#the main reason I’m hyperfixating on Loki

[musclesandhammering]

Kang is the World’s Most Ambitious Conman

Well, here we are. The end of the season. No idea what I’m gonna hyperfixate on when this is over. But since it’s the day before the finale, I wanna go ahead and get my final prediction out. This is what I genuinely think is going to be revealed in canon. If it doesn’t happen, feel free to clown me.

My theory is that there was never anything special about He Who Remains whatsoever. He wasn’t a particularly good inventor, he wasn’t a particularly good fighter, he wasn’t particularly powerful- he was just damn good at using other people as stepping stones.

I think he created all the technology in the TVA by reading A.D. Doug’s old books and papers and stealing his ideas. The “army” that he led in the multiversal war was really just variants of regular people he kidnapped from their timelines, and it wasn’t even led by him, it was led by Ravonna. He never “tamed” Alioth.. he used a Loki variant to enchant Alioth. After he did all this, he wiped all of their memories, threw the Loki variant back into the time stream, and kept the rest of them around as his military police, essentially- there to enforce his will and keep him in power.

Now as for what I think his plan was in regards to episode 1x06…

By now, it’s fairly apparent that he wanted to be killed so he could reincarnate (via a variant) and continue the cycle. But how exactly was that supposed to go?

Well, I think his plan was for Loki/Sylvie to become the quasi-leaders of the TVA after they killed him. He knew the loom meltdown would happen, and he specifically counted on Loki/Sylvie recruiting Victor Timely to help them stop it. That’s why he passed on his contingency plan to Miss Minutes. Because of she and Ravonna’s meddling in Victor’s life, by the time Loki/Sylvie came to him, he would already be primed to take HWR’s place. After the loom was saved, with Miss Minutes and Ravonna’s help, Victor was supposed to betray Loki/Sylvie and take power for himself. After that, there would still be the issue of all the other Kangs out there, so Victor would do exactly what HWR did before him: use OB’s tech, the TVA’s army, Ravonna’s leadership, and Loki/Sylvie’s magic to win the war. And there you have it! He’s right back on the throne as the next incarnation of He Who Remains.

That plan isn’t going to work in the show though. And there’s two main reasons:

Victor decides he doesn’t want to be an evil dictator. You can see in his face the moment Miss Minutes says “You’ll never be him.” that he perceived that with determination, instead of the disappointment she intended. As in: “you’re right, I’ll never be him. I want to be someone good.” And immediately after that, he goes and does something heroic to try to save everyone- and ends up dying for it (for now). And my how poetic it is for HWR to be foiled by one of his own variants expressing free will and choosing to be better than the story that was written for them.

Loki’s timeslipping. He Who Remains planned for one or both of the Lokis to kill him. He didn’t know the exact specifics of it. So Sylvie pushing Loki through a time door into the past TVA (which is what I think caused his timeslipping) probably isn’t something he anticipated. The timeslipping, of course, has a snowball effect, because it will eventually (as I’m sure we’ve all guessed by now) lead to Loki becoming the God of Stories. And the God of Stories will be strong enough to save the TVA, then assemble a team and defeat the rest of the Kangs.

It’s all very epic and convoluted and poetic. I think it makes perfect sense *guy applying clown makeup.jpeg*

#loki spoilers #loki 2x05 spoilers #loki finale #loki finale spoilers #he who remains #loki #loki series #loki theory #loki speculation #loki meta #kang the conqueror #mcu

[raeathnos]

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#gonna be real for a second #the main reason I’m hyperfixating on Loki? #I’ve been questioning if I was nonbinary for several years #realized I identify as being a demigirl very recently #I think I may also be bi or pan but like #I’m married and it doesn’t change anything so what’s the point right? #didn’t tell anyone but it’s kind of been bugging me because it’s who I am #finally told the husband about the demigirl part and he’s accepting which I knew he would be #he’s actually being really cute about it- anytime we’re in a store and there’s something pride related he’s like LOOK #I haven’t told any of my friends and idk if I’m going to #I feel like there’s really only one (and a cousin too) who would care #I’m not that close to a lot of people #I also haven’t told my parents and I think I’ve decided I’m not going to #our relationship has grown more and more strained recently and though I think they would be accepting #I don’t know for sure and I don’t want to strain things any further #but it hurts you know? #I’ve always kind of felt like they’ve never known me really #they’ve always swept the parts they didn’t like under the rug and presented this clean sterile version of who I am #we’d go to see relatives or family friends and I’d get a talking about how I needed to not be weird #because they were embarrassed of me #so like I feel like this would fall into the same category #I feel like we’d go to visit family or something and they’d be like they don’t need to know that you’re a demigirl #it kind of just all ties back into me being an inconvenience #it’s only ever been about how I’m a burden to them heh #so idk #the scene where Loki and Sylvie are talking about it is kind of comforting #it’s not a big deal it’s just part of the conversation #it was nice to see #it was nice to see a favorite character be able to openly say it and not hide who they are #meanwhile I’m over here hiding bits and pieces of myself because I’m so used to being seen as a burden

[killmebutneverinsultme]

Repost, don’t reblog! Tag 6 muns you would like to get to know better when done!

