Odin All-Father

FOLLOW FRIDAY

In honour of having over 100 followers, I want to spread the love! So this week, you all should check out …

acutewaspjan!

Who is this? Janet van Dyne, billionaire, fashionista, philanthropist, Avenger—aka the winsome Wasp! When she’s not busy with her own fashion designs, she fights crime in all shapes and sizes, and always looks good doing it.

Why should you follow this person? acutewaspjan is a hoot and a half to read, whether she’s chatting up Hawkeyes or X-men or bringing her honey Hank Pym back to earth from Science!Land. She captures all aspects of Jan’s moods flawlessly, from flighty to deadly serious, and she’s got the writing chops to make the transitions believable and engaging. If you’re not following her yet, you should be!

And because I’m a nerd, a quotation that reminds me of this character:

There was another light in the room now, a thousand times brighter than the night-lights, and in the time we have taken to say this, it had been in all the drawers in the nursery, looking for Peter’s shadow, rummaged the wardrobe and turned every pocket inside out. It was not really a light; it made this light by flashing about so quickly, but when it came to rest for a second you saw it was a fairy, no longer than your hand, but still growing.

—J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

FOLLOW FRIDAY

So I passed my 100 marker for followers just a little while ago and have been trying to think of something to draw for you guys, but then I got to thinking, with all the lovely Follow Friday specials people have been making, why not, instead of celebrating my rise in followers, encourage the same increase on other blogs worthy of your time? Thus, I’m doodling not-Odins! I’ll try to keep this up for a new RP blog every Friday, but I make no promises.

an-enchantress-my-love

Who is this? Amora the Enchantress, classic Thor universe villain extraordinaire. A sorceress who can compete with the likes of Loki and Karnilla, she will use not only her impressive magical abilities but her stunning good looks and sex appeal to get what she wants: the love of the Thunder God. And if she cannot have him, no one can.

Why should you follow this person? An-enchantress-my-love adds some much-desired depth to Amora, fleshing her out with psychoanalysis straight out of the DSM and a back-story where nearly none is provided by Marvel. Her actions throughout comics are analysed both from the perspective of character, and from the perspective of profitable industry, so multiple aspects are taken into consideration. The core character remains self-serving and treacherous, but her actions and moods are still clearly understandable and sympathetic. An-enchantress-my-love writes flowing prose that fits well with her character’s lascivious charm, and she is always down to wreak some havoc—and you all know we love a good villain.

And because I’m a nerd, a quotation that reminds me of this character:

Vpon a bed of Roses she was layd,
  As faint through heat, or dight to pleasant sin,
  And was arayd, or rather disarayd,
  All in a vele of silke and siluer thin,
  That hid no whit her alablaster skin,
  But rather shewd more white, if more might bee:
  More subtile web Arachne can not spin,
  Nor the fine nets, which oft we wouen see
Of scorched deaw, do not in th’aire more lightly flee.

Her snowy brest was bare to readie spoyle
  Of hungry eies, which n’ote therewith be fild,
  And yet through languour of her late sweet toyle,
  Few drops, more cleare then Nectar, forth distild,
  That like pure Orient perles adowne it trild,
  And her faire eyes sweet smyling in delight,
  Moystened their fierie beames, with which she thrild
  Fraile harts, yet quenched not; like starry light
Which sparckling on the silent waues, does seeme more bright.

The young man sleeping by her, seemd to bee
  Some goodly swayne of honorable place,
  That certes it great pittie was to see
  Him his nobilitie so foule deface;
  A sweet regard, and amiable grace,
  Mixed with manly sternnesse did appeare
  Yet sleeping, in his well proportiond face,
  And on his tender lips the downy heare
Did now but freshly spring, and silken blossomes beare.

His warlike armes, the idle instruments
  Of sleeping praise, were hong vpon a tree,
  And his braue shield, full of old moniments,
  Was fowly ra’st, that none the signes might see;
  Ne for them, ne for honour cared hee,
  Ne ought, that did to his aduauncement tend,
  But in lewd loues, and wastfull luxuree,
  His dayes, his goods, his bodie he did spend:
O horrible enchantment, that him so did blend.

—Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene II.xii stanzas 77-80

janelikesfosters:

[ Nyeh nyeh nyeh…

Just so you know, Odin doesn’t have four hands. He has two that he’s waving up and down. Because he’s crazy. ]

((Hahaha—yes.  Accurate portrayal is accurate.))

liesmith-loki:

janelikesfosters:

[ This should be hung in a museum, clearly. ]

People always said I had no neck.

I thought this was just the artist’s rendition of him after he had his little scuffle with Balder: