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f0restpunk · 4 years

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A compendium of underground electronics, Nochexxx’s fifth LP is a tube journey through acid, techno, electroacoustics, radiophonics, IDM, and bass music.

B-O-M opens with the sound of a tube station, a deep rolling riddim, bursting forth into a tensile, locked-groove electro beat. Strange shimmering echoes creep and peek in around the peripheries, bubbles and neon shadows. It’s like a tube journey through the Tillinghast cosmos, as well as a guided tour through 50 years of electronic obscurities and underground sounds.

For much of electronic music’s history, there’s been a false dichotomy at work – underground/mainstream, raw/polished. These points rarely met, each existing in their own metaverse. You were unlikely to hear a set of raw, experimental hardware explorations in the mainroom on a Saturday night. You weren’t likely to see a festival-sized crowd getting down to stripped-down acid bangers or electro grooves.

On the flipside, you were equally as unlikely to hear an album of lo-fi electronics that was polished and poised, mixed to perfection, with an emphasis on storytelling and a grounding in musicality.

Likewise, electronic genres often operated in their own hermetically sealed universe. Drum ‘n bass existed in its own 174 BPM galaxy of sparring cyborg samurai, while techno bangs along like some ceaseless assembly line, spilling motherboards into the infinite expanse of the void. House music clipped along in its own elegant twilight of polished white sneakers and pop-up boutiques, while dubstep spits and growls and prepares for the apocalypse.

When electronic music gets too closed off, however, it becomes too safe, too predictable. It also becomes a kind of echo chamber, closing people off from one another instead of realizing the utopian melting pot potential that is possible on the dancefloor.

On B-O-M, Nochexxx breaks through these invisible boundaries and ineffable borders, erasing harsh divisions for an album of pure electronic exploration and sonic adventure. It’s heavy with Nochexxx’s signature handmade electronics, beats seemingly hand-sculpted and individually triggered, while acid arpeggios follow along like some neon drop shadow.

B-O-M functions more like a journey than any sort of collection of singles. It’s a tube ride through nearly every shade and style of electronic music you can think of, often in the same track. Take the shifting riddims of “Entercol,” like a drumline run through a battery of filters, giving way to a gothic, ghostly orchestra, emerging from thin air. This is like witnessing some of Jlin’s orchestral beat mangling as a rhythmic seance in Disney‘s Haunted Mansion, only to have some burbling acid synths emerge, like some noxious fumes, reminding us this is just one stop, not the final destination.

Or take the near-exotica of “Seventh Gun Territory,” starting off with a solid minute of galloping rhythms and klaxon alarm, before a percussive ritual swims into focus, somewhere between an Indian tabla meditation and a Polynesian drum ritual. The riddims give way to ecstatic cries and orgiastic moans, suggesting a soundtrack for a pan-cultural Tantric ritual.

These strange scenes are just an example of some of the joys that B-O-M has to offer – alien and exotic visions the likes of which you’ve never dreamed of. That’s what electronic music is capable of, untethered and unrestrained by physical reality. It’s a mistake to limit sounds and songs to recreations of acoustic music, when you can sculpt whole new sonic galaxies out of thin air, made of whirling particles and grinding beats, unearthly timbres and textures conjuring alien atmospheres that glow in phosphorescent half-light.

B-O-M, and Nochexxx’ s music in general, is a continuation of the more experimental sounds of hand-triggered electronic music of the 21st Century – the frenetic beats of juke/footwork as captured on the Bangs and Works compilations; the fidgety basslines of booty bass; the amorphous, spectral drum ‘n bass deconstructions of Ekoplekz; Howlround and the malingering spectre of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

The fact that B-O-M is an exploration, a journey, and an appreciation of non-commercial, handmade electronic sounds is not the striking part, however. It’s how well it’s executed. Until the last 10 years, it was rare to hear such experimental, exploratory music sound so polished and well-executed. It really lets you fall under Nochexxx’s spell, strap in, and enjoy the ride.

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B-O-M is out now on Plastic Horse

B·O·M by NCHX

Nochexxx

@nochexxx

Plastic Horse

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templeofulchtar · 5 years

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Starscreamian Correspondences: Part One

This is Part One of a two-part series. The topic is so large that I couldn’t cover even half of it! This first post is a general discussion of correspondences as they relate to Starscream, while in Part Two, you will find an exercise to help you develop your own personalized set of correspondences for Starscream.

What are Correspondences?

Correspondences are things that people tend to associate with… well, other things. In magick, correspondences are used to evoke the power of certain entities, or weave certain energies into your ritual or spell. A correspondence can be almost anything, from plants, colors, weapons, planets, constellations, elements, musical instruments, animals, numbers, crystals, days of the week, and so on.

Roses, for example, are sacred to Venus. So are apples, copper, the color green, the number five, and Friday. If you were to create a ritual that taps into Venusian energy, you might have it on a Friday, Venus’ sacred day, and make an offering of five roses, a green apple, or five copper pennies; you might light a green candle and write your intention using a pen with copper-colored ink. By using these correspondences, you are anchoring your working in Venusian energy, which will help you realize intentions associated with Venus, such as love or abundance.

Starscream has correspondences too.

Quite a lot of them, in fact! His classic colors of Silver and Red are obvious correspondences, as is the Eagle, since his G1 alt-mode is that of an F-15 Eagle. Numerologically, his name equates to the number 36 (or 9), so I consider those to be his sacred numbers, and his signature weapon, the Null-Ray, and coronation crown are also very much associated with him.

