
I make no pretense of knowing the realm your piece is of-yet?capybyraNovember 18 2007, 08:53:27 UTC
Ascension.
It's a term some of us ascribe to what exact concept? OR would be context more than concept the proper sense? As a stand alone work you've done what some of us term not ficlet but " A snapshot of the mind's vision"
For you have taken a reader having ZERO referent to the character's back stories- and made me have a flash of SEEING somewhat of a scene. That's a sincere compliment too.
I think that their are two readings for this piece: one sweet, and one very bleak. I'm glad you picked up on the bleak reading, because that means that they're both there, and I didn't fail. Actually, the reason I want to expand on this so much is that in my head things aren't quite one way or the other.
Sigyn is a Norse goddess, the wife of Loki. After Loki murdered Balder, another god, he was tied (with the entrails of his son) to three slabs of stone, and a poisonous snake was set above him, so that the venom would drip on to his face.
Rather than leave him, Sigyn stayed. She holds a bowl above his head to collect the snake's venom, but it eventually fills, and while she empties it the venom burns Loki's face and eyes.
That may have been more information than you needed, but it's hard to be sure what people do and don't know about Norse mythology.
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And I *did* get the title, thanks to The Sandman, at it's a good analogy for Tsuzuki/Hisoka that raises some interesting ideas.
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Heh, despite a passion for Norse mythology that I had in my early teens, it was indeed Sandman that gave me the idea for the title. The ficlet was just a vague idea until I thought of the scene with Loki and Sigyn beneath the world. Then I knew I had to write it.
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It's a term some of us ascribe to what exact concept?
OR would be context more than concept the proper sense?
As a stand alone work you've done what some of us term not ficlet but " A snapshot of the mind's vision"
For you have taken a reader having ZERO referent to the
character's back stories- and made me have a flash of SEEING somewhat of a scene. That's a sincere compliment too.
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Sigyn is a Norse goddess, the wife of Loki. After Loki murdered Balder, another god, he was tied (with the entrails of his son) to three slabs of stone, and a poisonous snake was set above him, so that the venom would drip on to his face.
Rather than leave him, Sigyn stayed. She holds a bowl above his head to collect the snake's venom, but it eventually fills, and while she empties it the venom burns Loki's face and eyes.
That may have been more information than you needed, but it's hard to be sure what people do and don't know about Norse mythology.
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(And I like your icon a lot. I like that song to the point of embarrassment.)
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