#here's a loki there's a loki and another gator loki

[nostalgia-tblr]

This is not a shallow post, honest

Reading Thor-era MCU fic of late I noticed that a few writers drew attention to Loki being very covered-up clothingwise, and at first I was like "...is he?" because he's not abnormally covered compared to men you might see in the street, but he is by MCU standards, isn't he? Not that I've bothered to been able to check before writing this post, but I feel on fairly safe ground saying that most of the MCU Leading Men had got their tits out shirtless by about the end of the second Avengers film, or failing that had spent much of their screentime wandering about in unusally tight t-shirts. By contrast Loki doesn't even have naked arms until... whenever. When he got shirtless in the Loki show (thanks for the confusing title there, Marvel, it makes discussions so much easier) it was because a robot...thing?? stripped him, not because he decided to do it himself. And I, of course, have A Theory about this, based on not much more than conjecture. Don't worry, though, I shall include some pics in this 'essay' to keep things lively and entertaining.

Hang on, I need to Google something.

This is taking longer than I expected it to. Please wait.

Okay, fuck it, this'll do. Sorry for not having sufficent sensible images of these characters on my PC.

Okay, so: an attempt has been made. Not in a meme way, I mean I do think an attempt has been made in these films to make one of these men look smaller than the other even though the difference isn't as vast as fanfic turned it into. You know how in fic Loki's at least a foot shorter than Thor and all skinny and weedy and whatever? I reckon this partly comes from the fact that in terms of plot and character it does kind of make sense that Loki ought to look like he does in fanfiction. He should be weaker-looking, a bit shorter, a bit - dare one say - "drowned rat" next to Thor Whose Power Is He Carries A Big Hammer And We Go On About Him Being A Warrior. We invent a contrast because it feels like there's more of one than there actually is on screen. We all know what the wee shifty one should look like! If he doesn't actually look like that then we'll just say that he does!

And in costuming terms Loki is dressed in black (slimming! slenderising!), with diagonal stripes (narrowing!), a quite strangely-tailored flappy coat (significant in some way! i assume!). His shoulders are less emphasied, the arms that we later learn are fairly muscular are fully covered to hide any obnoxious biceps, and aside from maybe a bit of neck skin showing (whoreish!) we shall see naught of his actual body - he will not be getting his tits out shirtless until such time as he gets his own show and exists not in contrast to Big Beefy Thor but - at last! - as a proper MCU Leading Man. Because as soon as Loki gets kidnapped by the TVA, this happens:

No wait I didn't mean that one I don't even have that one on my PC why would I have that one of course I don't have it pretend you didn't see that.

I mean this happens:

Oh no, normie clothes! Normie clothes being a shirt with the traditional 'Marvel Dudes in shirts' fit (ie: a bit too tight) and the sleeves rolled up, and there's a tie (a TIE! how standardly manly!) and I reckon there are two factors at work here, aside from the aforementioned "we no longer need to pretend this man is short and weedy" thing:

Yes, they have made him look "normal." I know it's a common complaint and sometimes a bit... fervently expressed, but I do think it's a valid point. This show has obviously been made for a 'casual viewer' to some extent. They've seen some of the MCU, and they might feel a bit odd about everyone wearing capes all the time. Let's be real here: the Marvel-nerd audience was already going to be watching this show anyway. The people who know how many Spidermans (Spidermen? Spidersmans?) there are, and who can name well over two of the Avengers. Some of the aesthetics have been changed to appeal more to the 'casual' people, I do think that's what's happened here. (But as one of those people who can't tell you the correct plural of "Spiderman" I don't mind it. It worked! Here I am! Annoying everyone with my noobness! Hi!)

...shit what was the second thing again? Dang it, I've forgotten. Sorry about this, give me another moment to get my thoughts back together.

Oh, that was it: this is now the man we want the audience to think is hot. Some of them did before but we didn't necessarily want them to. And yes I agree that is a bit insulting, given that they did not cast an uggo here. Or even someone short and scrawny. On which point...

I don't want to say they should have cast someone who already looked they way they dressed him to look because obviously that all seems to have worked out perfectly fine in the end, but they could have. In some ways it is an odd choice, worthy of being remarked upon in long rambling tumblr posts that didn't have anywhere near as many photos as were promised earlier on. (Sorry about that.) There's a bit of a mismatch going on here between someone my granny might have called "a sneaky wee bastard" and someone she'd describe as "a six-footer." And this is why in a lot of fanfic this has been... shall we say 'corrected' in some way.

(Not-quite-an-aside: in fic that is specifically about the Loki show and not the other bits of the MCU, Loki usually does not shrink in height and width. This, I would argue, is partly because of the different visual reference points (AKA "we've seen his tits him in relatively revealing clothing") and partly because he's being paired off with different characters, and neither of the usual two (Mobius and Sylvie) are being contrasted as physically stronger than him. If anything those fic writers tend to go on about how tall he is. And now I'll stop before I say anything about obvious height-difference kinks and the fact that yes, your readers have noticed.)

In conclusion,

[thekatfuzz]

I MET TOM TODAY!! I wish i had more time with him but OMG HES SO TALL IRL

My group lined up a little before 1:10pm, and even after that we still had to wait like half an hour. The process of getting all the fans into the curtained area was very rapid but efficient and it went by so fast!! I kind of blacked out and couldnt look at him for too long. Like looking at the sun. He was so TALL and kinda quiet lol. I asked if i can hug him and he was like "sure" and i was like "thank you for being here" and he was like "yup" LOL. I was a little disappointed but he's probably really tired and has to see thousands of people every day, and unfortunately, the event staff really do try to rush people out of there to keep the lines moving and to get more people in and out of the ops in a timely manner. I wish i had done another pose since he looks a little more reserved and I look awkward but its understandable lol. Fun fact I saw two girls in line to meet him cosplaying as Edith from Crimson Peak which I thought was great. LOTS of Loki/TVA cosplays. Got a lot of comments on mine, not pictured but I had the little gator Loki on my shoulder and my little helm I made from craft foam.

But omg,,, after so many years of loving this man I FINALLY got to meet him in person!!! I will never forget it!

[im-tired1124]

BLEH!

Sketch vomit No. 1

I should probably explain what’s going one here (top-down, left to right)

A drawing of my main OC Emberlyn in a snazzy outfit.

Human versions of Bumblebee and Cricket from WoF

Sunflower bullshit, because I like drawing embroidery and making fun of Sunny’s height/j

Charlotte begrudgingly eating a pigeon (it’s cold and it tastes like a spoon. They don’t like it)

A very cutesy greenbottle tarantula

One of Ivina’s robotic arms (OC)

Another drawing of Emberlyn in a snazzy outfit

Gregory the pigmy puff (my son :) )

Kokomi being destructed from her work by a little fishe

Loki

HELLMARI doing the Macarena

Sundew (WoF)

Cowboy snek

OMORI breaking the rules of sword fighting by tripping a gator guy

Alright tag time!

