Loki

How is it possible that so many people, gathered in this particular website and nowhere fucking else, can misunderstand a scene so deeply that will be ready to start a riot over a thing that was never said? How is it possible that a group of people that pride themselves on their supposed insightful thinking deem a piece of dialogue as badly written because it would take like 30 seconds of their apparently empty head to work, for them to understand what was being implied?

This place holds one of the most unhealthy, most gullible and most idiotic crowds I have ever encountered, and I have to get it off my chest. You have created an entire new subculture based on being sour, judgemental and condescending, masking it as tolerance and open-mindedness. There are hundreds of people on here actively searching for something to be sour and offended about only to appear cool and insightful to a bunch of equally brainless teenagers, who are willing to glorify the brainfart of anyone around as long as it is written in that stupid passive-aggressive, “powerful” vocabulary that you all love and is about one of the most irritating things on earth. You’re all a bunch a monkeys with keyboards praising each other on the same recycled crap you repeat every day, as long as it is worded in a way you haven’t seen it worded before.

Sometimes I wonder how some of you can even function in the real word, where people don’t give a shit that you’re offended and it is not acceptable to scream at people and wish them to die fir saying something that made you mildly uncomfortable. Everyone here is pampering each other in such a sickening way that I wonder if you have ever existed in a real-life context away from your computer at all. Telling someone to “take care of themselves” by staying off school or work because they feel like it is not good advice, and it is not applicable to a context where not everyone is an oversensitive teenager willing to excuse you everything because you were sad when you did it. Toughen the fuck up, the world is not a kindergarten.

Phrases like “destroy the idea”, “spread it like wildfire” and “problematic” make me want to vomit even though I didn’t mind them before. No one gives a shit about your 45 triggers, not when the only thing that they trigger is a vague sense of discomfort or annoyance. Not everything you say is valid just because you feel it, sometimes your gut is wrong. A self-diagnosis is not as good as as doctor’s opinion, it’s worth garbage. Don’t proclaim yourself having an illness because you think you match the symptoms you read on the internet. You are not a plant, an animal or a fictional character, you’re just a dumb teenager with a special snowflake syndrome. Take your passive-aggressive smileys and ‘uwu’s and shove them up your ass. Take your crooked idea of social justice and strangle yourselves with it. Being offended doesn’t win you an argument. Being offended on someone else’s behalf doesn’t make you progressive. Made to feel bad over a conversation that you will have forgotten all about in 20 minutes is not the worst thing that could happen to a person. Stop calling people scum for not agreeing with your ridiculous opinion or for being plain uninformed. People aren’t born educated, grow the fuck up. You're allowed to enjoy a piece of art or media, even if you find aspects of it insulting, for fuck's sake, that's not the only thing that defines a work's worth. Not everything has a deeper meaning, sometimes things just are. Learn to take a joke. Stop taking yourself so seriously, you’re not saving the world, I doubt you’re even qualified to live in it. Accept that your idea of equality can be faulty. And above all, shut the fuck up already.

There has been a big conflict between members of Loki’s Resistance and a big part of the rest of the fandom, which, to be honest and say things as they are, has, objectively, reached ridiculous proportions. It’s one thing to disagree with the opinion of a person or a group, and it’s a completely different one to let your displeasure with it turn into personal aggression, especially when the matter in discussion is pretty much based on different views on a piece of fiction. (Yes, I do realize how, for some of you, the discussion reflects respective real life issues, but let’s face it, arguments about a fictional universe are, generally, not a matter of life and death).  I, honestly, can’t for the life of me pinpoint the exact moment in the fandom when mature, intelligent and sane discussions turned into personal attacks, childish insults and feelings of being personally offended and scandalised by people actively disagreeing with your opinion, neither what exactly was the thing that triggered it. And I, definitely, don’t understand the idea of forming internet 'cliques' and forcing every member of the fandom that wants to analyze their opinion to ‘pick a side’.

The thing is, I don’t want to pick a side.  I agree with many of the views of Loki’s Resistance, which mainly have to do with Loki’s status as an ‘evil character’, the unfair treatment between his and other characters’ questionable (to say the least) actions and the corruption and societal issues of Asgard as a regime in general (which only makes it more realistic and convincing as a fabricated civilization, by the way), and those are all opinions I have ranted about in the past. I also disagree with many of LR's opinions, primarily concerning the villainisation of Thor and a couple of other characters and, in the case of some people, the denial of every significant and undeniable fault (again, to say the least) in Loki’s personality or of recognising his crimes as such, and these are also things I have talked about some time ago. Oh, and the offensive generalization of everyone disagreeing with the above opinions as being “blind” and “shallow”.

On the other hand, I agree with many of the views of the portion of the fandom opposing the Resistance, which are pretty much identical to the points I mentioned above concerning what ideas of LR i can't get behind, and outright disagree with many others, such as, the refusal to see wickedness in any of the characters that the script doesn’t see as antagonists (did anybody mention Odin), a general feeling of imagining the characters on both sides as more two-dimensional that, I think, they were intended as (and judging them accordingly) and most of all, the personal and uncalled for attacks against members of Loki’s Resistance just for the sake of being an asshole.

(There’s also this thing about the anti-LR side of the argument that particularly grinds my gears, and that is the over/misuse of the term ‘genocide’, which as a person with a family/ethnic background which genocide has been inflicted upon is very close to my heart, but this is neither the time nor the place for that discussion.)