Swifties!! You know coney island (feat. The National) right?
Well, hear me out.
Spoilers for Loki season 2 ahead!!!
For short, it's so Lokius (or just Loki's fate) after the end of season 2 it hurts.
And for long...
"Break my soul into two looking for you/ But you're right here".
Loki is looking over his friends...especially over Mobius, since we heard his voice echo at the end of time and making Loki manage a heartbreaking smile of acceptance. They're both looking for each other, because they're now separated, but they're RIGHT HERE at the same time.
"If I can't relate to you anymore, then who am I related to?"
The clear discrepance of Mobius's life at the TVA is given by him meeting Loki. After he leaves, there's no point for M to stay there anymore. So he leaves, because who is he related to now?
"And if this is the long haul how did we get here so soon"
OUUUCH! The long haul=a journey that takes a lot of time and effort. Isn't that what happened in S2E6, with Loki trying again and again to fix the Loom and save everyone? Oh yes it is! But it still seemed too soon when he had to leave, and to protect everyone with the cost of remaining alone.
"I'm sitting on a bench in Coney Island, wondering 'where did my baby go' "
Mobius, at the end of the season, standing alone, letting time pass. He wasn't exactly on a bench in Coney Island, but I swear that's what he was wondering.
Sorry for not making you my centerfold
So, in the song, this apology is meant for something that is already over, a cause-effect situation.
But in my perspective, it can also be a resolution. Because Loki DID make the people she cared about the centerfold. And not only them, but those people, those lives HWR didn't care about. Now, they're the top page of the story Loki chose to rewrite and the burden he chose to bear. Until that moment, it didn't work out, no matter how hard he tried. But then the realisation hits in, after the conversation with Mobius in the time theatre. And the hardest, impossible choice is made.
Over and over
Lost again with no surprises
Dissapointments close your eyes
And it gets colder and colder
As the sun goes down"
The repetition both "over" and "colder" in the chorus feel like a call back to the finale's events. How, over and over, for centuries and only he knows how many tries, Loki tries to rewrite the story. To save his friends, yes, but also the existence of the Multiverse.
And that didn't work. Now, that the sun doesn't shine (BUT IT WILL. IT HAS TO.) it gets colder and colder. It's very important to note that the sun did shine on Mobius and Sylvie...but Loki wasn't there.
"Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?"
First, some synonyms, for better understanding (evermore will be evermore)
rogue=a dishonest person, a villain; coaxed= persuaded into doing something
This is the exact opposite of where we see Loki now. He's a hero. He's THE hero!! But the beautiful thing about this is how he evolved, how their character has one of, if not even the biggest, arcs in the MCU. The part I want to point out in this lyric is the first one, the question: Do you miss? Does she, without ever wanting to change anything, miss that rogue, the self that got her here? The one in Ragnarok, who was finally working things out with Thor? And the "left" too! Because he's here now, but there's...no one left next to him.
OK HERE IS MY FAVOURITE ONE
"Cause we were like the mall before the internet it was the one place to be
THE MISCHIEF, the gift-wrapped suburban dreams"
The mall before the internet? Like this disconnected place where you lose the notion of time? Like the TVA, with Loki and Mobius together, working on that TemPad, for example. It is the one place to be for them, and when together, they both try to protect it.
The mischieffff. Loki's betrayal, choosing to leave with Sylvie when Mobius trusted him in this mission. Him being the literal God of Mischief. The "Come on, you're the God of Mischief" from Mobius in s2e2. And this is not even the only mischief regarding them, it's the whole TVA in season 1 and how all of its workers were being lied to.
The gift wrap as an imaginery for them traveling through timelines to find Sylvie, then Ravonna and Miss Minutes. When this is sweet at first (or sticky as cracker jack hehe) but it turns out to be more. To be difficult. And overall, the whole theme of the song remisces their story and its beautiful, irregular flow.
"Were you waiting at our old spot/ In the tree line, by the gold clock/ Did I leave you hanging every single day?"
Our old spot.
In the tree line, by the gold clock.
What a charming way to hear Loki's choice to stay, and the place that happened, be described. Also, the timelines look like a tree. The gold clock, also representative for the tva.
PLUS Loki's throne at the end of time is literally the tree of life (Yggradsil).
"And when I walked up to the podium I think that I forgot to say your name"
Because before Loki left, and walked up to the "podium" down to the loom, he didn't say goodbye. We got that in season 1. Not now.
"When the sun goes down / The sight that flashed before me was your face"
The sun going down is at a present time. It's still there, but it will be gone soon.
Yet the flash is in the past : it was. For the God of Stories, time is infinite, but that one "let time pass" from Mobius is SO important it got to Loki and made them smile. HE FUCKING SMILED. (alright maybe smile is not the word but if I choose to make myself believe that for my own comfort then so be it)
Alright, that's kinda it. I'll never listen to this song the same way <3
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Some Taylor Swift lyrics from each album that are in parallel with Lokius
I don't really make these kinda posts, but I was really in the feels so I randomly made this, and this is in my drafts since..maybe October? It took a lot of time and it unexpectedly turned out to be pretty long.. Some of the pictures associate with the lyrics below. There are so many more lyrics that can be included here but these are all I could thing of atm
Taylor Swift:
"Seems the only one who doesnt see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you." -Tied together with a smile
Speak Now (Taylor's Version) :
"And I was screaming, 'Long live all the magic we made.' " - Long live
Fearless (Taylor's Version) :
"I know you were on my side even when I was wrong" - The Best Day
Red (Taylor's Version) :
"I bet, this time of night, you’re still up
I bet you're tired from a long, hard week
I bet you're sittin' in your chair by the window lookin' out at the city
And I hope sometimes you wonder 'bout me." - I Almost Do
1989 (Taylor's Version) :
"The rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color." - Out of the Woods
Reputation:
"My reputation never been worse, so you must like me for me." - Delicate
Lover:
"Can we always, be this close forever and ever?" - Lover
Folklore:
"And when I felt like I was an old cardigan, under someone's bed, you put me on and said i was your favourite." - Cardigan
"Time, mystical time, cutting me open then healing me fine." - Invisible String
"With you I serve,
With you I fall down." - epiphany
Evermore:
"And when I got into the accident, the sight that flashed before me was your face." - Coney island
"My house of stone, your ivy grows, and now I'm covered in you." - ivy
Midnights:
"Life is emotionally abusive,
and time can't stop me quite like you did
and my flight was awful, thanks for asking
I'm unglued, thanks to you." - Snow on the Beach
ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ xㅤ ㅤ 𒈔ٍ⃛ㅤ ㅤ x
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Project Rewatch continues...just got done with 2x15 and noticed some interesting parallels/foreshadows. Firstly, does anyone else think of a moth when looking at Nancy's dress that she was gifted from TS in this episode? Just me?
Secondly, when Nancy introduces Temperance Hudson's spell book to Tom, she reads an entry about Vampire Moths. Just another moth-based curse courtesy of Temperance.
And finally, when Nancy is working to break the hex with her blood, whose life is in imminent danger due to a violent, crazed Bess with a sword? Why Ace of course. Just interesting how that ended up paralleling current events and a certain moth-based death curse that also puts Ace's life in danger. Also wondering if The Road Back plays into this season at all or if that storyline ended with Tom Swift. I know they said TRB would not return, but it would be satisfying to have Grant re-enter the storyline this season at the very least, and also get a little more closure over Celia's death.
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