Odin: Can You Come Collect Your Freak Of A Man Please. Odin: He's Doing Things. Sigyn: No I Set Him Loose

The pre-Christian Norse spiritual worldview is animistic, which means that it's informed by direct experiences and observations of nature, interpreted through the lens of human experience and feelings. You know how we watch snow swirl around think that it looks playful, or watch a wildfire and think that it looks angry? It involves that kind of thing.

But when most people think of pre-Christian religions, they tend to imagine later forms of Greek and Roman polytheism. The problem here is that these Greeks and Romans had begun to think of divinity in more abstract, transcendent ways, and had begun to imagine the gods as rulers of things rather than the spirits of things.

Loki isn't the lord of mischief, he's the spirit of mischief. He's in the little voice telling you make that shitpost and to stop caring about being "cringe." He's in your cat's impulse to knock something off the counter to watch it bounce or roll. Loki manifests in every accidental innuendo and hilarious typo, in every spilled cup of coffee, and every paperwork mix-up. (This is why he's a shapeshifter! He can be anything!)

So when media depicts a Loki riddled with repression and shame - say, for example, a Loki who sneers at modern media or the culture of the common folk - it's depicting a Loki who can't really Loki. That poor spirit has been bound and gagged.

Certain popular media has depicted Thor and Loki as some kinds of opposites, but when we consider the animist perspective we can see there is a serious problem with this. Loki and Thor being depicted as companions isn't some random whim; it's a reflection of the reality that thunderstorms bring chaos.

A Loki informed by Norse mythology shouldn't be complaining about Thor's "oafishness" or whatever, he should be encouraging him to wreak even more havoc. Loki shouldn't be here out of some real or imagined obligation, he should be here because he expects he's going to have a pretty good time, and because he hopes to make the situation as ridiculous as possible.

Loki being the spirit of mischief is also why depicting him as hostile to humanity isn't really in the spirit of the pre-Christian Norse worldview. Mischief and chaos are not anti-human; they're just realities of the world that humans inhabit. I get how it's easy to infer that Loki must have something against humans due to his oppositional role toward the Aesir in the Ragnarok story, but that's an extremely Christian reading of the narrative. The story is simply describing the collapse of civilization and end of the world as we know it through Norse animistic comprehension. Loki only has an issue with the Aesir, who bound him in a cave to be tortured with serpent venom. Humanity is neither here nor there for him.

in case someone hasn't mentioned it already, a group of parrots is a pandemonium, so do with that what you will

Alternatives to “system” when choosing a collective name

There’s nothing wrong with keeping things simple and just calling yourself “The ___ System” when choosing a collective name! But some want something that represents themselves a little better. So here are some alternatives to the word system for y’all to try out! (I’ll add more if y’all have suggestions)!

General: 

- Group / Grouping

- Collective / Collection 

- Cluster

- Bunch, Bundle

- House (of) / Home (of)

- Band

- Club, Crew, Class, Clique

- Company

- Crowd 

- Party

- Ring

- Team, Unit

- Pack

- Caravan

Formal:

- Assembly

- Congregation

- Formation

- League, Division

- Sect, Sector

- Coalition 

- Convocation

- Court

Political (some of these may have negative connotations):

- Faction, Clan

- Gang, Bloc

- Squad / Squadron, Troop, Platoon, Posse, Fleet

Animals (names used for groups of animals): 

- Pod (of dolphins, whales)

- School (of fish)

- Flock (of birds)

- Murder (of crows)

- Sleuth (of bears)

- Parliament (of owls) 

- Parade (of elephants)

- Cackle (of hyenas)

- Conspiracy (of lemurs)

- Cauldron (of bats)

- Romp (of otters)

- Tower (of giraffes) 

- Flamboyance (of flamingos)

- And tons more! 

- Classification names: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Other:

- Constellation (a group of stars that forms an image in the sky)

- Asterism (a group of stars that is not a constellation) 

- Tributary (a river or stream flowing into a larger river)

- Confluence (where two bodies of water meet)

- Range (a group of mountains)

- Strata (a group of volcanos)

too cringe to talk to my mutuals so i just like their posts

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

ohh, thank you, i didn't see those before, but still, he has had so many cool designs like i can't with this man

I want to give all of the SpiderVerse designers a kiss

Only day you can reblog this

Reblog if you only stayed with Marvel this long because of Loki

100% agree, i miss the time in the loki fandom where loki could just be shipped with whoever

as a person who has always seen mcu!loki as an aroace peep (because the aroace-spec people are sorely missing representation) to the extent that i headcanon that multiple characters, especially those that have gone through similar trauma as me. there are few of us, but we are proud and we are strong

First Sylvie invaded the Echantress and Enchantricks tag, then she invaded the Lady Loki/Fem Loki tag, now Sylvie has invaded the Sigyn tag. 🥲 Why can’t people tag her properly?

They want attention

i have to keep reminding myself every now and again that rb-ing is normalized here, even as someone who has been on the hellsite for a couple of years

Just looked at a blog where the header description said 'sometimes I reblog posts I like so I don't forget them'.

And I feel like that, right there, explains so much about how the site has changed in the last few months.

People now think reblogging is an unusual behaviour, rather than a default.

Tumblr newbies, please, for the love of baby Jesus, reblog the posts you like. That is the whole reason the site exists - for you to collect all your shiny fandom objects in a single space. Which you can organize to your heart's content. Or not organize at all, if that's your jam.

Our blogs are intended to be collections of posts, not collections of likes.