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i think what i should do with the Arranged Marriage AU is post chapter 9 when it's finished but then try and finish the rest of it before posting anything else, as it's getting a bit more complicated in plot after that and i don't want to trap myself by having posted something i can't then change if i need to. so i should just try and get that finished before working on anything else, also then it'd be done and i could stop worrying about it.

#i might have left this plot stuff too late but who cares really it's only fic and i think the readers are 98% here for the porn #also i read that many ppl stop reading once the otp are together in multichapter fic & if it's already written that'd bother me less #also also i don't want it dragging out forever and it's already been like 5 months since i posted the first chapter #fic related

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Multiverse war or no multiverse war I would still die for Sylvie 

#sylki #fan art #loki series

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i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

#i think that absolutely is the reason for much of that sentiment #also even older works that exist fall into obscurity if they aren't still considered “good” and thus worthy of attention #“movies were so much better in the 1950s!” nope it's just that you never see the bad ones unless you seek them out #('Plan 9' and similar things being obvious exceptions whose very rarity of status kind of makes the point) #this is why i'm glad so much older Dr Who survives. so we can all see that they sometimes made shite telly in the 1970s too. #i also wonder about medieval europe being largely reconstructed from “stuff monks were really into so they made copies of it” #like were lay people really that into reading the lives of saints or were those just easier to get hold of &/or more have survived? #there's all that chivalric romance stuff from about the 12th(?) century but even then the shit ones probably didn't survive as long #it bugs me that people go on about shakespeare without reading anything from that period OTHER than his stuff #so i'm unconvinced on whether they *really* understand anything about dramatic conventions of the time from their own experience #you could probably tell actors he invented the word “the” and half of them would later breathlessly praise this genius idea of his #anyway GOOD NEWS there are MANY print copies of shades of grey and harry potter so hopefully the future will be able to judge us for them👍 #history stuff #THE SACRED TEXTS! i mean THE PRIMARY SOURCES! \o/

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thinking about the poll about canon vs non-canon ships that didn't define terms, and the current fandom focus on things "going canon," so i made up a scale.

this is NOT a question about whether canon matters to what you ship (or matters at all), just how to define the phrase "canon ship."

many ships start low on the scale and slow burn their way up, so vote for the point when you would have called them "canon." i agonized over the order (especially #4-6) for a day and a half, but i went with the order in which i think joe random with a nielsen ratings box and no tumblr account would notice/call something a romantic relationship.

#about a 7 for me #where there's clearly some sort of intended romantic/sexual interest (i wavered on the mutal aspect though) even if they never kiss #i've noticed people have started to conflate “canon” and “endgame” with pairings recently for some reason #also as a “fuck the word of god if it's not in the actual text” type i should have a firmer line on what “intent” means but i don't lololol #shipping

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#most of the blorbos in my fics are bi by default #i can't claim it as “good bi rep” tho as it's mostly to increase my options when multishipping my problematic faves #the non-problematic ones are bi too obviously

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i am not a historian but i like to think i'd appreciate this meme if i was:

#history fandom #also some people seem to have committed to writing biographies of historical figures before checking if we have Enough Facts #including but not limited to elizabteth norton's one about jane seymour #(“see more? if only we could!” *ba-dum-tish*) #& i am probably giving up on Jeanette Lucraft's Katherine Swynford book cos it's okay but struggling a bit for this reason #tip: check reviews to see if readers complain about a short work that goes off on weird tangents that don't seem related to the topic #don't get me wrong i do enjoy a good semi-relevant aside but that puts more pressure on the author to know the period rly well

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bucky has a disability??

he doesn’t have an arm.

#classic post

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#skience!

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Elementary as textposts part 4/?

#elementasquee #joanlock

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M*A*S*H | 1.14 - "Love Story"

#“ahh bach!” #m*a*s*h

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I like your Thor meta. Do you think Thor was abusive to Loki in Ragnarok?

Thank you so much anon! So I wanna preface this by saying I did really like ragnarok. I did think parts of it seemed ooc and didn’t feel the same as the two og Thor movies, but it made me laugh and that’s all I can really ask from a marvel movie tbh.

So to answer your question, tentatively no. I don’t think Thor was abusive to Loki in ragnarok and while parts of their relationship/the way they act with each other was exaggerated/flanderized, I don’t think that he was abusive. My reasoning is under the cut because this got longer than I thought LOL

The first thing I see that around ragnarok that frames Thor as abusive is the heightened use of violence towards each other (eg thor throws things at Loki, aims mjolnir at him). While this dynamic isn’t present in the previous movies, it’s also matched via Loki’s actions (eg stabbing Thor in the snake incident, not helping Thor when he’s forced to fight in the arena). Additionally, it doesn’t seem like these thing actually affect/hurt Loki in any way. In avengers 1, Loki literally dropped Thor off the helicarrier (idk if the name is right, I haven’t seen the movie in so long) and stabs Thor, and it’s not like these things severely injure Thor in any way. If we frame Thor’s actions as abuse, we must also frame Loki’s actions as abuse as well. (To all of you that are like “Loki was under mind control”, 1) intention does not change the action, he still gets hurt and 2) even after he’s released from the mind control, he never bothers to apologize)

Secondly, I see people talk about that scene in the tunnel where Loki attempts to reach out to Thor and he doesn’t bother to engage, and personally, I see that as very reasonable. Thor asks if Loki is actually there, sees that he isn’t, and that shapes the entire interaction from there on. In Thor’s pov, Loki hasn’t even bothered to visit him in person. Additionally, it hasn’t even been a day since their father died, which Thor directly thinks Loki is responsible for (rightfully so, since Loki has exiled Odin for years, perhaps making any condition he has worse and unmonitored). Thor does not believe that Loki is reaching out for real. Loki isn’t even reaching out to help him get back to Asgard and stop Hela. Whether or not Loki is genuine in his attempts to connect with Thor, Thor doesn’t believe him, and he has no reason to either.

