Memories/Looking back: March 2019

Memories/Looking back: March 2019

For this blog's first anniversary (February, 10th) I did a blog post in which I talked about posts I posted in February 2019, shared memories. I also said that it could be an idea to do this monthly, around the 10th of the month (for that month 2019). Due the current circumstances that slipped my mind the 10th, and now I thought it would be nice to still do, only a little later. During these times of staying inside, more time for writing and reading are created and looking back at beautiful Tom/Loki memories always is a great thing to focus on!

I wrote 10 blogs for March 2019, an amount I cannot reach for this March anymore unless I would write more blogs per day.. I've sift through the March 2019's blogs and man.. Where I've wrote a lot about Tom/Loki in February, I didn't in March.. Perhaps it was a bit quiet around him in March before the opening of Betrayal? But as to be read in my header, Goddess of Loki is not a news blog (I make exceptions every now and then) but a personal blog. Mostly I'm sharing the news via Instagram & Facebook.

Let's share a few blogposts of March 2019:

1. Carnaval

The month got kicked off by a blog about Carnaval, something similar like Halloween (only than less scary & the dressing up & partying continues for 5 days in a row. This year I wore my Angel outfit with a purple wig, as purple is a highly spiritual colour. It really took me a while to get into the fun time this year, I notice every year I'm less and less looking forward to the Carnaval. But it remains a lovely tradition and I had a lot of fun the last two days. A storm was expected for the Sunday, so Sunday's activities got postponed to Monday.

On my personal Facebook page (Dutch) I was planning of writing a post about the Carnaval as well because this year's carnaval is now a month ago. In the past month so much has changed that it feels like it was much longer ago. It's almost unthinkable that a month ago we all stood so close to each other, partying with 1000+ people.. while now for our own safety we are taking distance from each other and events/meetings with more than 3 people are cancelled. It's a strange, strange world.. It seems that this year's carnaval caused more trouble than it did good, because the only two provinces of our country that celebrate it (Noord Brabant & Limburg, the one I'm living in), relatively have the most COVID_19 infections. If you ask me, there's a chance that these kind of big events are no longer responsible in the future. Who knows, we'll see. Health always comes first and the memories we will cherish!

2. Disney Plus First Arrives in the Netherlands

This was a little news blog when it got announced that Disney Plus first arrived in the Netherlands. I wrote: "According to insiders, Disney + is coming to the Netherlands this year!" No lie there, Disney Plus arrived here in October and they offered a free period of a month before the streaming service device went live for real in several countries (don't know all exact countries) on November the 12th. We were able to test the device, however I did not used it much (that's why I cancelled mine in December) because of time and because of that there was no app for my TV. I read that still not all TVs or providers are supporting the app, I hope that has changes before the Loki Series comes because then I definitely re-subscribe!

3. Captain Marvel Review

Sadly there're no new movies to review this March and probably for April too, because of the corona-crisis all movies have postponed. And that's for the best because it's not necessary for anyone to risk their health. If you ask me, last year was a great movie year. Captain Marvel, Dumbo, Aladdin, Endgame and my personal winner: Joker. I just re-read my Captain Marvel review and since Tom Hiddleston is my huge inspiration, I do take my chance of mentioning him where I can. So I also did that in my Captain Marvel review, read below the first part of this review:

"Men, beware! Also in the film-industry, the women are after a take-over, so it looks. We will most definitely see it happening in this year’s superheroes films. After the Marvel male related superheroes such as Thor, Iron Man, Captain America & Black Panther, now it‘s up to actress Brie Larson (In my Dutch review I couldn't resist on mentioning here that she‘s also known for the movie Kong: Skull Island in which my favorite Marvel actor Tom Hiddleston has a big role. Even if we will see Loki in Endgame, I know he‘s one of the characters I can‘t mention for my Endgame review..) to crawl into the skin of a superhero: Captain Marvel! Also, later this year Marvel will release the movie: ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ which will also be dominated by (not all heroes) female characters. Talked about this: We've seen it at DC too with ‘Wonder Woman’, earlier ‘Catwoman’ and the ‘Supergirl’ show (from which was made a movie in the 80s and apparently there are plans for a new Supergirl film). I thought it was very accurate for me to go see ‘Captain Marvel on International Women’s Day! However, if you just look at the title, you might just not directly assume it concerns a woman. When a few years ago I first got crossed with the title ‘Captain Marvel’, before knowing any details, I assumed it would be a male character. (No, ain’t really a comics-reader..) Funny thing I recently read in a blog titled ‘Everything you need to know about the new Captain Marvel film!’ from Wilson Worldwide Productions (Award-winning Film & TV production company which I am following on Instagram), that the character originally was a man!"

