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As I’m fascinated by What Ifs and alternate scenarios, and I’m going over back how I felt about Dex and Sylvie, I would LOVE someone to explore an alternate version of their lives.

(I also have a soft spot for rare-pairs, or in defiance of ‘the big destined love’. Every now and again. For balance and literary roughage.)

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Across Dex’s life there’s reinforced messaging that Dexter doesn’t know what he wants, that he lacks purpose and drive and care, and this frustration only adds to lots of his other struggles.

But there is one thing we’re told Dexter once cared about: at some point in his childhood Dexter *loved* photography.

His mum mentions it when they get lunch, and thought we realise later that she was dealing with lots behind the scenes then, her remembrance of this hobby and her retelling of it then are actually quite hurtful and ham fisted. She (in a loving way) disparages this hobby, implying that Dexter wasn’t very good at it, and that this obsession confused his parents who (by the sounds of it) didn’t support or nurture this love.

And that would be interesting enough, coming in the same conversation that she bemoans Dexters lack of purpose and worries that it will cause him unhappiness in his life. But Dexter’s reaction to this memory is fascinating.

Its startling to see him so uncomfortable. He seems genuinely hurt and confused by this summation of his hobby; whether this is in response to the general sense that his mum didn’t think he was very good, or specifically that it was directed at his fascination with photography we can’t know for sure. But it gives an impression that there *was* once something that Dexter loved to do, or was fascinated by, and it was disparaged by his parents who didn’t support his interest and now he is seen as generally lacking any purpose or anything he’s interested in.

However you look at it it’s an interesting juxtaposition within one conversation. (I also kind of wonder if other interests were also treated this way, and so Dexters lack of care or interest is partially a learned behaviour…but I digress)

We get a call back to this photography again much later in the series, when the camera focuses on several taped up photos of gravel on his childhood bedroom wall. Again whatever the intention of this, it does remind us as the audience of Dex’s previous hobby that was important enough to him that he still keeps mementoes of them on the wall.

And though Dexter struggles massively with purpose and direction, we see in his last years with Emma that with the right support (and probably following on from a period where he reached the right level of desperation to swallow his pride and self motivate) he can choose a direction and job that he enjoys.

So I kind of love to wonder what other way his life could have gone.

What if, for whatever reason, Dex and Sylvie don’t go to Tilly’s wedding? Whatever the reason, probably combined with Dex both wanting to see Em again but also being slightly terrified of it, they can’t make it.

So Dex and Em don’t get their emotional reconciliation scene; they still likely make up and become friends again (Sylvie is still preganant, they’re still getting married, Dex will likely still invite Em and Tilly at least) but without them having that time and privacy at Tilly’s wedding to lay out all their cards…. are they *as* close afterwards as they could have been?

Does a Dex who hasn’t fully regained that romantically-tinged friendship with Emma (they shared a quick kiss minutes after he shared he was engaged and about to be a father!) then turn to Sylvie more than he did in the series? With Emma back as a good friend but not kind of a flirty-friend does Dexter emotionally commit a bit more to Sylvie and their marriage?

As they don’t re-meet Callum at Tilly’s wedding I think it’s unlikely he’s invited to theirs, hence Dex probably doesn’t get an offer to work for him.

So a Dex who is still professionally unfulfilled, looking for job options and a change, right when everything else in his life is also changing (marriage, fatherhood)… does this Dex now have a similar level of desperation/motivation as the one who we saw in Paris? Could this Dex also find the motivation to retrain in a new field, but not as a chef (as he hasn’t worked in a cafe) but instead…. as a photographer?

There was *something* there that drew his attention and held it as a kid, something which a appealed to him and made him proud of his little foray into that world. And when people are struggling with purpose and direction, don’t they say go back to what you once liked?

A Dexter who rediscovers this childhood love, now with the focus and need of an adult to try something new: that would be interesting. Also I think Sylvie is a model (?) in the book, so if that’s the case she probably has contacts or friends to help her new husband learn the ropes. It might even help their relationship to have her able to help him work on that passion, and for him to have something he is definitively working towards: both for them and also to reassure her family.

Plus if they don’t meet Callum at Tilly’s wedding, who then doesn’t offer Dex a job, Sylvie won’t be having an affair with him. In addition being with a Dexter who is slightly more emotionally attached to Sylvie, with a new career to focus on, and who hopefully feels less impotent might mean Sylvie doesn’t feel the need to cheat at all?

Do I ultimately think they would stay together? Probably not. They do appear to have differences in personality which would mean they aren’t the best of bedfellows. Dex’s sense of humor is shown to grate when Sylvie needs reassurance, and Sylvies inability to relax comes across to Dexter to be a lack of trust or belief in his competency. I don’t think different circumstances would have magically ‘fixed’ these differences in attitude and personality.

But I do think they could have ended better, and had a nicer and more interesting middle-period, before they went their separate ways.

