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(via Jedi Temple Archives + toy review here where, yes, it’s just as sparkly as it looks)  So, I was talking about prequels merchandise that we really want with @fireflyfish (I am so thirsty for that Ep II Anakin figuarts already) and it came around to how this is one of my absolute favorite things that have ever come out of the prequels merchandising. FORCE SPIRIT ANAKIN SKYWALKER WITH THE SPARKLY SHEER WRAP. No amount of tragedy of the prequels or Anakin Skywalker’s life in general can make this toy any less ENTIRELY AMAZING.

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Honestly, if a vampire fell in love with me because I looked like his long-dead lover, I would be so petulant and jealous about it. Like yeah whatever I’m a perfect copy of Griselda or whoever. What kind of food do I like. Don’t fucking say “eel pie.”

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also there was one day recently that i went to boston and got dunkin and sat down at a public park to eat it but the wind blew my donut away. which i think is the most massachusetts thing to ever happen to me.

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love is stored in the anakin

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After rewatching Thor Ragnarok for the millionth time, I get the feeling Valkyrie would get along sooooo well with Rio. They have the same chaotic vibes I can’t believe I’m just realizing. And Loki and Agatha would be total besties. Exploring magical mayhem together and just overall being unhinged maniacs.

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I find Loki impersonating Odin really funny, because in that time, he didn't enslave Asgard, or take over the nine realms. You know what he did? He made himself look cool. I find it really funny that that's all he did.

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Circumstances of Ones Birth: Jötunn Loki Rant

Ya’ll, so I rewatched the first Thor movie, and lemme tell yall, I got some questions.

And those questions start with the infamous conversation that transpires between Odin’s Trophy Room. 

Lemme break it down for those of you that don’t remember: 

Odin: In the aftermath of the battle I went into the Temple, and I found a baby. Small, for a giant’s offspring. Abandoned, suffering, left to die. Laufey’s son.

Loki: Laufey’s son.Why? You were knee deep in Jötunn blood. Why would you take me.

Odin: You were an innocent child.

Loki: No. You took me for a purpose. What was it? TELL ME

Odin: I thought we could unite our kingdoms one day, bring about an alliance, bring about permanent peace through you.

Now we all know from Thor Ragnarok that Odin has a talent for parenting rivaled only by the likes of Sasuke Uchiha, Gabriel Agreste, and Bruce fucking Wayne, so when I watched this scene go down, I was already guarded about whatever it was that Odin had to say, the way he regaled Loki with this story of how he was HIS SAVIOR, came out extremely manipulative and twisted. And then I noticed, there were 5 Mayor Holes in Odin’s story of how he came to find Loki that possibly signal that Odin is lying. 

So Imma just get right down to it. 

                    1. Why was Loki “abandoned” and not executed?

Odin tells Loki that when he found him, he was a “small for a giant’s offspring”. Its an insinuation that Loki was defective/deformed, therefore, that was the reason why he was abandoned, and left to die.

But if he was such a disgrace for being born small, why not strike the child before it draws proper breath? Why abandon it?

It could be cause abandonment is an even crueler fate. Tertullian wrote in his Apology that “..it is certainly more cruel way to kill…by exposure to cold, hunger and dogs..”

The AEsir often describe the Jötunn as being cruel and barbaric, so it seems accurate that Laufey would deem instant death too merciful for his disgraced son and chose to abandon him instead.

But then:

                       2. Why was Loki in a Temple?

A temple is filled with people; priests, apprentices, monks, nuns, healers, never mind all of the people that come in and out to make petitions, prayers and offerings.

Its not an uncommon occurring in history that in the practice of Infant Exposure babies were often abandoned in places with lots of traffic to allow them a chance of survival. In fact, in Ancient Rome there were designated places known as Columna Lactoria where women would go to nurse their children, and because of this, it was a place of sanctuary for abandoned babies where those seeking a child would go to “adopt”. If Laufey wanted his cursed son dead, why abandon him in a place with traffic, where someone else may find him, and take pity on the little one? Once again, this could be Laufey’s attempt to be as barbaric as possible. Because there is a darker reasoning why people went to the Columna Lactoria looking for children, it was to take them in and raise them as slaves. Maybe Laufey decided that son wasn’t only unworthy of death, but instead wanted him to live a life of humiliation and shame as someones slave, befitting only of a despicable creature as him.

