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Tumblr Tuesday: Mermay
Well, chaps, Mermay is in full swing, and we thought we'd share a little selection of its masterpieces. Who knows, maybe you, too, will feel moved to immortalize the noble merperson. Call it inspo. Call it appreciation. Whatever you do, please do feast thine eyes and enjoy.
(As is often the way with the beasties, some of these have fins, eyes, bones, and other potentially upsetting sticky-out bits. Please proceed with caution if any of this squicks you out).
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I’ve been reading this book every single free moment of my day today and a few hours yesterday. It’s got everything you need from a book: a workaholic, the occult, demons, a strong independent woman, polyamory, the list goes on!
This post contains slightly emotional sex and dysphoria and transness related commentary so scroll away if you don’t want to see that. For the rest of yall reading my personal internet diary, time to get to the point.
As a person who’s been trans and proud for nearly a decade, it’s absolutely wild to experience rushes of emotion re: trans content and trans rep.
I used to read a ton of transmasc-hc fic when I was in my discovery era and it was great and healing and a good self-acceptance tool but then I went through a phase where reading anything even slightly smutty that wasn’t cis-mlm made me wanna crawl out of my skin (this is why I don’t as a rule read wlw or straight romance and skimmed through anything sex related in a restless truth). Then I went through my slut era (which has ended due to people not wanting to fuck me not due to my own wishes, unfortunately) and realized that suddenly I have a fuck ton of bottom dysphoria because cis gays are penis obsessed weirdoes (Important context here is that my gender is ehhh and I mainly struggle with social expectation induced dysphoria in general). Naturally this did not make my aversion to sex scenes with vulvas involved any less bothersome.
HOWEVER, I’ve been reading the FUCK out of dreamling fics recently and there are a lot of good trans hc fics there and the sex… doesn’t make me wanna invert my skin??? It actually is hot and good and amazing and sexy??? And I feel SO EMOTIONAL about this??? I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck full of emotions my alexithymic self can’t sort through. I thought I was over these vulnerable raw transgender gender feelings. I thought all I had left in my cold dead soul was nihilism and queer anger??? Ew
super late to the party here, but honestly all i wanted out of the loki series was at least neutral rep for genderfluidity/bisexualtiy for loki, maybe have sigyn make an appearance, and learn more about loki's time with thanos/in the void. the only thing on this list i got was loki's sex being "fluid", and the mention of bisexuality that is undermined in the same episode its introduced by having loki fall in love with sylvie
this is obviously not to say that opposite sex relationships can't happen, but i feel as if it continues the false belief from biphobic people that bisexuals just "havent found the right person yet," usually in relation to the opposite gender rather than a same-sex pairing. once i knew sigyn wasnt gonna be introduced and his bi orientation was confirmed, i was really looking forward to him having an mlm pairing, but instead, he got pushed with sylvie
I Intentionally Start Shit in the Loki Tag
If you complain about Sylvie being "harmful queer rep" BUT want "Lady Loki" in the MCU, which was Loki possessing Sif's body just to torment Sif, I need you to sit down and shut up. a. Genderfluid people don't go by "Lady " when they're femme or women. b. If you don't see the transphobic dogwhistles in the comics possession subplot, I don't know what to tell you... But let's say that hag that wrote those crappy books would love it. c. If you weren't aware about this, maybe you should read the wiki at least before giving uninformed opinions.
I definitely agree that they should not have led people on with the promise of genderfluid rep during the promotion of the series. But get mad at Disney/Marvel for that. Not at the writers or Sophia Di Martino that had to cave in to Feige's demands. That's literally what they have to do.
I really don't give a damn about the "autogynephilia" allegations, which again, is ALSO PRESENT IN CIS WOMEN. Like why the fuck should I care about someone finding themselves hot? There's fascists out there. AGP even if it was a trans-specific thing harms no one. The only harm said to come from it is DUE TO FASCISM because it plays into RESPECTABILITY POLITICS.
