Tag: my fanfiction

philosopherking1887:

seidrade:

philosopherking1887:

seidrade:

I was recently enamoured by the gorgeous “Whatever is done from love” series by @philosopherking1887 and decided to try my hand at illustrating some images from it. This is just a sketch for a gouache painting but I like how it turned out and thought I would share it first, in case the painting goes sideways!

Inspired by Loki’s early 20th Century travels through the United States, his impeccable taste in Midgardian fashion, and his recent discovery of a remarkable illicit herb, as recounted in the first vignette, “Desert Flowers.”

I’m still undecided as to whether to keep this 1920s ‘do or give him closer to the hair he has in the first Thor film. Open to persuasion!

(I’m also borrowing heavily from the Arrow Shirt Collar ads painted by my favourite 20th Century illustrator, JC Leyendecker— who was secretly gay as hell and managed to slip plenty of queer eyefucking between beautiful, well-dressed men into his commercial work. My man.)

Eeeee, thank you so much!!

You know, it’s entirely plausible that Loki got a haircut for the purposes of blending into 1920s Western Midgard.

I know it wasn’t something you’d put in there, but with that little aside about TH playing F. Scott Fitzgerald, the idea all of a sudden wouldn’t leave me alone? Part of me wonders if Loki would have been pleased that slicked-back hair was all the rage— finally, people who understand style!

Well, I didn’t specify anything about hair length… I didn’t really like his slicked-back hair in “Thor,” but maybe there’s a reasonable explanation in his recent (in relative terms) travels in Midgard.

Ooh, @seidrade, I realized that the reason I like the short hair so much is that it makes him look like Desire from the Sandman comics.

philosopherking1887:

seidrade:

philosopherking1887:

seidrade:

I was recently enamoured by the gorgeous “Whatever is done from love” series by @philosopherking1887 and decided to try my hand at illustrating some images from it. This is just a sketch for a gouache painting but I like how it turned out and thought I would share it first, in case the painting goes sideways!

Inspired by Loki’s early 20th Century travels through the United States, his impeccable taste in Midgardian fashion, and his recent discovery of a remarkable illicit herb, as recounted in the first vignette, “Desert Flowers.”

I’m still undecided as to whether to keep this 1920s ‘do or give him closer to the hair he has in the first Thor film. Open to persuasion!

(I’m also borrowing heavily from the Arrow Shirt Collar ads painted by my favourite 20th Century illustrator, JC Leyendecker— who was secretly gay as hell and managed to slip plenty of queer eyefucking between beautiful, well-dressed men into his commercial work. My man.)

Eeeee, thank you so much!!

You know, it’s entirely plausible that Loki got a haircut for the purposes of blending into 1920s Western Midgard.

I know it wasn’t something you’d put in there, but with that little aside about TH playing F. Scott Fitzgerald, the idea all of a sudden wouldn’t leave me alone? Part of me wonders if Loki would have been pleased that slicked-back hair was all the rage— finally, people who understand style!

Well, I didn’t specify anything about hair length… I didn’t really like his slicked-back hair in “Thor,” but maybe there’s a reasonable explanation in his recent (in relative terms) travels in Midgard.

@darklittlestories, @illwynd, @incredifishface, @lunariagold, @raven-brings-light, @writernotwaiting, just wanted to make sure you all saw this piece of wonderfulness 🙂

seidrade:

philosopherking1887:

seidrade:

I was recently enamoured by the gorgeous “Whatever is done from love” series by @philosopherking1887 and decided to try my hand at illustrating some images from it. This is just a sketch for a gouache painting but I like how it turned out and thought I would share it first, in case the painting goes sideways!

Inspired by Loki’s early 20th Century travels through the United States, his impeccable taste in Midgardian fashion, and his recent discovery of a remarkable illicit herb, as recounted in the first vignette, “Desert Flowers.”

I’m still undecided as to whether to keep this 1920s ‘do or give him closer to the hair he has in the first Thor film. Open to persuasion!

