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Now that I’ve caught y’all up to speed a little on what’s going on with me, I’d like to just take a minute to really appreciate what an amazing ruler Loki actually was.

The one valid thing Thor Ragnarök did was actually show off how much Loki did as King of Asgard. Loki changed the imperialistic nature of Asgard and gave the realms their freedom again--the realms that Odin forcibly took, by the way. Loki rebuilt the realm to be better than ever after it was horrifically destroyed by the Dark Elves in The Dark World. Loki put an emphasis on arts and recreation, allowing Asgardians to express themselves more freely without ridicule, in healthier ways. Loki introduced them to the idea that one of their princes was actually Jotun and they came around to the idea, accepting it, proving that they could unlearn and grow from their systematic racism. They were prospering and not being shipped off to war every other day. They were growing in love and acceptance rather hate and control.

In short, Loki actually helped Asgard grow for the better and the people were happier because of it. Loki, the one person who had all the reasons in the worlds to hate Asgard, tell them to choke, and leave, stayed when no one else--not even THOR--did, and Loki did fucking right by them. Honestly, Loki did more than Asgard even deserved. 

That is my respect Loki juice for the day. I say as if I ever stop drinking my respect Loki juice.

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🗣 (head talking for the mun and the muse meme)

send “🗣” for a conversation between the muse and the mun! || Accepting 

Me: Okay, now that’s I’ve got that blog out of my system for a bit, time to work on drafts. Any you have in mind on starting?

Connor: I want to do threads with Cooper.

Me: Caleb mun’s the only thread with Cooper and it’s her turn and she’ll get to it when she has the time.

Connor: Make new threads for Cooper.

Me: but you have 15 other threads to do. Some dating back to almost the start of the blog! You should start finishing those up first.

Connor: But Cooper!

Me: BUT OTHER PEOPLE 

Connor: BUT LOOK AT HIM! He deserves love and attention!

Me: You know this is why I made Caleb mun wait to give you that dog.

Connor: Doesn’t matter, he’s here now and he’s mine.

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😇💬🔒 uwu hewo

Mun vs Muse Meme

Something you and your muse strongly agree on?

{The inherent and willful ignorance of the general population. Though I’m more likely to try and see things from someone else’s perspective after cursing at whomever cut me off on the road rather than simply file everyone away under the same ‘disposable’ label.}

If you could tell your muse anything, what would it be?

{This is honestly a difficult question. Anything I say to his benefit would be active collusion with or praise of a character I acknowledge as monstrous and irredeemable. Anything I say to his detriment would be met with either blatant disregard or violence, neither of which are of any benefit to me. As such, I don’t often entertain the “what-ifs” of writer to character interactions. If I had to pick something, it would be simple. “You stay on your side of the fence and I’ll stay on mine.”} 

What’s one thing about your muse that you still can’t figure out?

{Quite a lot, actually. I’m still hammering out exactly who he is, how he operates, and how he sees the world around him. I’m determined to separate him as much as I can from the Steward, as I set out to write a different character, but there’s much of Archer I find inherent to the man himself, which makes putting distance between one incarnation and another difficult. I’ll probably go on long, needlessly intricate rants about him in the future when I have the time. For now, however, I’m still somewhat groping in the dark.}

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Every time I think about God of War 2018, I get really emotional because it’s one of the first sources of media ( outside of the actual Norse myths, of course ) that kind of just... validates my viewpoints on Loki. 

The game doesn’t demonize Loki, doesn’t fault Loki for things that are not their fault, doesn’t inherently express that Ragnarök or Loki’s involvement in it is evil. It’s merely a cycle of death and rebirth that is always fated to happen no matter what. The game allows Loki to grow and explore who they are and who they want to be. It highlights Loki’s skills in language and storytelling as well as magic ( rather than just boiling Loki down to mischief and chaos and nothing else ). It presents Loki as an empath who can communicate with people and creatures on a deeper level because he understands how they’re feeling. For that reason, they’re often seen as too soft or too caring. 

The game also repeatedly calls out other members of the Norse pantheon for the bullshit that they constantly pull that I see being glossed over a lot of the time. Like Odin’s unyielding desire for power and his willingness to do anything to stop Ragnarök from coming, regardless of what he has to sacrifice or who he has to hurt. 

God of War really does such a good job at exploring the depths of these deities and it is so thoroughly research-heavy that it actually makes sense to Norse mythology.

