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you can hear them in the static

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when it’s season 7 and she still won’t believe

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Oh no another head canon

Grandmaster definitely actually referred to Loki multiple times as “Lackey” while Loki quietly tolerated it whilst seething with rage.

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Trust My Rage: The Lessons of Ragnarok

Let’s start with this: Thor, in the movie Thor, has a four-step process for dealing with any obstacle that’s put in front of him.

1: Ask

2: Beg

3: Demand

4: Take

Which is kind of an “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” approach. The steps are mostly just increasing in intensity. Which makes sense, since his father gave him a hammer and channeled all of his power through that hammer. Literally, all he has is a hammer.

What the movie taught Thor, in the end, did increase his options from “hit” or “hit harder,” but the only third option he was presented with was “stop hitting.”

It was a “sometimes you have to lose to win” lesson. On the dirt of New Mexico, Thor learned that sometimes, you have to stop at begging, because lashing out is just going to make things worse.

Thor’s hammer being taken away from him along with his power taught him that, but nothing else. He still has this very binary view of how to deal with people. You can push, or you can not push, but ultimately everything comes down to whether they answer yes, or no.

I mean, obviously, he grew up with Loki. He’s always been aware that there are other more subtle, less straightforward ways to get things. But Loki has always been an example of what not to do, from how other people treated them both.

And also, Thor’s strength has always been in his hammer. If he wanted to use subtlety or trickery, he could always ask Loki for ideas.

I would bet a lot of money that “get help” was one of Loki’s earliest contributions to this partnership, and Thor has therefore always remembered it fondly.

Odin, whatever the rest of his motivations might have been, was afraid of what Thor could become, if made truly aware of his own power. It’s little wonder, after Hela, but he went about it badly. A Thor ignorant of his own potential could be steered, could be used, not just by Odin but by all and sundry.

I don’t know how much of Odin’s grip on Thor’s power was magical, and how much merely psychological, but I think it’s interesting that there’s a turning point in Thor’s attitudes in The Dark World, when Frigga dies, and Odin begins to lose his grip on everything around him. Thor seems to awaken to the fact that not only are there other ways of getting things from people, but that those methods are open to him, as well as to Loki.

He still knows almost nothing about using them, but he gains a lot from recognizing the wider set of options. He asks Heimdall and Loki for their help, not just in fighting beside him, but in plotting beside him.

Loki recognizes this change, and he spends some time trying to figure out how to make the best use of it. The turning point comes when Loki tells his brother, “Trust my rage.”

This feels like a first lesson in manipulation for someone who has a hammer and has always seen everyone else as a nail.

It’s a “Look. I have power inside me, too. If you want it on your side, here is the handle. Pick it up, and wield it.”

So this is the Thor we see coming into Ragnarok. A man who recognizes that people contain heavy cores of passion, rage or grief or defiance, and who is just learning to make use of those things by prodding at them in just the right way.

A good thing, too, since he’s just lost his hammer.

But still, when he encounters the Hulk, he asks, he pleads, he threatens, he attacks. It takes much longer for him to figure out where Hulk’s soft spots are, where he can be prodded to achieve one effect, where he can be nudged to achieve another.

Eventually, Thor goes, and Hulk follows. Without being asked, without being threatened. Without being suppressed, as the hypnotism would have done.

It takes a little longer to figure out those driven by something more complicated than pure, unadulterated rage. Bruce and Valkyrie also live with terror in their seething balls of passion. Thor fumbles with them a lot before he learns how to get them to work alongside him.

Both Hela and Loki have a burning need for recognition. Odin’s complete failure with Hela must have been intimidating for Thor, in terms of dealing with either of his siblings. Thor still makes missteps, still hits too hard as his initial reaction to Loki straying from the straightforward path.

But I believe Thor has learned a lot, and is still learning. He keeps reaching out to Loki, trying to find ways to interact with him that have positive outcomes. I believe Thor fully intended to allow Loki an opening to come back, to make a dramatic entrance, to be the hero. Thor’s equal.

When Loki lives up to that hope, Thor recognizes him as he deserves, and welcomes him back with open arms. That is all it takes to get Loki to stay.

Loki and Thor are finally in a relationship that has some back-and-forth to it, not just on Thor’s level, but on Loki’s. Thor is finally making progress in getting Loki to be a hero, because he is also letting Loki make progress in teaching him to be a trickster.

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Imagine somehow obtaining magical powers and watching Loki and Doctor Strange fight over who gets to take you as their apprentice.

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Why do you think I watched Thor..?

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I’ve never been Loki-crazy and never will be, but…

Yeah, I’m not made of fucking stone

That suit had me dead in my seat

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Grandmaster: I have no weaknesses

Loki: Hi

Grandmaster: * tearing up * I have one ( 1 ) weakness

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“Your savior is here!!!” 

1000% certain this is what it what it was like from his point of view. 

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i’m 101% sure that this entire line was improv and tom couldn’t help it

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You are so much more Than a broken figurine But you don’t see it.

Haiku 211 of 365 (via ivannequished)

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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity

وقال إذا كانت الثقافة بيتا، فإن اللغة هي مفتاح الباب الأمامي الذي يؤدي إلى جميع الغرف في الداخل. وبدون ذلك ستصبح متقلب، بدون منزل سليم أو هوية شرعية

-And the Mountains Echoed/ Khaled Hosseini

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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. -Norman Vincent Peale

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. -Norman Vincent Peale

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