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Loki the God of Stories - 02x06

This is now my favourite scene in the entire MCU, and you can't convince me otherwise.

He has literal tears in his eyes; he had no idea if he would make it, but he still took the risk just to save his friends, and look at him now! An actual selfless hero and one of, if not the most powerful being in the entire MCU! Frigga would be so proud ♡♡♡

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Chad Michael Murray as Jake in Freaky Friday.

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some ideas for my forever home ᵕ̈

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Alain Delon as Jef Costello

Le Samouraï (1967)

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The AristoCats (1970)

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now playing on lightspeed FM...

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Far Away

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How To Find A Sea Unicorn (reupload)

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Suena "Hoy el aire huele a ti"

Yo inmediatamente:

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Como dice Luis Miguel "Escríbeme pronto, hoy mismo, porque ya te extraño" que esperas.

— G'

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the thing about Mephistopheles is that it’s easy to read him as nothing but full nihilism, complementary to Faust’s constant forceful striving, but it’s not really accurate.

essay I’m reading says, Gretchen defines his duplicity with admirable clarity, “er sieht immer so spöttisch drein, | und halb ergrimmt” (he always seems to have this mocking air, and half angry). he mocks man, but with anger, recognising an inherent inferiority in his mocking. he’s the tempter and the liar, but he’s also the traditional poor devil, eventually tricked not on moral grounds, but because reason, which he uses, cannot deny itself.

why is he angry and mocking at the same time? he’s condemned to be both sincere and a liar, the former in how he fights against ideals, the latter in how he persists in considering non-existent what he fights against. and the devil suffers of this duplicity, of admitting the existence of what he denies by simple virtue of fighting against it. and this is him in the Urfaust, where he speaks nothing of his own reasons but acts them out. he does speak of them in the Faust though, and that isn’t entirely contradicted, cause, look at this:

this is after Faust’s death, and I mean, it no longer reads like the smug self-presentation just after the summoning in the first part. this almost reads angry! it almost reads bitter, annoyed that Faust, and indeed all of humanity, keeps trying! and of course, Faust’s actions do not amount to nothing entirely, because he’s saved, and in this same cosmology souls achieve individual immortality because they left a mark, because of their own greatness. this choice of emptiness feels profoundly spiteful. especially because while Faust’s deeds don’t amount to nothing… Mephistopheles spent years and years serving him, working to win that bet and take his soul, and his actions eventually do amount to nothing.

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“Wretched Faust, why do you seek death? You have not yet lived!”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe