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Tag: Loki
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.
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.”
Stay With Me – Sam Smith
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The first time I heard this song I immediately got Sigyn and Loki feels, like nearly bawling in the middle of driving down the road feels. Still can’t listen to it without tearing up.
Obviously the lyrics refer to a one-night stand, which doesn’t apply, but the entire rest of the song (past that first line) speaks to me on a level that is hard to ignore. Some of the lyrics are fairly self-explanatory, but to others I’ll note the following…
For whatever reason, I see this as right after Loki’s binding – everything is falling apart, their children torn from them and he’s pleading with her as she stands there – silently of course, because he can no longer speak, but still she hears every word.
These nights never seem to go to plan – because Loki’s “adventures” never quite end up how he’d like them to, and though he usually makes amends, this time it wasn’t enough and now he’s paid the ultimate price for them (short of his own death).Â
This ain’t love, it’s clear to see – they are past that point, how could anyone still love him after he’s brought all this on them. Of course she still does, because that is part of who she is, but he doesn’t know that yet.
[Verse 1:]
Guess it’s true, I’m not good at a one-night stand
But I still need love ‘cause I’m just a man
These nights never seem to go to plan
I don’t want you to leave, will you hold my hand?
[Chorus:] Oh, won’t you stay with me?
‘Cause you’re all I need
This ain’t love, it’s clear to see
But darling, stay with me
[Verse 2:] Why am I so emotional?
No, it’s not a good look, gain some self-control
And deep down I know this never works
But you can lay with me so it doesn’t hurt
 [Chorus 3x]
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Holding the Bowl 