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Tom Hiddleston in ‘Comic Relief 2015’ (x)

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H I D D L E S W E E K , D A Y F O U R : P H Y S I C A L A T T R I B U T E S

his hands. “Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.” - Michel de Montaigne

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your headcanons about Jotunheim?

I have, like. A whole stack of Jotunheim headcanons, Too many of them, probably, and almost none of them will ever make it into fic I write because I’m just…not likely to write a fic that involves in depth exploration of Jotun culture. So thanks for giving me the chance to talk about this!

The first headcanon is about the history of Jotunheim and why it’s so fucking dark and miserable, and while it’s true that it was probably always a fairly brutal/harsh environment, I have a long-standing headcanon that there was/is some kind of ecological disaster that happened and rendered things a lot worse. Maybe a shift in orbit, or in climate - and either way that’s why the invasion of Earth, because their home planet was suddenly much less habitable so…why not go try to terraform a new one for the sake of survival?

Furthermore, the removal of the Casket I headcanon as having increased whatever imbalance was fucking with Jotunheim, and therefore accelerating its decline. They can still survive, but it’s a lot harder, and that’s part of why Asgard sees them as so barbaric - they’re a people living on the edge in a lot of ways, without a lot of room for extras. 

(Also because Asgard just doesn’t recognize Jotun culture as culture, but. I think of priorities for Frost Giants in terms of art/culture being either very oral (there’s not much of a writing system), or very ephemeral (ice sculpture designed to be impermanent/alter in shape). 

I also headcanon that part of this has resulted in the highly centralized monarchy that we see under Laufey, whereas previously when Jotunheim was less hostile there would be more dispersion/independence between communities. And Jotunheim is very much oriented toward the idea of communities rather than family units - people live in groups and generally rely on each other in extended networks rather than sticking with blood kin. There’s also a high value on elders - given the difficulty of survival, anyone who lives that long has a lot to teach and a lot of wisdom to offer, and therefore deserves support even when they may not be as materially able to provide.

I also don’t think there’s much or any gender division in terms of the roles people play in society. Everyone does what they can, according to their strengths. 

The other thing I’ve thought about a lot that I actually talked about way back on this blog is the idea that the Frost Giants practice ritual cannibalism of their dead. It’s a way of honoring a body, returning it to the community and making use of it in a land of limited resources. Even in death, that person is giving back, and is maintained as a literal or physical part of the community. This being also what creates the idea for Asgard that the Jotnar eat people in general, though that’s not the case. You wouldn’t eat an enemy. That would be altogether too flattering. 

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Tom Hiddleston attends the House Of Fraser British Academy Television Awards 2016 at the Royal Festival Hall on May 8, 2016 in London, England.

Via Torrilla/weibo

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Pierce: “Oh, he’s gonna answer to us.”

                       (I love so much first Loki face, like “what? In your dreams, not with you.”)

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Praise the Lord

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“… so he’s still that guy, and just about the last thing that happened to him was he got hulk-smashed, so there’s a lot of psychological evolution that is still yet to happen.” — Tom Hiddleston (about Loki series 2021)

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Tom Hiddleston - San Diego Comic Con (July 20, 2019).

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Tom Hiddleston, torturing us poor Hiddlestoners from every angle…

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today I can reverse this  because of this 

and thanks to an Army

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archipelago: a group of islands scattered in a large body of water

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‘My first encounter with Harold Pinter was reading ‘A’ Level English Literature. And The Homecoming was a set text, alongside Shakespeare and Chaucer and  E. M. Forster, and lots of poetry. But The Homecoming and Pinter’s writing really stood out as something else, something different, something lean and spare and with a very distinctive voice that I found kept drawing me back. I knew [in The Homecoming] he was exploring a more sophisticated, more adult world than I was aware of as a seventeen-year-old boy.’  ~ Tom Hiddleston talks Pinter, 10th October 2018

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I pose no threat. I come only in peace.