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Iām trying to expand this project and add all kinds of new features. If you want to help, you can pledge 1$ to my patreon here, and in exchange, youāll get access to a second project where I try to create the coziest/warmest art collection on the internet.
anyway i love that thor ragnarok parades around as this cute fun happy go lucky inoffensive film even though at its core itās just a big resounding FUCK YOU against imperialism and colonialism. thor stands by and watches his ancestral home be completely destroyed because he figures out that asgard was built on the backs of invaded and enslaved people. the second his fatherās crimes are exposed he does the right fucking thing and lets it all burn instead of excusing his own ignorance. that scene of the tapestry coming down is so goddamned fucking iconic i could cry oh manĀ Ā
I really recommend reading this piece by Chris Brecheen:Ā http://www.chrisbrecheen.com/2017/11/the-return-of-your-dark-history.html?spref=fbĀ
An excerpt:Ā
āOther symbols are transparent to the point of invisibility at their core but slathered with so much laughter as frosting that they might escape cursory notice. When The Grandmaster (played brilliantly by Jeff Goldblum) engages in exploitation and human trafficking with a big smile and a manic affect, he reacts angrily, though hilariously, to his actions being referred to as āslavery.ā Much the same way that capitalistic exploitation of labor is fine so long as we never make those doing it feel bad. At the end, in the first stinger, the same character (a defeated slaverāwink wink nudge nudgeādoyougetit?) declares what is essentially a civil war (where he got his ass kicked) to be a tie.
Perhaps the most obvious and also subtle metaphor is Hela herself, who not only marks the MCUās first woman villain, but arguably one of, if not the best. Naturally she too has symbolism both glaring and inescapable and somewhat muted. She walks onto the screen and declares herself returned and in control and canāt really understand why no one is happy to see her. In one scene with Thor she indicts Odin as: āProud to have it, ashamed of how he got it" and literally reveals how a sanitized history has covered up the real one. (No, like LITERALLY it covers it up.) She asks where Thor thinks all the gold came from. And in doing so she reveals that the nine realms were conquered and Asgard is a colonialist and imperialist power. Their prosperity has come at the expense of those they vanquished. She says that she will kill everyone who doesnāt share her vision of Asgardās return to glory and power. The only thing that could have made this more overt would be if she were wearing a red MAGA cap during her monologue. But the family dynamic of the Asgardian royals is far more subdued as subtext for colonialism and white supremacy. Each presents a facet both of the complexity of colonialist nations (particularly the US) but also of the periods in history. And it brings out the real metaphor of the filmāthe tension between the distant past, the recent past, and the present. Hela represents a violent, tyrannizing distant past that has made the colonialist power great, and now seeks to destroy any who would challenge her vision. And when most of Asgard rejects her, she draws on that past (literalizing the rise of long dead armies who will execute her vision). Ā Thor is a young, well-intentioned and good hearted person who has benefitted directly from that violent past without knowing it and now comes face to face with itāand is shocked at its power (a moment literalized by the smashing of his hammer). Odin participated in the crimes, changed his mind, covered up the past, declared everything all better, and held Hela in check. Of course there is also Loki: a character who doesnāt care as long as he gets his.ā
YES to all but the last sentence of that.
Loki is part of the colonialist/imperialist Asgardian history as well - he is the last thing Odin stole in his quest for dominance over Jotunheim.
My dad is Native American, and my dad loves to talk about how Loki reminds him of the tradition of colonizers taking indigenous children from their families and sending them to boarding schools or putting them in white foster families.
Think about it - first, we have no evidence that Loki was unwanted except for what Odin, the colonizer, tells us: that Loki was Laufeyās child, abandoned in the temple. Butā¦if he was a newborn abandoned in a temple, how does Odin know who his father was? Given what we know about Odinās history now, doesnāt it make more sense that Laufey placed his very much wanted newborn son in the temple in the hopes that it or the gods or the Casket of Ancient Winters would keep him safe while he and every warrior in the entire country apparently went to battle that night? That Odin, the colonizer, went to that temple to take the casket and the newborn prince so that Laufey, with no heir and no source of power, could never rebuild what was damaged that night? That Laufey grieved the loss of his son but had no power to take him back, compared to the strength of Asgard?
