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would you still love me if i was a worm...

You have put yourself on anonymous. I would be unable to tell who the worm in question was. That said I am not particularly fond of worms, nor do I disdane them. So I could not love an anonymous worm that made its way into my path. I do not think I would pay it any mind.

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How we feeling about the latest What If episode fam

*peers from behind my trash mountain of collected Bucky screenshots and fic ideas*

I am very in control of my feelings regarding this episode, the character interactions, The Very Patriotic Shower Curtain(tm), and Bucky's luscious locks. So in control. Massive control. Never better. *cue nervous laughter*

*yells loudly*

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Loki, but as the snake that Thor picked up

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Any recs for blogs that have a lot of Bucky? Preferably light on shipping? I'm having a hard time finding stuff that's just/mostly the character

Honestly, I have the same issue which is why I mostly just search the #bucky barnes tag and variations thereof for content.

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The orange clock in the trailer is miss minutes, she was in a merch leak about a month and a half ago. She is the mascot for the tva.

THANK YOU!

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I've been seeing a lot of unlove for Thor: Ragnarok on my dash as of late. I have no argument with fans who don't like Ragnarok - a story either works for you or it doesn't, & it's okay if it doesn't - but it's left me feeling a bit lonely for some Ragnarok appreciation. & as you seem to be a Ragnarok fan too: I'd love to hear any of your thoughts about Ragnarok, esp. as it applies to Loki's character inspiring us fans to embrace our own chances to change. Y'know, if you're not busy sometime. :D

Fishy friend! I would love the opportunity to do a positive rant about the movie that sent me hurtling down into the Loki fandom! And seeing as I’ve taken the morning off, let me answer this right now before things get nutty later this week!

This…uh, got a little long. I have some opinions. :)

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To me, Loki spends a lot of this movie seeming…downright uncomfortable, like he is stuck in the wrong skin, at war with his own identity, his own body, even (which is ironic, given he is a shapeshifter). He’s in that liminal space between two identities - the fallen, angry prince and not-son and…something else he hasn’t quite defined yet.

Loki’s entire sense of self, his identity, was ripped away in a few short minutes in the weapons vault in Thor 1. Everything he had thought was true about himself suddenly not, his world inverted (and worst yet, he likely had an inkling this was the case, but could never put his finger on it.)

So what does he do? Clings on to his rage, his anger, creates this new costume of outcast, the prince betrayed, of monster. And for much of the Avengers and Dark World, he holds to this identity, even while saving his brother in the end.

But after he is “dead?” (And I am of the mind that Loki fully expected to die after he was stabbed but wasn’t going to turn down the opportunity the Norns presented to him after he woke up on the plains of Svartalfheim). Open book. And it totally makes sense that he would take the guise of Odin. Helping Thor defeat the Dark Elves was Loki’s first step towards countering his identity as the fallen son, something he did more on instinct than anything, an action that revealed his (*gasp*) better nature.

And I don’t think Lokes wanted to think about that. Like, at all.

So he subsumes himself in a totally different identity. The one he had thought he wanted for so long - to be someone else, to be worthy to be the King, to be worthy of his Father. It’s a fantastic method of running away from your problems (I would know). “I don’t like myself, I’m not sure who I am. Let me be this socially-accepted person who I thought I wanted to, and thought I was expected to be.”

Good job, Lokes. But here’s the problem.

You can’t run away from yourself.

And of course, it all comes tumbling down when Thor returns to Asgard, because, of course. It’s Thor, it’s always Thor - barreling in, trying to pull Loki back, trying to accept him for who he is and can’t Thor see? Loki doesn’t want to be who he is, because that’s not good enough, it’s a lie, it’s a terrible fiction, he’s only becoming the monster he was born as and can’t Thor just leave it be?

Of course not.

But at this point, Loki has mellowed. He’s overpowered Odin, sent him away to the nursing home. He’s outed himself as a Jotun to greater Asgard. And…not much happened. Anti-climatic. He’s King.

How long can he hide behind this fake identity?

Not long enough, it seems.

And so we see Loki see-saw back and forth throughout the movie. His attempts at betraying Thor seem almost…half-hearted. Like, this is what he feels like he’s supposed to do, to be the bad guy, because that’s who he is, right? But that ship has sailed, the world is moving on, and Loki can either try to cling to this former identity he built for himself as a shield, as protective covering. Or, he can change his costume (!!) and be something else. Let’s try something different.

(Although he does play up his bad-guy persona for Bruce Banner, because he knows he can get away with it and I’m certain it brought joy to the trickster in Loki. But that’s the thing. The bad guy schitck is an act of mischief, totally different from actually trying to be a bad guy.)

I mean, look at Loki’s costume on Sakaar. It’s totally different from his usual colors, his usual Asgardian armor. I feel like Loki, again, is trying to run away from himself, this time not by trying to subsume his own identity into someone else’s, but by recreating himself completely. No more Loki, Loki doesn’t exist anymore, I’m someone different, my past is forgotten. And again, that’s just…not how it works. You carry your past with you, you are who you are (always yourself). Lokes can’t hit the reset button by putting on some fancy-pants and hobnobbing with the Sakaarian elite.

Again, it’s Thor who crashes into his reality and pulls Loki unwillingly back to himself. It’s always Thor. His brother knows him better than anyone. His brother accepts Loki for who he is, but he can’t force Loki to change. He can only encourage Loki to accept himself. (And that’s the thing that Thor finally learns in Ragnarok. You can’t force change on others, they have to want to change for themselves. Which is why he walks away from Loki on Sakaar.)

