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The Loki has been Chitauri’d/Odin’d/maltreated. The Loki was adopted by random Avenger. The Loki is recuperating. The Loki was given a food now. The Loki doesn’t yet remember what that means. The Loki is now everyone’s pup.

(honouring this specific kind of fanfictions)

Nat | Cap | Bucky | Clint | Tony | etc

I watch Crimson Peak for the plot

The plot:

Thomas' project reminds me so much of real life engineering. It's a brilliant invention with a shoestring budget. He also struggles to get (honest) funding for it, and therefore, his project's most likely understaffed, over schedule, and over budget.

And of course the machine experiences a huge component failure when he finally gets it running because stuff usually never works right the first time in engineering. Then the project has to be scrubbed in the end, namely because Lucille got stabby (but that's another story).

Oh my goodness, great catch! I am practically screeching over this theory that baby!Loki saw this random guard and eventually chose his appearance as his “default Asgardian” disguise without knowing why. It’s makes so much sense!

The same guard (Odin’s Executioner?) in

Thor 1 / Thor: The Dark World

fandom goes into deep denial about the attempted infanticide of baby loki because the imperialism reading of it works against the text and requires that the baby be stolen not abandoned, and that this theft be for the most nefarious and imperialist purposes we can think of. whereas actually - and i was going to say this is 'the obvious parallel' but no it's not even a parallel it's what's clearly happening there - the baby's been left out to die for being disabled hasn't he?

the word 'runt' gets used but adult loki compared to other frost giants is not just slightly on the small side, he's probably equivalent to a human with dwarfism, which definitely brings this into Infanticiding The Disabled Child territory. which a) laufey cannot be allowed to do because that's a fucked up and horrible thing to do* b) we also can't allow that odin just kept that baby because by asgardian standards there was no obvious disability there. (the social model of disability, but with giants and less-giants**) "why would you be throwing out this baby, laufey? it looks normal-sized. it doesn't even have an unusual number of limbs. yeah, i am taking this baby as a friend for my similarly-sized bio-son. mine now. finders keepers." i point this out because the disabled baby is not saved by someone thinking disability-based infanticide is wrong - at least not necessarily so - but by being found by someone who doesn't recognise the supposed problem. to whom it simply does not exist.

and of course fandom loves sad little feeble loki being weak and pathetic in fic, but i have somehow never seen this tied to the fact that he is canonically undersized for his species and likely has some connected internal fuckery going on with his organs. we have no idea what made him that small or what it'd do and - here's the fun kicker for you angst fans! - probably nobody on asgard would either. when's the last time any of them had to look after even an entirely able-bodied jotun? how likely is it that they can just write off to jotunheim to say "hey what's up with that kid your king tried to murder? how would we fix him if he lived here? yeah, our king kept him. no, we didn't eat the baby! can we borrow a medical textbook? what do you mean you don't have paper there. well how do you write down how the orientalist belly-dancer outfits are to be worn? well then how... no, come back. did you just hang up on a letter???"

sorry, i digressed. what i was aiming for was that there is a very obvious reason why loki might be unusually weak for a lad who looks healthy to us and who doesn't seem any smaller or less able-bodied than the people around him, but i just don't see it being deployed in fic or in meta or whatever. is this because the 'laufey just left his baby out for some fresh air like norwegians do' reading kind of relies on that baby not being seen as a burden to be got rid of and we all kind of agree that... no. no, i shall not finish that thought. it is too depressing. it probably is that though isn't it?

anyway. this is me wondering what is up with that. other than maybe some kind of 'echo-chamber effect' where even the wildest ideas can become commonly-held fanon and where it'd be easy to just straight-up ignore a very obvious implication of baby-murdering because someone leaving you to just fucking die for being disabled is somehow not enough oppression for a blorbo in these enlightened times. or because it breaks a popular fandom interpretation of events. or something like that?

*in fairness i'd say humans from earth are probably within the group that's allowed to just not care about humans from earth getting invaded and killed.

**i say 'less-giants' because look:

look at this literal giant among men. tiny scrawny little thing, so smol and so freakishly tall to the humans. i call this 'the social model of smolness.'

One of my favorite panels of all time. Oh Clint, what are you doing? XD

Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff Loki: Agent of Asgard (2014) #1

Avengers Assemble "Valhalla Can Wait" edit

Just Loki being a dork for 1 minute and 20 seconds.

Song: Dirty Laundry by Don Henley

Results for my poll on Tumblr browsing preferences!

Here's a refresher of the poll. I asked everyone how they prefer to use Tumblr. Many thanks to the 95 awesome people who participated!

(Puts on technical writer's cap) I used glittering.world's Tumblr poll result grabber to get the exact numbers for each option. Since no one selected the last option, I excluded it from my analysis. I popped the results into Excel and made this pretty table and pie chart.

It's not too surprising to see that over half of the participants use the Tumblr app on their phones. Laptop users and phone users who browse Tumblr on their device browser have the second and third biggest numbers.

Here are two more breakdowns of the data! The next pie chart shows the number and percentage of people who use each device listed in the poll.

In case they're difficult to read, the numbers in the pie chart are listed as "Number, Percentage". As we've seen before, phones are very popular!

The last pie chart shows the number/percentage of Tumblr users who use the app (the most popular preference!) vs. a browser.

On an unrelated note, this poll was a great excuse to go aggressively girly with the color and styling of these charts! It was something I had always wanted to do for my college lab reports but ended up toning down to not shock anyone.😅

That's all I've got. Hope you enjoyed this micro stats report. El Droide out!

Municipal Airport Aesthetic

Tiny municipal airports with family-owned FBOs (Fixed Base Operators) are our favorite kind to visit. They usually have a perfect mix of small town vibes and a sense of adventure. Plus the airspace is usually a breeze to get into. You never know who you'll meet or what crazy flying stories you'll hear. If there's an airport restaurant, you can be sure that it'll be serving comfort food like burgers and cheesesteaks.

The Star Clipper, a Space Shuttle design from Lockheed for NASA.

The craft would have used expendable wrap-around fuel tanks to boost it into space, where it could deposit crew and cargo to orbital platforms.