(I’m also borrowing heavily from the Arrow Shirt Collar ads painted by my favourite 20th Century illustrator, JC Leyendecker— who was secretly gay as hell and managed to slip plenty of queer eyefucking between beautiful, well-dressed men into his commercial work. My man.)

Eeeee, thank you so much!!

You know, it’s entirely plausible that Loki got a haircut for the purposes of blending into 1920s Western Midgard.

I know it wasn’t something you’d put in there, but with that little aside about TH playing F. Scott Fitzgerald, the idea all of a sudden wouldn’t leave me alone? Part of me wonders if Loki would have been pleased that slicked-back hair was all the rage— finally, people who understand style!

Well, I didn’t specify anything about hair length… I didn’t really like his slicked-back hair in “Thor,” but maybe there’s a reasonable explanation in his recent (in relative terms) travels in Midgard.

seidrade:

I was recently enamoured by the gorgeous “Whatever is done from love” series by @philosopherking1887 and decided to try my hand at illustrating some images from it. This is just a sketch for a gouache painting but I like how it turned out and thought I would share it first, in case the painting goes sideways!

Inspired by Loki’s early 20th Century travels through the United States, his impeccable taste in Midgardian fashion, and his recent discovery of a remarkable illicit herb, as recounted in the first vignette, “Desert Flowers.”

I’m still undecided as to whether to keep this 1920s ‘do or give him closer to the hair he has in the first Thor film. Open to persuasion!

(I’m also borrowing heavily from the Arrow Shirt Collar ads painted by my favourite 20th Century illustrator, JC Leyendecker— who was secretly gay as hell and managed to slip plenty of queer eyefucking between beautiful, well-dressed men into his commercial work. My man.)

Eeeee, thank you so much!!

You know, it’s entirely plausible that Loki got a haircut for the purposes of blending into 1920s Western Midgard.

From Loki, to Thor

philosopherking1887:

Little mini fic thing I composed mostly in the shower. Partly inspired by @raven-brings-light​‘s very sweet fic Baby It’s Cold Outside; governing metaphor borrowed from @incredifishface​‘s Cocky Boys and Serpent. (All of these fics are highly recommended.)

People like me don’t end up with people like you.

Sure, we may seem confident and sexy. Some of us might be good dressers, or good dancers. Even the restless intelligence might be a turn-on for those it doesn’t frighten away. True, we are a bit prickly – but the sharp wit can be sexy, too; and if it’s hard to get close to us, how much more satisfying and rewarding for those who manage it! But soon enough you realize that “a bit prickly” isn’t the half of it. This isn’t a cactus, full of life-giving water and sweet nourishing flesh for those who can find their way past the needles. No, it’s a dark, dense thicket of brambles in here.

Of course, then you’ll see us as a puzzle; a challenge. How to light a path through the shadowy forest? And how does a person grow into such a thicket in the first place? There must be something behind it, beneath it. There must be a great treasure hidden at the center, a beautiful princess sleeping in a tower; why else would someone grow such a maze of thorns, but to protect something precious? There must be fertile soil here, rich enough to grow a magnificent garden; how else could the brambles grow so thick and so high?

But what if there is nothing at the center of the maze? Does it never occur to you that, if you can see no roses on the thornbushes, brambles might be the only things that grow here? You’ve fallen in love not with the forest itself, but with the princess you imagine you’ll battle your way through to awaken, with the garden you’ll plant once you’ve cleared all these thorns. To a hammer, they say, everything looks like a nail. You are a hero, so there must be a quest, and a reward at its end. You are a blazing torch, so the darkness must be dispelled and the lost treasure found. You yourself are so full of light and purpose that you cannot imagine what it is to be a bleak wilderness, with no aim beyond itself.

If you ever realize it, of course, you’ll leave, to find a quest that might bear fruit. Or maybe you never will realize it, and we will leave instead – because we’ve grown so weary of watching you beat yourself bloody against the unyielding thorns; or because when you imagine that you’re hacking your way through to where our true self is hiding, you’re cutting into our only true self, and the pain is too much to bear. People like me don’t end up with people like you; one of us will eventually give up.

People like me don’t end up with anyone.

You can find more of my (only occasionally) depressing-ass Loki & Thorki fic here.