No Captain Marvel Photo here, I choose to add a photo
of both Tom & Brie in Kong: Skull Island instead.

4. Avengers / X-Men Crossover (Fanfiction I wrote)

Here I shared the first three chapters of this Avengers / X-Men Crossover fanfiction I wrote, if you want to read it, you need to click the link. It also links to the story on wattpad (also posted on other fanfiction sites) where you can find more chapters. I must say I haven't had much inspiration for this story ever since, so I'm afraid I haven't updated it much.. Also I don't know if what's in the blog is up to date (edits).

Summary story:

This is a crossover with the characters Charles Xavier, Magneto & the Wolverine of Marvel‘s X-Men (First Class). The characters of the Avengers series are: Loki, Thor, Tony Stark & Bucky Barnes. From the Guardians of the Galaxy I added Rocket & Teenage Groot. 

Charles Xavier has called the Asgardian Gods and Logan to protect his 'powerful' twin sister Charlene, against the God Apocalypse. Meanwhile Magneto made a team out of Tony Stark, Bucky Barnes & the two smallest members of the Guardians of the Galaxy to go join them.

5. Official Betrayal Photo's 

Does this blogpost need any more explanation? Exactly what I thought a year ago, because I wrote:

"No headline. A photo strong like this one, doesn't need an extra headliner. Emma & Jerry holding hands and Robert with his head down a little afar from them. The feeling, the emotions. What a small photo can do."

Above is a edit I made and sent as a card to the theatre. It has a few of the photo's made by Marc Brenner, obviously the theme of this blogpost, in it. Relive your memories!

6. Tom Hiddleston on Only Artists 

Oh this was such an inspiring piece of radio! Tom talked about what he listened to for the role of Loki and he also mentioned other stunning film music like Chariots of Fire! I write a lot about music too, did a Top 2000 blog in December but this blog definitely can use more posts about music. To gain positivity on Facebook's timeline, I'm currently doing a music ABC on my personal page. Perhaps when I'm finished, I can share the whole list here. I can give you today's song: 

7. Endgame

Three photo's with one line:  "The only posts that matters today:" It was the day Tom posted Loki's Endgame picture on his social media! My heart almost stopped that day!

8: Dutch Comic Con 

This blogpost about Dutch Comic Con was my first (and only for the moment) Comic Con experience. Oh where I said that this year's Dutch Comic Con was still happening (as a response of Boston's Con got cancelled), only with a few extra corona rules, they still had to cancel it after all (postponed to July as it seems now). Not only because of the many guests couldn't come due Trump's travel-ban, our country also announced a event-ban from March to June. Just like the Carnaval, in the current times, an event like Comic Con (& the crowded trains -due defect trains- during the ride home we experienced last year!) now totally seem so unreal and irresponsible. 

I just mentioned that I'm doing a music ABC on my personal Facebook page. On the 24th of this month it was the letter C. I chose for the Corrs with the song Breathless, a song that always reminds me of the episode (3x21) of Charmed in where Prue turns into a dog to track down her sister Phoebe who had turned into a Banshee (see video below). When Prue turns back to herself (end of the episode) you'll hear this song. When I hear this song it takes me back to my great memories of Charmed and especially to Shannen Doherty, who portrayed Prue in the series. I met her at Dutch Comic Con 2019 and on the 24th of March it was exactly one year ago. I found it beautiful that on this date exact, it was the turn to post a song from a artist with the letter C. I don't believe in coincidence and like Prue used to say in the series a lot: "Everything happens for a reason."

 

I have experienced my photo op & meeting with Shannen in the autograph line as a really lovely experience. Shannen is a warm, kindhearted person and I admire her for her strength. Over the years she has inspired me and many people over the entire world and among others did she let hear her voice for animal rights. Here's a line about Shannen's Panel that I wrote in my blogpost from 2019:

"One person told her how much she admired her for how open she was during the time of her disease (something similar I wrote in the letter) and asked her if she had any tips for someone who went through it right now."