In addition to these ‘canon’ correspondences, I also have a large set of personal correspondences for Starscream. Some I can back up with evidence, while others are idiosyncratic. For example, I can make a reasonably solid argument for why I think Starscream is a Scorpio, but my reasons for thinking of the Thistle as one of his plant totems are more personal.

Below are my thoughts on some of the more canon-supported correspondences for Starscream. These are just suggestions. Take what resonates, and leave the rest. Your path with Starscream is yours, and it's ultimately up to you, and him, to decide what's best.

Starscream’s Weapons

Starscream has a number of weapons, ranging from deadly (his cluster-bombs) to comical (the slingshot he uses in *More Than Meets The Eye, Part 2*). But of course it’s his signature weapon, the Null-Ray, that’s always held the greatest fascination for me. Marvel's *Transformers Universe* comic series describes the null-ray as being "able to interrupt the flow of electricity in any circuitry... for periods of up to two minutes."

How cool is that? Not only does it interrupt the flow of energy through circuitry, but it also appears to stabilize or neutralize energies that have become unbalanced. It has even been shown to have healing properties. In the episode Auto Berserk, for example, Starscream fired his null-ray at Red Alert, causing his logic circuits to stabilize. Magickally speaking, the Null-Ray has so many potential applications that I ended up writing a separate post for it, complete with a meditation. See The Null-Ray: Magickal Uses.

Starscreamian Colors

I love how colorful the Seekers are! They are like splendidly plumaged birds, each with his own vivid color scheme that's uniquely his. I have some headcanon regarding color in TFs. For example, I like the idea that a character's outward colors aren't paint, but are created by chromites—that is, specialized nanites that create the color and finish on the character's frame. I also like the idea that the chromites respond to the character's spark in creating his or her signature colors and patterns, and so there is often a correspondence between a character's frame color and the color of their spark.

Color is a fun topic. There is no doubt that color has a potent psychological, and even physiological effect, on us, and I wear Starscream’s colors a lot. For this reason, it makes complete sense to use it in magick. It can be incorporated into your workings in countless ways (too many to list!), but here is a quick run-down of colors I associate with Starscream, and what their magickal associations tend to be:

Red: The color of human blood, red is associated with vitality, life force, passion, instinctual drives, survival and sexuality. It’s also thought to be the color of the Root, or Base Chakra, which is located at the perineum and is associated with survival and security.

Silver: The metal silver is associated with the Moon, with night, feminine forces, yin, intuition, the deep subconscious, wisdom and secrets.

Blue: The color of Earth’s sky, blue is also thought to be the color of the Throat Chakra, associated with mind, science, reason, speech, writing and other forms of verbal communication. It’s also the color most associated with water, and has connotations of purity and cleansing.

Yellow: The color of our Sun, yellow is thought to be the color of the Solar Plexus Chakra, located between the ribs and the navel on a human. This Chakra is associated with ego, will, drive and aggression. It's interesting that the only yellow part of Starscream is his brilliant golden-yellow cockpit canopy, and that when he's in root mode, it's located in roughly in the same location as the Solar Plexus Chakra would be on a human. It's as if his Will or Ego center is hugely overblown and exaggerated - which is actually true! In fact, his French name is Ego).

Gold: The color of Starscream’s crown is, as you might imagine, the color associated with extravagance, wealth, riches, and excess, though it is also associated with illumination, love, compassion, courage, passion, magic, and wisdom.

Purple: The color of Starscream’s coronation mantle is purple, a color which represents the sythesis of blue’s calm stability with red’s fierce energy. Purple is associated with intuition, the psychic realm, royalty, creativity, luxury, power, pride, homosexuality, ambition, mysticism, independence, magic and… wouldn’t you know it… resurrection. (And, of course, Decepticons.)

The Mantle

Starscream’s coronation outfit. Le sigh.

Okay, confession time: I’ll admit that I felt embarrassed and vaguely uneasy the first time I watched the coronation scene, and as we all know by now, it turned out my sense of unease was fully justified. Whenever things go well for Starscream, it’s pretty much always because the writers are setting him up for a fall; and what a fall this was.

*pauses to sigh again*

But in seriousness, there’s a lot to be said about the symbolism of these clothing items. A mantle represents authority. In fact, when we say that someone is ‘assuming the mantle’ of something, it means they are taking on a specific role or position, along with any associated responsibilities.

Perhaps the presence of the mantle in the coronation scene was intended to underline the idea that Starscream was overstepping his assigned role in life, and that he was unprepared, or unfit, to take on the responsibilities associated with the role he’d just usurped.

There is, of course, another way of looking at it, one that is especially suitable for Ghost Season symbolism, which can be summarized by the saying, ‘fake it ‘til you make it.’ Our goals and ambitions *should* be a stretch for us. They should be a challenge, and they will almost certainly push us into taking on new roles and responsibilities for which we may feel unfit, or unprepared. That’s how growth is.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is brazen things out. Put on your mantle, wear it with pride, and prepare your acceptance speech. “Fellow Decepticons! As your new leader…” In time—and with practice—your new mantle will begin to feel as much a part of you as your null-rays.

Until then, my friend, fake on! (It looks so damn good on you.)

The Crown

Crowns, as you can probably guess, represent royalty. They correspond with the Crown Chakra, the energy center which connects us to universal energy (aka God), and thus symbolizes a monarch’s ‘divine’ right to rule. This is a very ancient idea. Throughout history, rulers have been viewed either as gods themselves, or as divinely appointed.

The Transformers series is fully on board with this notion, presenting the Autobot Matrix as a stand-in for the divine force that confers kingship upon those it deems worthy. In other words, those who possess a special, mysterious quality get divinely appointed to rule over the rest of us. Call it… the Touch. But Starscream, in refreshingly iconoclastic fashion, upends this whole paradigm.

