For entertainment, I consume the media in my head. Fanfic writer. Seeking the heartbreak in stories. I'm funny sometimes. Satire. Also on AO3 https://archiveofourown.org/users/MeiBruges Profile pic created with picrew of https://ummmmandy.tumblr.com/ ; cover art free from Pixbay
It is Loki's first battle as a warrior in Asgard's army, which has triumphed in countless confrontationsunder Thor's command over the years, and he is rather too eager to prove himself. Loki gets injured. Thor is not happy about it. Things become critical more quickly than expected, but Thor is there to patch Loki up. There will be bromance.
When I Wake Up
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fandom: Thor (Marvel)
characters: Loki & Thor
Summary: "You shouldn't have done that, Loki — back when we were fighting Thanos — you never should have done it. It was reckless. Foolish."
"It was calculated."
"One hell of a calculation, and it worked out marvelously."
"Worked out accordingly ," Loki cuts him off, and the words make Thor's heart clench. "Last I remember, had I acted differently, you'd have died at the hands of Thanos."
Imperfect Symmetry
"And who died in my place?"
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fandom: Thor (Marvel)
characters: Loki & Thor...
A collection of Loki scenes and Loki & Thor bromance moments from an unfinished adventure story, featuring action, hurt and comfort, doubts and misunderstandings and the brotherly closeness which the movies never explored enough.
The story is neither finished nor complete, as in... entire chunks of it are missing, but the scenes collected here might be nice in their own right. I promise decent writing, at least.
Order Matters
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Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Severs Snape, Sirius Black...
Summary: Sirius frowned. There was something unexpectedly discomforting about having a man he so much hated at his mercy like this. He'd been wrong — It wasn't a shitty evening; it was the epitome of shittiness in every imaginable way. Or: In the First Wizarding War, Severus Snape becomes an Order member, and things turn out a bit different.
Adults Talking
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Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Severus Snape, Sirius Black...
Summary: When tasked by Voldemort with capturing Black, Snape plans on failing to deliver. His plan goes wrong, really wrong. Snape gets injured. Sirius is brave as always. The two of them are thrown together in the aftermath of everything, and we will be eating bromance with a big spoon, straight out of the pot. (hurt and comfort, whump, enemies to friends, almost)
A mere demon was a simple pest to someone like Yue Qingyuan, but Shen Yuan was more than a mere demon.
Uh oh 21 words. Do I even have 21 mutuals? 😭🙏
No pressure tags: @nottoonedin @artsarasp @drivebypainter @sssusuki @eggsolotl @iloveraptor69 @marimari-chan @awaggaa @secretlypeerless-cucumber @tinybeleiverrunaway @tsiftor @optimisticmosquito @soapycelery (I ran out of accounts I remembered from the top of my head that's only 13 people 😭)
Thank you for the tag!! I just wrote something for the first time and realized I can actually participate in this yay!!
Handsome mystery man has safely been transported to his house and is resting peacefully (bleeding out) on the couch, Check!
That's 20 words aaaa!!
Tag: @waitineedaname @livingmeatloaf @anachronismstellar @notsofrozt @xmoriartea and anyone else who wants to do it!! Because I can't remember more off the top of my head
thank you @notsofrozt and @nibbelraz for tagging me!!
Shen Qingqiu took their enthusiasm in stride, praising their brushwork and their keen eyes for detail.
not a very interesting sentence lol but it's part of bingge getting to see sqq interacting with her disciples!
this is 16 words..... I definitely cannot tag 16 people but here I go: @buffintruder @bifrosted-flakes @patron-saints @thatneoncrisis @paranormal-potatoes @nebulations @localdisasterisk @birbliophile and whoever else wants to!
Omg, thank you so much for the tag!! I'm a bit embarrassed to break the scum villain train, but here:
Xie Lian notices his ill ease, and his good humor seems to drain away, replaced with something worn and bittersweet.
I am... not going to tag 20 people, but in no particular order: @laughteronsilverwings, @gnomebud, @thewrongshop, @pyrrhlc, @saintbleeding, @mikkeneko, @dandelion-stuff-and-fluff, @dataframe :) Please don't feel obligated, but if this looks fun, I'd love to see what you've got!!!
Haha oh no...I was writing about an ornery ox...lol.
"He chews with his mouth open and can strip the color off the robes of anyone standing downwind from him after a meal."
And uh...I don't even think I know 23 people on here well enough to tag, BUT here are some people I am pretty sure write! Feel free to add on or ignore...or order me back to the mines.
The paper weight slipped from his nerveless fingers, splintering into a million pieces on the floor, as his chest ached, weary heart giving way.
