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1. When did Loki first, I suppose the word is draw you to him, and what transpired? How do you honor Him in a sort of day-to-day way?
First, to be wholly honest, as a literary character. I read Kevin Crossley-Holland's Norse Myths when I was about 13 and though Loki was pretty much totally awesome and fun to read about. (That was also my first exposure to heathenry in any form, really, and even then it felt more...real to me than Christianity or any other mythology I'd been exposed to.) I went looking for more books that had Loki - and by extension other Norse gods - as characters. A very little while later, I figured out that I wasn't a Christian and that the Christian god didn't speak to me. So I went looking for gods that did. And, well, the first one I felt like I could hear was Loki.
My most common daily devotion for Loki has to do with matches. (I know that the association between Loki and fire is more UPG than anything else but it feels solid to me.) Whenever I light a match to light a candle or whatever, I let it burn down till it goes out (without burning my fingers). The candle may be lit for another deity or just to have a candle lit but my matches are always for Loki. And I tend to save the match ends and ends of incense sticks that I use on my altars in a little bowl (also on the altar). When the bowl is full, I take it outside, add a little more kindling and maybe a prayer or a poem I've written, maybe more incense, and I light it and let it all burn to ash.
2. See, I've always wanted your job. Or what I think is your job. I'd love to work in some capacity at a library, and I'm wondering about your education - I know you had to have gone to college, and perhaps grad school. What are your degrees in?
Currently, I have two positions at the library - I'm a page and a library assistant. Pages mainly shelve books. Library assistants are most of the people you see at the check-out desk - the day-to-day frontline staff. Technically, we are not librarians. (For that, you have to have an MLIS - Masters in Library and Information Science.) You can get a page or LA job with a high school degree.
I have a Bachelor's in Liberal Studies, aka the I Didn't Know What to Major In and Don't Like Math degree. 8) Someday I'm going to go back to school for my MLIS.
Working in the library, in any capacity, is pretty damned awesome, I think.
3. I know that most of your favorite film stars are dead, and most of your favorite programming/films are old. But for the purpose of this question, what is your favorite new show, and by new I mean just the most recently actually broadcast, and no, the Dr. Who franchise is not allowed. No, I don't know why. Because.
I...hmm. Life on Mars? The UK version. It was pretty damned badass. (Though, okay, I watched that entirely because of John Simm, so that's a Who connection.) I liked BSG a lot for the first two seasons but burned out on grim by season 3. Farscape still counts as recent, right? Farscape was awesome. I should rewatch that...mmm, Scorpy.
4. Your top five bands, please.
The Mountain Goats (whom I am going to see again next week!)
Stan Rogers (technically one guy, not really a band)
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (oh Lordy, but I'm a nerd)
Harry Chapin (Ah, singer of my childhood!)
The Indigo Girls (because they are awesome)
5. Seriously, the manga twins have the SAME NAME? That doesn't even seem legal. What is your middle name?
I can only assume that the Manga Twin goes by their middle names at home. I have to hope so, if only to maintain my faith in humanity.
My middle name is Lindsey. Which makes my name translate to something like "Princess of the linden grove", "Princess of the camp beside the stream", or "Princess of the island of Lincoln" depending on what name book one is reading.
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
duckduck asked:1. When did Loki first, I suppose the word is draw you to him, and what transpired? How do you honor Him in a sort of day-to-day way?
First, to be wholly honest, as a literary character. I read Kevin Crossley-Holland's Norse Myths when I was about 13 and though Loki was pretty much totally awesome and fun to read about. (That was also my first exposure to heathenry in any form, really, and even then it felt more...real to me than Christianity or any other mythology I'd been exposed to.) I went looking for more books that had Loki - and by extension other Norse gods - as characters. A very little while later, I figured out that I wasn't a Christian and that the Christian god didn't speak to me. So I went looking for gods that did. And, well, the first one I felt like I could hear was Loki.
My most common daily devotion for Loki has to do with matches. (I know that the association between Loki and fire is more UPG than anything else but it feels solid to me.) Whenever I light a match to light a candle or whatever, I let it burn down till it goes out (without burning my fingers). The candle may be lit for another deity or just to have a candle lit but my matches are always for Loki. And I tend to save the match ends and ends of incense sticks that I use on my altars in a little bowl (also on the altar). When the bowl is full, I take it outside, add a little more kindling and maybe a prayer or a poem I've written, maybe more incense, and I light it and let it all burn to ash.
2. See, I've always wanted your job. Or what I think is your job. I'd love to work in some capacity at a library, and I'm wondering about your education - I know you had to have gone to college, and perhaps grad school. What are your degrees in?
Currently, I have two positions at the library - I'm a page and a library assistant. Pages mainly shelve books. Library assistants are most of the people you see at the check-out desk - the day-to-day frontline staff. Technically, we are not librarians. (For that, you have to have an MLIS - Masters in Library and Information Science.) You can get a page or LA job with a high school degree.
I have a Bachelor's in Liberal Studies, aka the I Didn't Know What to Major In and Don't Like Math degree. 8) Someday I'm going to go back to school for my MLIS.
Working in the library, in any capacity, is pretty damned awesome, I think.
3. I know that most of your favorite film stars are dead, and most of your favorite programming/films are old. But for the purpose of this question, what is your favorite new show, and by new I mean just the most recently actually broadcast, and no, the Dr. Who franchise is not allowed. No, I don't know why. Because.
I...hmm. Life on Mars? The UK version. It was pretty damned badass. (Though, okay, I watched that entirely because of John Simm, so that's a Who connection.) I liked BSG a lot for the first two seasons but burned out on grim by season 3. Farscape still counts as recent, right? Farscape was awesome. I should rewatch that...mmm, Scorpy.
4. Your top five bands, please.
The Mountain Goats (whom I am going to see again next week!)
Stan Rogers (technically one guy, not really a band)
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (oh Lordy, but I'm a nerd)
Harry Chapin (Ah, singer of my childhood!)
The Indigo Girls (because they are awesome)
5. Seriously, the manga twins have the SAME NAME? That doesn't even seem legal. What is your middle name?
I can only assume that the Manga Twin goes by their middle names at home. I have to hope so, if only to maintain my faith in humanity.
My middle name is Lindsey. Which makes my name translate to something like "Princess of the linden grove", "Princess of the camp beside the stream", or "Princess of the island of Lincoln" depending on what name book one is reading.
