#we're filling in the gaps of a persona that we want to see and we all percieve this vague figure differently

[mischief-lies-and-stories]

Loki Episode 5 theory

Spoilers for Season 2, mostly end of episode 4 and the trailer. (Also something that's been going around the tag, but I'm not explicitly mentioning it.)

Theory: The Loom exploding sent the Time Revengers to various points on the timelines.

I'm calling them the Time Revengers. I tossed around Avengers 2.0 and Time Avengers, but Ragnarok is my favorite movie (and I forced my friends to call our dnd adventuring group The Revengers), so naturally I had to go with Time Revengers for our sextet (Casey, OB, B-15, Sylvie, Loki, Mobius, and sort-of Timely). Anyway--

So at the end of last episode, the loom exploded. Possibly also the timelines, but for the sake of this theory I'm going with the loom. Part of me thinks the episode is going to reset (it did do a thing the way the reset charges do) and we're gonna try again in ep 5. However, there are still a lot of clips in the trailers that haven't shown up yet in the show. (And also the terrible, no good, very bad spoiler that I'm hoping to god is fake.)

So my thinking is the explosion sends them to various points on the Timeline. In some cases, it sends them back to their original place on the timeline, but not necessarily. They just go where there's a gap for them to fill. Based on the trailer, Casey ends up in prison (I think), B-15 is a doctor, and Sylvie is listening to a cassette/record on a couch (possibly in Broxton). I have no idea where OB is (maybe we see it in a trailer and I've forgotten). Loki either goes back to Asgard (AND WE GET TO SEE THOR???), or he's on Midgard in one of his mortal personas, Jordan or Loren or someone else. I want Thor to show up (and he's currently in New Asgard, so maybe he will), but based on everyone else, it makes more sense for Loki to be on Earth (though maybe Verity will show up if he's there?!). And then we get the terrible, no good, very bad (fingers-crossed-possibly-fake) spoiler that's been making the rounds about Mobius's backstory. At least one of these is not in their real place on the Sacred Timeline, and if Loki is on Earth that will bring the number to at least 2. So Mobius doesn't necessarily have to be in his actual backstory here.

I think they take at least half an episode to figure out they're not supposed to be where they are and to get back to each other in order to reform the Time Revengers and take two at fixing things.

The only issue I have with this theory is that there's only two episodes left, and I feel like this would take most of an episode to do well. We don't really have the time for that.

(Also, yes, this is absolutely me being in denial about the terrible, no good, very bad spoiler. I'm still questioning its veracity, but if it is true, no it's not.)

#loki #loki tv show #loki theories #loki season 2 #sylvie laufeydottir #mobius m mobius #loki season 2 spoilers

[sinistarz]

I'm probably the odd one out here but I genuinely do think that the way Dan is portrayed in Fate's Arrow is perfectly in character for him. There are things that contradict here and there obviously but a lot of canons in a lot of fantasy worlds do that, so it's no bother to me. As a Star Wars and DC fan I'm used to that stuff, anyway.

I've been playing the MediEvil games since I could first hold a Ps1 controller, and before that I even watched my dad play them and read out the lore to me like a bedtime story. And I can happily say that Dan's backstory in that comic doesn't bother me or make me wish it was completely different at all.

The fact Dan was a pompous bastard when he was still alive is... incredibly fitting. Of course I do love the fanon idea of him always having been shy and reserved, but him having been a cocky, self-entitled asshat living off Daddy's trust fund while also being a liar and a massive coward makes for an absolutely perfect story. It makes his redemption when brought back from the dead, as well as his resentment towards his former self feel all the more genuine.

Like... the point is, we weren't supposed to like him. The whole point of the comic is to make the audience understand that Dan (alive) is practically irredeemable and show how absolutely unfit he was to be a captain of the guard... because that's the joke. That's always been the comedy of it. He's a jerk, he's selfish and careless and cowardly. He's awful and thats why his future self is so agitated when reflecting on his past and wants so badly to fix his errors.

It's a way of the writers explaining that if we had known Dan when he was alive, we would have hated him and never wanted him to succeed. Maybe even wanted Zarok to win, but I'm just riffing. But we didn't know him then. We knew his redemption arc only, for decades, and we already loved him. And then we were given the full story, and learn how much of a dick he was. That is incredible storytelling.

I love the fact he was an asshole. Through and through, for all the above reasons. It makes so much sense.

Additionally, his appearance. I see a lot of people ragging on the way he looks, and I get it, but let me just say that the fact he looked when alive was so rediculous and goofy only compliments the storytelling. He absolutely does not look trustworthy, or brave or powerful. He looks wonky and unkempt. When gallowmere retold the life of Dan, it makes sense that when lying about his success, they would exaggerate his conventional beauty and describe him as some sort of demigod, when in reality he was just an average joe among the castle. Also the facial hair is literal genius. It made me giggle. The point of his looks in the games was to look goofy enough to giggle at, so of course that would translate to his living face as well.

