#I promise you we can move on from 'all nordic people were bloodthirsty hypermasculine murderers (source: these totally unbiased monks they

[snakesandstone]

One of these days I'm going to end up making a video essay or something about gender-nonconformity in norse mythology bc people are doing the same thing they always do where they find out the black-and-white view they originally held wasn't true and immediately swerve to the complete opposite instead approaching the situation with any kind of nuance. Yes Loki is undeniably queer both by modern standards and the standards of the time, no that was not portrayed as good or aspirational. People really like to point out lokis femininity as proof that old norse society fully accepted gender-nonconformity as if there isn't a poem that is 50% her getting called a faggot for it.