love is a dagger

27. Sylvie supremacist. reylo + sylki own my ass

[funnytwittertweets]

[fcrce-dyad]

Twitter fandom is depressing and alienating so I'll be hiding in my obsolete but trusty tumblr

[starriersaint]

bitches say they're fine and then scream the "I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all" in bohemian rhapsody louder than everyone else

[morgana-pendragon]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + letterboxd reviews 

(insp.)

[funnytwittertweets]

[mareebird]

I saw a take complaining that Kid Loki handed Loki his sword because it didn’t occur to the writers that Loki could conjure his own weapon.

And just.

It’s haunting me. It’s haunting me that someone thinks this is a good point to make as a strike against the series. Recieving a sword was bad because it’s… insulting to Loki? Who can make his own weapons?

Good grief. It’s not just any sword. It’s Lævateinn. It’s origins are in the Norse mythology of Loki. Our MCU Loki cannot just make this sword because it’s that important of a sword. Kid Loki happened to possess it and he’s handing it over as a gift. And nevermind the importance of gift-giving in narratives about quests, because you don’t even have to understand the history of this sword to get why passing it on was important. Kid Loki is the oldest Loki and king of the void. He’s the king giving a gift to his new knight. But if you know what the sword is, then you should also understand Loki obtaining Lævateinn is a moment of huge significance for him as a character. It’s like his Mjölnir. Kid Loki deemed him worthy of his special sword.

But no, reduce it to hurr durr writers dumb.

Which Loki then used in a WHOLLY MAGICAL WAY rather than defaulting to stabby stabby.

[cenobitic-anchorite]

It’s because of perspective-loss. Series antis have rendered themselves completely incapable of understanding nuance, structure, lore, tropes, or anything, unless that detail originates in the hands of their ideal Loki. They subconsciously strip all agency and intent from other characters and then complain the story is flat and that Loki doesn’t do anything.

The entire series is a subversion of his role in the Avengers, where he was the mirror every other character played off of to change or challenge themselves accordingly. Here, Loki picks up or learns something from everyone else, but it’s lost on these ‘fans.’ it’s an honest shame, because this is real growth.

[ourladybinxthings]

Its because they don’t explain what the sword is. How can the audience know what the sword is without being told? You have to remember that this is on disney+ and not everyone watching will have read the comics or know in-depth loki lore.

So no, the “sword take” is not perspective-loss, it’s bad writing.

[mareebird]

Actually no. It’s not. And I’m gonna link this here because I don’t want to type the same thing twice.

[tinchentitri]

Have I also been missing all the scenes in the movies where Loki conjures his own weapons all of the time? Like… He can only conjure something he already has and stored away. And he’s done that throughout the series.

So, for me the sword is an added bonus actually. And as @mareebird pointed out, a symbol for his newfound friendships and - dare I say? - people gifting him with it, showing they believe in him and trust him?

[mareebird]

@tinchentitri Right. Exactly. Personally, I just mean when he’s, like, producing any sort of weapon on his person. I do think of them as physical things he has stored, though.

[thehumming6ird]

At it’s simplest, it might remind you of Obi-Wan passing Anakin’s lightsaber on to Luke. But, and I remember @shine-variant talking about this on my gifset of the scene (one of the first I made from that episode btw, because the significance gave me goosebumps), and that’s also what @mareebird said, its a knighting scene. Kid Loki had already been established as the ‘King’ of The Void at the very start of the episode. For him then to pass on his weapon (even if you don’t understand the significance of it being Lævateinn) is a massive thing. You don’t have to have known the lore behind the sword to be able to understand the point of a scene where the ‘King’ (already acknowledged - even if at first sarcastically - by ‘our’ Loki) gives his weapon to the ‘newcomer’ who has earned his respect. That’s a pretty classic trope. The people who are denying this, and/or crying poor writing are simply being deliberately obtuse because dismissing it fits their negative slant on the writing/series. 

But haters gonna hate and all that jazz.

