Peeps, can we stop with the 'Loki is a delicate flower' thing?

[transemacabre]

I swear I've seen at least 30 Thor/Loki fanfics that refer to Loki in such terms as "delicate", "fragile", "tiny", etc. Can we stop with this bullshit, please? Tom Hiddleston is 6'1 and probably weighs between 200-250 lbs. The only person he looks small in comparison to is Chris Hemsworth, and that's only because Hemsworth is roughly the size of a mack truck. And even then, Hemsworth does not tower over him. He's maaaaaybe an inch taller, if that.

For real-real. I know fandom has this whole thing about BIG MANLY MEN paired with tiny fragile ukes, but Loki and Thor really don't fit that dynamic, at all. This cast photo nicely illustrates that there is essentially no height difference between the two guys (also, Natalie Portman is so teeny that she could live in Chris or Tom's pocket and they just could slip her an M&M once in a while).

Maybe Loki is tiny in comparison to other Frost Giants, but by Asgardian standards he's at least average, if not above average.

Comments

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm...with you there. It probably doesn't help that I'm not a big Thor/Loki shipper to begin with (I understand 110% where its coming from, and I'll read it from time to time, but I personally am more interested in their dynamic as brothers) and whenever I see them cast in the stereotypical slash pairing roles it makes me do a serious side-eye. Then again, it seems like a lot of slashers don't know/don't want to write a story unless they have a seme and an uke, and a cookie-cutter stereotype relationship, and that means almost always someone is getting written obnoxiously out of character. Damn you kids today -_-

...Also as a Hiddleston fangirl I spend most of my time fantasizing about climbing him like a tree. So the idea of anyone finding him 'tiny' or 'fragile' makes me want to laugh, and then maybe slam my head into a desk, groaning.

[korilian.livejournal.com]

Then again, it seems like a lot of slashers don't know/don't want to write a story unless they have a seme and an uke, and a cookie-cutter stereotype relationship

Yeah, the insistence on bottom!Loki has been baffling me a bit. I was in SGA fandom before and the main slash pairing was far more egalitarian, with both guy's bottoming and topping, sometimes *gasp* even in one fic!

I must admit, I do like the idea that Thor wouldn't bottom, because he buys into those stereotypes himself and feels that clearly his womanlish little brotehr should take that role (though this is sadly rarely addressed or controverted in fic).

The frail widdle Loki stereotype is silly though and I find it annoying that no one ever points out that Thor is only as powerful as he is, because he has a magical hammer!

[aleshigana]

Actually, the hammer is only used to help him control and conjure his power and make it more manageable. He'd be just as powerful without it, but much less easier to control. He's not the god of hammers, ya know... I'm replying to a comment made in 2011, the world has gone to Hel.