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man this year is gonna be the year i either die or become someone else i dont know which one maybe both

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Isn't it a funny idea to put Wanda up there because she's a fictional example with a story that could never be replicated. For someone to commit those crimes in reality it would take active decision making and long term intentionality spanning years, always aware of the suffering inflicted. Meanwhile Wanda could do all that and more with just a wave of magic, and she's completely oblivious to the abuse, tyranny, and enslavement, no actual tyrant could ever say the same. When a real person is guilty of those crimes it's fully conscious, Wanda has the argument that it was mainly subconscious. It's more apt to compare the actions to an author telling a story, but even they would still have more awareness over what they're doing than Wanda because a writer controls the outcome. It's a level of horror that's not fully explored, imagining in the throes of grief, playing a fantasy in your head, relying on childhood shows for support to let you know everything is okay after the loss of loved ones. Only to find out there was real people behind your happy dream world and they're asking you to stop fantasising to cope because it's hurting them and you couldn't see it.

This definitely isn't targeted at Wanda specifically, but that's more or less the context I found it being used in.

Oh, and I definitely agree with the sentiment, it can never justify or excuse it. But that's the thing, explaining and contextualizing actions is not the same as justifying and excusing them.

It's especially jarring when it comes to discussing fiction. Sympathy is subjective (you can talk to me about how being exiled from his home planet traumatized Thanos, but I don't give a damn. His fans do though) and we can't be forced to sympathize with every character. But that's one thing... and it is quite another to discuss the circumstances surrounding a character's actions/mistakes.

They have no sympathy for Wanda's situation and grief? Okay, that's cool. But they can't pretend her actions came on a vacuum and she's just evil. That's refusing to acknowledge the entire story in the series.

Not to mention "accountability" is NOT the same as punishment.

#wanda maximoff #pro wanda maximoff #new level of escapism horror unlocked

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I swear I receive psychic damage everytime I go on loki tag:

“Loki had an elaborate plan to take the throne from Thor in Thor 1-” no

“Loki faked his death many times in the movies-” no

“Loki has already tried to kill Thor pre-canon-” no

“Loki’s redemption happened in Ragnarok-” did y’all even see The Dark World

bonus points if Thor is shown as the responsible one™ in this duo

#loki

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Alas, I was definitely playing up what Loki's awful treatment of others would look like in a fictitious setting, where it's all about appearances to convey the story. Much like all the instances of Loki being chained up in a very extra way to show he's been made a prisoner of Asgard. The real world is more tied to political power dominating life and taking away an individual or collective's Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Those things are difficult to discuss without some heavy world building in a story's setting to show the loss of freedom. So the shorthand methods get used in movies, but it is important to make the distinction because loss of basic rights still happens to this day and chain's are rarely ever used for it.

We do see on Sakaar there is a chain binding system through the use of the Obedience Disk for its residents, an inability to escape the place, and the only way to generate wealth, stability and survival is through the Grandmaster's control. Be it fighting in the gladiator ring like the Hulk and Thor, a slave trader like Valkyrie or implied sex trafficking and Loki symbolically fits into that criteria. They do go as far as lamp shading the Grandmaster doesn't want to call them slaves but "prisoners with jobs" to remove any subtlety for the viewer.

I don't think I'll ever get over TR's hypocrisy.

So, the movie is about how colonialism is bad, but Loki taking Asgard's claws out of most of the other worlds makes him a "terrible" king?

So, Loki planning to overthrow Grandmaster, literal slave owner, one of the biggest jerks in the universe, is "bad", but when Thor leaves Sakaar, that's exactly what he does, and it's framed as him being heroic.

I can say SO MUCH MORE about TR's bulls%it, really.

#glorioustidalwavedefender is correct on this #often times fiction showcases a simpler picture of reality #most harm inflicted to a person will not be easily perceived #Loki

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All great points, he guarded the infinity stones, kept them out of Thanos' reach for years until Thor "ruined everything" and he assigned jobs to the warriors to protect Earth when he was king. Hope you don't mind me adding to this because there's more to cover. 1. Loki's goal is to decolonise, he literally say in defence to Thor accusations that "it is best to respect our neighbors' freedom." that's the very definition of dissembling a militant state. Loki's plays weren't for nothing either, he's successfully managed to make the Asgardians stop hating Frost Giants because he writes a story about a poor Frost Giant child that would sacrifice his life for Asgard. The Asgardians are literally crying over it, it's significant when everyone was fed propaganda from childhood to fear everything to do with Jotunheim.

2. Not sure where the assumption he'd have slaves is coming from when we see on his rule of Asgard and there's no people in chains. He treats servants with a ridiculous amount respect for royalty to the extent where he's ignoring the basic social class rules. He took one look at the Sakaar rebellion and offered them some help and somehow got them out of that land. Honestly no one knows what Loki's intentions are but he doesn't seem to be a pro slavery guy. Even while under mind control he treats everyone around him with a level of dignity and wants to hear what they have to say. Heck the series was going to have a scene where he violently breaks the neck of a human trafficker. It's that baked into the character to hate inequality when he's been living life knowing what it is to be seen as inferior.

