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Picture above contains SPOILERS for chapters 1-30 of Welcome to the LCA (so everything currently posted on AO3)

As a visual girly, I decided to make myself a timeline for Welcome to the LCA using the 2023 calendar. I have timelines that are fully written out, but seeing it drawn onto a calendar helps my brain a bit better than the 100% written version. This is basically the major events from chapters 1-30 (or at least enough to give me an idea of what was happening each day).

I wasn't planning on positing it here, but then I thought maybe someone else would like a visual aid as well. The really long orange bars are all of the days that Loki spent completely on his own in his apartment (when he wasn't yelling at little old ladies, anyway). In my mind that, on top of his deep longing to make friends, is the reason he accepts Steve so easily just a day after meeting him. Poor baby is desperate for human interaction, and the fact that it's from a Caregiver makes it even sweeter. Also, sorry the words are so tiny, it definitely needs to be zoomed in to be able to read.

I actually made a visual timeline for chapters 31-42 first because there was just so much happening, I wanted to keep it all straight. I plan on combining that one and the one above for myself so I can see how much time has passed in total, but obviously I can't post that one because it contains all the spoilers.

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I met Tom Hiddleston

AAAAAAAAAHHHHH

He was at a convention in San Antonio last weekend. As someone who lives waaaay further north than Texas, it was a very long drive, but totally worth it.

This put me a little (....a lot, I had meant to start posting in June) behind on working on Welcome to the LCA, but I've hoped to meet him for years. I was not prepared for how nice his voice sounds in real life. Overall, it was a really fun weekend (minus 1 scary, Very American event outside a club). I met some really cool people and got Tom Hiddleston's Photo and Autograph. Also, after my husband and I chatted with him for 15 seconds (it was a long line so we weren't going to take too much time), he added "Loki" under his name, which, with big celebrities lately they tend to nickel and dime, having "Loki" written on the picture was supposed to be an extra $125 but he added it for free. (Everyone had a slip of paper that was handed to him that said what the autograph was supposed to be, ours just said "standard," I was over the moon when he added more.)

Anyway, back to writing!

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Welcome to the LCA Progress

I now have a plug-in keyboard for my old laptop, yay! I'm currently sharing this laptop with my husband, so I only get a few hours in the morning to write, but it's better than nothing and I'm finally making some progress. Chapters 37 and 38 now have complete rough drafts and chapter 39 is 90% done. I also had a break-through with Loki's scenes, yay! Getting past writer's block is such a good feeling!

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Good News

and just a little bad news

The good news is that I was able to save my Welcome to the LCA notes from my old computer, YAY! That would have been hours of work gone and I'm not sure that I would have been able to re-create it.

The bad news is that my laptop still isn't working, so even though my goal was to be ready to post in June... I literally haven't worked on it at all. Hopefully we can get it sorted soon. Until then, I'm just super grateful to have all of my notes back, and I have backups of them as well now, haha, I'm not risking it again!

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I finally have some time to write...

so of course my laptop died

My husband and I tried a hundred things to bring it back to life but it's doomed. The worst part is that I haven't backed up my latest notes yet 😭😭😭 I'm so annoyed at my laptop too because we had just bought a storage brick thingy, but we backed up my older laptop first (which I don't use for writing bc the keyboard no longer works) and then my newer laptop died right before it's turn to be backed up.

My husband ordered me a new hard drive today and when it arrives we're going to try to get the stuff off of the old hard drive. Wish us luck because if my notes are gone I just might go live in a ditch for a few years. Not really, but I will be sad. The next part of WttLCA has been really hard to sort out and my notes have been a huge part of keeping everything straight.

In better news, the newest chapters of Welcome to the LCA are all on AO3 as drafts, so no matter what at least I'm not losing what I already wrote in the story itself.

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Happy Easter EveryBunny!

Whether you celebrate or not, I hope you had a nice day! (Yes, there is one cat in the photo, but she's attached to a bunny and wearing bunny ears so it's chill)

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Back From Comic Con With Some New Friends!

And of course by "Friends" I mean stuffies (although my husband and I did meet some really cool people too.)

The little guy on the left is a Tanuki (which the internet says a Tanuki is a Japanese racoon-dog, cute!) and on the right is my Dango on a stick, I think it's a cat, a bunny, and a bear? The Dango I found within a minute of entering the con floor, the vender was literally unpacking, I saw him take it out of the box and knew I neeeeeeded it (and luckily I always have a stuffies budget when I go to cons... and basically anywhere else. I own a LOT of stuffed animals).

The convention was a ton of fun, my Lady Loki cosplay turned out really well and now that I'm not worrying about cosplay or panel schedules or packing hopefully I'll get some time to sit down with Welcome to the LCA! My new adorable friends are definitely very inspirational for a Little writing session.

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My Mind Loves to Wander

I think one of my biggest struggles when re-reading Welcome to the LCA is ignoring the desire to write one-shots and Au's.

in chapter 1 Frigga invites Thor over for lunch to spend the day with her and Loki before they attend the official Family Birthday Dinner with Odin, but we do a time jump and don't actually see what happens. I kind of want to write a one-shot from Frigga's POV, maybe I'd do alternating POVs, idk but I really want to see her perspective since the whole point of having Thor come so early was so that the boys could bond without Odin around, remember how much they love each other, and then Thor would be open to Little-sitting. Of course, Thor brings his friends and mucks the whole thing up. Frigga would outwardly be like "wonderful, you're all like family, so glad you could come" while fuming inside.

