Mostly Loki

Del, 40-something, she/her. Lets be honest, this blog is mostly Loki and Tom Hiddleston. Project Hail Mary has recently won my heart, so you'll be seeing a lot more of that around here for a while, and Charles Xavier is likley to make a return as we get closer to Doomsday. There'll be some other Marvel (especially Tony Stark and Stephen Strange), X-Men, LOTR, Doctor Who, Star Trek, possibly some Murderbot, and other things that take my fancy thrown in for good measure. I tag stuff. I will probably be posting about Avengers Doomsday but will tag for that. A couple of useful tags are 'fic rec' for Loki fics I love, and a few X-Men ones too, 'loki series' if you don't want to see anything about that, and 'negative' or 'loki series negativity' for salty posts. I didn't really like season 1 of the Loki series, but season 2 was much more my cup of tea and the finale is a much more satisfying example of how to give this character a tragic and bittersweet end than IW. I much prefer the Loki of Phase 1 and 2. I will never get over the tragedy of his story, or wanting better for him.

[delyth88]

Welcome!

This is a blog mostly about Loki and Tom Hiddleston, but also the wider MCU including Tony Stark and Stephen Strange in particular. Also currently Project Hail Mary, and Charles Xavier from the X-Men movies. Other fandoms currently include the Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Doctor Who (although I am several seasons behind at this point!).

I've recently turned my hand to writing and you can find my fics here on AO3, or on Tumblr tagged with 'my fic' or 'my writing'.

For those who want to know what flavour of Loki fan I am, I have to admit my heart belongs to the Loki from Thor, Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, and Infinity War. I don't hate Ragnarok or the series - they just haven't captured my imagination as much and I feel like the character is portrayed quite differently in the series. I have a personal dislike for the romance plot in season 1 of the series, but I enjoyed season 2 much more. You can read about my thoughts on season 2 here if you want to know more.

A few tags I use that you might find useful:

fic rec for fanfic I like and recommend. There's a lot of angsty gen fic in there. Mostly Loki fics.

fanart and loki fanart mostly for reblogs of beautiful art that comes across my dash.

loki series if you want to avoid that.

negative or loki series negativity for salty posts if you want to avoid those, although I haven't really posted about that in years, but if you go diving you might come across some of it.

For characters/actors: loki, thor, brodinsons, tom hiddleston if you want to see everything I've (mostly re-)blogged about them. :) And there's tdw loki is my favourite loki specifically for TDW Loki content.

Tags for specific movies: thor 2011, avengers 2012, and thor the dark world are my tags for those films. I use xmfc, xmdofp, and xma for the reboot X-Men films.

A couple of my latest fics:

A Stroll in the Woods (on AO3) (and on Tumblr)

A Tony & Loki fic, from Tony's POV. Gen. Set some time after The Avengers. 22k, complete.

For the Tony Stark Birthday Gala 2024 prompt: Tony wakes up alone, in a forest. His memory is foggy. He doesn’t know how he got here. He doesn’t know where “here” is. Sure, there may be people looking for him, but he isn’t going to play the part of a damsel in distress; he’s going to figure out a way home.

A Flickering Light

A Loki & Stephen Strange fic, from Loki's POV. Gen. An IW fix-it fic. 8k, complete.

Loki follows the Hulk to earth and finds himself in the care of one Doctor Strange. For the Loki Gen Fic Fest 2025 prompt: Loki and Dr. Strange have to work together and end up learning about each other's type of magic and the different pros and cons of each.

[kerink]

i like when eridians describe grace in other-worldly, incorporeal, eldritch ways. that he's beautiful and terrifying at the same time. a horror you can't look away from because you don't want to miss a thing.

you can never get a clear listen to him. his primary sense node is covered in "hair" and the part that isn't is hidden by two crystals that refract sound waves in a pleasing but disorienting way. he covers his body in billowy cloth at all times. not snug and sensible and unobstructive like eridian coverings, but loose and layered, draped and flowing.

the most clear part of him are his internal organs. because yes, the alien's carapace isn't sound-proof. his single heart beats insistingly in his core, his lungs exchanging gas constantly, his long digestive tract always bubbling and contracting. his thorax is packed impossibly tight and it's all moving and singing.

and it shouldn't be possible, with how fragile he is, for that internal pressure to maintain. how does the thin membrane of his external organ (another horror that sends eridians reeling) keep it all contained? his "skin" is so easily pierced, cut, bruised, burnt, how does he not split open under his own mass?

