Isle of Tom

Say it out loud!  It's funnier than you think!!  I love Tom... (6-19-17)

[nooo-body]

Why do you say that? I'm just curious.

[thenightling]

[kittyprincessofcats]

Someone on twitter is trying to convince me that Loki’s a bad person because “no one forced him to let go of the Bifrost and end up with Thanos, that was his own decision”.

Have we really gotten to the point where we’re blaming a fictional character for commiting suicide? Is that how far we’ve sunken? Is “well, it’s his own fault he survived his suicide attempt and was then tortured by a madman and forced to attack Earth - shouldn’t have tried to kill himself in the first place” really a position anyone wants to stand behind? REALLY?

[nikkoliferous]

great. googly. moogly.

😳

[alstee]

uh

[magicmastered]

What

What OP said.

“No one made him attempt suicide, survive despite absurd odds, land practically on the doorstep of a sadistic lunatic despite MORE absurd odds, get mind-warped, coerced, and horrifically tortured, and be forced to attack Earth.”

I…I don’t….

That has got to be the most utterly nonsensical crap I have heard about anyone or anything, real-life or fictional. How anyone could genuinely think that is beyond me.

Logically speaking Loki should have died. Is someone REALLY going to blame him for somehow not getting disintegrated—despite wanting to—and turning up where Thanos was out of all possible places he could’ve landed, thus making his already ridiculously terrible situation worse?!

I….Personally, I am confused.

Hey @lucianalight you’re going to love this….

[miskiett]

People will do anything to blame him. He is scapegoated and if he is removed from that role, then the ones who have been blaming him suddenly have to take responsibility for their own immoral attitude and behaviour towards him. Funnily enough, this blaming isn’t just about the characters in the story. It also extends to include the audience. 

Audience members pride themselves on their judgement of each character, and they don’t like to be proven wrong, especially when they are proven to be an asshole judging somewhat unfairly. Lets be real, Loki creates a lot of cognitive dissonance. This is what makes him so poignant and discussed, it’s why Marvel cannot get rid of him. 

But at the end of the day the whole point of a scapegoat is to avoid taking responsibility. If the narrative on that is changed, then the burden of responsibility is changed. Not only will the characters be forced to acknowledge their scapegoating, even the audience will feel bad for how awfully they have judged him. Hence they cling to their blaming, their scapegoating and protect their narrative to the point of being ludicrous.

[lucianalight]

@magicmastered​ Yes I’m loving this :P :D And @hunterofartemisblog unfortunately I do believe this. It’s not the first time that Loki’s suicide attempt is perceived unfairly and judged cruelly. This victim blaming as @miskiett explained is partly because of Loki’s role as the scapegoat. But it also happens because it mirrors real life world views on fictional characters. Irl people who commit suicide are faced with the same harsh judgment. They are shamed and called selfish and coward. People don’t realize that suicide is the result of having mental illness. You don’t blame people who die of physical illness, why should we blame people who die of mental illness? It’s not their choice. Our natural instinct is to survive. When a person actively wants to die, then there’s sth wrong, a mental illness that disrupts our natural instincts. Victim blaming also happens because we are psychologically hardwired to blame the victim. It gives people the illusion of safety and control that if they do/don’t some things, bad things won’t happen to them. It also validates the belief that the world is just.

We want the world to be fair: the good will be rewarded, the evil punished. As a result, we blame the victims of misfortune.

So, people blame Loki. For attempting suicide. That it was his choice. That he was a coward and wanted to escape punishment. That he was selfish and forced Thor to watch him kill himself and traumatized him. And then they blame him for ending up with Thanos. For getting tortured and coerced and mind warped. All of this happened to him because he is evil and evil gets punished.

[kittyprincessofcats]

OP here. I didn’t expect this to get so many notes. For full context:

It started with me complaining that hero-coded characters like Clint, Natasha, Thor or Tony get away with killing people, while characters like Bucky or Loki get hunted or imprisoned despite being mind-controlled (Bucky) or influenced by the mind stone (Loki).

This person then replied that “the Avengers kill bad guys while Bucky and Loki kill innocents”. When I listed examples of the Avengers killing innocents, they insisted that that was “before they became heroes” and came up with some excuses like “Tony didn’t know the wrong people used his weapons” - as if there was ever any “right” people for weapons of mass distruction.

That person then said that people deserve second chances. I asked why so many people in Civil War weren’t ready to give Bucky a second chance before trying to kill him, and why Odin never gave Loki a second chance before locking him up for life.

And that was when they said that Odin and Thor trying to stop Loki from falling off the Bifrost was them giving Loki a second chance, but that Loki let go instead and ended up with Thanos and that was “his decision, no one forced him”. And that just - blew my mind. Because not only is it implying that ending up with Thanos was Loki’s own fault for trying to commit suicide, it’s also saying that not wanting a family member to literally kill themselves is equal to “giving them a second chance”, which… no, it’s not???