Shannen's Q&A truly was worth every word and it was amazing to see her interaction with fans. She shared how she went through her breast cancer and shared that people shouldn't lose hope, shouldn't give up. Also Shannen has always been very open about her disease on social media. I remember that she posted a very emotional video in where her hair got shaved off. You have to be a very strong person to share a video of a vulnerable moment like that. I've really got a lot of respect for this! And indeed, I've always seen Shannen as a strong, independence woman and that's also how I experienced seeing her at Dutch Comic Con. It truly broke my heart when I found out that now her cancer has returned, in a crucial 4th stadium. The whole world is now fighting the same enemy, the same disease, namely the coronavirus, but let us also think of the people who also have to fight against other persistent diseases! 

Shannen, meeting you was an experience I shall never forget. Thank you for all the love, fun, light & strength you have brought to this world💓. I wish you and your family a lot of strength, light and lots of love!

I will keep on cherishing this moment always💙

Hereby I'll end this blogpost,

for everyone:

Stay safe & strong, stay home, hand out a helpful hand to the people who need it, be kind for each other, lighten the earth and don't loose faith!

xx

*digital hugs*

Nicole from the Netherlands

Zen Blog: Inspiring Quotes and Nature 4

Zen Blog: Inspiring Quotes and Nature 4

I‘m so sorry that it took me three months to do a blog like this one again. I‘m not doing the time-talk again, we know it‘s flying by faster than Thor would⚡ (even before he got fat..). However had added some nature pictures and quotes in some of the blogs I published in August and September.

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Aren‘t we all bouncing in a circle up and down? The one moment we feel great, the next moment we‘re caught in a miserable mood. Perhaps that‘s what they mean with 'Circle of Life' in the Lion King. (Kidding..) Speaking of the Lion King, remember Hakuna Matata (it means no worries for the rest of..🎵)?  Recently I got a tip from someone. He said something among the lines of: "If you‘re burdened with stress or you are worrying about something, throw some rocks in the water and watch the circles. Pretend that the disappearing circles mean your stress/worries and let it carry it away!" That‘s truly a wonderful advice. I knew that there‘s a large pond around my hometown somewhere I had never been before. I tried to find this a few months ago, but I don‘t know where Maps was sending me too. Not there, definitely. It was a great walk though, crossed a dog 🐶that lives close in the era (I was worried about him walking around there on his own, but people told me it‘s the dog‘s nature for as long as they remember) who joined me the whole time and actually helped me find my way back from the nowhere to the living! However, the other day I decided to give it another try and took my bicycle with me because it was actually quite the walk.. This time finding it took me no effort, so I decided to follow the guy‘s advise. And for me this really worked. I had two things on my mind that I wished the universe solved for me. Small things, but enough to spoil my mood for a few days.. Anyhow, the next day both of those 'problems' were solved.

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Somehow I‘m always drawn to take a picture of the sky. It‘s always the question how a picture like that turns out because I can‘t see the view when looking right into the sun..

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The above is a zoom-in of the previous picture. I did captured a light blue energy in that particular picture I took. You can tell me it‘s an effect of the sun, but I‘m too spiritual to believe that! 💙

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Hey, what‘s that in the water?

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Quotes/Inspiration: 

 

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These days here it‘s raining a lot. One of the themes of this blog post perhaps is water.

You can‘t live without water, nature can‘t live without water. Every time when the rain spoils your mood, think that nature which is still recovering from two dry summers (here that is..), needs it a lot!

I do, I do!

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A sign of Infinity

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You are stronger than you think..

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End the blog with some Hiddles vibes!

I know I have used this Tom Hiddleston quote earlier, but you can‘t share a lovely quote like this enough!

I like to write down small quotes or save images in small note books. Every time I open this small blue notebook Tom Hiddleston‘s quote magically creates a smile on my face. 💙😇

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I hope you enjoyed this blog,

Love,

xx

Nicole

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Sources: Rituals, Flair Magazine, Flow Magazine, Tom Hiddleston

Thank you 3000!

Thank you 3000!

