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A Little Help Please

Am currently looking for more Lokean or Rokkatru based blogs to follow. So if you worship or post about Loki or any of the Rokkr, please like and reblog this so I can follow you. Also it’d be much appreciated if you were tolerant of Godspouses and consorts, considering I am one. I don’t care how big or little your blog is. Just looking for more like-minded people to follow and interact with. 

Every time we see systems with kpop introjects we go batshit but also we're shy and won't actually dm them

I was searching stuff of Freyja when I ended up reading a post where basically that person said that Odin accepts all people at Valhalla (even n*zis) because he only cares about fighting. What are your thoughts? Do you think that Odin accepts n*zis?

Disclaimer: These are my thoughts, not the thoughts of all Heathens everywhere or even the rest of the mods here. Also, I’m not going to be censoring the word “nazi,” because as much as I’d love to avoid showing up under that search term, people who don’t want to see it deserve to be able to properly blacklist it.

Do I believe Odin agrees with or tolerates nazi ideology? No. I don’t believe that the Eddas are the infallible word of the divine or that we should base our morality solely on medieval texts written for a very different society, but even in those medieval texts, Odin welcomes foreigners and turns to them for wisdom. In some cases, he falls in love with them, has children with them. If you read the jotnar as another “race”, which many white nationalist Heathens do, then Odin is mixed race himself.

Even if you ignore all that, he does a lot of subverting of the social order. He breaks gender roles. He breaks the laws of nature through witchcraft. He goes wandering as a hobo while he’s supposed to be, you know, ruling. Not exactly the paragon of traditionalism.

Do I believe Odin only cares about fighting? Of course not. This isn’t to deny or minimize his associations with or participation in war, because that’s unequivocally there. But if you look at Havamal, and other passages with sayings attributed to him, you’ll find just as much emphasis on being wise and and just generally being a decent human being. There are instances where he’s explicitly associated with healing, e.g., the Nine Herbs Charm.

But despite all that, I’m not going to say any particular individual, no matter how vile they are, is barred from Valhalla, or any Heathen afterlife to the extent that one believes they exist, for a couple reasons.

For one, the Heathen afterlife just isn’t based on morality. Valhalla is not Heaven. It’s a training ground. Hel, despite the etymology, is not the Christian Hell. Good people, even Baldr, end up in Hel. Some people think the concept of Valhalla is actually pretty new, a consolation prize for warriors whose bodies couldn’t be brought home to their ancestral grave mound at a time when the Norse were starting to raid farther and farther away, and that Hel or the grave mound was the default for everyone prior to that. Your reward, or punishment, for the few short years you get here is the legacy you leave behind.

Secondly, even if the afterlife was based on morality, it would be really fucking presumptuous for us to declare who’s beyond saving. It’s perverse when Christians do it. It’s equally perverse when we do it. We disgrace our gods by painting them as so petty and vengeful as to sentence someone to eternal suffering for a few years of mistakes. Even if you’re not taking the sentiment seriously and are just using it as a snappy one liner, there are plenty of valid material reasons to discredit fascists without borrowing a scare tactic from Evangelicals that makes your gods look bad.

I don’t say this to spare the feelings of nazis. Nazis are terrible people. I fully endorse using any measures necessary in this life to stop them from committing the harm they are trying to commit. But if we’re granting the possibility that there’s an afterlife, then we’re granting that there’s an opportunity for change. And declaring change impossible is a very un-Lokean, and dare I say, very un-Odinic thing to do. You need, truly need to believe a person can be better, not for the sake of nazis, or even for the people you love, but for you as a flawed person with agency and the ability to impact others.

- Mod E

un kisse

*in the groupchat*

Loki: “My dearest beloved fuckos” is a fun, gender-neutral way to begin a speech.

Sigyn: See also: “Esteemed bastards”

Skadi: “Gentlefolk, Ferals, and Domesticated Cryptids”

Thor: “My fellow yees and haws…”

Why is it harmful to see Naoto Shirogane as a girl?

[This is not an argumentative post. I am a trans man. This is meant to be educational anyone who denies or even gets aggressive at the idea of Naoto being trans.]

There’s already some posts about this, but I still wanted to make my own and dump it. I apologize for not putting this under a cut, but I feel like people will dismiss it otherwise. 

Naoto introduces himself as a boy. Naoto/ 直斗 is a boys given name that means “Honest Big Dipper”, likely not the name he was given by his parents at birth since he’s afab. He clearly doesn’t use his ‘natural’ voice, and tries to make his voice sound deeper, but it still sounds off. This implies he’s working on voice training still and hasn’t mastered his range. 

