Unbetitelt

Slavery also only affected criminals. A slave disobeying was considered a crime. A slave trying to escape was considered a crime.

We are living in a tent with almost nothing, trying to get through one day at a time. But my biggest fear right now is my father. His health is getting worse, and he needs treatment and medication that we are struggling to afford every single day.

I never imagined that I would have to ask strangers for help just to keep my family going and to keep my father alive. But this is where we are now.

Please help my family with a donation and share our story with your friends.

We are still here, still trying to hold on. Please don’t let us face this alone.

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

This is always a surreal experience, since that wiki page only exists because I had a fight with an overzealous wiki editor who deleted the entire chart back during the pandemic. I persuaded him to make a separate page for the chart instead, but if that hadn’t happened, one of the only places we would be able to go to look at the Franklin expedition crew list would be arctonauts.com, where you can find an even more complete version of the muster roll.

If the Personnel wiki page ever does get taken down by some even more aggressive wiki editor, we’re going to need arctonauts, and if you want to write polar fiction or polar scholarship about other voyages (like James Clark Ross’s sexy Antarctic adventure), arctonauts has you covered in a way no wiki ever will. There are also letters and publications by polar explorers and legal documents that contain heartbreaking information, like the fact that James Fitzjames left everything he owned to his adoptive brother, whom he calls “my best beloved Friend William Coningham.”

like no he’s totally doing this all of his own free will

He got blown up by both Phil Coulson and Hawkeye. He was thrown out of a skyscraper window (do you realize how thick those windows are?) by Tony’s suit. He got his ass kicked by his big brother (who is also a demi-god and physically stronger). Not a single one of those events caused him any real physical harm. Not. A. Single. One.

It took the Hulk to draw blood, to bruise him. And even after that, he was only banged up a little. (Consider how capable he is of walking next to Thor at the end of the film.)

He never makes excuses for Loki’s behavior.

He agrees with the punishment Loki receives.

He establishes boundaries for himself to avoid what he sees as a manipulative, hopeless family member (doesn’t visit Loki in prison, doesn’t mourn Frigga with him, etc.).

He forgives Loki only after Loki displays behavior that to Thor indicates the potential for, if not a willingness to, change.

Yes, Thor loves Loki. Yes, he protects Loki even when he’s upset with him. But he’s never more lenient and forgiving and protective of Loki than I’d expect any loving family member to be (I hope it goes without saying that we’re dealing with a whole different scale when talking about movie villains and Asgardians). His willingness to accept that Loki can be rehabilitated, rather than punished, is indicative of his goodness, but I don’t think it’s something that applies only to Loki. Thor has to believe in the idea that people can right the wrongs they’ve committed and become better because Thor himself has a past.

Thor is a good brother. Not perfect, but he tries (and would do very well if the two of them had any ability to communicate healthily).

The reason people believe that Thor is a Loki stan is because…Thor tells them he is, repeatedly. And for the most part, people believe what the protagonist tells them, with or without evidence. 

Throughout the narrative, Thor openly claims to always be taking Loki back or always forgiving him of some ambiguous and repeated deceptions. The problem is that we don’t see any evidence of this, outside of Thor’s words.

Thor’s perception of Loki is extremely narcissistic, because it implies that Loki is driven primarily by a desire to deceive him. While Loki has probably deceived Thor on more than one occasion, we the audience know that he has many other reasons for doing the things he does.

One of the first things Thor does on screen is mock Loki and stand by while his friends do the same. Later he tells his brother to “know his place”…his brother, who is royalty just as he is. Loki’s lack of a response implies a long history of such behavior. It shows that Loki was used to being disrespected by those around him and had accepted it as part of his life. It should be clear to the audience that no other characters are stanning for Loki.

Thor does love Loki, whatever that means for him. But he is not supportive of Loki. He doesn’t think about why Loki does the things he does. He makes assumptions about Loki’s motives. He doesn’t ask how Loki feels or even consider THAT he feels. He seems to care most about Loki when Loki is dying or dead. But when he’s alive, there is little else but anger and resentment.

I know you’re probably saying…but Thor is a great guy! He’s the hero! Well…he is the hero, at least. A great guy? That depends on your criteria. Thor is capable of great selflessness, which he has demonstrated numerous times. The problem is that he appears to only be capable of selflessness…in regards to everyone else EXCEPT Loki. It’s actually one of the most infuriating things about his character, and why I can never consider him to be a true Loki stan.

#Loki: What :D#Loki: War ruin and death?#Loki: Now who would do something like that?#Loki: Who would march in an army declare themselves ruler?#Loki: Oh Boy. You would have to be a huge jerk to do something like that.#Loki: Right? Odin ruler of the nine realms