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So I spent tonight (and most of today) in bed because I am lazy, except today I had a justifiable laziness! By which I mean I was having a mild asthma attack for most of the day and the lack of breathing air sort of takes a lot out of you, like the motivation to live, and I spent three hours in Chinese class anyway. I almost blacked out standing up once, which is the second time that's happened to me in the space of a week and a half, which sort of makes me wonder if my body has a secret, burning desire to see the inside of a Taiwanese hospital before I go home. (Going to the hospital here isn't like it is in the States; it's like vaguely equivalent to doctor's appointment-worthy things back at home.

But still.)

I did something worthwhile with my time instead of moving and downloaded Thor: Tales of Asgard. AKA, Thor and somebody who weirdly has the same name as his brother Loki have adolescent adventures in killing people and feeling bad about it.

The animation is sort of uneven and the script sucks sometimes but made me actually laugh in an intentional way a couple times, too. It's alright for a straight-to-video thing. And the plot is basically just an excuse to string together a lot of scenes of Thor and Loki being adorable in a way which succeeds at being cute and fails at being remotely in character, at all. It's like a fanfiction everybody would love. For instance, here's a moment after Loki fries some guy and they animate his eyeballs melting and his skull exploding. It's actually a bit surprising and horrifying to tell you the truth. And it's totally just to justify this woobie scene.

And just to point out how little the movie cares about anybody else: yes, that is Odin smoking in the background there.

Loki's hair is sometimes green. I couldn't fix it and it is remarkably like his clothing so I don't know if it's something I did or what. The fact that they changed how they were drawing him halfway through is definitely not my fault though. Like in half of these you'll notice they're going for a somewhat sinister look—only to totally drop that angle and make him Thor's cute and sensible younger brother and nothing else. He never actually did anything sinister, by the way, but he lurked in the background and stuff!

Sif had a couple cool moments but I didn't cap her because she was all about her crush on Thor (she leaves because of him! she comes back because of him! she joins the hilariously awful parody of feminism because of him! and leaves it!) but most damningly, her character design is just hideous. And nobody else mattered. Not even my bias that is how the movie was set up. ANYWAY, here are caps of Thor and Loki being adorable.

This is not even slightly in character, no. THEY ARE PRETTY CUTE THOUGH?