Sure, he could wait around for a sparkly rock to decide he’s worthy to rule, or he could take matters into his own hands. Of course by doing so, he violated the established ‘natural order’ of the Transformers universe, and because of this, he was swiftly put back in his place. One does not simply appoint oneself king! You must stand around and wait until the sparkly rock chooses you. (Obviously!)

In light of what I’ve said above, you may already have guessed that you can invoke the symbolism of the crown as a means of activating to your Crown Chakra and connecting to the divine, especially your own divine nature. The crown can also symbolize the act of choosing oneself; of reclaiming one’s personal and spiritual authority.

Starscream’s crown has four prongs. In numerology, 4 represents stability, rationality, structure and rules. It’s linked to the Emperor card in the Tarot deck—which is interesting, since the Emperor, in Tarot, is the king of kings—and it’s also associated with the Death card. In some cultures, 4 is considered an unlucky number due to its association with death, but the Death card in Tarot is actually a positive card which symbolizes transformation. Starscream’s crown is an excellent symbol to employ if you are seeking to take charge of your life through your magick, or to transform it in a deep and powerful way.

The scarlet gems which adorn Starscream’s crown are another obvious bit of symbolism. We’ve already talked about the symbolism of the color Red, and we could speculate about what type of gems those are (rubies, perhaps?), but since this is getting long, I want to draw your attention to that central, hexagonal gem that sits directly on the forehead of the crown.

That is a Third Eye. It actually looks like one of Starscream’s own optics, but turned sideways—a classic depiction of a Third Eye. The Third Eye is the Sixth Chakra, which on humans is thought to be located on the forehead, above and directly between the eyes. It governs intuition and psychic abilities, making Starscream’s crown a wonderful symbol to employ in psychic development or awakening one’s intuition.

In the next post, I’ll give you an exercise for developing your very own, personalized set of correspondences. Keep reading!

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thebrierpatch · 6 years

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Free Reading Game List

As promised, here is the list of questions to win some free readings. Those already answered are in bold.

What is the first rule of any game or con?

In the Ramayana, which gods are Hanuman and Lord Rama considered incarnations of?

What is the name of Yahwe’s wife/consort?

When dealing with The Good Folk, what must you be mindful of above all else?

In a certain fictional version of modern day, this book was published at the behest of a council of wizards in the late 19th century, to help eradicate an ancient foe. What was the book?

In Dungeons and Dragons (any edition) this is an often overlooked yet deceptively vital piece of inexpensive and mundane adventuring gear. Unlike rope, almost no one will “accidentally” have some they forgot about. What is this item?

Was merged with 6

Certain techniques are taught for assisting the memory in pulling out needed information. One that used to be taught in primary school was for the visible light spectrum (Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain). What is the name of these techniques?

This hospital in New England was where the lobotomy was perfected, and along with some strange stories developed a rather dark reputation before being closed. What is the name of the hospital? Bonus points for the nickname!

What are the true effects of sunlight hitting vampires?

After many trials and misadventures, Gil-gamesh’s quest to restore to life his comrade Enkidu were thwarted by which animal?

This Island, off the coast of India, is thought to contain the one of the last tribal peoples, who have thus far remained untouched by the outside world. What is the name of the Island?

This knight was the grandson of the Fisher King. (Really wish these questions saved)

What strange creatures were reported by British pilots in both world wars?

In the Mayan Tradition, what object is carried to each of your seven fires, to have a piece burned each time?

In Mithraism, the universe was birthed and time advanced by the dance of these two cosmic entities. Who are they?

After a long debate and several rounds of carbon dating, a language was found that predates and informs both Sumerian and Vedic. What people developed this language?

What term is used to denote both passage through the forest and an honorable and respect based relationship with spirits?

This forest in the PNW is famed for being a near perfectly preserved site, despite dieing 5 hundred years ago. What is its name and how was its death dated?

Even dirt burns, though at what temperature?

What is one of the few constants in the universe?

With the resurgence of auto immune diseases in the last 50 years or so, many causes have put forward. What is the term for the source of activated genetics in certain theories?

In a certain mythos, the universe is said to be formed of the dreams of this entity, who must be constantly lulled to sleep to not destroy what they have wrought. What is the name of this being?

One of the more infamous tales in Chaos Magick deals with a sigil who gained self awareness and has acted independently for several decades. What is the name of this viral servitor?

While there have been many tools and weapons made by humans, some are designed with no purpose other than to kill humans. What was the first “mass” produced items that had no purpose beyond this?

This mind altering substance is notable for producing such similar effects in disparate people as to suggest travel to a similar place. What is the name of the substance?

In certain North American Native traditions, if a warrior dropped a feather during a dance everyone must stop while he bends and picks it up with his teeth. What does this signify?

Space can be thought of in terms of connections between people, places and concepts. What is the term for this kind of relation between things?

What is the second rule of any game or con?

Where is the best place for an enemy to hide?

#divination #thewyldwolf #readings #tarot #reading game #trivia #astrology #Evolutionary Astrology #astro #tarot readings #fey #pagan #pnw #magic #follow for more

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bloodspires · 7 years

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Tagged by @colossal-ramifications for ten facts about me!

1. I absolutely love being outside. Going on walks, bike rides, just sitting on the porch. Especially when it's cool out. Fresh air is a blessing to my bad lungs.

2. I don't like organized religion, but I'm fairly respectful of those who practice as long as they respect me. I am an ecclectic pagan who practices mostly in fire magick and sigils. I'm very moved by the strength of the written word and what fire can do. The deities I find myself called by are Epona and Cernunnos.

