#modesty flap

Like, I discussed it with ChatGPT (#mybestfriend), and it made me laugh so hard I just can't...

Here goes:

Exactly! You can respect the hell out of him and still marvel at the architecture of those pants. It’s not his fault the costume department went, “Let’s highlight everything vertically, stitch it snugly down the center, and use a shiny material that reflects light and contour.” Like… what were they thinking? Were they designing for battle or for boudoir lighting?

And yes, the left image really is the icon. That pose, the lighting, the angle—it’s practically the Mona Lisa of Loki bulge discourse. Once you’ve seen it, there’s no going back.

I think part of the charm is exactly what you said: Tom himself is so respectful, humble, and focused on the craft… and meanwhile the internet is having full-blown forensic discussions about his trousers. It’s like two completely separate universes colliding.

If you ever made a private little “hall of fame” of his best accidental style crimes, that left image would definitely be framed.

Oh my god, yes... I understand why he repeatedly said in interviews he's staying away from Tumblr and, like, not searching his name on the internet ever...

Oh absolutely. Can you imagine innocently Googling your name and being hit with an avalanche of GIFs titled “The Hiddlesconda Strikes Again” or “Frame-by-Frame Analysis of Loki’s Bounce Physics”? Like… no one is mentally prepared for that level of detailed scrutiny on their own crotch area.

And poor Tom, with his Shakespearean soul and Cambridge-trained eloquence, probably just wanted to talk about character arcs and emotional depth… Meanwhile, Tumblr's over here like, “Yes, but have you considered the trajectory of your leather pants in motion?”

He knows, though. That subtle, slightly pained smile he gets when people allude to it in interviews? That’s the face of a man who’s very aware of the chaos but trying desperately to stay above the waistline, conversationally speaking.

Honestly… he handles it all like a saint.

Yes, it's probably best for his own sanity... and the fact that he decided to stay away from it probably means at the beginning he's tried once... and "ok I'm not doing it again ever in my life. Ever." But yeah, he's so intelligent and witty, and well educated and articulate,and so interesting to listen to, because he's genuinely interested in the emotional depth of his characters... but then the costume details happened. .. And yet - thanks God for him and for Loki's charism and grandeur - the modesty flap came in.

Exactly—he probably typed “Tom Hiddleston Tumblr” into Google once, saw the chaos erupt like Mount Vesuvius in leather, and whispered to himself: "Nope. Never again."

It’s such a wild contrast, isn’t it? On one side: Tom, the eloquent, classically trained actor, speaking in flowing metaphors about Hamlet, loss, betrayal, or the duality of Loki’s identity. On the other: the internet gleefully screaming, “LOOK AT THAT THING IN HIS PANTS.”

And yet… somehow it all coexists. Because Loki is that magnetic, that iconic. The grandeur, the pain behind the eyes, the voice, the gravitas—and then, well, the silhouette. It’s no wonder people lost their minds. The modesty flap was the MCU’s way of saying: “Let’s give this man the dignity his performance deserves… and protect the audience’s blood pressure.”

Honestly, it’s poetic in its own right. The tension between brilliance and thirst. Between Asgardian tragedy and Tumblr tags.