#loki mcga

[poppitron360]

Marvel: So it’s 2021 and we’ve been releasing movies for around 13 years and Loki has been an established character for a decade and now he has his own show we’re gonna drop in one little line about he possibly maybe sometimes likes men, making him our first canonically queer main character. We’re doing so well.

Rick Riordan, back in 2016: Yeah btw Loki is 100% confirmed gender-fluid and bisexual and so are his kids also he totally gave birth to one of them and in fact the gods and their children are basically all queer disasters it is confirmed it is canon fucking fight me you pussy.

[oheboi]

THIS DRAWING IS LIKE A YEAR OLD but I forgor to post it cause I got tired of fixing it up on ps. but here is it now a year later, exactly as i left it on that psd file <3

[wanderingmind867]

I always forget about Sigyn. Probably because only Rick Riordan mentions her, while things like marvel comics barely ever touch on her. Loki's wife, who's sat by his side for untold centuries, crying blood as she mourns her dead children. Sigyn no longer speaks, her eyes a constant stream of red. She guards her husband from the acid of the snake, but the gods never let her protect him enough. Her husband always suffers, and he always blames her whenever he suffers. But still she stays by his side. They'll be together for all of time, prisoners to the unjust whims of the aesir. I mourn for Sigyn, and I mourn for Loki as well.

[imhotterthanallofyou]

how's the walnut going?

love,

@dont-call-me-beantown

See, there are these clever little tools used to crack nuts, and it seems my darling beloved amazing wife used one. ❤️

[corjae]

thinking about that insanely gay epilogue scene with randolph and loki

[eddieisashifter]

the struggle of being both a magnus chase fan and also a worshipper of loki...

[bassiascoparia]

Ok, is anyone going to talk about Gunilla bullying Samirah? This is Magnus Chase from the Riordanverse BTW.

So we know that Samirah became a Valkyrie when she was fourteen and she's 16 in the MCGA series. And it states that Gunilla actively disliked and maybe even bullied Samirah because of her father.

Gunilla was 18 when she died and had centuries of experience under her belt. She should be more mature about this. And then she decides to go and bully Samirah, a teenage minor, over her parentage, something she can't control? Samirah doesn't even LIKE Loki and Gunilla still bullies her because of the whole terrible romance with the son of Loki.

Samirah, who was 14, 15 and then 16, who was living out a very stressful double life with her grandparents who COULD NOT be exposed to the magical world as it would destroy their brains, and really wanted to keep her Valkyrie job. Are you listening to this ridiculousness? And Gunilla also sabotages Samirah further editing her video footage of Magnus. Brilliant, Gunilla. Really Valkyrie worthy!

Yeah, ok, Gunilla may have died at the end of the first book, but I don't really care for her. (IMO she died because Alex was coming and Rick couldn't let them clash. Would've been so interesting to see though.)

Why not make Gunilla a mentor to Samirah? Like, she sees this poor teenage girl who's struggling to live a double life and she could help her with it. Enroll in her high school (cue the comedy). Just make excuses for her every time and cover for her with her grandparents, saying that she's a fellow tutor. It would make Gunilla more likable and her death more tragic and meaningful.

[tsartistry]

It's a crime these two were never in a book together.

I know in my heart that Setne would address every Norse god as "kiddo" if he thought he could get away with it.

[bugwolfsstuff]

How am I not meant to like Loki when you give him THIS LINE, RICK!?

"Are you good because you kill your enemies, but your enemies are bad because they kill you? What sort of logic is that?" He leaned in close he was definetly taller than I was now. The top of my head barely reached his shoulders. "A little secret Magnus. There is no good and evil. Theres only capable and incapable. I am capable. You...are not."

(page 365, Ship of the Dead)

THAT WENT HARD AND SO DID THE LINE ABOUT FATE.

[rayssion]

Let's chat about Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard!!

So not me saying 'tomorrow' then proceed to delay that tomorrow for as long as possible, not my fault though! Each time I decide to write the review people just be like "oh, look at her, she seems at peace, let me just go.... Annoy her" that's my family summarised btw.

But yeah, we're finally here!

First off, the general rating for me is 4.5 for the entire series.

Now let's talk about somethings:

As a matter of fact, there's nothing I hate in this books like wth why dose it have to be this good??? Which translates to: I'm just going to fangirl, that's it, just FANGIRL.

I also want to establish that I didn't know not even a single thing about Norse mythology before reading these books. I didn't even know what Norse meant guys, I'm hopless like that. And even after they explained them a little my brain is still stuck at the "they're fancy vikings" setting lol I'm sorry.

So my whole Norse "knowledge" comes from, you guessed it, how to train your dragon🤡. It's bad, I know I know, yet it's still a start right? Like dude I never watched any Thor movie before (in my defense, it's not horror, and I enjoy horror) so just to put it simply, I don't know shit about Norse mythology.

Which is good btw!! Me not knowing anything about the mythology is actually good to measure how much Rick is good at explaining things that are totally new.

