illwynd:

me: seeing a post where thor fans insult loki and loki fans and say they don’t want thor to ever interact with loki on screen again

and loki fans replying by insulting thor and thor fans and saying they don’t want thor to ever interact with loki on screen again

i think neither of y’all actually understand your “fave” character much do you

I understand the Loki fans’ POV far more, but I still can’t get behind the “Thor has only been bad for him and he should extricate himself from his relationship with Thor entirely” attitude.

I’m just repeating what @illwynd has said before, but: watch how they interact in Thor: The Dark World. Thor trusts Loki, and Loki lives up to that trust. Thor swears up and down that he doesn’t trust Loki, but he’s full of it. Watch his actions. He trusts Loki. That movie shows Thor and Loki working together, fighting together, trusting each other, neither sacrificing his individuality to the other’s demands. Their plan takes advantage of Loki’s distinctive talents: the ability to cast illusions and lie convincingly; the unexpected double-cross. Even his heroic self-sacrifice is very much in his own style: while (apparently fatally) impaled, he has the ingenuity and presence of mind to use his proximity to turn on Kurse’s own black hole grenade.

The mutual trust, the casual bickering, the cooperative strategic use of their complementary abilities: that, we can imagine, is what their relationship was like before Thor’s selection as heir caused his head to swell to the size we see in Thor 1.

Not bussing w/ the common folk:

ms-cellanies:

vagabondretired:

Trump … joined late, dozens of other world leaders Sunday ..
Trump was among more than 66 leaders gathered on a rainy day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the base of the Arc de Triomphe …
The president and first lady Melania Trump traveled separately from most of the other presidents and dignitaries attending the event, who had gathered earlier at the Elysee Palace and traveled to the ceremony by bus.
And Trump was not present as the other leaders arrived, walking side-by-side in a somber, rain-soaked line holding black umbrellas as bells finished tolling.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited security protocols for the presidential motorcade’s solo trip down the grand Champs-Élysées to the arc …

…..or Trump wants the spotlight to shine on him and him alone. He’s convinced he is better & more important & smarter than any other World Leader.  NOPE!

What a contemptible narcissistic ass.

illwynd:

I will just never get over the time a couple years ago I was sitting in the Hall H line at SDCC at 1 a.m., everyone else is sleeping and I’m sitting there writing in my notebook and a couple of 30-something dudes walk by and ask what I’m writing. I waffle a bit, then decide to go with brutal honesty and tell them I’m writing dirty fanfic. 

They ask what, specifically. 

“… um well it’s pretty weird.”

They toss out a few weird possibilities before I finally say I’m writing Thor and Loki fucking. 

And one of them instantly responds that that’s not weird! Because it makes sense, really! Loki is the most important, most enduring relationship Thor has had across 50 years of comics and all the movies, they’re really involved with each other, and anyway given Thor’s conflicts with his dad and how much Odin hates Loki, it would be really satisfying for Thor to be with someone who would piss Dad off that much, right? 

That was what he came out with. I mean seriously, this guy didn’t have to think about it at all, he had all of that just ready. Not even the most obvious reasons, either. He had clearly considered this possibility in some depth.

“I kinda ship it, actually,” he says at the end. 

I guess you do, bro. I guess you do. 

Why do you like hiddlesbum so much. I’m not asking in a mean and hostile way. Don’t get me wrong I like him too. But what are your reasons for liking him (besides the obvious :P )?

delyth88:

celticswan75:

maneth985:

lolawashere:

peskipixi:

incredifishface:

My reasons for liking Tom Hiddleston? 

So I was fucking about on Pinterest, before I ever heard of Tumblr, in the year of our lord 2014 or so. I loved BBC Sherlock, and had a (short-lived) crush on his stars. I repinned things about Cumberbatch, and then this other skinny foxy-faced pasty brit started to crop up. I hadn’t seen him before in my life, or heard about him. I was disconnected from popular culture, and had dismissed the entirety of  superhero movies taking over the world as something that was Not For Me. Wasn’t interested.

So I saw women fawning about this skinny looking fucker and couldn’t see it. I had no idea what they saw in him. I didn’t think he was particularly handsome. They were swooning over Ryan Gosling too, wtf??

But some of his pics came captioned with a few choice Hiddleston words. And they sounded… wise. Considerate. Kind. Optimistic. Eloquent to a pornographic degree. And I kept waiting for the shallowness to be revealed, for the flat note to fall,( to this fucking day I AM STILL WAITING.)