Besides this, Thor explicitly brings what he’s mad about.

“What would you like me to say? You faked your own death, you stole the throne, stripped Odin of his power, stranded him on Earth… to die, releasing the Goddess of Death.”

Whether or not Loki is responsible for all that, Thor is allowed to be angry. And he’s allowed to act like that. And when he does, Loki gets angry in return and tells him that he hopes he gets hurt in the fight tomorrow. Both of their words here are childish. But only Thor is called abusive? For having a human response to a very complicated situation involving lots of feelings?

When Thor does try and talk to Loki, he does not actually communicate either. He explicitly distances himself by telling Thor that it’s better if he stays on Sakaar. Which brings us to the elevator scene and what comes next:

This is the part that I see the most meta about how Thor is abusive and is manipulative. And honestly, I think while he might be hoping that the reverse psychology works, I don’t think he explicitly tries to manipulate Loki into doing anything.

To me, I think at this point, Thor sees that Loki is trying to bait him into an argument and does not want to indulge that. Loki is the one who tells Thor that Odin’s death will bring them apart. Loki is the one who says he wants to stay on Sakaar. Thor can see that Loki wants Thor to beg him to come back/help him. And he doesn’t want to fall into that same pattern. Thor is right, it is unhealthy, and it’s not one that suits either one of them. Loki is trying to remove himself from the relationship and Thor lets him. It’s not abusive or manipulative, I see it as a genuine moment where Thor tells Loki that he loves him (aka the thought the world of you comment) but he’s not willing to engage in the same dynamic anymore.

And finally, there’s that obedience disk thing. Which, honestly, seeing as Loki was about to betray Thor and sell him out, is not the worst thing Thor could have done. I don’t think that it affects Loki that much, because he does show up looking fine in the end. I’m not saying it’s not a dick move of Thor to electrocute his brother. I’m saying, in context, Thor could have easily killed him to stop him from betraying him. And he doesn’t.

(Also l see the get help scene called abusive because apparently Thor not listening to Loki about whether he wants to do it is abusive? 1) it’s a comedy scene and 2) he does say “do you have a better idea”)

Idk I think that Loki and Thor have a complex dynamic that wasn’t translated great in ragnarok. But I don’t think it was abusive. I think that, yes Thor does act childishly in certain scenes and if he was thinking rationally, he could/should have realized that it wasn’t Loki’s fault that hela was unleashed. But this is not the first time an odinsib has blamed the other instead of their parents (aka Loki blaming Thor about the whole jotun thing instead which is its own discussion).

Again, obv u can have your own ideas and if theres something I missed that you want me to discuss def lmk!

#thor ragnarok #i feel the question of “do they believe they can actually physically harm the other?” is important and in T:R the answer is “probably not” #thor's tale of the stabbing doesn't sound like he thought it was a murder attempt #& the danger of the obedience disk isn't death by electrocution it's death by being left behind at the mercy of angry jeff goldblum #i'm still not convinced by the avengers mind control theory btw. or at the very least thor doesn't know about it and reacts accordingly. #i think it's kind of interesting that the MCU brodinson dynamic is Being Enemies and it doesn't quite know what else to do with them? #there's a bit of me that thinks movies!loki was doomed in the next movie even if i'd have expected him to last longer than 5 minutes #(“that's what she said lolololol”) #brodinsons

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you ever killed your own vibe by thinking too much

#i wish i had the skill / to stop my thinking / concentrate each breath / to make sure that it's done / it's not instinctive #(anyone who recognised that lyric is now married to me jsyk)

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#loki series #femslash #fan art

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12-hr update: wrote 50 words

gotta write fic today, shall aim to get chapter 9 of the Arranged Marriage AU done i think then i can relax for another week or so until the lurking task creeps up again.

#fic related #the sylki arranged marriage au

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- Fanart -

⑆ Little Cartoon from the movie "Thor: Ragnarok "

Follow me on Instagram ^^ : i.just.feel.you_

#brodinsons #i don't speak french but i do speak SHOCKING BETRAYAL #thor just wants to pet snakes let him pet snakes :'(

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#mostly non-canon with some canon #had to think about that for a moment because it's not how i primarily categorise pairings in my head #also the “what is canon?” question complicates things #but regardless of anything else more non-canon pairings *exist* and i tend to multiship based on 1-2 blorbos per fandom so... #fandom & fanfiction &tc #polls #shipping

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Reblog for larger sample size. Feel free to indicate in the comments your generation, approximate region of residence, your length of experience with fan fiction, or when/where you first encountered these terms.

#i was never actually in a fandom that used those terms but yeah they're something to do with the porniness level i know that much #i used to think this was an anime fandoms thing but now i'm thinking maybe it was an ff.net thing (possibly as well as)? #where i was we just used the US movie ratings system (OF COURSE it was the US system because where else even exists??) #fandom