actuallycallie

[actuallycallie]

Bucky and Sarah have chemistry. that was flirting. period. It's gross how people try to pretend like Sarah isn't even there...

Here We Go Again with the Fandom Misogynoir Tapdance...

[actuallycallie]

"ᶦ ᵗᵃᵘᵍʰᵗ ᵐʸˢᵉˡᶠ" "ᶠᵒʳ ʸᵒᵘ" ༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽ 🎆✨

[actuallycallie]

the final chapter will be up this weekend!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51558274

[actuallycallie]

About the final in episode 6

"I'm going to be objective. Because I'm a fan of Loki for 10 years, and I've been waiting for a series about him. I didn't ask them to make him like this, I didn't expect this outcome. If you're curious - I was afraid of a romantic storyline, because I thought they wouldn't pull it off. And Season 1 seemed to prove me wrong. I'm in love with this series. I liked all the characters in this series, Sylvie, Mobius... Everyone. And I believed that this season wanted to tell me something. Loki found a friend - Mobius. Loki fell in love with Sylvie, and she with him. It was a good story, and I won't dwell on it. I'll move on to the finale.

Episode 6 season 1:

Loki and Sylvie go to the Citadel at the End of Time to meet with He Who Remains. And here a conflict arises - the resolution of which I've been waiting for 2 years. And not just me...

He Who Remains tells them about the Sacred Timeline and the Problem they cannot avoid. He gives them a choice: either they kill him, or they take his place. I'll remind you, neither of them wants the throne; they wanted to be together on the Timeline and live their lives. Sylvie had this goal long before Loki, and for her, it's not just a goal; it's a very long and tragic path to avenge her ruined life. For Loki, no, he just wants to be happy. Sylvie sees a monster in front of her that needs to be destroyed. Loki sees a trap they skillfully want to lead them into. They are both right. But Loki understands that they can't just walk away, and something terrible may happen. He doesn't know what to choose, but he doesn't like the choice they are given.

They have different thoughts on this matter. Then Sylvie says, 'Kill me and take your throne' - this is important because she immediately makes it clear that she would rather die than leave this person alive. In other words, 'either I kill him, or you (Loki) kill me.' Loki truly loves her, as clearly shown in Season 1, and of course, he has no intention of killing her. And he is sincere when he says, 'I just want you to be okay.' Sylvie loves him just as much, but he is not on her side and also makes it clear that he will not back down. They are in a situation where they cannot resolve it together. Sylvie kisses him goodbye and pushes him away - it's a choice she decides to make so that they don't harm each other even more. It was very powerful, beautiful, and profound in my opinion. Because here's the situation, here they find themselves, and a conflict unfolds."

They don't talk about it in season 2:

And now, what happens next? Loki searches for her, wants to bring her back and seemingly figure out the situation? He fails because Sylvie doesn't understand his motivation - the throne? TVA? Was he deceiving her or genuinely caring or loving? Does she know about it?

I liked how in Season 2, even through the conflict, there were hints that they care about each other. They don't blame each other for the Citadel situation; Sylvie agrees to talk with him, although she could have said 'No, I don't care, go away' - no, she goes, she doesn't like the TVA topic, but when something is in danger, she also goes and helps. And again, they continue to learn something from each other, even without looking at the conflict. These are good moments in Season 2, but really... What is their conflict?

In the misunderstanding of each other and in the fact that each made a difficult choice. But did they do something wrong to each other? No. They can't be enemies. They don't talk about the situation in the Citadel at all. Throughout Season 2. There's a similar situation at the fair, where it's clear that this topic is painful and unpleasant for them. Okay. But they don't talk about it. Never. - Why?

Season 2 finale… what's the point?

Final of the 6th episode. Okay. What's the catch, so to speak? Loki has gone through a very harrowing journey from the finale of Season 1 Episode 6 to the finale of Season 2. What has he realized? He learned to navigate through time - as I thought, all of this was part of the plan of He Who Remains. It led to him trapping them and attempting to divide by undermining trust between them. Okay.

What's the problem? The weaving loom is impossible to fix. Either it will defend the One Sacred Timeline, and all branches will have to be pruned and killed, or the Timeline will be free, and at some point, it will start self-destructing. In other words… there's no point in choosing the right thing at all. If he stops Sylvie - He Who Remains will continue doing what he did, but Sylvie will likely die rather than agree to it - a ruined life, continued killing, she just won't be able to forgive it. If she kills He Who Remains, we see what happens - the weaving loom overloads, and ultimately, everyone dies. But… even if they both (Together) come to the conclusion that, yes, He Who Remains needs to be killed - it leads to the same result. In other words, it's impossible to fix it without the sacrifice Loki makes in the end. I want to say - there's just no other way. The situation is hopeless no matter what he chooses, except for the option where he kills Sylvie and leaves everything as it was. But he won't do that because he loves her, and he said that in the Season 1 finale - 'I just want you to be okay.'

