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The last three are so insane and funny, but I'm still reeling from the first gif 😭

How could you do this to my fragile heart D:

shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

Have been thinking about the Loki&Natasha scene in A1 for years now, and I kinda think that them misunderstanding each other had a lot to do with what "kind" of manipulation they used on each other, or rather where their manipulative skills came from.

Let me explain:

Natasha was taught to professionally manipulate people: she reads the body language, looks for context clues, makes a conclusion, goes through a "toolbox" in her head, chooses a "tool" to apply. Example: the bad guy is monologuing, she reads his body language, reads context clues, comes to conclusion that the guy is overly arrogant and crazy and not well-collected, chooses a behavior that will make him tell her his plan. It's a purely professionally learned skill.

Loki's manipulation skills come from a place of empathy. Yes, you didn't misread this statement: empathy is an ability to understand on a deep level what other people feel, relate to this feeling. It is a pretty neutral thing on its own. Loki looks at someone, especially if he knows something about their background (which isn't necessary, but it makes it easier) and knows how they must feel. He looks at Natasha and knows of her deepest insecurities and fears because he understands emotions and feelings exactly. This is why in all of the movies he is capable of always finding a way to encourage people/enrage them/get into their trust etc. It's not a learned skill. Well, at least not in the same way - I guess living with a brother with anger issues who's capable of risking getting everyone killed over being called a "princess" does make you more aware of the emotional state of people around you.

And you can see this difference in the scene itself: she's playing by the book and her tactics are precise, with the goal of getting to know his plan. He's trying to get under her skin, to make her feel a certain way. We don't really know what his exact goal was but I suspect with all of this camera showing her through a glass in which we see his reflection while he's speaking thing - he wanted her to realize. "I know you, because I am you. You're a puppet in the hands of people exploiting your skills and forcing their will, and so am I. I know how it hurts, hear what I'm saying. You brought the monster here, and he's coming for more if you don't stop him". Loki is leaving a bunch of clues to other avengers as well, but I feel like he really put his money on Natasha, which... makes sense tbh.

And in the end both of them failed, because they came with different goals and worked from different perspectives: she worked with classic body language&context clues, he worked from a place of empathy, he gave her a poem she didn't know how to read.

And this skill difference is also present in their interactions with other characters: when Natasha tries to encourage Tony and he reacts in unexpected way, she's frustrated - the "toolbox" failed, and she genuinely doesn't know how to deal with this. Same with Loki: when he cannot understand someone's feelings, it's harder for him to work with that.

And it's even reflected in the words they choose: Natasha's "thank you for your cooperation" and Loki's "you will never be a god", for example.

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Hi, guys. 😊💕

So someone asked me for the recording I have of Betrayal, and since I have it uploaded now I thought I’d share it here in case anyone else wants it, too. 

(Be forewarned that, as it was recorded by an audience member, the sound isn’t always the clearest but you can still hear most it.)

Hi! Can you explain waiting rooms please? Like how to script them, what they do, etc

Hello friend!! I sure can ☺️ (long post incoming)

What is a Waiting Room?

A waiting room (or WR) is a (non-mandatory) place that you can script to shift to and it’s a sort of in between for your CR and DR. You usually shift to your WR to kind of collect your thoughts and get ready to fully enter your DR. A lot of times your WR is a simple and rather empty room that just has you in it. (It can include whatever you want I’m just giving an idea)  And a lot of people have a door in their waiting room that they can open and step into their DR “portal”

Why do people use Waiting Rooms? 

As mentioned above, WR are a space to calm down and “process” your shifting before continuing into your DR. It helps people not feel so startled by just opening their eyes and being DIRECTLY in the action of their DR. Also, for some people, visualizing a single room is a lot easier than your whole DR world.

How do you script a Waiting Room?

I mention this a lot (but I know newer shifters don’t always know this) but scripting is NOT necessary to shift. It is a helpful tool to organize your thoughts, just like methods are, but you do not 100% need one in order to shift. If you do still want to write a script for your WR, it can be whatever you want! It could be simple bullet points with description of the room, it could be a single paragraph, it could be a drawing, ANYTHING!  Whatever helps you visualize or however you like to set up your script is what you should do!

