tall seaweed

loki enthusiast she/her | 20s ao3: tallseaweed

[tallseaweed]

Masterlist

Hi everyone, welcome to my blog! I read and write Loki fanfiction, and I love diving into lore, metas, and worldbuilding 💚

My side blog @green-giraffe is where I interact with my other favorite fandoms, including Good Omens, LOTR, the Riordanverse, and more :)

I sometimes reblog smut, so minors please DNI to keep us both safe.

Fanfic

Relinquish Your Burden (RYB)

(Loki and Thor reunion, eventual Lokius)

3½ years have passed since Loki gave the multiverse a chance. What if it didn't have to remain his burden?

Miscellaneous

Buddy Request

Are you a Loki obsessed high fantasy lover?

[ether-here-or-there]

Everytime I look back into Jotunhiem from Thor 1 I just get sad and so so disappointed in how quick they were dropped, what do you mean the planet is breaking off into space without the Casket

[ether-here-or-there]

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That really is the thing with Odin, he’s utter shit but he backed off once everything was seemingly as he wanted it.

Another thing to know about the concepts is that his vault is specifically described as holding things that can cause Ragnarok or are part of the event, hence why the pedestal the Casket is on is called “The pedestal of Fimbulvinter”. Odin did not want Ragnarok, so he put whatever was going to cause it under lock and key and fought urgently to delay or stop it entirely. The Casket would start the ice age that kicks things off, so he takes it. Hela and her armies are part of Ragnarok, he banishes her without her full power. Fenrir is part of it, he’s dead and buried with the Draugr in Odins vault (where he keeps all Ragnarok causing items at).

Hell, if you wanna stretch it, his further insistence of killing Malekith and all the dark elves could be tied to how the sun and moon are devoured as a similarly to Malekith desire to snuff out the light and plunge the world into darkness. You could take Odin taking Loki to be a puppet king as he originally intended as trying to have the Jotun king who would march with Surtur against Asgard in the event or Loki’s role itself as Odin trying to change destiny again. (Hell, Loki is the one who releases Surtur to destroy Asgard in the movie. It lines up oddly)

Odin was a giant golden phallus, but to give credit where credit is half due to the writers, I think most of it was specifically to hold off Ragnarok in the long run. Be it selfishly or for the benefit of all the realms since everyone suffers in that event. The problem is, like all kings knowing their prophesied doom, he went in the most dickish direction he could and caused many more problems in doing so.

[xoxoviva]

I think the issue is that unlike the comics, the films didn’t really touch on the myths, especially Ragnarok. Odin’s actions aren’t contextualised through the prism of attempting to sidestep fate, to protect Asgard. And by making Hela his daughter/berserker, rather than Loki’s child (again, like in the comics), Odin’s actions become worse. In the films, he wasn’t trying to stop the risk posed by Loki’s children (Hela, Fenrir, the missing Jormungandr). There was no Balder or Tyr, or even real worldbuilding of Asgard or its society.

If the MCU actually delved into the politics of Asgard, along with the myths, it would have perfectly underscored the tragedy of the Odinsons and Odin’s imperialism/quest to prevent Ragnarok. But we didn’t really get any of that. Odin is simply a tyrant who hid his crimes. Frigga was hinted to be a powerful witch, but was mostly a dead doting mother and wife (unlike the All-Mother she was for a while in the comics). If it doesn’t directly relate to Odin, Thor, and distantly, Loki, then it doesn’t matter. Which rendered Asgard and its characters flat the longer the films go on.

Again, what the film gave us was the imperialist father imprisoning the marginalised child driven mad with anger, who did exactly what he’d been taught to do- hate his people for being ‘innately’ evil. And yet we get no sense of whether Odin thought that of Loki. Because if he didn’t think Loki was evil, then it shows that he doomed a planet solely to conquer. But if Ragnarok had been in focus, there could have been more delving/story into Odin’s actions, and his fears into what Loki represented. It would have been interesting.

Ragnarok was an afterthought, an excuse to clear Thor’s past away without providing him much of a future. Whereas had it been written well, we could have had a satisfying story of Thor becoming All-Father and Loki becoming the God of Stories and sidestepping the narrative forced upon him. But instead Thor is a fool ignoring his role and his people, Odin is a dead imperialist, and Loki has a throne he didn’t really want due to forces beyond his control.

[sporadic-og-loki]

Loki in Jotunheim 2.0 by Quelchii

[silhouette-cosplay]

I'm still in awe of @ilse_einmyria's Frigga! The detail on her costume is incredible and I was honoured to be able to shoot with her at Katsucon last year!

Photo by @sennedjem

[ghostly-lee]

I didn't plan to do much here, but I did.

[ghostly-lee]

🤌🏻I love this armor but it's pain to draw

I really want to draw something with his outfit from 1st Thor movie or/and magic but idk what

[theoasiswinds]

Commission for the lovely @elly-hiddlesherloki

[saygoodbye-not-thisday]

void

[mortis-art]

crossing every finger for Lokius in doomsday

[thorvaenn]

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

[linusbenjamin]

Tom Hiddleston as Loki Laufeyson LOKI Season 2 | dir. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead

[zairaalbereo]

Sometimes you just need some Loki

(Scratch that, you always need some Loki)

[paulwyeth-blog]

[delyth88]

Omg! That’s such a cool idea! I love this so much!

[daenerysstubborn-deactivated201]

[gorgeousanon]

[enchantedbyhiddles]

Well, I guess that’s worth a look.

[hansoeii]

some lokius I drew a while ago for patreon!

[theultimatecomicmovielover]

What The Fuck Did Thanos Do To Loki in Avengers: Assemble??

[lokiloveforever-deactivated2021]

According to Tom Hiddleston, what Loki experienced was “like the worst place imaginable. I think, he went to sort of all of the darkest recesses of the Universe, you know. I’m sure he had a brush with … several brushes with death. I think he run in to the shadiest characters you can find in the Nine Realms. I think he had to rely on his wits to protect himself. And it was really really really unpleasant, I think. Umm… and all I have to, you know, I don’t have any frame of reference for that, really, except for a imagining what it might be like to be…, I don’t know, to be kidnapped by sort of a terrorist cell or something. And have to survive very very frightening and precarious existence. But whatever it was, it was important when Loki came back for the Avengers. Whatever compassion he had left, was absolutely kind a shriveled to a minimum. Because of the experience he had. Harrowing, I think, and scarring for life. In a way that Odin and Thor, and Frigga find very very difficult to understand.”

And he’s also compared it to a runaway child getting picked up by the wrong people, and that brings to my mind images of the absolute worst of the worst things imaginable. Look at what Thanos did to a person he considered to be “his daughter”. 

There’s a link to this really great To interview where he talks about it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdfobYiZsVk