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❝ I MAY HAVE BEEN BORN IN JOTUNHEIM, BUT I WAS RAISED IN ASGARD. YET, I AM NEITHER JOTUN NOR GOD. NOT TRULY. SO WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MAKE ME? FOR MANY YEARS I PONDERED THAT QUESTION BEFORE FINALLY REALIZING THE ANSWER...I AM LOKI ❞

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Hi everyone

So I sort of dropped off of tumblr for a while there, but I am still planning to move Loki to the new blog, just need to sort some stuff out. I really miss my guy

#{ kilby speaks }

BLOG ARCHIVE/MOVE

Moving Loki to HERE and going to be making a fresh start with it. Over the next days/weeks I'll be slowly working on everything, however I am also moving out of my parent's house this week so that will take priority.

emeraldcast-archive

Boo! Still alive. I'm planning to move to a fresh blog, just had a lot going on with work, health and muse being fickle but once I've got the new blog sorted I'll post the info here

nightprompts

&. 𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

( dialogue prompts taken from nosferatu (2024), directed by robert eggers. feel free to edit and change as you seem fit. )

❛ come to me. ❜

❛ a guardian angel. a spirit of comfort. spirit of any celestial sphere. anything. hear my call. ❜

❛ you wakened me from an eternity of darkness. ❜

❛ you are not for the living. you are not for human kind. ❜

❛ and shall you be one with me ever-eternally? ❜

❛ come here. there’s nothing to be afraid of. ❜

❛ i wish i could stay, my love. ❜

❛ why have you killed these beautiful flowers? ❜

❛ i must tell you my dream. ❜

❛ i’d never been so happy as that moment… as i held hands with death. ❜

❛ i wish you to have all you deserve. ❜

❛ you mustn’t leave. i love you too much. ❜

❛ i will stay with you until you are fast asleep. ❜

❛ uh, forgive me. i only wish to stay one night. ❜

❛ by god’s name, never speak of that castle. ❜

❛ i banish you, i banish you with garlic. ❜

❛ beware of his shadow. ❜

❛ the shadow covers you in a nightmare. ❜

❛ you are late. the midnight hour has passed. ❜

❛ i wish you to do as i request. ❜

❛ i will be addressed as the honor of my blood demands it.❜

❛ speak not of it again! ❜

❛ take heed what you do. ❜

❛ i might ease your wound. ❜

❛ come by the fire. ❜

❛ your face shows you unwell. ❜

❛ do you ever feel at times as if you were not… as if you were not a person? ❜

❛ look at the sky. look at the sea. does it never call to you, urge you? ❜

❛ you are fortunate in your love. ❜

❛ now are we neighbors. ❜

❛ it is late. you must wish to retire. ❜

❛ i have been enduring the most irregular dreams. i fear i am taken ill. ❜

❛ it is a black omen to journey in poor health. you will remain and well rest yourself. ❜

❛ dream of me. only me. ❜

❛ oh, he’s coming to me. ❜

❛ i cannot resist you, my love. ❜

❛ i am no one. i am his servant. ❜

❛ look, this is a pretty one. his lordship likes the pretty ones… ❜

❛ you are lost in his shadow. ❜

❛ soon i will no longer be a shadow to you. ❜

❛ soon our flesh shall embrace and we shall be as one. ❜

❛ i have not failed your lordship! ❜

❛ embrace me, my boy. i am so rejoiced to see you. ❜

❛ my dear creature, yes, i am he, and i am hither come to help you. ❜

❛ my dreams grow darker. ❜

❛ does evil come from within us or from beyond? ❜

❛ i shall persist to join you every night… first in sleep, then in your arms. ❜

❛ everything will be mixed with abomination, and you’ll be knee-deep in blood. ❜

❛ you are promised to me! ❜

❛ i will end this plague. this devil. ❜

❛ he hasn’t found you. ❜

❛ i feared i’d never see you again. ❜

❛ you shall crave of me nothing. ❜

❛ the bells of dawn shall toll in despair of my coming. and i shall taste of you. ❜

❛ pray, forgive me for all the troubles i have caused you. ❜

❛ i am only glad you have become yourself again. ❜

❛ may i… stay with you tonight? ❜

❛ this creature is a force more powerful than evil. it is death itself. ❜

❛ i have seen things in this world that would’ve made isaac newton crawl back into his mother’s womb. ❜

❛ i have wrestled with the devil as jacob wrestled the angel in peniel. ❜

❛ if we are to tame darkness, we must first face that it exists. ❜

❛ i have felt you crawling like a serpent in my body. ❜

❛ love is inferior to you. ❜

❛ i told you, you are not of humankind. ❜

❛ i am an appetite. nothing more. ❜

❛ i lay within the darkest pit. till you did wake me, enchantress, and stirred me from my grave. ❜

❛ you are my affliction. ❜

❛ i care nothing of your afflictions. ❜

❛ yet even now we are fated. ❜

❛ your passion is bound to me. ❜

❛ you cannot love. ❜

❛ yet i cannot be sated without you. ❜

❛ remember how once we were? ❜

❛ i abhor you. ❜

❛ i will leave you three nights. tonight was the first. ❜

❛ tonight you denied yourself, and thereby, you suffer me to vanish up the lives of those you love. ❜

❛ you revel in my torture. ❜

❛ upon the third night, you will submit, or he you call your husband shall perish by my hand. ❜

❛ till you bid me come shall you watch the world become as naught. ❜

❛ tell me, what is this insufferable darkness? ❜

❛ nothing you can say will shake me, for there is a devil in this world, and i have met him. ❜

❛ i’ve brought this evil upon us. ❜

❛ i sought company. i sought… tenderness, and i called out. ❜

❛ at first, it was sweet. i had never known such bliss. yet it turned to torture. ❜

❛ it was you that gave me the courage to be free of my shame. ❜

❛ he took me as his lover then, and now he has come back. ❜

❛ all my sleeping thoughts are of him every night. ❜

❛ don’t touch me! i am not to be touched. ❜

❛ i’ll be good. i promise. ❜

❛ you could never please me as he could. ❜

❛ yes! take me! ❜

❛ kiss me. kiss my heart. ❜

❛ let him see. let him see our love. ❜

❛ without you, i will become a demon. ❜

❛ you’re safe with me. ❜

❛ keep away from me. i am unclean. ❜

❛ he will murder you if i do not go to him. ❜

❛ kill him i will. he shall never harm you again. ❜

❛ i can weep no longer, for i have no more tears to shed. ❜

❛ the grim reaper wields his heavy scythe with every change of wind. ❜

❛ the monster left you to the wolves, yet you prevailed. ❜

❛ his pull to me is so powerful, so terrible, yet my spirit cannot be evil as his. ❜

❛ we must know evil to be able to destroy it. ❜

❛ you are our salvation. ❜

❛ i bid you, come to me. ❜

❛ your oath re-pledged. so too shall be our flesh. you are mine. ❜

#meme

lousysharkbutt

drama queens, both of them

Boo! Still alive. I'm planning to move to a fresh blog, just had a lot going on with work, health and muse being fickle but once I've got the new blog sorted I'll post the info here

tomemyxxmen

She regarded him and his words for a moment, mulling over them. He wasn't wrong. There was a time when she was thought to be some sort of wind goddess. And then she met Charles who cleared up a lot of misconceptions about what she truly were as a person. Perhaps she was no goddess ( and in truth, that was likely for the best ), but being a mutant came with its own share of burdens too. Worship had turned into fear and hatred, but regardless of that, it wasn't enough to make her go back home. She was in this fight for the long haul.

"Yeah, well over here it's not quite like that." She paused. "No matter what they thought of me in Kenya or Wakanda, over here I'm just another mutant to hate and fear."

