Loki Doesn't Have To Change To Be Worthy Of Companionship Or Love.

Loki doesn't have to change to be worthy of companionship or love.

The right people will be able to cherish Loki exactly as the mischievous scamp he is instead of wanting to improve their own self-worth by trying to fix (or save) him.

You can't fix what isn't broken. People can't break. They're no machines. People hurt. Which requires time, effort and care for - healing.

Tom Hiddleston on Owen Wilson and Mobius. 🤗

the hair flip™

Well said. 🫶🏻

I check in on Reddit once in a while to gauge where the "general audience" is at with certain things, including shipping. Unsurprisingly, the majority of subredditors don't see Lokius as having any validity.

I mulled over why this is, and I've come to the conclusion that, as a society, we are very bad at understanding that the human experience is a fluid continuum. We get so bogged down with labels and separating things by those labels that we don't consider the fact that those labels are in and of themselves social constructs.

This may be why so many people have trouble wrapping their minds around being trans, gender fluidity, romantic friendships, gray asexuality--essentially anything that can be in flux. Ironic, since our lives are always in flux.

To tie this back to Lokius and shipping in general, heteronormative media relies on oblique cues for romance: falling onto a mattress, facing one another across a low-lit table and speaking in hushed voices, sharing a blanket, a kiss.

But the queer experience has been oppressed for so long that a heteronormative audience doesn't know how to look for queer romantic cues that are not overt (physically or verbally), and they don't know how to look for those cues precisely because they've never had to be hidden. They never lived that experience.

And this bias inevitably leads to the logical fallacy that heterosexual friends can absolutely fall in love, but two men who started out as friends shouldn't (read: "can't") fall in love because "friends and lovers are two different things".

Really? So by that definition, my lover can't also my friend? What?

"Why can't they just be friends?" That question signals the fear of men being mistaken as gay when showing another man affection. This fear doesn't really happen between women. At least, not often. I have yet to meet a woman who was offended for being mistaken as their best friend's lover.

This means that our media needs a queer male character who has BOTH a male romantic partner AND cis-straight male friends to show both can (and does) happen concurrently.

Gah, the rigidness of social constructs is worse than duct tape.

LOKI – S02E05 – SCIENCE/FICTION

Guilty by association: not-so-obvious songs our fallible mortal brains connect to Loki! I've started with "The Diary of Jane" by Breaking Benjamin - and some.

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