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I had an image with a little bit of writing saved to my drafts, but when I went to post it it was gone. So that’s great. I do not have the energy to rewrite that right now so here is a random picture of really shitty corsets I drew a little while ago. I like corsets (I don’t wear one but I would) and I hate the stigma they have. Just don’t believe everything you hear about them, they aren’t as bad as they seem.

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clilliesandroses

The blatant lack of respect shown to Prince Loki must be a representation of what he put up with daily

starscreamloki

It makes one wonder if The Warriors of Three are a higher rank than Prince…

Probably not, but they fucking act like they outrank him.

noodlegodorwhateverthefuck

I mean, even the servants disrespect Loki

Makes me wonder if Loki was the only one who didn’t know his lineage

holisticfansstuff

I think they watched Loki’s peers disrespect him and took their cues from their superiors, as people tend to do. On paper, he was of higher status, but his family’s behaviour didn’t reflect it.

You know how some “friends” mock us openly, even in front of new people ? And those new people, even if they’d been nice to us previously, soon mirror their behaviour ? I mean, I’m not saying this is a universal experience, but it tends to happen with people who are - different in some way and nerdy/bookish. A lot. It happened with me. Maybe I wasn’t totally blameless. I don’t know. My point is, this pattern of behaviour is really familiar and one of the reasons why so many fans who’d been treated poorly in the past by their parents or peers, latched on to Loki so quickly. They saw themselves in him. Well, some parts of him.

miskiett

The first movie starts off showing the other characters mocking and disrespecting Loki. The third movie continues having the other characters mock and disrespect Loki, encouraging the audience to join in, and painting it as if its now something that Loki deserves. That now suddenly Loki learns from it, like he deserved it all along and was merely too stubborn and stupid to learn from his own humiliation, until the end of Ragnarok where Thor finally broke him and he submitted. Its such a piss poor conclusion.

imafreakypurplegirlgetoverit

Loki was too good for Asgard.

nikkoliferous

“Why do people still like Loki when he intentionally killed dozens of innocent people?“

I initially posted this essay on Quora way back in April, in response to the above question. It doesn’t particularly contain anything I haven’t said a dozen times before, but I was reminded of it recently, so I figured I’d finally copy it over here for organization’s sake if nothing else. No point having my ramblings scattered across half the internet. Lol

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You mean he killed people while wearing the wrong team colours, right? Because the “heroes” of the MCU undeniably have a higher kill count than Loki does. Thor killed 145 Frost Giants in 10 minutes because one called him a princess. Tony Stark made a living selling weapons of mass destruction. Clint and Natasha are literally paid to kill people. That’s their job. Wanda and Pietro allied themselves with a killer robot that intended to wipe out all of humanity. Gamora was an assassin who worked for a guy who went around slaughtering whole planets and intended to ultimately extinguish literally half the universe.

The reason you care about the “innocent” lives (interesting term, let’s come back to it) Loki has taken and not the ones taken by our heroes™ comes down to Hero/Villain coding. The narrative tells people Loki is a villain; therefore, any good he does is of no consequence. The narrative tells people that characters like Thor are heroes; therefore, any bad he does is at worst, justifiable and at best, can be easily forgiven.

Not only is Loki’s overall kill count lower than that of most heroes™, but he has quite literally saved the universe on multiple occasions. In Avengers Assemble, even as he’s wearing the “bad guy” jersey, he brings together the team of superheroes who will go on to defeat both him and Thanos. In The Dark World, he sneaks Jane and Thor off of Asgard, tricks Malekith (the deception would not have worked without Loki) and risks his life to save them both (two times over where Jane is concerned, I’ll add). Since Malekith could not have been stopped without both Thor and Jane and Loki is responsible for their survival, Loki in effect saved the universe. In Ragnarok, he releases Surtur, thus stopping Hela who had every intention of continuing Odin’s legacy of violent conquest, with no way of knowing if he could escape the destruction in time to save himself.

But what about those lives Loki has taken? The first thing to understand about Loki’s actions is that, genocide is a family tradition. Asgard is a warrior culture that prizes strength in combat (hence why Loki, whose gifts tend toward agility, intellect and magic, was a misfit there). Nothing he did, either on Jötunheim or on Earth, was particularly out of line with what he was raised to believe was appropriate. The second thing to understand is that, when Loki turned the Bifröst against the Frost Giants, he was experiencing a psychotic break (one which ended in a failed suicide attempt, I’ll add). While this doesn’t absolve him of responsibility, it goes a long way toward explaining his actions. Especially when one considers that he was raised to view this particular race of beings as subhuman. Or, in his own words, as “monsters”. Things get even murkier when it comes to attacking Earth, because it’s made clear throughout Avengers Assemble that his “partnership” with Thanos is not a friendly one. It’s heavily implied that he’s been tortured and brainwashed prior to his arrival on Earth (he appears to be suffering from heat exhaustion at a minimum, which seems especially significant because, you know… he’s a Frost Giant). It is also explicitly shown through his interactions with The Other that he’s working under duress, and Marvel’s own website confirmed (in either 2017 or 2018, IIRC) that he himself was being influenced by the mind stone.

