2 months ago · 15,477 notes · Source · Reblogged from passacaria
Loki is such a great, larger-than-life character. He has so many dimensions. He is motivated by jealousy, ambition, pride, vanity, arrogance and greed – and yet he gets to have a lot of fun because of his predisposition towards mischief. On one level, he is this grandiose agent of chaos. He’s a cackling villain standing on rooftops, laughing at the sky. But on another level, he’s a lost child and a brother who was always the second string because he grew up in the shadow of Thor. He’s a rejected, abandoned son who has no place in the universe, so all his destructive anger is motivated by a lack of self-esteem. I don’t think he even knows it, but he’s desperately trying to give himself a purpose.
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Tom Hiddleston
Avengers Assemble: Tom Hiddleston Interview | SFX
There are a lot of people with a great deal of Avengers feels and Loki feels out there, but I suspect Hiddleston has so many Loki feels, that if he had anymore he’d collapse into a black hole of feels.
8 months ago · 30,156 notes · Source · Reblogged from twhiddlestonfanpage
Journey into Mystery #622
What are you, precisely?
I am the echo of a scream.
8 months ago · 48 notes · Source · Reblogged from poiju
“I missed you.”
quick sketch because I wanted some kind of reunion scene when Thor came back to life and it didn’t happen ):
I was working on something else but I just needed to get this out of my system
because little Loki needs hugs
Right in the feels.
9 months ago · 209 notes · Source · Reblogged from journey-into-mystery
Kieron Gillen Charts interview: [x]
“And if this was in any other media, if it was any other story, the books wouldn’t have its underlying sadness. I think in our in culture, if you have this basic story – here’s the god of evil and he’s been reincarnated, and he is going to basically try and not become the god of evil again – if that was told in a movie, or told as anything else, you would assume he would make it. Our culture enjoys telling stories about that. Conversely, we’re in the situation of writing in the Marvel Universe, where there is the weight of continuity pressing down, and in someway everyone expects Loki to become evil. As much as he’s lovable, as much as people like him, they expect it to all go wrong, so people buy into his story in a way they wouldn’t necessarily buy outside the Marvel Universe. It’s one of those very, very rare situations where the weight of commerce and fan expectation works in the book’s favor.
That’s the core story, though: can people change? Or rather, can this particular person change?”
9 months ago · 11 notes · Reblogged from gwenbasil-deactivated20120930
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Loki is taught from a very young age that being a Jotun was the equivalent of being a monster. He is socialized to believe that they are a thing of nightmares, a thing to be hated and feared. So when he realizes what he is, when he realizes that he is that outcast, this abominable figure, that he is a part of the hated race of Jotuns, he breaks. In the first gif in the set, Thor, (barely twelve years old, max?), is already proclaiming his hate for the Jotun race and vowing to ‘hunt them down and slay them all,’ Aside from how honestly sad that is to hear from someone as young as Thor, it also must be really painful for Loki, not in that moment, but much later, when Odin reveals who he truly is.
Second row: Loki’s spent a lot of time being told that his craft is silly, spent a lot of time in brother’s shadow, spent a lot of time being told to shut the fuck up. The one thing that he’s good at—being a wordsmith, of sorts, is something that he never gets to utilize, because he is constantly being mocked or shut down. It’s heartbreaking. Another thing about Loki, I genuinely believe he loves his brother. Loki doesn’t think Thor is fit for the crown, yet when Thor complains that this was ‘supposed to be his day of triumph’ Loki says, ‘It will come’ and I believe that Loki believes that. I believe that as Loki later states, that he never wanted the throne, he legitimately only wanted to be Thor’s equal. But, Loki, in doing this, in setting up this little charade, has managed to get his brother, the only person who really knew Loki, and still loved him, banished from Asgard. Yes, Loki wanted Thor’s coronation delayed, but I doubt he ever meant for it to get as bad as it did. There’s a point right before Odin’s sentenced Thor when Loki tries to intercede, and Odin shuts him up. I am convinced beyond a doubt that had he let Loki finish his sentence, he would have confessed. But that doesn’t happen, so what does? Thor gets banished, and for once, Loki isn’t second best, no one’s telling Loki to shut up and sit down (because he’ll never be as good as Thor, anyways). It’s a nice change. Is it awful on Loki’s behalf? Fuck yes it is. Is it understandable? To a degree. After that everything gets fucked up. Loki’s revealed to be Laufey’s son—something that he says with what I saw as an incredibly large amount of shame and sadness—and Odin falls into the Odin-Sleep, Loki is told that he is to be the ruler of Asgard until his father awake, Thor has been banished, you are the sole heir, etc. He looks confused, and a little hesitant, but he accepts. The thing here is that Loki went from having almost no authority to having literally, all possible authority. It’s like giving someone who can’t ride a bicycle without training wheels a Ferrari. It’s stupid, and he lets it get to his head.
Third row: Loki has literally lost it. He’s vowing to annihilate the Jotuns, in some weird show of power for his father’s sake, as if to tell him that he can be a warrior, he can be Thor. Loki hates his race, and I think it’s fair to say that he hates himself at this point. He’s fucking crying as he goads Thor into a fight. Loki is riddled with self-esteem issues, loneliness, and that emptiness that comes with feeling out of place and underappreciated all of your life. Loki is tragic, not because he falls into a starry abyss and is assumed to have been swallowed up in darkness just as he loses everything he’s ever had—but because even in “death”, he fails to realize that he is wrong. The Jotuns aren’t monsters because they have blue skin and red eyes, the Jotuns are monsters because of what they chose to do. Loki wanted so badly to dissociate from something that is intrinsic to his nature, that he nearly loses himself in the process.
Loki is the single most sympathetic villain I have ever come across. He is a product of how he was raised, how he was treated, how he was socialized, and a victim of who he is from birth, a Jotun. He never stood a chance.
“Monsters are real…they live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” –Stephen King
10 months ago · 14,833 notes · Source · Reblogged from zetatauri
In terms of overall tone, “Manchester Gods” will be an intense and emotional roller coaster ride that can be enjoyed on a number of different levels. “This is probably the closest thing I’ve ever written to ‘Phonogram’ for Marvel. I mean in terms of the amount of theory that’s beneath the fun and games. It’s pretty dense,” Gillen explained. “It’s only a three-issue arc so it’s doubly intense. And, visually speaking, I guarantee that there will be pages that are stuck on the internet and used forever. Plus this arc will have some of the saddest moments in ‘JIM’ so far. So get your tissues ready.
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Gillen Journeys Into the Mystery of the “Manchester Gods” - Comic Book Resources
WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, MR GILLEN? WHY?
Oh God.
I already had an overabundance of feels about JIM and Loki.
Downloading Journey Into Mystery
The entire run to date is available to purchase on Comixology.
Just FYI, in case if you were somehow thinking Piracy was the only option.
11 months ago · 160 notes · Reblogged from kierongillen
Lonely Spell To Conjure You, But Conjure Hell Is All I Do(2012), Thor (2011) [Archive of Our Own]
Lonely Spell To Conjure You, But Conjure Hell Is All I Do (1029 words) by herdivineshadow
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (2012), Thor (2011)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Darcy Lewis/Loki
Characters: Darcy Lewis, Loki (Marvel)
Summary: At the most boring conference in the world, Darcy makes a new acquaintance.
11 months ago · 13 notes
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