I think the problem people have is, we've become so accustomed to the way Dan is portrayed in the actual games during his redemption and how his persona was presented to us then, that we've already sort of developed a version of him in our minds that we cling to. So that when we're shown how Dan actually was when he was alive, it's hard to take in and accept since we already have a fanon to ourselves. Which is fine, because creation sparking creation is the best and fandoms keep media going. We've already filled in the gaps of his past ourselves because we've only ever really known his future, and thats why Fate's Arrow Dan is such a turn off to so many people.

But, like I said, it fits, it makes sense and I'm glad the writers went with it. I have seen so many fan portrayals of living Dan throughout the decades from so many different talented people I still did, do and always will love them. But I absolutely love the canon we were given and I wouldn't have it any other way.

(Also- I saw some comments about how Dan looked different when alive in Resurrection- and just allow me to point out that so did everybody. Every character and thing was redesigned in the PSP version, including the story. That's a whole different universe, so it's unaffected by the comic entirely.)

Anyways ramble over. 💀🗡🏹

P.S., I absolutely agree with the fandom though that Tim is trans. I know the comic said it was "crossdressing" but come on. In a world where magic can bring scarecrows to life and fire breathing dragons exist, a trans man simply existing and being happy in the 1200s is beyond normal.

#medievil #medievil fates arrow #sir daniel fortesque #canny tim

[smooth-goat]

1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 20, 69

lmmao mmost of these are from my hunter owl house playlist afjdsl

Welcome To Eden - The Wild Honey Pie Buzzsession -- Samia

And I'll love her forever but how could she know When I look in her grave and her cold fingers reach up and Rachel, I'm sorry for calling you by the wrong name It was just a suggestion

I really like the quick transition on "reach up and--Rachel" like whatever is happening at the grave is too difficult to talk about that the narrator has to switch subjects. And "I'm sorry for calling you by the wrong name / it was just a suggestion" is very Character for the Character Playlist.

2. Rät -- Penelope Scott

I bit the apple 'cause I trusted you It tastes like Thomas Malthus Your proposal is immodest and insane

The lyrics here are pretty dense writing, with the Biblical reference (which is a common throughline), the name of Thomas Malthus (anti-Irish, classist, genocide man), and the word "immodest" referencing Johnathan Switft's "A Modest Proposal", which satirizes Malthus. I think it's pretty clever writing.

I mean this is very much a song for the Hunter OwlHouse playlist. I could go into a whole infodump about Hunter and Belos and maybe I'll do that to you on discord afdjlks but basically there's a lot of little things here that work in addition to the basic premise of betrayal felt by a tech daddy role model.

3. Trouble -- Cage the Elephant

I said it was love and I did it for life Didn't do it for you

Something interesting for me there in those lines. About how the relationship was more about checking off a box and wanting a good life experience over the person they're actually sharing that experience with. Mostly though what I like about this song is the moodiness of it. It has this vibe of like, being lost in a city and turning round and round looking for where you're going, asking for directions but no one's talking to you, helplessly going in circles. Also, I like the "the wicked get no rest" line referencing another of their songs; I love when musicians do that shit.

4. Bumblebees Are Out -- Jack Stauber's Micropop

Kind of odd and difficult to pick favorite lyrics here because there're so few of them. But I put it on because of the unsettling tone, implicit child abuse, and the contrast between said abuse and disowning with picking flowers, and how even picking flowers can't be free from some pain.

10. Problems -- Mother Mother

You and me, we're not the same I am a sinner, you are a saint When we get to the pearly gates You'll get the green light, I'll get the old door in the face

I don't honestly have strong opinions about this song? It just fills a transition gap in the playlist for me. I do think though that it has a strong opening. I also like the line "Some go to baseball, some go debase a face they can't seem to save" because of the repetition of the "s" sound; I think that's fun and clever.

20. Art School Wannabe -- Sorority Noise

Maybe I'm my own greatest fear Maybe I'm just scared to admit that I might not be as dark as I think Maybe I am not the person That I never wanted to be

I like the commentary this song has about the persona of the tortured artist. How the creative community (in this case, the music world) places so much value in the romantic ideal of depression, when not only is the reality not that but also that wanting to be happy and recover is actually good; it won't make you a worse artist and it won't make you a less interesting person.

69 (nice). Campus -- Vampire Weekend

How am I supposed to pretend I never want to see you again?

I just think this song is fun and catchy fjdsakl And I think it's very evocative of the specific lifestyle of college casual sex: having "important" things to focus on but hooking up instead, learning how to navigate a sexual social life with new relative independence, and being in a fairly small and confined social space making it hard to avoid past encounters.

#ask meme #birdsong #asked and answered #spotify