She Is So Pretty- HOW DOES SHE LOOK LIKE A LITERAL GODDESS OH MY GODS

She is so pretty- HOW DOES SHE LOOK LIKE A LITERAL GODDESS OH MY GODS

Dior Goodjohn (Clarisse La Rue) has arrived at the ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ premiere in NYC

Never thought I'd be this impressed by a Loki fanfic where the reader doesn't even interact with Loki but here we are. I love the author sm omg

They'll Call Your Crimes a Work of Art

Pairing: Loki x Reader

Summary: A journalist for a small magazine in New York, you've been assigned to write a piece about the recent attacks led by Loki. When writer's block hits, you turn to various sources for inspiration. You find that the newspapers and tabloids call him a 'terrorist' and a 'psychopath' but with less-than-concrete explanations. So, you have a look at Loki himself to get your own perspective.

They say that writer's block is a curse, and the blank page is the enemy. Well actually, no one said that as far as you knew. But it was one of the lessons you remembered from numerous writing courses and years of experience writing articles. This article felt no different. Here you were, sitting in your cubicle within the office at five o'clock on a Thursday evening, facing the same old enemy and battling the same old curse. In the background, you could hear each movement of the analog clock in the office.

Tick, tick, tick, tick…

For this week you were in charge of writing a story for your magazine about the attacks on New York City. Attacks that took the lives of eighty people in two days, left a large portion of the metropolitan area in rubble, stopped by a group known as the "Avengers", and were carried out by a mysterious force. 

Actually, 'mysterious' was the wrong word; everyone knew who lead them. They were carried out by a being named Loki, who called himself a god. He did have the same name as a Norse deity, the God of Mischief…but it couldn't be him, right? Then again, this "Loki" had no background information available - no tax records, no school credentials, let alone a birth certificate - to prove that he was, well, a human citizen. Being a fan of mythology and legends, you thought that maybe…just maybe, he could be a real-life god. But other than you, who would believe that? Certainly not your editor, who claimed to understand nothing but 'cold, hard facts'.

Tick, tick, tick, tick…

Annoyed with being unable to come up with a good lede or an outline, you wandered towards the staff room and made yourself a pot of coffee. While the machine dripped and fizzled, you picked up an issue of the New York Times. Absent-mindedly flipping through the pages, you found yourself going back to the front cover.

It was a photograph (from the Associated Press) of Loki, with greasy black hair, a muzzle over his mouth, and handcuffs. On the photograph were the words, "Avengers Stop Terror Attack on New York City".

You poured yourself a cup of freshly-made coffee, added some French Vanilla coffee creamer, and meandered back to your cubicle, coffee in one hand and newspaper in the other. 

Tick, tick, tick, tick.

Scanning the article, there didn't seem to be anything that stuck out to you. There were mentions of the lives lost, the damages incurred,…and the money that the government was doling out to repair the city. But then, there was something that drew your attention. They constantly referred to Loki as "the terrorist behind the attacks" with "unclear motivations". Unclear motivations…

Once you reached your cubicle, you kept the newspaper aside, took another sip of your coffee, and typed 'Loki New York' in your computer's search engine. Several articles from bigger, flashier magazines and tabloids came up, all of them with titles such as, 

"The New Hitler?"

"German Terrorist, Enemy of the Avengers"

"Satan Has Come to Earth, and He's a Psychopath Who Calls Himself God."

You grimaced. Where did people come up with these click-bait ideas? You scrolled through almost all of the articles; not one of them provided enough concrete evidence to call Loki a psychopath, let alone Satan or Hitler. They just repeated statistics found in the New York Times, and told their readers to look both ways when crossing the street. And most people should have known by now that psychopathy is something that needs to be diagnosed, preferably by a psychiatric professional. 

Tick, tick, tick, tick.

That's right, you reminded yourself, I still have to get my story done before tomorrow's meeting. 

With a deep breath, you opened up YouTube and clicked on a video leaked from a German security camera showing the entire speech Loki made in Stuttgart, at a museum gala. 

Wearing a golden helmet with horns, dark emerald robes, Loki approached the quivering crowd with a scepter in hand. "Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation?"

You paused the video, and scribbled down that quote on a blue sticky note, word for word. Humans crave subjugation…really? Don't most people like to be in control of their own lives? I mean, no one likes being told what to do.

Loki continued to address the crowd. "The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life’s joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.”