[psychedelic-ink]

happy end of may, loves! you know what that means-- another monthly fic rec list!! I don't really feel like I read a lot this month with work and all but these were a couple of my faves <33

please heed the warnings before you consume any of the content below and be sure to show some well deserved love by commenting and/or reblogging!

categories include: moon knight, bridgerton, marvel (matt murdock, loki, stephen strange, bucky barnes), peter parker (tasm , tom), the mandalorian, oscar isaac characters (poe dameron, duke leto)

click here for last months fic recommendations

MOON KNIGHT

Mi vida by @wint3r-h3art (jake lockley)

Love Chained by @inklore (jake lockley)

The Dress by @xcatnapsx (steven grant)

All ours by @/inklore (layla, marc)

Apparitions by @/inklore (steven grant)

Two Years by @peterthepark (marc spector)

Spirals and Skin by @clints-lucky-arrow (steven grant)

Mirror's Edge by @astroboots (marc , steven)

Matching Reflections by @full-time-make-believer (marc spector)

Deserve by @softlybarnes (marc spector)

Red Flags Masterlist by @/astroboots & @thirstworldproblemss (steven grant)

Two Sides of The Same Coin by @/saintlike78 (marc spector , steven grant)

Each Time You Fall In Love by @/peterthepark (steven, marc, jake)

BRIDGERTON

Forever an artist by @saintlike78 (benedict bridgerton)

Charcoal Trails by @mothdruid (benedict bridgerton)

MARVEL

Hands on Experience by @tom-whore-dleston (loki)

Pet Names by @sobeautifullyobsessed (stephen strange)

Kisses under a sky full of stars by  @thesecretwriter (bucky barnes)

I'd be honored by @saintmurd0ck (matt murdock)

Michelangelo’s Matthew by @freshabogados (matt murdock)

Once Upon A Dream by @wint3r-h3art (sinister strange)

PETER PARKER

Love you in the Dark by @softtdaisy (tom!peter parker)

Peter, Alone by @light-yaers (peter parker x michelle)

A Sort of Addiction by @saintlike78 (tasm!peter parker)

To the Girl I Love by @softtdaisy (tasm!peter)

The Spider and the Sunflower by @spidervee (tasm!peter)

THE MANDALORIAN

Tight by @frannyzooey (din djarin)

Dark by @/frannyzooey (din djarin)

Revelation by @the-scandalorian (din djarin)

The Game by @/frannyzooey (din djarin)

OSCAR ISAAC CHARACTERS

Untitled by @stellarstarwarsimagines (poe dameron)

Tender Loving Care by @clints-lucky-arrow (poe dameron)

Reconnaissance by @xmoonlight-jasminex (duke leto)

The Last Supper by @laters-gators (duke leto)

[starfirette]

monthly shout out

April 2022

I don't know why I ever stopped doing these! I've hit a big milestone and I'm pretty psyched over it! I definitely want to start doing these again, so why not start right now? This month I bring some new fic Recs and blog Recs; majority of my March/April obsessions have been revolving around Moonknight specifically Steven Grant so that's why most of these are Steven Grant related ❤️ Next month will bring more new recs, hopefully much much more! If you have any recs you'd like to share, hit up my inbox so we can spread some love for content creators

Fic Recs:

Not Allowed, by @virginburial. Steven Grant x Fem reader, smutty and cute! 18+

Desirous, by @inklore. Another Steven Grant smut fic, wherein you teach Steven how to do things ;) 18+

Chocolate, by @laters-gators. Steven Grant x fem reader. A truly sensational concept and I just. I love it. Fluffy and smutty. 18+

Guiding You To Me, by @raelwrites. THIS IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION. This is the best soulmate au I have ever written. This particular fic is for Steven Grant and Marc Spector. But there's another version for Matt Murdock. It's so so good. It could make a best selling novel. I assure you that by reading this fic, you'll have daydream fuel for the next week.

Love The Way You Squirm, by @levi-heichous. Prof Levi x Student Reader smut, what more can I say. 18+

Blog Recs:

@oswildin @raelwrites & @polaroidpetal | I followed these blogs for the wonderful Moonknight fics I found there!

@laufeyamp | SO MUCH CONTENT for Loki and a few other Tom Hiddleston characters!!!!

@his-shinigami-eyes | Edward Cullen content is scarce. This is the safe haven for an Edward Cullen stan

@jangofctts & @thefact0rygirl | the Din and Boba content here is enough to keep me going for the rest of the decade

@dazaiscum and @chuuyasboots | Bungou Stray Dogs content, enough said, especially for Dazai

@f4irycafe | content for ACOTAR and SNK! A one in a million chance blog

@darling-i-read-it | WRITES FOR CHRSTIAN BALE BATMAN AHH

My badass mutuals:

For whom would I be without

The fellow mutuals I love to talk about?

@interwebseriesfan24 @themojobro @zhellas @mini-ranger @klaudialaill @floral-and-fine @zeldasayer @riddikulus-obsessions @preciouspattinson @running-with-the-devil @oyasumimosura

I couldn't do any of this without the unrelenting support and love I get from everyone, my mutuals EXPLICITLY included. I hope everyone looks forward to reading the bountiful requests you all sent in!

[illwynd]

OK so I know even a lot of people who have generally not been pleased with the Loki show have liked Pres Loki for the way he does seem to behave a bit more like the Loki from earlier versions of canon. I was not so pleased with it, and I’d like to explain why. And also why I loved the interaction of the four variant Lokis in the bunker and felt that was a rare moment in the show that displayed any real understanding of the character. 

So let’s start with the gang of Lokis and what that scene did right. With each little interaction, we were given glimpses of the ways in which these four---classic Loki, kid Loki, boastful Loki, and alligator Loki---differed from each other and what traits they shared, but more importantly, the ways they interacted with each other actually said something about how Loki feels about himself. It was, in a word, fraught. It was internal conflict made external, but not just that, because they are also surviving together, as uncomfortable allies. Classic Loki defending and deferring to kid Loki, both because no one one did that for him and because he has also reached the point where nothing really matters anymore and he has nothing to strive for or hope for, and after so long alone, how he treats himself is all he has left. Kid Loki (who we got criminally little of but he made the most of his screentime), the most bereft of all, so young to have such a wound, and who has had to get used to it, and does so by trusting in himself. These other selves. Alligator Loki---who even knows how the world looks to him or how he ended up here, but he’s still fallen in with them, cleaving to the recognition of himself. The group of them, they snipe and squabble, but they also clearly rely on each other for survival and companionship: Loki can always depend on himself. He hates himself and pities himself, he trusts only himself and he attacks himself, he protects himself and he hurts himself. The push and pull of these different aspects and reflections of Loki is an adept metaphor for the internal conflict that the earlier canon showed through different means, in implication and subtle gestures and unspoken words. 

In contrast... the scene with the arrival of Pres Loki and his band of traitorous comrades is... unsubtle, and about as deep as gator!Loki’s kiddie pool. Pres Loki may be suave and confident, but he reflects nothing, and neither do his crew. They show up to conveniently break up the scene in what feels like more of the same disjointed, manic scriptvomit we’ve seen in the rest of the show that seems only intended to harp on the approximately two things that the writers know about Loki, as if he were Thor condemned to do nothing but eat poptarts and speak in a booming voice in a 2012-era fanfic: that Loki is incompetent, and that he reflexively betrays people. The point of Pres Loki’s arrival seems to be “ha ha, Loki is so stupidly committed to betrayal, he’ll even fuck himself over for no reason other than wanting to be powerful even when there is literally no benefit to doing so.” (Another misread of Loki’s character---Loki doesn’t want power for itself, and he never did. He wants it for what it represents, he wants to be seen as deserving of it, he wants to be loved and respected the same way Thor was. In the void, there isn’t any chance of that, so the whole thing is just... baffling.) And, I mean, it’s also just dumb. Pres Loki has none of Loki’s cleverness. How long has he been stuck there? Why is he still surprised at being backstabbed, given how we’re supposed to understand that’s all Lokis ever do? It’s just very Keystone Cops, honestly, and so not Loki.

So yeah that’s my take and why I loved classic Loki and kid Loki and gator Loki and that whole scene but I could have really done without the whole Pres Loki nonsense. 