She watched his body language, her keen gaze searching for any signs of potential betrayal. It was only when she had given him a proper once over would she drop her defensive posture, hands falling by her side. She was still on guard, but her body language was no longer poised for a fight. She figured she'd take Charles' route and give the guy a chance. Worst case scenario? They end up killing each other if it came to it.

"I have a hard time trusting strangers, especially men but I'm willing to hear you out." She paused. "If you ain't here to cause trouble then why are you here? Far as I know, Charles hasn't mentioned any drop ins from a god. We don't get many visitors either. His telepathy keeps people from randomly dropping in so... you been here before? Ya'll exes or something?"

And it might have seemed a strange question to ask Loki whom she'd never seen before at the mansion, but Charles was such a private man. It was AGES before she realized Erik and Charles were old flames. Then there was Stephen, but she couldn't quite figure out what their deal was. And now here was Loki whom she always assumed was involved in some great epic romance with Sif, or so went the tales, but his whole appearance was odd to say the least. It was giving off all sorts of red flags, especially since he claimed he didn't mean any harm.

emeraldcast-archive

Loki hummed quietly to himself. He had learned a lot in his time in the TVA and in his new role. Charles had explained some of the prejudice mutant kind faced, and Loki had sympathized but it wasn't until he had held their universe in his hand and truly seen the suffering they went through, had experienced it through their eyes that he'd truly understood what it was they faced. He would never try to compare his own suffering to theirs, but he did know what it was like to fight against prejudice views.

He had grown up being taught to hate the Jotnar of Jotunheim because they were monsters, he had been taught they were little more than beasts with little intellect and violent natures. He had never thought to question those beliefs because everyone he spoke to had them, even people from the other realms. So when he had discovered that he was in fact, one of those supposed monsters, it had devastated him. All that hatred had turned inwards, and he'd overcompensated for it by trying to destroy Jotunheim. He knew what he did was wrong, but there was still a part of him that didn't regret what he'd done. Stupid as it was, he'd thought if he got rid of the Frost Giants once and for all' not only would he be seen as a hero, but he would also be able to erase what he was and go back to being the Asgardian he'd believed he was.

Obviously that could never be, and he had—and still was—working on accepting his true heritage. But that was his situation, and he wasn't about to take focus away on Ororo's struggles to discuss his own. "You and others like you do not deserve the treatment you're given. If I could; I would make it so you wouldn't have to face such unfair and unjust prejudice." He didn't know if it was even possible for him to have that kind of influence, he'd never tried and he had promised he wouldn't play with people's lives the way He Who Remains had. People needed to have the free will to choose their own paths and live with the choices they made. No matter how tempting it might be to play puppet master and turn this universe into whatever he wanted, it wasn't his place to do so.

He hummed again. He understood her caution and it couldn't begrudge her for her skepticism, especially considering all she'd been through and the dangers she faced on a semi-regular basis. "I know words alone will probably not dissuade you from your suspicions, but if it helps I will swear an oath that I mean you, nor anyone else who calls this place a home any harm." He wasn't sure how to define what he and Charles had been. There had been...moments, but it would be a stretch to have ever called them an item. "And no, Charles and I are not exes." Anything that had happened between them had been spur of the moment, and whilst he had hoped for something more, nothing had ever come from it. "But to answer your previous question, I was merely hoping to visit. It's been some time; at least for me, since I was last here."

#tomemyxxmen

talescfshadows

PSA

I know I've been quiet on here, most of it has been down to severe chronic fatigue hitting me so apologies for that

However I will probably be MIA for at least a week if not more. Trigger warning below for pet death

#kilby speaks #tw: pet death

tomemyxxmen

Charles supposed this was simply one topic they would never fully agree on, because as far as Charles was concerned, he didn't do much at all to help Loki. Oh certainly they had their fair share of mind sessions, each one more complex than the other, but a person's mind that was filled with trauma was not so easily fixed by a telepath. Rearranging a mind to help them forget was one thing, but what Loki accomplished was a feat that was more him than the telepath he commissioned. But he decided to leave it be. All in all, Loki seemed fine and at the end of the day, that had always been the end goal.

