tobermoriansass:

One of the things I wish we could have had post-Ragnarok was an answer to the thesis posed in “Asgard is not a place, it’s a people” because too often in the conversation surrounding refugees, there’s this assumption that in order to receive asylum they must trade away their cultural ties – their communities and notions of nation which transcend the arbitrary locations of border – and seeing that tension explored via fiction could have been really interesting (who gets to have continued imagined notions of nation v who is forced to surrender them etc) but I guess that was too thorny to actually tackle after Ragnarok’s pretty incisive take on imperialism (by Hollywood blockbuster standards)