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Partial hiatus

So I really hate to do this directly after a new Thor movie has been released, but I need to take a step back from the meta side of this blog.  It’s draining and discouraging trying to rehash the same points in the same defense of this character when it feels like, in 2017, there’s no one more open-minded to his gray amorality or compassionate to his canonically proven trauma than there was in 2011, and a whole new wave of fans are determined to pigeonhole him as a flat villain.   

 I had less friction from  my doctoral dissertation committee than I have in response to my advocacy of this character. And this is a hobby, and it shouldn’t be actively depressing me the way it is.  I’m tired, fam.  

I will still be doing IC content on a semi-regular basis, but consider me taking a vacation from doing meta battle on Loki’s behalf for the next month-ish.  

Maybe show some interest in the hard work I’ve already done here for several years, and browse through my meta and loki meta tags, as well as my headcanons tag, for the time being.  

Thanks for your consideration, and your understanding. 

//Okay guys, I’m sorry, but after some deliberation, I’ve deleted all the drafts in my folder and I’m starting from scratch.  They were just too long and too old and I couldn’t find muse for them.

If you owe me, feel free to still send something back to me.  I think right now that boils down to @burningxcourage and @materxnatura. No rush, of course ❤ 

I am, right now, up for short starters set post-TDW.  I will reblog some Ask memes along these lines.  

PSA on ships

//I’m opening this blog back up to multishipping.  For the past year personal difficulties led me to limit shipping to Logyn (Loki X Sigyn) and Frozen Thorns (Loki X Seraphina).  I believe that with Ragnarok’s release, my muse for Loki will become louder again.  I would like to cautiously revisit multishipping.  

(P.S. Logyn and Frozen Thorns are still of GREAT value to me <3)

  • Each ship is in its own discrete verse. 
  • My Notp is Thorki. 
  • I am more comfortable shipping this particular muse with fellow canons.  
  • This muse is panromantic and pansexual. 
  • I am crossover-friendly.  I ship chemistry.  And with Loki that will take time.  Loki is also mentally ill and suffers from PTSD. Please have patience with him.  I will not soften him for a ship, but he is capable of fierce devotion. 
  • Please approach me if interested. I can’t guarantee anything but I will probably be open to trying something at least once.  

//Since over 2,200 people come to this blog for thoughts on Loki and his narrative treatment in the MCU:

Please take a deep breath.  I know we all adore these characters, and have deep personal investment in them. Especially in Loki, who has challenged so many paradigms and has come to represent an unfairly demonized underdog for so many of us.  

I really think that before we speculate on the details of 3-second promos too extensively, we should wait to watch the film.  Recall that many scenes from The Dark World were cut, reshot, or altered altogether before the final product was released, changing the essential nature and tone of the story.  While most of the changes were to Loki’s disadvantage, some, like the throne room scene with Odin, casting Loki as unfairly condemned by a tyrant losing his mind, were to his advantage. 

–Remember that these promos are released for broad appeal to a crowd of people who do not sit down and deconstruct the individual elements of media analysis the way we do here.  As such, they may be extremely misleading. They are crafted by media professionals to economically grab the attention of a mass audience, using humor that not all of us will find tasteful, sensitive, or healthy.  It’s an unfortunate fact, but it does not mean that the finished product in question will be that devastatingly bad.  

–Do I think that Loki is being shortchanged again for humor? Yes. Because MCU has never quite known what to do with Tom Hiddleston’s success in reinventing the character and making him so relatable to so many fans.  They  can’t make him a villain anymore, but neither can they make him a hero. They have a huge problem with where to place morally gray antiheroes in their narrative. And yes that makes me furious. 

–Do I still have hope that there may be a slim silver lining? That Loki fans can enjoy the film?  That maybe if we wait for context not everything will be as damning as it seems? Also, yes.

I am asking that we wait and gather more data before we extrapolate conclusions.   

//Just to make this abundantly clear:

I am neither Ragnarok-positive nor Ragnarok-critical.  I am Ragnarok-CONSIDERING. I will see the film and then I will offer some constructive criticism as well as hopefully some thoughts on a silver lining.

I think that taking a stance one way or the other on the next installment is premature, when it does not come out until fall 2017.  

My thoughts on the trailer are HERE and HERE.  

PSA: Semi-Hiatus

I hate to do this but I need to go on a semi hiatus until May.  I’ll reply to the pile of meta Asks and IC threads ASAP, I promise, but I’m working from the moment I get up till bedtime every day to move house; we have less than two months for two women to pack and move a large house, and we have not found a place yet to move to.  We are also both sick and disabled and really really stressed out.  I am really flattered by people’s interest in my thoughts and writing, really flattered and touched, but please, I need your patience. I didn’t want to let IRL impact my productivity but it clearly already has. 

My hope is that by the time I’m back, there’ll be more new source material to inspire the muse as well.  

Thanks in advance! ❤ 

//Quick PSA: I got a TRUCKLOAD of REALLY cool meta questions this week, including late last night and early this morning, and this is just me reassuring you all that I WILL answer them. The catch: right now my brain is mashed potatoes because of new life sustaining medications I’ve been forced to take (they really impede concentration :/) so rather than give you something slipshod, I’m gonna wait a couple of days. Just know that I am not ignoring your fabulous ideas ❤ 

//OKAY SO…I’ve been tremendously ill and in the hospital since last Friday, and just got out yesterday. And I beg patience of my followers, but apparently there was a meme with a three star symbol, and I forget what the prompt was because it was like a week ago. 

Also just. Give me time, I have medical trauma PTSD which has been VASTY worsened by the events of the past week (they mistakenly thought I had liver cancer which an MRI disproved but I was living in terror for days, and with a very bad doctor who made my living conditions in the hospital poorer than if I had just stayed at home). I’m really unable to discuss people’s problems right now, or do them favors, or read their projects, and so on and so forth. I appreciate being an approachable personality to so many people here, but please help me recover just as I’d want to help you.