#i might sail the high seas for AAA sometime tho
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Can I be controversial and say that I'm tired of shippers (esp. Sylkis and Lokiuses) giving Disney too much credit for the sake of their ships?
With Lokiuses I will be seeing too much credit because Loki and Mobius are standing close together or hugging or something. And them acting like it's the epitome of queer rep. It's not even queerbaiting... they're just next to each other.... I also don't get what is so special about this ship that it has to be cannon, and why some of you treat it like the only queer ship that matters for LGBTQIA+ rep. Y'all don't even get the personalities right in fanfic and turn it into Ineffable Husbands 2.0. I'd argue Lokius has a darker dynamic than that and is far from equivalent to Ineffable Husbands. The characters just kinda look like each other but have very different dynamics.
With Sylkis I've recently been seeing (esp. on TWT but I just saw a post in the Loki tag here on Tumblr) this erasure of Disney's homophobic history with "See they have NO problem with MLM and queer people. Let's forget they used Loki's genderfluidity was used to market the series and nothing was done with it."
Also, the examples provided to prove that "Disney has no trouble with the gays" are: 1. from a movie that Marvel likes to pretend doesn't exist because they only care about money and not rep (and yes it was a very important step. I'm not denying that), and 2. A very recent example of a show that just came out in this very year and last month *ba-dum-tss.* Why the fuck should I congratulate Disney for increasing LGBTQIA+ representation at a GLACIAL pace? Other companies have done better! Istg if you defend them I'll roll my eyes...
Do I have to go over with you guys about the how long it took for Valkyrie's bisexuality to be confirmed within the MCU and not just in interviews? There was so much hype about her being the first confirmed bisexual in the Thor movies. Tessa Thompson FOUGHT to have a scene confirming that Valkyrie liked women in TR that was CUT OFF from the final product.
The closest thing to rep that TR was allowed to have fell more under queer-coding towards the GM and Loki. Loki "cozied up" with the evil Grandmaster to avoid fighting in the gladiatorial arena in some scenes while framing Loki as spineless, treacherous, and needing "correction" from the hero that didn't shy away from fighting in the arena. And the next bit of rep we got from there was fucking gay Russo. Y'all have TERRIBLE memories.
An example of this Marvel defense bullshit to show I am not making this shit up:
Stop giving the fucking mouse credit and money. Y'all don't even like what happened in the series and are also 100% unsatisfied with how it ended.
#look; i could be wrong bc i admittedly SUCK at keeping up with the MCU in general (I haven't even watched The Winter Soldier)#but i still think y'all are giving them too much credit#and yes i've defended Kate Herron and SdM in the past bc they're not Disney and got thrown to the wolves#fandom wank#mcu critical#anti mcu#loki series critical#thor ragnarok critical#endgame critical#anti russo bros (IDK their full names lmao)#mcu!valkyrie#mcu!loki#mcu!grandmaster#ok some of you who keep buying licensed merch and defending disney a bit too much get on my nerves...#this is an 'if the shoe fits situation'#i might sail the high seas for AAA sometime tho#lmao i got blocked for replying to the post and saying that you don't have to deny Disney's terrible record in this regard for ship drama#the thor ragnarok valkyrie thing is fresh on my memory#disney's homophobia and transphobia#anti disney#anti marvel
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