Thank you for the tag @bottan-blobbington ! I certainly don't have enough mutuals for this. I'll tag some of you with no pressure, feel free to participate if you have the time!
She felt him lean in, felt his forehead come to rest on her bare shoulder, his weight melt into her — every line of him seamlessly folding between her pulse and her better judgement, like a man made to be held, not sent into battle —and gods, if not for his injured thigh, she would have straddled him on these velvet cushions just to keep him here until morning forgot them.
Shooting myself in the leg with this too-long sentence, but it had to be the last thing I wrote, right? Tagging anyone who wants to play along.
@cailjei thanks a bunch for the tag! Sorry for being late to the party. :)
An antagonist who is now main character in an original story in progress. I love him so much it's making me stupid.
Hurt and comfort.
Unreliable narrators. They spice things up like nothing else.
Happy endings.
Thanks for the tag, @ailec-12! I enjoy these little games quite a lot. I'm curious what you'd pick for your work @thespiralstaircasewriter and @solostinmysea
People often say LOTR is a story about hope. (I'm reminded of it because someone said it in the notes of my Faramir post.) And that's true, but it's not the whole picture: LOTR is in large part a story about having to go on in the absence of hope.
Frodo has lost hope, as well as the ability to access any positive emotion, by Return. He is already losing it in Towers: he keeps going through duty and determination and of course Sam's constant help.
For most of the story, Sam is fueled by hope, which is why it's such a huge moment when he finally lets go of the hope of surviving and returning home, and focuses on making it to the Mountain. To speed their way and lighten the load, he throws his beloved pots and pans into a pit, accepting that he will never cook, or eat, again.
When Eowyn kills the Witch King, she's beyond hope and seeking for a glorious death in battle. It's possible that in addition to her love and loyalty for Théoden, she's strengthened by her hopelessness, the fear of the Nazgúl cannot touch someone who's already past despair.
Faramir is his father's son, he doesn't have any more hope of Gondor's victory or survival than Denethor does, he says as much to Frodo. What hope have we? It is long since we had any hope. ... We are a failing people, a springless autumn. He knows he's fighting a losing war and it's killing him. When he rejects the ring, he doesn't do it in the hope that his people can survive without it, he has good reason to believe they cannot. He acts correctly in the absence of hope.
Of course LOTR has a (mostly) happy ending, all the unlikely hopes come true, the characters who have lost hope gain what they didn't even hope for, and everyone is rewarded for their bravery and goodness, so on some level the message is that hope was justified. But the book never chastises characters who lost hope, it was completely reasonable of them to do so. Despair pushed Théoden and Denethor into inaction, pushed Saruman into collaboration, but the characters who despaired and held up under the weight of despair are Tolkien's real heroes.
(In an early draft of Return, Frodo and Sam receive honorary titles in Noldorin: Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable, respectively. Then he cut it, probably because it was stating the themes of the entire book way too obviously, because this is what Tolkien cared about, really: enduring beyond hope. Without hope.)
Also, people who know more than me about the concept of estel, feel free to @ me.
I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!
"I think it is literally the closest bond that two people of whatever gender can have. It's beyond the body. It's kind of soul partners, and it's beyond time and space. It's the biggest kind of stake relationship you can have. Even if they were married and had 4 beautiful adopted children, I don't think it could be the same kind of power of connection and partnership they have. The sacrifice they both made, not just for this relationship but for what this relationship also means. The two halves of the structure that needs to be in place for society to run in the end, and I think they both know that, and I think they've given everything to it. I think to say whether it is or it isn't romantic frankly would belittle it. It doesn't really touch the sides of actually how big a deal it is. Which is why I think the final image of them, kind of beyond time and space, kind of sums it up. Whether they see each other again or whether they live together in a little cottage by the stream doesn't matter. The connection is bigger than I think almost the connection between any other characters in the show or in the world. It's beyond that, it's massive, and those final lines - the journey they've both - men that they've both had to become to keep it there - I find it very moving."
-Harry Lloyd, What are your thoughts on Jayce and Viktor's partnership?
This sums up so beautifully why I think that turning deep, meaningful relationships into romance, as if sex were the ultimate expression of love, ends up deminishing bonds that transcend it, actually.
one thing i do miss about childhood is waking up early on my own before anyone else is awake, not feeling tired because wtf is chronic fatigue, and just minding my business like watching cartoons or doodling all morning. not like i can’t do those things now but the idleness of childhood is a special thing.
- What do you fear, my lady?
- A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.
The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (2002)
