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Kuwei:

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Predeterminism in itself is fascinating (even though I never really got it), but what the TVA advocates is carefully moderated predeterminism, which is in fact a manipulation and completely denies existence of free will.

Destiny coexisting with free will is ages old paradox and there's a tone of writings on it by people much smarter than me. But as I understand it, the main assumption is that your choices are still your own because you actually make them, even though you couldn't act differently.

In Loki universe this premise is false. You can make different choices and achieve different autcomes. But those outcomes are considered wrong by a bunch of know-it-all reptilians and therefore eradicated (the all-knowing and over-powered beings that rule the universe but no-one's ever seen them don't sound fishy at all, right?).

So does a person ever bear responsibility for they actions? No other outcome was possible not because a person would always make this choice, but because every other possibility was activily removed by external force. It was this force that decidea which version of behaviour would be accepted and which eradicated. This's not predestination, is manipulation. It's TVA drawing lots until they achieve a result they want.

This is a fascinating turn on the philosophy of predeterminism and I can't wait to see where it goes.

Can we talk about the fact that, per the known rules, the TVA essentially killed (sorry, reset) Loki every time he managed to do something good? A nexus where he turned heel and helped the Avengers? Killed and reset. Saved Frigga? Nope, killed and reset. All to cultivate the "harbinger of death and misery" "true" timeline.

I really, really want to know how many Variant Lokis have they dealt with and what the other "bad" Loki had done to be pruned. It it turns out that there was a Universe in which Frigga lived and TVA bombed it, all bets are off.

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I loved that scene!

BROTHERS

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ok but the fact that sylvie couldn't take over his mind because it was too strong like honey what did thanos do to you

i don't want to think about it but consider

"I have to make physical contact and then grab hold of their mind."

"It depends on the mind. Most are easy and I can overtake them instantly."

"Others, the stronger ones, it gets tricky. I'm in control, but they're there, too."

"In order to preserve the connection, I have to create a fantasy from their memories."

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Inej:

Meanwhile, Kaz: One time she smiled at me in the sunlight and my brain short circuited so bad I said birds were rude

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SEBASTIAN STAN  Attending a party at The U.S Embassy, Romania | May 1, 2018

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Can’t stop thinking about these answers Tom Hiddleston gave when he was asked about the relationship between Loki and Mobius

He really said Lokius rights. So true.

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A brief story about hats. Not until much long ago, I just *believed* women of the past simply had a wonderous skill that we young modern women instead had lost: keeping a hat perfectly perched on their head, no matter its shape and size and how windy the day. Then I learnt about hatpins 😅

HATPINS ARE THE ACTUAL BEST.

In the early 20th century, woman sometimes felt empowered by their hatpins, because they had an actual weapon of self-defense at their disposal. Men created a “hatpin panic” about how these CRAZY WOMEN were going to ATTACK MEN IN THE STREETS with their long hatpins, and actually tried to legislate hatpin length! Women were Having None Of It.

From this excellent article:

On the afternoon of May 28, 1903, Leoti Blaker, a young Kansan touring New York City, boarded a Fifth Avenue stagecoach at 23rd Street and settled in for the ride. The coach was crowded, and when it jostled she noticed that the man next to her settled himself an inch closer to her. She made a silent assessment: elderly, elegantly dressed, “benevolent-looking.” The horse picked up speed and the stage jumped, tossing the passengers at one another again, and now the man was touching her, hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder. When he lifted his arm and draped it low across her back, Leoti had enough. In a move that would thrill victim of modern-day subway harassment, she reached for her hatpin—nearly a foot long—and plunged it into the meat of the man’s arm. He let out a terrible scream and left the coach at the next stop.

“He was such a nice-looking old gentleman I was sorry to hurt him,” she told the New York World. “I’ve heard about Broadway mashers and ‘L’ mashers, but I didn’t know Fifth Avenue had a particular brand of its own…. If New York women will tolerate mashing, Kansas girls will not.”

I highly recommend this approach next time you find yourself seated beside a manspreader on the tube.

A St. Louis schoolteacher drove her would-be attacker away by slashing his face with her hatpin. Such stories were notable not only for their frequency but also for their laudatory tone; for the first time, women who fought back against harassers were regarded as heroes rather than comic characters, as subjects rather than objects. Society was transitioning, slowly but surely, from expecting and advocating female dependence on men to recognizing their desire and ability to defend themselves.

Working women and suffragists seized control of the conversation, speaking out against mashers and extolling women’s right to move freely—and alone—in public. It was true, as social worker Jane Addams lamented, that “never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon city streets and to work under alien roofs.”

