Somewhere on the Statesman in the land of Infinity War was a Fever Dream…
It had been the seventh time that evening.
Seven times now where Thor heard screaming from next door, seven times now where had Thor shaken his brother, a sweating, shaking mess awake.
After realizing each time he wasn’t being subjected to whatever horrors his dreams held, Loki always did his best to attempt to string together a composure.
“I’m fine.”
“I thought you were good at lying, brother,” Thor replied as he sat down on his bed next to his very annoyed looking adopted sibling, “Unfortunately, your dreams are betraying you. Loudly.”
slam that mf like button if you have a WIP (whether art or writing) that’s been sitting around for days or weeks
Months
Weeks, man. Weeks.
I have a fic I haven’t updated in over a year.
#dork
I don’t often relate to Bruce Banner but I look at scenes like this and I’m like, where did you get the actual footage from my life
But like… this is the correct kind of awkwardness for Bruce Banner. Not the over-the-top neuroticism we got in TR and IW.
“So, I’ve known about that scene for two years.[…] My whole journey through making Thor: Ragnarok — I knew this was coming. By the end of Thor: Ragnarok, Loki has been accepted as Thor’s brother again. When I came to shoot the scene in Infinity War, I think it’s very powerful he calls himself an Odinson, and that closes the whole journey of Loki and what he can do. It [Loki’s death] set the stakes up emotionally. It takes the stakes up dramatically.”
— Tom Hiddleston
“that closes the whole journey of Loki and what he can do”
Only because Marvel artificially made that the close: made the telos of Loki’s existence consist in dissolving his being into Thor’s; made him a function of Thor, a cog or a symbol in Thor’s journey rather than a person in his own right. He was a person up through TDW. Hiddleston gave him a depth and roundness few of the heroes possess. Marvel decided that wasn’t what they wanted from Loki.
Interviews like this really make it sound like his death in IW was final.
The Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica), aka Indian Giant Squirrel, is a huge motherfucker, with a body length of up to 14 inches and a tail length of up to 2 ft.
They are important seed dispersers in a variety of Indian forest types, and are well known for smacking the taste out of your mouth for looking at them the wrong way. Keep they name out of your mouth if you know whats good for you. They ride wild boar into battle, and favor the spiked club as a weapon.
photographs: AtlasObscura and Amara Bharathy
I want to know MORE! We have Fox squirrels in Florida but we’ve devastated (aka developed) most of their natural habitat so they aren’t as common as they once were. Their body length ranges from 16 – 29 inches and their tails are from 7 to 14 inches long. I once saw one on a tree trunk in the late 60s. Stunning!
most graceful archery in history
she’s beauty 👏 she’s grace 👏 she’ll shoot you in the face👏
Where is her million dollar shampoo endorsement deal
im going on the record to state that stories which position seelie-unseelie/summer-winter/etc court dynamics as inherently oppositional forces of good and evil are all written by COWARDS
face it!! you want to confine the fae to your narrow human narratives of heroes and villains to make yourself feel more secure in the face of the unknowable! its an understandable impulse but its a tired portrayal and one that doesnt do neither the writer or reader any favors!!!!
coming back to this because im in that kinda mood
summer courts being always bright and lively and symbolized by happy sunny shiny flowery things only and winter courts being dark and attached to symbols of evil/death is so so Weak
winter is a season of cold and dark but it can also be associated with the clean beauty of fresh snow, the brightness of a full winter moon on a cloudless night, preservation, sleep/restfulness, peaceful quiet, winter festivities and the coziness of coming in from the cold
summer is a light and warmth but there’s also summer storms, heatwaves/wildfires/drought as symbols of ferocity and mercilessness, the eeriness of heat mirages, abundance of insects, the sun as not only a symbol of warmth and nourishment but one of harsh unrelenting conditions
a well-made court dichotomy should allow both sides to have “good” and “bad” traits by human standards (and tbh im more in favor of both courts being equally sinister to human perception because thats how i see fae in general) and opposition between the two should never stem from the idea that one side is just “Evil”
also like can’t we just be done with light = good and dark = bad imagery in fantasy. like come on.
And don’t just flip them! Summer is ‘pretty but eeeevil’ with winter as ‘ugly but goood’ is Also Bad!
All Fae Are Unknowably Sinister And Occasionally Surprisingly Benevolent 2018
Roland Barthes’ “Death of the Author” is absolutely unreadable. I’m going to try Foucault’s “What is an Author?”, but I don’t have high hopes.
Making an undergrad syllabus is hard.
An antique gold, emerald and diamond parure, circa 1830, consisting of a necklace and a pair of earrings. from the Albion Art Collection –
This looks like a gift from Loki.
…or a gift FOR Loki.
Loki is the Philosopher King 