'Starting with ‘Thor’ you took me on a journey. A journey that opened lots of doors to other worlds for me (and I‘m not just talking about Asgard). I‘d just hopped on the ‘Tom Hiddleston train’ a few years ago and let you guide me towards stations that gave me dreams, believe, more self-confidence & hope. And as the cherry on top: inspiration for writing about Loki myself, which truly feels like a desire from my heart.'

"Love you 3000!"

Front of the card (A4) I send to Tom in May

Now that Spider-Man: Far from Home (don‘t worry no spoilers, JUST FOR ENDGAME!) has ended MCU Phase 3, I would like to dwell on that for a minute, if I may. I had wanted to write about Avengers: Endgame earlier, but each time something came in between. It‘s too late for writing a review about Endgame and there‘s enough discussion about it on the internet too, so I‘m just going to leave it like that. I do want to say that I thought Endgame was worthy, a good closure. I liked Endgame much better than Infinity War, I‘m sure you know why.. In fact, I never felt the need of re-watching Infinity War and I wouldn't mind seeing Endgame again.. There‘s always criticism, but in my opinion, For both Tony Stark and Captain America Endgame did very well. To be honest, about Thor I‘m still balancing in the middle. It really relies on what they‘ll do to him in the future. We haven‘t seen the last of him yet, no doubt! And what about Loki? By letting Loki escape with the Tesseract in 2012, Endgame created an opening for The Loki Series. I think that means that everything still is possible. All doors are open. It‘s up to Disney and Marvel to use those doors and what they‘ll do with it. And I‘m seeing this positive. I trust them, but more importantly: I have faith in Tom Hiddleston! Always!

After Endgame, I've been creative by creating 'Thank you' cards for my three favorites. Besides Tom, Robert and Chris Hemsworth received one. Before today (8th of July), I hadn't shared them online yet. Tom‘s card is above. It includes 5 edits on which I edited my favorite Loki quotes in. To get them all in one card, I decided to do IW and Endgame in one edit. I will share all 5 edits in this blog. 

I‘m not going to share the text I wrote in the cards. They have a personal touch here and there, when I‘m writing about what the films and their characters have meant for me. Tom‘s card also has a Funko Fun edit inside, that I can share with you:

>Some more pictures of the Loki Stuttgart Funko Custom can be found here<

All though I made this for the fun, it‘s no lie that I would love to see Tom again in his Loki Stuttgart suit. It‘s one of my favorite outfits of Loki. I feel very thankful to have this Loki Stuttgart Custom.


Tony Stark has so many memorable quotes in the MCU. It seems that the line "I Love you 3000" has a deeper meaning. I read that Robert Downey Jr. said it to his own kids, and if that isn‘t beautiful enough: It seems like the total run-time of all 23 films is similar to the number as well: 3000 minutes!


See this tweet for more about that:

Look at the total run time for all the MCU movies. “I love you 3000”. Can’t cope... #AvengersEndgame pic.twitter.com/A6nj6bGaNd

— Ash (@AshBoio) 2 mei 2019

I took my Tony Pop‘s and chose my favorite Tony Stark Quotes. Of course Reindeer Games, Point Break and Shakespeare in the Park can‘t miss. His line "Sorry, Earth is closed today" cheered me up after the beginning of IW broke me, ah yes Tony totally is the God of Marvel. I love his choice of nicknames and of course Lebowski for Thor in Endgame resulted in breaking my laugh again.. Tony is an important character in my Loki stories as well and I can‘t resist on using some of his known nicknames again, but also it inspired me for other ones for example: Shakespeare-sisters for Thor and Loki or Planet Squirrel as a guess for the name of the planet Rocket comes from. Tony, Loki, Thor & Rocket: a golden quartet in stories, gives you lots of writing fun!

Front of the card I've send to Chris Hemsworth

Close up quotes I chose for Thor. (The Get Help Funko-Fun is one I made last year) 

I totally ruined my own Get Help Funko-Fun by adding my favorite Thor quotes, but also Thor has lots of memorable quotes we shouldn't forget!

A small part of what I wrote in Thor‘s card:

When I first watched a Thor movie all those years ago, I never knew it would open a whole new world for me. Besides making me develop a love for the Norse Mythology, you also gave me The Avengers as a present. You know, the reason I chose to watch 'Thor' at the first place was because I liked fantasy films with guys with long hair in it. But Thor, (especially) Loki and the stunning world of Asgard helped me through a rough period and inspired me to write about them. 