[starksbabie]

Hello! Most of my works are sfw unless otherwise noted but because I’m an adult mdni 18+ only! Below the cut you will find my masterlist for Marvel, Stranger Things, & Fargo. I’m open for requests or just general asks 🥰 thank you for visiting my blog!

Bucky Barnes

In the Rain - 40s!Bucky x Reader 4 + 1 - 4 times you enjoy the rain and the 1 time it ruins you. (750 Words)

Steve Rogers

Here for You - Steve Rogers x Reader - Hurt/ComfortAfter weeks away on a long mission Steve comes home to find you feeling the big sad and does his best to let you know how much he cares. (400 Words) Warnings: Depression, Depression Messes

Natasha Romanoff

Chronically in Love with You - Natasha x ChronicallyIll!Reader - Natasha comforts her chronically ill partner. (550 Words)

What You Deserve - Follow up to Chronically in Love with You - Reader tries to leave, feeling that Natasha deserves better than her. (1,300 Words)

Loki Laufeyson

Love is a Dagger - Loki x Reader - Smut - Loki confronts the reader after a misunderstanding on the training field, angry sex ensues with a bit of knife kink. (815 Words)

Warnings: Smut, Knife Kink.

Sam Wilson

You Are Not Alone - Sam x Reader - Hurt/Comfort Drabble - Sam comforts the reader after a bad day. (350 Words)

Promise? Promise - Sam x Reader - Sam comforts Reader who's having a panic attack. (650 Words)

Eddie Munson

Sanctuary - Eddie Munson x Reader - Angst - Eddie helps Reader let out some pent-up feelings, but good things don't always last. (700 Words)

Marshmellow - Eddie Munson x Reader - Fluff - After meeting at Scoops Ahoy, Eddie takes you to see a horror movie. You're not scared, right? (1,100 Words)

Scared of the Dark - Eddie Munson x Marshmallow!Reader - Smut - Reader is scared of the dark so Eddie invites her to spend the night with him so she doesn’t have to spend the night home alone after the power goes out and one thing leads to another. (1,400 Words)

Warnings: light smut (dry humping, groping), weed mention

You Belong With Me - Eddie Munson x Reader - Hurt/Comfort - Eddie’s got what he always dreamed of, he is passing his classes, Hellfire is going great, Corroded Coffin is sounding better than ever, Chrissy Cunningham is his girlfriend, and his best friend Y/N is right by his side. Inspired by Taylor Swift’s You Belong With Me where Eddie overlooks his best friend who is completely in love with him... or does he? (1,400 Words)

Gator Tillman

The Ink That Binds Us - Alpha!Gator Tillman x Omega!Reader - Omega reader moves to Stark County, ND after her grandmother dies and she inherits her house. She gets a job at a local diner where she meets charismatic asshole alpha, Deputy Gator Tillman. Will his rough around-the-edge ways push her away before she even knows that he’s her perfect match? (5,400 Words) [running total]

Warnings: Soulmates AU, A/B/O, eventual smut, 18+ mdni, mentioned unwanted touching, soulmates have matching tattoos, Gator Tillman (he’s his own warning)

Ch 1, Ch 2

aww, avengers - kid fic collection

Writing event with @comfortcap 6 blurbs featuring your favorite Avengers as parents.

[nostalgia-tblr]

I mean, yes it was Sylki to Thorki for me because once upon a time I was gobbling down sylki content and came across a Sylkior fic and had some feelings about it and... Yup

OMG SYLKIOR. SO PROBLEMATIC. SO WRONG. SO GREAT.

As usual I seem to be One True Character in this fandom rather than One True Pairing, except that One True Character comes in many varieties and so you can make them kiss themselves and also I seem to be on the wrong wavelength to interact with many of them's other fans. OH NO!

One thing, maybe, is that the Loki show is between season at the mo (obviously) and the general trend in fandoms in, erm, general seems to be that during any lengthy hiatus even quite popular pairings go into a holding pattern where it's largely the most dedicated OTP shippers producing content (plus the occasional weird latecomer noob - such as for instance my good self) and while that is fine and valid and etc I am not actually that good at OTP shipping and so I end up wandering into the paths of other pairings to see who else my One True Character is banging in fanfic. And the thorki stuff has been around for a decade now so there's A LOT of it and if i navigate by the AO3 bookmarks of author's whose works I liked I can skip most of the, umm, less standout works and hoover up the good stuff until I wander off to somewhere else.

(This morning I HIT THE FUCKING JACKPOT by finding someone who had written multiple stories where Thor-era Loki is a sneaky little shit who can't be trusted and is often up to no good! Those of you on the very edges of MCU fandom might now be thinking "but nos, isn't that just the default and thus most common characterisation of that Loki?" but NO. NO, IT IS NOT. Hence my shock, joy, and perhaps even arousal at unearthing such a hoarde.)

Anyway, sylkior. That's a good one because they're all related to each other while also in other ways not really related to each other, in different degrees and forms. They all love each other, it combines selfcest and incest and I am problematic enough to go along with that. OMG WAIT CAN WE ADD HELA IN THERE AS WELL??? Sylkiora? Hang on, I seem to recall there was a really good shipname that involved Hela in an incesty pairing with Sylvie and... someone else? Erm... Nah, it's gone :( Sorry :(

BUT I DIGRESS. You and me and the sylki-to-thorki pipeline. ❤❤❤

(Where do you stand on the Sylvie-as-a-Thor-variant concept, btw? I'd probably read that, if it existed. But it might ENRAGE people so I feel like nobody will ever actually write it anyway.)

[carry-on-wayward-daughter]

You Are My Purpose (Kid Loki x Reader)

Summary: You meet Loki and you after you enter the void and you become friends. but you feel something more towards him. And once you get injured he fears of never telling you about his feelings.

Warnings: Injury, little bit of blood, cringy writing, cursing

A/N: Italics are flashbacks. Also posting this on my wattpad @Sunshinegal25 

@wacky-nerdchick @degreeinsimping​ @itspauvr​

I wake up not remembering anything that happened or where I am but I see what appears to be ruins of things I know. I see the Avengers tower and what seems to be the remains of New York City. I begin to walk around and get a feel of this strange place when I hear footsteps coming my direction. I pull out my sword ready to fight whatever is awaiting me.

Instead of it being some monster like I thought it was going to be it was, a kid. A kid that looked to be my age with raven black hair dressed in green and gold, but from the look on his face he looked surprised to see me.

“Who are you?” I ask in a stern and anxious voice.

“Loki, and you are?” The boy now known as Loki asked.

“Y/N. Why are you here?”

“To see if it was another me, but since your here I guess I could help you.”

“What to you mean by ‘another you’ and what the heck is this place!” I shout.

“The void and I’ll explain later but we got to run!” He exclaims as he grabs my arm and starts running.

Just as we take off the purpleish cloud that kinda looks like a lion appears and starts to chase us.

“What the hell is that thing!”

“Allioth, and if you don’t follow me you are going to be its lunch.”

I continue to follow him and he leads me to a makeshift bunker filled with that most random things such as video games and what looks like a bowling ally.

“You ok?” Loki asks.

“Yeah, thanks for saving me back there.”

“Its was no problem besides there’s not many people my age out here so I thought maybe we could be friends.”

“I’d like that.” I say with and smile

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Ever since then we have been best friends, but I have always felt some sort of attraction towards him I choose to believe its one sided. Anyways we have met up with a few different Loki’s even an alligator one who is my Loki’s rights hand man or should I say gator.

