I've been reading Thor fanfic.

(No, don't ask - ours not to reason why - oh, fine, okay, sophia_sol linked to sentientcitizen's Within It We Are Nameless, which is a story about how Odin's brother Villi, the creator of cunning, came back to Asgard to mentor young Loki. And Villi, who may seem strangely familiar to some readers, just happens to have spent many centuries on Midgard, using names like Benjamin Adams and Adam Pierson and perhaps certain others. :D

Oh, and then somebody on some post mentioned that there was a fic where Sleipnir inherits the throne of Asgard by his right as Odin's eldest grandson, which just yes!!! I did not manage to find said fic, but I went looking for others, and found some very interesting things.

And of course Astolat is writing Thor fic now. And so is Aria, which is just about as irresistable.

And then I had read enough to encounter one of the many things that makes me wish they were fanficcing the Eddas instead of the Marvelverse, which is, Laufey's a GUY?? and went looking for fics where he's Loki's mother anyway, and - yay! - found them.

Also I am trying to avoid catching up with Dresden Files fandom until I have my hot little hands on the new book, because I am miraculously and largely without my doing unspoiled for it, and it might actually be nice to stay that way for a bit.

So anyway.)

I am strangely discontent for being this early into reading a big new fandom. Specifically, I am discontent with Loki/Thor (I have been reading Loki/Thor because that's what most of the longfic so far is, and also searching Delicious for just Thor does not work, so I go with it for now.) I think it's because I am reading this not as a fan of the Thor movie (which I have not seen) or the Marvelverse Thor (who I am interested in mostly because DON BLAKE, who apparently does not happen in movieverse), but as someone who has been a fan of Norse mythology in all its myriad retellings (Jul i Valhal = awesome) for some time, and therefore I am going into this fandom with a weird combination of newness and world-weariness. Sort of the same way I came to Sherlock Holmes fandom and got annoyed with Holmes/Watson, actually.

My problem with Thor/Loki fic comes down to: In many fandoms where people write a slash pairing about two people who have been, essentially, shield-brothers for years and years and years, and then insist on writing schmoopy slash fics in which they are, ahem, falling for the first time, I tire of it quickly. If these people have really been this close for this long, I assume that this would have come up at least once in the intervening years. Case study: Jack and Daniel in SGA. I will totally buy fic in which they didn't ever acknowledge what was between them until Season 10 when they had less at stake; I don't buy fic in which they didn't notice what was between them until S10.

As for Thor and Loki... In any universe in which a physical relationship between them is a possibility, Thor and Loki have been screwing around with each other pretty much since they hit puberty. Obviously. So stop with the schmoopy post-movie first-time fic!

Um.

Also, there is surprisingly little mpreg, considering the source material. :P

... I should probably just close the computer and finish reading that stack of Elizabeth Boyer novels I brought with me to Pennsic. (Oh, why is it so blatantly obvious that Skalgr is secretly Dyrstygger, only a quarter of the way into the book, and why am I still reading it avidly anyway? Why was there no online fandom when I was in high school so I could do stupid memes about what my fylgja form was, and whether I was Ljosalfar or Dokkalfar or Scipling or Duergar or Rhbu, instead of just doodling lingorms in the back of my notebook? ...why is there not an online fandom for these books now? Dammit, I could be reading Leifr/Ljosa/Thurid instead of Loki/Thor right now!)