‘Why are they in the hotel from The Shining, tho?’: Thoughts on Episode 1 of Loki

Cee R.
2 min readJun 18, 2021

Disney+’s Loki, episode 1, was cool -

(don’t worry this is a SPOILER-free zone)

— like the first episode of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS,) it showed a lot of promise.

Fingers crossed, it delivers!

(Yes, I am an episode behind, so no SPOILERS please.)

And Loki was confirmed as Gender-Fluid!

(No, that’s not a SPOILER, because Queer identities are not SPOILERS, and Loki has been all kinds of Queer in the comics for a long time — this is the correction of some b*llsh** Cis/Straight-washing. #NowYaKnow)

Well, kinda confirmed as Gender-Fluid. It was an easter egg. In Loki’s file at the Time Variants Authority (TVA) if you look really close, it says ‘Sex — Fluid’.

Hopefully we’ll get more explicit acknowledgement of this — because Tom Hiddleston seems like he’d be on board, from interviews he’s done, and because I am f**king watching you, Marvel, after the sh** you pulled with TFATWS 😒

It also looks like we’re gonna get the kind of timestream f**kery that makes me give up on trying to follow canon and just go with it.

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Cee R.
Cee R.

Written by Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr

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