How did Odin get the mead of poetry, folks? Did he tell Gunnlod jokes? Why did Freyr want Gerd to come over? Think they're playing tafl?

The Aesir and Vanir FUCK. Sometimes they fuck each other. Sometimes they fuck jotuns, humans, and, in at least one case, a horse.*** And more than one of them will genderbend**** for fun and/or profit.

*It is amusing and interesting to me that I have a swear that I use *specifically* for heathen things... my first version read "Jesus Christ", but that's hardly appropriatr for this post.

**I maintain that Thor did drag, and Loki just became a girl for the duration... Thor was a man in a dress, Loki was a girl.

***My personal squick level keeps the horse sentient, I'll be honest.

That boy wearing jeans that are too tight

Your neighbors and their “friend” that lives with them

Having a beard and wearing a skirt

Wearing any kind of choker

Nothing will save you. Because the people you are trying to appease by licking boot and shunning and harassing any queer you deem "too weird" fucking want you dead too, no matter how palatable you make yourself. You can sanitize yourself until the fucking cows come home. You will NEVER be clean enough for the bigots who think that simply daring to exist as a queer person is a disgusting affront.

And if you are WILLING to throw the freaks under the bus to save yourself? To pretend that you're "normal"?

Don't come crying to us when the very people you're trying to pander to turn around and start calling for YOU to be jailed, YOU to be erased. For YOU to be made illegal for existing. For YOU to be made illegal for those oh-so-sanitized gay activities like having a same-gender partner and holding hands.

If you think that "kink doesn't belong at pride", then not only do you not know your damn history, but you're a traitor in my eyes. Because that attitude is exactly what leads to what we're seeing now.