Now the question, so what's wrong with the finale of Season 2? It seems logical… NO. Not entirely. In reality… No. They don't talk about their feelings. They don't talk about what happened in the Citadel; they don't… Haven't they reconciled? Haven't they said goodbye? Understand correctly, they show in Season 1 - they fell in love with each other, for them, it's the first time, and it's something real. It breaks reality; it helps them understand many things; they, for the first time, think not only about themselves. Then a conflict arises. Sylvie - 'I just need to kill the monster who ruined my life,' and Loki - 'I just need you to be okay' - In 6 episodes, there was no opportunity to talk about it and reconcile? To understand each other and realize that they weren't lying and genuinely cared about each other? Loki doesn't even have the chance to find out if that kiss was real, and he has to go to sacrifice with this silence? I don't understand this…

Destroying is - Easy:

Okay, let the finale be like that, I agree, it's beautiful, it's tragic, and it's sad, but why should it happen on such a bad note for these two characters who were portrayed as truly in love until now? It's like we're pretending - that this is how we remember what happened in Season 1, and what Loki is doing now seems to respond... But I'm not sure it should have ended like this. And I'm not talking about the characters; I'm talking about the scriptwriting. It's just discarded - an unresolved conflict.

I'm really disappointed with this part. It feels like the writers got scared and went the route of 'We'd rather ruin than fix what happened.' The scene in the Citadel starts to seem like a joke, where Loki can't do anything different, and she, like a bull seeing red, charges at He Who Remains... And then they literally say, 'Sylvie, sorry, but you're getting in the way, disappear somewhere' - What the hell was that? I remembered fans who loved to shout, 'Sylvie is Loki's competitor, just get rid of her' - it's so absurd, as if she doesn't matter... It's like spitting on the previous development and work because what happens to Loki - everything happened to him because of her. What happens in the series, the freed Timeline - it also concerned her. And now one Loki takes it all upon himself? It looks so ugly and weak, honestly. As if you're not even trying to hide that you're just getting rid of the character from the path... When so much could have been made into a very powerful story that would be more beautiful and stronger. I repeat once again - with the same conclusion. But it would have been just BETTER and more fitting in this story.

I'm just saying, for me, Season 2 didn't handle the conflict that Season 1 gave us. You may like Season 1. You may like Season 2. That's okay. But if you look at it as one story, there are so many questions (several thousand) that you still haven't received answers to or just left it - well, it happened, but it led nowhere. I am very saddened because indeed, the 6 episodes look beautiful, seemingly deep, but when you start to analyze it - No, they still messed it up and didn't cope with the task.

[actuallycallie]

*rabid noises*

Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards (via Twitter)

[actuallycallie]

For the oblivious misogynist viewers, Sylvie had ALL the reasons in the world to snap at Mobius and your bashing of her is either childish or hypocritical. You just turn a blind and sexist eye from everything around her scolding. Because again, it's 200% sure you wouldn't bash her so much if she was a man.

Her reaction to Mobius is perfectly normal and sth any rational person would have had!

She's in a situation of emergency and world's end, sth not very relaxing,

She spent all her life, probably centuries, to run and kill and live millions of apocalypses just so she wouldn't get killed and likely got a severe PTSD,

She was forced to leave her quiet life, while she wanted to be left alone,

The first time she willed to help, it just was to witness the same horrors she had already seen a thousands times from the TVA,

And she STILL came to help a second time! While she just could have killed Timely and run away again,

Mobius, the guy who always cares about people, suddenly says "hey, it's the end of the world, how about we go eat?", plus under a weirdass lighting as if it's isn't Mobius but someone else who's taken his appearance,

She doesn't have quite a good history with Mobius, HE wronged her a billion times more (by, I don't know, hunting her down and trying to kill her??) than SHE did with her scolding,

While she starts to care, he (seemingly) starts to care less, "are you fucking with me?" probably and rightfully is what Sylvie must think at that moment,

He doesn't deny anything she says! Not because he's a scaredy puppy easily bossed around but because she's right! Because she's right when she implies he doesn't want to care too much knowing about his real life on the timeline. Because she's also clever and rational, way more rational than Mobius or Loki.

But sure, she just snapped "for no reason", "she's the cause of the mess in the first place, how dare she?" And she's just the annoying girl that comes between your mlm ship.

You're just hypocrites who dismiss a character's context, motives, personality and history as soon as she's female.

"But she helped for selfish reasons!" Of course she did! Why the fuck would she help for FREE the organisation that literally RUINED her life and obliterated billions of others? It's like asking a survivor of a gulag "why won't you save the government who put you there? that's so crazy!" You just don't give a shit about her history.

[actuallycallie]

she needs to enchant him asap 'cause they're doing a SHIT job of talking it out

[actuallycallie]

excuse me but loki is allowed to feel all his emotions bc his tva friends that he met like a week ago have their own lives and he is allowed to want them back, yet sylvie is selfish for being angry after her entire world was erased by the tva and for wanting to have a life after being forced to be on the run ever since she was a child???

