“For soon he was reborn into a new, youthful body, free to choose his own fate. “Kid Loki” – A new personality, free from the taint of the old…at first. For this new Loki took the fading echo of the old – both ghost and copy- to advise him and give him knowledge.
one of my favorite things is how badgers and coyotes will hunt cooperatively. as in not just like happening to go after the same thing at the same time but actually combining efforts to bring down prey; coyotes are faster and can chase down prey species, while badgers are adept at digging them out of their burrows
14 million alternate universes and you are telling me that dumb bitch Strange didn’t think of opening a portal above Thanos’ head and closing it around his neck or teleporting the dried purple grape into the fucking sun in a single one of them like what kind of jackassery and complete lack of imagination honestly
Or just use the time stone to turn him into a shirveled old husk. Good look conquering the universe where you are too old to snap your fingers
Or just cut his goddamn arm off instead of trying to wiggle a metal gauntlet off while trying to keep him hypnotized.
This, honestly.
This is what we call an “idiot plot”: a plot that requires all the characters to be uncharacteristically stupid. Can also just be interpreted to mean an idiotic plot written by idiots.
soft!frostmaster shippers who are antis are so weird to me. Like, one of your favs is a despotic slave master who happily executes their family and threatened Loki’s, if not Loki himself. That ship is canonically a dumpster fire, and it’s far more concerning that some people can’t recognize that and think it’s weird that people get dubcon or noncon vibes.
Adding @foundlingmother‘s response too because it’s the similar topic and now I can respond to both at once.
(Also behind a cut because my anxiety med makes me ramble lol T_T)
“Ship and let ship” doesn’t have to mean you like or approve of all ships; it just means you don’t harass people for shipping things you don’t like and you don’t go around making unsupported claims about the real-life sexual morality of the shippers. Some ships are nOTPs just because I don’t think they make sense (*cough*ThorxBruce*cough*), but there are also some I side-eye real hard because of the in-canon dynamics of the characters. Killgrave x Jessica Jones is one of those (only shipped by fans of the Tenth Doctor because they can’t see David Tennant any other way, I’m pretty sure). Tony Stark x Peter Parker is another (though I can’t say I have the moral high ground on this one, given some of the Thorki AUs I read). And soft!Frostmaster also falls into this category for me. I’m not going to go crashing their party because I’m not that kind of asshole, but yeah, I’m giving it some serious side-eye.
2) “devious consent” is now my new favorite typo and I’m going to spend a little while trying to figure out what it would look like
Sure! But while we’re purifying fandom we should probably also stop romanticising a slaveowner. You guys first.
Also, this deserves to be a whole new genre of creepy fic.
There is actually a philosophical literature about what might be called “devious consent.” Basically, it would be securing consent by means of a deception without which the consent would not have been given – saying you’re someone you’re not (the old claiming to be a woman’s husband in the dark is a somewhat outdated version of this), saying you’re STD-free or on birth control when you’re not, etc. There’s disagreement about when it constitutes rape. This kind of thing could get creative when there’s magic involved. Though I think people already write this and it’s just a subset of dubious consent.
Loki is the Philosopher King 