#ie she may be seen as unwomanly but we don't write epics about how unwomanly she really is which you can tell because she likes violence.

[nostalgia-tblr]

my post is about to get way more annoying, just a heads-up to everyone...

i'd heard of the Norse Gay Magic thing but mostly ignored it because the thing is nothing else in fic seems to be aiming for/clinging to this kind of historical accuracy and it just seemed a bit sus that as a whole, almost without exception in fic fanon, fandom latched onto something where they could say blorbo is picked on for being too femme/gay.

i think fandom tends to overstate the queerness of Movies Loki a bit (not massively because almost nobody in those films has much of a sexuality anyway so maybe he could be into men and the occasional bit of what looks like interest in women is as well as that or just the viewer misinterpreting) and also fic loves to make him be oppressed enough to undo the obvious privilege.

(this is an issue with both both brodinsons, i just read more loki-focussed fic, and it's just that we want the aliens in capes to feel more relatable or else why would we even write fic about them)

hardly anyone bothers looking up what underwear they should be wearing. there isn't fanon to explain how the movie lore fits with early medieval germanic kingship systems. some people do look up words in old norse but mostly we just borrow from what earlier fic writers did and call magic "cider" (i know that's not the spelling, but lol). so while this would indeed count as "fandom cares about historical accuracy" i am not at all convinced that more generally we *do* care. except for this one bit. which happens to fit what we were wanting to do anyway.

wait if asgard's so against men doing magic does that mean mjolnir's just really heavy