And I just gotta tell ya... the fact that it’s been so well-received and has won so many awards ( including Sony listing it as one of the top five games of the entire decade ) warms my heart. I thrive seeing a source of media that allows Loki to be... Loki without being demonized for it. I could honestly ramble about how much I love the game for hours and hours, but I won’t.

I’ll just say, I’m real damn emotional. My child finally getting the respect they deserve? 1000 out of 10 would play again.

Plus Jörmungandr is in it, he’s front and center, he’s massive, and he’s so fucking pretty. What a good giant noodle, I love him.

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Happy Mother’s Day, Loki

Maybe it seems weird to write a Mother’s Day letter to my own muse, but I just want to emphasize how important it is to Loki to be a mother, what a huge part of Loki’s story revolves around the children that they brought into this world. I don’t get to acknowledge Mother’s Day very often with Loki. It’s something that tends to be glossed over for a number of different reasons (usually because I’m never actually active on Mother’s Day), but this year, I really wanted to sit down and just give my muse the recognition and love I should give them every single day.

While there are many versions of the myths that only have Loki being Sleipnir’s mother, and many people who interpret Loki here on Tumblr as not being a mother at all or only being Sleipnir’s mother, there are just as many myth interpretations that have Loki acting as the mother of not only Sleipnir, Jörmungandr, Hel, and Fenrir (the four children I include in my Loki’s canon), but many others as well. Some myths even suggest Loki frequently sleeps with mortal men for the purpose of, obviously, the pleasure in sexual activities, but also for having children with them. 

Being a mother runs through Loki’s veins through and through and for me not to take a minute to wish my muse a Happy Mother’s Day would honestly be a disservice. 

Loki loves their children so much. Loki prides themselves on being a mother no matter what form or gender they present at as any given time. Odin wrapped so much shame and fear around Loki’s children, but not a single day passed that Loki didn’t love them, that Loki didn’t want the best for them, that Loki stopped fighting for them. 

Loki doesn’t always see a good mother when looking in the mirror. A lot of the time, it’s guilt and failure staring back because Odin harmed the children and Loki couldn’t protect them, but nothing in this entire world matters more to Loki than those damned kids. Loki wouldn’t willingly die for many people, but if it was between them and their kids? Loki would absolutely give up everything to ensure they were safe and thriving. 

So, Loki, from your own children--who I have taken up as muses as well to build up your family as much as possible--and me, Happy Mother’s Day. You may not always believe you’re a good one, but let me tell you, you are an absolutely incredible and brilliant one. You always have been and you always will be and that ain’t just me being biased.

Someone who values their children above themselves is doing right and by the Gods do you care so much. 

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Me, seeing an article on the upcoming Loki show: Oh, cool, let’s read.

Me, upon seeing them state that the series will be about Loki’s influence on things in Midgardian history: Okay... Kinda tired of Marvel forcing non-human and non-Earthbound characters to hyper-focus on Earth, but all right, why would they change that now? They’ve done it forever.

Me, upon reading the description of including Lady Loki, kid Loki, and a possible “LGBT version of Loki”: Ummm??? How do you have an LGBT version of Loki when Loki is always LGBT? I don’t like the way that’s worded at all? And why “possible”?

Me, scrolling down into the comments to see what other people have to stay, blasted by an onslaught of the straight fuckboy mentality of “WHAAAAA WHY WOULD MAKING LOKI GAY ENHANCE THE STORY? THIS IS GONNA BE SHIT!”: ... oh. 

Me, seeing multiple comments that say the same thing, closes article, disgusted.

Okay, folks, listen. 

I don’t know why this even needs to be said at this point, but Loki is definitely a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He has been canonly in comics for decades now, even during a time period where being a member of the LGBTQ+ community was not acceptable and many queer people were in hiding due to persecution on some level.

In Norse Mythology, Loki is also canonly not straight, as Loki is a mother, has repeatedly been cited bedding men, women, and other species, and shows little regard or respect for gender norms.

If you really do some digging into Loki, some people actually idolize the fact that gender is more or less meaningless to the God and some even attribute Loki to certain (gay) sexual activities. Like anal penetration.

Loki has never, in all of the days Loki has been a concept, rooting all the way back to the Viking Age, been straight. Presenting Loki as a male in and of itself is a stretch.

