#that might actually explain why i felt weird when i was attempting a Jotunheim AU and i invented some women for it?
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u know, once someone has pointed out the orientalism in most of fandom's depictions of jotun!loki you can never unsee it.
#it was always easy enough to spot in fanart but in fic you can't *see* it so it's maybe a bit less obvious? or else i'm just a bit thick.#but he's always in diaphanous silk 'bellydancer'-style garments and covered in gold hoop jewellery isn't he? D:#and none of the *other* jotuns get dressed like that so that plays even more into the 'exotic flower full of delicate eastern promise' thin#he's dressed to lounge around in a 19th century englishman's interpretation of the ottoman sultan's harem for some reason#(i've been reading some Thorki Arranged Marriage Fics of late and oh. my. god. can you find another less racist aesthetic pls?)#also semi-aside but i only just noticed fandom fixed the lack of jotun women in canon by just making them all Fantasy Hermaphrodites#even if someone breaks convention and gives Loki a birth mother it's usually a he/him one and like...#on one hand this looks Progressive but on the other it conveniently means nobody has to add any women to the story#that might actually explain why i felt weird when i was attempting a Jotunheim AU and i invented some women for it?#like oh my god you can't make his mother a woman what is this mary-sue self-insert nonsense?!#(i probably won't ever actually manage to write that fic but at least the planning stage was kind of fun)
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