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1. I have been doing a terrible job with the writing lately. Since last update, I have written a few hundred more words of the ANitLO crossover, some more Montparnasse fic, some more Booby!Marius story, and a tiny tiny bit of the one where Cap and Tony are both fail at coming out.
2. Part of the reason for this is that I keep coming home at night and not wanting to do anything but SLEEP. So yesterday I read![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rydra_wong's post on winter light and realized that the fact that f.lux is set to make me sleepy at sunset probably isn't helping. I didn't want to turn it off because I still don't need to be staring bright-eyed at Tumblr until 2 AM, so I decided to try reversing the latitude on my f.lux location - it may be getting dark under the daystar, but my laptop's brightness now thinks I live off the coast of South America and it's late spring with the days still getting longer. We'll see if it helps.
3. Also possibly more relevantly to the lack of writing I read the Loki: Agent of Asgard trade and then read all of the Boyband!Loki fic on AO3. I knew better than to start reading Loki:AoA, because getting mixed up with trickster gods is ALWAYS a bad idea, and besides I've read enough Marvel Now trades to know that it'll inevitably get mixed up in a massive crossover event and start to suck. But you know. As of the first trade it is basically flawless and also 100% made of fandom catnip and I can't. Come talk to me about AoA.
Comics!Loki, for those who don't know, has in the past few years gone through a complicated series of disincorporations/autocides/reiterations, more-or-less intentionally, and is currently in a body that frequently gets him mistaken for Harry Styles and/or Justin Beiber, trying to figure out how to stop being the villain of the story and develop a working conscience, despite everything - from his destiny to his Queens - working against him. If boyband!Loki gleefully out-scheming everybody in the Marvel Universe, swashbuckling with hot dudes, going on crime capers as a hot chick, having vaguely-platonic coffee with a cute hipster girl he met while speed-dating, being blatantly objectified by the narrative, being canonically pansexual and genderfluid, and being tragic yet determined about stuff like the nature of free will and stories and truth and good and evil and guilt and redemption sound like your kind of thing - well, run very fast in the other direction from Agent of Asgard, okay, because Loki is always bad news.
(If you've seen the panels where Loki confesses to having created a most terrible slash on the internet, okay, so, on the one hand yay, on the other hand given all the meta stuff about how Loki is defined by the stories written about him, and his newly canonically fluid gender/sexuality, I really want to talk about why Loki is creating slash on the internet, and what stories he's telling.)
(he's writing about Sigurd fucking him in their trash dumpster.)
4. Since I have now read ALL THE FIC in three days, it seemed like an ideal time do to a recs list. So here are some recs:
I tried to keep it down to one fic per author but I also wanted as many different pairings as possible and a few authors are really prolific, so a couple of them listed multiple times.
Heather and Mead by Mythtaken Identity (Shadowland), 3224 words, Teen, (Loki/America Chavez) If surveillance were the only factor, she could do it from across the street.
I love all America Chavez and Loki. She takes no bullshit and he likes having someone around who will to kick the bullshit out of him and they are both great, especially America. This one's actually pretty fluffy, they sort-of-accidentally become friends and then things progress.
Ladies Night by Mythtaken Identity (Shadowland) , 5546 words, gen, (Loki & Lorelei) Loki invites Lorelei for a girl's night out on the town, the first she can remember for centuries.
My favorite of the stories about Loki exploring her female side. She and Lorelei go bar-hopping, things get a bit out of hand, and Lorelei's powers backfire, and it is both a lovely friendship story and deeply tragic, because that's AoA Loki.
Words Will Never Hurt Me by Mythtaken Identity, 62,978, (Gen-ish, some Loki/Leah). Loki may be trying to curb his use of magic, but he still feels drawn to magical artifacts. Few are as powerful as the ancient scroll hidden beneath the desert sand and rumoured to grant power over all of creation, living or dead...if one doesn't mind being the target of a rather nasty curse.
This could have come right out of the comics and is nice and long and will draw you in and then unfairly sucker-punch you. Repeatedly. Until you are crying. If you like that sort of thing this is the sort of thing you will like.
Nothing Changes by PantyDragon, 3572 words, explicit, (Loki/Billy Kaplan). Either Loki grew into this new body on the simple virtues of good genetics or Billy's loneliness got the better of him.
Set during YA, just after Billy aged Loki up - Loki decides to take his new body out for a spin by seducing a reluctant Billy. There are nebulous but foregrounded consent issues, not a fluffy story.