But a Dexter who got to explore that tiny bit of passion and interest we’re told he once had? That would have been a fun version of him to get to see. And the poetic irony of Dexter finding purpose in the field his mother once disparaged, who found that interest and passion she worried he lacked in something she dismissed and mocked, would have been so narratively satisfying and well tied off!

Omgosh!!! How cute!🤩✨💚✨

You bring women to fight your battles?  Perhaps I bring men to fight mine.

The Musketeers + Happy Endings - Athos and Sylvie

Day 22: Peace

I’m praying that they’re not gonna follow through with a romantic relationship, and have them both realize that they’re powerful without one another and a loving relationship doesn’t have to be romantic

Okay I know so many people were indifferent to the Loki finale, but I really enjoyed it. It had me gasping and needing to pause the show multiple times.

It was set up beautifully to carry the storyline on with either the next season or another movie. The characters have progressed amazingly and grown so much. I’m so so excited for the future of Loki, Sylvie, and the TVA’s storylines!!

Anyway Sophia Di Martino supremacy!! She killed it and I’m so so excited to see more of her portrayal of Sylvie!

I really feel like Sylvie wants to care and show her emotions but she can’t. She wants to trust and love but her mind keeps pulling her back to that place of fear and trauma.

I am so happy I got to work with this lil local shop in the uk to create some promo material for their Loki loungefly collection. It warms my heart seeing people excited to receive their bags but also the art. This was such a wonderful experience and I would happily work with them again, anytime, on anything they’d like to throw at me.

Also this bag is the best Loki merch I’ve seen and I’m honored to have my art associated with it.

I meant to turn these into stickers but I never got around to it. Pins would be pretty too.

Ya’ll I cannot promise anything with the person I’m becoming after watching ONE episode of s2 Loki.

Quick rant with SPOILERS: This episode put me through the emotional ringer. Tom Hiddleston is giving it his absolute ALL (as always) and it makes me so happy. I was smiling the whole time with him and Mobius interacting and how Loki was teasing (flirting) Mobius!! I was all giggly and kicking my feet. This much gay energy is making me so nervous that they won’t end up together though. Like I just finished supernatural and I don’t want to have to watch another queer bated pair never get together. It’s low key stressing me out. The cinematography was sooo satisfying and it was so pleasing to watch all the angles and close ups. I can’t wait for the rest of the episodesss :)

PS: was anyone else thinking about Across the Spiderverse and what Miguel O’Hara would be thinking about all this?

I just had a thought if Sylvie Laufeydottir can possess humans do you think she could possess animals and use them as spies.

It's ashamed what the MCU did to Wanda because why introduce her being the Scarlet Witch and build up something important about witches and how Wanda is basically their High Priestess then end up killing her off. Because I look at people like Agatha, Loki, and Sylvie and just think it's terrible that Wanda never got to connect with her inner witch and be around other witches who could understand her instead of the Avengers. I know Sylvie doesn't know as much as Loki does but still. It's make me think could Wanda possibly do what Sylvie does with the whole possessing people, because what Wanda does is mind control and Sylvie possesses people with her magic.

And he didn't even take any drugs

he would rain all day,

couldn't wait for his sun to shine

And you made it shine

There when he cried,

you saved his life

I'm so upset rn 😭

And to think that I liked the direction that Kate was going 😐. I hate selfcast with a burning passion

Loki (2021) dir. Kate Herron

Loki Series Headcannons

because why not?

-Loki’s Pansexual. I know this was already touched upon in the series, but it was so brief that it didn’t mean much. In Asgard, gender and sexuality aren’t really a defining thing. Sure, the Asgardians know what they are but they don’t really care.

-Mobius was a jet ski nerd. I feel like whoever Mobius was before the TVA was the 90’s equivalent of a sneaker head, and habe a silly mental picture of Mobius hugging his favorite jetski, and talking to them like pets.

-Loki and Mobius developing a brotherly bond during their time at the TVA. We never really see what happens betwen all of the research that they do, but I imagine that they became close in the constant hours of doing things, WHICH MAKES THE FINALE SO MUCH SADDER.

-Sylvie being more of a touchy-feely person in relationships (due to her never having enough time to make a bond with anyone while apocalypse-hopping,) while Loki being more of a romantic gestures person, (from growing up with Thor always trying to literally drag him to training when he wanted to read,) but them both respecting each others boundaries.

-Hunter B-15 mourning all of the people she kills. This one is a little sad, but since we already know that she keeps track of them, it isn’t much if a stretch to assume she thinks about them and remembers who they are.

Feels free to add tour own hc’s. And PREPARE YOURSELF FOR SEASON 2!!!!!!!!

I don’t ship them & they radiate ‘chaotic siblings who share a brain cell’ energy here. I love them sm

❤️❤️Honestly I just love her soooooo much ❤️❤️

Also I know I haven’t posted in… a time but oh well

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