Queen of Swords

Some of you may remember this YouTube video I posted (courtesy of sannion) a few months ago. It starts out a bit slowly, showing some people at a street gathering, with a girl in the center dancing. Some jerk moves in and handles her roughly. . . and then an imposing, bare-chested blonde man with a long beard steps in to give the jerk a lesson in manners, then lead a kind of procession down the street.




Vato, creator of the webcomic Odin and Friends has also seen the video, and presents the newest god of the Norse pantheon. . . .




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Credit: http://www.xkcd.com/

The inimitable, incomparable succubus Drusilla reflects on a rare and particularly spectacular *fail*:








If you want the backstory: http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/

The other guy doesn't seem worried about the color of his outfit.
Maybe it's only dangerous if it's a red shirt, not a red suit.



Source: Irregular Webcomic
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2085.html

originally via mam_adar and oakmouse

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2) I will pick THREE of your interests and/or user pics I find odd or nifty!
3) You post, explaining in detail about the three I chose!
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For oakmouse

9 Chickweed Lane is the name of a comic strip drawn by Brooke McEldowney. I fell in love with it years ago because two of the principle characters resonated strongly with me. Edda, the highly-intelligent teenager whose best friend was a geeky boy named Amos, could have been me in high school (if I had been a ballet dancer!), and her mother Juliette, a divorced college professor was very much like the woman I was becoming. Both Edda and Juliette have rich fantasy lives as their alter-egos Superlative Girl and Panther Woman. "9 Chickweed Lane" was the address of the home where Edda and Juliette lived with Gran, Juliette's mother. After years of Peanuts-like stability, McEldowney decided to let his characters grow up. Edda and her now-boyfriend Amos now live in NY where he attends Julliard playing the cello and she dances in the Metropolitan Ballet and shares an apartment with her gay dancing partner.

Hero's Journey refers to the archetypal motif in which a young person leaves his or her home, goes "into the woods" and has an adventure which causes them to discover their own wits, courage, or other heroic virtues, and then returns home to share the gifts of the quest with those back in the community. I am interested in archetypes in general, and the hero's journey is one which plays out in many, many stories throughout the world. It's also a good reminder that to truly be a hero, it's not enough to go out and have adventures; you have to return home and share the rewards.

The Underworld oakmouse asked which underworld this was: shamanic or faery. My primary association is with The Descent of Inanna to the Underworld from Sumerian myth (see icon with this post). Recently, via a spontaneous scene with uncrowned_king, I've been exploring the myth of Hades and Persephone which also, of course, involves the Underworld.

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9 Chickweed Lane, July 8, 2006

How would you combine gaming, veganism, sci-fi, physics, Weight Watchers, and sacramental spirituality into a single comic strip?


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Credit: http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1213.html