Better than Nothing by PantyDragon, 1264 words, explicit, (Loki/Noh-Varr). If your relationship fails spectacularly, there's always fully-clothed opportunistic New Year's bathroom sex.
Set during the last issue of YA, after Loki and Noh-Varr both get shot down. I am possibly way too fond of Noh-Varr, he's just such a wonderful asshole - Loki's an asshole too but he's fighting a universe's worth of narrative necessity. Noh-Varr's just an ass because why not. They're beautiful together.
The beast you made in me by amberfox17, 4702 words, explicit, (Loki/Thor), Teen Loki crosses a dark!possessed!Thor and proceeds to trick him into doling the punishment Loki knows he deserves.
An AU from the first issue of AoA. Massive and deeply twisted consent issues + Loki being self-destructive + porn, what's not to like.
Wish Fulfillment by Yavannie, 2657 words, explicit, (Loki/Verity Willis). Ever since they hung up the phone, Loki has gone off the grid. Verity is determined to find out why, or at the very least get that dinner he owes her.
Set after AoA #5, this is my favorite of the explicitly shippy Loki/Verity stories. Loki is very very good with his tongue but Verity knows how to handle him.
Guests and Fish by DangerousCommieSubversive, 4561 words, explicit, (Billy Kaplan/Loki/Teddy Altman). Billy and Teddy haven't seen Loki in months, and they definitely weren't expecting to find him knocking on their (seventh-floor) window, covered in blood. Sanctuary for the night is only reasonable.
Loki is like a stray cat who turns up at your window and you feed him and next thing you know he's sleeping between you and your boyfriend. I also really like the slightly-more-grown-up Billy and Teddy we see here.
Non-Alcoholic Revelry by Vitanitas 2616, gen, (Loki/Tony Stark). After all that's happened Loki decides he needs to get away from Asgardia and have a few drinks in space, only to run into a certain armored avenger.
Set while Tony is off having a vacation as a Guardian of the Galaxy. I really like Tony/Loki as a pairing in theory; I wish more of it played up their shared, bone-deep weariness this way this does.
See America Right by reserve, 1863 words, explicit, (Loki/America Chavez.) The first blowjob Loki gives in this new body is an unexpected one.
America makes Loki blow her in a public restroom. If that's not enough to make you want to read this you just can't be helped.
Ready...Fight! by PeachyLana, 5510, explicit, (Loki/America). Loki and America reunite under perfect circumstances.
America kicks Loki through walls, Loki enjoys it, they have sex, Loki is an asshole. Basically everything I want out of stories about these two.
You will notice there is no Sigurd in those recs. That is because there is no Sigurd fic on AO3. At all. ...fandom, write me some Loki/Sigurd fic like, yesterday. HOW CAN YOU RESIST THAT FACE
5. I shall put in for the DW friending meme thatladyscribe is running, but it totally expects you to be doing the December posting meme. I have too much stuff going on to commit to posting on certain days, but I will borrow isis's weekly variation. So here is your chance to make me talk about a thing, any thing at all. as long as it's AoA Loki
Give me a topic and pick a week and I will try to talk about that topic on my journal at some point during that week. (disclaimers: topics for a given week are cut off after 5; several topics may be combined into one post.)
Week 1: Dec 1-7 : a book you loved that you didn't expect to and why (the_rck); what are your feelings on Agent of Asgard? (dhampyresa)
Week 2: Dec 8-14 : what would be your ideal next canon YA series? (schneefink); Young Wizards crossovers! Why are they awesome? Can everything be a YW crossover? Discuss. (sineala); Most oddball piece of research done this year - whether it be for work, wrangling, fic or because the brain-weasels attacked ... (aoifes_isle)
Week 3: Dec 15-21 : how the MCU compares to comic universe (chordatesrock); Tell me something (or somethings, if you like) you would like to see more of in the fantasy genre. (alasse_irena); Is there a book/show/movie you've been fully intending to get to this year but find yourself putting off for some reason? (Fear of disappointment, not wanting it to be over--whatever!) (umadoshi)
Week 4: Dec 22-28 : could you talk a bit about Their Majesties' Bucketeers? I reread it not too long ago and I'd love to hear about what kind of fic you wish there was, or some meta if you've got it in you. (fenellaevangela); talk about your writing process (espresso_addict).; perhaps you could talk about The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (redsnake05)
6. If you're curious about why I sometimes go a long time between DW posts, my process here was literally: a) I can't post the friend meme comment until I've made the DW post to link to; b) I can't make the DW post until I've made the Tumblr post to link to; c) I can't make the Tumblr post until I have scanned the comics; d) I can't scan the comics until I have dug the scanner out of the pile behind the couch; e) I will deal with the pile behind the couch sometime after hell freezes over.
