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[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

What's Loki's relationship like with each of the other Guardians? Feel free to rant, I can't get enough of them anyway 😆

oh holy shit they finally added a readmore button on mobile 🙌

okay so. going one at a time:

loki and peter's bromance has gotten the most screentime so i don't need to delve super deep into it here, but like, in my head, peter is basically the guardians' tendency to adopt strays all condensed into one person. he's the entire reason they're like this. i've said this before but i never intended for ohtmb to become a full length story, let alone a series, until peter grabbed loki by the arm, looked me in the eye, and said "this is my friend now. no take backs" and he just??? made him a guardian of the galaxy???? meanwhile loki is completely stunned that anyone other than his brother might genuinely want him around. hell, he barely believes that thor does! and peter keeps proving, over and over again, that he likes loki and he wants him to be a part of the team. (it's worth mentioning that between being a thousand years old and the magic powers, peter just thinks loki is so goddamn cool. loki does not know this.) that initial invite -- "i'm not a part of your team" "yeah, but you could be" -- that was the first time anyone other than thor asked him to stick around, it was the first itsy bitsy crack in loki's armor, and that kind of thing sticks with loki for a while. also, as evidenced by the frost giant reveal, peter is the guardian that loki is most likely to turn to first, mostly because he has the excuse of, like, y'know, he's the captain. of course i'd go to him first no it's not because he's my best friend shut up

for gamora, in my universe loki didn't know she was the daughter of thanos until later - she was already taking every excuse she could find to be away from thanos by the time loki fell into his hands, so ohtmb is genuinely the first time he ever sees her. he was a little miffed that she hid that from him, but like, who is he to judge people for keeping secrets? gamora was the second person to invite him to join the guardians, which was the first time he actually started to believe they might mean it, and she was the first person to offer him genuine advice on how to move forward after thanos. loki deeply, deeply respects her. she's definitely the guardian whose opinion he values the most.

i've said this before, but i love to think of nebula and loki's relationship as basically ron swanson's "i once worked with a man for three years and never learned his name. one of the best friends i ever had." they do not talk about their feelings they do not talk about their traumas they barely even TALK except to ocassionally ask if the other one wants to spar, and yet. and yet. they get each other so well. loki's almost on a level with gamora in terms of understanding nebula, and in some ways he even relates to her *more* than gamora does. he will never ever ever say this out loud because he likes keeping his insides on the inside. either way, nebula is the easiest one for him to quietly share space with. they're both bringing that "i can just be in the same room and that counts as hanging out" antisocial cat energy to the table

now, mantis! loki is, like every single other guardian, extremely protective over mantis. she has that sort of childlike innocence that none of the others (except for groot, the actual child) have, despite her having a whole heaping pile of traumas to rival everyone else's. and all of them, loki included, knew her for just a few days before they were like "i guess i have a baby sister now" and they never questioned it. the empathy throws another curveball in there: loki is so unbelievably guarded all the time, and being anywhere near mantis is deeply unsettling at first. no one is allowed to know what he's really feeling! and obviously he learns to trust her eventually, enough that touching her is done with barely a thought anymore, but a part of him also recognizes that it's.... kind of a relief? he's spent so long hiding and lying and keeping his feelings under wraps that it's become a very difficult habit to break, even when he wants to. mantis helps him get around that without actually having to do anything. (she can sense that and is very pleased by it. she likes helping her friends, and it's always a relief for her when her abilities can be used for something good.)

drax is a fantastic exercise in loki shedding some of that high-and-mighty attitude because he's been forced to recognize that someone lacking intelligence (or at least the kind of intelligence he's used to) can still hold a lot of value anyway. drax gently getting information out of that little kid while loki's in the background like ????? was so important to me. he's smart in a way that loki could very easily dismiss, and not too long ago he probably would have, but he doesn't. also, drax was loki's first encounter with genuinely wanting to help someone when it had no benefit for himself, just wanting to save them, and then not being able to. he still feels some kinda way about drax losing his leg. anyway, he and drax get along shockingly easily on a day-to-day basis, mostly because even when loki does bring out the barbs and say something nasty, 99% of the time it goes over drax's head and loki doesn't even have to bother feeling bad about it.

oh, groot. groot groot groot. loki absolutely loves being the fun uncle who's constantly helping this kid break rules. if someone tells groot he's eating too much candy and he's gonna make himself sick, loki will magic some into his room because come on, fuck the system, and besides, if he gets sick, he gets sick! then he'll eat less candy anyway. (he firmly believes he is the only one who does things like this for groot. he is incorrect.) there is also a part of him, a part that he doesn't let himself dwell on, that recognizes that groot is the only one among them all with a lifespan even approaching loki's. again, he doesn't let himself think about that very much, but the thought's... there. he'll address it eventually, maybe.

