Avatar

Your Fandom Friend

@yourfandomfriend / yourfandomfriend.tumblr.com

Dear Hearts! I've been away for a while but now I'm back.
Avatar

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

get spooky

Avatar

how does this appear every june

T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

JUNE 1ST 2017 AND THIS IS THE FIRST THING I SEE.

WHY IS THIS ON MY DASH IN JUNE

LET’S GET SPOOKY

This will be on most people’s dash by midnight lmao

Happy June

absolutely love it when people are like why do you like this fictional character so much look at all their bad qualities. my brothersister in christ their bad qualities are why i like them

"what do you see in them" only the very worst. i hope this helps

they might bwe giants are a funny band because every now and then they'll drop an absolutely beautiful love song in between releasing like 100 songs called Unemployment Machine where they sing some shit like 'hey, mr. milkman / please give me back my eyes' in a comedy baritone

Anonymous asked:

The butter knife vs dagger argument and i raise u. Loki fandom not knowing the difference between baby dumping and infanticide (is there a difference?)

Yeah, there's a difference between abandoning a baby and infanticide. I would definitely categorize what happens to baby Loki as an attempt at infanticide.

The only thing I can think of in the Loki fandom that you might be referring to is the idiotic popular fanon that Laufey left Loki in the temple to be protected?? From??? I'm not sure????? And Odin actually didn't save Loki, he kidnapped him???????

Avatar

Headcanons are fine (and fun!) but then people forget they're headcanons and go "well OBVIOUSLY as we ALL KNOW" and I'm like "as we what???"

I'd have thought everyone knew what's being implied when you see a baby in the snow with nobody around to care for it and some nearby adult picks it up and nobody's there to say "hey that baby was just resting on the snow! I left him there to make snow angels!" but then people are insisting that Odin stole Baby Loki and he did so with evil intentions and he should have just handed him in the Lost Property office so that Lauffey could reclaim him on his way home from the shopping centre where he was buying toys and baby food. And maybe a nice fluffy hat for his beloved wee boy <3

(For all I know there's a deleted scene where exactly that happens. They seem to have deleted a LOT of that film for some reason?)

Avatar

Also like give Kenneth Branagh some credit. If he had wanted to imply that baby Loki had been wanted and guarded, he could have done something like shown a dead Jotun nearby holding a baby rattle or something. There was no one. I will die on the "Loki was abandoned to die" hill.

Yeah, of course the crowd that has turned this fanon into gospel would just say that Odin is lying, so he left that part out. But that ignores the fact that Odin is presented as a reliable narrator (in every Thor film, yes, even Ragnarok, when we find out he was keeping secrets!), and we have no reason at all to doubt the story he tells.

I can see both sides of this. It could be that the temple was seen as the most secure place for a baby, and Odin left things out.

However, even though he didn't know he was a Jotun, Loki did have knowledge of Laufey and the Jotuns. I feel like the heir to the Jotun throne disappearing in a battle, and Laufey looking for his son would be something people outside of Jotunheim would be aware of. Even without knowledge of his own birth, Loki would have known that the king of Jotunheim was searching for a lost heir.

I doubt Odin would have been able to hide from all of Asgard that Laufey was alleging something happened to his child (whether the baby was killed or kidnapped) during the battle between Asgard and Jotunheim.

Which does sort of imply that Laufey was either not looking for the baby or had accepting the child was dead. But even if he had accepted the death of this child, I can see him making it one of his many public grievances against Asgard. I mean, what better way to rally Jotuns against Asgard than to point out they murdered a baby?

Avatar

A good point. Like, how much time passed between that final battle and Odin finding Loki to their signing of the peace treaty? I assume it would have taken some time to draw up and hash out the details, and both sides would have wanted to see to their dead and wounded. Which would leave plenty of time for Laufey to return to the temple and find Loki gone. And like you said, if he was upset by this, if he wanted to know who stole his son, surely he would have brought this up at the peace treaty talks? (Re Loki being a bastard, I really, REALLY wish we knew who his mother was and if she'd wanted him or was complicit in his abandonment. There's so much story potential there.)

Tumblr Discussion Questions

  1. Who do you think OP's intended audience was for their post?
  2. Do you think OP was inviting further discussion and/or debate? Why or why not?
  3. Does OP seem as though they are open to changing their opinion? What are some of the clues in their post to support your answer?
  4. Do the additions to the post support or refute OP's point?
  5. What is the connection between OP's post and the later additions?
  6. If you had to explain this post to a college professor, what would you say? How about a kindergarten student?
  7. What’s something new you learned through reading this post?
  8. What are the 10 most important words in the post and why?
Avatar

Reblogging this like it's hot.

In the screenplay Thor is based on, the one where Laufey admits to abandoning Loki, he insults Odin for not killing Loki by saying he’s just as weak as Loki. It’s a fairly logical conclusion that Loki was condemned for being born too small.

Which, you know, eleven-hundred years ago, even we loving humans regularly abandoned (or “exposed”) babies for being born different, especially if it was, like Laufey’s kid, relatively the size of a cheeto.

(MCU Loki’s origin is kinda mirrored by Drrf in the comics, a tiny Jotun Loki befriends who’s parents won’t claim him.)

The fanon weirdness of Laufey being a loving father who never meant to abandon Loki is clearly just an offshoot of Loki stans needing to make Odin the villain of Loki’s story, to get Loki off the hook for every bad thing he did before Thanos could come along and take that baton.

Me, plunking Stinky Bastard Man’s carrier on the counter: hi he’s here for shots and a nail trim and he’ll need to be sedated

Nurse: Are you sure? We can try-

Me: he needs to be sedated

Nurse: Well, it’ll take longer-

Me: he needs to be sedated, he will try to rip your face off

Nurse: Well we’ll try without first and we’ll let you know if we need to sedate

Me, watching her carry him away: you will need to sedate him

Nurse, coming back 10 minutes later clutching her hand: so, we will need to sedate him

Me:

A man with 3 caution stickers on his med file

Since this post blew up and people have asked for this villain’s record, here are some of Stinky Bastard Man’s more heinous crimes:

  • Screamed so loudly with such unbridled fury the one time he wasn’t sedated at the vet that he caused a little girl in the waiting room to burst into tears
  • Ripped an escape hole in the patio screen door in a single night
  • Snuck into the garage overnight where he managed to pull down his massive food bag from the top shelves, ripped it open and ate so much he couldn’t/wouldn’t move when we found him in the morning  
  • Learned how to open the laundry cabinet to sleep on the clean towels
  • Learned how to open doors, thus allowing the dog to follow in after who then eats from the trash
  • Bats off anything on our windowsills that gets in the way of his sitting. Current succulent casualty count: 4
  • Thankfully cannot open the bedroom door due to rusty mechanisms, but managed to slip in one night when it wasn’t fully closed. Jumped down from my windowsill squarely onto my stomach, leaving me to bolt awake screaming from the blow and convinced I was under attack
  • Tricked me into loving him forever anyway

Ripped an escape hole

in the patio screen door

in a single night

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Avatar

oh my god he’s THIS Stinky Bastard Man!!!!

the stinky bastard man, the stinky bastard myth, the stinky bastard legend

Reblog if you have used dude as a non gender specific term.

where I grew up in California not only is “dude” generally non-gender-specific, half of the time it doesn’t even refer to a person at all.

I said it to a faucet today. 

Avatar

A customer once came to me to order a sandwich and said “I want this dude”

Dude is more than a word, it’s an emotion. 

dude is a way of life

dude and bruh