I don't think I'll ever get over TR's hypocrisy.

So, the movie is about how colonialism is bad, but Loki taking Asgard's claws out of most of the other worlds makes him a "terrible" king?

So, Loki planning to overthrow Grandmaster, literal slave owner, one of the biggest jerks in the universe, is "bad", but when Thor leaves Sakaar, that's exactly what he does, and it's framed as him being heroic.

I can say SO MUCH MORE about TR's bulls%it, really.

#Loki mentions he's been in charge of board meetings and security council meetings so hey not just sitting and eating grapes #not me praising TR and the series #these two things are when Loki was written at worst because we have no idea what his thoughts are and he's still not a bad guy #loki #loki meta

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Odin: Don’t overreact Frigga, already knowing the fates of everyone in the family is doomed by the narrative: i won’t 

Thor: don’t overreact

Loki, already planning his next death: i won’t

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'Odin just didn't know how to connect with Loki' he was a colonialist warlord my dude maybe this is a bit beyond like. choice of parenting style

#ok listen he may have committed war crimes #might have slaughtered countless Jotun #took their casket of ancient winters away which was the very life source of their planet #setting a course for a slow and painful genocide as their world crumbles to oblivion #but he took in a baby! #sure he may have white washed the little crying infant on the battlefield #kept the truth and planned on using the baby for puppet king plans to keep Jotunheim under a neat control #calling it peace #but those were the choices of a king right #oh wait he raised the baby as his own and let discontent for Loki's background to fester on Asgard #and axed the peace plan with Jotunheim and just chooses to let them all die #but uh... #he said he loved Loki before dying #best dad in the world #/s #Loki

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Thor: Loki's Perspective Master Post

For those of you who can’t seem to understand why anyone would side with Loki or find him sympathetic, I figure I might as well make a post explaining it, complete with gifs, pictures, and video links. Because it’s not obvious at first, and it takes some thinking about to figure out Loki’s character. That and I love super-long analysis posts, kay?

Your comprehensive guide to why people find Loki tragic, sympathetic, and heartbreaking follows.

NOTES: This analysis will use deleted scenes from Thor. They are, for all intents and purposes, canon. They were written by the screenwriter, shot by the director, and the actors played their parts believeing that these scenes were going to be in the movie. I’ll provide links to these scenes where needed, for those who haven’t seen them.

In addition, for those thinking that this is just speculation and re-interpretation, I’d invite you to listen to some interview with Tom Hiddleston, who plays Loki. [This is a great one!] Much of what I point out here is what Tom meant to portray when he played the character.  I swear, I’m not just making this up. 

Okay! On to the show!

Scenes:

Part 1: Childhood 

Part 2: Before Coronation

Part 3: Coronation and In The Vault

Part 4: We’re Going To Jotunheim

Part 5: The Bifrost

Part 6: Jotunheim Negotiations

Part 7: Jotunheim Fight

Part 8: Thor’s Banishment

Part 9: The Aftermath

Part 10: Am I Cursed?

Part 11: The Odinsleep and Loki’s Ascension

Part 12: On the Throne

Part 13: Visiting Midgard

Part 14: Back to Jotunheim

Part 15: Heimdall Confrontation

Part 16: Buying Time

Part 17: The Destroyer

Part 18: The Master Plan

Part 19: The Final Battle

Part 20: After the End

Final Comments

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Odin has been ignoring Loki this whole time for wearing green and black but it turns out those colours are used to make Asgardians invisible but no one told him.

The greens are actually camouflage and that’s why the asgardians keeps overlooking him

broke: asgardians ignore loki because it’s loki

woke: loki’s combination of greens black and gold is Asgardian camoflage and it would be illegal not to overlook him they honestly can’t see him half the time

#Loki's brain also goes brrr when there's blue #Asgards over indulgence in gold made everything look the same #so he never got to see enough of Jotunheim's colours and he gets sidetracked easily #Loki: When I see the Tesseract it's like I'm finally home #Tesseract: *blushes* #Odin: Stop! How many blue relics are you going to keep touching!? #Loki: You made that sound horrendous #Tesseract: light dims #Loki: I swear the casket meant nothing to me #Tesseract: scornful flashing #Thor: *walks in* #Loki: It was only a morbid curiosity you know you touched me differently! #Thor: *walks out* #Loki #moth Loki

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“Sentiment.”  Thor and Loki. <3 My heart breaks for them. 

#loki fanart

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Thor will always find Loki, no matter where it is, and no matter how hard it is.

#loki fanart #very easy to find me some death coded Loki

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A commission for KawaiiKing64! I haven’t seen this movie yet but I plan to 😭

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