Name: Pirate

Age: 35 - anything invented from now on is against the natural order :U

Faceclaim: I did have Jessie from Team Rocket to match Mojito but tbh I tend to just use Jack’s face or bust and put ‘outofrum’ or ‘//’ so you know it’s me talking.

Pronouns: She/her but I’ll respond to any.

Height: 5′4 last I checked. I’ve been 5′6 before but me job shrank me.

Birthday: Endish of February

Aesthetics: Purple, black, dragons, pirate, trickster, comfy things, black jeans, big skirts, black eyeliner, cats, sharp spikes, chocolate, Loki, psywitch, bi/pansexual

Favourite muse(s) you’ve written: Any of my main tumblr muses. Those being Jack, Loki and XI (once dark/now divergent AU 11th Doctor). Also enjoyed sideblogs and blogs relating to XI’s family/alternate timelines. Oh, and a pirate fox called Jeshal the Ironclaw from the Vulpine Imperium.

What inspired you to take on your current muse (that you are posting this on): Two reasons. The first being two in itself. When I first took up Jack, I was 18 years old and heartbroken and I rewatched CotBP (a year after it had been in the cinema). I started writing him back then and he never truly left me despite me hopping to other role-play fandoms. So, yeah, heartbreak and CotBP itself were reason 1. Reason 2 is Trish over on @sonofirishseas. She writes an amazing Jack and my Loki and I fell in love with him. So much so that I knew I could never get enough and that little voice in my head and heart just sparked the fuck up and he wouldn’t let go. I realised I had to write Jack again.

What are your favourite aspects of your current muse: Oh, man. Uh. His freedom and his heart and his optimism. XI and Loki are powerful and have so much scope, but there’s something beautiful about Jack’s contained (but vast) world and the fact he isn’t weighed down too much by it. I love Loki but he has such darkness and angst in him so it can get pretty heavy. XI has the baggage of a Time Lord and even more atrocities besides, and a duty to multiple universes to help people wherever he can. He has a saviour complex and a desperation to do everything. Jack? Jack is so free. He’s a fantasy of zero responsibility and bisexual action who doesn’t stop to angst about his problems quite as often (but has plenty of that whumpy dark goodness to play around with), who is insanely remarkable whilst being much more relatable and human, and at the heart of it all is a good boy.

What’s your biggest inspiration when it comes to writing: Biggest is the media itself that I’m drawing from. Watching and reading the fandom content sparks inspiration. Music is also a huge factor. If the film/show has amazing music, it keys into my soul and helps me write, or sometimes I can find pieces I feel suit a character or thread and go off that. Another huge inspiration is my partners. If I click well with someone, it’s very easy to bounce ideas back and forth or get excited about somewhere to take things. Sometimes it’s crack things on the dash or a meme that makes me go !!!. I have a tendency to hyperfixate on a character so that everything in my life revolves around them for a number of years and I keep feeding back into it constantly. It was a relief to find that I can return to a previous fixation and not leave them completely behind.

Favourite types of threads: So many. I am an absolute sloot for shipping, it seems. My utter favourite ones for Jack though are enemies to lovers or ones where there is some element of the forbidden. I love angst but for me it always has to lead toward a happy ending or at least fluctuate with enough balance or my heart hurts too much to enjoy it. I do like silly and fluff and action, too. I’ll write most genres I think?

Biggest struggle in regards to your current muse: Time. As my bio states, I have two jobs (granted the second one doesn’t take many hours), a husband and a video games addiction, and a certain MCU trickster god who needs some attention on his blog. Energy to write factors into that but is also caused by time. I otherwise don’t really struggle with writing for Jack. Tiredness and time are my limiting factors. Sometimes I might have trouble ensuring I’m keeping something interesting and/or not doing the same thing for one person that I’m doing for someone else. The only other struggle with Jack is this is a smol fandom now, but I kinda like that? 

Tagged By: @araedi mah loooove

Tagging: Anyone I’m partnered with who hasn’t done this!