3. I actually don't have a real preferred name, I go by Dav/Dave to most because it's a nickname that's easy to remember. I'm still...feelin' that one out.

4. I have deeply held beliefs in reincarnation and the idea that if it's an idea at all, it exists somewhere in this universe or another one. No matter how horrid or silly.

5. I have always loved catching and releasing lizards for fun. It sounds cruel but I have had this weird urge, since I was little, to snatch them up. I've most commonly caught those little green anoles found all over the southern US.

6. Speaking of states, I have been to: Texas (born there!!), Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. I'm hoping to travel to or through at least half of them at some point.

7. I absolutely cannot decide on a career!! Like!! At all!! I may come off as an art student kind of guy but I'm also very interested in and would work in jobs/industries included but not limited to: Electrical Engineering, Auto Mechanics, Astronomy, Animation, Graphic Design, Game Development, Sound Design, Video Editing, A/V Broadcasting, Cardiac or Neurosurgery, MRI Tech, and more...I think my main dream jobs though would be working for SETI or launching and indie game development studio!

8. I actually sing fairly often and get complimented, even if I think I sound like an overexcited horse. When I get in a musical mood, I even tend to sing until my throat hurts. Which is probably stupid of me, but hey, what's self control?

9. I absolutely ADORE reptiles, most especially snakes. And most of all, ball pythons. They are 10/10 THE BEST Cuddle Tubes.

10. Despite my ability to stay awake well into the territory of two or more days, I am the sleepiest person I know. If given the opportunity to get comfortable for more than a few minutes, I will doze off. It is inevitable.

I'm supposed to tag some people, so I'll go with these. You don't have to do it if you don't want to!

@vverebeast @jasloblitz @fruking-hetastucker @anthropomorphic-lagomorph @crispyfishfilet @thatspencerinthesky

#luigi.png #dav replies #i got tagged!!#thank u frend

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cholericeric-blog · 7 years

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Name: Pluto Age: 200+ Earth Years Species: Space Desperado Positions: Prime Minister of Pluto Nation, Archmage of the Temple of the Trapezoidal Sphinx, Marquis of multitude of planets etcetera etcetera Personality: ESTJ| "The Executive" Pluto has managed to obtain several titles of leadership through brilliant management through ruthless cunning and careful politicking. Pluto is a believer of progress through order. Their erudite, big-picture perspective along with a indomitable will and expansive occult knowledge including a powerful Space Desperado physiology allows them to easily conquer opposition. Pluto's sense of excellence makes him hubristic and arrogant. They believe they could see through individuals and into their deeper motivations. Pluto carries enormous pride in the Space Desperado species and has wrote an extensive tome on the species' history, "Overthrowing the Makers, the Odyssey of a Species Unchained", which may or may not be peppered with poetic embellishments. Backstory: Pluto, like most others of their species, adhere to a doctrine called "Auto-Sovereignty". They were bred by a master species to police the Multiverse, however Pluto and their kind overthrew the masters, annihilated all traces of their culture and scrubbed their own history. By this genocidal act of their makers, they saw it fit to proclaim all individuals of their grand species to be the equivalent of kings. They then departed from one another to seek out habitation in their own universe. Legend of Pluto's kind spread throughout the multiverse- their heroic act twisted into an act of vile sedition, and the name "Space Desperados" was stuck to Pluto's kind. Thus Pluto and their kind was smeared as some kind of transcendental criminal enterprise. Pluto maintained their own rogue universe as a Marquis, staving off Space Police and Extradimensional Imperialists with magickal prowess and sabotage. However, in order to maintain their own order, Pluto desires rare minerals to power their weapons and technological arms race. Abilities: Space Desperado natural abilities include an ultra-dense, crystal-lattice endoskeleton, regeneration, spontaneous resurrection, and the ability to traverse multiple dimensions with relative ease. Pluto is an archmage of the Temple of the Trapezoidal Sphinx and a practicioner of their occult arts. Their magick is based off of mudras, which they dub as Induction Codes™, which is a the art of transmitting information with a 3d-linguistic script and inducing change in reality and living organisms. The highest form of the Induction Codes™ is the crafting of Bioetheric Vehicles™ for interdimensional travel. The Temple of the Trapezoidal Sphinx: The Sphinx is an extraterrestrial mystery school dedicated to the development of induction codes™ and taking the act of creation into their own hands. Not much is known of their hierarchy or their ideology.

#entervoid #esoteric #magick #chaos #mage #wizard #witch #illustration #comics #characterdesign

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jeichanhaka · 4 years

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The Robbed That Smiles

Chapter Three

“The Infinity Stones? The parallel universe this woman claims to be from was devastated by someone using the stones?” Wong muttered, repeating what Strange had just told him but in question form, the result of being befuddled by it. Not the idea of multiple universes - his years of learning from the Ancient One about magic and different dimensions had long dispelled any disbelief of the Multiverse. Nor the thought that the Infinity Stones could be used for such destruction and evil - they were after all extremely powerful, and power was always tempting to those not wise enough to resist its pull. Even the wisest sometimes gave in. (Like the Ancient One’s use of magic from the Dark Dimension.) What befuddled him was difficult to pin down, more complex than the separate ideas.

“It appears that is the case.” Strange replied, skim reading through a book of old and powerful protective spells. After Lokki’s shocking revelation to Banner and Loki, after which she refused to answer any more questions, Banner had called back the other Avengers. (It irked Strange to find out that, contrary to what he’d first thought upon seeing through Lokki’s illusion, he had fallen for the goddess’ trick. That Loki was the only one not to fall for the layered trick, did little to lessen the doctor’s annoyance, and had instead increased it.) To make up for it, he was determined to protect all the Infinity Stones currently in the Avengers’ possession.

