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Treacle-Miner In reply to ??? [2013-01-07 19:21:14 +0000 UTC]

Ohhh boy, haha, that's a pretty crazy Norse myth, actually. So, Loki got the frost giants to make a bet that they couldn't build a wall for Asgard before a certain date. If they were late, then the Asgardians didn't have to pay them for building the wall; if they were early, the frost giants got to take the goddess Freya away with them. It looked like they were going to finish the wall early, since they had the help of this amazing eight-legged stallion that was hauling stone and stuff. So Loki turned himself into an eight-legged mare, and the stallion chased him off into the woods. Without the horse, the giants were late and had to build the wall for free, but nine months later, Loki gave birth (yes for real) to a little eight-legged horse. He named the horse Sleipnir and gave it to Odin to ride.

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mondays-dusk-noon In reply to Treacle-Miner [2013-01-08 03:24:08 +0000 UTC]

OMG!!!(wtf)........LOKI!!!! ...................but who cares, it doesnt happen in THOR or THE AVENGERS so yeah..

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Treacle-Miner In reply to mondays-dusk-noon [2013-01-08 16:36:36 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, the stuff in my VC comics follows the movies more than the myths.

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mondays-dusk-noon In reply to Treacle-Miner [2013-01-09 13:30:20 +0000 UTC]

oh that's cool...

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Treacle-Miner In reply to Eliza-Aacher [2012-06-10 19:20:36 +0000 UTC]

I'm sure their gaits would be horribly uneven.

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Treacle-Miner In reply to olihmajor [2012-06-10 19:20:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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olihmajor In reply to Treacle-Miner [2012-06-11 10:12:41 +0000 UTC]

Welcome~

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Treacle-Miner In reply to Draconicat [2012-03-28 18:41:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Haha, it turns out the qualifications for creating one's own Norse myths aren't too strict . . .

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Draconicat In reply to Treacle-Miner [2012-04-03 06:38:49 +0000 UTC]

You're most welcome! Will you be recreating other Norse myths...?

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Treacle-Miner In reply to Draconicat [2012-04-03 15:14:48 +0000 UTC]

Anything's possible!

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Treacle-Miner In reply to DoomTay [2012-02-26 20:49:32 +0000 UTC]

Ummmm . . . MAGIC!

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Treacle-Miner In reply to NeriSiren [2011-11-15 15:10:53 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, maybe the bigger question is WHY.

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NeriSiren In reply to Treacle-Miner [2011-11-15 19:41:33 +0000 UTC]

Eh, in this case, I think "Why" is just too complicated a question with no possible answer that would make sense to us humans Then again, the answer could just be, "Uh…because?"

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Treacle-Miner In reply to Feline-Jaye [2011-11-13 17:32:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Treacle-Miner In reply to Silhouette01 [2011-10-26 16:30:29 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like it!

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Treacle-Miner In reply to Thorskegga [2011-10-19 22:14:10 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Treacle-Miner In reply to hawthorne-cat [2011-10-07 04:09:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah. Although the original myth of Sleipnir's origin sets the bar pretty high. XP

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hawthorne-cat In reply to Treacle-Miner [2011-10-07 05:36:17 +0000 UTC]

Sleipnir's origin is a coffin and 4 pall bearers...

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Treacle-Miner In reply to hawthorne-cat [2011-10-07 14:34:42 +0000 UTC]

I can see that that would have eight legs, but otherwise I'm a bit confused about its relation to Sleipnir . . .

At any rate, his origin myth is a bit wackier.

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hawthorne-cat In reply to Treacle-Miner [2011-10-07 17:07:00 +0000 UTC]

Odin is the God of scarafice a war battle god... and what does both of those hold in common...

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Treacle-Miner In reply to hawthorne-cat [2011-10-07 18:40:05 +0000 UTC]

Ah, alrighty then.

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Treacle-Miner In reply to DazzledByNorrington [2011-09-30 03:33:59 +0000 UTC]

Aw, thanks!

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Treacle-Miner In reply to VanHinck [2011-09-28 17:14:22 +0000 UTC]

I'm not sure what one would do with three Sleipnirs. You could have them pull one of those old-fashioned three-horse Russian sleighs.

(That would be pretty awesome, actually.)

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VanHinck In reply to Treacle-Miner [2011-09-29 12:55:45 +0000 UTC]

Enter them into the Grand National?

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Treacle-Miner In reply to Rose91 [2011-09-28 04:21:20 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like it!

Haha, what's funny to me is trying to picture Sleipnir before he got the extra legs. His body would be a little too long - like a horse dachshund.

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Rose91 In reply to Treacle-Miner [2011-09-29 02:58:40 +0000 UTC]

Now that you mention it, that is kind of a funny picture. ^.^

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Treacle-Miner In reply to ZuviosGemini [2011-09-26 02:51:30 +0000 UTC]

Yep! Though how exactly an eight-legged horse walks - let alone walks better than a regular horse - is a bit lost on me.

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Queen-of-Daemons In reply to Treacle-Miner [2011-09-26 05:47:18 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm, it'd never lose balance?

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Treacle-Miner In reply to Queen-of-Daemons [2011-09-26 06:14:43 +0000 UTC]

I'm sure it would be more stable when bucking or rearing than an ordinary horse.

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ZuviosGemini In reply to Treacle-Miner [2011-09-26 03:37:27 +0000 UTC]

... You know I never thought about that. O.o

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Treacle-Miner In reply to ZuviosGemini [2011-09-26 06:14:17 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I didn't really think about it until I was drawing that last panel. I guess I could have spaced the legs out evenly, but then it would look like a horse caterpillar. (Horsapillar?)

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ZuviosGemini In reply to Treacle-Miner [2011-09-26 23:36:24 +0000 UTC]

Well the way you drew him is correct. He has four legs in front and four in back. So actually I think that'd make him faster.
HORSAPILLAR. New word. XD

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Treacle-Miner In reply to crazyfangirl4eva [2011-09-25 23:06:08 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like!

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Treacle-Miner In reply to VergesseneTraenen [2011-09-25 22:07:37 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Yeah, that sort of thing is why (my) Loki is so confused and upset by the mythology.

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VergesseneTraenen In reply to Treacle-Miner [2011-09-26 08:07:38 +0000 UTC]

Just awesome! :3

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