#outofrum #about Pirate

[dontcallmecarrie]

You guys know the drill. Some spoilers for Chapter 20 in TWiFFON, [plus some themes that get touched on in the next arc,] because of obvious reasons. 

The what-if I’m playing with this round, under the cut because it grew on me and now wants to be its own spinoff oneshot of TWiFFON:

What if Ultron had managed to kidnap Tony?

I wasn’t very subtle about Ultron’s obsession with stealing Tony away, and it’s pretty obvious what would’ve happened if he hadn’t been stopped. Vision got to him before he got a chance to do so, but if he hadn’t been assimilated, Ultron would had most definitely stolen Tony away. 

As for exactly what happens...It depends a bit, actually. In Chapter 20, Vision was lucky; Ultron hadn’t expected him to be that strong, and managed to win the fight. 

But maybe, in another universe, Ultron won, because Vision powerful but young, whereas Ultron knows his limits, and has been sitting for years with little more to do than wait and plan. 

If Vision had lost the battle, Ultron would’ve possessed the Mind Stone, and been amused by Vision enough to transfer him to the now-mostly-defunct Legionnaire while keeping the shiny new vibranium body for himself. 

...or perhaps he does something else, but there’s only so many what-ifs I’m willing to keep track of during a shatterpoint, so just roll with him ditching Vision, all right? 

And, with it, Ultron would have been unstoppable. 

Tony, of course, would’ve known right away that something was wrong, but he’s busy fighting a huge horde of Chitauri on his own lonesome, cut off from everyone else, and would not have been able to take Ultron on as well. The Iron Legion’s good, but their numbers are being decimated because Ultron’s got his main objective [the Mind Stone back] and he wants to take Tony with him when he goes to report to Thanos, so subtlety isn’t a concern anymore. 

The Avengers realize they’ve been played, pretty damn fast. 

Because it’s pretty hard not to notice, when the Chitauri aren't working as a distraction anymore, just focused on overwhelming Iron Man, and Tony’s very clearly trying not to lose it over the comms and the portal’s acting up but they don’t have Loki’s Scepter, don’t know how to influence it. 

The battle’s almost entirely shifted to the air so the team can only watch while Tony Stark’s finally overwhelmed by the entirety of the Chitauri army, and swept away into the portal, and it closing almost immediately after. 

Now, since I’m fighting off plot bunnies already, I won’t go into what would’ve happened if Ultron had left the portal open, because that’s pretty self-explanatory and any alternatives would require their own post for me to go into specifics.

Tony’s very obviously freaking out, and this is literally his worst nightmare, cut off from JARVIS, and the rest and he’s seeing the alien army he’s been trying to get the Earth ready for and...welp. 

That he’s being dragged and ‘presented’ to Thanos, is only the goddamn cherry on top.

He doesn’t know what happened to Vision, but Ultron’s wearing his body and that’s not exactly helping either. The only silver lining to being around Ultron is his tendency to monologue, and that’s how Tony gets an idea of what’s going on. 

Thanos is looking at him like he’s an insect, and oh, that’s where Loki got some of his crazy from, makes sense. [He’s so, so screwed, isn't he?]

...oh, wait, they want to recruit Tony? And have him make them an army, because they’re curious as to what he’s capable of? This, he can work with.

...it’s been a few years since the debut of Iron Man, and Tony never really advertised what went down in Afghanistan. Plus, these aliens have different priorities, and really it’s not their fault they’re making the same mistake the Ten Rings did. 

Except for the way it really, really is. 

Add in Tony’s resistance to the Mind Stone [Loki tried it on him in the Avengers and failed, remember? Plus with humanity’s surprise tolerance for items of infinite cosmic power that I mentioned in another post] and you get Tony with highly advanced alien tech, being forced to supply an army for the enemy. 

Because that’s ended so well for his captors before, right?

Meanwhile, back on Earth...

...hmm. I can’t decide. Because the Avengers are reeling, are going ‘oh shit’ and ‘looks like Tony wasn’t as crazy as we thought, oops’, while JARVIS...

Umm. Well, obviously he’s not going to take it well. 

And I can’t honestly say how that’ll go down. Because JARVIS, at this point, is traumatized and has been hyperfixating on Tony’s safety to cope. His morality’s never been much to write home about and Tony was what was keeping him reigned in. He has a robot army at hand, doesn’t believe in overkill, and his morality chain’s gone, there’s no way this can go wrong, right?

He was already borderline Skynet in some ways, but seeing Tony get kidnapped [and hearing him, and feeling the connection become static]...well. I’ll leave that up to your imagination.

