playing around with colour. inspired by that really awesome piece of fan art where thor is a boxer and loki’s stuffing money into thor’s briefs. i can’t find it now but you guys know the one i’m talking about right it was superior to this in every way and thor actually had nipples.
Debt as a way of enforcing a kind of serfdom is not new: that’s also how white landowners kept black “sharecroppers” tied to the land in the South after the end of Reconstruction.
Over half the prison population of the Orleans Parish Prison “went missing” because they weren’t evacuated during Katrina. They were left locked in their cells. Those inmates died. Over half. 517 of 1000.
(first of all, i know not what the fuck. I’m tired. That being said.)
Thor’s characterization in Ragnarök is a fucking joke. A bad joke.
Take the infamous scene with Loki and the obedience disk. You know why it feels so utterly, terribly wrong? Why it’s upsetting and disturbing beyond issues of how much it hurts or doesn’t, how much Loki had it coming or didn’t (he didn’t), if it constitutes abuse or whatever the fuck?
Because it’s villains who stab people in the back, and then hover around gloating as their enemies hurt and bleed. It’s villains who smirk while watching another twitching in pain. It’s villains who stand there, enjoying the sight of the helpless foe they have defeated, relish in their cunning and their callousness, give a speech expressing their contempt and their superiority, and probably make a point that “you are the way you are and you can’t help it, that’s why you FAILED, mwah hah hah.”
And we are coded, as we damn well should be, to read that scene in a certain way. Villains do these things, and the one twitching in pain on the floor is the hero, defeated by the betrayal of someone they trusted. That’s usually where the cliffhanger goes, with the villain walking away cackling as the hero is left helpless on the floor, and it seems that all is lost. WILL OUR HERO GET FREE BEFORE THE VILLAIN MANAGES TO CARRY OUT THEIR EVIL SCHEME AND DESTROY THE WORLD? DUN DUN DUNNNNN…! SEE IT IN THE NEXT ISSUE!
Thank you so much for this, @incredifishface. The last part in particular was beautifully written; it’s a Thorki manifesto with the eloquence and heart you’ve brought to your Thorki fics over the years. Still, the paragraph I’m going to excerpt is this one:
In fact, this is all so wrong, that the film would work best as a story in which old timey, classic comics!Loki was trying to pull a scheme by taking his brother’s appearance, and then went around manipulating and fooling his friends (very poorly), to try and destroy Thor’s reputation and his character. (Good plan, Lo, you totally pulled it off! Nobody could like or love that fucking asshole!)
Because you are so fucking right. @fuckyeahrichardiii, I thought you might get a kick out of that.
If you are all feeling lost and nauseous about Italian Interior Minister Salvini’s despicable Roma census proposal, please consider donating to/signal boosting the European Roma Rights Centre. They actively pursue legal action against discriminatory policies/human rights abuses within the international courts, as well as carry out advocacy and research.
For all of you asking, here is a wonderful organization that helps Romani people in Europe. I will try and find some other organizations, as well.
Jeffrey Winder appealed his guilty verdict after punching “Unite the
Right” organizer Jason Kessler in Charlottesville the day after
protester Heather Heyer died. A jury determined Winder should serve no
jail time and pay the lowest fine possible.
This is something that more people should be aware of, if only because (in many states, at least) defense attorneys are actually prohibited from mentioning it to jurors. The law allows a jury to return a “not guilty” verdict contrary to the facts of the case, but not for the defense to inform them of that power or to argue for its application in the current trial.
I didn’t know about this. Wow.
always reblog
This is SUPER IMPORTANT and also a good reason to show up for jury duty. You know all those laws you think are stupid? This is your chance to maybe do something about it.
I…. I thought this was common knowledge… signal boosting this because it obviously isn’t!
Loki is the Philosopher King 