[the-library-mouse]

Lævateinn’s identity is an easter egg, and like most Marvel easter eggs, you get a nice little thrill if you recognize it but if you don’t, it’s not a big deal because it’s not what the story or even the specific scene is about. It’s the same as the when infinity gauntlet was shown in the first Thor or Cap’s shield in Stark’s workshop in Iron Man 2. If you recognize it, yay! If you don’t, it doesn’t matter because they aren’t what the scene is about. The sword handoff isn’t special because of what the sword is, it’s special because of what the act means. On the other hand, stopping the scene dead at a crucial moment just so that Kid Loki could exposit to Loki (but really to the audience) what the sword is, that actually would be bad writing.

[thehumming6ird]

@the-library-mouse exactly this.

[lokiofsassgaard-abandoned-deact]

I’ve had so many conversations that basically boil down to “why would loki buy something when he could make it?”

And I ask, at what point do we ever see him make anything? His leather and armour are summoned the same way Thor’s are, and we never once assume Thor made his. His sceptre in the Avengers is concealed as something else, and then revealed to be its true form. The Casket and the Tesseract are both clearly stored away into a pocket dimension to be called upon later. His table cloth blanket is something that would be stored away for very practical reasons, and Sylvie calling it a table cloth and insulting it is further indication that he didn’t make it. If he did, presumably, he’d be able to to conjure up something a little more cuddly and comfortable.

That thing got squirrelled away one night when he was so deep in his cups he could barely stand, grabbed the first thing his fingers could reach, and upset an entire table as he fell over. It is literally a table cloth, and he can’t even remember where he got it, and I will not be convinced otherwise.

But at no point are we given any indication that Loki creates what he conjures. Everything he conjures up is something we’ve either already seen before, or something he would reasonably already own. He probably does have his own sword, but a sword isn’t something one really tucks away, forgotten and uncared for. It’s kept somewhere reasonably safe for it, where it won’t get damaged or dulled.

That said, this fool has completely forgotten all about the Casket, and that does drive me a little bit nuts.

[indomies]

MEET THE LOKIS

[lokitvsource]

- I said I wasn’t to be disturbed. - Well, then you’re not gonna be happy to see me.

Loki 1.06 | For All Time. Always.

[lokihiddleston]

[pedro-reed]

endless list of MCU characters → loki laufeyson (2012 variant)

[iamnathanscott]

Following the trend of sharing a tv show/movie everyone hyped and you were like 😐 rb this and put yours in the tags

[lokihiddleston]

THOR - LOKI SERIES

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[fluffywolverine]

tag urself

[fcrce-dyad]

do you ever feel like you suffer from impostor syndrome...with depression

[thisisnotfortears-deactivated20]

Someone who has absolutely no clue why people like a particular ship: I feel bad for those shippers because [ describes exact thing people who like that type of ship eat right up ] happened.

Me, who is quite literally just vibing: Don’t worry about it.

[thisisnotfortears-deactivated20]

Oh no my enemies to lovers ship came with a side of angsty betrayal, how can I possibly enjoy it now.

[bauliya]

you know i really thought we grew out of hating on female characters because they get "in the way" of our gay ships but no, we just added biphobia to the mix

[bauliya]

saw another post that went 'i wish the loki show was about loki' and... he's literally in nearly every scene. he's the one with the character arc. it's about how sylvie and tva affects HIM. and he is proven right about kang despite syl planning this for thousands of years. like jesus fucking christ they revive your 2012 favourite white boy and suddenly all that feminism you learnt in the meanwhile just disappears and she's a bitch for having the audacity for existing in the story and having motivations other than coddling your favourite male character like! loki's arc is no longer being a self centred a-hole and for THAT he's GONNA HAVE TO FOCUS ON OTHER PEOPLE! my god

[bauliya]

nearly every single speaking character in this show is a narrative foil to loki who's only purpose is to highlight aspects of his personality, facilitate his character development, create obstacles for him to overcome! they have versions of him which are just magnified characteristics he has (potential wisdom, immaturity, ambitiousness, etc), that whole fight scene and classic loki and kid loki and alligator loki only exist for him to gain insight into his own self, an entire episode, 1/6th of the series, that's just there for him to navel gaze and focus on himself but still! still it's not enough! still people resent the spotlight sylvie has just because she's not entirely two dimensional and has committed the terrible crime of not putting a dude she met three days ago over the goal she's been pursuing for thousands of years.

[perfectopposite-deactivated2024]

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