2. Part of the reason for this is that I keep coming home at night and not wanting to do anything but SLEEP. So yesterday I read
rydra_wong's post on winter light and realized that the fact that f.lux is set to make me sleepy at sunset probably isn't helping. I didn't want to turn it off because I still don't need to be staring bright-eyed at Tumblr until 2 AM, so I decided to try reversing the latitude on my f.lux location - it may be getting dark under the daystar, but my laptop's brightness now thinks I live off the coast of South America and it's late spring with the days still getting longer. We'll see if it helps.3. Also possibly more relevantly to the lack of writing I read the Loki: Agent of Asgard trade and then read all of the Boyband!Loki fic on AO3. I knew better than to start reading Loki:AoA, because getting mixed up with trickster gods is ALWAYS a bad idea, and besides I've read enough Marvel Now trades to know that it'll inevitably get mixed up in a massive crossover event and start to suck. But you know. As of the first trade it is basically flawless and also 100% made of fandom catnip and I can't. Come talk to me about AoA.
Comics!Loki, for those who don't know, has in the past few years gone through a complicated series of disincorporations/autocides/reiterations, more-or-less intentionally, and is currently in a body that frequently gets him mistaken for Harry Styles and/or Justin Beiber, trying to figure out how to stop being the villain of the story and develop a working conscience, despite everything - from his destiny to his Queens - working against him. If boyband!Loki gleefully out-scheming everybody in the Marvel Universe, swashbuckling with hot dudes, going on crime capers as a hot chick, having vaguely-platonic coffee with a cute hipster girl he met while speed-dating, being blatantly objectified by the narrative, being canonically pansexual and genderfluid, and being tragic yet determined about stuff like the nature of free will and stories and truth and good and evil and guilt and redemption sound like your kind of thing - well, run very fast in the other direction from Agent of Asgard, okay, because Loki is always bad news.
(If you've seen the panels where Loki confesses to having created a most terrible slash on the internet, okay, so, on the one hand yay, on the other hand given all the meta stuff about how Loki is defined by the stories written about him, and his newly canonically fluid gender/sexuality, I really want to talk about why Loki is creating slash on the internet, and what stories he's telling.)
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4. Since I have now read ALL THE FIC in three days, it seemed like an ideal time do to a recs list. So here are some recs:
I tried to keep it down to one fic per author but I also wanted as many different pairings as possible and a few authors are really prolific, so a couple of them listed multiple times.
Heather and Mead by Mythtaken Identity (Shadowland), 3224 words, Teen, (Loki/America Chavez) If surveillance were the only factor, she could do it from across the street.
I love all America Chavez and Loki. She takes no bullshit and he likes having someone around who will to kick the bullshit out of him and they are both great, especially America. This one's actually pretty fluffy, they sort-of-accidentally become friends and then things progress.
Ladies Night by Mythtaken Identity (Shadowland) , 5546 words, gen, (Loki & Lorelei) Loki invites Lorelei for a girl's night out on the town, the first she can remember for centuries.
My favorite of the stories about Loki exploring her female side. She and Lorelei go bar-hopping, things get a bit out of hand, and Lorelei's powers backfire, and it is both a lovely friendship story and deeply tragic, because that's AoA Loki.
Words Will Never Hurt Me by Mythtaken Identity, 62,978, (Gen-ish, some Loki/Leah). Loki may be trying to curb his use of magic, but he still feels drawn to magical artifacts. Few are as powerful as the ancient scroll hidden beneath the desert sand and rumoured to grant power over all of creation, living or dead...if one doesn't mind being the target of a rather nasty curse.
This could have come right out of the comics and is nice and long and will draw you in and then unfairly sucker-punch you. Repeatedly. Until you are crying. If you like that sort of thing this is the sort of thing you will like.
Nothing Changes by PantyDragon, 3572 words, explicit, (Loki/Billy Kaplan). Either Loki grew into this new body on the simple virtues of good genetics or Billy's loneliness got the better of him.
Set during YA, just after Billy aged Loki up - Loki decides to take his new body out for a spin by seducing a reluctant Billy. There are nebulous but foregrounded consent issues, not a fluffy story.
Better than Nothing by PantyDragon, 1264 words, explicit, (Loki/Noh-Varr). If your relationship fails spectacularly, there's always fully-clothed opportunistic New Year's bathroom sex.
