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Run, Pine, run!

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Farticles.

straight men are on something else

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stop making fun of bad people for being fat or having small dicks or being socially awkward or whatever else you seem to think is a fair target. none of that shit has anything to do with why theyre bad. i don’t care if a nazi has a stutter or a terf has thinning hair or whatever. at best youre missing the point, at worst your comments are gonna hurt vulnerable people more than they will ever affect the shitty person you’re mocking. why are you so attached to these bullshit standards anyway?

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Things cats were right about all along:

Fuck staying hydrated by drinking enough water - eat! more! wet! food! (watermelon, cucumbers, SOUP!)

Feels great to be really high up in your house where you can see the whole place (loft bed loft bed loft bed loft bed!)

Express yourself as clearly as possible when people are touching you and you don't want them to.

Optional, but you can also express yourself clearly when your people are not touching you and you want them to.

Sometimes it's important to just go "hmm. actually, I don't care" and wander off.

You don't have to be the strongest or toughest to defend yourself, it's enough to just be difficult enough to not be worth the trouble.

Ghosts will eventually leave if you stare at them for long enough.

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As an educator, lemme tell you, the struggle is real. Faculty are going insane about AI rn. It’s so easy for students to plagiarize—and sometimes they don’t even realize it’s cheating.

But on the flipside, we’ve got instructors taking AI detector results for gospel and accusing innocent students of plagiarism. That’s no fun.

AI detectors are in nascent form right now. They are not always right. So, we’re really back to relying on instinct in an environment that is increasingly hostile.

This is every. day.

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My friends and I used to do this thing where we'd dress up on a theme and go do something totally normal.

We dressed up as pirates and went bowling.

We dressed as vikings and went to the grocery store. The security guard told us we had to move our longship because it was illegally parked.

We dressed as Romans and went to Blockbuster. The staff chanted, "toga! Toga! Toga!" at us.

We dressed up all steampunk and went to the museum. Tourists kept taking our picture.

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Rest in Peace, Dame Maggie Smith (1934 - 2024)

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They dance!

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Recommendation Roulette - some gifts from Tom and Mike for your bucket list

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forever a legend

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Mmkay, I haven’t been very active on this Loki-themed Tumblr for a while, and a lot of my old mutual Loki stans have drifted away, but I’m putting this out there just in case someone might still be interested.

The MSU Loki was totally misused and misunderstood, from about Ragnarok on. This character had SO much potential and so much depth to explore—and yet, even when they finally gave him his own show, it wasn’t really about him. It didn’t delve into why he had become who he was. It didn’t address the unanswered questions about him—who was his birth mother? What happened to him in the void? What did Thanos do to him after that? How did he live over 1,000 years and never find out he was a frost giant? All kinds of rich opportunities were just ignored, and Loki was never done justice.

So, I’m writing this story about Loki set around 823 A.D., before the events of the MCU, so I can explore some of those questions about who Loki is. I want his perspective on his family—a father who tells him his “birthright was to die” and banishes him to life imprisonment for crimes he himself had committed in the past; a mother who ostensibly loves him, but allows him to endure the father’s emotional abuse from childhood; the brother who treats him as an inferior for a thousand years and then wonders why Loki is so mad.

I’ve been creating and editing AI images to help tell the story, so it reads sort of like a storyboard. It uses title cards for dialogue, like a silent film. And I want to post some of this stuff here as sort of a preview, and also sort of a test run. Does this weird format even work?

The following are shots I’ve randomly pulled from the story at various points, so they won’t make sense in a linear way. I just want to put them out there. I would very much appreciate feedback/notes/constructive criticism on any of this!

Thanks for reading!

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I do get that Chris Hemsworth is probably VERY expensive, and I appreciate that 'found family' feel of the Loki TV show

But I also mourn the missed opportunity of the show having Loki run into dozens of variants of his brother.

Some are still how Thor was when they were children, boisterous and uncaring, and Loki feels this wistful mourning for the way things were when they were young - simpler, not uncomplicated, but still full of the camaraderie that Loki longs for.

Some are Thor after Loki's fall, desperate and pleading for Loki to see reason, and now removed from the situation Loki can see this is not an attempt to chastise him, but a desperate plea from his brother who loves him to stop before he destroys himself.

And some, the worst ones, are broken and lost after Loki's death, who see this version of him and collapse into tears of grief and guilt. Loki sees them and feels horror and heartbreak knowing that this is how much he meant to his brother, that he spent so long wanting to matter and wanting to be seen, and here is the brother that loves him so desperately that he holds his memory to his soul like an open wound.

Kinda wish i'd had that show

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Tom Hiddleston Reads "Funeral Blues" By W.H. Auden

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What? What? What? What! WHAT?!?!