Someone just found this (somehow) and liked it… I’d completely forgotten that I wrote it. Gotta put this in the “Tumblr Vignettes” collection on AO3…

helenakey:

krakensdottir:

Apparently there is still some argument over whether Loki was tortured/coerced into the actions of The Avengers? And whether there was any mind-scrambling involved?

Well I can see why. I mean…

    • Thanos would never do a thing like that (torture), because he’s surely a nicer guy than Nick Fury who suggests it right off the bat;
    • Loki would totally sign up to assist a much more powerful being in universe-conquering, that’s totally smart and sane and how he rolls, no coercion needed to place himself at the mercy of a cosmic-powered asshole;
    • The Other has clearly never threatened him before, Loki seems to trust it completely and is totally shocked that they don’t have the happiest business arrangement;
    • Loki’s “plan” isn’t reckless or bafflingly stupid or full of holes or in any way uncharacteristic of him at all;
    • It’s not like he has those same dark sleep-deprived circles around his eyes that Barton and Selvig develop;
    • It’s not as if he talks like a madman spouting indoctrinated-sounding nonsense like a freshly converted acolyte;
    • It’s not like even Thor thinks someone is controlling him;
    • Not like Thor and Banner both allude to him clearly being “beyond reason”, i.e. not in his right mind;
    • Not like Loki’s carrying a scepter around most of the film that is shown onscreen to negatively effect the emotions and behavior of people who even stand in a room with it for a short time, and anyway he’d surely be immune to it if he was, being so emotionally stable and not at all vulnerable;
    • Not like mind control is a running theme in this film or anything;
    • Loki’s dialogue in a cut extended scene certainly doesn’t allude to having been “touched” by the same power himself;
    • And of course he appears to be in great health, pallor and sweating and stumbling and lank greasy hair and months’ worth of shadows under his eyes notwithstanding, so it stands to reason he’s A-OK mentally. He’s just evil. For the evulz.

Yes, I can clearly see you’d have to be a hormone-addled bleeding-heart fangirl desperate to redeem the hot villain to see ANYTHING suspect in any of this. Torture, mind control, pfft. When will we learn to stop thinking like that? Logic schmogic, stop using your brains, girls.

I love this meta with my life

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Loki was not “mind controlled” in exactly the same way as Barton and Selvig, which we know because his eyes are definitely not that bright crystalline blue. BUT he’s clearly been threatened, probably tortured, and also quite probably messed with in some way using the Mind Stone. As ever, please see my currently 72,000-word fic for details on how this might have gone down.

Whatever is done from love (Thor/Loki series) – Philosopher_King – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]

I’m sort of borrowing @claricechiarasorcha‘s throwback self-rec idea for the benefit of new (post-Ragnarok) Thorki shippers… but since all of my Thorki fics are connected in a bizarre continuous saga, I’m just updating my summary post again.

The series title is an abbreviation of a Nietzsche quote (obviously, because I’m me), “Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil” (aphorism 153 of, you guessed it, Beyond Good and Evil), which is quoted at the end of “The Tree of Knowledge” and “Winter, Autumn, and Spring.”

Most of the stories stand reasonably well on their own, but the later ones do presuppose and build on the events of the earlier ones, so you’ll have the fullest understanding if you’ve read them as a series. All fics are canon-compliant until “Starting Over,” which was written before Thor: Ragnarok came out and goes in a different direction. (I assume I will write Ragnarok-compliant additions to the series; I guess that one will just have to be a canon-divergent offshoot?)

1. Desert Flowers
“Loki, what are you doing in there? Dissecting a dead skunk?” Loki introduces Thor to marijuana and (finally) gets him to talk philosophy; the conversation goes in a somewhat unexpected direction. “Norns, Loki, the lengths you’ll go to just to win an argument…” [Spoiler alert: they kiss.]
Notes: Rated T, not E, because there’s no sex yet.

