Like, Marvel’s Thor was single-handedly responsible for a lot of people’s renewed interest in Norse mythology and a massive chunk of it was just Jack Kirby coming up with wacky gibberish
all the crossdressing and/or genderbending shapeshifting “as a joke” ““to trick someone”” was some of the more interesting things in nordic mythology and we’ve yet to see an adaptation do it justice
It even goes farther than that. Most magic, soothsaying, and divination was seen as feminine, so that we have attestations of several men/AMAB priests engaging in these practices often needed to cross-dress at the very least.
Especially modern fiction based on mythology. Multiple layers of “some person made it up”
Like, Marvel’s Thor was single-handedly responsible for a lot of people’s renewed interest in Norse mythology and a massive chunk of it was just Jack Kirby coming up with wacky gibberish
Entertaining gibberish, but gibberish
Why is thor even blonde man, wtf. We know 3 things about thor’s appearance from the eddas
1: Redhead
2: Fiery eyes
3: Twinky enough that he can fit Freyjas dress
Which means we can conclude that Thor is a twunk, and no work has replicated this.
all the crossdressing and/or genderbending shapeshifting “as a joke” ““to trick someone”” was some of the more interesting things in nordic mythology and we’ve yet to see an adaptation do it justice
It even goes farther than that. Most magic, soothsaying, and divination was seen as feminine, so that we have attestations of several men/AMAB priests engaging in these practices often needed to cross-dress at the very least.
Loki got pregnant, Thor was a bride, Odin mastered the magic of women.
We need to petition a lore-accurate comic book series titled “Thor: Greatest Twunk”