But there are some Loki’s that fight against us considering my Loki is the king of the void. That puts us in our current position me and Loki against more Loki’s. 

“Loki, look out!” I shout as I fight off one of the Loki’s.

“Thanks, Y/N/N.” I alwaysed loved it when he would use my nickname.

 I am not gonna lie but I did blush a little and let my guard down thinking about him and one of the Loki’s got the advantage over me and stabbed me in the side with his blade. I let out a small wail as he pulls the blade out but then he is stabbed in the back by my Loki. At this point the blood was already seeping through my shirt as I fall expecting to hit the ground but I am caught in someones arms. 

“Oh no, don’t you dare die on me,” Are the last things I here before I pass out.

(Loki POV)

I look over to see Y/N fighting a Loki varient and all of a sudden he stabs her. I finish fighting mine and run over to end hers but not before catch her in my arms. 

“Oh no, don’t you dare die on me,” is all I can say before she goes unconcious in my arms.

I scoop her up as fast I can and get her back to to the bunker as fast as I can. When I get there I find the nearest place I can lay her down and get the med pack and begin to work on her wound. It was even worse than I thought but I was going to do everything I could to keep her alive because she is my purpose. 

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I finished cleaning and wrapping her wound a few hours ago and now I am waiting on her to wake up, soon I hope. I sit there holding her and to where I can feel her pulse because I don’t want to leave her side and I because knowing she is alive comforts me. These past few hours have been torture because the worst pain in my opinion is waiting when there is nothing you can do to help them. I should have told her earlier how I feel towards her and no I my never get the chance. 

I am snapped out of my thoughts when I hear movement next to me.

(Y/N POV)

I wake up in a haze trying to piece together what happened when I see Loki jump to my side.

“Y/N, thank the stars you awake.”

“Yeah, its good to see you to. What happened after I blacked out?”

“Well I got you back here and cleaned your wound.” 

I look down to see where I was stabbed and I was wrapped up better than I could ever do.

“Thank you,” I say as I try to sit up.

“Here let me help you.” Loki says as he helps me sit up.

I give him a smile and my face at this point is probably covered in blush but honestly I don’t care anymore. I want to tell him how I feel and just kiss him on the spot but I also don’t want to ruin my friendship with him.

“Y/N, I need to tell you something.”

In my mind I am going ‘Oh shit’ and ‘Whats he gonna do’.

“Ok,” I reply.

“I like you I mean ‘Like you Like you’ and you are my purpose.”

I am in shock at what he has just said. So i do something i have been wanting to do for a while. Kiss him. 

At first he is in shock and I pull away but he pulls me back closer to him. My hand slowly entangle in his dark colored hair and he pulls me as close as he can without hurting me. 

“I take it you like me too?” He asks when we break apart.

“I don’t like you Loki, I love you.”

[woodelf68]

Five Lokis and a Sif Meet Up In The Void

For the @sifkiweek prompt “Love”. When I teasingly suggested Sif & Lokigator as a pairing, @psychoticgirl said ‘write it’. This started out really short and cracky but then changed to something actually serious. This is for her. Summary: Exactly what it says on the tin. Words; 1431, rating: G. 

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Sif had been having a really bad day. She had been ripped from her timeline, unceremoniously stripped naked and dropped into some godawful ugly beige jumpsuit, and condemned for violating something called the Sacred Timeline without having a chance to speak a single word in her defense. Which might have been hard to do anyway, since she didn't know what she had done wrong. And then she had been "pruned", and ended up in some sort of wasteland, lacking any armour or weapons. For lack of any better options, she had begun walking, hoping to find something or someone to help her.

What she had found had been a motley group of people, one of whom she immediately recognised as Loki, although he was subtly different than the one she knew. Part of that, however, may have been due to the fact that he was dressed like one of the agents she had left behind in the TVA, in nondescript slacks and a button down shirt and tie, garments that she scorned as being utterly useless in providing any sort of protection in battle, but which, she had to admit, were still marginally better than the shapeless garment that she wore. At least the clothes seemed to fit him well, and she couldn't help but appreciate how the thin shirt clung to the contours of Loki's chest. Strangely enough, however, he was the only one of the group who wasn't wearing a variation of his familiar horned helmet.

"Sif!" he exclaimed when he saw her, and the next several minutes were filled with both questions and explanations. Apparently all his companions were Loki variants from other universes, from the older man in the odd jester-like costume to the dark-skinned man with the gaudy gold hammer (surely that wasn't some version of Mjõlnir?) to the boy (who at least was dressed in something that looked like what she would have expected a Loki to be wearing) to the low-slung animal on the ground, whom she had at first thought must simply be a very odd pet that the boy had made friends with. She stared at it dubiously, and had to fight back a grin at the sight of the strap keeping his horns secured to his flat reptilian head. It was, she had to admit, one of the most stupidly cute things she had ever seen.

"Are you sure about the alligator?" she asked, just needing to be clear.

"We think so. He had the horns on when he arrived here," said the boy, who had told her to call him Kid Loki. "Be careful, though -- he bites."

"So would I." Sif said matter-of-factly, "If I couldn't hold a blade in my hands."  Curiously she circled the alligator, who pivoted in place to keep her in his line of sight. She realised that he was quite small in size -- she knew they grew much larger than that -- and she wondered if he was much older than the child whose side he kept close to. According to what they had said, none of them would ever be able to see their families again -- something that she wasn't willing to accept just yet -- but she tried to imagine being told that as a child and her heart went out to the pair of them. She squatted down to address the alligator at his own level. If he were a Loki, she would treat him as if he had the same intelligence as her own prince, until he showed otherwise. "But you won't bite me, will you Loki? I mean you no harm. What happened to you? Did you get stuck in a shapeshift? That happened to my Loki once, when he was still new to the skill. He needed his mother to help him shift back. I bet you miss your mother, don't you?" she asked softly. "All your family, but especially her, if you're anything like my Loki. I can't replace them, but we could be friends, if you like?” Not making any sudden movements, she held out her hand, palm up, and let it hang in the air between them.

"Sif -- "

"Be quiet."  

Alligator Loki made a plaintive noise, and then, to everyone's astonishment, moved slowly forward and laid his closed snout in her hand.

"Oh, that's my good boy," Sif crooned, and rubbed the underside of his jaw.  The gator's eyes closed in contentment and a soft chirruping noise escaped from his throat. "That's it, everything will be all right." Even if that weren't true, even if they were stuck here, if he were as young as she suspected, then she knew how comforting it could be just to hear an adult say that.

"Did his tail just wag?" demanded the Loki who looked like hers. "Sif, I can't believe you just did that; he could have taken your hand off!"

"The fact that the youngest of you stood relaxed within easy snapping distance of his jaws told me that he wasn't a mindless beast," said Sif calmly. "And I would far rather have a Loki whom I can trust to have my back in battle than one whom I need to fear stabbing me in it. Or biting me, as the case may be." She smiled and shifted her hand to the top of alligator Loki's head as he ducked his snout back down and shoved his head further under her hand. Gently she stroked the leathery hide. "Honestly, haven't any of you tried to make friends with him?"

"I did," Kid Loki said, beaming at her.

"I really only just got here a short while before you did," said nearly-her-Loki, somewhat defensively. He looked at her and told himself he did not feel envious of the way she was stroking his alligator self.

"We are on affable enough terms," said the older Loki.

The one whom they had called Boastful Loki said nothing. Sif took note of that and stood up, earning a disgruntled hiss from Gator Loki. She glanced down at him and wondered if her shapeshifting idea were wrong. Why would he be wearing a helmet? She had never seen her Loki keep any form of human clothing upon himself when he shifted to an animal form. In fact --

"If you all came through the TVA, why aren't you all wearing something like what I've got on?" She gestured to herself distastefully.

