illwynd:

The number of people—both Thor stans and Loki stans—who responded to that one post of mine to argue that no, really, Thor and Loki should never interact again because of what we saw in TR… is proof of what a corruption of their relationship that movie is.

Listen. Listen. It’s a weird crack AU that ignores all previous canon. Which is great, I guess, if you found it funny and refreshing. And somewhere between disappointing and depressing if you didn’t. But either way, you just can’t project that characterization backwards onto the previous movies and try to construct a narrative where it all fits into one arc, because it wasn’t meant to fit with them. TW even said he was purposely going against existing canon. Those aren’t the same characters, even if they have the same faces. And Thor and Loki’s relationship in that movie has jack to do with any other version of canon.

(This is partially me yelling at myself, since I know this, logically, but my brain keeps torturing me trying to make it fit somehow, like a wrong puzzle piece, because it’s the third part of a trilogy and it should fit aaaaaaaah. But alas. It does not.)