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@delyth88 I'm very excited for you about the X-Men actor casting for Doomsday since I know you've been into the Fox side of the Marvel fandom more recently!

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I will always be happy for new stories and content. Let's roll the dice and see what we get this time! 😄

“The sun will shine on us again”

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Look everyone should do what feels right to them but for me, I really, really hate that our collective gut reaction to one person being outed as a first class abusive shit bag is to kill an entire production. A production employs hundred of people. Hundreds. A movie or a TV series adaptation isn’t supporting one artist, it’s supporting hundreds of artists. Actors and production people and tradespeople and script writers and special effects and makeup and costuming and light designers and on and on. But it turns out one well-known person is an abusive shit person so we shut it all down. All those other not shitty people working on that thing? Suddenly unemployed. In an industry that is already fucking precarious for most of the people working in it. And that’s also really, really shitty. I hate that the way we’ve decided to punish a shitty person is to be shitty to the hundreds of other, innocent people who just happen to be standing in the huge blast radius of that shitty person. It’s shitty of us and I hate it. I want us to find a way to punish shit people that doesn’t have all this fucking collateral damage. Because this is going to keep happening. There is no way to tell all the carefully hiding abusive shits from the actually lovely people ahead of time and it's absolutely shitty of us to punish all the anonymous, lovely people who happen to be in the blast radius of the shitty person we're trying to get at. I hate that this is how we do things now, and I hate that the friends I have working in these industries live in fear of one famous fucker being outed as something awful and killing what is for them a very rewarding job working with lovely people with a (rare for them) steady paycheck. I just hate it. I have no good alternative solutions but I hate the one we have now so, so much.

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girls I know this isn’t at the top of the concerns list but you’re gonna want to stop eating commercially produced meat real soon

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omg! it's true?

The reason why i love thor (2011) is because thor thinks he's in a rom com while loki thinks hes in game of thrones. And theyre both right.

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Husk's secret weapon

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This video explains better than I was ever able to why I didn't enjoy Ragnarok as much as the earlier Thor films, and why I enjoyed Deadpool but fell in love with X-Men First Class.

I hope the pendulum swings back towards sincerity. I'd like to care about the MCU as much as I once did, again.

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YES!! THE BEST CASTING. THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING.

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Speedpainting faces with drama lighting because I can’t sleep.

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I don't feel strongly about a lot of ships, but Pepperony is one of those burning bright exceptions. I love these two so much.

Happy Tony in a Relationship

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When Thor caught up with Loki on earth in 2012 it must have been strange for Loki. Here he is, a changed man because of his experiences over the last 12 months, and here's Thor who's had a wee bit of a holiday on Midgard and then gone back to Asgard and carried on his life almost like normal. It must be so jarring to have Thor engage with him like so little has changed.

In comparison to after Ragnarok - or even at the start of Ragnarok. At this time both Thor and Loki have been through. some. things. And while they were on different journeys, at least they had both changed and could come towards each other on a little more equal footing.

During Avengers Thor would have been a reflection of everything Loki had lost, while after Ragnarok Thor would have been a reminder of what they had left.

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Wow!

“I was a king.”

I tried a bunch of new things with this piece and I feel like they all paid off! Very pleased with yet another angsty Loki 😎

painted in procreate on ipad pro / do not repost

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Excellent news for everyone else! Paley is putting the recording of this panel on Youtube.

Relive the Magic of PaleyFest 2024: Exclusive YouTube Premieres!

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Loki at Paley Fest 2024

It was incredible! I'm so happy I got the opportunity to attend, and it uplifted my spirits so much. I really hope Paley makes the panel available for everyone to watch at some point because the questions and discussion were pithy, thoughtful, and engaging. Just a stellar panel. If it doesn't become publicly available, I'll try to circle back to post more detail of what was discussed.

Hiddleston was absolutely firing on all cylinders being his eloquent self going on long explorations of themes and the human condition. I think the most memorable was when he was exploring the relationship of Loki's line "Satisfaction is not in my nature" from a previous film to the events of the Loki series and whether that was relevant or not relevant to where the character arrived at in the series.