"Oh, sorry -- what would you like to be wearing?" Loki -- since he hadn't given himself a further descriptive name like the others, she supposed she would think of him as just that -- asked.

"What I usually wear," she said. "Tunic. Leggings. Armour. Boots."

"Sounds the same as my Sif," he said, and waved his hand.

Sif felt his magic wrap around her, and the unpleasantly synthetic feeling of the jumpsuit disappeared to be replaced with well-fitting linen and wool and leather-backed steel. The oddly-fastened shoes gave way to familiar, high boots. "I love you," she said fervently, feeling much more comfortable in herself even if she were still unarmed. "But if you can do that -- why are you still dressed like that? Don't tell me that's the fashion in the Asgard that you come from."

"Well, no. They gave me this at the TVA when I was allowed out on a trip to help them hunt down another variant of myself who was causing them trouble. And I just -- " He thought of Sylvie, and hoped she was well, then shrugged. "I suppose I had more on my mind than what I was wearing. But if you don't like it -- " It wasn't his battle armour, but he summoned something of what he would usually wear around the palace from his dimensional pocket, and his form shimmered into one of green and black and gold, the weight of leather and metal replacing the thin garments that he had been wearing. He shook back his cape, and straightened his posture.

"Better?" he asked.

Sif grinned wolfishly. "Much. Now you look like a prince." She judiciously refrained from mentioning that his hair still looked like it could use a good brushing for the moment and looked around. If they were not dead -- and none of them thought so -- then there had to be a way out of here, and that way was apparently guarded by a sentient cloud monster. "And the Loki Odinson that I know would never accept exile in such a desolate place. So tell me, your highness --" She broke off, and made a sweeping gesture that included all of them -- "Your highnesses, how we are going to get out of here."

[lightneverfades]

I thought we’d be seeing more of President Loki in this episode, lmfao! 🤣

I actually feel bad for this Loki! 😅

Not only does President Loki fail to take over whatever humble abode this team of Lokis had put together, but this variant Loki loses his hand to Gator Loki 

And then later gets knocked head first into a popcorn stand by another Loki (who I originally thought was dragging him away from Gator Loki to save him or something but that turned out to be wrong) 

THEN to put the cherry on top, he gets knocked over by an illusion Gator Loki, lmfao, that illusion Kid Loki throws at him! 😆

You’d think all the rest of the Lokis had it rough, but I’d say he’s got it pretty rough in this episode. 

Meanwhile, our 2012 Loki variant is fixing his hair (I mean, gotta make sure it’s not in a mess, right?) 🤣

I guess the lesson to be learnt here is... 

DON’T MESS WITH GATOR LOKI

[theofreakingbell]

an update / hello again :)

so I guess this is kind of a general update since the last time I told y'all about my current sensory fuckery situation (this post) was before the Loki Series had aired

if you haven't already noticed from the fact that I've been on here from time to time, I'm sorta out of the hiding I was in when the series first came out (I was bored and I missed y'all) but I am still dealing with the same issues. still can't watch tv, still intensely sensitive to certain colors, and heavily saturated and vibrant stuff in general. still do not have a certain answer as to what is causing it. I have gotten a diagnosis though since then which may be related, and may be getting another soon, and I'm really hoping that being treated for them will allow things to start improving for once. I have yet to decide exactly how much of that I want to share here given the nature of medical diagnosis being an often private and wierdly scrutinized thing (some of you clearly didn't read the last post because you suggested things to me after the fact that did not take into account the fact that *I cannot watch tv* due to the amount of visual processing involved, which I said in the post.) but yeah. I'm very irritated and sad that this has gone on this long but I'm optimistic about something actually helping somewhat soon.

as you may have assumed, that all means I still haven't seen the series. I have blocked tags of anything to do with it so I actually still know surprisingly little, but yeah. Don't ask me about it I'll probably have no idea what ur talking about and not want to hear about it yet. I plan to watch it when I can but I don't know when that will be yet, so.

I do however want to say that knowing nearly nothing and then Loki as a gator randomly starting appearing everywhere, with zero context, was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. lol (I think the first one I ever saw was a gator Loki with a mask saying 'please help prevent new variants' which with no context was absolutely wild)

so um... yeah. I am still dealing with all that but I still want to come on here sometimes, so I'm gonna. I won't be posting about the series obviously, but I still adore seeing y'all's other stuff and sharing in our love of Loki and other stuff together, so.

(please do not infer me to be at full capacity though, or able to do everything I want. ik there are a couple of people I want to follow back but can't right now cause your icons are bugging my brain because of colors, which is not your fault at all, but yeah things like that are still very much a thing, so please take that into account when percieving me in general)

there's another thing or two I may post about soon, but I'll leave it there for now. hello again y'all :)

[bookworm555]

Classic Loki and Kid Loki were the MVPs of Ep. 5, like holy shit! I wish more time was spent focused on them! (Come on, Marvel; another episode centered around the other Loki variants would have been so badass alksdjfkjdf)

Also, both Richard E. Grant and Jack Veal’s performances were top notch in their roles! (Honestly, if a Young Avengers series or movie comes along, I hope they keep Jack as Kid Loki; he was brilliant as him.) I’d love to see more of REG as Classic Loki, too. 

Also...the irony...I can draw both these versions of Loki WAY easier than Original Loki (idk what else to call him. Tom Hiddleston-Loki? Prime Loki? IDK)

Spoilers under the cut:

I have a lot of headcanons and Thoughts about Kid Loki revealing that he killed his world’s Thor. Mainly that I do not think he killed him directly, or with malice. More like he got into some trouble, and Thor rescued him, but died in the process, so Kid Loki blames himself. (Especially if Odin blamed him for it, and basically conditioned him to think that he killed Thor, at least before the TVA kidnapped him and then pruned him.) And I know that in the comics, at least the ones I’ve read, (paraphrasing here because the explanation would be long XD), Kid Loki came to be because adult Loki died (while helping the Avengers fight against the Void, and he was killed by it in front of Thor ;_;)  and was reincarnated as a kid with no memories (before Thor finds him and restores some of his memories), so Thor was still an adult. Odin hates him, and he is basically treated like shit on Asgard. 

Like...I haven’t read all the comics featuring him, but uggggh I feel so bad for him. So a lot of that angst is inspiring my headcanons for MCU!Kid Loki.)

So yeah, I don’t think that Kid Loki killed Thor when they were both kids, or even killed him at all. (At least not directly.)

I have tons of more headcanons about him, but I don’t want to clog up the post any more than I already am X’D.

OKAY I am so pissed that Classic Loki was killed off ksjdfhdf (I’d like to think that Alioth just ‘killed’ an illusion of him, since that was how he escaped Thanos in his world, so he ended up just hiding out in the hideout with Kid Loki and Loki Gator. I doubt that it’s true, but that’s my fix-it for keeping him alive, haha XD)

[sidmjkgc]

Here's a Loki, There's a Loki, and another little Loki, Boastful Loki, Classic Loki, Loki, Loki, Gator. Loki, Loki, Sewer Loki, TemPad, king, throne, Loki, Loki, Loki, Glorious Loki, Loki, Loki, Gator. I was once a variant, I lived in The Void, But I never saw the end, Time was devoid, I was only three years pruned, But it told a tale, And now listen, little child, To the safety rail. Did you ever see a Loki, Kiss a Loki, On the Loki, Loki's Loki, Tastes of Loki, Loki, Loki, Gator. Half a Loki, Twice the Loki, Not a Loki, Vote for Loki, Loki in apocalypse, Lock a Loki, Loki, Gator. Is this how it's told now? Is it all so old? Is it made of ecto juice? Alioth, dagger, cold, Now my song is getting thin, And I'll see you later, Time for me to retire now, And become a Gator.

