HE IS THE MCU BEST VILLAIN, HE IS THE MCU GREATEST HERO, HE IS TIME ITSELF, HE IS THE CENTER OF THE MULTIVERSE, HE'S BURDENED WITH GLORIOUS PURPOSE, HE IS LOKI LAUFEYSON OF ASGARD

I know a lot of ppl already have tons of feelings about that loki finale but what’s sticking with me right now is the camera zoom into mobius after he says “let time pass” is an almost an exact mirror to loki’s zoom in with a tiny smile and (what looked like) a tear rolling down while mobius’s words echo to him idk idk… that felt extremely meaningful to me and it’s sitting with me hard right now.

I think about how the phrase “the greatest love is seeing those you love happy” applies to that moment in particular. I’ve already seen some sadness that loki’s decision has left him alone and while it is true to a degree, I see it differently.

he is alone but in love. in love with his choice to see those he loves happy. in love with what was clearly a clue (the identical zoom, mobius’s echoing voice) telling us he’s watching over from afar. that, of all the infinite time he could be witness to, he chooses to witness those he loves. he chooses to honor his choice but refuse to stop caring.

I understand where it could be a disheartening end and maybe we’ll get another season but something tells me - by the significance of those last few shots - that there is something truly powerful and poignant left out there for us for both loki and mobius (and actually all of the friends loki made his choice for)

long story short - I really love knowing loki continues to watch over mobius and his friends. and maybe someday we’ll find out that he isn’t limited to just watching

THOR (2011) / LOKI 2x06 (2023)

The only regret in my life is that I said a "sorry" while they deserved a "fuck off".

babe are you okay? you’ve barely touched your word count

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I think we should write unnecessary sequels to public-domain classics.

I wanna read Dracula 2: Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of Dracula's Ghost. I wanna read Pride and Prejudice 2: Elizabeth Has a Gun.

This is literally Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

No, it's not. P&P&Z is a re-imagining of the original plot, not a sequel. I want to give Elizabeth a gun after the events of the first novel are concluded.

who would Elizabeth have beef enough to kill over with?

Idk, I haven't actually read P&P since school and I honestly don't remember it all that well, but that's the magic of writing unnecessary sequels to public-domain works. It could be whoever we want it to be.

George Wickham.

Lydia comes to Pemberley for a visit, sans her husband because Darcy will not let that man set foot in their house after what he did to Georgiana. And she's just as bubbly as usual, just as chatty. Until Darcy makes his excuses and leaves the two sisters sitting in front of the fire, and after a slight pause Lydia informs Lizzy that she can't imagine how she manages to stay happy with a man so serious and grim as Darcy.

Lizzy, who knows her husband well enough by now, and that he was, in fact, smiling for most of dinner, tells her that they are well suited for each other and she is light enough for both of them.

After another pause, Lydia turns dark serious eyes to her eldest sister and asks in a tremulous, "Is he cruel to you too?"

Because we know George Wickham. We know what he is. He's the man who tried to seduce a fifteen year old girl (Georgiana) for her fortune. He's the man who ran off with Lydia Bennet, then also fifteen and the youngest of five sisters, knowing her family would be forced to give him her dowry and pay for them to marry her or else she'd be ruined. All the sisters would. And Lizzy knew, she knew the man was a rake and a cad. She'd even seen the way he yanked her arm in the carriage that first time they came home after their elopement. But somehow she'd still hoped that he'd try to make her happy. That hope is dead now.

Though not as dead as Wickham's about to be.

It would be quite easy, she thinks, to make it look like a hunting accident. But then she wouldn't get to see the fear in Wickham's eyes. She wants him to know, you see. She wants to watch the charm and bravado drain from his face as he hears the pistol cock and realizes his final fatal error. Because while it might be a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife, there is yet another greater universal truth he failed to recognize.

Don't fuck with the Bennet sisters; they will end you.

Pride and Prejudice Two: Elizabeth Has A Gun.

Space is a Dusty Place!

When you look at pictures of space, do you know what you’re actually seeing? A lot of the time the answer is dust!

Clouds of dust drift through our galaxy. Telescopes can take pictures of these clouds when stars light them up. Who knew dust could be so beautiful? But it’s more than just pretty – we can learn a lot from it, too!

Stars like our Sun are born in dust clouds. Over time, leftover dust clumps together to help form planets. That makes it a little less dusty.

But later, objects like comets and asteroids can create new dust by breaking up into tiny rocks. In our solar system, these rocky grains are called zodiacal dust. That’s because it’s mostly visible near the constellations of the zodiac. We can see the hazy glow it creates just after sunset or shortly before dawn sometimes, like in the picture above.

Around other stars, it’s called exozodiacal dust. Try saying that five times fast! It makes it hazy there too, so it can be hard to see distant planets.

Our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be really good at seeing how much of this dust is swirling around nearby stars. That will help future telescopes know the best places to look to find planets like Earth!

Roman will also see more distant objects. It will peer inside dust clouds where new stars are bursting into life. That will help our James Webb Space Telescope know where to look to find baby planets. Webb can zoom in for a more detailed look at these young worlds by seeing how they filter their host star’s light.

Roman will see huge patches of the sky – much bigger than our Hubble and Webb telescopes can see. These missions will team up to explore all kinds of cosmic mysteries!

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Stop motion wood working

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OMOZOC

look, I know it’s ~problematic~ for all kinds of reasons but I do kind of love when there’s a character with few or no scruples who outsources their moral compass to someone else

it’s sort of the equivalent of when a cat jumps up somewhere they shouldn’t be and you just pick them up and move them off it, only with murder or whatever. 

character a looking at character b like “okay is this a situation where I can do a murder” and character b like. “no. we’ve gone over this.”

I just find it very funny

It also allows for the situation where A asks if it’s murder time and B, with barely contained fury vibrating in every vein, replies, “Yes.”

Immediately started thinking of Amos Burton, and then never stopped

Stuff like this reminds me that not only are Elephants immensely intelligent and deeply social, they also generally consider humans to be legitimately “cute/adorable” in the same way we do for dogs or cats.

This playful elephant is likely acting accordingly.

Elephant scientist testing whether humans understand object permanence.

The population estimates of the cities of the Roman Empire in 117 AD.

Symbols are proportional to estimated population. After Hanson & Ortman 2017.