Loki has always been gender-fluid regardless of physical form, meaning that gender literally means nothing to Loki. Loki has also always been portrayed as either bisexual or pansexual.

Yes, there is a debate on whether or not Loki falls into the bisexual or pansexual realms. I, personally, find pansexual makes a lot more sense in coronation with the gender-fluid nature of the character and the fact that Loki seems to place no importance on gender at all, but there are plenty of comics that source Loki as bisexual and many people still align with that mentality.

Regardless of which you choose to accept...

Loki’s a member of the LGBTQ+ community either way. Always has been. Always will be. 

The number of people who legitimately think that Loki is a cis, straight male actually concern me. 

The number of people who think that because Loki is a member of the LGBTQ+ community automatically makes Loki homosexual is also alarming.

Please stop.

I am so sorry that the world is forcing you to recognize people of gender identities and sexualities that do not line up with your own, but we are also people. We also exist. You are losing nothing by a life-long LGBTQ+ member having it canonly addressed in popular, modern media. 

Get used to it.

I cannot believe it’s 2019 and we’re still addressing this shit.

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One more thing because I’m still salty--

I promise this one won’t go on forever, but can we stop acting like and pretending that Loki is the worst creature in the universe for the tricks and stunts he pulls? Yes, he’s done some shitty things in myth and in Marvel, but 95% of his shenanigans are literally pranks and barely hold a flicker of maliciousness in them or, if they do, they pale in comparison to what a lot of other Asgardians do to one another, to him, or to non-Aesir folk.

Loki’s blamed and bastardized for tricking people when he literally is the Trickster God and most of the time, what he does is all in good fun or to keep things entertaining.

He’s not evil because he decided to cut off Sif’s hair, okay. 

Whether it was funny or mean or however you want to interpret it, that doesn’t peg him as a terrible person. It just demonstrates that sometimes his jokes go too far and get him into trouble.

Using Loki as a scapegoat to blame whenever something goes wrong is literally why he’s so resentful of Asgard, Odin, and basically everyone who’s pointed a finger at him. He fixes his own mistakes but he’s also expected to pick up after everyone else’s mistakes too and that’s something everyone wants to overlook. 

Asgard’s leaders and influencers literally take responsibility away from themselves because they choose to blame Loki instead. And he’s literally just there having a good time laughing at his own jokes.

If they aren’t jokes, he has legitimate reasons for doing them, legitimate and understandable motivation.

Case in point: Loki letting Frost Giants slip into Asgard before Thor’s coronation because he knew Thor wasn’t ready to take the throne and if he did, Asgard would go to shit. Thor only followed through by proving exactly why he wasn’t ready to take the throne and literally attempted genocide of the Frost Giants which got him banished. Loki was banking on Thor acting out because that was the entire point he wanted to prove and no one would listen to his words, so he had to demonstrate his point in a way everyone would understand. Everyone blames Loki for letting the Frost Giants in but no one blames Thor for literally trying to commit genocide and, instead, shoves Thor’s guilt onto Loki as well. Loki didn’t make Thor do a single thing. Thor chose to do those things himself. Even Thor’s friends point blame at Loki and purposefully commit treason against Loki’s rule to liberate Thor from banishment when Thor’s banishment was perfectly legitimate and well deserved.

Loki’s plan to expose Thor’s immaturity and brash, often violent nature was actually genius and proved extremely effective. His mistakes lie in not letting more people in on what he was doing, having some people to back what was being said, what was done, and the results to help keep things from getting carried away. If Heimdall had known, for example, things might have gone much more smoothly. 

A prime example of tricks with understandable motivation and a result that still doesn’t place blame fairly. And, instead, makes everything Loki’s fault.

“Thor was tricked, therefore attempting to committing genocide was actually Loki’s fault.”

No. Fuck that. Thor reacted and made the choice for himself to do what he did. The fault for Jotunheim and Thor’s banishment lies on Thor’s shoulders, while the fault for letting the Frost Giants into Asgard rests on Loki’s.

Not everything is Loki’s fault and Loki’s tricks and pranks do not inherently make him an evil creature. 

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Do you guys ever think about that scene in Thor Ragnarök when Loki brings that big ass ship to Asgard to shuffle the people who are left onto it and save them from Hela’s destruction? And when he first gets off the ship and steps out onto the Bifrost, Heimdall’s all like “I saw you coming,” and Loki responds “Of course, you did,” while trying to hide the fact that he really wants to smile?