[nowisthewinter]

Loki theory

With one episode left, I am going to take a stab in the dark and say that the man behind the curtain who is running this whole shebang will be a Loki.

Not our Loki, mind you, but another version of him. One that has seized power and is trying to hold onto it. I know many people are going for Kang but I am willing to bet it’s going to be a Loki.

The clues are there.

First, this entire season has been about our Loki, at least our 2012 Loki, coming to terms with who he is as a person. How he thinks of himself and how he presents himself to the world. And one way he has done this is through interactions of different variants of himself. From Sylvie to Classic Loki to Kid Loki to President Loki to Boasting Loki to even Gator Loki. So, wouldn’t it make sense for the Big Bad be a Final Boss Loki? The version of himself he would have been if he had taken over everything? A version who is so powerful that he could create a private industry that could make sure everything was running according to his plan. Why have New York or even the Nine Realms when you could have all of existence? This could be the one Loki that is on a winning streak. 

Which brings up something that Mobius said about how the best person to hunt down a Loki is another Loki. So, if the man behind the curtain is another Loki, it would make sense to see Lokies getting pruned left and right. And it would especially make sense to have the TVA be a place where magic doesn’t work. That way, once you have yanked in a variant Loki there would be little chance for them to gunk up the works with their magic. 

Another clue that a Loki might be the big bad is that Sylvie couldn’t enchant Loki. Sure, Loki said that he is simply stronger minded but what if a Loki can’t enchant another Loki? And if that is the case, that’s why we have all those pruned Loki variants. They can’t be mind wiped into TVA workers if it turns out that Loki is the one mind wiping people from his realm and sending them back to the offices.

Another clue is the fact we have fake Timekeepers. This wouldn’t be the first time Loki created an illusion in order to maintain power. Sure, this one is mechanical rather than magic but nonetheless, it’s the same idea. Hide as Odin. Hide as Timekeepers. It’s the same idea. If it was Krang, why bother hiding at all? However, if the Big Bad is Loki, it would make perfect sense to hide your face. Can’t point to variants with your face and signature and say, “Those people are bad. Prune them,” without someone going, “Hey, wait a minute here. They’re you. Why are we pruning them?” 

Also, with this last episode, we saw how powerful a Loki can be with their magic with Classic Loki creating the illusion of Asgard. Who knows the limits of a Loki at their full power. Would creating and maintaining the TVA be all that taxing? If not, then the only threat out there would simply be another Loki. 

Of course I could be wrong and the Big Bad could be Mephisto....

But, really, I hope the Big Bad is a Loki. It would be the perfect ending to our Loki’s hero’s journey. Going from a “scared little boy,” who pulled pranks for attention, lashed out at the universe and despite thinking himself as the smartest person in any given room actually hated himself deep down to someone who admits that he can love and is willing to accept love from others. And in the end even love himself. 

[popculturebuffet]

Ducktales Reviews: The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades!

Here I am a day late and 7 dollars short.. because I just bought the lost boys. Scrooge and the kids find themselves in America’s own personal circle of hell Florida to track down the fountain of youth. But with Goldie arriving for the same reason and swiping Finch’s diary, Scrooge and Webby are forced to take off without the boys in persuit while the boys enjoy themselves.. well Louie does, Dewey and Huey fight over whose the older sibling. Meanwhile Scoldie find themsleves magically younger, Webby finds herself crotchety and Rockerduck finds all of them in his quest to get the fountain for himself and be carried around like a baby like Jeeves. Full review with spoilers bellow. 

Yes this is a day late, as I had to stop writing yesterday to do other stuff and to help stablize mom’s internet while she worked, and then had a full day with my best friend watching the bizzare but enjoyable double feature of Hubie Halloween and Tales from the Hood. But i’m back and with a LOT of other reviews to get to this week, two more for regular coverage, a review I didn’t finish sunday due to being really tired, and some reviews in time for next week’s episode, no more time for a big intro. Let’s go. Thankfully did get some of this done yesterday soooo...

It's spring break in Duckberg. So while Violet does her vacation research, Lena throws some things into the local ditch and misses webby, Boyd goes on family vacation with his adopted parents, birth creator parent, and Anthony Fremont without the powers thank god, Beakly goes on her annual grannies gone wild vacation, Donald goes on a boat trip with Daisy with his boys crashing, Della tries to party wtih the young people to show she still has it, Launchpad joins her because he is the young people. Fenton works and Penny.. triest to  reign her girlfriend in because it’s Donald’s week off from trying to get the non-beakly adults to be reasonable. It’s her curse now.

In the actual episode Scrooge has taken the niece and nephews to Florida, the land that gods forgot.. yes gods forgot. They all did. Except maybe Loki because the god of chaos and storytelling really can’t ignore his people. Much as he’d like to. Sadly we don’t get Scrooge and the nephews on jetskis outrunning alligators iwth guns also on jetskis.. both anthro gators and regular animal gators, that still have guns mind because florida. And yes that is a recycled script from my failed Calvin and Hobbes spinoff pitch, Calvin and Hobbes: Miami Nights. Hobbes has a serious coke problem. Also Opus from Bloom County is there.. I mean hew as just supposed to be a guest star but the execs loved him and Berke was like “whatever can’t be worse than the Garfield movies throw bill in too”. But obviously coked up gators, tigers and bill the cat are not what you came to see so let’s move on. Though if it is hit me up. I think we’d get along great.

Anyways instead of Cokehead and Hobbes, we get a bunch of partying college kids, which given Scrooge already hates young people, this is indeed his own personal hell.. much like everyone whose not young or old going to florida. But spring break hotels are super cheap so Scrooge’s need to save money outweighed his need to not be surronded by young hot morons blowing off steam. Though Webby being webby points out the blowing off steam part.. which is nice of her but is probably only like.. half of them the other half being young dumb rich people looking to get laid. Which is also the mission statment MTV’s had since 2000. 20 years of not being about music and counting!

Anyways, naturally their here for a quest, with everyone else gone for the above reasons I made up but sound plausible and entertaining, as Finch’s diaries put the fabled fountain of youth here. As does a cheesy video from the lion owner of the result played by Nestor Carbonell. If that name dosen’t ring a carbonbell, which fair enough it iddn’t for me at first either, his voice probably will for disney fans who grew up around the 2000′s like me. It’s Senior Junior! From kim possible.  

The Late Great Ricardo Montalbon, who I dearly miss to this day,with Nestor as his son, Senior Senior Senior and Senior Senior Junior, which are great names already. Their easily my favorite Kim Possible Villains (Yes I still love Drakken and Shego now hush), and it’s in part because the concept is brilliant: Senior was just a rich man accidently taking all the power in France. Kim showed up to stop him and Ron, her best friend sidekick and later boyfriend and presumably now husband, casually mentioned Senior’s home was the perfect villain lair, and that Senior had the talent for it. Senior took that to heart and spent the rest of the series trying to be the best classical arch villain he could be, trying to adhere to the tropes of one warts and all while his son just wanted to loung around and be young and rich. It was a great dynamic and the two really played off one another beautifully. Hopefully if there’s another reboot nestor can pick up where Montalbon left off with some new hot idiot as his own son. Even if it’s just for the intro you have to admit it’d be great.