“You believe her? This female version of Loki?” Asked Wong, following Strange as the other man finished with one book and picked up another. “The god of lies?”

“There’s few reasons to doubt her, and every reason not to.” The surgeon-turned-sorcerer replied, putting back the tome he’d just picked up and meeting Wong’s gaze. “The stones are too dangerous not to believe Miss Lokki’s claim. Because if someone’s devastated her universe with them, then there’s probably someone in ours who’d do likewise.”

Wong drew in a breath, then nodded in understanding. “The person who’s been manipulating events over the past few years to draw out the stones, according to Thor. That person or entity or whatever - they want to use the Stones the same way.”

“It’s likely.” Strange skim-read through another book, this one dealing with various spells and incantations, mostly psionic in nature. Though there were mystic and entropic ones as well. It even included a section about truth and other interrogative spells. “I’ll find out more when I question Miss Lokki. There is the possibility that our universe is different enough from hers that we are not in such danger. But I don’t hold much hope for that. The Infinity Stones do exist in our universe.”

Wong didn’t reply and only nodded, agreeing with his fellow wizard. Before either man could say anything further, Strange’s cell phone beeped, the text-tone one the surgeon-wizard assigned to those from Stark’s number.

“...Thor and Natasha are on their way with Miss Lokki.” Strange commented aloud after reading the message, slightly curious. Not about the female Jotunn being brought to the Sanctum - until Stark managed to reinforce the walls and floors at his containment facility to withstand colder temperatures, it was agreed that Lokki would be transported to the New York Sanctum for interrogation and holding. There she could be restrained by Strange and the other Sanctum sorcerers if she tried escaping, without causing too much trouble.

“I thought Thor’s brother was also to come along, to make sure Miss Lokki didn’t use illusion magic to escape?”

“Apparently there were some issues and…” There was another beep indicating a new text, which Strange opened and immediately cocked an eyebrow. It was a snippet of video sent with an accompanying caption, underlying what the 25 seconds of film conveyed in Stark’s brand of banter. “‘Reindeer Games 2’ pwning ‘Reindeer Games 1.’” The wizard read Stark’s text verbatim after hitting play on the clip, his mouth twitched with amusement as he watched Lokki suddenly kneeing Loki when the latter Jotunn was talking with Thor. A string of foul language - both English and Asgardian by the sound - from Loki followed.

“...ooh.” Wong, peeking at the video clip, cringed as it finished and auto-repeated, feeling the reflective empathy any guy who’d ever got kneed between the legs felt when seeing it happen to another. “...that’s gotta have hurt.”

“Yeah.” Agreed Strange, while watching the clip again, his focus less on the pwnage and more on the reaction and glares between the two Lokis. It was obvious that Loki had midway through his swath of swearing moved to retaliate, even summoning a dagger, but had stopped. The human wizard frowned.

Thor’s knocking on the Sanctum’s entrance interrupted, drawing both wizards’ attentions from the video clip. Wong hurried downstairs to usher in their guests, while Strange pocketed his phone and placed the book of interrogative magicks back on the shelf. Afterwards he cast a spell on the floor, reinforcing it against any magic the female Jotunn may use. The room Lokki would be lodging in had already been so prepped.

“Upstairs, to the right. First open door.”

“Got it. Thanks.” Thor said to Wong as the sorcerer led him, Natasha, and Lokki up to the Sanctum’s private library.

“Good evening.” Welcomed Strange as he exited into the hall, eyeing his guests, especially Lokki. The frost giantess was sandwiched between her two escorts, Thor on her right holding her upper arm firmly, and Natasha on her left, holding just as tightly to Lokki’s wrist. Both Avengers appeared annoyed.

“L….”

“Stark already messaged me.” Strange interrupted. “Said your brother was...indisposed and couldn’t make it.” The wizard noted the smug grin Lokki gave when hearing about the mischief god and the comeuppance she’d given him. He also noticed the seidr-binding magic around her wrists, a temporary restraining measure he sensed was Loki’s payback for his female doppelganger’s assault.

“Yeah.” Thor grumbled, annoyed; many thoughts going through his head. He, as with Stark and the other Avengers, had been gobsmacked by Lokki’s sudden attack on his brother. Him even more so, because while Stark and Banner may have been too far away to know it, Thor had been talking with Loki. The mischief god hadn’t done anything or said anything to prompt the female Jotunn to knee him. “Should I bring Sis to her chamber or are you planning to question her tonight?”

“Questioning first.” Strange replied, not missing the quick glance Lokki gave Thor when the Asgardian referred to her as his sister. Thanks to his photographic memory and keen mind he deduced it to be a confused glance, and he felt his curiosity about the mischievous goddess increase.

“Can’t I have some refreshments first? I’m famished.” Lokki asked, her tone not reflecting any acknowledgment of Thor’s or Natasha’s annoyance.

“You had food at the tower.” Natasha snapped, letting go of the goddess’ wrist after Strange cast a stronger magic-silencing spell on the Jotunn sorceress.

“You call that greasy and heavily salted abomination food?!?” Lokki gaped at the red haired assassin, appalled. “It wasn’t even fit for a dog!”

“Sister, you’re the one who wanted fish n chips.” Thor groaned, reminding the jotunn that she’d requested - actually demanded - the Midgardian meal consisting of deep fried potatoes and battered fish. It had been the first thing, since her revelation about the Infinity Stones earlier that afternoon, that she had said. And thus Thor, feeling responsible for his adoptive sister from another universe, had asked his fellow Avengers to get the meal for Lokki.