Thanks for the ask and I hope this helps!! If you have any other questions, send them my way!!! 

I'm thinking in terms of actual real life experiences I've had when I say this, but I'd imagine part of what makes being a Thor enjoyer so frustrating in 2024/MCU's phase 4+ era is that... you're effectively not allowed to enjoy your favorite superhero.

I once had a conversation with a close friend of mine during a casual outing, and without going into very many details, this particular person is an enjoyer of Ragnarok, and enjoys Tailka's work overall. Now, I should say right off the bat: there is nothing wrong with these opinions. Everyone is entitled to like what they like and enjoy the work of creators just the same as other people are allowed to dislike them. For this particular post, I'm not here to get into fandom wars or "reasons why taika waititi is a terrible director" beef. I have other posts in line for that. But what I will say is that I already knew this about my friend, so it never surprised me when the topic of Thor came up that it would be a point of disagreement.

The issue I've found that continues to circle in the general space of "being a Thor fan" came when I expressed that I don't like Ragnarok, I do think Thor was funnier (and just better overall) before Ragnarok and therefore Taika's involvement, and quite frankly Taika had very little business taking on the mantle of director of a superhero franchise he has never liked or understood in his life just because he had mouths to feed. (There are other opportunities to fulfill that. And filmmakers know going into this industry that it's all gig-based and - if they're smart anyways - work around that.) I hadn't even gotten a chance to go through all of the reasons WHY I feel that way, of which I have had before compiled an organized list of about 16 talking points off the top of my head, so as far as that particular discussion goes... it didn't go anywhere. We were busy at the time.

But namely what I want to talk about is this:

The response I was given, in summary, was something along the lines of "well I think Thor was boring, and he wasn't my cup of tea, so I'm glad he changed."

But, you see, there's just ONE small issue with that: Thor isn't meant for everyone.

In fact, no character is meant for everyone. So why is it that Thor needs to change to be "for everyone" and be the MCU normies' "cup of tea" when no other character has to? Why does he need to lose his core identity (both as a character, as a franchise, you name it, it's been done) just because people like my friend don't understand him as well as Tony Stark or Spider-Man? And why should Thor fans have tow watch their favorite superhero get stripped down and turned into something completely divorced from the character, world and cast we were first involved with from the beginning?

Nobody at any point has been able to answer me that besides "well just because I didn't like Thor personally."

Iron Man won't appeal to everyone. Neither does Captain America, neither does Spider-Man, beloved as even Spidey is. They have their own quirks, their own villains, their own storylines... Every superhero has a core to them that their stories revolve around. He's from DC, but Superman, for instance, has the core of: love, justice and the American Way. Therefore, his stories revolve around challenging that core, and making Superman prove it. Steve Rogers/Captain America has a similar core. Justice, freedom and the American Way, is what I'd mostly boil his core down to. Thor's is "love" all around. I've written about that '(here)' in my post about his 2011 themes. Maybe it's different for other fans, but for me personally? I adore that about Thor. It's one of the many reasons I'm drawn to him over any other marvel Super besides Spider-Man. (not you tom holland ... yes you andrew garfield...)

So when I go to Thor for entertainment, I'm going to him above the other superheros because I want a story that revolves around HIS core and how Thor goes about reckoning with his challenges. I also go to MCU Thor specifically for his quiet, kind, regal nature. I come to him for his gravitas, his passion, his relationships with his cast of companions.

I go to him for high-sci-fi action/adventure, or for the "what if we took norse mythology and made it an alien superhero" route they took him in for the MCU. I go to Thor because he IS different from the rest of the Avengers... and that's the point.

So when someone says to me: "Well Thor wasn't for me so I'm glad he changed", or "Well I really liked Ragnarok because Thor kind of become more in line with the other Avengers"... they're fundamentally missing the point of why Thor has a fanbase at all.

i mean this in the gentlest possible way but if 75% of what you're posting for a given fandom is fuming rage spirals then maybe just maybe it's time to take a step back and consider whether or not you're actually having any fun with this optional thing you do for fun