Why are there all these Thorki shippers who apparently don’t like Loki, and just think he’s a no-good lying self-deceiving butthurt pissbaby drama queen who has no legitimate grievances against anyone and just likes killing people for no reason? Look, I’m not one of the Loki apologists who claim that he’s never done anything wrong or screams “abuse!” every time Thor so much as lifts a finger toward him. Anyone who reads my blog (or my fic!) knows that. But I also think Loki has some genuine reasons for complaint about his treatment in Asgard, and it does an injustice to the interest and complexity of his character to ignore them.
Nuance, people. It’s possible to rebut the apologists without careening to the opposite pole and completely tarring Loki’s character. Anyway, if Thor is such a flawless angel (as such people tend to claim, once more eliding nuance in their rush to take the polar opposite position from their adversaries), why would you ship him with Loki if he’s as much of a piece of shit as you make out?
@foundlingmother, you’ll understand what I’m vagueblogging (vaguebitching) about.
*storms back into the the room* You know, I think these godawful readings of the movies that make Loki into a completely worthless piece of garbage character with absolutely no good reasons for doing anything he does, which people pull out of their asses just in order to distinguish themselves as much as possible from the woobifiers of “Loki’s Resistance,” serve much the same function as the utterly tone-deaf, inconsistent readings of Joss Whedon’s work that aim to show that he’s a completely shit writer of plot, dialogue, and characterization as well as a bad feminist (again, not gonna contest the latter, but contesting the hell out of the former). People will convince themselves that all kinds of obviously false things are true in order to prove their membership in the virtuous puritanical elect that can recognize no value in anything or anyone that is morally imperfect.
Why do I even waste my time on this fucking website…?
Loki is the Philosopher King 