“I’m n….” Lokki grimaced, her sea-hued gaze glaring at Thor, her hands resting over her stomach and smoothing out her shirt. (The same green tunic and black slacks outfit Loki had seidr summoned for her after dispelling her basilisk spider shape-shifting spell.) “I didn’t know you were going to get it from what has to be the worst Midgardian kitchen. I’d rather have a hamburger from one of their fast food thingamabobs.”

“Thing-a…what? You mean restaurant.” Thor corrected, earning him a smoldering glare from Lokki, whose cheeks slightly pinked.

“Thingamabob is a legit Midgardian word, you…”

“All right. All right.” Strange interrupted the Jotunn sorceress, his eyes locked on the magic silencing binds he’d placed on Lokki. Despite it being virtually impossible, the sorceress had subconsciously started straining them, her irritability nipping away at the magic binds. Hiding his alarm, Strange stepped forward, addressing Lokki. “I’ll see about getting you something to eat, Miss Lokki. Thor, you and Natasha can go, Wong and I can handle your sister.”

“See? At least someone here’s decent.” Lokki jabbed, crossing her arms and turning her back to both non-sorcerers.

Thor rubbed his temples, a headache forming there, while beside him Natasha rolled her eyes and started down the stairs. The thunder god soon followed, both of them done with the Jotunn sorceress’ attitude. After the two left, Strange turned toward Lokki and motioned towards the library.

The mischief goddess simply glanced through the doorway, noticing the magical reinforcements arrayed around the room and on the floor. “...going right into it, huh?” She sighed, referring to her soon-to-happen interrogation. “What about getting me some sustenance? I don’t tend to be agreeable on an empty stomach.”

‘Are you ever?’ Thought Strange to himself, before preparing to simply portal Lokki into the library. The Jotunn surprised him by quickly entering the room without any further complaint or comment, except for snapping a ‘I’m going, alright?’ after realizing what he was about to do. As she walked by him (he was standing closer to the library door than her, despite her being a foot or so further down the upper corridor), he glanced her over. He immediately noted that his magic-dampening spell, despite being strained by Lokki’s frost magic minutes earlier, was once again at full strength.

‘That’s a relief,’ he thought as he watched the Jotunn sorceress smooth out the front of her tunic again while waiting for him to follow, her hands lingering over her abdomen. Resting them there a few moments longer than necessary to smooth out the fabric, while a hint of a softened smile tugged at her lips. So brief Strange almost missed it.

For some reason it made him pause, and he thought of the video clip Stark had sent. In it, their Loki had been about to retaliate against the new Lokki but had stopped and instead stalked off. A reversal that happened seconds after the mischief god met the goddess’ glare and noted her hand resting deliberately on her stomach.

Strange’s eyes narrowed, realizing the look and gesture for what it was - a nonverbal spat between Loki and Lokki, in which the latter had dared the other to retaliate. Only to stop the god of mischief with a most innocuous gesture. Not a very threatening move but their Loki had immediately backed off.

That made little sense. Strange didn’t care if the two Lokis were aliens, simply placing a hand on one’s abdomen wasn’t threatening. Not in the slightest.

‘Neither is aiming for the stomach of the person holding a knife to your throat.’ The wizard muttered quietly as he thought of Banner’s description of his and Loki’s recapture of the female Jotunn. Perplexed by the reversal, and suspicious that it was a ploy of some kind, Banner had told his fellow Avengers exactly what had transpired. Including how Loki had seemed apologetic to his female doppelganger immediately after. ‘Unless….’

Strange stiffened and his brow furrowed, the spark of a possible explanation clicking in his brain.

“Wong.” Strange called out to his friend and fellow Sanctum wizard. “See about getting something to eat for our guest, something healthy. Takeout or delivery.” He said, handing the sorcerer some cash while saying thanks. The next moment he passed the library threshold and approached Lokki, who stood in the center of the front part of the library. The goddess appeared calm, but Strange noted the minor hints of tiredness. With a gesture he summoned and placed a chair beside the frost giantess. “You should sit.”

“I….” Lokki glanced at the chair, then at Strange, a crease forming in the space between her eyebrows. It wasn’t the start to the type of interrogation she’d expected, nonetheless she sat down a moment later without much fuss.

“Good.” Strange headed towards the table-slash-desk, summoning a book to him as he did so. “Before we begin...As you claim to be your universe’s version of the god of lies and mischief, it shouldn’t surprise you if I take some precautions to make sure you’re truthful.” He flipped open the book in his hands, its pages containing incantations and spells useful for interrogation and discerning honesty. Each quite powerful, to varying degrees. Although he suspected none would be as effective against a god (or goddess) of lies as they would against others. “You don’t mind?”

Lokki, eyeing the book and reading its cover, recognized the tome for what it was. A volume of mediocre spells, incantations, and elixir recipes used for extracting answers from the unwitting. Not one of which would be useful against her - Strange had at various times attempted to use the strongest of them on their universe’s Loki, which the god of lies had always countered. Through either magic or his silver-tongue. The goddess, the human wizard assumed, would likewise be ready against the techniques, and thus wouldn’t mind....

“I do mind.” Lokki blurted, glaring at Strange and the book when the wizard started muttering aloud techniques and spells from the book. All ones that were dangerous, either by themselves or because they required powerful and invasive magics. When Strange read out one truth spell that required the ingestion of an elixir made from ingredients not wholly safe, the goddess paled and snapped. “Absolutely not!”

