#but also. relative to the mcu's fairly subtle baseline. that line might as well be tony calling loki a medium-intensity slur | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

tyrannuspitch · 2 months ago

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also slightly maddening to deal with early mcu loki's queercoding in this day and age because it's NOT actually overt or shocking in any way. it's ambient and mostly intangible and you feel like a conspiracy theorist trying to pin down any single instance of it. but it's there and it didn't HAVE to be any more overt because audiences were so used to the underlying archetypes that they could just fill in the numerous blanks!!!

like no loki's body language and speech patterns don't quite cross the line into something you can stereotype, and no he doesn't have any homoerotic subtext or even an obvious candidate to have it with, and no nobody ever actually alludes to his sexuality in any way.

but we all heard tony call loki a diva (derogatory) didn't we. in 2012. we saw that happen. and we knew they knew tony knew exactly what he was saying

#space viking tag #meta #ish #ch: loki #s: a1 #th: gender + sexuality #that line is not actually what cinches it it's far more about being a) secretive and repressed and b) the evil opposite of hypermasculinity #but also. relative to the mcu's fairly subtle baseline. that line might as well be tony calling loki a medium-intensity slur #(this is not tony discourse idc abt that man i know he just says words recreationally + half the joss whedon joke is it applying to him too #(but also. feels different when applied to loki Doesn't It. I Wonder Why)#also in a way the glaring absence of sexuality references is itself A Sign #but also loki is a supporting character so it Could be normal. argh #crumples up yet another note and throws my conspiracy board to the ground

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