"That's good to hear." He sipped his coffee although Loki's words that followed brought about a slight look of confusion. Purpose and destiny... Those were words he hardly dwelled on anymore. One could say over a decade of bad experiences had turned him into quite the cynic when it came to such things. But Loki was a god and therein lied a huge difference in the things that influenced their beliefs, particularly as it pertained to one's purpose.

"I'm probably not one to ask about such things. The cynic in me cannot wrap my head around some preordained destiny." He paused. "But I am not dismissing it entirely. I can only speak of my experiences and not your own."

He looked down at his drink trying to decide how he felt. He supposed he was fine; no longer utterly crushed and depressed by the departure of a certain someone. And he had a grumpy guard dog named Logan to thank for most of that. Still, there was a huge part of him that could no longer let his guard down enough to be the guy Logan wanted him to be; that hopeful, naive soul that supposedly changed a lot of lives in another timeline. The very idea made Charles laugh inside. He simply couldn't imagine an era where he was content with how things played out. And people looking up to him again? Like some mutant god? Laughable at best, but... at least the school was somewhat open again. It was a small start but a start all the same.

"I guess I am as I've always been." He shrugged. "Not much has changed in the months that have gone by. I've been looking after my son and a few other children who are here now. Logan's been hovering, but I think it's because he fears I may fall off the deep end again. I guess I can't blame him, but... I'm not trying to be Professor X. At least not the one he wants me to be. I don't want half of the mutant population looking to me to lead them. A great deal of good it did the first time around so... I guess you could say I'm happily playing daddy. Or something like that."

emeraldcast-archive

Loki wasn't a fool. He knew what Charles's stance and feelings on the matter were. Whether it be because he undersold his own part in helping Loki, or because he believed Loki was the one who'd done the real work didn't matter. There had been a sickness in his mind, the influence of a cosmic force used for malicious purposes had been so deeply woven into his mind, that he couldn't unravel it alone. It had sunk its talons into him, and one person's power would never have been enough to fully rid him of it's influence. Perhaps in time, he might have been able to free himself. Maybe that's what the original Loki had done, but as a variant, he'd not had the luxury of time. Charles had helped guide him along the path to his freedom, revealing which memories were false or had been twisted and needed to be unpicked, and which could be left alone.

Thanos had taken so much from him. It had truly shocked him, and still did when he'd realized just how far the Titan had gone to further twist Loki against the world. He'd turned ire into fury, pain into hatred and despair into a need for revenge. Loki had never wanted to hurt people, he'd done it because he thought he'd had to. Growing up, he was told he had to be a warrior, even when he'd chosen to focus more on magic he was still expected to go into battle. Then, Thanos had turned him into a villain, and he'd played that role perfectly, because the Titan had made him believe that was his glorious purpose. He had thought if he was the very thing everyone already believed him to be, then he wouldn't feel so small and afraid.

He had been wrong of course to believe that. Loki saw that now. He didn't have to be what anyone else expected him to be, he could be something more, something better. Someone who deserved the friends he had, and was worthy of their love and support. It was why making the sacrifice to become the anchor for the multiverse had been such an easy one. He wanted his friends to live, even if it meant they lived without him in their lives.

❝ In my culture, we believe that the Norns weave our destinies, a carefully woven tapestry that determines who we will be. ❞ Round and round their lives would go, with Ragnarok supposedly ending and resetting everything so they could begin again. Evidently that wasn't the case, but Loki had seen far too much in his life to discount their existence as a mere story. ❝ Be it the Norns, or the variant of a conqueror, my path had been paved for me, and like a rat in a maze I followed. ❞ He could have refused, he could have turned his back on what 'He Who Remains' had planned for him. But then it would mean all of the timelines would end, and Loki wasn't selfish enough to let that happen. All other choices would have ended with trillions on trillions of lives dying. It was a masterful move on He Who Remains' part, one that he couldn't help but admire.