I do. I think about it a lot because it’s actually an adorable exchange. Loki seems so pleased that Heimdall knew he was coming and Heimdall, who has literally been the most consistently supportive of Loki throughout every movie, is just so damned delighted and cocky in how all of the support and his belief in Loki was for the best.

But... do you guys think about how it’s actually canon that Loki can hide from Heimdall’s sight? They established that in the original Thor film and it’s something that Loki can utilize whenever he wants, right? 

So he wanted Heimdall to see him coming. He purposefully kept himself and the ship he was on open to Heimdall’s sight so he knew. Because he wanted Heimdall to know, needed Heimdall to see that there was still hope and that they were going to save as many people as possible, and believed that Heimdall, above all else, still had some authentic faith in him.

I just think about that a lot and it makes my heart sing.

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So, I’m running on a couple hours of sleep and I can’t figure out why I’m unable to go back to sleep, but I guess I’m just awake for the time being...

Anyways, I saw Endgame again for the second time last night, and I gotta admit, I disliked it just as much the second time as I did the first time.

Now, I’m not saying the entire movie was garbage. There were definitely some highlights, some fun moments, and some great character development (shoutout to my girl, Nebula, whom I love with all my heart), but honestly? The film left me overall extremely disappointed. Considering I went in with no expectations and still left disappointed, that’s saying something.

Consider this a warning because Endgame spoilers under the cut:

There are so many things about the movie that were rushed, poorly executed, sloppy, or just overall confusing (looking at you, bullshit explanation of time travel). And as much as I’d like to go through the movie and dissect everything scene-by-scene, I just don’t have the energy for that.

What I wanna do instead is talk about Loki’s very minimal role in it, because I am extremely upset and disappointed in Loki’s story arc or lack thereof. 

Why?

Because the few scenes Loki was in were a few one-off jokes to get the audience’s attention and nothing more. We see him in his cell on Asgard in 2013 when Thor and Rocket go back for the Aether. The pair literally sneak by his cell, but they do nothing with the scene. Loki doesn’t notice them (as he really fucking should, because Loki is one of the most observant characters in Asgard) and Thor doesn’t hesitate for even a moment to look back at his now-dead brother.

Throughout the entire movie, Thor says nothing about Loki’s death, nothing about missing Loki even though Loki’s death (and Heimdall’s death) was a huge catalyst for the depression that he fell into. He watched Thanos murder his brother after Loki tried to stop him, after losing Heimdall and half of the Asgardians, after sacrificing the Tesseract and himself so Thor could live. Loki’s death shakes him (as it usually does, but this time, it’s supposedly authentically real). And yet, throughout the entire movie, he never once mentions Loki, doesn’t even pay attention to Loki when he gets to see his brother alive, and hyper-focused on his mother instead. Yes, I get that her death stung, but her death is also over a decade old. He’s processed it, been through a lot more since then, and while I understand him having issues with visiting the day she died, there is so much more for Thor to think about, to worry about, to mourn.

And Loki should have been at the top of that list. They were finally reconciling, finally getting back to a decent place as brothers and friends... 

Then we have the scenes from the first Avengers film in 2012. Where Loki is literally just in the background, making jokes while in chains. He’s been defeated, he knows what’s going to happen next, and he’s just? Making jokes? Even though that was, quite literally, one of the worst times in Loki’s life physically, mentally, and emotionally. He would not have been turning his defeat and inevitable demise into one massive joke. He barely even got a line at all (half of his only line was as Captain America, so I mean... Because Cap definitely needed more screentime, am I right?) and while yes, his expressions and little tidbits in the background were funny, the entire film seemed to turn him into a giant joke.

Given what they did to Thor, I shouldn’t be surprised. Someone who values appearances and being well-received as much as Thor is thrown into such a horrible depression that he puts on a ton of weight, becomes nothing more than a drunk hermit, and doesn’t take care of himself because of the guilt, trauma, PTSD, and panic attacks that came along with the events of Infinity War and they turned him into a walking, talking fat joke who cried the whole time... mkay.

But anyway, back to the point I’m making. Which is how disappointed in Loki’s arc I am.

Yes, they do go out of their way to show off Tony losing the Tesseract, which skitters over to Loki’s feet, and he quickly picks it up and vanishes. I’ll give the film that, but earlier in the movie, they put so much emphasis on making sure the audience understood that changing the past doesn’t change the future with some sort of ridiculous “when you travel back in time, that becomes your future and you in the present becomes your past” logic. 