It depends, really.

If he goes the subtle route:

 JARVIS would regroup the Iron Legion, collect Vision and any alien artifacts, and book it home. He wouldn’t care about what happens to the Avengers, except to run a subroutine to monitor them [because he’d deemed them a potential threat before but now Tony got captured on their watch—] and mobilizing as many researchers to get on the case as he possibly can. Dr. Foster’s data gets copied to his private servers, SWORD and R&D are on it, and it still doesn’t feel like it’s enough.

Vision gives him the data, and got moved to an Iron Man suit [because the body he’s in was mostly running on willpower], while they’re working on making him a newer and better body. [And if the Iron Legion’s also growing exponentially...well, that’s no one’s business, now, is it?]

Rhodey immediately gets brought in, and is kept in the loop the entire time. 

This isn’t his normal field of study, and the only words he recognizes are the ones that also pertained to aviation engineering, but he does his best to not get lost.

He’s seething, and only part of it’s guilt [he’d been less than 500 meters away, again, just like last time—], and JARVIS clued him in as to how the team had treated Tony [he’d punched Thor while still in the suit, when they’d first met. Thor had let him, and didn’t lift a hand to fight back]. 

But things are going slower now, because Resident Genius 1′s the guy who got kidnapped, while Genius 2′s MIA [...or not? Maybe he sticks around? Hmm...] and Dr. Foster and Selvig’re doing quite a bit of heavy lifting. Not to say SWORD and SI aren’t, but their specialties are in ways to make things explode better other fields, so progress isn’t what it used to be.

The Avengers, meanwhile...well, they get shafted, simply put. Tony was the one doing all the work, and now that he’s gone and SI’s devoted its spare resources to finding him, they’re facing the scrutiny of the world and don't have any good answers to their tough questions.

 Turns out losing billionaire philanthropists was a bigger deal than they’d thought, and now that Tony’s gone it’s Steve that’s getting called by the World Security Council, except this time it’s about reconstruction efforts in Johannesburg and questioning his recruitment choices and what was being done to secure the planet and he doesn’t know what to say. 

...that might’ve been a bit harsh, actually.

 I’d like to think that Tony’s loss would’ve been the wake-up call the Avengers never had, the likes of Phil Coulson’s death in the first Avengers movie, because I’m a sucker for good team dynamics and even if it won't go this way in TWiFFON, if I can fix it even a little, I will. 

Just...umm. 

Please ignore Wanda’s absence, or pretend that the Chitauri took out both twins instead of just Pietro in this one, because of reasons.

Thor’s taking it the hardest, and Vision’s mention of Thanos [one of the things he’d managed to get from Ultron’s mind during the fight] makes his blood run cold as he remember’s Loki’s Scepter [and the gleam of madness in his eyes], the similarities between him and Tony, and goes back to Asgard as soon as possible because—no, please no. Hopefully Heimdall had something, please, don’t let this happen again—

Steve’s the team leader, and he’s taking it pretty damn hard, too. He’s looking back, and remembering what happened last time, and wants to punch himself in the face. How had he not seen this? Why hadn’t he— just— how could he have been so stupid? [And what could they do now?] 

His nightmares had featured Bucky falling for years now. Seeing Tony getting swept up and up and up is not much better. 

Natasha’s calling in as many favors as she can, and between her and Maria Hill, a good chunk of SHIELD’s scientists are also working on it. Relations between SWORD and SHIELD improve, because they’re collaborating more, and working towards the same goal. 

Clint’s retirement either gets moved up from ‘after this mission’ to ‘right fucking now, go to ground and lay low stat’, or he stays with team, since half the roster’s MIA and the other half isn’t doing so hot. He’s also calling in every favor he’s got, and the scientists who were working on the Tesseract and weren’t in Natasha’s debt tended to owe him one. [Or two.] 

Bruce’s situation I already covered. Either MIA or hard at work.

They’re doing what they can with what they have, and maybe it’s not enough right now, but they’ll get there. 

[Aka the cast of TWiFFON assembles to rescue Tony.]

Of course, that’s assuming JARVIS has a modicum of self-restraint and subtlety, when Tony’s been kidnapped on his watch. [He doesn't believe in overkill, after all.]

If JARVIS had decided to go forego subtlety, though...

He can make Skynet look like a toddler, his morals are now officially compromised, and Tony did his level best to keep him safe.

You do the math.

He may or may not have kidnapped every scientist who hadn’t replied favorably to his request within 72 hours, is what I’m saying. 

He may or may not have stolen all data from multiple nations without making any bones about it, and scared the crap out of the planet while at it. 

