Um...

[attackfish]

When I was in high school, a really close friend killed himself by shooting himself in the head, and for some reason tonight's The Good Wife really brought back a lot of those memories.  I don't really want to talk about it, but if any of you have pictures of kittens, puppies, and baby animals, please send links.

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[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

But why would Zuko want to do anything other than ignore him?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Old Man Zuko has discovered the joys of trolling? Iroh was his teacher after all...

Also he feels sorry for Thor, and is like, "either you stop being a shit to your brother for five minutes, or I come back here and annoy you some more."

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing it. Why do you think Zuko would find trolling amusing instead of beneath him?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I will admit that my taste for trollish old man Zuko has been influenced significantly by this comic: http://fanficforensics.deviantart.com/art/Troll-on-board-308927360

Also, is it just me or did MCU Loki's character arc make zero freaking sense? People who are going to go nuts and commit genocide are assholes with zero empathy long before they start the killing. I mean, he clearly was in a state of narcissistic rage at the end of Thor 1, and then Avengers, he was sadistically insane and unable to plan worth shit, but according to Thor and the information we have about him pre-canon, he wasn't exactly a narcissist before hand, and was much more of a long term effective plotter than anything in the rest of the MCU would suggest. People do not just go crazy-evil at one trigger, crazy, yes, possibly if pushed far enough, but he should have been showing signs of having empathy issues way earlier than the MCU suggests.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Yes. It makes zero freaking sense. There's a profound disconnect between Loki at the end of Thor and Loki at the beginning of Avengers. That would be why I favor fics where Loki was forced into the plan or where it's only part of a much longer and better plan. One day he's angry, suicidal, trying to impress his dad, jealous of his brother and interested in humans only inasmuch as they affect Thor; then he comes out of the void desperate (makes sense), deeply concerned with being worshiped by humans (...?), narcissistic, jealous of and hateful to his brother, and void of redeeming qualities.

The only way it makes even vague sense as written is if:
-Loki's idea of being worth something is being a king
-Loki sees humans as so far beneath him that empathy doesn't apply to them
-Loki doesn't think he could rule anything any better than humans
-So he wants the humans' respect and submission
-Even though it will never be enough, because they're as ants to him
-But a failure to get even that makes him truly worthless in his own eyes

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

And this, along with utter ignorance of the many many comic book canons, is why in spite of loving the fact that there is a fandom that creates such wonderful cracky things like this: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1056541 , is why I will never be part of the MCU fandom. Fandom makes more sense than the canon.

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

LOL, that's awesome.