They weren’t making a lot of sense overall.

[lucianalight]

Preventing a family member from dying/killing themselves is not giving them a second chance. It’s not even heroic. It’s basic morality! fgs!

[alstee]

Yikes. I hope this person one day very soon realizes how messed up this is.

[blueeyedjaguar-deactivated20200]

@kittyprincessofcats thank you for elaborating. And second, this terrifies me to the core.

[kittyprincessofcats]

Update:

I think I’m officially done with that conversation now. At first I thought maybe they just don’t realize what they’re implying, but this is horrifying.

[magicmastered]

Oh WOW. Rant incoming.

How were Thor and Odin giving him a second chance right then? They were stopping him from immediately falling off the Bifrost by providing him something to grab. That’s keeping him from dying for the moment. As stated above, that’s the BARE MINIMUM. It’s not giving him a second chance, it’s being a basically decent person. And then Odin rejects him with “No, Loki”. When he’d just had an utter emotional breakdown. While he was self-destructively trying to end everyone of his species. While he was HANGING OVER AN ABYSS. That is not giving him a second chance. “Giving him a second chance” would be pulling him (and Thor) up onto the Bifrost and offering him a way to make up for his crimes/redeem himself (like Odin did when tossing Mjolnir down to Earth for Thor). That is so very much not what happened that I don’t even know what to say.

NO, he could NOT have come back to Asgard when Thor asked him to in Avengers (2012). There is a deleted scene that shows that the Other (who works for Thanos!!!) can see/hear Loki at all times. If Loki said yes, Thanos would know. Even in the final cut of the movie the Other threatens that Thanos will make him ‘long for something as sweet as pain’ if they don’t get the Tesseract. Loki can’t just back out. He has to go through with this (or make it so that if he doesn’t deliver the Tesseract, Thanos can’t do anything about it). So no, Loki does not have the choice to just drop everything and go back to Asgard.

Yes it is his fault to commit suicide

Are you kidding me. As it has been put above, suicide is a result of (mental) illness. It’s not anyone’s fault for having or dying because of a MENTAL ILLNESS.

[nooo-body]

Wishing for suicide isn't only mental illness. I know, it's complete and total exasperation at not being heard. It's someone else deciding they know better for you than you do yourself!! Ive been hospitalized twice because i said i wanted to die. No one ever asked why. Id gladly told them it was them not listening to me. My frustration level was over the moon!! It's ridiculous!! The place im "living" now makes me insane!! If you dont jump at what the nurse wants, they threaten to send you to the hospital because you're suicidal!! There isnt a minute of the day I'm not suicidal. It's very hard to live ny someone else's rules, when you're 70 and used to being on your own!!

[thehumming6ird]

‘This is a very nice lift.’

               ‘Private… You won’t be needing that!’

High-Rise (2015) Dir. Ben Wheatley

[nooo-body]

Ties should be banned. He looks like the most uncomfortable man on the planet!!

[thosedamnsmoshkids]

hi what the actual FUCK does THIS ONE MEAN

[melxncholymermxid]

Bautista said “say it with your chest”

[azcrowleyfell]

For those who may not know, Dave Bautista is the (former) WWE wrestler Batista

He also plays this gay-ass autistic alien:

He also posted this delightful tweet in response to some homophobic Catholic bullshit:

And he’s been very openly anti-Trump:

https://popculture.com/celebrity/news/dave-bautista-controversial-donald-trump-tweet-divides-fans-wwe-marvel-guardians-star/

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[scarecrowqueen]

This dude took one look at homophobia, bigotry, and toxic masculinity and said ‘fuck that’ and then crushed them all with his enormous biceps and I think that was very excellent of him.

[tygermama]

He looks like he gives great hugs

[madgastronomer]

The Chrome browser exists to show you ads and track where you go so that Google can show you more ads. Please stop using Chrome. Firefox is open source, and while Mozilla is not perfect, it isn’t actively fucking evil the way Google is. It has a bazillion plugins, including various (FREE!) ad block plugins (I recommend uBlock Origins, which will even block YouTube ads – you can watch videos without interruptions again!). It will also function very effectively with a lot more tabs open than Chrome. I’ve got around 800 tabs open right now (not loaded, of course, except for maybe 2 dozen; it’s been a heavy browsing day), and my wife has between 2k and 3k at any time.

We are in the New Browser Wars. This time there’s a helluva lot of money up for grabs, because a lot of it is about running those ads. Monopolies are bad for consumers.

Just go download Firefox.

