au where loki is a stuck-up, pretentious author who moves to an old fixer-upper in the country to get “perspective” and hires thor to do some repairs. cue loki thirsting over him for weeks and thor purposely taking his shirt off at the right moments, and loki doing embarrassingly domestic things like making him lemonade. and he gets so frustrated because his novel is supposed to be a moody drama but it’s turning into a cheesy harlequin romance & very obviously channeling his thirst for the handyman. so, naturally, they fuck to get it out of loki’s system. but then it happens again, and again, and again, and three months down the road thor still hasn’t fixed the back deck.
Maybe medieval people happened upon a T-Rex fossil and came to a relatively logical conclusion that dragons existed.
I’ve read a couple books on this actually, thats exactly what happened. Also cyclops are from looking at bones from a certain type of baby elephant. The giant note hole and tiny eyes made it look like a single eye.
Yep, can confirm! And what’s even funnier to me is that back in the dark ages, Greek people used to find a lot of prehistoric bear skeletons – and those look exactly like human skeletons, except they’re like eight feet tall or something – so they naturally assumed those were the heroes of legend, and made armour and clothes for them and reburied them with the most splendid and sacred religious ceremonies they could think of? Fast forward five centuries, Athens’ all modern and rational, philosophers and scientists aren’t taking any shit from anyone – but the problem is, people will randomly find graves containing giant-ass warriors, so that’s something that can’t be explained away and yeah, demigods were a thing and yeah, they used to be eight feet tall and sorry I don’t make the rules.
Some scientists suspect that the origin of the cyclops myths came about because of elephant skulls, which are vaguely human in shape but with a honking big hole in the middle for the trunk but easily mistakable for an eye socket without any flesh
“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.
Loki is the Philosopher King 