#ladylowkeyed

[starkravinghazelnoots]

welp. i am in the middle of a giant WIP for another fandom entirely and yet. now i have spiderflash ideas and am doing outlines. and i partially blame you, and also thank you :)

all according to plan 😌 SPIDEYFLASH FANS RISE UP

[mumblesplash]

came for the stuffed dolphin story. dunno why i stayed

i mean it’s been less than a day i’m sure i’ll do something else interesting eventually just give me a minute

[zo1nkss]

i'm with you on the femme ed thing... i've been uncomfortable seeing how a lot of folks are equating him letting go of the blackbeard persona with just going full femme and i couldn't really put my finger on why but you articulated it nicely. it feels reductive.

I agree that it feels reductive. Don't get me wrong, I'm a feminine man. Ik what it's like to unlearn toxic masculinity and embrace who I am and lean into femininity, and I think ppl have a right to project that onto Ed.

I just feel like we're losing sight of an important tenant of the show, which is masculinity doesn't have to be toxic to be masculine. And even in his moments where people read him as more feminine(sometimes for reasons I feel are a little questionable, but I'm not trying to open that discussion right now lol), he still upholds a very distinct masculinity that I feel is getting overlooked a little bit.

[shitpostsampler]

ack… i did finish both those pieces not long ago and framed them, i don’t remember if i submitted them! here they are in case i didn’t :)

also the grid i made for the shrimp, in case anyone wants to stitch a shrimp!

[bushs-world]

I am literally copy pasting this entire post word to word from @ladylowkeyed (with permission) because I want to post this amazing interpretation without reblogging the strange post this was written as a response to

#anyways if anyone wants to give me a kinder read pls do i am curious

ooh i'll take a stab at it. get it? because daggers lol

okay SO my interpretation, strictly in-universe as if it were a reality of its own, based on what i know about the characters and story, is that it works as a metaphor because it's a metaphor imagined by someone who does not believe the love they have received has ever been real.

at this point in loki's story, post avengers assemble, thrown into the TVA, he doesn't believe his father really loved him. he doesn't believe his mother really loved him. he doesn't believe his brother really loved him. he discusses past love affairs with sylvie, but he doesn't seem to think much of them, and agrees with her assessment that they were never 'real'.

and yet, loki badly wants to receive and give love -- but he's afraid to trust that love will be real for him. he's afraid to open himself up to being hurt again. so, he says love is a dagger. and this man LOVES his daggers (if only they could love him back ;_;)

so what does he say about it exactly? quote courtesy of themarysue:

“Love is a dagger. It’s a weapon to be wielded far away or up close. You can see yourself in it. It’s beautiful until it makes you bleed. But ultimately, when you reach for it,” Loki says as he makes the dagger vanish, prompting Sylvie to finish: “It isn’t real.”

so, line by line because i'm feeling thorough today:

"It’s a weapon to be wielded far away or up close." -- you can love from afar, perhaps unknown to the object of your love. check. or you can love up close, intimately with the person you love. check. Similarly, you can throw a dagger or get up close to go stabby stabby. so that all checks out.

"You can see yourself in it." -- very poignant! loki longs to receive love because through that he will be able to see that he is worth loving. i feel like this line is VERY resonant with wanting and yet distrusting love. And daggers, if you maintain them well and keep them clean like you know loki does, are highly reflective. so that checks out too.

"It’s beautiful until it makes you bleed." -- i'm still with him. love is beautiful. the way you view love when you want it desperately but are not sure you've had it puts it up on an even higher pedestal. and yet, it can be very painful. loki has experienced a lot of pain with his love. and a dagger, well... loki clearly loves him some daggers so he thinks they're beautiful. but the aforementioned stabbiness will make you bleed for sure. i think we're three for three now in metaphors working.

"But ultimately, when you reach for it, It isn’t real.” --and there's the rub, for someone who has not been able to trust in the love he received before. he's not sure love is real. he's not sure love will last. so he uses his powers to make the dagger disappear. and dagger-wise, this is where the metaphor falls apart a little, and sylvie calls him on it. (although i do wonder if loki has ever considered using invisible daggers as a weapon? hold on let me note that in my story ideas folder...)

so we're three for four in the old metaphor department, and to me that's not bad for someone who is a) painfully drunk; and b) is not sure he believes love is real to begin with.

i think on a character level, it works very well to explain to us how loki is thinking when he thinks about love, to illustrate the limitations he's placing on his perceptions of the love he has received, as well as his mindset towards the possibility of future love. his feelings are mixed! and i think it's because he's started to realize he feels something for sylvie, but is not yet sure if he should trust it.

imma not comment on the whole waldron aspect you've mentioned except i think he did a good job overall on the series and i'm looking forward to season 2 :)

[weirdchristmas]

this is probably a long shot but one time i saw an old postcard in an antique store of a couple walking down a lane all lovey-dovey and the moon above them, and it said 'the moon won't tell' and i've always regretted not buying it. you don't have that in your trove, do you?

Unfortunately, no. But I’ll keep an eye out!

[agdistis-sanctified]

ladylowkeyed replied to your photo “Loki (2019) #1 Marvel like “how do we market this to women”

why do i think his feet and legs look like this was modeled off someone standing in heels

well

it certainly looks like it

[lokilesbian]

came for the refreshing loki posts that were not about boning loki, stayed for the same

Hell yeah