I came to Tumblr for more BBC Sherlock, and stumbled upon lots more Hiddleston there too as well. The guy kept giving delightful interviews, thoughtful, humble, kind and decent, clever. I saw him being cute with fans, dancing like a loon in Asia, giving off waves of pure joy. The guy was having so much fun, he was giving so much of himself, his heart was so open to everything; he was luminous. Who the FUCK was this guy?? I still didn’t think he was hot, but he sure was interesting. Intelligent and articulate and… genuine? I had my reservations of course. All that glitters and all that. 

I was definitely starting to see the attraction there. Sure, he was not my type (Jason Momoa and Chris Hemsworth are my type, really, from a purely physical standpoint), but he was… yeah, I could sort of see now why people liked him so much. 

I don’t exactly remember in what order these things happened, but they happened SO MUCH: I watched Only Lovers Left Alive, Tom did that charity thing with The Bear Necessities and the bum wiggle to end all bum wiggles (god, he was adorable, FUCK), I discovered the guy was not only a Cambridge graduate, a double first, but a fucking CLASSICS GRADUATE (I’m a classicist too!), AND then at some point I watched Coriolanus. The guy wasn’t just a sparkling brain and a clever mouth who could fucking improvise in Ancient Fucking Greek and a Shakespeare fanboy and a kind hearted soul and a lover of life and a damn fine clothes rack. The guy COULD FUCKING ACT.  He was not just a good actor, he fucking oozed talent. I was floored. I still am.

(Then I finally watched Avengers and in 7 minutes flat I was in love with Loki. Enters his brother a number of minutes later, and I was in love with those 2 being in love. And I watched Thor 1 and gaaaaaahhhh fuck Tom GODDAMMIT ALL. But that’s another story for another day.)

EVEN his vanity. I expected him to be a vain fuck. Which at this point wouldn’t have even fazed me, to be honest. I mean, he’s a fucking actor, of course he is vain; and isn’t he pleased to have a big schlong, bless him! I mean, CORIOLANUS. I’m not just talking about the infamous translucent toga thing, I’m talking about the ubertight jeans which allowed one to follow the northward pointing shape of his manhood at all times. He loves (or loved, for a while) that people go crazy about his looks. But it’s the way he does it. Somebody (I forgot who) noted that Hiddleston acted like the nerdy guy in the film who suddenly wakes up in the body of a sex symbol, and he himself doesn’t quite know how that happened, and is not used to it; he is having lots of fun with it, he flirts and poses and likes his crotch rise nice and high, but he like doesn’t take it for granted. Like it’s news to him that he has a face and a body that makes people weak at the knees. And he likes boobs and cleavages and he’s like a pervy little boy at times, and then he is also a perfect, flawless gentleman in the old-fashioned “respect and value the fair gender, get the door and offer your arm” kind of way. I mean, fucking hell Tom.

So he likes being handsome, sure, but then he goes around London in exactly 1 outfit? He sticks to the shoes and jeans and hoodies that feel comfy, and he doesn’t give a fuck if his tracksuit bottoms have holes in them. And he laughs when somebody mentions it, and he still doesn’t give a fuck. He doesn’t actively disparage the whole physical thing (I get tired of Hemsworth huffing and puffing at shirtless scenes at this point), but it’s like he’s as thrown by it as we all are. “So apparently I’m one of the sexiest men alive now. Wait, what?”

My reasons for liking Tom Hiddleston are obvious. And oh so many! He is a joyful, intelligent, eloquent, passionate man, with the heart of a fanboy, the wisdom of an old man, the decency and the kindness of a truly sympathetic person; he has a damn big heart; he responds to people’s love and adoration with humility and gratitude, and I’ve been watching him for years and he has never failed me once (ask me about Taylorgate); we value the same human qualities. We even like the same fucking things. He fucking reads poetry for pleasure. He has such a fucking beautiful voice, and his posh Brit accent is like warm fucking silk caressing the back of your neck. And he goes around giving talks about Dickens vs Dostoyevsky, he flails over the new Jurassic Park films, he still takes the tube to go places, he was having a rough time and he went and got himself a puppy.  AND he gives this subby vibe that gets all my dom-leaning juices flowing. Is this man even REAL.

