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SYLKI STANS!
If you didn’t know yet, there is a Loki season one novelization, and it is full of the sweetest pro-sylki paragraphs. And yes, it is an official Marvel item!!
book links at the end of the post :)
Mari (user @/maybeloveishate on Twitter) made a thread of the copy of the book in Portuguese, and here are snippets of the book in English (with my favorite parts in pink!)
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On the train:
“She was genuinely very funny. He almost… liked her.”
On Lamentis:
“He couldn’t help but be impressed by the way she fought. She was elegant and gracious, full of skill and strength. If they weren’t in the middle of an apocalypse, maybe he would stop to watch.”
“Even in the end of the world, Loki thought, the things are beautiful. He looked at Sylvie. She was beautiful too. ‘I’m sorry’ he said sincerely. Sylvie’s eyes met his. It was hard to bear seeing the sadness in her.”
“Asteroids continued to fall around Loki, yet he couldn't let go of Sylvie's hand, nor stop looking into her eyes. A cloud of dust and rocks rained toward them. In a matter of seconds, he would swallow them, and he realized he didn't care as much as he thought he would. He had never felt this way before. That somehow all the bad things were worth it if he could just have this one, brilliant, indisputably good thing.”
The TVA arrest:
“Whatever was going to happen, Loki knew that Sylvie would be with him on the other side, and they would live to see another day born. Together.”
Mobius interrogates Loki (he says Sylvie is, and then isn't, dead)
“Something was hurting in his core. Everything was hurting. That was wrong. It couldn't be. He sank into the uncomfortable chair, feeling as if the entire universe had perched on his chest.”
“And at that moment, the world stopped.”
“Loki exhaled. He had never been so relieved before. Was this what it was like to like someone?”
The Void:
“Loki listened to Sylvie's inspiring words and felt them spin in his chest like moving leaves, a feeling of change, of new life. It was spring and sweetness mixed with trepidation. Love really did strange things with your heart.”
Blanket scene:
“Loki looked at her, then. Really looked at her. ‘I care about you’, he wanted to say.”
"He couldn't look at her. But he also couldn't not look at her.”
“Loki couldn't look at her without feeling his face get hot. So he looked down instead, smiling disconcertedly.”
“His face was so close to Sylvie’s, so close that he could smell her hair.”
“He had never spoken so honestly about his feelings with anyone. Was this what true friendship was like? Was this what it was like to love someone?”
“And then Loki’s heart did the inconceivable: it literally beat faster.”
The Kiss:
“She dropped the sword. And then kissed him. Their lips fit, and Loki felt time pause, flowing like honey. How had he lived all this time without feeling this? Now that he knew what it was like to love someone, to really love someone, he would never be the same. Sylvie kissed him, and left him lost in time. Everything stopped. Nothing else mattered.”
After Sylvie killed HWR:
“For a moment Sylvie just stood there, everything went white, like a new page, or a tombstone without an epitaph. she made it. she really made it. she found him, and she killed him. and betrayed Loki for that. her heart felt heavy and she started crying. her legs gave in.”
After the citadel:
“He wanted everything to be good for her. No matter what happened, whether he met Sylvie again or not, he would try his best to make things better. So, maybe... just maybe, they could live together in that better world.”
BOOK LINKS
copy from fishpond (English version, ships free everywhere)
copy from the original Australian site (English version, ships only in Australia)
copy from Amazon Spain
copy from Amazon Mexico
copy from Amazon Brazil
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"𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 - 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰'𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓."
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"Without Sylvie's connection to Loki, it would have been easy to allow He Who Remains to live in order to save all of time and space. But Loki's love for Sylvie keeps him from making the hard choice, even if it means saving literally every single life. His love for her also makes him understand that the only choice is to sacrifice himself rather than anyone else." (source)
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✨Happy New Year!✨
This is my gift to @ashes_ana on Twitter!
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Their kiss that we all deserve.
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LOKI & SYLVIE: FOR ALL TIME. ALWAYS.
Art Print by Jake Kontou
[Sideshow]
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"For you, I will hold the entire Multiverse in my hands."
I hope my art will heal you a little 💚
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I can't tell you how disappointed I'm right now with the way they wrote Sylki in season 2. In season 1 it was so good, it's the main story and help building characters a lot. But they just threw it all in the trash in season 2.
We are already on the 5th episode and we see the same distrust and useless conversation between Loki and Sylvie repeated over and over again. Zero development. It looks like they've lost interest in each other, which doesn't make any sense. What happened to awkward teenagers in love vibes? And they not only pushed Sylki into the background, but Sylvie can hardly be called a guest, even a minor character in this season.
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You can "rewrite the story"? Cool, why dont you rewrite this season and make you and Sylvie actually give a fuck for each other again?
Give me my ship back, damn it!! Not only they are not developing their story from s1, they´re making behave like total strangers!! When writers decided they would completely change their relationship??
Where are these guys??
what went wrong here??
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It looks like the writers at Loki decided to undo all the romance, prune sylki from the timeline, srly if you don't watch season 1 you can't even tell they had something going on once. More surprising is that Loki doesn't care at all when Sylvie kissed him like, 3 days ago. He just forgot.
