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i. Even though it is Wednesday I am not going to do the proper meme! Things I have been reading: The Thief and The Queen of Attolia (I am now on The King of Attolia) which I've found charming and engaging, and I'm enjoying the political machinations! I'm reserving a proper review for when I've done all four, I think. I've also been reading ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thingswithwings' Welcome to Night Vale fic, all of it, indiscriminately, because it keeps hitting me in all the best places that the show does. The City Council recommends that you run, RUN, QUICKLY, READ THOSE FICS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
ii. Having seen Pacific Rim, Polaris and I decided that we needed more of Idris Elba's face posthaste, and we've started watching Luther. We keep checking in with each other to make sure neither of us need to tap out, because goddamn that show is intense and upsetting, but it is also so gooood. (Let's be real, though: I'm there 50% for Idris Elba's face, and 50% for Luther's relationship with Alice Morgan, oh my god Alice, what an embarrassment of riches of things I love in fictional relationship dynamics.)
iii. THERE IS A NEW THOR TRAILER. I have no idea what sort of movie this is going to be! Like. Is it going to be grimdark? The epic trailer music and the ~encroaching menace~ want you to think so! Thor hitting that rock monster and making quips at the end do not want you to think so! I would be bizarrely on board with a slightly more integrated version of the first film's royal drama/bizarre superhero comedy schtick, honestly, even if I'm not quite sure how they'd pull that off.
There also seems to be a lot of Loki? And, like, not in a way where they know their audience and thus put 30% of the total Loki stuff in the trailer, but in the way where they know their audience and Thor 2 legitimately is mostly concerned about Thor and Jane and Loki's faces. Which, honestly, I want more than air, because I have lots of cares about Sif and Darcy and Erik and Frigga and the Warriors as well, but mostly I have cares about Thor and Jane and Loki. (Things I also want more than air: Jane and Loki accidentally becoming bros. When I'd only heard reports about the trailer, and heard that Jane slaps Loki and Loki says he likes her, I had hopes that it was in a "Wow, that was unexpectedly bold and awesome, LET US BE FRIENDS" way, buuut of course it was in a "Your rage and your planet are so cute and inconsequential" way. A+ Loki line reading! F- LOKI, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER. This is not a complaint! This is just a reminder that Tom Hiddleston is much better than I am at remembering that Loki is fucking awful.)
I ... augh, mostly though I just keep hearing rumors that Frigga will be fridged to motivate Thor and Loki, and the trailer is doing nothing to dissuade me, and the violent levels of DO NOT WANT I have are epic. The trailer is doing less to make me worry that Sif and Jane will have any sort of gross rivalry over Thor, but wowww I mostly just also want them to be bros, even more passionately than I want Jane and Loki to be bros. JANE HANGING OUT ON ASGARD, SOLVING WORLDS-ENDING DARKNESS WHATEVERS, LOTS OF LOVELY JANE, this is all I ask.
Sidebar: omg Heimdall without his helmet! Hey Idris Elba heeeey.
Uh, in conclusion: please please do not be lying to me, trailer, all I want for November is the Thor-Loki-Jane road trip. And for Loki to not betray them too badly hahaha halsdkjsdh oh god what a massive awful fuckup. And for Frigga to not die! And for Sif and the Warriors to keep giving Loki hilarious "Thor's new boyfriend, if you hurt our bb we will END YOU" speeches. (With swords. Keep holding swords to Loki's throat, Sif, THAT WAS GREAT.) And adfjigd argblarg I care about this movie way more than its actual merits deserve, but wowww do I care.
thingswithwings' Welcome to Night Vale fic, all of it, indiscriminately, because it keeps hitting me in all the best places that the show does. The City Council recommends that you run, RUN, QUICKLY, READ THOSE FICS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.ii. Having seen Pacific Rim, Polaris and I decided that we needed more of Idris Elba's face posthaste, and we've started watching Luther. We keep checking in with each other to make sure neither of us need to tap out, because goddamn that show is intense and upsetting, but it is also so gooood. (Let's be real, though: I'm there 50% for Idris Elba's face, and 50% for Luther's relationship with Alice Morgan, oh my god Alice, what an embarrassment of riches of things I love in fictional relationship dynamics.)
iii. THERE IS A NEW THOR TRAILER. I have no idea what sort of movie this is going to be! Like. Is it going to be grimdark? The epic trailer music and the ~encroaching menace~ want you to think so! Thor hitting that rock monster and making quips at the end do not want you to think so! I would be bizarrely on board with a slightly more integrated version of the first film's royal drama/bizarre superhero comedy schtick, honestly, even if I'm not quite sure how they'd pull that off.
There also seems to be a lot of Loki? And, like, not in a way where they know their audience and thus put 30% of the total Loki stuff in the trailer, but in the way where they know their audience and Thor 2 legitimately is mostly concerned about Thor and Jane and Loki's faces. Which, honestly, I want more than air, because I have lots of cares about Sif and Darcy and Erik and Frigga and the Warriors as well, but mostly I have cares about Thor and Jane and Loki. (Things I also want more than air: Jane and Loki accidentally becoming bros. When I'd only heard reports about the trailer, and heard that Jane slaps Loki and Loki says he likes her, I had hopes that it was in a "Wow, that was unexpectedly bold and awesome, LET US BE FRIENDS" way, buuut of course it was in a "Your rage and your planet are so cute and inconsequential" way. A+ Loki line reading! F- LOKI, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER. This is not a complaint! This is just a reminder that Tom Hiddleston is much better than I am at remembering that Loki is fucking awful.)
I ... augh, mostly though I just keep hearing rumors that Frigga will be fridged to motivate Thor and Loki, and the trailer is doing nothing to dissuade me, and the violent levels of DO NOT WANT I have are epic. The trailer is doing less to make me worry that Sif and Jane will have any sort of gross rivalry over Thor, but wowww I mostly just also want them to be bros, even more passionately than I want Jane and Loki to be bros. JANE HANGING OUT ON ASGARD, SOLVING WORLDS-ENDING DARKNESS WHATEVERS, LOTS OF LOVELY JANE, this is all I ask.
Sidebar: omg Heimdall without his helmet! Hey Idris Elba heeeey.
Uh, in conclusion: please please do not be lying to me, trailer, all I want for November is the Thor-Loki-Jane road trip. And for Loki to not betray them too badly hahaha halsdkjsdh oh god what a massive awful fuckup. And for Frigga to not die! And for Sif and the Warriors to keep giving Loki hilarious "Thor's new boyfriend, if you hurt our bb we will END YOU" speeches. (With swords. Keep holding swords to Loki's throat, Sif, THAT WAS GREAT.) And adfjigd argblarg I care about this movie way more than its actual merits deserve, but wowww do I care.