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Commented on Introducing new guest blogger: Nicola Griffith
Cool. Slow River and Hild were both good reads....

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Max™ commented on
Introducing new guest blogger: Nicola Griffith
I figure if the hammer kicked butt for Natalia Romanova, I ain't got a problem with whoever is getting it now... though it does bug me that Thor is a name, not a title. If anything she would be The Worthy, though they used that name for the wielders of the hammers during the Fear Itself event. As for not driving to Dublin, clearly someone needs to press his agent a bit harder to get a tricked out Smart car....
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Charlie Stross commented on
Introducing new guest blogger: Nicola Griffith
It occurred to me at the pub that: if Marvel's new female Thor hasn't replaced the hammer with a labrys, they're bottling out of doing it right ......
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Antonia T Tiger commented on
Introducing new guest blogger: Nicola Griffith
Having seen how comics depict the heroic women, perhaps you should try not to scare the boys in the industry. We know they have certain fixations. "I am mighty Thor! It's this steel breastplate they expect me to wear..."...
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paws4thot commented on
Introducing new guest blogger: Nicola Griffith
Hi again. After a quick piece of cyber-stalking, ;-) (joke, I looked up Wikipedia for a bibliography, honest), do you remember which Scottish power station you visited to be impressed by its water recycling system? I can think of 4 obvious candidates, 3 of which I've also visited....
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El commented on
Introducing new guest blogger: Nicola Griffith
First off, hi Nicola. Got to say Charlie, while a labrys seems appealing on some levels, and Marvel might do it, I've got problems with it. A labrys is an Eastern Mediterranean weapon - what we'd loosely call Greek. There's nothing nothing like it in the Norse/Germanic tradition, at least not until we get to Varangians working in Constantinople and that's a bit after Thor's time. Although there's precedent for Norse deities changing gender (Odin, however you prefer the spelling, liked doing it, and Thor dressed up as a woman at least once, and not at Loki's behest) they mostly...

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