2. The Tree of Knowledge
“Loki kissed me. What in Hel was that about? was the first thought that entered Thor’s mind when he woke up. And I kissed him back.” The day after Loki and Thor got stoned together and Loki kissed Thor – purportedly just to prove a philosophical point – Thor looks for an explanation from his evasive brother, and comes to realize that his own feelings for Loki are not what he had thought they were.
Notes: There is sex in this one, but they start slow (just hands). This one is a pretty close follow-on to “Desert,” and wouldn’t make a lot of sense without having read it.

3. The Paradox of Desire
Shortly after they first become lovers, Thor and Loki negotiate some of the details of the relationship. Thor tries to play the older, wiser, protective big brother; Loki isn’t buying it. [Or, the first one in which they discuss the dynamics of topping and bottoming.]
Notes: And now we add mouths to the sex situation. Relatively independent from its predecessors, but does make some references to “Tree.”

4. First Things [in progress]
A reader requested Loki’s first time (with penetrative sex), so here we are. The first try does not go quite as planned, so Thor asks some advice from a friend who happens to work at a brothel and has given him some quality sex advice before.
Notes: Anal sex is the end game, obviously, but in the meantime we get some heavy fingering, intercrural sex, and butt plugs. References mostly to “Paradox.”

5. “Rarely Looks Up, Rarely Loves”
Loki just wants to lie on his bed and read after dinner; Thor has other activities in mind. They arrive at a compromise.
Notes: Just oral sex again. Originally posted as a silly little Tumblr ficlet inspired by some fanart, but it fit into my little canon-compliant universe where Loki is a big Nietzsche fan, and it was long enough, so I gave it its own installment. Depends on nothing else, nothing depends on it.

6. Lovers’ Leap

Hoping to get his anxious, moody brother to relax (for once), Thor looks for advice from Frigga – who spent an adventurous youth in Vanaheim – as to what substances might help. She recommends “lovers’ leaf” (a pun, she thinks, on “lovers’ leap”) which she assures him is not an aphrodisiac, but “approximates the feeling of falling in love—or rushing headlong into love, more like. Giddiness, euphoria, the sense that all is right with the world. It tends to come with loquaciousness and relaxed inhibitions, and often an intense craving for touch. So don’t be alarmed if you find Loki becoming unusually… cuddly.”
Notes: No sex, just naked cuddling. Pretty much entirely independent of the others. Written to a prompt from darklittlestories, who won it in a fic giveaway: “Thor brings Lo some exotic offworld drink/drug that *melts* stressball/buttoned-up!Loki & has ecstasy-esque snuggly (or sexy?) properties and some sort of affection ensues 😀 Loki gets to chill.”

7. Winter, Autumn, and Spring
Ten years before Thor’s coronation, Loki realizes that they’ll no longer be able to hide their affair and decides they have to break it off, after a pre-arranged last night together. Just before the coronation, Loki’s resolve is tested.
Notes: No-holds-barred sex; pretty much everything is involved. Can be read on its own, but does quote from “Tree” and “Paradox” and allude to “Desert.”

8. Fraternizing with the Enemy
Set during Thor: The Dark World. After Thor goes to free Loki from prison and before they rendezvous with their co-conspirators, they revisit what they once were to each other, and try (painfully and indirectly, of course) to figure out what they are to each other now.
Notes: Just your standard anal sex smut. Written before any of its five immediate predecessors in the timeline, so most references are to “Tree.”

9. Starting Over
After the events of Age of Ultron, Thor returns to Asgard to tell his father what he learned from his vision about the Infinity Stones. To his great surprise, Odin tells him he already knows; to his greater surprise, Odin is not really Odin. Thor and Loki have a long-overdue conversation about their past and their future (and more than conversation), and start the work of mending the rift between them.
Notes: Would be pretty standard anal sex smut if they didn’t spend so much time TALKING… The second chapter is pretty closely tied to “Fraternizing,” so I would recommend reading that; there are also some references to “Winter.” Loki’s account of his year in the Void is drawn from my gen fic The Abyss Gazes Also, but everything is fully explained in context so you don’t have to have read that to understand. Chapter 3 contains a vague discussion of BDSM, some very minor bloodplay, and some fun with fruit.

Whatever is done from love (Thor/Loki series) – Philosopher_King – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]