From just looking at canon art of Naoto, we can tell he binds. Sometimes he has a very clear bust, and sometimes he’s completely flat. In Line Sticker art, this is confirmed to be done with bandages. 

I bring this up because it’s important to establish: Atlus does not know what they’re doing. Safe binding is not a trans only resource. Cis afab cosplayers bind if they want a flat chest when cosplaying either flat chested women or men, so safety on doing this should be known. 

Bandages are not safe. Naoto is putting himself in danger just to make himself look flat chested. 

Let’s look at his shadow: 

Regardless of in boss-form or not, the shadow has a flat chest. If Naoto’s shadow was a part of himself that he was hiding from, and what he’s hiding is that he’s supposedly a girl, why does his shadow fully present as male? 

That’s not what his shadow is. His shadow is Naoto’s insecurities. “He’s not actually a boy. He’s childish. He just doesn’t like himself. He’s scared that people will see him differently if he was clearly a girl. He’s just doing this to success.”

Taking these thoughts that Naoto’s shadow expresses, it becomes obvious that he has internalized transphobia. He’s justifying why he identifies the way he does and telling himself he’s not really what he is. 

The game portrays these thoughts and insecurities as internalized misogyny that he needs to overcome. 

I don’t know how to tell you that telling an afab person who has said that they’re a boy that they are, in fact, really a girl with internalized misogyny is incredibly transphobic, toxic, and harmful. 

This exact mind set is the reason I personally and many other trans men are not allowed to start our medical transition until we are able to leave our parents.

For Naoto’s justifications, saying that it’s so he won’t be judged in the work place- His mother was a famous detective. There’s no reason he should have this fear, and even then, why go so far as he has? Voice training, unsafe binding, and for his work place to not know his agab or dead name? He would have had to legally change it. No one who is just pretending to be a gender they aren’t would not go through THIS much trouble. 

There’s also the tons of medical themes that Naoto’s shadow talks about, which- again- for a trans person, having medical themes and surgery on the mind, especially a ‘life altering’ surgery, it’s not that uncommon among trans folk who plan to medically transition. Why would a detective’s dungeon be medical themed when he has no medical traits to his character aside from, perhaps, his transition plans? 

Something that bugs me and I’m sure many others a LOT is how, as soon as Naoto’s shadow says he’s ‘actually a girl,’ everyone instantly begins to refer to Naoto as a girl. When this happens from a source that isn’t the character themself, it’s blatantly transphobic. If you hear about someone’s “actual gender” from a person who ISN’T that someone, talk to them about it. Ask them how they actually want to be referred by. 

Another small thing, but Kanji is meant to be gay but then they pulled “Aha, he has a crush on Naoto, so he isn’t ACTUALLY gay!” which, yeah, homophobic and transphobic. If a gay man likes a trans man, that is still just as gay as if he liked a cis man. Making Naoto ‘actually a girl’ was hitting two birds with one stone, and cishets- and even other queer people, sadly- ate that shit up. 

I’ll go over some arena screenshots now, thank you to @covecaller​​ for posting them. 

How much needs to be said about this one? It’s very common for trans people in unwelcoming situations to wish they were born as the gender they actually are, and it especially would make sense for Naoto. As soon as he was outed as afab, no one refereed to him as a boy and they never even asked him about it first. 

This is blatant transphobia. “You lack confidence in yourself” is word for word what my mother said to me when I came out to her. Calling trans people ‘lies’ or a ‘liar’ for their identity? Also blatant transphobia. 

You can look at the other arena screencaps Zach posted here. 

You can say all you want that p4 is old, so of course it’s going to be bad, but so what? Letting it constantly get off the hook and never criticizing the creators will give them a message. Letting things like this go hurts the minorities that that character is a part of, and this is backed up even less by the fact that Atlus STILL hasn’t done anything about it. There is still persona 4 content being made, and Naoto is still being sexualized when he is, by the way, 15-17 throughout the series, and misgendered.

Yes, Naoto is portrayed as a girl who isn’t confident in himself and has internalized misogyny in persona 4, but that’s because the creators see trans men as girls who aren’t confident in themselves and have internalized misogyny. 

Reblogs are highly appreciated, feel free to make your own additions with more proof if you feel like I missed out on something important with explaining why Naoto should not be portrayed as a girl.