philosopherking1887:

I was tagged by @loxxxlay and @wnnbdarklord… probably about 2 weeks ago, but I’ve been procrastinating because this is actually the kind of thing that requires some thought. But I’m finally doing it because who would pass up an opportunity to rec their own work?

Hello, you have been identified as An Awesome Fic Writer™. Congrats, you rock! So that all of your readers can shower you with some extra love today, please tell us your favourite five stories of yours and why you like them and then send this to another five fic authors you think deserve this title!

1. The Abyss Gazes Also (gen; Loki in the Void / Loki & Thanos fic, a.k.a. WTF happened to Loki between Thor 1 and The Avengers?)

This fic isn’t my favorite for the writing quality, which I’ll admit is pretty uneven, but because it’s the longest thing I’ve ever written (at 72k words, it’s longer than my dissertation); it’s the first fic I started writing when I got back into fanfiction in 2015, after 10 years’ hiatus; and it’s the fic that I’ve put the most thought into. It’s also been one of the most frustrating, both because I have trouble writing plot – introspection and conversations are where I’m most comfortable – and because nobody’s fucking reading it. (OK, not nobody, but very few people.) It’s especially frustrating when I see people on Tumblr complaining about the lack of Loki-in-the-Void fic that isn’t straight-up torture porn (hello!), or spitballing half-formed theories about what happened with Thanos, and I’m like, I have thought about this extensively! Here are my extensive thoughts! Yes, they are in fic form, and I don’t really want to rehash them in meta. I will say, though, that the few people who have read it have been very enthusiastic, and a remarkable number of the comments are people saying they’ve made it their headcanon about what happened, which is an incredible vote of confidence. Perhaps one of the things that makes me proudest is that the enthusiastic readers are split between people who would consider themselves “Loki stans/apologists” and Thorki or Thor&Loki fans who get annoyed about said Loki stans/apologists trying to absolve Loki of all blame. The fact that people in both camps like my fic indicates that I’ve come up with an account that assigns Loki just the right amount of culpability: he’s not completely innocent, but there are some major extenuating circumstances. (And maybe the two camps don’t actually disagree as much as they think they do… it may be mostly a matter of emphasis and group membership signaling.)

2. Desert Flowers (very mild Thorki; Thor and Loki get high and talk philosophy)

This is my first Thorki fic, written before I was really committed to shipping it, but it ended up kicking off my now 12-fic Thorki series Whatever is done from love. The funniest thing about this fic is that it started as a crack idea: what would happen if Loki got Thor stoned and then tried to get him to talk about philosophy? But then I took it entirely too seriously, thinking about when and where Loki would have gotten marijuana, and then suddenly it veered into issues of racism and morality and I really started thinking about Loki’s Jewish coding in Marvel media. And there are Nietzsche quotes, of course.

3. The Tree of Knowledge (full-on Thorki, immediately follows “DF”)

This is my first fully committed Thorki fic, with actual sex. I also think it’s probably my most consistently well-written fic. It seemed to flow more quickly and easily than most of my other fics; parts of it were fully formed in my head before I committed it to electronic paper.

4. Winter, Autumn, and Spring (Thorki porn with feelings; 10 years before Thor’s coronation, Loki tells him they need to end their affair)

I have kind of mixed feelings about this fic because the writing is sometimes on the florid side, but a lot of my Thorki readers say it’s their favorite. And I think it’s also one of my more original ideas. In the realm of canon-compliant fic, there’s a lot of first-time pre-canon Thorki out there, a lot of TDW prison sex, imagined reunions before Ragnarok came out, post-Ragnarok “where did that ‘I’m here’ scene go?” or “married life” on the Ark… but as far as I know, I’m the only one who’s written a fic bridging the gap between pre-canon Thorki and the tense, semi-hostile situation between them as the first Thor movie begins. And I think I did a reasonable job making it plausible, if I may say so.

5. The Third Time (gen; Loki dies for real in some vaguely described speculative version of Ragnarok, he and Thor have a last conversation)

This is the first fic I posted on AO3 (though I had started working on “Abyss” beforehand), and like “The Tree of Knowledge,” I think it’s one of my best-written. It’s more concise and precisely worded than most of my other fics, probably because I had it almost entirely formulated in my head before I wrote it down: it was worn smooth over the course of many showers, like a river pebble. I wish Loki’s actual movie death had permitted him as much dignity.

Tagging 5 people who have probably already been tagged, but I’m too lazy to go digging through your blogs to verify: @darklittlestories, @ghostxforest, @illwynd, @incredifishface, @rynfinity

It’s probably tacky to reblog this, but I did put some thought into it… and also I’m not confident that some of the people I tagged actually saw it. Why does Tumblr keep fucking up with the tag notifications…?

ao3tagoftheday:

ao3tagoftheday:

[Image Description: Tags reading “I hope you like commas, comma comma comma comma comma chameleon”]

The AO3 Tag of the Day is: Someone please draw me a comma chameleon

I will now present a list of all the comma chameleons I have received, with my comments.