So yeah I was happy to have him on board once I realzied this, More on him later I keep getting sidetracked this review and we’re, no joke not even past the intro. But Scrooge needs ice for his back, so the boys have the afternoon off while Webby helps him, because she’s a sweetheart, and Huey’s in charge because oldest.

Thus we get their subplot for the episode.. or most of it but more on that in a bit: Dewey is annoyed Huey is ALWAYS in charge and always overscheduling, case in point he has an afternoon schedule down pat MOMENTS after they arrive. However given Huey later did his research and has a super analytical and regimented mind, it isn’t a stretch to say he spent their time on the plane planning out things just in case. or that he always doesn’t do that when they have to stay overnight. But what makes it work is Dewey’s frustration is understandable. Despite being barely younger he never gets put in charge, Huey while a good kid can be bossy as we’ve seen as early as season one and has even been condescending with it once or twice. So as a younger brother myself I understand chafing under an older brother all the time.

However, Huey being in charge.. makes the most sense. Scrooge , and i’m HEAVILY betting Donald on the boat to present day and every other adult, uses the oldest excuse as something the kids will follow easily without starting a fight over the simple truth that Huey’s the most responsible and organized out of the three. And by that I mean Dewey fighting over it or being hurt at his mom saying it , Louie would probably be hurt but would probably be fine just fine with having no responsibility or effort to put in. Huey makes plans, looks after his siblings even when not in charge, and thinks things through the most of his three brothers. Sometimes overly so, which I can relate to, but point is he’s the best boy for the job, though I could also easily buy that at least for Scrooge, he genuinely buys into oldest is in charge because he was raised that way. Also this episode didn’t explain how he’s immortal but I’m betting “Battle for Castle McDuck” does so no harm done.

Back on point, Dewey is governed almost entirely by his impulses, which does work sometimes as seen with the season premiere, but has also lead to him nearly being sacrificed 74 times, while Louie can lead, he just doesn’t wanna half the time and would likely weasel out of it. And the episode bears this out with Louie being more bothered with the power struggle interfering in his being lazy time and generally being outside it. He just doesn’t care whose in charge unless it benefits him in some way and right now it doesn’t.

I’ll go ahead and cover this plot since, surprisingly, it ends up dovetailing into the main plot, and it’s easier to get it out of the wya here and cover where they start to overlap when the main plot catches up. So Huey leads them around starting with Lounging which goes well: Louie’s naturally on board and while well bored, Dewey sleeps when he can’t just impulsively jump into he pool.

The tide turns however when after his short dip, Dewey seemingly has a growth spurt and is taller and thus takes overa s big brother and forces them to go ahead and lunch.. which runs into both the old people and the old people menu. It backs up what I thought from the start: huey likely knows what he’s doing, which he does; Obviously in Florida old people eat earlier, so Huey’s scheduling wasn’t just his normal OCD flaring up, but using it to strategically plan when to have fun so they could in a packed resort. It also shows how clever Huey is, as even for something so mundane he plans perfectly. He’s my faviorite for a reason.

Huey eventually gets fed up with it and plays Dewey, but Louie, suspcious of the head of the hotel, instead starts piecing things together... and i’ll save that reveal for when it ducktails into the main plot..l because I couldn’t resist that pun and you know it. Not a bad plot, mildly slight but it sets up it’s connection to the main plot well and has a good conlict.  Moving onto the real meat of the episode, turns out the race.. isn’t that much of a race as Webby outspeeds both Scrooge and Goldie, who bicker over a canteen and their long history of her betraying him and him betraying her for betraying him etc etc. Webby is delighful here as she’s both understandably awkward playing third whell and not at all fond of Goldie which.. yeah you would be too if she locked you in a closet. It’s nice to see the two interact if not by much.  However things soon change when Scrooge and Goldie seemingly get tranformed by the river into younger 18-20 something versions of themselves. Admitley Tennant’s voice for younger scrooge is.. eh, but he still does well enough that you soon stop carring. The designs are great.. and damn if young scrooge isn’t delcious. Seriously it’s only thorugh the magic of network standards that Jodeci’s freak n you isn’t playing over half his scenes. Damn. Him around this age in the comics just looked sorta like donald with sideburns god damn Frank thank you. 

Speaking of thirst with their hormones in place it’s naturally not long before the twos old spark that was smothered under decades of betryal comes roaring back, and the two even almost make out before Webby interputs, getting increasingly injured by the everglades.. as most people do by florida itself really. It won’t let you leave in one piece.  

But things get interesting when Goldie makes a proposal.. ditch Webby for a bit and go find the fountain. As Goldie brilliantly puts it youth’s wasted on the young.. but not them. This is a second chance. While I heard people comment on “why is scrooge’s age suddenly affecting him now”... honestly it really probably isn’t. While he’s likely been old for some time, we’ve seen his back hurt him once or twice, just faking being hunched hurt him. And while it is played up a bit much in this episode, it’s perfectly realistic that his body has good and bad days. My mother does, I do, most people do as they get older. The parts of you that ache and don’t work right tend to wax and wayne in how much they hate you. 

TO me it works to sell why this is tempting for Scrooge: A chance to start over, not abandon his family obviously, and given how much nonsense is around his life and how old he is, it’s not a stretch for duckberg to accept he’s younger than his own son and daughter now. Scrooge can buy or earn anything he wants and really is the man who has everything: He has a loving family, a repaired relationship with Donald, Della back after loosing her, a nice and nephews to carry on his legacy, tons of friends, a thriving empire, and tons of mysteries to track down, including recently ones his own idol never could find. He has everything he could want and tons more adventures to go: Bold New Discoveries, old ones to show his grandkids for the first time,  and a cozy mansion. There’s really only two things missing: more time, as even with him and goldie having worked hard magically to stay alive as long as they have, as while they’ve found ways to stay alive, they haven’t been able to stay YOUNG. Sure they’ve added years and years, hell 60′s scrooge only looks somewhat older despite decades having passed, but while they can probably go on for a few more decades, there’s only so much they can do before their time runs out. And the other thing missing from his life quite obviously is goldie. The two clearly love one another.. but scrooge very justifably can’t trust her and can’t have her in his life until she tries to change, and she dosen’t want to.  This.. offers a chance to turn back all of that, to cast aside their bitter history and start over as better people than they were before. Scrooge can have time with his family, time he would likely loose eventually to see THEM grow old. Raise their own families he might not get to see. To see those kids grow up and take on their own parents legacy. And to share it all WITH Goldie. TO have her in his family at long last. Sure he’s leaving Webby behind but he’ll come back and as we see she’s fine if understandably upset. Granted I think they could’ve done more with her leaving her, but the sheer brilliance of this plot I didn’t see coming, the sheer pathos of Scrooge’s second chance makes up for it.  They find the fountain.. but it’s dried up and unconnected to the river. They also find Rockerduck, out of the amber with his frakenstein butler whose clearly now just a mindless monster. which means whoever did his work really did it shoddy as even frakenstein had some intellegence. He’s also being carried around like a baby which I enjoy throughly. Rockerduck does not look plesant, and i’m happy to have him back as I was upset this character only got adapted for seemingly one episode and was pleased to see him with fowl.  They also find a good angle for him: Beisdes the old timey rober baron thing, and looking like Rene Belloq.. he even gets to do the nothing you can’t posses that I can’t take away line which is great and Hodgman is amazing as ever. But yeah besides that, he also gets his comic versions tendency to throw money around and do none of the work himself. The throw money around thing while neat in the comics did need to be reframed, as Glomgold now does it, and so does beaks. But with Rockerduck they found a  nice medium for the two: like both he’ll spend massive amounts of dough. Like Glomgold he likes a good scheme, but dosen’t go to the sheer lunatic lenghts Glommy does: His schemes are more practical, stealing a deed from some unsuspecting trusting townsfolk, or finding some youth water to shore up his plan to freeze himself by getting his apperance back. While no longer young like Beaks, he shares beaks laziness and again tendency to spend money..  but still contrasts the guy: Rockerduck is ambitious in his cons and plans, Beaks is not. Rockerduck has money already to tap into, Beaks is new money and clearly burns through it on a daily basis. The show brillinatly kept what made the mallard a great villian, while reframing what no longer worked.  But yeah Scrooge realizes that if the river didn’t help them what did, and now it’s time to get back to Louie: Whose figured out that Ponce De Leon, mentioned earlier, and the hotel manager are one in the same! Also props for making Ponce an actual lion. Nicely done. Yeah turns out Ponce diverted the water from the fountain to the resot: The tap water there is actually the restorative water, with Scrooge having filled his canteen with it without realizing. As for the old people turns out the fountain runs on equilvent exchange: Some of it’s waters drain youth to create the youth creating part of it. As such the seniors.. are actually the spring breakers, drained of youth and too senile to fight back. And Dewey’s sudden growth spurt was just him being in the pool for two seconds draining his youth.  Naturally though Louie made the mistake of blurting this out and the boys get captured by Ponce who explains why the resort scheme: At first he just lured gullible minions on expeditions but eventually that scheme dried up so he simply modernized by building the resort and diverting the fountain to it., having gallons of youth restoring water stocked up. He traps the boys with a pool ring and while I expect more from them I get leaving them out of the climax. While Mildly annoying.. this really isn’t their story anymore, and the scrooge and Goldie stuff is where to focus. I can let a story slide on some weaknesses if it’s for good reason and really, focusing more on the more engaging main plot with Scrooge and Goldie was the right call. That said the nephews could’ve fought Jeeves or something but i’m getting ahead of myself. This twist is utterly and a great surprise. No notes. 

