Im Not Crying. Not At All.

I’m not crying. Not at all.

That water on my face is just from Mobius passing me by on his jet-ski.

My girl Darcy is working for SWORD now.

And she switched to Jane’s major.

And she got her PhD.

I’m so proud of her!

Seriously, I enjoy Wandavision immensly, but nothing on that show could make me happier than watching the genius that is Dr. Darcy Lewis.

Every moment with her is pure gold!

Posting this here again, because DeviantArt has decided to steal all of their contributors’ art and use it for their shitty AI.

Okay, first of, I really doubt that the Odin of the original timeline would allow Loki to play around with the Casket of Ancient Winters, so it's possible that what kid!Loki is holding is just a toy.

But about him not turning blue; maybe this Loki is from one of the timelines where he's always known that he's Jötunn. Knowing from early childhood should have given him more control over his ice powers and shape-shifting.

Thor, after all, looks totally fine with being frozen; trusting Loki not to hurt him.

I see this with both brothers being comfortable, even playful, with Loki's abilities.

so this happened in the main timeline? but loki didn't turn blue? this is the second time we've been shown loki not turning blue while holding the casket 👀🤔

Manly men

So, one question that has popped up in the comments to my fic much more often than others is “Why are Loki’s parents both male?” or something to that effect. I could just flippantly answer, “Why not?” but like with everything I wrote, I did have specific, thoroughly thought-out reasons for this.

First, let’s go back in history.

Jötunn biology according to Norse Lore

Somewhat understandable, the authors of the Norse myths didn’t spend much time on detailed descriptions of monsters, because they cared more about the battles against them and about making up dozens of nicknames for their goods, for some reason.

But, we can be pretty sure that in these myths there did exist female Jötnar, as well as male. There is no way of knowing whether the women looked any different than the men, because both were seen as “beautiful”.

Loki, however, is only ever referred to as “he”, even after Bragi reminds everyone that he once gave birth to children, when disguised as a milkmaid. And after the horse incident. He also has kids with women, though; three with Angrboda and two with Sigyn. This seems to be ascribed mostly to Loki being a shapeshifter.

All men, all mom material

Many fanfic authors and the official Marvel comics, too, solved the inability to pin Loki down as either man or woman by making him gender-fluid or intersex.  As a cisgender female, I didn’t feel comfortable with writing about either, though. I honestly don’t think I could do this justice.

I did, however, want to have the chance to write about the inherent sexism of the Norse Myths and, therefore, Asgard’s culture. To that end, I made the Jötnar an all-male species who, nonetheless, all have the ability to carry children. This goes along with some Jötnar taking on traditionally “female” roles in their family or having traditionally “female” jobs, for which people from other realms look down on them.

I also just really enjoyed having Loki answer bigoted insults of him being “unmanly” with “Yeah, all of my people would disagree with you on that.” ; P

The best Loki ship

Wow, four episodes into the Loki show and fans already start a shipping war. Am I surprised? Not really.

I have to say, though, that I find it absolutely tiresome.

Seriously, this show is supposed to give us more time with Loki, after Infinity War so cruelly took him form us. And, sadly, all that fans care about is which other character he ends up dating.

Norns, the toxicity of this whole debate almost makes me want to quit the fandom.

I was glad when the show finally confirmed that Loki is bisexual and gender-fluid. I loved seeing him open up to people and showing a depth of emotions we’d previously seen mostly in deleted scenes. It was so great that he was allowed to show off his magical abilities and his intellect.

How can anyone who calls themselves a Loki fan ignore all these awesome moments simply because they don’t get the romantic relationship of their choice?

Personally, I just don’t care. Even if he ends up with no one and takes old!Loki’s advice of “removing himself from the equation” that’s perfectly fine with me.

Because the best Loki ship is, in my opinion, Loki/happiness and nothing else can beat that.