Later, we see the Ancient One discussing how taking an Infinity Stone out of its proper place in the timeline can create varying alternate timelines, but that seemed very specific to the removal of the Infinity Stones, but nothing else.

So, worst case scenario is that Loki taking the Tesseract and darting off actually meant nothing because changing the past doesn’t change the future (I am still having such a hard time wrapping my mind around that because it doesn’t make sense). Best case scenario is that it does matter because an alternate timeline was created, but if that’s the case, there’s a very distinct possibility that Loki only still exists in that alternate timeline. And if by some defiance of canon, Loki taking the Tesseract and running does allow him to show up again later in the same timeline, literally all of his character development since The Avengers would have been undone...

But what was really, honestly heartbreaking? Watching all of the portals open at the final battle and watching all of the vanished walk through them. We see all of our favorites and in the theater, I was holding my breath, waiting for Loki to come through one of them. 

And he never did.

It was a heartbreaking moment because in Infinity War, they killed him off so quickly in such a ridiculous way. I’m so sorry, but Loki canonly knows more about Thanos than 98% of the MCU characters. He would not attempt to kill Thanos with a concealed dagger while Thanos is wielding more than one Infinity Stone. It’s just? Not going to happen, honestly. Loki’s far too clever, far too sneaky, and far too knowledgable on Thanos to pull something that stupid.

Not to mention, more powerful. While MCU has never really developed Loki’s abilities to their fullest potential, Loki has so many tools and resources in magic, combat, and strategizing that what he did literally makes no sense. It was almost set up to look like a fake death, but they’re trying to sell it like it was real.

Please tell me how a God--someone who has survived multiple times in space without the ability to breathe, who has suffered fatal wounds and lived to tell the tale--dies from being choked out? That doesn’t even begin to feel or look authentic, and yet, the Russos will claim that it is.

Loki died at the hands of one of his greatest abusers. He deserved to come back, to walk through one of those portals and stand up against Thanos.

If they weren’t going to make him more important to the story by playing off his death as part of a bigger plan, they at least owed him that. Loki could have been such a valuable asset in the fight against Thanos because he literally knows so much about him, but that potential was pissed on. 

But no, he didn’t get that chance. Heimdall didn’t get it. Vision didn’t get it. Anyone who died pre-snap didn’t get it.

And that’s what gets me the most? Because with the Infinity Stones, you can do literally anything, especially while wielding all of them. If Thanos could destroy an entire universe and make a new one as he was planning to do in Endgame, there is no reason you couldn’t bring other people back. There was no reason that those who died pre-snap couldn’t have come back as well. The only people I can justify being gone for good, honestly, are those that were sacrificed for the Soul Stone, because you must exchange a soul for a soul. Loki and Heimdall and Vision were not such people, so they should have been given the same chances that everyone else were given.

But they didn’t get that chance and I am heartbroken by what I saw in that movie.

I didn’t expect Loki to be a huge part of Endgame, but I was hopeful that they would at least give him some validation and a chance to fight back. Instead, we may never see him again going forward because of the blatant disrespect to his character. Yes, I know they’re making a Loki show, and while I’m tentatively excited for it, that’s not the same as seeing Loki survive Endgame and continue forward in MCU.

Honestly? It’s really fucking depressing that a character so wildly loved by so many has been reduced to this. I’ve spent seven years of my life writing and developing this character on my own ever since I fell in love with him. Loki’s such a huge and important part of my life and that love for him is not reflected in MCU.

And I’m really angry and bitter about that.

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Do you guys ever think about Infinity War and how Loki “died” literally five minutes into the film? Because I do. I think about it a lot. I think about how they tried to make Loki look like he was going out as a hero, but Loki would have never in a million years gone about trying to kill Thanos in such a ridiculously pathetic way. He never would have been so obvious, never would have come up with such a lackluster plan, especially when Loki is one of the few canon MCU characters that actually has a lot of information on Thanos, and yet... that’s exactly what he did.

Do you ever think about how Loki fell from Asgard at the end of Thor and survived? Plummeting through space with no air to breathe? Or again, in Thor Ragnarök when Hela sent him crashing through the walls of the Bifrost and he survived soaring through space again? Or how about in Thor The Dark World when he was impaled through the back with a massive piece of shrapnel that ripped through his spine, his midsection, and his chest all at once? And still survived?