But I promised we’d get back to that concept of “innocent” lives, didn’t I? Unlike with the Frost Giants, we have at least a rough estimate of how many lives Loki took on Earth. In Captain America: Civil War, the death toll for the Battle of New York is reported to be 74 people. Which is tragic, certainly, and not okay. On the other hand, it is, again, less even than the number of Frost Giants Thor killed for the grave crime of emasculating him in front of his friends—and nobody asks why people like Thor. Prior to the Battle of New York, Natasha famously claims that Loki killed 80 people in two days. But unless a whole lot of that happened off-screen, her numbers are a little suspect. It’s reasonable, based on the evidence, to assume she’s pinning all deaths from the collapse of the PEGASUS facility on Loki—which is weird, because that was not even Loki’s doing. He took out a couple handfuls of SHIELD agents who were attempting to capture or kill him, so I’d hardly call those folks “innocent”. So I would argue that Natasha’s estimate of Loki’s murder count is both misleading and extremely liberal. But she is a spy, so manipulation is kind of her thing, huh? We probably shouldn’t be looking to her for an objective assessment of Loki’s wrongdoing to begin with.

So having established that Loki’s crimes are no better or worse than that of many of our heroes™, why do people like him? Because they see themselves in him. If we think critically and look beyond his label as a villain™, we see a man who has spent his life bullied, marginalized, scapegoated, gaslighted, abused, misunderstood. There are worlds of differences between the Loki of mythology, the Loki of Marvel comics, and the Loki of the MCU, but one thing they all have in common is that they are invariably the god of misfits. To understand why people like Loki, one needs only to look at who likes Loki. He is an outsider. Mentally ill, a victim of colonialism, a victim of narcissistic abuse, a prisoner of war. As a character, he is queer-coded, female-coded, and POC-coded. He is the “other” in his society. While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, it is difficult for me personally to understand, given all that he represents, how anyone could possibly not like him.

tomloki

“Not many actors can do things just with their face like Tom.” -Susanne Bier

shiningloki

IT’S THE WAY MY HEART JUST SHATTERED AND FELL INTO A MILLION TINY PIECES ON THE FLOOR FOR ME

stankonia

unchichi-deactivated20201020

the problem with rich people is that i am not one

coolfriendlygay-deactivated2018

guess what number im thinking of

kolkatas

420

coolfriendlygay-deactivated2018

no, that’s really immature of you. someone else guess and please take this seriously

jstorofficial

coolfriendlygay-deactivated2018

yeah it was 69

s1lmaril

loki is very handsome. he is plausible, convincing, like-able, and far and away the most wily, subtle, and shrewd of all the inhabitants of asgard - neil gaiman.

auniqueandexquisitecomplication

Skulduggery Pleasant Fan Cast

Skulduggery Pleasant:

Michael Fassbender

China Sorrows:

Katie McGrath

Nefarian Serpine:

Andrew Scott

Tanith Low:

Natalie Dormer

Ghastly Bespoke:

Idris Elba

Solomon Wreath:

Cillian Murphy

Erskine Ravel:

Tom Hiddleston

Finbar Wrong:

Joe Gilgun

Part 1?

abusedapricots

Cillian Murphy’s eyes are really something else

archivedblogposts

You killed thousands of people and destroyed Manhattan, Loki.

lokiperfection

Adding these tags from Lokithesnarkworld:

#yeah…#kind of like thor#thor attacked jotunheim#and slaughtered frost giants over an insult#as I recall#he was banished to a nice midgardian town for three days#found a girlfriend#and returned to asgard a celebrated hero#I don’t remember any chains#or rigged trial#or much fuss of any kind#funny how that worked#also#there was more fuss over loki returning to asgard a criminal#than there was over loki falling off the bifrost#and presumably dying#it doesn’t matter odin if loki’s broken and suicidal#and most likely dead#but as soon as loki steps out of line#there’s a fuss#loki#odin#thor 2

elly-hiddlesherloki

sigynhealerofasgard

And as for Loki killing “Thousands of people”, let me just point out:

Canon doesn’t agree with you on that one.

worstloki

its not even 74 deaths, its 74 casualties

acapelladitty

Jonathan Crane: Suffer my latest batch of FEAR TOXIN! See your greatest HORRORS come to life to TERRIFY and DESTROY you!

Me:

susiephone

my brain: the dark knight trilogy was completed 8 years ago. cillian is done playing scarecrow. if scarecrow is even in the new continuity, he'll have a new actor. move on.

me: but what if Rob the Goth Batman fought with Cillian Scarecrow tho