when savior rocky first arrived home and described the environmental needs of his alien, the scientists thought he'd made a mistake in his frantic panic to get everything out. it isn't possible this being lives at such low atmospheric pressure, at half the gravity, and in a gas that's nearly double the weight of ammonia. in a gas so dangerous, so caustic. and if it does then how is it obligately terrestrial like rocky claims? shouldn't it fly or float instead? (and then to see it in the water, learning that it can float or sink at will.)

and this alien has come bearing gifts that will not only save your species but launch it into impossible heights of technological and intellectual advancement. he has discovered the solution to astrophage and bred it to thrive on threeworld and translated his instructions into eridian. he has given your people the complete sum of his people's knowledge, advanced in ways the eridians can't believe and behind in ways that seem ludicrous. and he has given his life for your people to have these things.

he knows how your solar system was formed. he knows how the universe started.

his name means beautiful and generous and relieving.

the eridians experiencing cosmic bliss.

be not afraid.

[boomdafunk]

- Jane is in trouble -

[howling-wizard2]

the bridge for you and me across the stars

[loving-the-world-since-00]

Rocky's POV

[thorloptrs]

I’ll still take the best you’ve got Even though I’m sure it’s not the best for me

[thorloptrs]

∴ for selene

[kokica1]

Stratt probably thinks Grace is dead. She probably thinks she's watching recorded tapes from a dead man that she killed with her own hands.

[delyth88]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming...

Okay so I've fallen into the Project Hail Mary fandom, so apologies for the PHM spam at the moment. XD

If any of my mutuals want to talk Project Hail Mary, please feel welcome!

And I'm in search of good fics, so any recommendations gladly accepted.

[only3bra1nsellz]

Which type do you prefer?

I've got a bunch of stashed away in my bookmarks.

Bloodymary? Coltland twins? Wing au? Shapshifter grace? Eridian grace? Platonic Rocky and grace? Grocky? Angst? Hurt/comfort? More Eva stratt centric?

Pick your poison, I've been scouring through the phm fanfic tags for weeks!

[delyth88]

Ooh! Yay!

My personal preference is for things to be canon or canon adjacent, what if scenarios, that kinda thing. And as for shipping I'm not really a big shipper, so platonic rocky and Grace, angst, hurt/comfort are all good. I'm also interested in what went on on Earth and with Eva Stratt as well.

If you can recommend anything in that vein that would be brilliant! Thanks!

[only3bra1nsellz]

Aight lemme cook real quick *scavanges through my bookmarks* I’ll mark if there’s any ship other than Rocky & Adrien but most of these won’t be romance based. Descriptions are made by me after I read the fics.

“To Fix” by RandomPerson83338

Description (after I read it) : On the way to Erid Grace gets dosed with a dangerous amount of radiation while on a space walk and proceeds to start dying from it.

Rocky is racing against the clock and his minimal knowledge on human biology to find a way to save Grace’s life.

It’s a really good read. Excellently written 10/10s

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80302576/chapters/210836921

“A Blip in Translation” by doodle_pawz

Description: Grace makes a noise in his sleep that sounds like an Eridian cry for help. Rocky totally doesn’t overreact.

Short but sweet 10/10

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/85792576

“Teacher Grace’s Earth Human Romance” by ketonebodies

Description: The Eridian students are like have the surprisingly universal pre-teen experience of writing fanfiction about their teacher.

Featuring wildly incorrect descriptions of human biology but this is not a smut! Author’s just really good at writing from the perspective of a species that knows squat about human biology.

Quote from the fic. “Teacher grace inhaled lots of oxygen very fast because it did have a mate! But it would be so good at being in space!”

10/10 made me laugh reading it.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/85926356#main

“Counter-Melody” by InsaneTrollLogic

Description: turns out that from the perspective of the Eridians, the Hail Mary’s arrival was pretty scary. Like horror movie scary.

Grace is a scary alien monster to them, and Rocky isn’t the same as he was when he first took off.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/85888026

“If It Helps You Sleep,” by Scenic_Moon

Description: Eva’s in prison Grace haunts the narrative as a hallucination (Strattland kind of?? It’s giving Grace is Eva’s dead wife but she’s actually the one who killed him vibes)

Eva is suffering in this fic so beware!

Link:https://archiveofourown.org/works/85902881

“You come on screen (It’s obscene)” By Cntrlaltdelete

Not a ship!!

Description: Rocky watches the early footage from when Grace woke up from his coma (based on both book scene and movie scene,) The thought of amnesia to a species that doesn’t forget is really scary.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/85959066

“grace trust rocky question?” By bedtime_puppi

Description: There is no taumeoba leak. Rocky learns more about humans and is horrified to find how evil they can be.