And MCU really trying to tell me that he died by some giant, purple grape choking him out?

I don’t know about y’all, but that looks and smells like a set up to me. I’m not saying Loki’s gonna be the hero of Endgame. I’m just saying, if Marvel really leaves his story at its end in the first five minutes of Infinity War, I’m gonna call some serious bullshit, because we all know that was not something Loki would just do without a plan and we all know that such a basic injury should not be able to kill Loki.

As someone who’s had more fake-out deaths in MCU than basically any other character, it just doesn’t make sense that Infinity War is how he actually died. It’s not logical or rational and Marvel better not leave it at that, I swear to all the Gods.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. 

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You know what really just grinds my gears? What I’m actually extremely tired of seeing on a daily basis? What I don’t want to do and yet people flock to the consensus that it’s canon and should, therefore, be law?

Loki abandoning, ignoring, or disliking his children.

If you wanna pick apart source material to make arguments for how Loki didn’t give a fuck about his kids and abandoned them, fine, that’s the narrative you take. Cool.

But why is it never taken into consideration that Loki is often depicted as loving children, as getting along with children, and genuinely taking delight in hurting those who harm children? Why is it never talked about that Loki actually loves being a mother and doesn’t take any shame in it because he’ll willingly take female form and bed men at leisure, fully prepared for the possible result of having a child? Why would someone who seems to love kids so much hate his own? Why do people always jump on the bandwagon of “Loki’s a shit parent and all of his kids hate him for it” when there are so many possibilities and interpretations where that’s not the case? 

If anything, Loki gets along with, understands, and accepts children on an astronomical level in comparison to the other people and Gods of Asgard, but yeah, sure, he’s the shitty parent.

And why does no one want to acknowledge that the trials and hardships that fall upon his children are actually rooted to someone else? Aka Odin. Odin’s the one who has an issue with Loki’s kids. Odin’s the one who abuses them, attempts to control them, and locks them away out of sight, out of mind when they become too powerful or too much of a threat or even start to resemble the monsters spoken about in prophecy.

Ragnarök is literally rooted in Odin’s mistreatment and abuse of not only Loki, but also Loki’s kids. 

But yeah. Loki probably hates all of his kids and didn’t do jack shit for them, right? 

It seems appropriate that Loki takes the blame for being a shit parent when he has to take the blame for literally everything else, even if it’s not true or he had nothing to do with it. Jump on the bandwagon and go off.

I’m tired of people forcing this narrative of Loki-is-a-shit-parent-and-his-kids-rightfully-hate-him and then expecting other people to swallow that pill, accept it as fact, and grin. I’m actually, physically tired of it.

I’m sorry, but I’m not going to conform to this narrative that Loki doesn’t give a shit about his kids for the sake of no one else taking the blame for what happened to them and unnecessary angst threads. There are still so many opportunities for angst without shoving this idea that Loki’s a crap parent down everyone’s throat.

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[storiesofwildfire]

While we’re on the topic of saltiness...

You know what else I’m tired of?

Sigyn.

Yep, you heard me.

Sigyn. 

At least, Tumblr’s mentality behind Sigyn. They paint her to be some all-important character who somehow has the ability to control and tame Loki while, at the same time, being Loki’s victim somehow. When, in reality, Sigyn actually isn’t even that important in terms of mythology.

Her entire character exists to serve another character. The only really important facts we know about her are that she’s Loki’s wife, she claims to have at least one child with Loki (yes, most people interpret more children, but the names of their sons are interchanged so frequently that it’s also easy to assume myth is talking about the same kid who honestly may or may not even be Loki’s child), she’s the Goddess of Fidelity, and she cared for Loki when he was bound and had venom forever dripping into his eyes.

That’s four important facts, three of which solely depend on her relationship with Loki.

Her entire existence revolves around Loki and I think it’s so funny that people jump onto her as this extremely important character when, in reality, Loki didn’t even actually like her all that much. 

Heck, she didn’t even like Loki until Loki pretended to be someone else, sooooo...

In myth, Loki doesn’t like her and on the best of days tolerates her.

In comics? Guess what, Loki still doesn’t like her and has often shown his disgust for her.

He’s bored by her, annoyed with her, disgusted by his union with her. Honestly, the list goes on and on and most of the things he has to say about her are not flattering and, at best, neutral.