He is a lush bouquet of excellent, in some cases rare human qualities tucked in a 6.2″ skinny but well developed package, of which 75% is legs, at the top of which you find the well-formed, exquisitely matured, money-can’t-buy-it butt of a skinny kid who has been jogging since he was 12. But there are more fine butts and more pretty faces in the world, and they haven’t managed to snatch my entire heart and keep it for going on 4 years now. I have never had a celebrity crush of this caliber, not even when I was 14-years-old.

(Are you a bit sorry you asked now? Don’t I half ramble…)

Absolutely perfectly said @incredifishface 👏👏👏👏👏

YES TO ALL THIS

Absolutely this.

So well put! This man is a treasure!

bookhoardingdragoon:

sirius-blonde:

isolemnlyswear-iamsuperwholocked:

an-anxious-gay-mess:

sympathetic-deceit-trash:

taylormademediocrity:

spacetaters:

ok but can we like start a petition for Cards Against Humanity to make a John Mulaney themed pack because i would be willing to spend all my money on that

Suggestions:

Black cards-

• THERES A ______ LOOSE! IN THE HOSPITAL

• Eat ass, suck a dick, and sell ________

• Canceling plans is like ________

• Do my friends hate me? Or do I just need _____

• You have the moral backbone of a _______

• I’ll keep all of my ___________ right here and the one day I’ll die

White Cards-

• what’s new pussycat played 7 times followed by its not unusual followed by what’s new pussy cat

• smoking cocaine the night before your college graduation

• a 28 year old healthy man trying his best

• one black coffee

• STREET SMARTS

• shushing animals even though they’ve never spoken

• Delta Airlines

• the one thing they can’t replace

• an on fire garbage can… could be a nursery

• a sea of drunk toddlers

• a pre- y2k asshole

• Xanax

Do my friends hate me? Or do I just need what’s new pussycat played 7 followed by it’s not unusual followed by what’s new pussycat

Eat ass, suck a dick, and sell the one thing they can’t replace.

THERE’S a sea of drunk toddlers LOOSE! IN THE HOSPITAL

@ifprongswerearavenclaw @tender-werewolf

One HUNDRED and TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS

boggycreekll:

boggycreekll:

I have never seen an advertising campaign more evil, more insidious than the one for the army currently airing in the UK

“This is belonging”

We’re introduced to a group of earnest young men. they’re white, they’re black. they drink tea. they play practical jokes. they quote popular TV shows. they talk about sports. they face their fears. it’s loving and domestic and all too easy to overlook the guns and camo and helicopters blaring overhead.

make no mistake, these adverts are aimed at the young and disenfranchised. poor people, people of colour, people who have been bullied and abused by society and made to feel like they don’t belong anywhere. Join the army, they’re told, and you can have the love and acceptance you crave but have always been denied. Elsewhere, you might get called racial slurs. you might get called a pansy or a fairy, but not here. You belong with us.

For example: Islamophobia is rampant in the UK. here we have an advert of a Muslim soldier praying while his squadron, armed to the teeth, sits in silence. the message is clear – while the rest of society may despise you, here, you will be respected. this is belonging.

here’s one called ‘expressing my emotions’, featuring a white man in his 40s – practically the posterchild for the UK’s current mental health crisis.

you don’t have to worry about bottling up your feelings in the army. after all, this is belonging.

here’s another one called ‘can I be gay in the army?’. we’re told: “I was really worried about whether I’d be accepted, but within days, I was more than confident in being who I was.” Clearly homophobia is a thing of the past in the army. don’t worry. this is belonging.

and it works. while the response to these adverts from an unfortunately vocal number of people is basically “fuck you, we’re racist and proud of it!” there are young people being taken in by this. I have met gay children, trans children who are determined to join the army because, after being rejected by their parents and peers, they’re now being told “here you will be accepted. here you will be loved.”

fuck that. don’t be groomed; don’t let the vulnerable and desperate people in your life be groomed. we need to fight the root causes of these problems in our society and stamp them out so that wielding a gun and cowering in some blown-out building in a country you helped destroy is no longer seen as some sort of salvation. fight racism. fight homophobia and transphobia. fight the stigmatisation of mental illness. fight the system that prioritises the rich and leaves the rest of us to rot.

don’t be taken in by something that offers easy answers, chews you up and spits you out, destroyed, guilty, with PTSD and nowhere to go. where do you belong when you can’t fight any more? where do you belong when you can no longer be used?