Ditto as to what the Iron Legion’s up to. Or Stark Industries. 

Tony would gladly raise hell for those he cares about, and some things run in the family. 

Either way, at some point another wormhole’s made, or opens up.

Everyone’s gearing for battle and panicking and the Iron Legion’s assembled, when a single figure in slim black-and-gold armor slowly exits and the portal starts to close behind him.

“This the right place? Terra—Earth, I mean, Earth! Damn I’ve really spent too much time abroad. Hey, JARVIS, miss me—oooh boy. You’ve been busy, haven't you?”

#shatterpoint #behind the scenes #The War is Far From Over Now #writer's commentary #Naught rambles

[sunnibits]

I was tagged by @queer-lodgingss @reshirement and @lordoftherazzles for this, thank you! (sorry for taking so long I’m lazy)

1. why did you choose your url?

Idk, sunnybits was my AO3 account name before I joined tumblr so I just stuck with it. The name literally just comes from me sticking random words together lol and I might actually change it soon... but I like the ‘sunny’ part specifically because I like the mental image of radiating sunshine and light :D I think it’s pretty cool that I’ve been able to become comfy with it as a secondary name <3

2. any side-blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them.

I have my art side blog because idk, art blog reasons at @sunniscribbles 

Also I’ve never talked about it but I don’t mind introducing y’all to my soft cottagecore-esque sideblog @sunny-and-bee :) it’s just a nice positive space I started with my friend @killerbeestan and it’s pretty inactive compared to my main, lol. (But I still try to keep it up at least one or two posts a day)

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

I made this account on August 10th of 2020, apparently, so almost a year now! That’s not a lot compared to some people lol but it’s still crazy it’s been that long already. However, it should be noted that I stalked the tags for my various fixations very often long before I actually made an account, so I’ve been floating around for a little while. 

4. do you have a queue tag?

Nope, and I still don’t really get queues or queue tags, so. I use my queue occasionally for spam but like... with my little goblin brain if I see something cool it’s going on my blog NOWS >:(

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

I mean, come on, look at me. I’m obsessed with many fandoms, this is easily the best place to talk about them and I really didn’t have a lot of irl friends who know what I was talking about in my endless hyperfixation rambles. (But they are amazing and still listen to my rambles today.)  Plus, as an artist I wanted to be able to contribute, especially for like Ninerose and whatnot, because those poor fans don’t get a ton of content!

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

(I feel like this is meant for people who have consistent layouts, lmao) Currently I wanted a Loki layout to honor the show coming out very very soon!!! :DD

7. why did you choose your header?

Same reason, and it’s aesthetic. 

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

I believe my post about the new Venom movie giving us gays everything we want.

9. how many mutuals do you have?

About 23, apparently? I haven’t actually counted until now, I thought it would be more lmao.

10. how many followers do you have?

I hit 300 today! :D (Who knows how, but I love you guys)

11. how many people do you follow?

86, I feel like that’s not a lot but I’m very picky about following people.

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

Who... hasn’t? This is tumblr? Yes, several.

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

*sweats* A - a normal healthy amount, I’m sure.

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

Once early on in my tumblr existence I suddenly discovered a mutual I had been talking to was a pan/ace exclusionist and I tried to argue with them for a while before I just blocked them. But yeah, that was nasty and made me really uncomfy :// I haven’t gotten into any arguments since that, thank god, I don’t enjoy nor have the energy for fighting with icky people.

15. how do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

Especially for serious moral stuff, they make me pretty uncomfortable. I usually support the idea presented or want to help whatever cause they are explaining, but I feel like some people forget that while the suffering of people in the world is obviously important, tumblr is literally just a place to have fun and create your own space that makes you happy, and guilt-tripping people is just unnecessary. Besides, there are a lot of minors on here (including me) that genuinely can’t do much to help and really don’t need to be worrying about the weight of the entire world at once. (Sorry for getting deep oof)

16. do you like tag games?

YES I LOVE THEM! I don’t always have the energy for them, so I may not always do them soon or at all (see this game, lol) but never hesitate to tag me!

17. do you like ask games?

YES I LOVE THOSE EVEN MORE I LOVE ASKS

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

Idk??? But there are definitely a few I consider the cool mutuals I want to impress, lol.

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

Not, like, romantically, no. But again, there are definitely a couple I consider Very Cool and being praised by them in the tags feels akin to being patted on the head affectionately, I beam every time.

20. tags?

Not today, but anyone can do this if they want! (literally you can tag me in it and say I tagged you, I would love to see it)

#thanks this was fun! #tag game