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Alligator Loki: Holiday Special #1 (2024)

written by Alyssa Wong art by Bob Quinn & Pete Pantazis

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A demon simply called The Brother. It doesn't have siblings or any family, and it's ambiguous whether that creature itself is even male at all. It just keeps turning everything and everyone into broth.

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every so often i think about how, in agent of asgard, loki 1) has a framed poster of thor hanging in the living room of their apartment, 2) invites their neighbors over on occasion, and 3) generally doesn't get recognized as loki

like. i imagine one of those neighbors, making small talk, tryna get to know loki, seeing the poster, and being like "oh thor's your favorite avenger?" and loki has only one of two possible answers: "no i hate him" or "yeah he's my brother 😊😊" and regardless of loki's answer that neighbor is going to be seriously concerned

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Feeling crazy

Theres only one thing to do

(Reread agent of asgard)

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oh shit i'm back on my agent of Asgard era

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He and Frigga can say they didn’t just tell Loki what he was because they didn’t want him to feel different, but if his plan was like he says to have Loki bring about a peaceful alliance, why were the frost giants “the monsters they told him about at night”? They didn’t want him to see humanity in the people of Jotunheim or to empathise with them. Why not correct Thor as a child when he says when he is king he will hunt down all the frost giants and kill them? Because Odin WANTED them to despise them, even though Loki is one of them. But Loki was raised Asgardian, so he is civilised, he is different. That’s what Odin wanted them to think when he eventually did tell Loki to have him claim the throne. They raised him to love Asgard and hate/fear Jotuns so that when he eventually claimed the throne he would subjugate his own people in Asgards name. Like that was literally the plan. Kill that old man.

Nah but I rewatched Thor 2011 the other night and like the fact that Odin literally admits he took Loki as a baby and raised him to both hate and fear his own people all while having the intention to eventually have him reclaim his rightful place on the throne of Jotunheim as a puppet king so that Odin could further control Jotunheim, but it no longer matters because Thor has reignited an all out war just because Laufey called him “princess” is fuckin wild Loki was right to go berserk over it.

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Nah but I rewatched Thor 2011 the other night and like the fact that Odin literally admits he took Loki as a baby and raised him to both hate and fear his own people all while having the intention to eventually have him reclaim his rightful place on the throne of Jotunheim as a puppet king so that Odin could further control Jotunheim, but it no longer matters because Thor has reignited an all out war just because Laufey called him “princess” is fuckin wild Loki was right to go berserk over it.

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i feel like ever since i got into comics loki's stories ive been so disappointed w mcu loki bc they never really let him be morally grey. he goes from sympathetic villain to hero and doesnt ever really inhabit the middle ground ykw i mean. even after he takes the throne in the dark world what did he even do with all that power? nothing bc he didnt want it, after avengers at his very worst he's morally neutral. he just wants to make up for what he did

there's no real trickster element to his character, at least not in any way that feels satisfying. no huge double crosses, no centuries long plans that come to fruition in the last minute, no selfish schemes that put everyone else in legitimate danger even if he rights it in the end and it's for a good cause. he even gets outsmarted every once in a while. he's just a guy who made some mistakes designed for you to feel bad for

mcu loki hates himself because he's a frost giant and because he betrayed thor's trust and caused a rift in their relationship that can never be healed. comics loki hates themself because as the god of stories they understand their purpose in the narrative as someone who has to do what no one else wants to, who has to play the villain to move things forward and make the hard decisions. and this role makes them powerful and important because the storyteller understands the bigger picture better than anyone else, but it also makes them so incredibly lonely bc no one else around them will ever comprehend what theyre doing. to everyone else theyre sowing chaos just for the sake of it and by playing their part loki has destroyed every meaningful relationship theyve ever had. but to do anything else would be to doom everyone else entirely. theyre simultaneously trapped and freed by their narrative

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here you go professor. several pages of home brewed bullshit. as opposed to the chatgpt-brewed bullshit you're used to these days. i hope u enjoy it i worked very hard on it ❤️

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calvin and hobbes is my favorite comic strip ever

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This robbie williams discourse is taking me out what do you mean americans don't know him and what do you mean success only counts if it's in the US

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I may sound insane but if I see one more comment about how it makes no sense that Robbie Williams is a monkey in his biopic I might go a little crazy.

Is it not obvious???? He's a dancing monkey??? Its a commentary on fame???

Or the people saying he's too egotistical to let an actor play him. Okay. I still feel like this is way more clever way of doing a biopic.

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robbie williams sold 1.6 million tickets of his close encounters tour in a single day. he has 11 number 1 albums in the UK making him the top selling solo artist. he has 14 number ones in the UK, above elvis and madonna. he still holds the record for the largest audience at a solo music event with 375,000 people attending his knebworth shows. hello? taylor swift brought him out on stage to sing angels at her concert and the crowd went literally insane. just go and watch his performance of angels at knebworth. he has sold 75 million albums, making him one of the best selling artists of all time. he’s the best selling british solo artist of all time and the best selling non latino artist in south america. people think harry styles is big as an ex boyband member but he has nothing on robbie williams. the man has won SEVENTEEN brit awards; more than any artist ever. but because americans don’t know who he is then he’s not worthy of a biopic and isn’t world famous. and after everything he’s been through? i will defend this man until my dying breath!

everyone has to go watch his netflix documentary

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Narrative commission for @nocturnenecro parodying that scene from Lilo and Stitch (x) 

As far as I’m concerned this is far more canon than parody. 

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sorry