okay so you know that trope of, like, constantly bickering friends who you swear must hate each other but then the minute shit goes down and they need to work together it's like OH. oh i see. they're exactly the same brand of insane, that's why they're friends. that's loki and rocket. they're always either furious with each other and at each other's throats, or they're in cahoots and everyone else needs to start running. (side note: if loki was around for the gotg3 plot he would have gone the classic survivalist route a la hela, being like "no we CAN'T fight the high evolutionary he's too powerful and we will all die, we'll find some other way to help rocket" right up until he sees what the high evolutionary actually did and then he's just like. hm. okay. i am going to turn all of his internal organs into snakes or die trying. how fast can we get there)

last but certainly not least: loki didn't know what to make of kraglin at first, since they barely interacted outside of loki knocking him out that one time, but he knows that for some reason he's sort of unexpectedly... comfortable? around kraglin? like it's just easy to be around the guy. he doesn't know why, they've barely even spoken to each other. but then one day they got very, very, very drunk together by accident on a foreign planet when they were between missions, and kraglin awkwardly held his hair up while he puked into a trashcan and then he started filling the silence with some dumb stories from when peter was a little kid, and loki had this drunken moment of clarity like "ohhh. he's a big brother. that's why it's easy to be around him" and he absolutely 100% never revisits that thought while sober.

anyway, that's everyone! i love this dumb giant space family! thanks for the ask, this was a fun one to answer, and as you can see i took the "feel free to rant" very literally ;D

#exceleo #sam answers stuff #ohtmb

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-gamoras camera roll

from @iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid 's ohtmb series its amazing 🥺

#OK SO FR I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO BRING THIS DRAWING TO LIFE FOR LIKE 2 YEARS SINCE I FIRST READ IT #IVE FINALLY BEEN ABLE TO DRAW THIS SCENE #sam ur series is so cool im... thank u so much for this sick content #loki #loki laufeyson #loki odinson #loki fanart #marvel fanart #mantis #gotg #groot #rocket raccoon #drax #kraglin obfonteri #guardians of the galaxy #gotg fanart #ohtmb #my art

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@iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid in anmanl since it doesn’t follow canon have gamora and peter said i love you yet?? since i’m assuming their first time saying it was infinity war but since ohtmb is like an alternate... have they or have they not said it yet?

this is a very important question to me

#anmanl #starmora #ohtmb #i jus gotta know if youre gonna write that scene #or if like its already happened before ohtmb

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A scene from Ain’t No Magic Ain’t No Lie by @iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid A storyboarding pro I am not.

This scene, and the build-up to it was so good 👌 highly recommend just reading through the entire series if you haven’t already. Although I hope you already have or else this’d be spoilers 😅

I tried to time it about as fast as I imagined they would speak normally, but it might be a little too fast for reading… it’d probably work better with audio

#OHTMB #anmanl #fanart #fic recs #please don’t be mad that I censored the swears 🙏 I wanted to show it to certain people without them glaring at me… #I feel like if this were boards for live action there’d be less character acting drawn in #and if it were for animation it probably should have more. So this is the middle ground I guess #started this in January got overwhelmed and then finished it months later 🥲 #I miss these two 💛 reading this fic however long ago it was was what got me started back up on fanart and fanfics #in hindsight I probably should’ve put a tiny bit of a background in. And varied the shots a bit more #it’s a lot of middle closeups #but the point was the emotions…so… #oh also I added the head pat because even though it wasn’t written in I thought it’d be cute??? #thank you for writing such a good fic! #Procreate says the tracked time on this was 18 1/2 hours #which actually makes me feel better about it 🤔

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

WAKE UP BABE NEW INFINITE MONKEYS OHTMB FIC JUST DROPPED

#and it's a CHRISTMAS SPECIALLLLL #y'all i'm absolutely obsessed with this #this series goes unupdated for over a year and then i post a oneshot and so does IM in the same week #YOU get an ohtmb fic! YOU get an ohtmb fic! #ohtmb

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

Got bored yesterday. Made a Loki & Guardians playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Cupm477XDHzfEcpoc9CLA?si=16YKR6s3S-qrRAjT6_j4bg

oh i'm two songs in and already obsessed, HOW did i never think to add billy joel's the stranger it's perfect

#ohhh i wish i saw this before getting in the car for a half hour drive #bro having ''we're gonna be friends'' on it like HELLO 😭 #IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT BY NOEL GALLASHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS? #obsessed with this actually #exceleo #sam answers stuff #ohtmb

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

Hello! I'm the person who asked if you were okay with printing ff! My best friend Natalie's birthday is very soon so I thought I'd show you the book now that it's finished :D (Please ignore my ugly carpet, my desk is a mess ^^) -Elias

HELLO THAT'S SO COOL???