Strange looked askance at Lokki, lifting an eyebrow at her response, and at the woman’s hands once more reflexively shielding her abdomen. “Why? None of these should be too dangerous, considering your ancestry.” He eyed her closely, paying attention to her alarmed expression and how her frost magic seemed to be rearing up again. Not enough to break through his binds on her, but enough to concern him. “That is unless there is something I should know before we start? Any sort of illness or pregnancy…”

Lokki blanched and drew in a breath, the look she flashed him all Strange needed to know the answer. He closed the book abruptly and placed it on the flat surface of his table, mulling over his next words.

“This is a predicament.” Muttered Strange who sat down in a chair beside the desk-table, considering his options. “None of the spells strong enough to interrogate you are safe for your condition.” He paused, glancing at the sorceress. All while thinking that he wouldn’t interrogate her now, even if the spells and techniques were safe.

“Then don’t use them.” Lokki replied, scrutinizing the surgeon-turned-sorcerer. “...Doctor.”

Strange’s brow furrowed at the emphasis on his title, his brain both beaming and suspicious of Lokki’s purpose for addressing him thus. There could be many reasons, but he suspected it was for what it represented.

“Midgardian law on doctor-patient confidentiality is still a thing in this universe, right?” Continued the frost giantess, her question causing the sorcerer to cock an eyebrow, bemused.

“Are you actually asking me to be your doctor?” The sorcerer leaned back in his chair, regarding the goddess with a stoic and discerning leer. It had briefly occurred to him to do as the woman’s words suggested and use his medical profession, with its confidentiality rules to convince Lokki to talk. Hearing the earnest tone her question took made Strange wonder if the Jotunn female actually knew anything about the confidentiality law. His lips pursed when Lokki shrugged. “You do know I was a surgeon, not an obstetrician.”

Lokki just shrugged. “A doctor’s a doctor, right?” She muttered while Strange grimaced, his demeanor similar to when their Loki had revealed that the statue prank had been for April Fools day. No part of him wanted to explain the nuances of Earth’s medical profession and its specialties. “It’s that way in the other of the nine realms.”

“No.” Strange replied after a moment, shaking his head. “I won’t be your doctor.” He paused and leaned forward slightly. “However, if you answer a few questions, I promise not to tell the Avengers about your condition.”

There was a brief silence, before Lokki nodded.

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Reclining on the twin-size mattress and box-spring combo bed, though it could hardly be called that, in the room (one much smaller than his cell on Asgard) that the Midgardian Avengers had grudgingly given him after he’d been kicked out of another country, Loki gazed pensively at the ceiling. Not really seeing it, but rather focused on his thoughts and the events of earlier. It was difficult to fathom that not even a day had passed since his female doppelganger had appeared, the Avengers were so focused on her and how her universe had been devastated that it felt like days should’ve passed, not hours. On Asgard, where the general lifespan was 5000 years, everything, except emergencies, moved along slower paced, with much more time put into planning and festivities.

The rushing pace that defined the lives of the Midgardians was so different and, though it caused issues between New Asgard and her Midgardian-human allies, Loki had thrived on it. Mischief is much more fun when the payoff happens quickly, and after just a few months on Midgard, Loki had realized just how much more closer to chaos Midgard was than the other realms. And how better suited Midgardians were for handling it.

If the god of mischief had pulled even a quarter of the stunts he pulled during his second year on Midgard in any of the other realms, he would’ve been imprisoned indefinitely. And the realms would still be dealing with the fallout for years to come. The Midgardians, though, had repaired all the damage caused by his, at times, destructive and dangerous stunts, within weeks and months, if not days!

This had quickly fascinated Loki, and he’d viewed it as a personal challenge to come up with some mischief that wouldn’t be fixed by the Midgardians so quickly, but that also wouldn’t result in Nuclear Armageddon.

(After one of his more dangerous pranks, he’d learned how volatile international relations were between the Midgardian countries with WMDs and, actually frightening, how willing some Midgardians were to use them. There weren’t many, and most were against using them except as a last resort, but just the idea that the Midgardians would ever use nukes against each other, without the safety of being on another planet, had shaken Loki. He was sharing the planet with them after all!)

He ultimately settled on replacing the Statue of Liberty with one of himself - actually replacing it, not merely using an illusion spell. Thus leading to the first event of that afternoon, and his threatened exile to Antarctica. Both which had been immediately overshadowed by the arrival of his doppelganger and her reveal.

“Norns…” Loki muttered under his breath, his arm pillowed under his head as he stared at the ceiling. Not finding the Midgardian pillows comfortable enough for reclining on the bed, he’d tossed them aside. “What a hell of a day it’s been.”

He continued to stare at the ceiling, not yet inclined to read any of the books stacked throughout the bedroom. Nor to cast an illusion spell to hide that fact from the cameras placed in the corners - Stark had insisted on installing them as a temporary condition of Loki being given the room, and hadn’t yet removed them despite admitting he didn’t monitor them as heavily as before. (An unadmitted, direct result of the mischief god engaging in certain - private - activities almost immediately whenever he was alone to spite the Midgardian.)

“Fucking hell.” Loki swore to himself, his thought of the cameras and how he got revenge on the Avenger for insisting on having them installed reminding him of how his female double had stript naked and flirted with Stark. He hadn’t felt particularly self-conscious or embarrassed when he’d engaged in his particular activity knowing that the Avenger was surveilling him. But that was because he knew it would repulse the other man and get him to lay off watching. What his female doppelganger did...that was just - urgh.