And yet people act like they’re the end all, be all couple, that Sigyn goes through so much for Loki, and Loki doesn’t appreciate how much she loves him. Here’s the thing... does she even love him? Because being bound to him because of her vows and actually loving him are not the same thing. Yet, most of the time, she acts like Loki owes her everything. She’s offended by Loki’s other children and the possible relationships he’s had with other people--like Angrboda. 

Here’s a wild thought...

Loki doesn’t owe Sigyn anything. 

Anything that Sigyn believes she owes Loki is something she trusted on herself, not pushed onto her by Loki.

She is not some frail, broken thing that doesn’t have a voice and only does what her husband asks. She is not in a good, solid, or healthy relationship. At the same time, she is not in an abusive relationship either. Loki doesn’t force her to stay, doesn’t demand anything from her, doesn’t go out of his way to hurt her, and the real reason they’re likely still together is the expectation or convenience. 

The chances of her actually loving Loki are about as high as the chances of Loki actually loving her. She’s not a victim. She’s not owed anything. She doesn’t automatically demand respect. And, as controversial as it may be, she’s really not even that important in the grand scheme of things. 

A being that exists solely based on her relationship with another person is not an important being. Instead of glorifying Sigyn’s ties to Loki and constantly trying to inject Sigyn into Loki’s life, why not... I don’t know... actually develop her and help her stand on her own two feet? So she’s not some Loki-obsessed creature that exists for Loki and is actually her own person with her own relevance without the need to be tied to another person.

Hel, maybe Loki would actually like her if she was given some thorough development and didn’t constantly fall back on needing him to be important. 

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[storiesofwildfire]

I like to believe that Loki subscribes to the Pratchett theory of magic: "Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards – not ‘not doing magic’ because they couldn’t do magic, but not doing magic when they could and didn’t." You've got all these baby magicians doing magic for every tiny task, being flashy, and inevitably fucking up somehow. Loki doesn't use magic to be flashy or just because he can, so when he DOES use it, it stands out more. Also because Marvel writers are idiots.

I mean…

I don’t disagree with you at all, ‘Nonnie.

I do believe that Loki is such a practiced and skilled sorcerer that he knows when he should use magic, when he should show off, and when it’s best not to use it at all.

He’s gone through enough experiences to know that while he does have extraordinary power, it is not always best to rely on it and he should have other methods of handling things in case magic, for some reason, fails or otherwise becomes an unavailable option.

He doesn’t need to show off, because he’s so skilled, and that’s a valid point.

At the same time, more arguments could be made for Loki purposefully trying to hide his magic because he’s so often ridiculed for using it by other Asgardians. He doesn’t want to be chalked up to being worthless without his magic. He needs other people to understand and respect that his magic is powerful and it is an important tool and weapon, but at the end of the day, he doesn’t need it to be just as threatening and strong.

I’ve played around with a lot of headcanons that Loki purposefully disguises his magic, even while using it, so he doesn’t always have some sort of vibrant display, making it easier to be stealthy about it. It’s often beneficial not to blatantly draw attention to one’s self while performing elaborate spells and that’s just as valid of an argument as to why Loki may not be super flashy about his magic and how he uses.

That said, I have my own personal headcanons on why Loki should use magic more often and constantly in his normal life. I talk a lot across headcanons, in my about page, and throughout threads about how Loki’s magic is ever flowing and in constant motion, flowing freely through and around him. In a way, Loki’s magic is sentient and if it isn’t used, it gets restless and builds up until Loki can’t not use it. There’s a fine balance of control that Loki took years to learn, but at the same time, Loki still needs to use magic on a fairly regular basis in order to keep it from slipping away from him when he doesn’t mean for it to. Bad things happen when his magic gets away from him without command.

I even have an entire verse dedicated to Loki being cursed to have his magic trapped inside of his blood, unable to actually move freely as it’s meant to, and more or less renders it unusable, and it is one of the most painful experiences he’s ever gone through as his magic keeps building and building but it has nowhere to go. 

I really should write out more elaborate headcanons on how Loki’s magic works. I’ll put that on the to-do list!

Essentially, what I’m saying is, Loki’s magic is his own, he creates it, but in a way, his magic has a certain level of sentience that forces itself to be used in some way or another. That sentience is also the reason why Loki’s body may heal rapidly even if Loki is unconscious and isn’t aware enough to actively make the choice to heal himself. The magic does it on its own.