^San Francisco Sunday Call, 1904

Instead of arguing with the suffragists, some detractors took a more subtle approach, objecting not to women’s changing roles but to their preferred mode of self-defense: the hatpin. Tales abounded of innocent men—no mashers, they—who fell victim to the “hatpin peril.” …By 1909, the hatpin was considered an international threat, with the police chiefs in Hamburg and Paris considering measures to regulate their length.In March 1910, Chicago’s city council ran with that idea, debating an ordinance that would ban hatpins longer than nine inches; any woman caught in violation would be arrested and fined $50.

Nan Davis, there to represent several women’s clubs, asked for permission to address the committee. “If the men of Chicago want to take the hatpins away from us, let them make the streets safe,” she said. “No man has a right to tell me how I shall dress and what I shall wear.”

Despite Davis’ impassioned speech, the ordinance passed by a vote of 68 to 2. Similar laws subsequently passed in several other cities, including Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and New Orleans. Ten thousand miles away, in Sydney, Australia, sixty women went to jail rather than pay fines for wearing “murderous weapons” in their hats. Even conservative London ladies steadfastly refused to buy hatpin point protectors.

Meanwhile, the phrase “Hatpin Peril” is a fantastic band name, and I strongly suggest somebody use it.

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MCU + COMIC BOOK REFRENCES

Avengers (1963) #4 + Avengers: Endgame (2019) Doctor Strange: The Oath #1 (2006) + Doctor Strange (2016) Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #33 + Spider-man: Homecoming (2017) Captain Marvel #6 (2014) + Captain Marvel (2019) Captain America (2005) #8 + Captain America: The Winter Solider (2014) Mighty Avengers (2013) #1 + WandaVision (2021) Black Widow (2004) #4 + Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Avengers: The Children’s Crusade Vol. 1 (2012) #9 + Wandavision (2021) Captain America #25 (2012) + Avengers: Endgame (2019) Civil War (2007) #7 + Captain America: Civil War (2016)

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Let me introduce you to Kaz Brekker:

He thumbed quickly through the ledger and said, “When people see a cripple walking down the street, leaning on his cane, what do they feel?” Wylan looked away. People always did when Kaz talked about his limp, as if he didn’t know what he was or how the world saw him. “They feel pity. Now, what do they think when they see me coming?” Wylan’s mouth quirked up at the corner. “They think they’d better cross the street.” Kaz tossed the ledger back in the safe. “You’re not weak because you can’t read. You’re weak because you’re afraid of people seeing your weakness. You’re letting shame decide who you are. Help me with the painting.”

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

also it helps me walk or whatever

[ID: a digitally drawn two-panel comic. / Image 1: Text reads: “How I expected using a cane would feel:” Panel depicts a miserable person in tattered clothes, hunched over a cane and shaking as she walks. / Image 2: Text reads: “How it actually feels:” Panel depicts the same person, now standing tall and wearing flowing wizard robes and a long white beard. Her cane is at her side, glowing with magic, and she looks confident and powerful. /End ID]

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My thoughts exactly!

Yeah, I’d like to thank Romania for bearing these gorgeous creatures.

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It terrified him.

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Shadow and Bone’s main ships + TROPES

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Kaz when he has to leave Ketterdam without Inej

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Inej adjusted the lens and scanned along the docks. There, in the very berth from which they’d set out for the Ice Court, was a tidy little warship. She was sleek and perfectly proportioned, cannons out, a flag bearing the three Kerch fishes flying stiffly from the mainmast. On her side, spelled out in graceful white script, were the words The Wraith .

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Inej could not speak. Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain. “I don’t know what to say.”

His bare hand flexed on the crow’s head of his cane. The sight was so strange Inej had trouble tearing her eyes from it. “Say you’ll return.”

That quote is my definition of what love should be. If you love somebody, you don't try to keep them close. You give them the means to be the best version of themselves and hope that one day it will bring them back to you.

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True dat.

kaz brekker could’ve defeated thanos in infinity war but the avengers could have never pulled off the ice court heist and that’s just facts

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I believe that Kaz's hands were meant to be porny, because of reasons.

Here are the reasons:

1) it's repeatedly mentioned that he can manipulate any deck, pick any lock and pickpocket anyone (all while wearing gloves!), which adds up to:

- He has extremely nimble fingers, which is good;

- He is amazingly attentive and observant, which is better;

2) He covers his hands all the time, which automatically makes them mysterious and alluring.

3) Dirtyhands. No comments needed, what did Bardugo expect when she gave him the nickname?