[ SECRET POST #2066 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2066 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 037 secrets from Secret Submission Post #295.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[intrigueing]

Um, okay, no offense, but I completely zonked out and didn't read the text of this secret for a good thirty seconds because I was too busy gazing longingly at Thor's hair and arms. A+ background pic, anon :)

Anyway...on to the actual secret — WOW you reminded me of an amazing essay rant I saw on LJ a while ago that kind of touched on this, although I don't think the author ever called people who write moron!Thor xenophobic or racist or whatever. *hunts around in bookmarks* AHA got it! It's called Why Thor Is Not A Fucking Idiot by rosalui. I'm gonna just post a couple of relevant passages here:

"...yeah, we see him Majorly Not Understanding Shit and it’s fucking hilarious and I love it (...) He walks into a pet store and asks for a horse or a cat large enough to ride, walks into traffic, smashes cups on the floor, and can’t pronounce “Hubble.” (...)

And me, I think about Asgard and go, wow, I don’t actually know what that thing attached to the Bifrost was. Like, it was a giant gold spinny ball with a pointy thing and it went WHIRR and ZOOM and the Asgardians would think I was the stupidest person ever to exist ever. I mean, if I suddenly woke up there I’d walk into a shop and ask if they had a car or a bicycle, probably, and they’d be all LOL WUT NO HAVE THIS GIANT CAT ACTUALLY, WE RIDE THEM HERE. (...)

And Mjolnir? I would pronounce it exactly like Darcy, which was “myow-myow” and probably sounded like the funniest shit ever when Thor heard it because it’s Mjolnir, duh, everyone knows what Mjolnir is. (...)

If I may make a brief comparison, I was raised in New York and then went to school in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong restaurants, they serve you shitty tea with your bowls and utensils, and it’s used to wash stuff in, like chopsticks, before the meal.

When I first got there, I drank it.

And all of my friends were like UM. ER. UH. And, you know, it was really really funny and I laughed a lot, but, yeah, hi, that’s what Thor’s experiencing on Earth. WHY DO THEY LOOK AT HIM ODDLY WHEN HE ASKS FOR A NEW DRINK? HE WANTS ONE AND HE ASKED FOR IT THE WAY HE ALWAYS DOES THESE HUMANS ARE SO ODD WHY DO THEY NOT WANT HIM TO HAVE A NEW COFFEE (and so forth).

(...) Thor doesn’t understand flying monkeys? Well, Coulson doesn’t understand bilgesnipe."

[saiika_von_maou]

Thanks for sharing that article! I would love to put a huge fucking THIS stamp on everything in it.

[(Anonymous)]

this SO MUCH. that person should feel good for writing it and you should feel good for sharing it.

[(Anonymous)]

I like you, you make good comments.

[ellethill]

Yes. This. Perfect. Thanks for sharing that link.

Also, I'm surprised so many people seem to have missed the moments in both Thor and The Avengers in which Thor's culture was portrayed as alien to other people (this being done from Thor's perspective, like, oh, you don't know what bilgesnipe are? wow, okay, hold on, let me try to describe them; or his description of Yggdrasil to Jane). I thought they were rather nice touches, and delighted in them.

[intrigueing]

+1 to your entire second paragraph! I loved those bits too.