Finding out just now (because I live under a rock) that Sophia referred in the same interview to Sylki as siblings AND romantic, and the Sylki shipper loosing it over that
This falls into the big pile of crap Marvel did with the ship. They did amazing in S1, and I really feared they could turn the ship into a toxic one, but I never thought they could actually do worse and pretend it just never happened
Now, about Sophia, she's just an actress, come on. She did amazing in both seasons (especially S2 despite the complete incompetence of the writers regarding her character) but at the end of the day, and sadly, she doesn't have the last call on the show nor her character. Marvel owns it, the writers in turn owns it. What can she really say about it despite what's on the script, all the rest is speculation and adding to that, the Loki fandom were awful with her so what do you expect really.
I somehow feel vindicated because I kinda feared Marvel could ruin Loki, and they did it
And even more than that, I really loved S1. And S2 it isn't THAT bad, it has good things it just doesn't seem to follow S1 at all. And I'm honestly so tired of hating it
I loved s1, I loved Sylki, but they did so dirty in s2 and I understand some hate on it and it's alright. I'm just so tired of shitting on it because I used to love it so much and now it's kinda ruined
I really hope we never get to see a S3 because there's no way of fixing things at this point
A million apologies to my few friends and followers for me spamming your feeds with my newest obsession but I will go down with this ship and will not be satisfied until I have consumed all the Sylki content there ever was or ever will be.
I would just like to remind some people that there is more to bi representation than same gender relationships and there are plenty of ways to make a bi m/f (passing) relationship not feel inherently heteronormative. It can be argued that Loki didn’t do the best job with this, having a throwaway cop out line be the only ‘evidence’ of Loki’s bisexuality, but it cannot be argued that his relationship with Sylvie is heteronormative. It is possible to explore a character’s multi sexuality in or around a m/f passing relationship outside of an endgame same gender love interest.
I’m not even getting started on genderfluid rep, which was so terrible and difficult to fix I would need a separate post for, but theres a lot that could still be done for bi rep! For example, going foreward we could have:
- a few more references to Loki and Sylvie’s sexuality, ex. Sylvie flirting with a woman at a bar or during a fight, Sylvie and Loki ogling the same guy (same taste lol), correcting some person who assumes their sexualities, talking about what they like in people to see if they have the same type...
- Loki or Sylvie being attracted to, or having a rebound fling with someone of another gender before getting back together (which isn’t even guaranteed).
- flashback scenes of Loki and Sylvie’s love lives including hooking up with Sif and an on again off again relationship with...idk Fandral for Loki and whatever Sylvie’s been up to, losing potential soulmates over and over again and learning to never get close in the first place
- literally just Loki buying a pair of socks with the bi flag on them good god it’s not that difficult you guys
I’m just gonna say it nicely because I feel like some people genuinely don’t know but if you’re a Sylki shipper PLEASE don’t use enchantricks when you’re tagging your shipping content. Amora x Loki shippers have been using that name first (along with enchanted mischief) WAY before the series premiered, since Amora’s the one with the actual Enchantress title. Respect that. Please. You have at least five tags as far as I’ve seen - sylki, prosylki/pro sylki, sylkie, prosylkie/pro sylkie, and lovedaggers - so please stick to those and stop incorrectly tagging your stuff. It becomes a real hassle when I’m looking for Amorki content in the enchantricks tag and I find Sylki content instead. Also please don’t use the Enchantress tag for Sylvie because as of right now in the MCU she isn’t one, that title is for Amora and Sylvie Lushton. Just gotta clarify that bit too. Tagging this with the sylki tag ONLY so the shippers can see it. I personally do not like this ship so please don’t mistake this as that, I’m not trying to pick a fight or be mean at all, I’d just like this to get proper exposure so everyone can just use the right tags for their respective ships.