okay look

Me: *getting ready to throw out an empty jar*

Goblin brain: “No!!! *Keep*.”

Me: “What?”

Goblin brain: “kEeP tHe JaR.”

Me: “…what for?”

Goblin brain: “mmmmmmmfff… its purpose… shall be revealed to us… IN TIME!”

Break my freaking heart okay!!!!!!

I don’t know what’s happening, I don’t know what to do.

It’s just nice.

Loki not wanting to shake Mobius’ hand vs Loki hugging him instead, I call it growth

It’s serpent season fellas🐍 I don’t have an excuse, I just was overwhelmed by the current Loki fever and the fact we are getting a season 2 of both Loki and Good Omens😱 I love these shows so much, just felt like sharing some snakey befoonery💚❤️

watched the Loki finale and

i was very frustrated. (essentially, spoilers)

yes, i ship lokius. it's fine.

people should like what they like in peace.

am i fan of sylkie? no. no, no, no. i dislike it simply from a character development perspective. i don't see this as self love, at all. it reads as romance and it was forced on as romance.

classic Disney.

what a frustrating scene. you know what i'm talking about. absolutely pointless.

i screamed in anger because it was pure Disney being Disney and i. hated. it.

and i am SO tired of Loki going through trauma without any agency. it's not enjoyable to watch.

ugh. disappointing, for real. i know i'm not the only one who feels this way. but let me be clear: let people enjoy things. don't harass others. don't harass the show creators. be critical, because at the end of the day this is art and it needs to be examined and criticized as needed.

Loki 2 (inspired by Good Omens 2 poster)

Saturn captured in ultraviolet light

Puppy on your timeline. He likes the rain and he is happy. You deserve a puppy on your timeline.

Been quiet on the Loki front and all other things because my mom will be gone for officially 1 year next week and grief is hard. This means fanfic is pretty much on hold for a bit. I appreciate any good vibes you can send.

tumblr will always be a better website than twitter because you can only retweet a tweet once, whereas on this website if i really like a post i can make my followers scroll past it twelve times in a row

Niiiiice

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Loki (2021) Parallels

This. Is very valid. Something has been off about this show from a storytelling perspective. The difference from the pilot to now? Kind of a 180.

If you had told me yesterday that I wouldn't care about the Loki show anymore, I wouldn't have believed you. Yet here we are. I had maintained hope that we were heading into some AoA style confrontation between Loki and some other Loki. I actually thought the things they brought up during the interrogation scene would be addressed.

I thought Loki was supposed to seize the narrative and prove the timekeepers and every other person wrong. Instead, Loki is the POV character and Sylvie is the protagonist. I thought "this story isn't about you" was something to refute, not the show's mission statement. Hugs to the Loki fandom, I think we really need it today 2/2 (sorry I keep forgetting those things)

The first episode wrote a check the rest couldn't deliver (and even the first episode was tepid at best). But wait, I have to give the whole show a go, right? Wait til everything is out to make my final judgement, right? That's what everyone's been saying!

Never in a million years did I think the show would be this bad. Joke's on me for expecting a Loki show to be about Loki and not some OCs who constantly beat him up and tell him how pathetic and worthless he is. And you know, I could even deal with that since that's what canon has been doing it to him all along, but until ragnarok (and IW to a lesser extent), the narrative wasn't on those character's sides. We still got to see Loki being badass and competent, even if he did eventually lose.

I thought "this story isn't about you" was something to refute, not the show's mission statement.

SAME, ANON, SAME!

This is supposed to be his show, yet Sylvie is the only one who drives the narrative forward. What the fuck has Loki done? Got Mobius on his side, who was immediately zapped? (And let's be real, more narrative weight was given to Mobius being suspicious about C-20 than Loki actually having anything to do with changing Mobius' mind. He just confirmed what Mobius was already suspecting.) Got himself killed again (as far as he was aware at the time)? Give me a fucking break. If they really had to do the fucking TVA narrative, why wasn't it about Loki in Sylvie's position? Why not have him escape, fight the TVA, work to bring them down, discover the TVA were all made up of variants?

Like fuck, imagine the narrative tension of Loki figuring out those people he has been fighting and killing were nothing but brainwashed slaves and the whole plot is so much bigger than even an organization that controls all of time? And not some reveal handed to us in dialogue about some people I, at least, don't give a fiddly fuck for.

And let's be clear, I don't give a fuck what people ship or don't. Sylvie/Loki, Loki/Mobius, Loki/whoever, I don't care.

But if they're really going for the selfcest, maybe don't speedrun it and present it as Loki being some fucking narcissist loser who only ever loved himself. Which, you know, was the actual framing the show put out. I know people are reinterpreting it as "Loki loving himself is literally breaking the timeline", but that feels so unearned and out of left field. It's just lazy, bad writing. And you just know it never would have happened had Sylvie been male.

Loki and Mobius' friendship is also unearned. Friends?!! Friends???!!!! The guy who kept berating you and torturing you and telling you you were worthless and manipulating you and calling you incompetent is who Loki considers a friend???? To the point of tears??????? GIVE ME A BREAK.

NO, IT'S SHITTY AND UNEARNED. Fucking hell, please gets some better standards for friendship, Loki. I hate it.

This show isn't about Loki, it's about validating every worst fucking take on his character I've ever seen.

See, in essence I think it can be distilled to this:

Loki’s tv series is about self-actualization, but it’s also a gift to the fanbase (which will hopefully soon show itself more deserving of that gift). That gift is a metaphysical exploration of the fandom’s engagement with and consumption of the character of Loki, “what makes a Loki a Loki” and why the contents of “A Loki” are so surprisingly resonant with so many people, when the character was originally meant to be a one-off minor villain.  

How is this achieved? THROUGH THE POV OF MOBIUS. 

Mobius IS the fandom. Yes he’s a minor extant Marvel comics character, but he has been transformed into MORE, just as the MCU Loki has been.  Mobius is the fanbase’s often conflicting components.  He is BOTH the people who interview Loki with genuine interest and respect, who say “you can be anything you want” AND the people who unkindly interrogate Loki, who have had doubts, who have pigeonholed and simplified Loki into a mere antagonist, the people who have felt betrayed by the character (and the many writers and directors at the helm of the character).  Mobius has, in getting to know Loki, become a symbol of our exploration of the character, and in that process of learning Loki as an inherently self-contradictory person, he is engaging in the myriad emotions we have felt in trying (and failing) to define him.

The Loki series operates both as a somewhat convoluted (but delightfully so) story, AND as a meta-narrative of the history of the audience’s relationship with and resonance with Loki. 

That means we must see Mobius himself as a changeable and somewhat unreliable narrator.  He is in the process of transformation, just as we are. He is learning.  And the process of learning involves making mistakes. 

What spurs these thoughts on? Well, I got an anon the other day: 

and my answer is YES, but not in the way the anon exactly suggests. Rather, it’s because of the goals I’ve tried to articulate above. 

Is fan consumption/creation/manipulation of canon Loki content core to this project? Absolutely. Inextricably. More than the average Marvel project. 

thinking about how the majority of us, maybe Tom Hiddleston himself included, thought it was over for Loki but wow! look at him now, standing in front of a huge Loki logo of his own Loki show!

not gonna lie, my 2018 self never thought this day would come. proud is an understatement.

Clues?!