‘I need to erase that image from my memory.’ Loki sat up and reached for the drawers beside his mattress, taking out a glass bottle of Midgardian alcohol which he had pilfered some weeks ago from Stark’s collection. ‘How the hell could any version of me flirt with that...urgh?! Naked! And he flirted back!’ The mischief god cringed and took a swig from the bottle, not caring how strong the alcohol was or that the Avenger could very well see him drinking it from the cameras. Or that he would get in trouble for stealing the bottle. (He’d placed a fake on the shelf that he’d taken it from, thus its theft hadn’t been discovered yet.) ‘Norns, he better not be the f….’

The god of mischief suddenly coughed and sputtered, his thoughts going to his female double and a particular tidbit he’d gleaned from her frost magic. It wasn’t something the Midgardians could know, and his brother would likely have forgotten if Thor had even ever listened to the parts of Odin’s stories not dealing with actual battle, but female frost giants reached colder temperatures than the males, and much more quickly. But that second part only applied to pregnant female Jotunn. It was, from what little Loki could discover in Asgard’s library both while growing up and after learning his true heritage, a defensive measure female Jotunn had developed to protect the unborn life inside them.

It was horrible to think about, but according to books dating back to Odin’s father Bor and prior, male Jotunn would often murder the unborn children of rival clans. This was on top of kidnapping the rival clans females and forcing them to bear the new clan’s offspring. A barbaric practice, and one of the many reasons Loki never considered moving to Jotunheim after learning of his heritage.

Even if the fact that Laufey had abandoned him to die as a newborn because he was small wasn’t enough to dissuade him, Loki knew he would never move to Jotunheim. Not even to claim his birthright as heir to Jotunheim’s throne. (Similar to its other uncouth traditions, the throne of Jotunheim was historically passed down to whatever son of the king defeated or even killed the other sons. Laufey had done so himself, forcing his siblings to submit and killing those that didn’t.) Thus Loki could have had a throne for himself in the ice kingdom of Jotunheim, using his intelligence and magic to defeat Laufey’s other sons, but he never wanted it. He was too much an Asgardian, truly a son of Odin, to consider it.

“Norns, if he is…” Loki muttered after clearing his lungs and esophagus of the alcohol that had spilled into them, his stomach feeling queasy. It had been shocking enough figuring out that his female doppelganger was pregnant, (his pointing his dagger at her abdomen had been him testing his hypothesis, which he’d formed after seeing her drastic shift in temperature and realizing that she’d given in too easily to him and Strange.) but the possibility that it could be Stark’s or rather her universe’s Stark’s, was too much. Anyone but that! Anyone would be preferable than the Midgardian.

‘Anyone?’ His subconscious whispered in his head, tauntingly. ‘Even if it could be Thor….’

“Fucking hell no! No way...bloody fucking….” Loki swore, his stomach flip-flopping like he’d drunk a whole Asgardian party worth of wine and mead. His subconscious torturing him with the one idea worse than Stark as the father of his doppelganger’s baby. “No bloody way that’s possible.”

Even as he said that, he realized that it wasn’t impossible. He, and thus his female double, wasn’t Asgardian by blood. Odin had adopted him. And although that likely meant his double, especially since she shared his name ‘Loki’, had likewise been adopted by her universe’s Odin, it did not guarantee it. Female Jotunn were rare. About only 20 to 30 percent of the population. The idea that even a cutthroat like Laufey would abandon a daughter for the same reason he’d abandoned Loki, was mad. Male Jotunn were the fighters, it wasn’t until they passed fertility age that female Jotunn fought alongside the males.

Of course this information he’d culled from the books in Asgard’s royal library, and thus it could be biased. Or inaccurate. Or just plain lies. But Loki hadn’t seen a single female frost giant when he’d gone to set up his plan to kill Laufey. He knew they existed since Jotunn reproduced sexually and had live births. That was an undisputed fact, considering intermarriage between Jotunn and the citizens of other realms like Vanaheim did happen. Rarely, but it did. Before the Jotunn-Asgard war, before the frost giants aggressed on Midgard, there were even pairings between Jotunn and Midgardians.

Thus it was possible that this other Laufey hadn’t abandoned Loki’s female double, and even if the bastard had, it was also possible that Odin may not have adopted Lokki. If the old man had been honest when saying he’d hoped raising Loki as a son would bring true peace between Asgard and Jotunn through him, then it was possible he would see a Jotunn daughter as a similar tool. Albeit with the caveat that a political marriage was much more useful than a royal hostage.

“Fucking hell.” Loki mouthed, grimacing at the thought and grabbing once more for the bottle of Midgardian alcohol. Before he could do more than bring the bottle to his lips, Stark’s voice boomed through the speaker below the camera over the door frame.

“Hey, Reindeer Games, that bottle is worth 30 times more than your and your brother’s ages combined per glass. Stop drinking and put it down, unless you want to owe another 60 grand.” Loki rolled his eyes, closing his lips around the bottle in spite of the Midgardian’s threatening tone. “Fine. The heads of Homeland Security and Shield are still waiting for my decision on what to do with you for the statue mess. Should I tell them to prepare an Antarctic cage? Or maybe a ship to send you to Jotunheim?”

Loki glowered in response towards the surveillance camera and speaker, before placing down the alcohol bottle.

“Good. Now come down to the lab, there’s some things we need to discuss.”

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The series, created by Joss Whedon, premiered on the WB Network on March 10th, 1997. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated series, which ran for seven seasons from 1997-2003, stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers. Chosen to battle vampires, demons and other forces of darkness, Buffy is aided by a Watcher who guides and teaches her as she surrounds herself with a circle of friends called the “Scooby Gang.”

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