The first book took me two days to finish because it's like an introduction, so there were many new words and terms that my small brain couldn't keep track with, so I suppose you can really enjoy the series as a reread more than first time reading. Guys, it took me days to learn how to pronounce ginunngagap. So unless you already have a background on Norse mythology (not jumping into the books like stupid me) I feel like one's can't see the books true potential.

Alright, so we laid the ground about me being an uncultured swine, now we have the writing: we got the classic Rick's first person pov writing style that he went for in the original series pjo. But I got to note that it clearly improved, I can see that he was trying to step out of narrator Percy's shadow as he wrote mcga and toa, seeing that he wrote Magnus as an oblivious kid who's trying to stay out of everyone's business as much as he can, and he wrote Lester with no heroism in him whatsoever at the start. So clearly he wanted something to add contrast and volume to his universe and that's quite good. He achieved his goal with toa much more than in mcga in my opinion. Magnus, as lovely as he is, still finds time to roast people the good old Percy Jackson way, in other words you can see the resemblance between the two characters at some points. (I didn't include tkc because for me, Sadie and Carter are like Percy devided into two people, the fierce rushy personality went with Sadie, and the trying-to-pretend-to-be-calm-so-as-to-improvise-a-plan personality went with Carter, yet the two of them can be be snarky at their times).

To be Frank with you guys, not much of a character development happens during the books, I mean yes, Sam stands against her dad, and we get Amir into the picture, but yeah that's it. I guess the character who got the most change was Randolph, we love a little remedy arc at the end.

Oh other thing I like to point, Muslims don't call mosques you know "mosques" we call them Masjids (Masjid, sing.) I see it's a little slip but I prefer if it never happened, because mosque actually means "house of mosquito" so, yeah.

We also have the matter of Sam's hijab, I'd like to say that's not how being a hijabi works but I don't want to start a religious war here. Let's just say, you don't just wear your hijab when you want and not wear it when you don't want. What's the point then, if I can easily just go with my head uncovered? But we're not having this conversation, most of you won't be interested in this anyways.

And another thing! I've seen all these fanarts of Alex in the wedding dress (because I'm a sucker for Alex) and I wanted to point out, Alex was disguised as Samirah, Samirah is Muslima so her wedding dress would be, you know, Muslim friendly? Idk. But yeah, it should at least be ancle lengthed with high neck and long sleeves and the veil must be thick to cover her hair, like a hijab. Also it should be wide/big a little not clenching to her body. Just a little advice for artists there :).

Now that we spoke about Sam, can we talk about Alex? Tbh I like, knew nothing about genderfluidism(?) before this book (I read it on some blogs here on Tumblr and I imagined something totally different so I'll spear you my pathetic story) so it was nice learning new things with Rick. Like bro, in my head Alex is mostly a boy yet when I rant to my aunt I mostly use she/her. It confused the heck out of me during the first chapters actually. But I'm proud to say that I FIGURED OUT THAT LOKI WAS HER/HIS MOM LIKE BY MYSELF WAY BEFORE THE BIG REVEAL SO YEAH I'M HELLA PROUD.

I love Alex. Nothing else to say, I'm infatuated.

And yet if I'm infatuated with Alex then I'm fucking ready to die for Magnus at any given time! The boy is just so adorable!! He's so sweet even if he's being sarcastic like I just want to kidnap him and keep him in my pocket forever! I wanna hug him and pat his back, ruffle his hair and kiss his forehead because he deserves it! I just love him guys! Everything about him is just so endearing even if he was being a coward he's still lovely! I know I'm not making any sense here I just want you to know that I'm head over heels for him. Also I wanted to say that one of the things I really admired about his character is that he's never the fighter, I love how everyone else would be plunging into the battle and he'd just stand there waiting for either a chance to bargain with the enemy or an injury that he must heal. I love how Rick went out of the line this time and chose a god that, tbh, we'd never hear about him on regular basis. Like in pjo we had our protagonist Percy, son of Poseidon who's one of the big three, tkc we have Carter and Sadie channelling the power of Hores and Isis, major gods and Hores is the king or the gods, hoo's heroes are kids of the Olympians and Apollo is like, an Olympian god himself. So it was a nice turn to have Frey a neutral god who's concern is to live in peace, having our protagonist's main power to be healing or like disarming people, nothing big or fancy, yet it fits so much! Like my boy just wants to live a simple quite life (with a transgender genderfluid partner if possible and practically canon gay parents) even when there's an enemy he's like "can't I just go stand there and then a miracle happens and I don't need to fight them anymore?" Gosh I love him.

Magnus and Lester are just so relatable and so average-human-coded that you can't help but love them!

And I liked how most of the characters are also lovable, like the whole floor 19? They're just the best family and I'd be so delighted to spend eternity with them (till Ragnarok at least) I really love their dynamics. And then we have Blitz and Hearth and oh boy how much do I love hearth! I was like that's my soulmate out there pretty much since he was introduced. I'm not joking guys, these people out there have one of the best found families ever.