[suotar]

PSA from a web designer and developer:

In addition to using Firefox or Opera (which is another great pro online privacy browser)

please PLEASE PLEASE

(on a browser) do not stay logged in to Google (Gmail), Facebook, or any other platform constantly if you want to protect your privacy.

Side note: tbh they’re as bad on apps too - stay logged out on them as well if you’re serious about your online privacy and log in only when you really want to check them out. This has an additional benefit: it makes it more laborius to use those apps and you will use them less - because let’s be honest about it: you know you’re checking them WWWAAAAAAYYYYY too often anyway ;)

Sure, it’s so convenient to stay logged in but you are doing your privacy a disservice with it. It might not feel as a big issue to you now but guess what: any of them can turn around in a flash, make any changes they want to their terms of service and you have no other option but to agree if you want to keep using them. Not to mention all the data you’ve already given them even if you delete your account later: rest assure, they won’t delete it all even though they might remove your personal details. Your user habits will remain in their databases for sure.

Truth to be told - you CAN’T avoid being tracked by Google or Facebook no matter how hard you try. Thank Google Analytics and FB pixel for that. Most commercial websites use them or similar systems to track their users for business analytics and marketing efforts. Unfortunately Google and FB use that data for their own purposes as well. But Google and FB aren’t the only ones: whenever any commercial content is “free” online you’re being tracked and the data is used to enhance someone’s business aspects - and also Google’s and Facebook’s at the same time.

But there’s a lot you can do to make it harder for them to track you - even if you use Chrome…

Easy tips that help you to keep your privacy online:

Remember to sanitize your browser weekly or at least SOMETIMES by removing cookies and your browser history…

…Or use private windows to ensure nothing nasty remains in your cookie stash - ever. (Remember, websites CAN remember your device’s IP, so if they’re saying “Welcome back” even though you’re using private tabs or windows it’s not necessarily bc of cookies)

Do not log in to Chrome - that is a feature you do not need unless you really REALLY want to share everything you do online with Google.

Use browser extentions such as Privacy Badger (for Chrome and for Firefox - on FF it’s also available for mobile browser) that blocks most trackers automatically.

Remember to use an adblocker such as uBlock Origin (for Chrome and for Firefox) to keep unwanted ads following you around.

If you really need to stay logged in to Google or Facebook, use multi-account containers (only available for Firefox) in your browser. Create a separate container for Google, log in and use it only on that tab (you can force any other Google addresses and gmail to open only in that tab too). This way it is harder for them to connect your personal details and any website you access outside their search engine.

Last but not least

Remember that Google isn’t the only search engine around. DuckDuckGo is a good alternative. They might not be exactly AS good as Google yet, but they’re getting there and fast.

Happy and safe surfing :)

[nooo-body]

Im so glad you mentioned DuckDuckGo!!! Ive been using it faithfully for the last year. Its really getting much, nuch bettrr!!

[stabbyapologist]

[nooo-body]

You are so right about this. Ive known my whole life I'm not pretty because at least once a week my mother would say to me, " you'd be pretty if...". Followed by her complaint that week.

I always remember ripping a pair of linen shorts (whose idea was that??, for a kid!???). And that week the comment was "Youd be pretty if you werent such a tomboy!!". I loved to run &, play! It was more fun than being pretty. I was about 12 at the time.

I still hear it clearly & I'm 70 now.,

[twhiddleston-pics]

TOM HIDDLESTON spotted walking his dog in London on January 27, 2021

[nooo-body]

If this is Tom, he's cut his hair!

[whispering-about-loki]

Friends of Loki!

With the new Disney+ series coming soon, I think this would be a wonderful time to revive the Loki Tumblr community!

Please reblog this if you are a Loki- and/or Tom-positive blog, so that we might find one another, and so resurrect the fandom (let's face it, like Loki himself!)

[worstloki]

Why does this read like

[turniptitaness]

I... really wasn’t aware that any of us were dead, but there ya go.

[whispering-about-loki]

Ah! Perhaps "resurrect" was the wrong word! Perhaps I should have instead said "reconnect", because (not unlike the Avengers in Endgame) some of us have drifted from our fellows.

So, let's bring it on back for a Loki-loving group hug!

[ikol-cosplay]

I'll be here running my little Loki themed blog until the day I die

[nooo-body]

Love Tom/Loki!!!