I would like to thank you for all you gave and shared with us. Thor‘s journey, who I felt so sorry for after he kept losing more and more. You went for the head, yes! For the better I don‘t have a Thanos Funkopop otherwise I would have a made a Thor VS Thanos movie moment 2.0! Once you said: 'No Thor without Loki', and now we saw in what condition he is without him: I truly hope he‘ll get his brother back eventually. But I really liked Thor‘s viking look at the end, his braided beard. It gave me that real Norse Gods/Immigrant song feeling. Hope to see more Thor in the future! 

Loki

Continue with Loki.💗

Creating his card took me the most time. Obviously because I wanted to do a little extra for Tom. Hopefully he can see through the fact that I‘m absolutely no Photoshop pro.. The idea was for all edit to be a bit in the same style. In each edit I used at least one black and white photo of Loki and a color one. Also I used the same layers and fonts to make them have a bit of the same look (as far as I managed) and of course Loki quotes! 💟💓 Actually Loki has too many memorable quotes to add them all haha.

Of course the helmet may keep its colors!

My favorite!

I found some of the edits too crowded because of the Loki quotes, so for the Thor the Dark World edit I decided to not make them dominate the edit. My favorite Loki scenes are the Ta-da scene and everything involved Thor and Loki escaping Asgard, so they had to be in! And of the scenes I think Loki looks absolutely stunning is the opening scene of this film, yes where he wears chains.. Also I kind of cheated with this edit. In my opinion, Thor the Dark World also had the strongest last few seconds that ended a Marvel. Therefore a bit in the back, this smiling mischief-looking Loki is added. 😊 

Ragnarok! In a Ragnarok Loki themed edit, the picture I use as profile photo definitely can‘t miss! 

Darker movies, darker edits..

Endgame and Infinity War in one. To keep the focus more on Loki, I also narrowed down at one quote. I chose the quote that meant the most to me. The sun will always shine on them! 🌞

'I‘m happy Loki‘s journey hasn't reached its End 'game' yet. I‘m super excited for the Loki Series! A whole wide road open for Loki. Wherever he goes, I will follow!'

#ThankYouAvengers

Love you 3000 is a quote I will continue on using in the future!

Asgardian Music Band

Asgardian Music Band

Don‘t remove credits if reposting

And the music talk goes on, kind of. Who has not seen Thor‘s sad singing video? (This video posted by Chris Hemsworth himself.) Perhaps he‘s not quite the best singer.. and he‘s missing something, rather said: someone! For this moment: Let‘s pretend Adam from Only Lovers Left Alive is Loki. Right.. he‘s not looking so happy either! So who are they missing? Tony? Valkyrie? The Grandmaster? You? If you are able to sing without the cracking the windows and succeed in cheering them up, you've got the job!

Ragna-Rockin‘ Revengers

To relive some funny memories :).

Credits: see photo.

So because of a the Revengers being an 70 rockband meme that hit the internet like 1,5 year ago, I wrote this piece that was meant to be an interview with band members Thor, Loki, Tony & Bruce.. (I turned it into a 80/90s band though)

First let‘s check out their tracklist of the debut album:

Any suggestion for the next album?

My favorite bandmembers:

Don‘t remove credits if reposting.

Before the interview took place the interviewer took a picture of the present band members. Apparently Tony & Bruce were jealous of Thor and Loki‘s long hair so they decided to wear a wig.. (Tony‘s face wasn‘t easy!)

And here comes the interview I wrote: (If you want to share it, please mention this blogspot page or my IG/Wattpad name: @Goddess_of_Loki)

Please, don't take my made up interview to seriously ..

Interviewer: “I‘m here with Loki, Thor, Bruce and Tony Stark from the band Ragna-Rockin‘ Revengers to talk about their new album. Why doesn't the album have a name?”

Loki: “Because every one kept turning down the names I came up with!”

Thor: “Those names were all about you!”

Bruce: “Let‘s just say we couldn't get to a agree..” 