Using a simple spell, he refilled his cup of tea and sipped at it whilst he listened to Charles tell him how things had been. Loki wished he could unburden Charles of some of the pain and sadness he carried with him. He'd come to care for the mutant, as a friend, perhaps something more, but nevertheless, he wanted Charles to be happy. If he could, he would wave his hand and make it so. But free choice had been taken from so many who'd gone against the 'sacred' timeline, and he was not going to let that continue. ❝ Has it truly only been a few months? ❞ It was so hard to tell how much time passed in the real world, especially when he'd time slipped back and forth for thousands of years. ❝ I wasn't even aware you had a son. ❞ He'd tried to not look at too many of the Charles variants, it would feel like too much of an invasion of the man's privacy; even if the variants were their own people. ❝ I know a little of what it's like for everyone to have an expectation of you. But Charles, you are a good man, and a good leader. But you can only be the kind of leader you want to be, not what others want. ❞ Otherwise you'd always be set up to fail.

#tomemyxxmen

@somethingxgreater

He nearly jumped out of his skin when he felt a hand on his shoulder, waking him up from his sleep. He didn't even remember closing his eyes. Norns, how long had he been awake for now? Mobius was right on the mark when he'd told him; however long ago it was, that time moved differently in the TVA. There wasn't really a day or a night, time just didn't pass at all, so Loki couldn't tell if he'd been awake for a day, or for weeks. It certainly felt like it was the latter. He'd gone without sleep for longer than that, it had been one of the many methods Thanos had used to break him, but oddly, he actually felt the effects of exhaustion around Mobius. Not because he was boring, no, he would never think that about Mobius. It was because he actually felt safe enough to sleep around the man, which had the knock on effect of his body then realizing just how much sleep he'd missed out on.

❝ Mobius. ❞ Rubbing his eyes, he sat himself up and quickly tidied up his appearance. ❝ How long have I been asleep for? ❞ Whilst he felt safe being asleep around Mobius, he still worried about other people. Even if his standing had improved around the TVA, he knew that a lot of it's members still disliked him and saw him as nothing more than a chaotic and dangerous variant. The last thing he needed was for anyone to think he was lazy as well.

#somethingxgreater

@stilltheworstwolverine liked for a starter

For the love of the Norns. What on earth had Paradox been doing? He thought the TVA would be safe under the careful watch of his friends but no. Somehow they'd allowed that idiot to nearly destroy an entire timeline, all because he had been following the same narrow sighted and brainwashed thinking of Renslayer's TVA. What was the point of allowing the multiverse to grow and flourish if men like Paradox were still going to try and prune them?

How was he supposed to guard the timelines if he couldn't trust others to protect them? It took a great deal of energy to split himself between his seat at the center of the multiverse and a timeline, but what choice did he have? If it weren't for the actions of Wade Wilson and James 'Logan' Howlett then Cassandra would have destroyed not one universe, but multiple. He had a lot to thank them for, and whilst he probably could leave the thanking to B-15 and co, he wanted to offer his own personal gratitude for their actions.

Materializing inside the home Logan was currently occupying, he looked around to see where the man was. Although he held all the timelines together and could look into them, the details weren't always there. It was a...nice enough place, for what it was. He was glad Logan had found somewhere, and although technically he should be in his own universe, Loki wasn't going to enforce anything. Despite what Paradox had complained, Logan wasn't an anchor being, as far as Loki was aware, there wasn't even such a thing as an anchor being. So if Logan wanted to stay, and there was no one back in his universe he would miss, then Loki would let him stay. If B-15 or the higher ups in the TVA had an issue with that, they could take it up with him.

