Devotional blog dedicated to the Goddess Sigyn offering support to those who are "holding the bowl" within difficult relationships.
With Domestic Violence Awareness Month beginning today, a look at what some men who say they are victims of abuse have posted on the anonymous sharing app Whisper . Warning: Graphic content.
13 Eye-Opening Confessions About The Male Victims Of Domestic Violence
i want a relationship but i want them to be like a friend to me, i dont want the relationship to be all about kissing, making out and sex i just wanna hang out with them, and go places, and just have fun wherever we go
This post is surreal because that is exactly how a healthy relationship should be yet we’re convinced this is a weird and unusual thing to ask of our partners.
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My favorite thing about people who “don’t like Loki but love Sigyn” seem to not acknowledge that more often than not, the two are a package. Sigyn is more than aware of her husbands character, but I personally believe there’s a reason why they work so well.
Sigyn is vicious, Sigyn will be faster to the draw in cutting your neck open and sucking the blood out of you. And this is something multiple people have talked about. Sigyn isn’t you’re passive goddess, she isn’t your love and light here to balance Loki. She is a force to reckon with and I love her so much for it.
There’s a part of me that wants to see someone try and work with Sigyn after shit talking Loki and His followers.
Sigyn scares me. Mostly She’s been supportive, but there was something that happened this summer where I got a taste of this – kind of cold, pragmatic, really unsympathetic attitude about something She decided would be best for me – Her, not Loki, He just went along with it, and the whole situation really surprised and dismayed me. It has, in fact, worked out very very well, but. It’s one thing to know deities will make decisions like that, and another to be on the receiving end of it and get what felt like, “What are you gonna do about it, huh? Suck it up. I don’t care how you feel about it.”
I’ve never worked with her myself, but I do include her in my general offerings, and my impression of her is as follows:
Just think about it. She’s Loki’s wife. If you think she is more unlike him than she is like him you’ve got another thing coming to you. Sigyn is sneaky, she must be clever enough to keep up with him. She’s probably clever enough to outwit him.
Sigyn is calculated. Loki is more likely to make a mess of something because he didn’t think it through or didn’t care enough to think it through. Sigyn doesn’t do that. She sits back, she thinks, she waits. She weighs up her options and then she decides.
Sigyn doesn’t take shit. She doesn’t take shit from Loki, and she doesn’t take shit from anyone for choosing him as her husband. She certainly won’t take shit from you.
The last paragraph seems pretty dead-on; I haven’t enough experience with Her to weigh in strongly on the rest, but I have no doubt that She can be every bit as strategic and plot-y as the deities Who have more of a reputation for that.
I very much agree trying to work with Sigyn without at least having respect for Loki (even if you personally dislike him) would be a very very bad idea.
Sigyn is very patient in my experience, but that doesn’t mean she takes shit. Sigyn knows the respect she deserves and while she doesn’t expect more than that you’d damn well not try to give her less – and part of the respect she wants is respect for her family unit. (I do not wish to work with her children, myself, but I’ve paid my respects to them for her and they have tokens on my altar by her.)
I suspect she’s one of those people who would chew her partner’s ear off for doing something shitty and then give you the Look of Death if you DARED to step in and start berating them for something you had no stake in. Sigyn and Loki are a Thing, and you’d damn well better remember it.
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Five OTPs – Sigyn and Loki (3/5)
“In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that, amongst many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a “grove of hot springs”. Sigyn is mentioned a second (and final) time in the ending prose section of the poem Lokasenna. In the prose, Loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son Nari, his son Váli is described as having been turned into a wolf, and the goddess Skaði fastens a venomous snake over Loki’s face, from which venom drips. Sigyn, again described as Loki’s wife, holds a basin under the dripping venom. The basin grows full, and she pulls it away, during which time venom drops on Loki, causing him to writhe so violently that earthquakes occur that shake the entire earth.”
idek if people even know this about me but i make really neat little high-quality buttons to display plant fibers, feathers and bug wings, pretty much anything i pick up around town in my autistic ramblings. sometimes i order pressed flowers or feathers off craftpeople or exotic bird caretakers and make art with them. i get neat handmade paper and play with textures. other stuff i just decide looks neat and stick it in the machine to see what happens.
aud offered to help me put them on sale. i guess it depends on if anyone is into nature shit? here’s the kind of stuff i make:
iris and feathers on art paper, the last one has neat little gold flecks behind the black feather fluff.
that’s a robin’s egg.
cicada wings, viceroy wings, flowers, birchbark from the riverbank, art paper. i was really grooving on the look of flowers over birchbark. it feels like petting warm suede in my brain when i look at them.
leaves and regular paper. leaves don’t hold their spectacular colors forever, but they look like gems for quite a while before they fade, about a year or so. and they still look neat afterward, unless you press them without drying them first, which i did with the green ones (those were an experiment, and they rusted nastily).
rose petals. the ones i kept still look perfect years later.
roses and leaves
leaves, flowers, cicadas. the ones that look like psychedellic planets are silk fiber that i arranged with a toothpick.
some of the feather buttons i’ve made. these are sort of popular at the local art store, where the owner sells my stuff on commission.
and keychains with peacock feathers over gradient paper. these were really messy to make, but they looked awesome.
you can see all the dead thing button designs in high resolution here.
This perfectly summarizes why I love the Simpsons and hate Family Guy.
Yup.
So this.
I watched that episode with my family and I could just feel how uncomfortable everyone was. Honestly, it was a really jarring, unpleasant episode.
Homer is a terrible dad. So is Peter. But Homer’s saving grace has always been that he tries—he’s bad at it and he fucks it up a lot, but he loves his family and he wants to be better than he is.
One of my favorite Homer moments is in “Diatribe of a Mad Housewife.” Tl;dr Marge writes a steamy romance novel starring herself and Ned, and when Homer finds out, he chases down Ned and, rather than attack him, asks him to teach him how to be a better husband.
There’s some part of his stupid self that wants to do better.
I never got that impression with Peter. Instead, the family has gotten more and more abusive towards Meg. It’s really unsettling for me when I started realizing that’s what happens sometimes in abusive families. Abusers sometimes single out one child to abuse, and quite often the other family members take the abuser’s side. After all, it’s easier to side with an abuser than to run the risk of becoming the target yourself.
There’s never really a point where it seems like Peter cares at all that his shitty behavior impacts his family. It actually seems to have gotten worse over the years. He expects everyone to clean up his messes because that’s always what happens; there’s really no reason for him not to be shitty.
And it’s easy to see how Meg is affected. She doesn’t have much of a character, really, because so much her screen time is devoted to being abused. The bits of character development all seem to hinge on her being this sad, neglected person who’s trying her best but never really gets any help from anyone. Quite the opposite; there have been a lot of episodes where her family sabotages any attempts to be herself.
It can be easy to forget how awful this behavior is when the only context is the show itself (frankly, everyone on Family Guy is kind of terrible). Seeing it played against the Simpsons, who are a flawed and dysfunctional but ultimately loving family, was painful to watch.
Holding the Bowl 