people talk about women being ‘emotional’ and ‘overreacting,’ but you don’t see a woman making an arch-nemesis out of an albino whale and obsessively chasing it down like a lunatic for 585 pages
since i made this post, i’d multiple women telling me they would absolutely hunt down a whale for an extended period out of a bloodthirsty desire for vengeance, and i want to apologize for engaging in gender stereotypes
The right is all about free speech until Michelle Wolf gives a moderately funny but extremely cutting stand up set to a room of rich bastards and suddenly free speech is secondary to civility and “a unifying message”
So to be clear: advocating ethnic genocide, misogyny, and war are all totally covered by free speech, but a comedian making fun of the government, the press who profits off of it, and reminding the world that flint still doesn’t have water is somehow going just a bit to far. Weird.
I’m starting to think y’all don’t really care about free speech after all and just wanna advocate for fascism without anyone telling you you’re a prick. Fucking alt right snowflakes. Toughen up.
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Loki really has the best character arc in the MCU.
In Thor, we see years of seething envy, spill out, magnified by the revelation that he is both adopted and a Jötunn; all of his insecurities seemingly confirmed and justified.
In Avengers, we see him at his rawest, and angriest after the events of Thor.
In The Dark World, we start to see the cracks in the facade of cold villainy. The shock at Odin’s condemnation, his intense love for his mother and the grief at her death, and above all, his clear happiness and excitement to be adventuring with Thor again. I left the theatre with the feeling that his warm praise of Thor in Odin’s guise might actually have been sincere.
In Thor Ragnarok, three things happen; Odin finally tells Loki he loves him. Thor and Loki become equals in a secret that Odin withheld from them both. Most importantly, Loki, who has felt like he was second best his entire life, finally realises that someone always loved him more than anyone else, and that it was Thor the whole time.
Which brings us back to Infinity War. At long last, Loki no longer feels aggrieved, and is comparatively content with his place in the universe. He dies defending the one thing left in the world that he loves.
That there is brilliant character writing and acting.
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