Annotated 44-24
Defiance, it should be noted, does not always mean victory. Godhood may yet come for Frigg one day, when the business of her life feels finished: thirty to sixty years means little on the divine scale.
But it’s like the thought experiment about the immovable object and the irresistible force. I don’t think Flo and I wanted to resolve the question of Frigg’s ultimate future one way or the other here, because either option feels unsatisfying. I’m content to tell the story of Frigg the human, on her way to becoming her most complete human self.
This page originally showed up after a brief interruption, a special single page that announced my wedding day. FB: After Monday’s blissful announcement, we now return to our regularly scheduled obscene gestures and defiance of alternative religions.
As someone who is about as non-religious as it is possible for a person to be, I have to say I have always really liked Frigg’s reaction here.
I fondly remember the comments on this sequence the first time around. Something to the effect of asking, “If the gods try to make you the ‘god of defiance’, and you defy them, are you turning them down or accepting despite yourself?” I like the whole open-ended way of it.
Frigg failed. She still became a meme. Ask all those former nun groupies like Rachel
Arguably she has always been a meme, she just trended more and more as time progressed.