First of all, kudos to the host of the panel (also writer of a MCU timeline book) that came with receipts and Loki and Hiddleston quotes from over a decade ago that he used to ask really interesting questions that explored Loki's journey and highlighted the beautiful ways Hiddleston has thought about playing the role over years. He just did an excellent, excellent job, and is the one that brough up the "satisfaction is not in my nature" quote to prompt discussion.

And let's be honest, I think a lot of panelists, whose job is to sound engaging and fill up panel time, when asked to explore the relationship of that "not satisfied" quote to the most recent content they filmed, would just turn on their "I'm in English class" brain and run with the prompt and improvise some ideas of how the theme of not being satisfied is shown in the series. But rather than just running with and affirming the prompt, Hiddleston actually thought about it sincerely and turned it around answering in the negative, that he wasn't sure if that still applied in the series. So instead of just running with the prompt, he cared enough about the art to give it the most truthful answer he could. I saw that aspect of how he approaches discussion when I met him in person at a comic con a number of years ago as well, that interest in exploring something sincerely rather than doing the easier thing of just running with whatever is expedient, and I love that about him.

And then Wilson displayed great comedic sense and flow of the discussion by capping off Hiddleston's eloquent discussion by doing a sharp right turn into the absurd, pivoting into how "would my dog have any meaning in his life if he was satisfied and had everything he wanted and wasn't constantly eager for his next meal". That got a huge laugh from everyone.

Some other anecdotes from the event:

For the arc of the series, it was described as season 1 being about Loki learning to love himself and season 2 was about learning to accept connections and let the love of others in.

Hiddleston's wardrobe was lovely -- all black and dark grey, with bright red tread on the bottom of his shoes for which sitting at a panel with your legs crossed is the perfectly opportunity to show off that pop of color.

I was also digging Aaron Moorhead's style with a grey top half and orange pants and shoes with blue socks. Love this trend of men making bold color choices in their wardrobe.

Hiddleston was, unsurprisingly, very engaged with the whole discussion and it was fun to watch his reactions when other people spoke. The host asked the writers/directors if they'd created S2 with it in mind of it being Loki's last appearance or whether we might see more of Loki in the future. Wilson playfully said "he comes the tap dancing" and Hiddleston very deliberately turned towards the writers/directors with his chin on his fist like "I'm so curious to hear the answer, do tell".

Sylvie ended up in a McDonalds in S2 because when Di Martino got asked at the end of season 1 where she saw Sylvie going next, she told them "she's hungry, I bet she'd go for a burger". So Di Martino takes full responsibility for that particular decision, lol.

Because comedy films aren't my thing and Wilson hasn't crossed my personal radar much besides Zoolander, which is a delightful film, I found it very interesting and wasn't necessarily expecting just the thunderous amount of applause and huge reception that Wilson got from the audience. He's very popular.

During the panel, every so often a little piece of paper, like 2x2 inches, the kind you'd use to create the effect of dumping a bunch of confetti, would fall from the rafters above the stage and slowly float down until it landed on the stage itself in front of the panel. The first time was peculiar, but it continued to happen five distinct times throughout the panel and became a bit of a running joke.

Before the Q&A, they screened the finale episode, and they did not have their tech sorted out. The film didn't play at a consistent 24 fps and there were parts that lagged and slowed down the motion on screen. A minor thing really, but for an organization whose sole purpose and mission is media (Paley), in a venue (the Dolby Theater) that hosts the Oscars and should be technologically state of the art, you'd think they'd make sure they could play video at proper speed. I just thought it was a funny issue for a media organization to have.

Tagging @delyth88 since I know you were interested in hearing about it.

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Hey weird question but what happens if you put two reasonably likeable anthropologists of wildly different cultures together in the same room? Do they study each other? CAN they? Is it like an infinite conversational feedback loop? I'm imagining two dogs eternally sniffing each others butts at the park

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Oh man that's gorgeous. All the little detail -- I'm so impressed how you can convey so many different textures with just various ways of spreading graphite across a page.

Work in progress.

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What if: Loki returned in the past to talk to himself and fixed this.