A Month For Loki: Day Ten.

I have seen a lot of heathens and pagans assuming all Lokeans are little kids with no knowledge of the myths, who worship the Marvel version of Loki and think he's a big cuddly ball of fluff. While I wouldn't deny the existence of those types, I wouldn't be so quick to assume or generalize all of us. It's not as if most Lokeans are like that, and, in fact, a great portion of Lokeans were around years (or decades) before the films came out. I haven't seen anyone worshipping the comics, so far. This article words it better than I could.

What's the most annoying is not, in fact, the Marvel accusations. It's actually how they paint us out to know only Loki's best, most family-friendly sides, as if we had no idea of how dangerous He can be. I try not to get worked up when there's one person after the other saying all Loki-followers are "fluff bunnies" who think He's only and uniquely the God of Candy and Divine Snuggles, but it can be trying.

I actually decided to write about this because it's one of those nights where I just can't sleep and my back is working up, so I get easily irritated. Having to be up and out of the house in four hours on a cold winter morning does that to you. But it's also because I didn't want to skip day ten, and I had nothing better to write about in my current state, since I don't want to mess my actually-useful entries up.

Back on track, I agree with those who have said Lokeans should post about the other sides of Himself, the ones that hurt and tear at you until you're finally broken enough to be glued back together the right way. I should post about that, too, so I'm not freeing myself of blame. It can be hard to put some things into words, though, particularly coming from hard, personal parts of your work with Him. Maybe there are newbies out there thinking Loki is just free hugs and whipped cream covered skittles all the time, and that can be... worrying, to say the least.

I think the best way to handle the people who say Lokeans are all fangirls and fluffies is by not getting too annoyed at them, explaining as well as we can and directing them to people who can speak better than ourselves (I'm speaking for my own inability to word things properly most of the time), and definitely not making random, long posts about it at 2am after a long, tiring day. So this was a "they're repetitive and annoying and sometimes they don't listen at all and just repeat what they say at first, but thinking on some of the things they say can be worth the time" post.