And now Loki has what he thinks he’s always wanted. He’s alone. He’s pushed everyone in his life away, and he’s finally succeeded. Except…that was never the plan. He didn’t want Thor to leave, he didn’t want to be alone, he just wanted to be different, wanted to not be himself, and Thor was this awful, constant reminder of everything he was and is.

Somewhere in that moment, Loki decided to do something different.

And so he returns to Asgard as its savior. Dressed in his own colors, but in the Sakaarian fashion. He is himself at his core, he’s gone back to who he is. Not Asgardian, not Jotun, not a prince or a king, but the God of Mischief and brother to Thor. He is himself and yet he is no longer who he was before.

It’s…a bit like walking around as a raw nerve, feeling everything anew. Loki is still uncomfortable on the Statesman - you can see it in Thor’s coronation scene. But he’s slowly coming to accept himself. He is not a King (not because he wouldn’t be good at it, but it’s not him. To be King means to be tied down, to be subject to other’s whims and Loki is an agent of chaos, he is too much of a free spirit to be a monarch. It would, I feel, make him miserable in the end.)

So he learns to accept Thor as being king, to accept his own place as an advisor (where he would have so much more power and freedom). To know that titles are not his only worth. He learns that chaos and mischief and tricks are who he is. Change and destruction.

And…it shows during Infinity War. That he has come to terms with himself, can stand up to the Black Order, mock them in the face of death, assert his identity, the most important title, to my mind, being “God of Mischief.” I like to think Lokes still has a few tricks up his sleeve.

It’s a story, a theme that is massively resonant for me, having been through this kind of cycle. One of the many reasons Loki is forever my hero. And why I so enjoy Ragnarok. :)

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Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Height: 5’11/6'0, as in, tall

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Last Thing I Googled: comedy clubs in [redacted city] and the weather in Auckland

Song Stuck In Your Head: Debussy Cello Sonata first movement

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Do You Get Asks: Sometimes! Definitely more on my main blog. I've been terrible about answering said asks lately I just have been ferociously busy.

Amount of Sleep: ?????????

Lucky Number: 7

What Are You Wearing: sleeping clothes. As in, a pair of really (really) dingy, hole-ridden, threadbare sweatpants and a baseball t-shirt

Dream Job: Right now? Obscure Instrument-Maker

Dream Trip: I have a bunch but I'm going on one so soon!!!!!

Instruments: flute and piano (professional level) and I can hack at other winds/strings as needed. Don't ask me to play brass, it never goes well.

Languages: English and varying levels of German, French, Japanese, and Mandarin

10 Favorite Songs Right Now:

1. Good Omens soundtrack: Hell Hound

2. Good Omens soundtrack: Another Place

3. Debussy: Cello Sonata

4. Woodkid: Run Boy Run

5. Ant-Man and the Wasp soundtrack: Anthropodie

6. Rosalia: Di Mi Nombre

7. Jameszoo/Metropole Orkest: (rolrolrol)

8. Queen: Innuendo

9. Beck: Think I'm in Love

10. Pharrell Williams: Happy

Random Fact: the longest I've ever run on a treadmill is 12 miles

My Aesthetic: the desert at 2am, the highway leading to where?, dusty motels at the edge of existence, black and grey and red all over, the trail, a bag of books and a set of knives, a bottle of wine and an open composition book, romantic-era symphonies and classical sensibilities, airport bars, keep running, running maybe they won't catch you

Tagging: mmmm, not today, but play by all means if you want :)

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why do you think steve shouldn't be able to wield mjolnir? (i'm not disagreeing with you, i'm just really curious)

Hey there!

It’s not that I think Steve shouldn’t be able to wield Mjolnir…it’s just that bit didn’t really quite work for me. I mean, it’s cool, for certain and both times I saw Endgame the theater cheered uproariously at that part. It just felt a bit random (which I know is not true, as it’s set up in Age of Ultron). Then again, my least favorite part of Endgame was the final battle sequence. Again, it was super-cool but did kind of feel a little over-the-top fan servicey (and this is coming from someone who generally has no problems with that. And for the record, I loved the big battle in Infinity War.) And like, I get it, it’s a final send-off to a beloved hero and I won’t stop anyone from gushing over that sequence, it just wasn’t quite my thing.

I don’t know, I guess…I guess I’ve always thought of Mjolnir as an Asgardian thing? (Which is such BS, because I’ve read some of the comics and I know Jane among many others wields it at some point in the timeline/multiverse.) But it’s like, what, exactly makes you worthy? And why does this hammer have to be the embodiment of heroic worthiness? (And to fully disclose, I loved it when Loki was able to wield it in AoA, but at the same time that storyline had a good message - sure, Loki used his brother’s powers, but not his own. And no one saw or believed it. Which kind of ties into what Frigga was saying in Endgame about being the best possible you, not the best possible someone else.)

Anyway, that’s a rant for another time but suffice it to say that for me, it felt a little shoe-horned in a sequence that was hit-and-miss in some respects. (Steve facing down Thanos’s hordes alone was magnificent, however, and hammer or not, he would have done that in any timeline because that’s the core of his character, I feel). Maybe with a smidgen more development in Endgame I would have bought it a bit more, but I’m probably the only person wishing for more character development in a superhero movie that is already 3 hours long :D (that’s why we have fanfic, I suppose!)