Blue shade by @fhzxhwhsakt

black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)

you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade

then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)

and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids

so yeah

viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie

Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa. 

Why?

Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO. 

Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.

Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.

We KNOW this.

There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.

Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.

Islamic Ring in Viking Grave

Vikings in Persia

Black Vikings

Vikings in North Africa

Buddha statue in Viking hoard

Vikings brought Native American woman to Europe

Unflattering texts in Arabic about Vikings

Original text by Ahmad ibn-Fadlan

More about the Islamic World and Vikings (some Vikings converted to Islam! sort of sketchy site tho)

Viking technology came from Afghanistan

More on trade route determination via metallurgy

… is that enough? :)

Yet another on the pile of reasons why it monumentally honks me off when pusillanimous, pseudointellectual white supremacist scum try to use Scandinavian culture as a crutch for their arguments and act like Norse mythology agrees with their biases. No it fucking doesn’t, bitch. Odin would personally kick you in the dick for being a witless coward and then send your ass to the Realm of the Dishonored Dead.

I don’t usually reblog stuff, but this thread makes me so happy. See, I love the Viking aesthetic – I love the fusion of organic and geometric in its designs, I love the natural colors, the complexity of textures you get from juxtaposing metal/leather/cloth/fur–

–and I hate how the entire subculture has been so thoroughly co-opted by white supremacists. To the point where I, a person who likes viking stuff, am deeply and immediately suspect of anyone else who likes viking stuff, guilty until proven innocent, cuz that’s what the odds are these days.

Anyway.

As far as I’m concerned, anyone can be a viking, and thus I am so, so pleased to find that the historical record backs me up.

(And amused that Arab intellectual Ahmad ibn Fadlan was so thirsty for vikings.)

reclaim vikings from racists 2kForever

Thank, I thought I was gonna have to add some things, but I’m pretty satisfied. Atleast one Roman dude I know of has been dug out of a viking grave being buried with stuff that both labelled him clearly as of roman ancestry, aswell as integrated into viking life. Muslim coins were found in Sweden. Just. Lots. There’s so much proof of actual logical and interesting stuff. Imagine a society that shut out every other cultural infuence and remain uhhh… “pure”? How boring?? How unrealistic??

Policy on Explicit Artwork & Underage Characters

This post is to clarify Pillowfort’s position on sexually explicit visual art, particularly art containing minors. We apologize for not clarifying our position on this earlier; we have been working on revising the ToS to address these issues, but an incident arose today that necessitated us taking action on this matter, so it seems necessary to put things in plain terms now.

As of this statement, Pillowfort will not allow explicit visual art of characters that appear to be underage. Now, due to the inherently subjective nature of trying to determine the age of a fictional character in a stylized medium, the “gray area” cases will be up to the discretion of the moderator reviewing the content. Broadly, if your characters are close to 18 and could plausibly or arguably be of age based on appearance, that will be allowed. We are not going to comb through the wiki of a particular fandom to try and find the canonical age of a fictional character and then try to figure out if the character in the art piece is supposed to be represented at their canonical age or not. Similarly, many works of art contain sexual activity as a theme of adolescence and coming-of-age– I’m sure you yourself can think of many movies, shows, etc. you’ve seen that featured underage characters in a sexual relationship, some even explicitly– and even if you wanted to argue that art that explored adolescent sexuality was fine and it’s ‘just pornography’ that should be censured, we aren’t going to be the arbiters of what is art vs. ‘merely’ pornography. Therefore, sexual depictions of characters in later stages of adolescence may broadly be considered ‘safe.’

However, any explicit or sexual art of a character that appears to be physically pre-pubescent or barely pubescent (i.e. not plausibly or arguably of age, or even close to it) will be prohibited. We realize this decision may anger some people, but we have devoted a considerable amount of thought to this decision and we feel this is the best approach for our community.

Importantly, we don’t want people to worry that this heralds a broader ban on ‘problematic’ content. When it comes to fictional depictions or descriptions of divisive subjects such as incest, rape, abuse, etc., we do not intend to restrict that content, for largely the same reasons as discussed above with regards to ‘gray-area’ underage content. We understand these subjects can be distressing for many, and we do request that people posting content that is potentially upsetting tag such posts with the relevant terms so that it can be avoided by those who don’t wish to view such content. The only situation we foresee penalizing the posting of this content would be a case already covered in our ToS, where a bad-faith user appears to be intentionally spamming completely unrelated tags or communities with violent or sexual content with the intent or result of disrupting the usual functioning of that tag or community.

We will update the ToS to reflect these new guidelines soon. As always, if these new guidelines are unsatisfactory to you and you want a refund for your PayPal payment to us, you can email us at info@pillowfort.io and we will process your refund as soon as we can.

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Okay, so I was supporting PF as an alternative to tumblr. No more. Here are my problems with this, in no particular order:

-They banned a user and deleted their blog for this before actually updating their TOS. And they didn’t inform the user or flag the post or anything. Just, boom, gone, no communication or reason given, again, for something that wasn’t even in the TOS at the time it was posted. That’s some shitty and shady moderating.

-This cannot be enforced. Between art styles (everyone knows that anime with the 30 year old woman who looks 10, or the 12 year old boy who looks 20), natural human diversity (height, medical condition, bust size- remember that time Australia banned adult women with A-cups from appearing in porn?), a policy that boils down to what a mod ‘thinks’ a picture looks like is basically just giving every mod a ‘hot or not’ button and basing the banning on that.