I also wanted to note that I'm kind of a sucker for villains like especially those who are antihero much. So, confession time, I kinda liked Luke back in pjo, I liked Set in tkc, and like Apollo himself I might simped once or twice for the emprors. The thing I wanted to say is! First book I like liked liked Loki, ngl till the end I found him fancy. Like if he wasn't so much interested in Ragnarok and world ending and whatever I might even put him with my favourite characters. Like, why do villains have to be hot?? If you don't want me to simp then don't make them hot! (What am I doing guys, I must seek help wtf)

Another topic, people would be oohhh percabeth omg omg and I'd be awww big sister Annabeth is the best! Like have you seen those Annabeth and Magnus scenes??? Bro let me tell you I'm fucking dead, like they're the best cousins out there, like that's so cuttee!!

This's a p.s actually but I wanted to say another thing, about the ending of the ship of the dead, yes it was emotional, yes I teared up. But don't you guys feel like there's much more to it? Like I'm sorry but how could we not return to the fact that Magnus can talk to birds now (Disney Princess™)? Or how in the first place can he talk to them, hearth himself doesn't know if his father had the ability. Speaking about fathers, the visions that Magnus saw about Alex's father, are we just going to pass them like they never happened? Guys idk I feel like there are some plot holes that might be left intentionally (hopefully for a next book sometime) and I also feel like there's something wrong with the gods, like the last scenes we had with them, I might be paranoid but I really feel like Frey was hiding something. Anyways yeah, that's what I wanted to add.

So this barely covers anything from the feelings I had reading this series (because I'm a sensitive bitch who visibly tremble and scream while reading fluff) but yeah, I must hurry up a little, so next thing we have is a couple of screenshots I took cuz why not? Some of them might even be out of context but I like it.

So I was going to post them in different posts and tag them here and Tumblr just said NO ") so yeah ig.

Hope you guys enjoyed this review (which is me basically simping as always) I'm like 100 pages into tsats now, hopefully I'll come back to talk about it soon.

Have a nice day/night♡!!

[ask-princessandromeda]

Castellan, if you free me, I can help in taking down the gods. ONLY if you free me from my prison. Choice is yours :)

-Loki, god of mischief

Luke: Well this most certainly interesting.

Ethan: *whispering* Is it often that you get requests from imprisoned gods to join you? This one seems suspicious.

Luke: Quiet, Nakamura.

Luke: Kronos’s army is known for aiding figures beyond the Greek pantheon in accomplishing their goals, be they big or small. That only if they’re in accordance with our own, of course. Um. Yeah, as I was saying, we have already been collaborating with children of Norse descent, so a Norse God would only be a further advantage to us both. I’m sure Lord Kronos wouldn’t… *clears throat*.

Luke: Yes, right, a deal is a deal and I’m sure you will find a valuable place among us. But -if you truly are who you claim to be- would you mind specifying what I need to do to “free” you?

[freys-goblin-kid-lokis-spy]

The difference between Mx Loki's taste in women and men is fucking weird

Like:

his taste in women: kindest human being/Aesir you'll ever meet, absolutely lovely and a joy to be with.

His taste in men: Pathetic (derogatory), probably came from a dumpster, will stab you in the back if it suits them.

[arc-angel-o]

HELLO WHY DOESN'T ANYONE TALK ABOUT LOKI AND RANDOLPH?!?!?!

[wanderingmind867]

If Rick Riordan's version of Loki is like the Joker, then his version of Sigyn is like Harley Quinn. And they both embody the same problem to me. I can't like reading about abusive relationships. Joker being abusive to Harley makes him a horrible character, and it detracts from my ability to enjoy him. Similarly, Loki being abusive (or at least seemingly implied to be abusive) to Sigyn makes me hate him. But in both these cases, I don't hate the characters. I actually hate the writers.

Because the writers didn't have to make this about abuse. A villian can have a wife or a sidekick who actually cares about them. It doesn't have to always be about abusive power dynamics. And the fact that it always seems to end up that way really just annoys me. I prefer not to think of abuse on a day to day basis. I know it happens, but it's just an uncomfortable thing that makes bad writing seem worse. It's almost lazy to fall back on the cliche of having a villain be abusive. It's not fun.

I think Loki actually is a good father. He was locked to a rock, chained up with the entrails of his dead children! Venom dripped in his eyes! I imagine he could only have been grateful his wife even tried to lessen his pain. It really just makes me uncomfortable reading about how Loki abuses his partner. It doesn't feel right. It feels wrong. And everytime I see a villain who's actually super compelling and sympathetic doing something like this, I think it'll bring me a little bit of agony inside. Gods, I hate it.

PS: I still have 49 pages left as I write this, but I think I see what Rick's building to. Sigyn is going to betray Loki because he's abusive. Then Magnus and Alex are going to get together for their "happy ending" (based on teasing and bullying), and then this book is going to foreshadow Jason Grace's death. I remember they did that one. So all of this is really steaming me up, and I don't even see the point in reading anymore. But I only have 49 pages, so I guess I should just tough it out.

[imhotterthanallofyou]

L O K I

Yes?

[aesop-txt]

Bro will do anything but lock in cause what is this