#stilltheworstwolverine

codenamemartini

dialogue starters directly from the mouth of the golden avenger himself, from iron man vol 1. change names/pronouns/wording as needed.

’ if you think i’m gonna sit still for a corny line like that - you’re out of your tree!! ’ ’ and faking unconsciousness is a great way to learn what’s new in the world-menace business. ’ ’ next time, stick to brand names. ’ ’ at a time like this, i’m not about to ask for references. ’ ’ if you don’t like the game, ____, pick up your toys and go home! ’ ’ you deserve to be knocked into the middle of next week, ____, but i’ll settle for the next room, if you will. ’ ’ just call me a cock-eyed optimist, rambunctious. ’ ’ well, if it’s bruised knuckles you’re after, i’ll be happy to keep ducking anything you throw. ’ ’ it’s always flattering to be recognized. ’ ’ that’s strictly a standard baddie’s reply to someone escaping his trap. ’ ’ i’m afraid, ____, you’ll have to get your jollies some other way. ’ ’ and i know you’d want me to do a thorough job. ’ ’ don’t celebrate yet, sure-shot, you’ve made a few mistakes. ’ ’ on the other hand, there’s a classic simplicity to a good right jab that’s not be denied. ’ ’ you’ll find i’ve perked up in that department myself. ’ ’ not that i want to discourage you from chatting… ’ ’ you could pack an awful lot of little green men into a ship this big. ’ ’ that’s…no welcome mat. ’ ’ they must be as curious to get a look at me as i am to see them. ’ ’ man, i don’t know what was biting me last night, but this morning i feel like taking on an army or two. ’ ’ well, maybe it’ll give ma bell an excuse to improve the phone service. ’ ’ don’t know why i take the trouble, you never seem to handle your own problems. ’ ’ i’ll mop up your spilled milk this time, but no more. ’ ’ if ____’s the best you got…well that’s just tough bananas. ’ ’ come on back, fella, haven’t you ever wanted to talk to a real life superhero? ’ ’ as the commercial says, i’ve got a lot to live before my number’s called. ’ ’ i think that’s self-explanatory… but if there’s dullards in the class, they can meet me after school for a special discussion group. no extra charge. ’ ’ tut-tut, handsome, how quickly they forget. ’ ’ you’ve a penchant for stating the obvious, chuckles. ’ ’ suffice to say - i’m not a coffin case! ’ ’ uh uh, friend, mustn’t point nasty weapons at the hero-man. ’ ’ lose your tongue when your bound up helpless hero gets back on top? ’ ’ baby, what you don’t know about heroes could fill that proverbial book. ’ ’ what’s the matter? did'ja forget to have your wheaties this morning? ’ ’ one of the first lessons you learn in the manual for superheroes. ’ ‘ is this some kind of joke, ____? ‘ ‘ oh, well, i need the sleep, anyway. ‘ ‘ i should have expected you were here, hiding your tail between your legs. ‘ ‘ upsy-daisy! ‘ ‘ right now, i think you better plan ahead for life as a postage stamp. ‘ ‘ i don’t have a physics degree for nothing! ‘ ‘ i’m afraid those wheels won’t ever be a-rollin’ again. ‘

’ there’s a better way to do this. ’

❝ How? ❞ He didn't ask because he doubted Sigyn. He never had, he never could. She was everything to him, and he trusted her council nearly as much if not on par with his mother's. ❝ I have analysed every angle and I cannot find another way forward. I feel like I have to do this, my father will not be happy if this dignitary doesn't get his way. ❞ Relations between Asgard and the Vanir were tense right now, and the emissary was making a steep demand. Loki had offered a way around it, one that wasn't exactly honorable, but it would mean not having to part with a powerful artifact. Unfortunately, if the trickery was discovered, it could make relations between their realms fall apart. ❝ Tell me my love, what should I do? ❞

#victoriousfidelity

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“I know what I want. I know what kind of god I need to be… for you. For all of us.” — Loki Laufeyson

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