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We’re all having “hard conversations” about racism, police brutality, and #BlackLivesMatter I hope. 

You’ve probably noticed that detractors often use the same “racist talking points” in response. Here’s a researched and sourced guide to help you answer, for the times you may get stuck.

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Thor: Love and Thunder (2021)

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'Loki! Come join the Midgardian celebration of the Rainbow Bridge!'

'Thor, they're not celebrating Asgard they're celebrating the expression of their identity and the freedom to love who they wish.'

'That's even better! Come, Loki!'

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Thor attends his first Pride parade by accident because he assumes it's a Midgardian viking tribute to Asgard and the gods.

Bifrost, Rainbow Bridge, Ass-gard, Love and Thunder... No wonder he got confused.

Loki and Svaðilfari struggle to make Sleipnir wear his tack for the first time.

Svaðilfari: He shares your defiant attitude.

Loki: Of course he does, that's my greatest asset. Aside from my supple bottom.

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Soooo, introducing my Marvel AU of Loki x Svaðilfari (Loki's baby daddy) with baby Sleipnir!!

For those who don't know the Norse mythology, Loki transforms into a mare to distract a giant's horse named Svaðilfari while Thor kills the giant, and one thing leads to another and Loki gets knocked up by Svaðilfari and gives birth to Sleipnir the eight-legged horse.

In my AU, Svaðilfari is an Asgardian who was enslaved by the giant and was forced to shape-shift into a horse. (Inspired by SPN where Sleipnir is shown to actually look human.)

In my AU, Sleipnir was born as a horse and won't be able to shift into his 'human' body until he is older.

Tom Hiddleston on ‘Betrayal’ and the Art of Self-Protection

Tom Hiddleston was posing for a portrait, and the face he showed the camera wasn’t entirely his own.

That had been his idea, to slip for a few moments into the character he’s playing on Broadway, in Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”: Robert, the cheated-on husband and backstabbed best friend whose coolly proper facade is the carapace containing a crumbling man. And when Mr. Hiddleston became him, the change was instantaneous: the guarded stillness of his body, the chill reserve in his gray-blue eyes.

“It’s interesting,” Mr. Hiddleston said after a while, analyzing Robert’s expression from the inside. “It gives less away.” A pause, and then his own smile flickered back, its pleasure undisguised. “O.K.,” Mr. Hiddleston announced, himself again, “it’s not Robert anymore.”

It was late on a muggy August morning, one day before the show’s first preview at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, and Mr. Hiddleston — the classically trained British actor best known for playing the winsomely chaotic villain Loki, god of mischief and brother of Thor, in the Marvel film franchise — had been in New York for less than a week.

He’ll be here all autumn for the limited run of the production, a hit in London earlier this year, but he wasn’t going to pretend that he’d settled in. “I literally have never sat in this room before,” he’d said at the top of the photo shoot, in his cramped auxiliary dressing room, next door to the similarly tiny one he had been occupying.

Huo Liusheng (Xiao Wen) and Jin Shuilang (Lang Ge)

Backstory, Part I - Sacrifice.

Remember Me: The Story of Lang Wen - Backstory, Part II  (Part I)

A story about my original characters, Lang and Wen.

A lot of people have been asking me about things to do with their hair lately so I thought I would put together a list of hair tutorials! I was going to organize it based on the Lolita style it would go with but that wouldn’t work because some hair styles can go with multiple Lolita styles. Then I was going to organize it based on occasion from most casual to most elaborate, but I didn’t think that would work well either because I have seen more casual hair styles work beautifully with more elaborate coords. So I decided to just split it up between tutorials specifically for real hair (some using extensions but not full wigs) and tutorials specifically for wigs. Some tutorials can be used for both but I based it on what was actually used for the tutorial. Some of these actually aren’t even specifically for Lolita but they are so cute and work really well with Lolita so I had to share them anyway! Enjoy!

Tutorials specifically for real hair: Looped Braids Curly Ponytails using extensions Twin puffballs Double buns Simple pin curls Clipped up pigtails Hime Hair  Hime Hair for thinner, medium length hair Vintage hair style for short hair Tips for perfect bangs Curly, cute, and easy hair tutorial General hair tips and tricks “Cutie and Gothable” pigtails Hime Gyaru inspired updo Simple Summer puffball hairstyle Sweet Pigtails Vintage Victory Rolls Hair bow More elaborate hair bow Multi-braid hairstyle Making your own hair rollers Lolita and Aristocrat hair and makeup, best suited for photoshoots Gothic/Classic hair and makeup Japanese hair curling tutorial French Braids Half Up A few tutorials for Sweet, Classic, and Hime hair How to apply clip-in extensions Braided ribbon hairstyle Bear Ear hairstyle Hairstyles to wear with hats Waterfall Braid Braided flower updo Heart braid Double braid halo bun Sheep horns hairstyle Misako Aoki hair style tutorials Hairstyles for black Lolitas with natural hair More hairstyles for black Lolitas with natural hair

Tutorials specifically for wigs:

Allrighty then…