veliseraptor:

one of my favorite headcanons about Loki is that he’s not even just a scholar but a full on academic, he has this half-written treatise on magical theory that he’s been working on for multiple centuries attempting to perfect it, he’s the kind of guy who at least mentally nitpicks peoples’ understandings of minor points of information and wants people to cite their sources

at some point he learned that this is not something most people find interesting and/or endearing so he started keeping it to himself but deep down there is a total nerd just waiting for someone to ask the right question and seem convincingly interested so he can go off on a two hour enthusiastic lecture illustrated with illusions