[actuallycallie]

okay, OKAY

I don't want to see anyone hating on Sylvie for her choices, especially if you're the type to say 'I want complex women characters'. She has spent the majority of her life on the run under the constant threat of being entirely unmade, quite literally forged in violence and fear.

Every single time, when given the opportunity, she will make the choice to escape the whole TVA-bullshit because all she wants in a normal life on a timeline of her own without the TVA, her literal oppressors. She doesn't want the TVA to improve, how can you fix something when the foundation was that.

She has every right to be selfish. She had every right to want Kangs variant dead. She has every right to want to be left alone.

Deep down, past the threats and armour, she is a scared little girl who was ripped out of existence for a crime so menial that no one remembers what it was. What she wants is to be alone, safe, and figure her shit out with a simple job at a fast food place and sad music on her record player.

So don't take her character as a one dimensional evil anti-Loki bitch, she is a fully fledged being trying to survive in truly the most batshit conditions.

[actuallycallie]

"Go write yours."

[actuallycallie]

LOKI 1.06: For All Time. Always. (2021) dir. Kate Herron LOKI 2.05: Science/Fiction (2023) dir. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead

[actuallycallie]

I am fully convinced that this fandom just hates women.

Nobody should be treated the way all of you treat Sylvie. She had her life stolen from her. She had to hide in apocalypses and fight to survive from the time she was a CHILD. Her only space of refuge was places in time run by chaos and destruction where the whole world was dying around her.

She’s allowed to be traumatized and angry and bitter about that! People who face trauma like that don’t come in some neatly packaged soft weepy facade that’s easy for you to interact with. And they don’t fucking owe you that either.

But, it’s totally fine if Loki lashes out at someone like that, right? He’s been doing that for the last ten years. He’s just upset and he needs comfort, you understand. Of course, unless it’s a female-presenting variant of him that does it. She’s the evil one, burn her at the stake.

Yet here you are. Denying her the right to exist in your collective fanon at all. Backing up the TVA in their decision to kill her.

[actuallycallie]

The nudge from Loki to Sylvie.

   › request by @victorious-muses

[actuallycallie]

That’s a lot of hoping, Loki.

[actuallycallie]

it's hard to explain because inevitably you sound like an asshole, but some people are allowed to lose their temper, lose their mind - you're not, though.

when your friend never texts you first and misses your birthday and never makes an effort; you don't mind. you know she's struggling, and you want her to get the help that she deserves. you give her every excuse and every chance.

it shouldn't matter to you so much that people are always coming through for her. you want her to be happy, you love it for her. you love that her community rises up to the occasion. why does it bother you that when she snaps at someone, says horrible mean things - but two hours later, everyone is comforting her while she's crying. you know she's stressed. why do you kind of hate that she is welcomed back to her job, that her parents are endlessly wiring her money.

and you're - fuck, are you envious?

but when you don't text back, someone sits you down and says i know you're struggling, but you're being a bad friend. when you're too numb to show up for work, your boss just shakes his head. i'm sorry. i can't approve more time off. we have the company to protect. when you finally snap back at your family for making that shitty comment again, you're forced to apologize for being too sensitive.

god forbid you need something. people aren't used to you being the one asking. you're the giver like the book you hated; your pages all open and rumpled. you always have the answer, always have the solution. you are reliable, trustworthy. people like you don't struggle with things. you're supposed to be lifted by tragedy. you are given a maximum of 24 hours to grieve, and then you need to just behave at the party.

you can't read the giving tree without feeling like crying, and even that feels like it's too much emotion. like, nobody looks at you and assumes you're the tree; they'd name five other people before even considering you in the running. you're just there, never-asking.

your friend gets to say mean shit, that's just her personality. when you make a snide comment, you're just being petty. people laugh when your friend stands you up for another event; they say she's just like that. you were 5 minutes late to a meeting with friends and they were mad about it for the rest of the evening. your friend sets everything on fire; everyone applauds her through the ashes. you so much as light a candle: and suddenly now you're an arsonist.

you don't want your friend to suffer, though. the thing is that you just wish that the empathy and kindness your friend gets - you wish you had that option, that everyone offered you grace and money and a gentle reception.

the other day you were fighting down the bad urge; the void call, the end note. you tried-anyway. you went to the family event, tried laughing at the right moments. nodded and smiled and all of it. one of your siblings threw a fit, but she's allowed to, so everyone just rolled their eyes about it. you took 3 whole minutes to stand outside when you got overwhelmed. you literally set a timer about it.

in the morning you woke up to a text from your parents: you were a complete disgrace last night. idk what your attitude problem is, but you really need to fix it.

[actuallycallie]

[actuallycallie]

"sylvie being put in her place" like please shut up with your misogyny, we know what you think a woman's place is