[sibyllebair]

we are all just sitting in our own little bedrooms all across the world with our headphones in listening to our little songs aren’t we

[nooo-body]

Yes!!  Tom Hiddleston (i saw the light)

[niwablog]

とりあえずうp

マイソ１のポールダンスをもっと見たいっていう気持ちをgifにスマッシュ

ラグナロクでもっかい観れるって期待してるかんな！頼むぜ！

[izhunny]

always reblog pole dancing Loki

[gayrab]

I don’t think people point this out often enough but think about every single fucker that stormed the Capitol:

- An adjunct professor

- A lawyer

- A real estate agent

- A state legislator

- A CEO of a company

A LOT of these people, thorough their occupations, family connections, what-have-you, all had varying degrees of institutional power to inflict their menacing politics on people and harm them. Do you think a MAGA real estate agent is gonna help a black family looking for a good home at a fair price without regards to whatever the neighborhood is? Do you think that MAGA teacher or that MAGA university adjunct professor is treating his non-white students fairly? Are you sure that MAGA CEO gives a single fuck about creating a safe working environment or not discriminating against employees that aren’t white? We all know the power of a racist legislator, but even a single racist, with the backing of the white supremacy system, can ruin a life pretty effortlessly.

White supremacy is a cancer. It infests and infects every aspect of a person’s life. It is truly insidious.

I don’t know how to wrap this up conclusively but maybe this tweet thread will sum it up better

[blacktabris]

People really need to get rid of the belief that it’s only rural, poor, uneducated white men who are racist and capable of exhibiting the extremist views that are nurtured in our white supremacist society.

It’s doctors and teachers and first responders and bankers - all sorts of fucking people who hold a lot more power than being in a giant pick up truck tailgating you on a dirt road. There’s literally no escaping them. They made the system.

[accidentallylike]

I’m still reeling that a former coworker and her husband are deep in the QAnon/MAGA cult. He’s a medical doctor, a former chief of staff at a hospital in the South, she’s got two Master’s Degrees from reputable Universities. I’m rethinking everything I thought about who I thought they were. Did he give subpar medical care to minorities or liberals? Did she, when running social services agencies, do the same? Beyond that, what drives someone you KNOW had an intellect above this kind of batshittery, make them fall prey to a host of easily provable falsehoods? And to be PROUD of their falling into a deep well of conspiracy theories fueled by racism and just pure hate for anyone who isn’t white, straight, conservative, and worships the worst president in American history all while calling themselves “patriots”? 

[nooo-body]

I always understood my Dads prejudice, he wad raised by a young girl (his mom was only 12 years older than him, poor & uneducated) who was against anyone who wss the least different from herself (she hated American Indians, blacks, "I-talians", Irish, you name it & that was how my Dad was raised.  However, my mom was an " east-coast liberal", and she drummed into him that those prejudices were not acceptable.  He worked at a ship yard for a while, and as a teenager we had some lovely foreigners invited for Sunday dinner.  I always treasured those visits & proud my Dad actually challenged his upbringing.  After my mom passed, he finally remarried a really nice Philippine lady.  As a young man, he could never have donr such a thing.  I'm not defending all old, white men, far from it, I'm just saying with the correct influence, people can change.  So those nasty people who attacked the capital building are surrounded by just as lethal others!!  That's just disgusting!!

[malewifenat]

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

[captainlordauditor]

same energy

[princesskuragina]

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

[definitely-not-lordenglish]

[catradoraism]

[nooo-body]

Regarding the map of India, What does Puducherry mean?  I see at least three places labeled as such, and assume there wouldn't be three places with the same name. (Although, I could be wrong.)

[medievalfantasyqueen]

I Came, I Thor, I Conquered: The Strange Postcolonial Politics of the Thor Trilogy…

A Thor spot.

“However, on closer inspection, the Thor trilogy suggests a deeper ambivalence towards Asgard and towards its ruler. The history of Asgard paints Odin as a benevolent and well-meaning leader, a man who has ensured generations of tranquility for the inhabitants of his kingdom. However, the films also repeatedly point out that this peace is both based on falsehoods and incredibly vulnerable.”

I don’t know why, but somehow, my brain can link my fandoms to my current area of study, but after reading Arjun Appadurai’s “Museum Objects as Accidental Refugees”, I pondered for quite a while over the Thor films which I particularly adore out of all the Marvel films, and I was scouring through the internet for a decent article addressing the idea of empire and colonialism in the films, and came across this very good one. Definitely worth a read!

[nooo-body]

Thanks for the reading suggestion!  It was quite thoughtful and thought proviking.  I was glad to see his thoughts on Loki as well.  It made the destruction of Asgard seem acceptable.  Also interesting point about accents!!

[sggk]

bad news guys i think i’m too romantic to live in this world

[nooo-body]

Nonsense!!!   Youll be an excellent writer!!  Get it all down now that its fresh!!

[agoldenplum]

[nooo-body]

I love this song, too!!  Especially with the base line!!  Thanks for posting.  Great voice!!

[pastabot]

today is not my birthday

[pastabot]

reblog if your birthday is not today