Set during the last issue of YA, after Loki and Noh-Varr both get shot down. I am possibly way too fond of Noh-Varr, he's just such a wonderful asshole - Loki's an asshole too but he's fighting a universe's worth of narrative necessity. Noh-Varr's just an ass because why not. They're beautiful together.
The beast you made in me by amberfox17, 4702 words, explicit, (Loki/Thor), Teen Loki crosses a dark!possessed!Thor and proceeds to trick him into doling the punishment Loki knows he deserves.
An AU from the first issue of AoA. Massive and deeply twisted consent issues + Loki being self-destructive + porn, what's not to like.
Wish Fulfillment by Yavannie, 2657 words, explicit, (Loki/Verity Willis). Ever since they hung up the phone, Loki has gone off the grid. Verity is determined to find out why, or at the very least get that dinner he owes her.
Set after AoA #5, this is my favorite of the explicitly shippy Loki/Verity stories. Loki is very very good with his tongue but Verity knows how to handle him.
Guests and Fish by DangerousCommieSubversive, 4561 words, explicit, (Billy Kaplan/Loki/Teddy Altman). Billy and Teddy haven't seen Loki in months, and they definitely weren't expecting to find him knocking on their (seventh-floor) window, covered in blood. Sanctuary for the night is only reasonable.
Loki is like a stray cat who turns up at your window and you feed him and next thing you know he's sleeping between you and your boyfriend. I also really like the slightly-more-grown-up Billy and Teddy we see here.
Non-Alcoholic Revelry by Vitanitas 2616, gen, (Loki/Tony Stark). After all that's happened Loki decides he needs to get away from Asgardia and have a few drinks in space, only to run into a certain armored avenger.
Set while Tony is off having a vacation as a Guardian of the Galaxy. I really like Tony/Loki as a pairing in theory; I wish more of it played up their shared, bone-deep weariness this way this does.
See America Right by reserve, 1863 words, explicit, (Loki/America Chavez.) The first blowjob Loki gives in this new body is an unexpected one.
America makes Loki blow her in a public restroom. If that's not enough to make you want to read this you just can't be helped.
Ready...Fight! by PeachyLana, 5510, explicit, (Loki/America). Loki and America reunite under perfect circumstances.
America kicks Loki through walls, Loki enjoys it, they have sex, Loki is an asshole. Basically everything I want out of stories about these two.
You will notice there is no Sigurd in those recs. That is because there is no Sigurd fic on AO3. At all. ...fandom, write me some Loki/Sigurd fic like, yesterday. HOW CAN YOU RESIST THAT FACE
5. I shall put in for the DW friending meme that
ladyscribe is running, but it totally expects you to be doing the December posting meme. I have too much stuff going on to commit to posting on certain days, but I will borrow isis's weekly variation. So here is your chance to make me talk about a thing, any thing at all. Give me a topic and pick a week and I will try to talk about that topic on my journal at some point during that week. (disclaimers: topics for a given week are cut off after 5; several topics may be combined into one post.)
Week 1: Dec 1-7 : a book you loved that you didn't expect to and why (
the_rck); what are your feelings on Agent of Asgard? (dhampyresa)Week 2: Dec 8-14 : what would be your ideal next canon YA series? (
schneefink); Young Wizards crossovers! Why are they awesome? Can everything be a YW crossover? Discuss. (sineala); Most oddball piece of research done this year - whether it be for work, wrangling, fic or because the brain-weasels attacked ... (aoifes_isle)Week 3: Dec 15-21 : how the MCU compares to comic universe (
chordatesrock); Tell me something (or somethings, if you like) you would like to see more of in the fantasy genre. (alasse_irena); Is there a book/show/movie you've been fully intending to get to this year but find yourself putting off for some reason? (Fear of disappointment, not wanting it to be over--whatever!) (umadoshi)Week 4: Dec 22-28 : could you talk a bit about Their Majesties' Bucketeers? I reread it not too long ago and I'd love to hear about what kind of fic you wish there was, or some meta if you've got it in you. (
fenellaevangela); talk about your writing process (espresso_addict).; perhaps you could talk about The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (redsnake05)6. If you're curious about why I sometimes go a long time between DW posts, my process here was literally: a) I can't post the friend meme comment until I've made the DW post to link to; b) I can't make the DW post until I've made the Tumblr post to link to; c) I can't make the Tumblr post until I have scanned the comics; d) I can't scan the comics until I have dug the scanner out of the pile behind the couch; e) I will deal with the pile behind the couch sometime after hell freezes over.
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(No, I'1l come up with something! Something that isn't Agent of Asgard. I kind of suspected I'd like that one before I read it.)