Thatās what happened to indigenous children perfectly legally in the U.S. all the way up to the 1970s. Canadaās last boarding school wasnāt closed until the 1990s.
At the Carlisle school, a boarding school that Native American children were shipped to in Pennsylvania, they acted according to the motto āKill the Indian, Save the Man,ā and that is exactly the approach Odin took with Loki. Loki is not told about his heritage. He is not taught anything about Jotun language, art, food, gender roles, family or political structure, or culture of any kind. He - along with Thor and every other Asgardian child - is taught only that Frost Giants are the monsters and that Asgardians - imperialist colonizers - are the peacekeepers. Asgardian culture is the only culture and is good; Jotun culture is savage and not worth talking about, let alone learning.
Lokiās internalized issues surrounding this carry him through the plot of the first Thor film, in which he attempts to prove that he is a true Asgardian - which heās been brainwashed for fifteen hundred years, a truly unfathomable lifetime, to believe is the best thing you can be - and not a Jotun monster by setting up a scenario in which he is literally killing the Indian (Laufey) to save the man (Odin). That Odin does not value this action doesnāt diminish his responsibility for the centuries of work he did to turn Loki into a young man with no emotional framework for being able to accept himself for who and what he is and his subsequent spiral into this plan.
Loki is so emotionally damaged that when he thinks his Asgardian colonizer-father can only see him as a savage, he attempts suicide. This type of damage, too, was not uncommon for indigenous youth who were stripped of their culture and felt as though they were ultimately not capable of being either white or indigenous.
Loki later struggles with being manipulated by Thanos and the Mind Stone, and while this is presented as having started as some mad thirst for power on Lokiās part, itās worth examining closer. Itās entirely plausible that what ruling Midgard meant to Loki was not infinite power (especially given the apparent benevolence he shows in Ragnarok when he is actually ruling - the Asgardians are neither overly surprised that Odin was actually Loki nor thanking Thor for relieving them of Lokiās rule, and they look as prosperous and happy as the ever have when Thor arrives), but rather a way to prove to Odin that Loki was like him: not a savage, but a colonizer in his own right.
The Dark World contains its own take on colonizers - Frigga is the center of that film even after her death, and nobody talks about how she embodies kind-hearted white feminist colonizer bullshit. She is sweet and strong-willed and a good mother andā¦and she kept Lokiās heritage from him as well. She teaches him her magic but never tells him that she isnāt the source of his. She doesnāt speak up when her Jotun (indigenous) son is sentenced to prison for actions contributed to by her Aesir (white) husband, who is both judge and jury. She visits him in secret, because she loves him but doesnāt love him quite enough to publicly act against her (white) husband. Sheās the lady down the street whose foster children of color all loved her growing up but are now certain she would have voted for Trump, because she loved them as individuals but not enough to overcome her racism. And she did love Loki. Thatās the hard part, and we can see Loki struggle with the emotions around that over the course of the film.
Lokiās actions at the end of that film come back to killing the Indian and saving the man - he fakes his death, and it looks like heās setting himself free from the responsibilities of trying to navigate who and what he is, but he doesnāt actually choose freedom. Heās still so sure that being a Jotun is unacceptable that he has been walking through worlds as an Aesir - as Friggaās son, if not quite Odinās - and thereās nowhere for him to go emotionally or physically but back to Asgard. Weāre initially led to believe he has killed Odin and is on the throne because he craves power, but the truth is that Odin is living out his days wistfully in New York and not even trying to return to Asgard, becauseā¦well, that part is a mystery. Does he think Loki will be a good king? It seems that way, given that Odin had not hesitated to prevent Thor from being the king when he wasnāt ready, but we can only speculate.