If you use AI to create a "proper" Lady Loki or love interest for Loki, you can't complain about the blatant product placement in S2. I am not a fan of product placement either and won't defend it, but those are the rules. Show some integrity. And before you ask, I have not given a cent to Disney since they pissed me off with attempts to trademark Dia de los Muertos for Coco.
If you complain about how being a "Loki" is not a role (unlike Spiderman) and how it should have been all 100% Tom Hiddleston, you don't get to call it selfcest as a gotcha, because you're already differentiating between the variants with different DNA. Like do y'all hate selfcest or not? Make up your mind. The series treats a Loki as an archetype of sorts, so it can be a role. Also, having the same name does not make you related because we don't know what Sylvie's parents are? And we don't even know if Sylvie is also a Jotun, a prop claims she isn't.
If you say you want Sylvie dead but claim to not be misogynistic, because you'd love if a specific love interest from the comics or mythology replaced her, STFU. You only like those because you can project whatever the fuck you want onto them.
If you claim Sylvie is a misogynistic depiction of women but salivate over characters written by cishet white men in the 1960s-1980s that made wanting to fuck Thor or being in a monogamous marriage with Loki their entire personality (there's so MANY OF THESE), STFU. Do you hear yourself? And no, it's not misogynistic of me, a woman, to criticize offensive depictions of women by cishet white men. They're not real.
Our MCU!Loki is not the young adult Ikol reincarnation currently. Of course 20-something Verity is not going to be there! The Loki show should be praise for having multiple female cast members around the same age as the protagonist and pragmatic clothing choices that allowed SdM to nurse her baby.
Selfcest isn't real and I cry tears of boredom whenever someone clutches their pearls over it.
The comics aren't perfect. As much as I loved the recent Dan Watters run (and German Peralta's art), the comics art has some very questionable tendencies, especially regarding Loki's nose when she's femme. It's associated with how some kinds of facial features are considered masculine or feminine (and racialized). Noses have no gender, ffs! Women with nose bumps exist! For some reason Loki always has a tiny button nose when she's a woman or femme. There's also the BLATANT physiognomy that has ALWAYS PLAGUED Thor comics since their inception, and Loki's facial features as they've become more "grey" and less evil is an interesting study. Peralta's far from being the only artist with this problem, and is far from being the most problematic. For comparison from Loki (2023) run:
Loki from ye olden days:
do you have rec for queer books written & published before the 1980s? the older the better.
If you also want to see genre and what kind of rep (mlm, wlw, trans, etc), you can use the fiction database on my blog, sort by year, and see more info on each book!
Queer Fiction, 1870s - 1980
Carmilla by Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
Orlando by Woolf, Virgina
The Well of Loneliness by Hall, Radclyffe
Nightwood by Barnes, Djuna
Olivia by Strachey, Dorothy
The Price of Salt by Highsmith, Patricia
The Charioteer by Renault, Mary
Giovanni's Room by Baldwin, James
Another Country by Baldwin, James
City of Night by Rechy, John
A Single Man by Isherwood, Christopher
The Power of the Dog by Savage, Thomas
Patience & Sarah by Miller, Isabel
The Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin, Ursula K.
Fadeout by Hansen, Joseph
Maurice by Forster, E. M.
William's Doll by Zolotow, Charlotte
Rubyfruit Jungle by Brown, Rita Mae
Death Claims by Hansen, Joseph
Dhalgren by Delany, Samuel R.
Troublemaker by Hansen, Joseph
They: A Sequence of Unease by Dick, Kay
The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of by Hansen, Joseph
Tales of the City by Maupin, Armistead
Skinflick by Hansen, Joseph
Wild Seed by Butler, Octavia E.
i love you aroallo people i love you pan people i love you bi people i love you nonbinary people i love you lesbians i love you trans women i love you intersex people i love you everyone in every body or identity with discourse surrounding if you should exist or not i love you so much i love you i love you i love you. you are so so loved i promise you
a very tired but hopeful trans lesbian 🙏
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