RISE TO MEET YOUR FATE

cuz so the only thing that remotely gives erik any satisfaction is revenge, which, while badass, is the grim reality of badassness. in his mind he traded out his humanity to eliminate the man/men who wounded it in the first place. that’s it, that’s his life. he doesn’t know about other mutants yet, so there is no greater cause to work toward. he wants to kill shaw or die trying. and after that????????

and then suddenly charles. a total stranger hugs his brain mid-suicide mission like don’t die i just met you. you’re not alone to someone who has felt that way for many more years than he hadn’t. an actual and metaphorical lifeline.

like does erik even know how to process that? well no, because he tries to bail a few hours after getting on land. and charles stops him.

charles just keeps stopping him. trying to be all sure but have you tried not pain and violence? like maybe even just on yourself? he saves erik from drowning, brings him into a community, tries to un-rampage him in russia, and literally pushes his training from ‘shoot me in the head bro’ to ‘unlock your magnificence with the power of love.’

how can erik even handle looking at him? well we see in the cerebro scene and the satellite scene and the beach divorce scene that sometimes he can’t. 

charles was this little overpowering whirlwind of giddy affection and confidence swept erik off his feet. he was the first person to love erik in years, who cared for his welfare, and wanted good things for him. and importantly, this happens after a cavalcade of violence has led erik to believe giving up on any kind of personal happiness is the best possible path. he’s just i’m nothing more than a tool of cosmic justice who cannot be loved it’s fine.

meeting charles must have been like getting caught in a hurricane of positivity.

i just wanted to think about that. so think about that. and how those few weeks or months must have been some of the few actually happy days of erik’s life.

I’m pretty sure I can say, at this point, Loki, our Loki, the Loki we are watching the show for, is not the perspective character. Like, this one little thing, the smallest request based on the title of the show and the supposed main character, that was my expectation.

My only one. My first and last.

Because I knew the show would not be good, I knew it would not be “that deep”, I knew it was ultimately all a playground for an inexperienced writer to get his credits on and establish the next phase of Marvel/Disney’s domination over the art/film/animation industry, but like…

This one thing. Just the one. I wanted just the one. 

Like, can we soberly say that Wanda was the main character in WandaVision and we saw the majority of events from her perspective? Yes, because she was and yes because we did. Can it be said that, were we to replace Wanda with a fucking lamp, the show would suffer for it? Yes, obviously. And we even saw a lot of Vision too, the title of the show did not lie there either (even though he is also dead in the main timeline, somehow the writers managed to include him and stay true to his character, what a WILD CONCEPT.)

And then, can we soberly say that Bucky and Sam were both the main characters in their show and that we saw the majority of events from their perspectives? Yes, because they were and yes because we did. Can it be said that, were we to replace either of them, or both of them, with a fucking lamp, the show would suffer for it? Yes, OBVIOUSLY.

I knew, based on Falcon and the Winter Soldier, that Marvel/Disney will most likely serve us shit (especially with a character who has undergone severe trauma), but you know, my one request, my one expectation, I didn’t even get that.

In the end, can we soberly say our Loki is the main character? No, we can not, because he isn’t. Can we say we are seeing things unfold from his perspective? No, because we aren’t, not really. Can it be said that, were we to replace him with a goddamn lamp, the show would suffer for it? No, because it wouldn’t. 

Because it doesn’t matter who this Loki is.

This is not his story, it never was and, based on the set-up, it never will be. He is just a spoiled prince, a dumbfuck idiot, in opposition to Sylvie, who just has it so damn difficult. Girl power, and all that. They didn’t even make him a dumbfuck to make him relatable, they just did that for the laughs, while positioning him as an inherently unrelatable dumbass (because he’s so privileged you see, he hasn’t even ran/walked for very long ever in his life ever!). 

Our Loki is trailing along the path of this nebulous concept of good/bad (because that’s all there is for him) while being run over and flattened by the true main characters, the very concept of the TVA and Sylvie, who should serve as foil TO HIM and not the other way around.

An elephant casually stealing and then returning a wildlife photographer’s hat 

These ten ducklings were found orphaned and they were brought to a pet duck called Stella who had just hatched nine of her own two weeks prior. She immediately claimed the ten as her own. 

via @thesassyducks​ instagram

If only the writers had the GUTS