Against Grace’s will, Rocky Yoinks Grace back home to Erid because he’s certain humanity will kill Grace on his return.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/85189301

“playing favourites“ by marya_blackbone

Description: Both crews from Blip A and the Hail Mary survive :D but Grace and Rocky are destined to be best friends in every universe!

10/10!

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/83350071

“Past Lives in the Stars” by tinallie

Description: A pretty cool time travel fix where Rocky’s the one who goes back.

He shows up to earth asking for Dr Ryland Grace (wuh oh)

Grace might vaguely remember Rocky?? It’s pretty early into the fic but 10/10!

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/85262506/chapters/225156946

“a distant memory” by fizzyren

Description: Eridians have a way to see Grace’s memories… They don’t like what they found out about Grace’s last moments on earth.

Angst is thriving so like always 10/10

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/84579361

I’ve got more but I’ll add those tomorrow cuz I’m lazy lol.

[delyth88]

Oooh!!! Thank thank thank!

I can't wait to have a look at these, but alas it's time for sleep. :( Thanks so much for sharing these. :)

[delyth88]

I saw PHM in theaters 3 times and just picked up a physical copy of the book to read (cus they pulled the audiobook from Spotify and Libby to make it an audible exclusive and I'm mad about it). but all that is to say that I would love to gush to you about PHM. :)

(this showed as failed the first time so I might get this ask twice)

Ooh yay! :) I'm glad you sent this again, cause this seems to be the first message to come through.

I've also seen it several times and I'm honestly considering going to see it again since it's still in a few theatres here, albeit at fairly awful times of day. It's been such a long time since a film was this enjoyable, so its been actually really fun to remember why I like going to movie theatres. (There are too many distractions in a living room. :p ) I can't wait for the DVD to come out, and I hope they do some sort of special edition.

I've also just ordered the book, although a friend was kind enough to give me the ebook before I went to see it, but after reading it twice I felt they'd earned my money for a copy. :D

Did you see the movie first? Or did you get part way through the audiobook before seeing it?

I managed to do a sort of half and half thing. My friend (@firedancerlily - I blame you for this obsession!) warned me against seeing the trailer and so I got a few days before we went to read as much as I could. I love that it meant that Grace seeing an alien ship was a complete surprise! I thought I was in one kind of story and then suddenly, nope! XD Brilliant! I got to a point where it felt like things were going so well that the next chapter was going to turn really, really bad, and then saw the movie. Which meant, I had no idea if Rocky getting injured was fatal or not! And given the shift earlier, I wouldn't have put it past them for this to revert to a one man against the odds story by killing off the alien he'd just met, so that was pretty tense. lol Sooo glad they didn't go down that route!

[delyth88]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming...

Okay so I've fallen into the Project Hail Mary fandom, so apologies for the PHM spam at the moment. XD

If any of my mutuals want to talk Project Hail Mary, please feel welcome!

And I'm in search of good fics, so any recommendations gladly accepted.

[only3bra1nsellz]

Which type do you prefer?

I've got a bunch of stashed away in my bookmarks.

Bloodymary? Coltland twins? Wing au? Shapshifter grace? Eridian grace? Platonic Rocky and grace? Grocky? Angst? Hurt/comfort? More Eva stratt centric?

Pick your poison, I've been scouring through the phm fanfic tags for weeks!

[delyth88]

Ooh! Yay!

My personal preference is for things to be canon or canon adjacent, what if scenarios, that kinda thing. And as for shipping I'm not really a big shipper, so platonic rocky and Grace, angst, hurt/comfort are all good. I'm also interested in what went on on Earth and with Eva Stratt as well.

If you can recommend anything in that vein that would be brilliant! Thanks!

[scienceviewscreen]

Project Hail Mary // Incorrect quotes 3/?

Bonus:

[mcuchallenge]

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[vxin-exe-x]

A coffee shop pop-up is happening for ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ in London..👀☕

“Don Latveria Coffee… Richards was wrong.”

[shegeekery]

London always gets all the cool promos. 🫤

[990000]

simongerman600

[brunhiddensmusings]

i was going to say ‘i have no idea what to do with this information’ but then i realized its a handy guide to generate fake words that sound english

[holdup-andrememberthetime]

“What to do with this information”: kick ass at hangman

[dragonanarchist1155]

Also useful for simple codebreaking and decoding an unhashed simple letter cypher.

[delyth88]

So, going by this, 'toe' is the most common word? 😉

[ink-ami]

Time go fishing made me go from "wow this movie is so great" to "this is my favorite movie ever" twice, and now i bought the book in english.

[ravenisbored26]

Another day, another audio-book scene animatic

Bonus doodle

[avi-mation]

Five hundred miles