Pausing the video again, you scribbled the rest of his words on a separate sticky note. Tapping your pen, you pursed your lips, trying to figure out what that could possibly mean.

A bright lure of freedom diminishes life's joy…so the joy of living, the pleasure that one experiences in being alive is lessened by the promise of freedom. 

Deciding to keep track of your thoughts, you began typing your thoughts on the blank Word document that had been open all day.

According to Loki, the pleasure that one experiences in being alive, you typed, is lessened by the promise of freedom. But humans love freedom, isn't that why throughout history, people have been willing to lay their lives down for independence? Practically half the world has fought the British empire at some point for independence. Then how can one say that freedom diminishes life's joy?

Then again…Loki may have a point, you continued to type your thoughts. It's one kind of struggle to fight for freedom from an oppressive regime, but it's another kind of struggle to make do with the freedom that one has been given. It's not easy, isn't it? After gaining the prize of independence, each country must figure out how to manage themselves. Thus, countries form their own governments in which power is handled by a few select leaders. 

Sometimes those leaders are benevolent and kind, and sometimes those leaders are tyrannical and oppressive.

But going back to Loki's point, perhaps he is right in saying that humans are meant to be ruled. Without a ruler, be it a president or a prime minister or a king, or someone to enforce order, humans fall into chaos just like flowers without roots.

Loki finished his speech by saying "In the end, you will always kneel." And in response, someone spoke up and said, "not to men like you." To me, that begs the question, "What makes someone worth...kneeling? If we the people do not kneel before men like Loki, then whom do we kneel before?"

Whether we know it or not, we kneel everyday. We kneel before those we love, putting their happiness before ours. We kneel before those whom we trust, allowing them to place certain regulations on our society. We kneel before those whom we fear, obeying their every word because we believe that they have the power to harm us if we disobey them.

Then is Loki wrong in saying that in the end, we always kneel?

He may bear the same name as the God of Mischief, but Loki's words call to a serious facet of human nature. While the skyscrapers of New York City are being rebuilt, we must take a moment to redefine our idea of freedom. How truly free are we in this day and age? Is every freedom truly a gift, or are there freedoms that have caused more harm than good? 

You blinked at the sight of your Word document, which was now the opposite of blank. Perhaps you might have a unique story waiting to be published. All that was left to do was continue writing, and maybe add some more structure. 

Filled with a new sense of energy, you furiously typed away…and watched the clip of Loki's speech at least three more times. 

By the time you finished typing your draft, and editing any grammatical mistakes (or stylistic errors), the clock read eight forty-five. You sighed and threw your head back. Gods, this were not expecting to be done this late.

And as if worrying about catching the next train wasn't enough, the sound of mysterious footsteps outside of your office sent your heart racing. Who could be here this late?

The footsteps became more loud and crisp with every step. In a panic, you pressed 'control-P' on your computer and hastily logged out before grabbing your things and fleeing the office. Your article was saved, surely you could print it out tomorrow if necessary. But right now, you just needed to get home. 

Narrowly escaping the source of the footsteps, you scrambled out of the office, into the large elevator, and out of the building. 

The next morning, you returned to your desk to find the article printed on your desk…under an unknown, luminous, blue cube which served as a paperweight. 

Hey GO fandom! Thank you for all the suggestions! (Still happy to hear more, but here is the most updated as of 11/16/23)

The Ineffable Timeline

FINALLY SOMETHING TO LOOK AT THAT MAKES MY PAIN WORSE BUT IN A GLORIOUS WAY THANK YOUUUU

LOKI | S2E6 'Glorious Purpose'

Lockscreens

Reblog if you use and like the stuff I make :)

Very helpful for captions hehe

Taylor Swift + Colors

This post but with the lyrics included

I love this post so much.

I don’t know what’s going on inside the writers from that Collider website, really

They are so invested in complaining how marvel did Sylvie and Loki’s relationship dirty, when in fact their relationship was the way it was supposed to be, just like it was presented in all of season 1.

Sylvie, as the incredible Tom Hiddleston so eloquently stated, was a mirror to Loki, so that he could see his own errors and how selfish he was. They were never a romance at all, if anything Loki had some sort of crush on her because, again, ego.

And, of course, the retconned kiss was never an “I love you” kiss. That moment was all about Loki trying to stop her and her using his care for her as a distraction to get him out of the way to kill HWR.