@bow-ties-and-daydreams made this:

A beautiful boy, but his horns are so scary! He might hurt someone! 9/10

@spreadyourwings-likeicarusdid made this:

This chameleon knows things. Secrets. See how she stares at you? She sees your soul. She knows. 10/10

@thequeenofrelax made this:

A hunter! Truly powerful. And such a great head! 10/10

@drawings-of-the-woods made this:

A good boy. Very sweet, polite, with nice freckles, but I’m worried that being scrunched up like that might hurt his back. 9/10

@polk-a-dop made this:

Ze’s so wriggly! Don’t you just want to kiss hir fuzzy head!? 10/10

@jam-jar-draws made this:

Her name is Oxford and she’s my best friend. 11/10

@veiledindevotions made this:

A bold, fresh reimagining of the concept. Creative! Gutsy! Unfortunately, there’s no grammatical reason to have a comma after the phrase “weird tag” when it’s not being used in a sentence. 9/10

@fangirlasocial made this:

This baby is still learning how to chameleon, but is trying! So hard! So proud of him! 100/10

@bb-908 made this:

It’s made of commas. It’s made of commas?!?! IT’S MADE!!! OF COMMAS!!! ∞/10

Thanks, everyone!

Angst 23 :P

wouldyouknowmore:

Prompt: “Look me in the eye and tell me you love me.”

[prompts here]

Modern AU, sfw

Loki has nearly finished stuffing the contents of his closet into a bag when he hears the front door, and his stomach lurches once again. He’d meant to be gone by the time Thor got home, but obviously that isn’t happening now.

“Loki?” his brother shouts down the hall, but his tone gives no hint of whether Loki is about to have his ass beaten, or worse, if he’s about to receive some sort of sad, pitying look.

For the thousandth time in the last hour, he curses himself and that one stupid, misdirected text.

“Loki, where—oh,” Thor says from his bedroom door, and, oh look. Pity and regret it is… until Thor realizes that he’s packing, that is, and puts on his I’m-older-than-you-and-therefore-in-charge face, asking, “What do you think you’re doing?”

“What’s it look like?” Loki mutters. He can come back for the rest later, he decides, and pulls the strap of his bag up over his shoulder. Thor’s halfway blocking his exit, but Loki has always been faster than him, and he slips by before Thor can do more than glare at him.

“Hey!”

He should’ve run for the door, though, because Thor ducks through the kitchen and cuts him off, and then it’s all 6-foot-3 of his brother’s considerable mass between him and the way out of this mess and their shared apartment.

“So that’s it?” Thor demands. “You’re leaving? You aren’t even going to talk to me?”

He’d rather not, thanks.

“You know I have to,” Loki says instead.

“Why? Because you’re in love with me?”

Loki can’t help but wince at hearing it out loud.

“Can you even admit it, Loki? Go on, look me in the eye and tell me you love me. Say it, and I’ll move.”

Thor’s staring him down, jaw set, and just for a moment, Loki hates him for this. It’s only superficial, he knows, and that’s part of his problem. But if that’s what it takes…

He might as well do it properly, he thinks, meeting Thor’s gaze and steeling himself. “I love you, Thor,” he says, as steadily as he can, “and I’m sorry for that. Now get out of the way.”

Thor nods once, and says, “No.”

Perhaps Loki was mistaken. Maybe he really does hate him after all, he thinks.

“You said you’d let me go!” he complains, and Thor shakes his head.

“No, I said I would move.”

And then he does—forward, to take Loki’s face in his hands and bring their lips together.

When they part, Loki’s glad that Thor still has ahold of him, since the room suddenly seems to be spinning. But then Thor speaks up, a blinding grin on his face.

“You’re an idiot,” he says… and that confirms it.

“I definitely hate you.”

Thor just smiles wider, and kisses him again.

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starrynight35:

ladytron2000:

zerofucksclub:

3. Chris Hemsworth: Thor
Honestly, there is one reason and one reason alone that Chris Hemsworth as Thor ranks so high. And that one reason can be broken down into three words: ‘90s hair tendrils. So bad, but so, so good.

But honestly a lot of Chris Hemsworth’s attractiveness in Thor is a direct result of Tom Hiddleston’s attractiveness wafting through the air on set and infecting everyone. So does it really even count? IDK, life is confusing and I don’t have all the answers.

honest analysis.

Damn right

Also his acting ability… though there was only so far that could take him.

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marty-mc:

“You will tell me why,” Thor snarls down at him, fingers flexing on his axe-shaft, looming over Loki’s kneeling form like the old gods he clings to, gory and huge and terrible.

“I am a King,” he replies, baring his blood-stained teeth in a feral grin. “Kings do not share.”

Our Kingdom Come by amberfox17 , another collaboration between us inspired by the last episode of Vikings, “Eye for an Eye”.  

awesome-everyday:

cyanhyena:

pika-brew:

mrv3000:

sonneillonv:

underhuntressmoon:

voidbat:

explainervideo:

What happens to cats in zero gravity ?   more educational gifs«

OH GOD THOSE POOR BABIES i am sobbing i am laughing so hard

In the last pic the cat is all “oh thank god I found ground NO WAIT COME BACK GROUND”

THOSE POOR BABIES OMG WHY AM I LAUGHING AT THIS

Astronaut: We need to fund 1.4 billion dollars.
NASA: FOR WHAT?!
Astronaut: We want to put kitties in space and have them float around in zero gravity.
NASA: Here is all the money. God bless.

Those cats are just ?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!

The most confused cats in the history of everything.