Interviewer: “Perhaps you should create a contest and let the fans decide, just saying.. Loki, did you wrote all of the songs?”
Loki: “Not all of them but Mischief & Thunder, Burdened with Glorious Purpose,  I Do What I Want, Little Blue Box and Kneel or I Stab You are definitely mine!”

Interviewer: “Yes about that last one you named. I heard that in some countries they forbid you guys to play that song.”
Loki: “You heard that right. I don‘t get all the commotion about it..”
Thor: “At one place we were sent away before we could play, because when they searched us they found out Loki actually had knives with him.”
Loki: “I always carry them around with me!”
Thor: “It‘s not like you were planning on tossing them into the public..”
Loki: “Hell no! They are mine, I‘m not giving them away!”

Interviewer: “Thor, have you written some songs too?”
Thor: “Yes, however Loki tens to edit my songs. For example Ride Your Hammer is mine, but it originally was called: Ride My Hammer but Loki refused to sing that..”
Tony: “Brothers..”

Thor: “Also Get Help is mine obviously. It‘s kind of a duet between me and Loki. You hear me say ‘Get Help?’ basically the whole time and then Loki reacts: ‘I‘m not doing!’
Tony: “Most annoying and ridiculous song I've ever heard or played!”

Interviewer: “But you do sing in another song too, right Thor?”
Thor: “Yes, I‘m doing the ‘Ah-ah, ah‘s’ and the ‘Ooh-ooh‘s’ in Immigrant Song. We covered that song from Led Zeppelin. We already gave them credits by using the original version in our epic battle video‘s, so they have no reason to sue us or anything..”

Loki: “I must confess I did stole a part of the lyrics of The Rainbow Bridge too. I just searched stuff about rainbows on the internet. The couplet is from a really cool TV-show!”
Tony: “It‘s from My Little Pony..”

*Manager Taika Waititi walks in* 

Tony: “Oh thank God Taika, those damn Shakespeare sisters are exposing all our secrets!”
Loki: “SHUT UP, you mewling-“ Tony: “Language!” *lowers his voice:* “I can‘t believe I just said that!”

Taika: “Boys, you haven‘t used anything again right?”
Loki: “Well, yesterday when we met Guns n‘ Roses at that festival their singer, what‘s his name again, Axl Flower gave us some really cool stuff!”
Thor: “Axl Rose you mean! And I think it wasn't him, but some other dude.”
Taika: “Please, don‘t accept anything from other rockers, okay?” *Lowers his volume:* “Lord, what‘s the point of managing Thor and Loki‘s pay checks anyway, if people just give them the stuff for free..”

Thor: “When will you give us our money? I want to buy a pet, a lion or something!”
Loki: “Why? We already have a Black Panther, what about a wolf?”
Taika: “Ah I remember, that‘s why. Your last pay checks are used for the insurance and damages costs of the incident at last week’s gig remember? By the way, why isn't the band completed?”
Thor: “T'Challa has gotten the flu last night and Loki had a fight with Valkyrie, that‘s why she isn‘t here.”

Loki: “Why can‘t we just replace her for the Grandmaster?”
Tony: “Hell no! Not another whack job! If she leaves I‘m going solo!”
Loki: “You threaten about going solo all the time..”

Interviewer: “Can we proceed the interview? I've read about that incident from last week, I‘d like to discuss that with you.”
Loki: “Yes!”
Taika: “All right then.”

Interviewer: “Bruce, can you tell me more about what happened last week?”
Bruce: “Well, we played the song I wrote, -not Hulk, he can‘t write- City Smash, god this is embarrassed.. The green guy showed up and smashed everything on stage.”
Interviewer: “Sounds terrible!” Bruce: “Yes, it was. Subject change please!”

Interviewer: “All right. If you look on the internet it‘s obvious you, Thor and Loki are the most popular ones. Which one of you do you think the fans find more attractive?”
Thor: “Me, of course!”
Loki: “I have more fan-girls!”
Thor: “For how long? If you keep playing with their hearts soon they will all hate you! You kind of wrote it in your own song: Madness Over Few Wasted Roses. For example: You give a rose to girl 1, then see girl 2 and give her a rose too. When they meet and find out you‘ll get the madness..”
Tony: “Another example of one of your idiotic songs..”