#this just made my whole week i'm 🥰 #loving the artwork too!!! my god people are so cool and talented #ohtmb #sam answers stuff #riccochetwhispers

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

is there any possibility of you bringing valkyrie into the ohtmb series for even a small part? her and gamora can be sword wives

AHH you're right she and gamora would vibe so well, i wanted so badly for them to interact in infinity war (you know, back when i thought valkyrie would actually be in infinity war but i digress)

as for ohtmb - as much as i love val, the only plan i have for her (so far!) in the ohtmb series is a brief cameo at the "grandpa quill throws a barbecue" oneshot, where she's very much in the background, mostly because the cast is already so damn huge lol

HOWEVER i am making a lot of progress on the revengers series lately, so there will be more valkyrie content coming either way :)

#speaking of my favorite mcu ladies meeting gamora in the ohtmb series i DO have an idea for B-15 #jury's out on whether that will happen though #anon #sam answers stuff #ohtmb

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

yes i know it's loki's show and of course i of all people can (and will) appreciate some good lokey content, and like, it doesn't HAVE to involve thor, but regardless, my dumb ass is still holding out for an appearance from thor at some point in this show. brother's hug? can i please get a brother's hug?

OR, if they really wanna tap into my brain here and make me specifically very happy, we'd get an appearance from sylvie's thor

#me #it's like: i wrote a whole series in which loki is a main character and thor hardly ever appears #but the difference is they RECONCILED FIRST #in the show i'm sitting here vibrating at the thought of how gutwrenching a thor appearance would be #in ohtmb it would just be like ''hey thor's here. what's up man'' #in loki it would be like. instantly the most emotional shit you've ever seen in your life #the loki show

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

it's been years since ragnarok came out and i still refuse to let loki beat the "he fucked that old man" allegations

#me #no this is not for ohtmb they're not dealing with an elder of the universe in that lmao

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

i think about that "oh! a book club has found me :)" post every time i get a new burst of kudos on my inbox. it's such a delightful way of describing that experience, i love it

#me #someone definitely rec'd the ohtmb series in a discord server or something and to that person: hey thanks man

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

hi there! I was scrolling through the gotg ao3 page and I found your amazing hey there mister blue series. I’m about halfway through part four (are they ghosts? are they hallucinations?! I’m so excited to find out!!!!) but I wanted to drop a compliment and say I absolutely love the story you developed and your writing 🖤 hope you have a fabulous day!

this is a terribly delayed response but!!! thank you!!!! i'm so glad you're enjoying it, that series truly is my baby and i get so excited to see that people are still enjoying it years later <3

#''years later'' as in years after it started #can you BELIEVE i started that series FIVE YEARS AGO? #actually i just checked and ohtmb was first published in december of 2017 😵 #elgatodeltren #sam answers stuff

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

i need to like..... hash out all my writing ideas out loud. it's been such a help with the revengers stuff talking to the bf but like, i can't talk to him about all my story ideas. i mean i could. he would listen. i just won't because i get self conscious

what i need is like, i need one of you guys to materialize in my living room so i can make us a pot of coffee, sit on the couch together, and i can verbally explain everything i have planned for [insert story] until either you give me a solution to make the plot work or i happen upon the solution in the middle of a sentence. that's what i need

#the fact that i can't teleport across the country or to other countries haunts me daily #gonna have to abandon my sense of ''am i being annoying'' and dump this entire ohtmb plot upon the man who's chosen to share a home with me #I GUESS #me

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

random little burst of activity on the ohtmb series got me in my feelings about ohtmb!loki again......

#specifically got me daydreaming scenarios i haven't written yet #i love guardian of the galaxy loki he's like a son to me #i just. hhhhhh #i've been writing a lot more lately and i'm HOPING this will result in a sudden deluge of mcu content from me out of nowhere #but we'll see what comes of it #hey what if an antagonist used loki's anxiety about inevitably outliving all the guardians against him :) #what if one of them is very specifically in danger of dying :) #i'm feeling very normal about him tonight i promise #me

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

okay. ALRIGHT. enough with the random hyperfixations. i have three commissioned mcu fics to finish by november, the current ohtmb installment to work on, the opposite set of people get snapped fic, and the revengers. okay. here we go

#finishes an re4 fic and immediately locks herself in a room to think about thor and loki #this is to say there should be a lot more mcu content coming from me in the near future #AT LEAST those three commissioned fics #if not more #me

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

So what would the vibes be on somehow writing a vaguely OHTMB inspired fic (I.E. Loki joining the guardians and getting looped into that found family), with full credit given to you and your series ofc!

girlie (gender neutral) i am already popping popcorn, have at it

#my general rule is as long as there's credit you can go nuts #anon #sam answers stuff