loki season 2 episode 3 spoilers!
“it’s broken” says voiceover sylvie over the shot of loki and mobius torturing brad. yes sylvie i agree
oooh a lot of renslayer in this recap thing, i hope that means we’ll get to see her this episode
oooohh old timey marvel theme
is this. the old west?? i cannot tell
RENSLAYER!!
miss minutes is horrifying
she looks like she’s animated differently than season 1. way more cheap-cgi-ish, like they didn’t have time to finish animating her movements. i might be misremembering s1 tho?
child kang?? is that you??
i thought kang said he was born in the century 3000 or something? or ig this kid might be a variant? OR MAYBE HE LIED ABOUT WHEN HE WAS BORN
“you can hack into the system” “oh, that is such a relief!” ouroboros autistic vibes intensify
mobius and loki are fancyyy
HOT AIR BALLOONS!! AAA THIS PLACE IS SO VIBEY
SKDHSKSK??? there’s a nordic section???
was that use of they/them for loki intentional orrrr 👀
you know what i’m gonna say loki’s using he/they pronouns this episode and no one can stop me
“thor wasn’t that tall”
AAAAAA this episode is such a fun aesthetic so far i will never shut up about this
“what do you know about the future, boy” “great question! and the answer is, more than you…………………………..might think”
dang kang must be cosplaying as thor with all those lightning bolts
nope nope mobius that’s a terrible idea. do i have a better one? no. do i know that taking kang to the tva will backfire? yes
oh come on loki is jotun they should be able to take this human even if he is big
oh good he used his magic
GASPPP SYLVIE
what if they broke the loom instead of fixing it/expanding it/whatever they’re trying to do now? someone built the loom in the first place, the timeline wasn’t always bound by it, right? so if they broke it maybe it wouldn’t have as bad an effect on the tva as they think
if victor timely’s inventions have all been tricks so far then i don’t think he’s gonna know how to fix something for real
kinda agreeing with sylvie at the moment
welp loki just magically shoved victor close to the door that’s about to open. this can’t end well
MOBIUS AND LOKI WITH A DOUBLE BIKE??? FELLAS IT WOULD BE WAY MORE EFFICIENT TO JUST GET TWO SEPARATE BIKES
nooo they aren’t gonna ride the bike :( fanartists, you know what to do
whoop here comes the villain romance. and you know what they’re kind of perfect for each other
ahhhh so he CAN invent
squints at miss minutes. you seem jealous
I’M DYING VICTOR THINKS MOBIUS IS LOKI’S BUTLER???
skshdks maybe if you didn’t scream “THEY TRACKED US, RUN” you would’ve had more time to run, victor
MAGIC BLAST
how did they get in the wall?!
ok but this victor/ravonna romance is actually really cute. they are both bad people but the perfect ones for each other
yup miss minutes is definitely jealous
awwwww he made her a flower! this relationship is definitely gonna end in tragedy
uh oh ravonna didn’t hear it when he said he doesn’t do partners
damn already? i was expecting victor’s betrayal to happen in the next episode at least
i wonder if this is gonna make ravonna switch sides
that is an unsettling amount of mannequins
“the culmination of my life’s work” but what does it dooooo
uh oh miss minutes i think you’re gonna scare him
btw victor is kinda giving arospec vibes
miss minutes. stop. i am begging you. this is making both me and victor very uncomfortable
MISS MINUTES NO. VICTOR RUN AWAY FROM HER AND BE A GOOD PERSON WHO IS NOT A DICTATOR
OHHHH RAVONNA’S HERE! DRAMAAA
SHE’S GOT A POINTY GLOWY THING
loki and mobius are here now!
“all that matters is order vs chaos. i’m order” AND HERE COMES SYLVIE AS THE CHAOS!!!
hmmm? elaborate trick or will victor be good?
sylvie sees herself in him. she can’t do it
see you later loki and mobius and victor
HOLY CRAP SYLVIE I DID NOT EXPECT THAT. DANG JUST DUMPING RAVONNA IN FRONT OF THE DEAD BODY OF THE PERSON SHE IDOLIZED
OHOHO WHAT’S THE JUICY PLOT SECRET MISS MINUTES?
i bet it’s something about kang wiping ravonna’s memories of a life they had together or something
no end credits scene this time!
i loved this episode!! i think it’s my favorite one yet
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because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.
you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.
you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.
don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.
if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.
you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:
how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!
aren't you happy yet?
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you're in the habit of denying yourself things.
if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.
but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?
what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.
and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.
you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.
so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.
it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.
sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.
oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.
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