Interviewer: “I actually am a bit curious to hear your opinion about the fact that most of the songs are related to Thor and Loki.”
Tony:  “I‘m glad my song Always an Avenger (Nicole: idk why I didn't come up with a better title) wasn't cut, otherwise I would have gone solo.”
Loki: “Actually Smells Like Iron On Fire is about you too. I assume you would smell even worse if you‘re on fire!”
Tony: “That‘s it! Screw you guys, I‘m going home!”

Interviewer: “Time to wrap this up. Any last words?”
Loki: “Kneel!”
Thor: “Come on, brother! Thank you for having us!”
Loki: “Hey, last words are always mine! Buy our album guys and buy tickets for our shows!”

Tony‘s solo album is called: I Love You 3000!

The Marvel Bunch as extra bonus track?

If I got some more inspiration about an new tracklist + interview based on Endgame (with assuming they all live), you‘ll hear from me.

Disney‘s Aladdin & Dumbo Live Action

Disney‘s Aladdin & Dumbo Live Action

Given the fact that writing truly is one of my biggest passions, and this personal blog is about what inspires me, why should I not share this here? Tom Hiddleston, Loki, writing, films, what me concerns, they all have one thing in common: That is, they‘re all my passions! So why should I not combine those passions together, every once in a while? That‘s what I do for the local cinema. Often after visiting a film, mostly Marvel or Disney, but I‘m also in for the 'monster' kind of movies like Jurassic World/Park, Kong: Skull Island (duh!) and Godzilla (guess where I‘m going to tomorrow..), I‘ve gotten enough inspiration to write a blog/review about it. Then I‘ll send it to them which they then share on their website. Today I‘ve translated my writings about Aladdin & Dumbo and decided to share them here as well. (I know for Dumbo that‘s very late!)

Aladdin

Aladdin: The story of the street thief set in Disney's Agrabah, the City of Mysteries. You don't have to go to Paris or to Florida to experience the magical Disneyland. This year you will experience it in your own cinema! From a flying elephant to a flying carpet with The Lion King as cherry on top! If you are a Disney fan in heart and soul, you certainly should not skip Aladdin! Let yourself be guided by Aladdin's magic carpet and float with Aladdin, Jasmine & the naughty monkey Abu through the desert-like environments. When you talk about Aladdin, you probably immediately think of that magic lamp with the Genie who gives its finder 3 wishes. Dreaming is something we do every day. Everyone has them: the one big dreams, the other more modest dreams. Imagine: You can make 3 wishes. Whatever you want, anything is possible! What would you wish for? Or would you perhaps waste 2 of the 3 wishes right away? Because.. ‘Be careful what you wish for!’

Aladdin truly is a sensation for your eyes with among others the terrifying but impressive Cave of Wonders (with the voice of Frank Welker, who also provides the voice of this cat-shaped cave in the original version.) This Live Action version also comes with a number of brand new songs including 'Speechless' sung by Jasmine, the princess of Agrabah. It may seem as if she has everything her heart desires such as dresses of the finest silk fabrics, beautiful jewellery & a tiger as a pet! Anyway, she doesn't have to be afraid of thieves, sure they will stay outside (except for one of course!). However she doesn't have the one thing that‘ll make her the happiest: freedom. She can't even show herself outside, let alone be heard! That of course the sly Jafar will make clear to her father! "Speechless" together with the famous "A Whole New World" perhaps is one of the strongest songs in the film. It certainly left a big impression on me! With her golden voice, Naomi Scott sets a strong character and proves that Jasmine is much more than just a princess! 

When Disney just dropped the trailer, I came across of all sorts of statements about the Genie, which looks like a strange blue CGI version from his performer Will Smith. For example, some people would have liked to see Jim Carrey as the Genie. (That might just work in an animation version, but definitely not in this Live Action version.) Other people had doubts about whether Smith was the right actor to take on this role, and it appears that he himself had those doubts first too. Because let's be honest: Robin Williams (died in 2014) is hard to peer with and also that, you shouldn't want either. This is the Live Action version and of course that‘s a challenge. But I don‘t think Will Smith is one who throws in the towel easily. With being himself and having a lot of enthusiasm he managed to create his own version of the Genie. Will Smith calls it a bit of "The Prince of Bel-Air", a pinch of "Men in Black" and a touch of "Bad Boys" (interview with Veronica Magazine). This Genie, blue or not, comes with a lot of humor in his mission to turn the bit inexperienced Aladdin (Mena Massoud) into a real prince!