Loki rules Asgard for four years, which isnāt long compared Odinās reign, which stretched across millenia, or even his own life, as heās nearly Thorās age (approx. 1500), but the people seem happy, healthy, and as well-off as ever when Thor returns. The only things about Lokiās rule that are relevant to this are that the Asgardians (aside from Thor) havenāt been engaging in inter-realm stuff at all as far as we can tell, because Loki is not the colonizer he tried to be under the Mind Stoneās influence, andā¦the play.
That play that was seemingly just in there for laughs. Watch it again, and youāll notice that itās not just Loki being, as Tony pointed out that he can be, a full-tilt diva. The play dramatizes his false sacrifice, yes, but it also contains a fictional retelling of his relationship with Odin. Any good therapist would have a field day with this line:
āLoki, my boyā¦ āTwas many moons ago I found you on a frost-bitten battlefield. On that day, I did not yet see in you Asgardās savior. No. You were merely a little blue baby icicle that melted this old foolās heart.ā
Loki tries to paint himself in a positive and tragic light, sure, but he does the same for Odin. He wants so badly to be able to believe that Odin raised him because he loved him that he rewrites what Odin himself gave as the reason for taking him.
āI thought we could unite our kingdoms one day. Bring about an alliance, bring about permanent peaceā¦ through you.ā
Loki was intended to sit on Jotunheimās throne as Thorās counterpart, an Asgardian figurehead under Odinās guidance, with no understanding of his own culture or the people he ruled. This is what was done to the sons of indigenous chiefs across the world through the boarding schools of the 18- and 19-00s. This is peak colonialism.
At the end of his life, Loki is able to start to move past his issues. He comes to save the Asgardians, because he knows that they are not Odin, though they benefited from his actions. Set free from the expectation that he return to Thorās side just because they were raised as brothers, he returns to him anyway because he loves him and because he has learned to separate who both of them actually are as people from what Odin wanted them to be. In a moment of obvious symbolism if you think of him as a victim of Odinās colonization of the realms, he carries out the resurrection of Surtur and helps his brother of choice destroy Asgard and the legacy of colonization that it was built on.
As he dies, he articulates all of the complicated things that he is - āLoki, Prince of Asgard, Odinson, the Rightful King of Jotunheim, God of Mischiefā - but before that, before he calls for the Hulk, he starts with āWell, for one thing, Iām not Asgardian,ā and in that moment, for the very first time in his entire life, Loki says that like heās proud of it.
Loki is not the one part of the story of Odin, Hela, and Thor that isnāt about colonization and its evils - he is the direct victim of it. He is the colonized.
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Hey uh if you go to that blog
And click that link
The binary in the image from the blog post translates to the password you need here which gets you this
And that url takes you here
I donāt have any idea what the code on the t-shirt is supposed to be tho
Okay itās a decimal code that translates to tumblr godknowsnone?
On that blog thereās like a captcha image and a long binary string. Stay tuned!!
Okay that binary translates to ascii code
Which then translates to this
So when we log in to that email account
Thereās not much there except this vimeo link in the drafts folder
The video is just 19 seconds of a very windy kind of woodsy area with a pond and a shortened url displayed over it
so that link takes you to this youtube video
and if you scroll down theres only one comment
click on the user and they dont have any videos, but their about page has a link
the link takes you to this freetexthost page, but im not sure what this text is code for
ācheck it out then go way backā
if you go way back to the original blog @nn17gkn
ācbg juj uk fb? Ouppx obpx pbfxc 7xfpb uo jbq? bapā is the first post
using this cypher that post translates to:
You did it now Gimme some money venmo is docworm
ok but they posted something new.
if you use the same website from before, it converts to
āThanks for playing how about round two this is a gays only event hettys need not applyā (first of all fuckin amazing)
but then the link leads you to this picture
which honestly idk what to do with, someone continue this.
thanks for adding this!!!!! i started looking into it
so if you brighten that image super high theres a link on the left side
that link takes you to a freetexthost page with this vimeo link:Ā https://vimeo.com/277172453
the way the camera focuses in this video is morse code and me and @bitchfaceāmcgee translated it to:Ā tmdlrrecurring17
we have no idea what this means and weāre stuck, if someone knows what this could be pls add on !!!!!
