Just two people sharing a small blanket and not talking about their feelings

As it should be

holding hands but they can barely admit they're friends

"I have to tell you something important"
Gets interrupted
Never speaks of this again

and unlike in Star Wars, it's not just a dropped thread

Holds hands for plot purposes exclusively no feelings involved*

Listen Loki made his first friend in his entire life like yesterday. He's on track to talk about feelings in about another millennia or so

We don't discuss Finn's secret

N no don't be ridiculous I don't like her

uh huh

Did I get butterflies watching them intentionally avoid touching while getting as close to each other as possible and talking about the possibility of some day talking about their futures that could maybe possibly not involve going their separate ways? Yes. Of course I did.

Yeah I love that shit, too. Gimme that slow buuuuurn. Torture me with it.

Excitedly runs toward each other

Stops abruptly at a safe distance

god. loki has been such a treat, i'm so pumped for more

Yeah Lauren was so excited for black widow and I'm like I GUESS WE'RE WATCHING THAT FIRST SIGH

i haven't made up how i feel about loki and sylvie being romantic, but gimme dat slow burn and loki having feelings about having made a real connection with someone UGH

LMAO I HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET

(we watch Loki on Fridays so mancake can join)

is it free or is it premium access or whatever they call it

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE NOT SURE HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THEM BEING ROMANTIC

Premium

BOO PREMIUM

Just keep re-watching Loki

LMAO IDK IT'S OBVIOUSLY SELFCEST BUT HE'S A NARCISSIST SO THAT KINDA WORKS OUT BUT IS IT WEIRD IDK IDK

that's just where i'm at lmao

It's fine they're consenting genetically distinct adults

also true!

THAT'S WHY I KEEP WAFFLING BACK AND FORTH ON IT

I've never even heard about selfcest before Loki lol

the whole show has just-- i love AU shit and there's fuckin time travel and genderbent loki and i am all over it but then i think about selfcest again and am just like "HMM IS IT WEIRD IDK"

I mean really if they have sex it's just masturbation

ANDI MEAN... I GUESS SELFCEST DOESN'T REALLY EXIST OUTSIDE OF FANFIC? USUALLY?/ IDK

Yeah selfcest isn't real so I mean

i mean i've got a background in ranma fandom, so. genderbent selfcest. is absolutely a thing i've encountered more than once

Lol I forgot about the whole Ranma

IT'S THE ONLY OTHER EXAMPLE I CAN THINK OF

they've also kind of played with it in canon SO THIS IS PROBABLY A HOLD OVER FROM THAT

The only example I could think of is this one my chemical romance I saw ten years ago

I think maybe some of the mirror universe star trek episodes might have some selfcest undertones

Also it being kind of wrong is definitely part of the appeal

I don't understand the problem with selfcest because I literally wrote a paper in college called "The Narcissistic Urge to Bed Oneself" and my conclusion was that I would fuck myself. I got an A.

and yeah in DS9, Mirror!Kira totally tries to fuck Kira and it's great

Kira is not receptive because only one of them is a narcissist and it's the mirrorverse version

it 100% makes sense from the lens of Loki Is A Narcissist so like, as far as character development goes i'm SUPER on board

i really do think i have some kind of old hang up because of bad fanfic that made it squicky

Loki: a deeply insecure narcissist

TWO LOKIS WITH THE DOKIS