loki BEEN pansexual and genderfluid
Don’t forget the important parts!
It’s written by Mackenzi Lee (fantastic author) and is coming out in 2019.
FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP DISMISSING IT WHEN UNEQUIVOCAL CANON REPRESENTATION HAPPENS. As far as most comics creators and straight fans are concerned, this is not a given at all. Even though Loki has a reasonably long history of taking female forms in the comics, the concrete evidence that he/they are canonically queer or genderfluid (which entails a shifting gender identity, not just physical shapeshifting) is nebulous at best. Some writers, I believe ONLY WITHIN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, have been more explicit about Loki’s queerness, although not framed exactly the way it is here.
And the movies have basically nothing that is actually canon. Because Marvel are fucking cowards.
It is a BIG FUCKING DEAL that Marvel has given the green light to a book AIMED AT TEENAGERS (cue the pearl clutching) in which the author uncompromisingly gives these words to Loki’s identity. As someone who has endured so many years of bullshit “I don’t like labels” bisexual erasure where nobody would SAY THE FUCKING WORDS, don’t blow this off like it’s nothing. It’s not nothing. It’s huge.
It’s yet another case of “don’t punish the behavior you want to see more of.” It’s so infuriating to be out here BEGGING for more real, meaningful representation, only to have people get all snide and dismissive when it actually happens. If Marvel sees reactions like that, they’re going to get the idea that nobody actually cares. AND WE DON’T WANT THAT.
Also Mackenzi Lee is a wonderful author. I enjoyed the Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue very much. It is a Regency era story WITH A BISEXUAL PROTAGONIST WITH A NON-WHITE, DISABLED LOVE INTEREST. So I’m very much looking forward to reading her take on Loki 😀
y’all, I’ve had super mixed feeling about the comic-based YA books but… Mackenzi Lee writes adorably swoony queer romance and has a huge boner for doing historical research. this is going to be Good.
The “we knew it all along” attitude is so tedious. We didn’t “know it all along”. Some fans believed it, some fans didn’t. But it wasn’t explicitly canon.
That’s how these companies win, by the way. Even if specific creators agree with the fans’ interpretation, as long as nothing is confirmed, people can dismiss or ignore it as they want. But the company somehow still gets the credit for inclusiveness.
Now, me personally, I don’t give a shit about Loki as a character, but this is a really good thing for a lot of people.
Don’t shit on it just because you were cool enough to have the headcanon first, be happy that the company is finally on board with you.
Well, yeah. It’s a Big Deal that Marvel Comics is doing representation right in the modern, alternate universe version of Loki.
But “Just like Regular Loki, then” is not a dismissal along the line of “Water is Wet.”
Because Loki has been canonically genderfluid and pansexual since at least the first written recordings of the original Norse Myths – and probably a lot longer in the oral tradition – 800 years ago.
This isn’t just “Water is Wet” nonsense. This is also 300 mythology scholars punching the air.
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