-Also, we’re talking about fiction. And fandom, which is fiction’s weird-niche central. How do you make a call on a piece of art depicting a child in an adult’s body (body-swapping, shape-shifting) or the reverse (such as an immortal child who is mentally an adult)? What about inhuman characters? And how are you going to rule on non-classically-sexual, non-nude fetish art?

-On a demographic note, this will be slanted against queer, survivor, and disabled artists. Since it’s down to mod preference and bias, preference and bias will come into play. Women are drawn ‘younger’ looking than men in a more normalized way (Disney’s Rapunzel and her mother, who is presumably twice her age, are basically twins), so art with a het ship and similar mlm art where one partner is femme/uke-like are likely going to be treated differently. Disabled, intersex, trans and non-binary individuals sometimes have different or minimized secondary sexual characteristics, so it’ll target them too. Survivors who express or process what happened to them in art will be banned.

-This makes no sense. Gore, torture, rape between adults, etc are still allowed, so this won’t make the site safe for work. And all of those things are clearly objectionable in real life, so this isn’t about only allowing obviously healthy/consensual porn. It’s just a random line drawn in the sand, and that means there are no guarantees that more random lines won’t follow.

-The vagueness leaves this open for abuse. If fictional depictions can be banned, then people can easily mass report ships or art they don’t like. And every mod trying to figure out if Prince of Tennis (a series where young teen characters are drawn more like adults) porn is ban-worthy or not is one less mod focusing on real CP that victimizes real children.

You’re a d e s t r o y e r Odinson

Thor stroking Loki’s hair: You’re so tiny and adorable.

Loki half asleep: Brother, I could literally stab you right now.

Thor with heart eyes: I know.

character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by pinning them against the wall by their wrists*

me:

character in a fight scene: *pins their opponent down by straddling their waist and holding their wrists to the floor*

me:

character in a fight scene: *lifting their disarmed opponent’s chin slightly with the business end of their weapon*

me:

character in fight scene: *pins down the opponent and leans in close to whisper in their ear*

me:

The look on everyone’s faces - esp. Justin Trudeau’s - PRICELESS!!

I love are prime Minister he ain’t perfect but at least has a functional brain.

I’m the lady in pink trying so soo hard not to laugh (or maybe scream)

Trudeau just straight up did Jim in the Office starring at the camera

if you are a thorki fandom content creator and are comfortable filling out an spreadsheet’s worth of (entirely optional) info, click here.

why the spreadsheet? well, I saw a mutual complain about losing their fanbase, and tbh I have similar worries - it took me a while to get to the number of followers I have! and I don’t want to lose that!

so if you create content for the thorki fandom*, then you’re welcome to fill this form with as many details as you’re comfortable sharing. remember, only share stuff you’re comfortable having known to people. if you want to specify that something is available upon request, put AOR in that field

the form has space for every social media that I could think of (+ a field for any I might have missed) and it basically exists so the fandom doesn’t lose track of content creators, and so that content creators get a head start on new platforms without having to rebuild their fanbase from mutuals and scratch.

entirely optional, but public access, so please be careful!

note: you can add your friends/mutuals if they’re okay with it. please make sure that they are. 

*what counts as content? original posts. headcanons, meta, round robins, fics, art, rec lists, edits, playlists. if you’re a moderator (or have ever been a moderator) please add that too—moderating is valuable!

lastly, please consider reblogging this post for maximum visibility: the link means it’s not going to show up in search results

this is excellent! thank you so much

Drained // Another pic of comics thorki with intersex!Loki and big size difference for your size kink

#mood

Tumblr is not a place, it’s a people. 

commission for @wdfa

elsapatakyconfidential #horsewhisperer [link]

I forgot who’s into this but just saying I found some untagged grandthorki for anyone who’s interested ( @loxxxlay ?) Note that it does contain intersex Loki. https://archiveofourown.org/works/13135230

am gonna try to find the tumblr blog later, but OMG THIS WAS LEGIT!!! I REC <3333 *_*

thank you so much for bringing my attention to it @wisterings, ahhhhh <3

omg that's me!! I think it was bc back then I didn't know the name grandthorki, but I'll be sure to tag that sorry 😂 THANK YOU

Lokis: a useful status checklist

MCU Lokis:

Thor: Cinnamon roll to villain

The Avengers: Villain

Thor: The Dark World: Antihero to final villainous act

Thor: Ragnarok: Not a villain

Infinity War: Pending, prayer circle for not a villain in the end

Marvel Comics Lokis, a sampling:

Golden Age Loki: Hilariously villainous

Ultimates Loki: Villain

Blood Brothers Loki: Depressed villain

Earth X Loki: Meta non-villain

Siege Loki: Villain

Journey Into Mystery kid!Loki: Resolutely not a villain

Young Avengers Loki: Troubled near-villain but mostly not

Agent of Asgard Loki: Def not a villain, def not a villain, plus one villain

Vote Loki Loki: Not really a villain, would have been better than Trump

Currently: Don’t ask me, dude, I’m not even sure Marvel knows

Neil Gaiman’s Oeuvre:

The Sandman Loki: Fucking villain

American Gods: It’s complicated

Mythology

Norse Loki:

Villain status: It’s complicated

Accurate

I don’t know why this suddenly came around again, but here we are.

Anyway. One new addition.

Post Infinity War Loki: Schrodinger’s Chaos God

god tier thorki tropes:

Movie Parallels: Avengers (2012) vs. Crimson Peak

for @shineonloki who pointed out that this is indeed the exact same scene