And I think that's bad writing because... as Brandon Sanderson puts it, stories make promises, for example, "this will be a love story", "this will be a coming of age story", "this is going to be a vampire story". If you set up a story as a vampire story but then only focus on the werewolves, even if most of it is good, it's inevitably going to feel like nothing is happening and there was no story, because in the first two or three chapters, you sold your story as a vampire story, even if you thought you were writing a werewolf story, and the readers will think they're reading a vampire story in which it just takes ages for the vampire part to actually start, and then it never arrives, and they didn't even enjoy the werewolf story because it felt like useless filler taking up the space meant to be for vampires. And it just feels like nothing ever happens.
In this case, Sylki is vampires and the temporal loom plotline is werewolf. Not only is it uninteresting, but it also just feels like the writers did a 180 and decided to take the show on a completely different direction out of nowhere. And if you're going to not fulfill your narrative promises, then you need to deliver something BETTER than what you promised - and Loki did that! In the first season. It set it up as a story about Loki playing cat and mouse with another Loki, which is cool and interesting, but then, Loki and the other Loki fell in love! Add drama, add character, add emotion and growth, and THEN it becomes even better, to the point you forget you ever wanted Loki trying to arrest another Loki in the first place.
But this season does the complete opposite. The temporal loom has no character, no personality, no emotion and no growth. The characters in the crew are either underdeveloped, have underdeveloped relationships with each other, or both. So when the writers want us to believe Loki's true motivation is to keep his friends close because he discovered the power of friendship, we don't buy it. I could buy Loki and Sylvie loving each other if the writers put a little bit more effort. I can buy Loki and Mobius being... coworkers who get along and work well together, they may even be friends if they talked about their feelings a bit more. The rest? I can barely remember their names or any significant conversation they had with Loki that wasn't about saving a soulless, empty, narratively useless temporal loom. This show became less about Loki and his loved ones, and more about a machine they need to fix. That's all everyone does all the time. And the one time Loki talks about his feelings... I'm not even gonna say it's ridiculous that he says he wants his friends, or that he suddenly cares about the TVA, "savings things", order or what have you, as if he hadn't tried to destroy New York like 2 weeks ago. Because ANYTHING he could have said would have been ridiculous. Be it love, friendship, redemption, duty, basic decency, power, ego or anything else, had NOT been set up at all during this season. The only thing they had going on, maybe, is some love for Sylvie as a leftover from last season, and even then it'd be shaky because Loki and Sylvie haven't shared an atom of affection at all since this season started, and even THAT would feel forced at this point.
I'm really disappointed in this season, I really loved the first one, I loved sylki and the sylki fandom, I'll still watch the last episode, but I'm pretty sad this is what we get in the end. A non-ending to an abandoned story about Loki, Sylvie, free will, chaos and identity, forever without conclussion, with only a storyline about a broken machine to call a continuation, a Loki whose only ACTUAL motivation is "Save the TVA or everything gets destroyed", but says he's only doing this for the power of friendship... without forming any friendships along the way.
What I would have done instead would be to amp up the character tension - remember that storyline about Loki chasing around another Loki? Bring it back. Make Loki and Sylvie "enemiss", with an obvious sexual tension, maybe, or make him desperately look for her as a villanous outcast on the run, just give some texture, some meat, anything at all to their relationship. And give Loki an actual motivation. Erase the temporal loom storyline. Keep He Who Remains as the main antagonistic force. Make it opposing him something... optional. Something Loki is either choosing to do or choosing not to, because if it's something he HAS to do or else the world ends, he necessarily would need to potpone any real desires of his, and that's not an interesting story. Whether he fights HWR or not, it has to be because it connects to something he actually, really wants. Because this show isn't fooling anyone. Loki doesn't care about the power of friendship. He just has to "save the TVA or everything gets destroyed". If he was only in it because he wanted friends, he would have actually befriended someone along the way, and not just pulled around coworkers to help him fix a broken end-of-the-world machine they had to help fix anyway.
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Michael Waldron and Kate Herron: take this, it is our masterpiece *hands off Loki S1*
Loki S2 creators: Cool, don’t care
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Thank gods, I'm not the only one who understands this.
sylkis, we need to recognize that loki did betray sylvie.
in s1e5, loki gave sylvie his word that he would stand by her and wouldn't turn on her after they found the one who was behind the tva, but he did exactly what he had promised her not to do after they found hwr.
and in s2, sylvie reunites with loki who willingly works for the tva and has a nerve to ask her to help saving it - saving the same organization that committed genocide against her people, completely annihilated her world and has been persecuting her ever since she was a child.
and that's only the beginning. in s2e3, loki defends kang against sylvie once again. just try seeing her point of view, please - he is physically fighting her, hitting her with his magic, all in order to protect the man whom she perceives as her abuser. he is working for the organization that, to her knowledge, is still pruning the billions.
don't forget that sylvie has pathological trust issues and yet she trusted someone for the first time in her life. so loki's behavior must have hurt her more than anything else ever has!
does loki do all of this for the greater good? yes! is this still a betrayal of sylvie. also yes.
the fact is that loki took the side of sylvie's sworn enemies and the fandom not recognizing it drives me insane! the whole tension is a lot more angsty when we see it for what it is. and as a shipper, i love it!
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