I commissioned @kingloptr to illustrate a scene from the first fic in my Thorki series, “Desert Flowers.” I’m feeling really good about my spending decisions right now.
Is it a problem with my Tumblr, or are the notes invisible for everyone? I’m wondering if I should try making the post again and see if it works better…
I commissioned @kingloptr to illustrate a scene from the first fic in my Thorki series, “Desert Flowers.” I’m feeling really good about my spending decisions right now.
The relevant scene is excerpted under the cut.
“Let’s take a concrete example.” Loki’s smile still looked hungry, but it wasn’t the predatory hunger it had shown just a moment ago. “Every society that we might consider advanced by any criteria—technological or cultural—has had a taboo against incest. But what makes us think that it is really, truly morally wrong?”
Thor’s breath caught. “Well, it certainly makes sense—children born of incestuous unions, especially several generations of them, are more likely to be born with deformities, or congenital diseases…”
“All right, but what if precautions were taken to prevent conception? Or—what about relations between family members of the same sex?”
Thor felt his heart beating faster, and its erratic thumping seemed to be located nearer his throat than usual. He was frozen in place as Loki stood, walked deliberately around the table, and leaned over Thor’s chair, his fists resting on its arms. Thor knew what he was going to do, and something in his brain screamed wrong, but he also couldn’t bring himself to move. Loki rested one knee on the seat of the chair, his leg brushing lightly against Thor’s; then he leaned forward and pressed his lips against his brother’s. For reasons he didn’t want to think about, Thor found his mouth opening under Loki’s, letting in the questing tip of his tongue, meeting it with his own. Loki’s movements were a bit clumsy—Thor had reason to think he had never really done this before—but his smell was heady, at once deeply familiar and utterly new, and his tongue tasted of ash and honey and something undefinable.
Finally Loki pulled away, much too soon and not nearly soon enough, and grinned down at Thor’s shocked expression. He had wanted to do that for ages, but he could never think of a pretext; and what better than the influence of foreign drugs, combined with the desire to prove a point? Well, he had answered one question about himself: he was not completely uninterested in the pleasures of the flesh; he only wanted the one person he could never have. The one person he wanted to have because he was everything Loki could never be: all easy, open warmth, guileless joy, effortless strength; the sun shining through stormclouds, made flesh.
“Well, Thor? Did the earth cry out against us? Has the sky fallen around our ears?”
“No, but—” Thor tried to gather his scattered wits. He had no idea what that was about, but figured it was safest to treat it as a joke. “Norns, Loki, the lengths you’ll go to just to win an argument…”
‘Just’? Loki thought. Well, if it comforted Thor to think so, let him. “No, but…?”
“But it still felt… wrong.”
Loki pushed away from Thor’s chair, stood upright, and folded his arms. He felt stung, unexpectedly, but was quick to hide it behind his air of arch playfulness. “Wrong how? Did you feel outrage? Indignation? Or something more like… disgust?”
Thor paused, unsure what to say. Disgust was not the word he would have chosen, but… it had felt something like nausea. Or that adrenaline-intoxicated point where nausea and hunger meet.
Loki took his silence as an answer. “And that, brother, is the power of the morality of mores—of custom. You can’t think of a reason why it was wrong; no one was harmed, no one’s rights violated. But custom tells you it was wrong: something we just don’t do. And your reaction—disgust, not indignation—was fundamentally an aesthetic one.”
Thor shook his head, trying to banish the feeling of Loki’s lips on his, the memory of his newly novel smell. “I think I lost track of what point you were making.”
Loki sat down again in his own chair, picked up his long-forgotten mead goblet, and took a sip. “The point, Thor, is that morality has been half aesthetic—or more than half—for all of history, and long before.”
Glazed by @darklittlestories is a bit of dirty fun that could also fit into the pre-canon verse as well.
I do enjoy writing AUs, but I also have multiple stories set in the movie-verse.
And thanks again! I’m amazed that someone is looking for canon-compliant fic. I guess it’s my lucky day! I don’t read Hiddlesworth either, but I can contribute some more Thorki recs:
Loki Really Wants To Bang His Brother AU, a series by @karuvapatta, in spite of the name is not really an AU, except insofar as the Thor/Loki premise itself is not canon-compliant. It all takes place within the canon universe, though I suppose the ending isn’t Ragnarok-compliant… well, that’s going to be the case with a lot of existing Thorki fic.
@illwynd has a few that are (more or less) canon-compliant, including Playing the Part (I might be able to put that in the fluffy rec list, believe it or not) and I Remember a Shadow (warning: darkness ahead).
I’ve also got a bunch on my bookmark list that are canon-divergent (i.e., they suppose that something went differently than it did in canon) but still take place in the world of canon rather than an AU. Anon can decide whether they count as sufficiently canon-compliant. They include:
The Unnamed Days by @claricechiarasorcha (one of the things I like best about this one is that it gives Jane a significant role to play and does her voice well)
Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Loki/Thor Characters: Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel) Additional Tags: Fuck Or Die, kind of, Public Sex, Anal Sex, Sibling Incest, Post-Ragnarok, Not Serious, pretty silly, dramady, Fist Fights, Sibling Rivalry, Bickering, Insults, Loki gets offended at the weirdest shit, Some feels, Fight Sex, Angry Sex, although not really, they’re just a couple of assholes ok, they love each other but they’re assholes Summary:
The Asgardians’ ship stops for supplies. The price is not what Thor and Loki had expected; the aliens demand nothing less than a public royal fucking.
Ok, it’s not like it’s the weirdest thing they’ve ever done.
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.
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.
…you know, I figured that, as new
people come to the pairing via Ragnarok, that it would be good for those of us who came before
to do a self rec! Just four or five fics of our own that we’re
particularly proud of, or that we’d just like to share; there’s been so
many wonderful fics over the years, and this is an easy way of
bringing some back. ❤ Please tag me if you do it too, I’d love to
revisit/discover fics!
The
wedding trick fic that haunted me from the moment I first saw the
prompt, in which Thor and Loki get “fake married” via very old magics
only to discover that strangely, the clause against blood relation
doesn’t quite apply to them…
Thor discovers something unexpected about Loki – and in turn, discovers something even more unexpected about himself. (Specifically bottom!Thor as requested by @thorduna, because lord knows we always need more of that.)
A series of two fics (The Fools We Are As Men andWhat the Thunder Said) that begins with what appears to be a straight-forward fuck-or-die fic, but then promptly turned into an epic monster. And it’s always @sexualthorientation who reminds me of the good things about the latter fic, though the former will always be one of my favourite things I’ve written.)
Otherwise known as the glowdick!fic, a story that starts out as the purest of crack but then turns into something…considerably deeper. In all sorts of ways.
In which Jane, Thor, and then Loki get to tell their parts of the story in a post-TDW fix-it fic involving the infinity stones.
Also, you can always find me on this tumblr, or at twitter here. ❤ The twitter tends to be mostly kylux stuff, but I flit around various pairings as I see fit, ha.
ETA: if you’re into gladiator!Thor, I do keep meaning to get back into this AU fic, too; feel free to kick me into writing it again! (The King and I)
Loki is the Philosopher King 