But then that brings us to a Third Hole:

                 3. Why after the battle was won did Odin go to the Temple?

It wasn’t for the Casket. Laufey held the Casket throughout battle, used it as his weapon. Although Odin does state that the Asgardian army drove the Jötnar back to the “heart of their world” where they were defeated. Its a possibility that the Casket was put in the Temple to be protected. There is, after all, a scene of the Casket sitting on some sort of pedestal before an Asgardian soldier removes it..

Or could it simply be that Odin went to the Temple for other reasons? Perhaps to loot it from any other treasures they may hold, Hela once mentioned that all of their gold came from their conquers, and Laufey was depicted sporting several pieces of gold.

Or maybe Odin knew there was something else in the Temple?

Which points out one of the BIGGEST holes in Odin’s story:

               4. How did Odin know that Loki was a Laufeyson?

According to Odin he went into this random Temple after the battle was over, alone as is depicted in the movie, and saw this “abandoned baby” and he knew by OSMOSIS that the baby was Laufey’s

Let me tell you something; Royal Births were no small, private affair. The birth of a royal baby was a political affair that had deep implications for the entire nation. It was an event that could signal the rise or the fall of an empire. The royal baby belonged more to the people than to the parents. The birthing chambers could be filled with as many as 200 people to confirm the sex, and health of the baby and avoid foul play.

If Laufey, the snuffed enemy of Asgard, was expecting a child, you best bet your cute patootie that Odin was in on that shit. The birth of a healthy son could mean trouble for Asgard.

So that takes me to the MOST IMPORTANT HOLE in this story:

                           5. Why take Loki?

Say Odin did know about the incoming little icicle. But turns out that he is not wanted by Laufey but seen as an atrocious curse and was abandoned in a temple left to either die or be raised as a slave.

Why then, in the name of the Nine take a babe with no worth?

According to this tale Loki held no recognition nor love from his parents. How could he then be used to “unite the kingdoms, bring about an alliance, and bring about permanent peace” when Loki had whatsoever no claim to the throne. His claim was casted out when he was casted out in the temple. And whats more the defectiveness that caused his parents to abandon him, would have his people reject him.

To go through all of the trouble of bringing up this child next to his own, blood heir, and call him son repeatedly its because there HAD TO BE an use to him. And an abandoned baby has no use to Odin. The only reason why Odin would do all of these things was because he KNEW that Laufey had a son, and he KNEW that the baby was in the Temple and he KNEW that he was WANTED both by Laufey and the Jötnnar.

You know in times of tension and war children were often sent away. Elizabeth I was sent away when she was but a toddler to keep her away from the plague. The Hebrew Bible has several stories of children being raised or being hidden in Temples like Jehoash and Samuel. Many ancient civilizations practices that required children to be taken to places of worshippers to be rid of evil spirits or bless them since mortality was so high.

This then begs the question, was Loki a case of child exposure, or was he wanted and loved and put in a temple to be kept safe while his father went out to conquer Midgard?  

And it begs the bigger question, if in fact the Jötnnar even went to Midgard at all, or was Odin spurred into action by the birth of a baby boy that could bring enough hope to the Jötunn that one day they would be as great as Asgard

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certain kind of tragedy i think in still following your childhood best friends online. like once upon a time you knew me better than anyone. i thought we would be friends forever. now we are Adults and Different and even despite that I so badly wish we could still Talk like we were 13. i dont know who you are. I miss you.

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Just recently rewatched Thor TDW and I've been thinking about the "who put me there?!" line so much so have some hastily made shitty edits that I made on my phone

like ily but trying to blame Thor whatsoever was super crazy and bold of you actually lmao

tfw you have to face the consequences of your own actions

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My favorite thing about J. Jonah Jameson is that he just hates Spider-Man. He supports mutants and doesn't hate enhanced people. He's not racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic. He just hates Spider-Man. And I'm half convinced that he's faking for the publicity.

He'd probably get pissed if he hears someone hating on Spider-Man for being enhanced.

"Spiderman isn't a menace because he can climb walls! He's a menace because he's climbing walls without a license or safety equipment! He's setting a bad example!"

"I just want you to know that you that your identity as an enhanced person is valid. Your identity as Spiderman is trash."

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This is Anakin coded, that's it, that's the post

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ok you know what nothing good ever happened in the mcu since they decided to split the odinson brothers apart they are a package deal!! do not separate!

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“I think there is someone out there you LOVE, even if you pretend not to.”

“A SIBLING, perhaps.”

“You act like you have nothing to lose. But you are afraid... because you know it targets those we LOVE.”

Thor is the love of Loki's life 🙏