Every time I try to do this digitally, it's truly difficult to write these pages every morning. The household is chaos and then I am exhausted and I take a nap. It's just not right but here we are. Looking at my keyboard, some industrious and tiny spider spun a web between the J and the U keys last night. That was weird. But weird things happen here. As a devotee of the Norse god of mischief, I get my very own weirdness magnet strapped to my butt. I get exasperated with the Marvel franchise distorting the relationships between the deities of the Norse pantheon. There's enough drama and wtf in the old stories, you don't need to change the relationships. You can just write new stories keeping the deities and spirits in the same relationships.
Indeed, by exploring these relationships, one may find that the new stories discourage extremist parties from absorbing cultural symbols as part of their identity. Among the heathen subculture, there are a large number of people who are getting angry with things like the runes being appropriated. There's a subtle fight going on between heathens and neo-Nazis (and their supporters) over the runes. The general reaction to the failed self-coup on Jan. 6 was horror, embarrassment, and fury at the sight of the Q-Shaman's enormous Mjollnir inked onto his side. The same was for the tiki-torch march in Charleston (if I recall it rightly) where there were people in the white-supremacist crowd carrying badly made 'viking shields' with runes on them.
If you are looking for the people who'd be willing to throw down with these people, that would be the heathens. The community is actively rooting out, shunning, and passing around lists of who in the community fall along theses lines. Change is happening in a slow fashion right now but it's beginning to speed up as more heathens get on board with this idea of drop kicking the fascists out.
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