It is no coincidence that both Themyscira and Wakanda were hidden societies. They both knew what would happen if white men found them thriving.
AHHHHHH!!!!
The tea is PIPING
The fact that the second that a white guy shows up in Wakanda or Themyscira is the second things start taking a turn for the worse is the single most realistic thing in any superhero fiction because history has proven that yep, that is definitely always the case
j.k.r. needs like one close friend to sit her down and go: âokay, but, go over this with me again. you decided the evil snake your dark wizard kept as a pet and vessel of his fragmented horrific soul – the one that has to be murdered in order to defeat the evil wizard – is in factâŚ.an asian woman who was cursed to eventually become a beast and monster in her own body. am i getting this right? the asian woman turns into a snake because her bloodline is cursed and then she becomes the pet of a white supremacist with magic. you invented a body curse specifically for turning women into monsters and your first thought was not like, subversion of fairy tale misogyny butâŚ.to add a layer of racism? just trying to understand here.âÂ
so i saw some people discussing how loki in ragnarok shouldnât have been at all phased or subverted by dr. strange â which i agree with, but also, hey, itâs comedic and you can argue that he was taken off-guard, but upon re-watch, something stuck out to me â
thereâs this moment when they appear at the bottom of the stairs and thor rolls down the last couple and stands up and he says
we couldâve just walked.
and it made me think of how magic works in terry pratchettâs novels, how (to paraphrase) the hard part wasnât turning someone into a frog, it was not turning someone into a frog when you knew how easy it was.
like, the whole scene with dr. strange is just. all magic. all pointless magic. unnecessary magic, when, well. they could have just walked.
whereas loki doesnât really rely on magic overmuch in the movie â he uses it as a tool, when he needs it, but if the job can be done with plain old non-magical trickery or a knife, he just uses those. he resorts to magic when heâs cornered by valkyrie, he uses it when his goals are most directly accomplished by using magic rather than by other means.
whereas dr. strange is using magic all over his scene, just to use it. just because he can. magic was unnecessary for ninety percent of what he did in that scene, the only time he needed magic was to whisk them away to norway. but he teleported all over the place even when he only needed to move a few feet, gave thor an ever-refilling beer that just spilled everywhere, floated around to make a show of how ~magical~ he was, whenâŚ
he could have just walked.
i mean, iâm very sure that the filmmakers intended it for comedic effect, but thereâs also a layer there of dr. strange being much less comfortable with magic than loki is â loki doesnât need to bust out the magic at every opportunity, itâs simply a skill, a tool that is completely under his control and at his disposal. whereas dr. strange (at least in his scene in ragnarok) is showing off, which reeks of insecurity.
i guess iâm thinking⌠if you take the magic away, loki is still a deadly, formidable opponent with many tricks up his sleeve, but dr. strange is just a guy in a cape.
this is good and true because in the comics loki and dr strange got in a fight in a parking lot and then both of them had their magic taken away so loki just punched stephen through a wall and called it a gay ass day
in fairness most days for Loki are gay ass days regardless of how many wizards he punches
jk rowling just sits around her multi million dollar home and thinks âhow can i make my series more racistâ and just goes out and does it. sheâs so brave