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amytheauthor:

shephaestion:

orchidbreezefc:

busket:

something weird

im bi but I tend to get crushes on fictional male characters more that real men and real women more than fictional female characters

so I guess I like to concept of men

i think this is a common feeling because men are written with such depth and complexity, whereas fictional women are not only few and far between, but are written half-assedly and from a place of little understanding of a woman’s standpoint. 

meanwhile, real women are lovely and complex people, and real men are mostly just potatoes.

Truth.

yume-no-fantasy:

shine-of-asgard:

yume-no-fantasy:

shine-of-asgard:

kaori04:

shine-of-asgard:

lucianalight:

whitedaydream:

juliabohemian:

whitedaydream:

lokiloveforever:

yume-no-fantasy:

Keyword: COMPLEXITY

@lokiloveforever @kaori04 @lucianalight @whitedaydream @latent-thoughts @mastreworld @shine-of-asgard @lasimo74allmyworld and everyone who hates the oversimplification of Loki’s character in Gagnarok.

This sounds positive, maybe, I hope? I don’t think they’re going to achieve the same level of depth and complexity with Thanos that Loki has reached, but maybe this is a good sign they’ll let Loki’s true colors fly?

This is good, right? Or promising, at least.

“What appeals to my brother and me about movies in general, characters in general, is the complexity that you can find within them. People aren’t simply this or simply that. Loki is a great example — somebody who is torn in two directions.”

It’s a big middle finger to Waititi’s “Loki is just a rich kid from outer space and we shouldn’t give a shit about his own problems”. 😏

Thank you @yume-no-fantasy for tagging me.

Yep! TW must take notes.

Personally I’m not worried that much about Loki’s characterization. From what I saw in Winter Soldier and Civil War, Russo borthers are good at understanding the characters. Especially I like their portrayal of Natasha more than her portayal in Avengers1,2. My worries are Thor and Loki relationship and Loki’s fate. I hope they either show that their dynamic is not right, or give them a proper reconciliation, but I don’t think they have time for that in the movie with all these characters. And for the love of everything good in the world: Please Don’t Kill Loki!

I like that they’re taking this seriously, but I sort of don’t like how their mind went to Thanos (their own complex villain) when asked about Loki (a character they’ve never written for before).

Agree with @shine-of-asgard about Thanos. Their attempts to draw our attention to him is kinda getting annoying… BUT also intrigues me? May be we are going to walk out of cinema sympathising with Thanos?? That would be a plot twist no one was prepared for.

But to be honest it more looks like Marvel is taking their new direction “making more interesting villains” too seriously and pushing and forcing it to the point when their  “sympathic villain” is going to annoy and frustrate more than just a regular marvel villain.

My hope is that in order to show Thanos’ intelligence, he must have an intelligent conversation… With somebody… And it doesn’t seem likely that he’ll do that with any Avengers or any Black Order members… See what I’m getting at?

[SPOILER ALERT]

@shine-of-asgard

In one of his interviews in China Tom actually said that there will be a “very interesting conversation” between Loki and Thanos.

Don’t do this to me. A storyline for Loki where he gets to play a reluctant double agent who’s maybe seeing the logic on both sides of the argument while fearing for his life and also that of his brother on the other side of war, and also while dealing with the idea that his brother has denounced him as a traitor for good this time is too precious to put into words. Bye.

If, like Tom says in one of his interviews, Marvel takes Thor and Loki to be closer than ever at the start of IW, how about instead of misunderstanding and doubting Loki again, this time we have Thor trust and believe in Loki unconditionally even if he doesn’t know what Loki’s reasons are for his apparent betrayal? He worries about Loki’s safety, and at the end of the day when they reunite, the both of them very much alive, he hugs and tells his brother, “You’re here and that’s all that matters.”

thelightofthingshopedfor:

tonight I am having Many Feelings about Loki dealing with serious touch-starvation issues due to, you know, EVERYTHING, i.e. the Void and whatever happened with Thanos for a year or more, and then solitary confinement for a year with only one visitor who couldn’t even be there physically, and then a few more years as Odin where getting too close to anyone physically would’ve been suspicious and maybe bad for the illusion 

and then…Sakaar, which must have been overwhelming in basically every way possible, and I don’t really have any conclusions about this, just Feelings

brightquietude:

This reminded me of a study I read about in Cordelia Fine’s book Delusions of Gender:

“Kristi Klein and Sara Hodges used an empathic accuracy test in which participants watched a video of a woman talking about her failure to get a high enough score on an exam to get into the graduate school she wanted to attend. When the feminine nature of the empathic accuracy test was highlighted by asking participants for sympathy ratings before the empathic accuracy test, women scored significantly better than men. But a second group of women and men went through exactly the same procedure but with one vital difference: they were offered money for doing well. Specifically, they earned $2 for every correct answer. This financial incentive levelled the performance of women and men, showing that when it literally ‘pays to understand’ male insensitivity is curiously easily overcome.“ (Emphasis mine.)

(An endnote also states that “Men also scored equivalently to women when the sympathy rating was requested after the empathic accuracy test.”)

The passage goes on to add

“You can also improve men’s performance by inviting them to see a greater social value in empathising ability. Cardiff University psychologists presented undergraduate men with a passage titled ‘What Women Want’. The text, complete with bogus references, then went on to explain that contrary to popular opinion ‘non-traditional men who are more in touch with their feminine side’ are regarded as more sexually desirable and interesting by women, not to mention more likely to leave bars and clubs in the company of one. Men who read this passage performed better on the empathic accuracy task than did control men (to whom the test was presented in a nothing-to-do-with-gender fashion) or men who had been told that the experiment was investigating their alleged intuitive inferiority.“

In other words: men aren’t necessarily worse at sensing and understanding others’ feelings than women are; it’s just that quite a few of them don’t feel the need to put for the effort unless it profits them in some way… and perhaps don’t want to show too much empathy, because doing so would make them feel less masculine/manly.

There’s an increasingly popular narrative that our reboot culture is just fanfiction with another name. Steven Moffat alternates his time between Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who fic. The Marvel Cinematic Universe does the same thing that Marvel fanfic writers have done since the dawn of comics. J J Abrams is writing in a new fandom now — and the trailer for his first Star Wars fic looks awesome!

I appreciate these comparisons — but they frustrate me all the same. Big-budget reworkings of beloved stories are almost universally helmed by men; no-budget fanfiction universes are overwhelmingly helmed by women. And these female-authored texts partly exist to shift the text away from that default perspective, the one that usually pens and directs the source material, populated largely by men (and by straight, white men in particular). I regularly see someone arguing that Steven Moffat is writing Sherlock Holmes fanfiction, and I can’t agree: he is writing an adaptation for television, with all the cultural limits and benefits that that affords. He is playing the same game as millions of fanfiction writers, but he’s in a different stadium.

Elizabeth Minkel from Fansplaining podcast, quoted in this Medium article ‘Harry Potter and the Sanctioned Follow-On Work (or, Fanfiction vs. The Patriarchy’) (Aug. 2016)