I’m perfectly aware those are my headcanons, though, and not canon, so the points you’ve made are completely valid.

At the same time… Loki loves to show off. That is canon. We see him peacocking about a lot. We see it in the way he does utilize his magic, we see it in him erecting a statue of himself, we see it in the way he arrives to save the last of the Aesir at the end of Ragnarök. If Loki loves showing off so much and Loki is one of the most powerful sorcerers in MCU (in my opinion, he should be the most powerful period, maybe alongside Heimdall, but MCU will never give either of them that kind of recognition and, honestly, I’m ready to fight them over it), why do they never let him show off?

I mean, if they can have lightning bouncing off of Thor’s pecs and tear through hundreds of undead soldiers in the matter of a few seconds, they can lend a little bit more magical combat to Loki and let him have a few good scenes that don’t include traditional combat and just let him show off what he can do. I’m just saying. 

If they can include Dr. Strange dicking with Loki and Thor for 20 minutes of a film by constantly using magic (something that I also think is absolute bullshit because Thor’s not going to be shocked, impressed, or confused by magic and Loki’s not going to let some baby sorcerer toss him around so easily) and they can give Manifesto and Wanda so many beautiful scenes of elaborate magic, they can give some to Loki as well. 

At the end of the day, while I do agree with you. Loki is an old sorcerer who knows how to use magic and wield it to his advantage, but he also knows when not to use or rely on magic… That’s just an excuse that we’ve assigned MCU to rationalize why people who have only been using magic for a short time get all of this flashy on-screen magic and Loki does not. Marvel has dropped the ball and we as a fandom are trying to make up for it with logic and headcanons, but there really isn’t an excuse for them, you know?

MCU just flubbed up. They do that a lot.

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[storiesofwildfire]

When you’re taking a meme quiz and one of the questions has you stumped.

What’s your biggest turn-off?

People who are sexually reserved

Being too down to earth and afraid to dream

Old-fashioned gender roles

Acting too grown up and stuffy

Feeling like you are losing control

Overly sexual, cheap come-ons

Boring, ordinary people

Literally, 4 out of 7 of these apply...

I guess Loki has more turn-offs than I thought.

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[storiesofwildfire]

tagged by: @vxnomouspoxson

tagging: @raidstombs @lxvingdeadgxrl @inlucisabsentiam @corruptedones @wasacoyote four similarities between mun and muse:

We both have a parent who hasn’t treated us well throughout the majority of our lives while one parent treated us like an absolute treasure. In my case, it was my dad who loved me unconditionally. In Loki’s, it was his mom.

We both have a very strange outlook on the world. We both have a love for strange and bizarre things and we shy away from what’s considered “normal”.

We both have a love for learning.

We’re both really amazing storytellers who sometimes live in our imaginary worlds instead of dealing with real life.

four differences between mun and muse:

Loki has killed and wouldn’t hesitate to do so again if need be. I, being a completely average human, am mortified at the idea of killing another person, even if I had to.

Loki is a parent and Loki loves children. I am not a parent, currently, don’t believe I’ll ever want to be a parent, and I don’t particularly care for small children. Especially if they’re misbehaved. 

I’m a genuinely kinder and more open person. Yes, I’ve been hurt by people in my life, but not to the extent that Loki’s suffered. I’m much more willing to open myself up to other people and just give it everything I’ve got to be close to someone. Loki is far more closed off and guarded, and for good reason.

Loki lies a great deal more than I do. I can’t say I’ve never told a lie here or there, but generally I believe that lying will just make matters worse in the end, so I try to be as honest as I can. Loki does not have the same belief on the concepts of lying.

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[ihavenoside]

 “🗣”

send “🗣” for a conversation between the muse and the mun! || Accepting || Because I’m still thinking of them.

Me: I’ve never watched a video where I had a look of concern on my face for so long that it started to cramp 5 mins in. That video could be classified as torture, how does he have like 10 million subscribers??? 

Connor: The better question is, why did you watch it for as long as you did?

Me: I don’t know…. it was terrible. not to mention fake. I can’t even drink one soft drink in 5 mins without wanting to die and I’m suspost to believing someone drink like 15 cases in 45 mins??? What a waste of food and money.

Connor: That was concerning… and disgusting.  

Me: I bet you could do it. 

Connor: Doesn’t mean I ever would, much less for a video.

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