As it comes to Disney movies I‘m always a little curious for the villain. In Aladdin that‘s of course Jafar: The villain with the scary narrow head, his serpent staff and his always faithful parrot Iago on his shoulder. In this Live Action version, Jafar is portrayed by the Dutch Marwan Kenzari, who was featured in "The Mummy" in 2017. I am always in for some facts and I find it interesting that Oded Fehr, actor from the earlier Universal 'The Mummy' films, portrayed Jafar in the well-known fairy tale series "Once Upon a Time". Although honest, the animated Jafar gave me some more shivers, Kenzari turns out to be a very convincing Jafar and he gives the villain some extra handsome-ness! I believe both Jafar and Iago, the writers could have given some more depth. I wonder what I shall think of Scar‘s Live Action version..

Disney has once again transformed one of its classics into a spectacular magical Live Action adventure! Did you know that in a number of countries it‘s a tradition in the cinema to clap after the end of a movie? Well, for me the temptation rather was big! Whether you like fairy tales, want to relive your childhood memories or just want to dream away in this fantasy world, Aladdin is a film for all age!

Note: Funko should have included Rajah (the tiger) in their Aladdin Live Action line too!

Dumbo

Dumbo, the cute little baby elephant with the big ears. Who doesn‘t know him?

It‘s no secret that Disney's Live Action films are immensely popular at this very moment. After "The Jungle Book" and, among others, "Beauty And The Beast", it‘s now Dumbo‘s turn to shine on the big screen, or perhaps better said: fly. We can't really call this version of Dumbo a remake because with a more extensive storyline and new characters such as Holt (Colin Farrell) and his children, Dumbo gets a more ‘modern’ look. To refresh your memory: The original Dumbo had talking (and singing pink) elephants, a stork that ‘delivers’ the infants and Timmy the mouse that was jumping for making Dumbo a star. I can imagine all that would have looked truly unbelievable in a Live Action film that takes place in a circus environment with people. After all, Dumbo is not a film that takes place in the wild nature such as "The Jungle Book" or "The Lion King", although there are indeed references to the original. The direction of Dumbo was in the hands of Tim Burton and from him we are mostly used to imaginative, dark edged films. Think of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" or one of his many films with Johnny Depp such as "Sleepy Hollow" or "Edward Scissorhands". In addition, Burton chose to focus more on the question of how humans will react when seeing a flying elephant. I‘m sure, in an animated version of this film, the owner of the theme park called Dreamland (Michael Keaton) should have dollar signs in his eyes! We also see Danny DeVito (a.o known for Matilda) playing a convincing role as a circus boss. By the way, a Tim Burton film with the actors Michael Keaton & Danny DeVito is nothing new. In Burton's film "Batman Returns" the duo portrayed Batman & the Penguin. The latter might have fitted in Nightmare Island, which is an attraction of Dreamland in the film.

Perhaps 2019 can be called the year of Disney. I'm already looking forward to Disney +: the streaming device platform that Disney is likely to launch by the end of this year (Of course, in my case, that has to do with the Loki series. My local cinema had cut this sentence when they published my Dumbo review on their site). But before the end of the summer we have two more Disney Live Action films to visit. We saw Aladdin's trailer prior to the Dumbo movie, which will be released in May. And although I never ranked Aladdin among my favorite Disney movies, I secretly thought the trailer looked promising. Then finally in July: The Lion King! (Here I had written that I expected Disney to come with a trailer that gives us a preview of Scar too, literally two days later Disney actually dropped the trailer..) 

As far as my opinion goes, Dumbo has not lost his charms even when he‘s is painted as a piteous clown. I‘m sure most people will sympathize with the baby elephant that is first laughed at because of its large ears, before his flying talent gets them all amazed, while he himself only just wants to fly to his mommy! With his cute, innocent look, Dumbo shall melt many hearts! And in the case of the 3D version, watch out that Dumbo doesn't fly out of the cinema ;).

I‘m truly excited for The Lion King though.. I haven‘t written a review about Endgame, but I‘m planning to dedicate a blog post about it soon!