Itās still going y'all!!!!
I might be wrong but I think y'all mightāve mistranslated the Morse code. It might say tumblr recurring17
WE GOT FUCKING PLAYED AGAIN DKCNFSLXKFNRMDCKFNDMXKCNXNFJSLSSJ
The Old God that runs the internet
oh my fucken god
āTraumatic events that occur early in childhood are encoded in the psyche in a modality that is primarily nonverbal. Neurologic studies of the effects of child abuse on brain function suggest that trauma results in overactivation of right brain (nonverbal) activity as compared with left brain (verbal) activity (Schiffer, Teicher, & Papanicolaou, 1995). Thus, when traumatic events are relived in current reality, they retain a strikingly nonverbal quality. In the clinical arena it is quite striking to encounter patients who are otherwise highly intelligent, verbal, and articulate, but who literally seem to have no words to describe their childhood experiences. For these patients, their experiences of early childhood abuse remain both literally and figuratively unspeakable.ā
ā James A. Chu, Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders (via disabledbyculture)
rat punk coming out of their bin to shame mankind
absolutely adore the new critical role character Mr. Medicinal Dirt šæš
You grow up and you realise A Bugās Life was the revolutionary Leftist masterpiece of our childhoods
Iām not even slightly kidding
Ants are the workforce doing the labour needed to survive, and they have to do it twice over to provide for both themselves and for a group of parasites who do nothing but consume the labour of others
The ants work themselves near to death trying to stay afloat
The grasshoppers donāt even need any food. They have tons to spare but still insist on taking the food the ants worked for because they ādeserveā it, despite actually contributing nothing of value. The only reason this works is by threatening ants with force and degrading them so they feel weak and worthless, and insisting that the grasshoppers deserve a cut for some vague service they claim to provide to society
In reality Hopper is desperate to stop the ants from thinking for themselves, keeping them ignorant of the fact that he has subjugated ants through threats of power while the ants actually overpower the grasshoppers through sheer numbers.
And should the ants ever realise that the grasshoppers take from them while providing nothing and that revolution is possible, the class system theyāve installed will be finished.
tl;dr feed the 1% to birds
Eyes Closed; Torn in Two, Real You š» . . . . . #warthogskull #cults #tornintworealyou #noonerunstochaserecovery
Vivi & Varu!
So cute, nu goth babies
how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay?Ā
none of them ever did any laundry at all
The emotional and physical labor necessary to maintain the lifestyles of Renaissance and Enlightenment polymaths was shunted almost entirely to their uncredited servants, slaves, wives, and daughters.Ā
Whenever we compare ourselves to the āgenius menā of the past, and wonder why we fall so short, remember this: their intellectual capacity, energy, and freedom was because there was someone else washing the damn dishes.
I love how everyone has one characteristic that they use to explain their extra and unnecessary behavior like oh donāt mind me the Jersey jumped out. The 1/8th Portuguese Azorean jumped out I canāt help it. I ate all my meals on ZooPals plates every day as a youngin I canāt keep calm
āIām bout to get real Kirksville Missouri population 11,352 on yo assā
reblog this and tag your personal scapegoat characteristic
Oh Amethyst, you have so many looks
Hot Take: Satanās actual aim in āThe Devil Went Down to Georgiaā was to trick Johnny into committing the mortal sin of pride. Since he succeeded, the Devil gets his soul anyway. But enjoy your functionally useless golden fiddle for the next few decades, I guess.
Even hotter take: Johnny seems like the kind of cool and fun person who was going to go to hell for enjoying life to the fullest anyway, so all the Devil really achieved was a truly impressive self-own in the form of an immortal folk song commemorating Johnny absolutely destroying him in a fiddle duel, despite the fact that the Devil cheated by summoning an entire band of demons to back him up.
#hottest take: the devil was just trying to flirt with johnny
#ultra hot take: The Devil Went Down On Johnny
That went down in a hurry
whether or not Iām attractive now is another thing, but being socialized as āuglyā and āundesirableā in public school early on has really taken a toll on me
