2015, Pepi Valderrama, Geek Anthropology of Loki's Army, page 7:
This book is not a work of fan fiction, nor a book of spells. There are no runes for casting nor Thorki weddings to attend.
2015, Matthew Alan Cicci, "Turning The Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, And The Transformation Of The 'Comic Book' Superhero", dissertation submitted to Wayne State University, page 91:
The images of Thorki [slash representations of the two Asgardian characters] represent a range of implied possibilities between the characters--from romantic longings to more explicit imagery.
2017, Jingyi Gu, "Celebrating and Discussing the Queerly Masculine: Hollywood Superheroes Reimagined in Fan Videos on Chinese Barrage Video Websites", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, page 15:
“It’s Definitely Not the Avengers” is a mash-up video of three superhero couples “of Resave” selects from the Marvel cinematic universe, i.e. Stucky (Captain America and Winter Soldier), Thorki (Thor and Loki), and Tony x Banner (Iron Man and Hulk).
2018, Proud Arunrangsiwed, Nititorn Ounpipat, & Krisana Cheachainart, "Women and Yaoi Fan Creative Work", Executive Journal (Bangkok University), Volume 38, Number 2, July - December 2018, page 61:
Slash artists often mixed two names of the characters (Íslands, 2017), e.g., Snarry (Harry Potter and Severus Snape), JayDick (Jason Todd and Dick Grayson), Thorki (Thor and Loki), Stony (Steve Rogers and Tony Stark), and Clex (Clark Kent and Lex Luthor).
2019, Nishang Li, "'Rotten Culture': From Japan to China", thesis submitted to the University of Victoria, pages 51-52:
Some fans of the couple of Thorki are from a Marvel fan circle, which also belongs to the Western culture fan circles; however, some Asian culture fans will also be interested due to the fact that Thorki reflected a seme-uke couple pattern of a muscular and straightforward seme and a tsundere cunning uke.
Littlewhite (female, aged 19), as the big fan of Thorki (i.e., pairing consisting of Thor the god of Thunder and Loki the God of Mischief), said that the scene in Thor 2: The Dark World that Loki is dying in Thor’s arms has boosted the fan production in their community.