I also really want to write an AU where Thor does get a hold of Loki early on and becomes his Caregiver. It would go soooooooo badly, and I want to see it! In my head, it would start the same as Welcome to the LCA but then would deviate in chapter 8. Loki would meet Mobius and agree to meet Steve, the difference is that when he's freaking out in the office waiting room, wondering if he's an idiot for agreeing to trust a stranger, Thor gets a hold of him. Thor either A) finds out Loki is missing earlier and calls him or B) feels bad about the comment he made on his birthday and texts Loki to be like "hey, we're cool, right?" Loki dashes out of the waiting room to talk to Thor in privacy, when Jackie (the receptionist) calls him back he's long gone. I think that's a good spot to deviate because this way Loki is on both Mobius' and Steve's radar (All of Steve's early scenes in chapter 9 would have also happened) and Mobius would have his phone number to be able to reach out, Especially once Thor starts posting content with Loki in it, because you KNOW he will and the general public will be like "aw, so cute!" and Mobius will be like "that's my Little and he's clearly not doing well! What is that jerk doing to him!?" (Oh no, does Thor cut Loki's hair short? Steve sat there and got all of the tangles out of Loki's hair, I don't think Thor would have the same patience. He would start but then he'd realise he was late to some random obligation or Loki would be crying about it hurting so Thor would decide a haircut was faster).

The one-shot I'm kind of on the fence if it's something I'd actually write, the AU I've wanted to write so badly for quite some time. i've resisted though, and will continue to do so until I at least have a rough draft of the main fic ready.

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Progress Update on Welcome to the LCA

Okay, so I'm admittedly not anywhere ready to post yet, but I wanted to give a progress update because A) I'm just so happy that I actually had time to sit down to write today and B) I've been asked about it in the comments of the fic, so I thought other ppl might also be wondering if I've given up (I have not!)

I now have a complete rough draft of chapters 31-36, and then a few scenes written for chapters 37-39. I know from an outside perspective that might not seem like a lot for a whole year away, but considering how busy I've been (and how stubborn and thick-headed certain characters are) I'm very happy with the progress.

My sort of goal is to start posting by June, but that was also my goal last year, so we'll see how that goes.

(Writing this without slipping in ANY spoilers was a challenge but author can bite her tongue when she needs to (I just don't like to))

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Happy Holidays from UnBee and Dragon!

No matter what you celebrate, I'm sending you a hug if you'd like it and some happy vibes. I hope you have a wonderful day and a Happy New Year!!!

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UnBee and Dragon

In Welcome to the LCA (my story on AO3) Little Loki has 2 stuffed friends: UnBee (a black and white stuffed bunny he's had since he was a baby) and Dragon (a pink and purple dragon he got during the story).

I just wanted to share their IRL counter parts. My bunny I actually bought as an adult, I absolutely love bunnies, I didn't realize this one had crinkle ears and a bell in the stomach until I picked it up but that just made me fall more in love. The dragon I won in an arcade, I chose it specifically because of the fic. They didn't have pink and purple, so I figured green and gold was the next best thing 💚💛.

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Just a little note (and a lot of rambling) about WttLCA

Obviously it's been a hot minute (almost a full year T-T) since I've updated Welcome to the LCA, I just wanted to let anyone who might see this know that I'm still working on it! I do know where I want the story to go, I'm just a very slow writer with a very full plate.

I just started another read through the other day to get myself into the mindset to write in this universe and have felt myself wishing more than once I could drop all of my responsibilities for a while and just be Little. I have elderly parents, 3 kids of my own, someone close had a baby and I'm helping out with them (I'll eventually be taking said baby twice a week), and now I'll be hosting Christmas for my in-laws early january . My tics are going wild with all of the social stress! I would really like to just snuggle in my stuffie pile and write for a full day, that would be so nice. I did go to a crafting party today. I was proud of myself because I didn't know majority of the people there super well, I was miserable and awkward for the first 5 minutes but I stuck with it and eventually was able to have a good time, and they were a very nice group so my tics weren't an issue.

And finally, a tidbit about WttLCA: In chapter 1, Frigga invites Thor over for lunch to spend the day with her and Loki even though the family dinner was the main birthday event. I originally wrote it that way simply because I wanted Loki to be really stressed by the time dinner rolled around. It registered with me that that was kind of strange choice on Frigga's part, and then I realised her motivation. Frigga was attempting to get Thor and Loki to reconnect so that Thor would be more open to saying "yes" to Little-sitting Loki when she asked him later that day. (and obviously they would reconnect easier without Odin around) Thor's friends threw a huge wrench in her plans by showing up. Also, in my original author notes I had included that Anne, the waitress at the steakhouse, is played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in my head and was a nod to when Buffy runs away in BtVS and works as a waitress named Anne (which is her middle name). I was too scared to have such long author notes on the bottom when the top author notes were already a mile long, so i didn't include it.

If you got this far, thanks for reading!

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Posting to post to hopefully overcome my irrational fear of posting, hi!

Okay, so I re-read the Loki-centered Little fic I'm in the process of writing (Welcome to the LCA, on AO3) quite often for continuity's sake, and during reading I have a lot of thoughts/feelings about the story. I'd like to start a blog to share those thoughts. Even if no one reads it, I'd like to have it out in the world for my own sake. My biggest hurdle is that I'm really (irrationally) scared to post here. Like, I'm currently bouncing back and forth between being fine and trying not to cry at the moment.

So here I am, posting a random post to show myself that nothing (too) bad will happen. Hopefully the next time I post it'll be in a blog I created for Welcome to the LCA.