I have this headcanon backstory where old!Loki was basically straight and basically male and one of the ways kid!Loki (from the very beginning!) was trying to differentiate theirself from him was by picking up the Midgardian myths of Loki's pansexuality and genderfluidity and adding power to those stories until he made them true.
(Even when old!Loki was Lady!Loki she seemed pretty eager to stop pretending and go back to male, but also that lines up with when she first started laying plans to change who Loki was, so that might even have been built into the plan from then; that part of the person they made themself into to fill the role of Thor's archenemy when Thor fell to Midgard required fitting into a certain kind of genderedness, and getting rid of that is an important step of remaking themself, and being lady!Loki for awhile was something they needed to do in order to get close enough to start to do what they needed to do.)
And of course the way you do that, if you're made of stories, and you have to use methods that the Allmother will not suspect, is by building a massive Loki slash fandom with tons of genderfuck fic and an army of fanpersons who will protest at any excuse that the genderfluid/genderqueer Loki they write about from the old stories and myths is obviously not the same person as supervillain Loki, omg, it's mythical okay, the supervillain Loki is just a pale shadow of the real Loki from the real myths. And, obvs, if you are a trickster god of stories, the way you build a massive slash fandom is by being a prolific and talented slash writer yourself.
(Especially given why he hacked the internet. It is exactly the kind of irony he'd like if he'd slashed it for the same reason...and got to confess it to Thor without Thor noticing.)
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(Even when old!Loki was Lady!Loki she seemed pretty eager to stop pretending and go back to male, but also that lines up with when she first started laying plans to change who Loki was, so that might even have been built into the plan from then; that part of the person they made themself into to fill the role of Thor's archenemy when Thor fell to Midgard required fitting into a certain kind of genderedness, and getting rid of that is an important step of remaking themself, and being lady!Loki for awhile was something they needed to do in order to get close enough to start to do what they needed to do.)
And of course the way you do that, if you're made of stories, and you have to use methods that the Allmother will not suspect, is by building a massive Loki slash fandom with tons of genderfuck fic and an army of fanpersons who will protest at any excuse that the genderfluid/genderqueer Loki they write about from the old stories and myths is obviously not the same person as supervillain Loki, omg, it's mythical okay, the supervillain Loki is just a pale shadow of the real Loki from the real myths. And, obvs, if you are a trickster god of stories, the way you build a massive slash fandom is by being a prolific and talented slash writer yourself.
(Especially given why he hacked the internet. It is exactly the kind of irony he'd like if he'd slashed it for the same reason...and got to confess it to Thor without Thor noticing.)