Back at the fountain having realized what’s going on now, if not the youth sucking part just yet, Scrooge and Goldie race back with Rockerduck and Jeeves in persuit.  Scrooge and Goldie arrive to find De Leon, revealing their on to them if being confused for springbreakers. But once he realizes what’s going on De Leon.. actually offers to cut them in. After all while it means sharing his water as shown the man has gallons of it, and even off spring break likely still has no shortage of young idiots to drain because it’s Florida and he runs a cheap hotel with a pool. But while Goldie’s naturally tempted.. Scrooge isn’t. He’s fine with a second chance.. but not at the cost of other people’s first ones. Sure they might waste it.. but it’s not his life to steal. Naturally a swordfight insues while Goldie darts off to find the water and Scrooge finds himself fighting both De Leon and Jeeves, as Rockerduck cheerfully admits he has ZERO issues with stealing other people’s youth and while he and De Leon don’t formally partner up, it’s not a stretch to say De Leon would be happy with a rich billionare joining in his operation providing both fincial backing.. and possible room to expand and steal MORE youth. 

But before Goldie can run away with the water she finds the boys.. and in a nice callback her previous bond with Louie gets her to crack.. and she realizes she can’t just run out on scrooge again and repeat their history. So she frees the boys,k who are a bit dazed to help, and shoves the bit of water she got down jeeves throat. Though Rockerduck still got some, so he’s back to peak shape, if now having to carry around a baby frakenstien. He exits, and I loved him in this one clearly, even if i’m STILL annoyed it’s taking till next week for FOWL to do much of anything. I mean it’s obvious FOWL told him about the fountain but still, while they’ve set up the members well for the second half, we still haven’t seen much of the actual orignization and it’s grating. But again the rest of the episode is good enough that it swoops over this. This episoide has some minor flaws.. but the core story, big twist and everything is so good and the upcoming climax so emotional, it’s easy enough to forgive. 

So speaking of that climax we get one hell of a swordfight with Scrooge and Goldie versus Ponce before Ponce ends up in the pool as he deserves but is determined to take Scrooge with him. So we get Goldie’s moment of truth: She could leave scrooge the drown, go about her day and take the water for herself.. or decide it’s not too late.. that even with her clean slate gone.. she can still change and still have a future with scrooge, stop betraying him for his own gain and start enjoying their time together instead. She makes the obvious choice, diving in in a beautifully shot sequence to save him. Ponce withers to death which is sad, as I really would’ve liked to see him again, but fitting.  With the villian gone it’s time to wrapup loose ends! The ducks hand out the youth water, using up all but a few drops left to restore the spring breakers and hte natural order, Scrooge happy in his decision. Dewey decides to cede being the bigger brother back to Huey , and offers Webby some and in a great gag, she explains she just had a bad day she didn’t get her youth sapped.. though I feel she did in an earlier draft, but a quick pop of her back gets her back to normal. Though having her be an old lady was hilarious and it was nice to have a youth swap plot that didn’t have a roll reversal.  To close things out Scrooge laments Goldie probably ran off again and leanred nothing.. only to be plesantly suprsied when it turns out while she is leaving for more adventure, she didn’t want to say good buy.. and it’s clear she’s changed. While her last apperance showed some cracks forming, while she did take the loot she did go back to save Louie and vice versa, here we see a genuine change. She’s realized, and it feels entirely plausable, that even if she can still scam other people and probably will.. she shoudln’t keep hurting scrogoe like this and her feelings for him outweigh any beinifit from treating him like garbage. Having a clean slate for a moment gave her a persepctive, and even if the slate’s back to full.. it’s not too late to fix things. So she kisses him passionately he happily reciporcates and i’m totally on board. I only didn’t ship this version fo the two because this goldie.. was not a godo person.  Granted I do like her better than the comics version. While Comics Goldie is not BAD persay, she lacks some agency. She’s still cool, what with her shotgun and take no fucks attitude especailly in her youth, her just.. waiting for scrooge instead of getting after him feels.. weird to me. Sure the man’s stubborn but it didn’t fit her personality to just wait for it. Here there’s a valid reason they aren’t together despite a clear attraction: Goldie is out for herself. She’s the catwoman to his batman, which was a good metaphor really: Scrooge too is a grumpy guy who fights evil and has traveld the globe and has a massive extended family includling children he teaches to fight crime and his own adult children and is richer than god. But more than that Goldie is selfish, untrustworthly and loved money more than Scrooge.. here.. she realizes while she’ll likely still be stealing shit, because hey it’s her calling, she loves him more than doing crimes and that it’s not a clean slate they needed. .it was abetter her. I didn’t support them because frankly she wasn’t in a good place for an actual relationship. Now she is, he is and it’s sweet to see. A good note to end the episode

Final Thoughts:  This ep was a bit uneven in places, not knowing what to do with the kids at times but as i’ve made clear i’ts excellent with the scrooge and goldie core really working well and Janney and Tennant bringing their absolute best to this one. Easily one of the season’s best. Not much more to say. If you liked this tune in each week for more ducktales coverage, and I intend once the hiatus begins to try and do one episode a week still to catch up as hopefully this isn’t the last season it might very well be. Next week Darkwing owns the night! I had planned a full darkweek.. but my busy monday and some other stuff got away from me. Still I have two darkwing themed reviews planned: Drake’s introdcution in the reboot with “Duck Knight Returns!” and the very first darkwing episode, chronlogically anyway, “Darkly Dawns the Duck.” Until next week, Let’s Get Dangerous!