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[veliseraptor]

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Odin wrestled for a while over how to bring the babe back to Asgard unnoticed. There was no question that it needed to be unnoticed. Asking his people to accept their king adopting a Jotun child before a formal peace was even made would be too much. 

In the end, he swaddled the babe (Loki, he already had a name unspoken in Odin’s mind) in some scraps of a banner, tucked him in a knapsack, and called the Bifrost to bring them home. The young watchman’s eyebrows twitched slightly as he watched Odin pass, but he said nothing. Good lad, Odin thought, and made a note to ensure that he was clear on the need to say nothing in the future, either. 

[bereft-of-frogs]

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“Shh. Are you in pain?” Loki nods, then his face twists. “Right. That is probably a bad idea. Don’t move so much, how about…squeeze my hand. Once for yes, twice for no. Okay?” Loki squeezes his hand once. “Good.”

Loki points to the tube in his mouth with one long finger, then sweeps it away. The question is evident. “Not until we return to Earth. Your…your throat was…it was…damaged. We can’t take it out until we’re sure you can breathe on your own.” Loki frowns around the tube, but squeezes his hand once. “Does it hurt?” Loki squeezes twice. “Uncomfortable?” Once. “I’m sorry, brother. It won’t be long.” Next Loki points to his eye. “See…something? You want to see-” Loki shakes his head and lets out a whine of pain. He settles after a moment. He taps Thor’s knee, points to his own eye, then back to Thor’s face. “Oh! Yes, I got a new eye. False, of course. And brown.” Loki’s eyes are watery again. “What is it? What’s wrong?”

Loki just squeezes his hand tight and doesn’t let up. Thor can feel him starting to tremble.

Thor strokes back his hair. “He’s dead. It’s over.” The tears spill over. Loki’s breath hitches, fighting the forced rhythm of the machine.

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

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here’s another one that was supposed to be quick and simple

Gamora tucks the ice packs around Loki’s neck, leaving the front exposed, before pulling a scalpel from the medical kit. Thor’s heart lurches and he reacts without thinking, his hand snapping out to seize her wrist. She starts to jerk away and visibly checks herself. “Let go.”

Thor doesn’t. “Then put down the knife.”

She gives him a hard look. “His windpipe is crushed. Bypassing it is the only way he’ll be able to get any oxygen right now, and he will die if we don’t do something soon.”

“Yes. I see that,” and he does, past his instinctive fear. “Are you sure you know what you’re doing?”

Gamora’s expression somehow turns even grimmer. “Yes.”

Thor makes himself let go, heart pounding. “Be careful. Please.”

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

Rules: List ten words or phrases that have something to do with your work(s) in progress and then tag 10 people to do the same.

thank you @aninfinitenumberofmonkeys for the tag!

since i was tagged by someone who wants to know more about anmanl, i'm only including anmanl here, and i'll also be breaking the rules and doing out of context quotes since that's fun and requires less of my school-burnt-out brain lmao

“If we could visit one planet without somebody getting arrested, that’d be friggin’ swell.”

“Everything, Rocket,” Peter says, massaging the bridge of his nose. “Literally everything about that sentence is illegal.”

“Just go ahead and tell me you ain’t never — hey, Quill — been anywhere that ain’t all hoity toity five star royalty, eh?”

“I gotta be honest, that really depends on what you call a limb.”

“Pulled pork, dude.”

“But in my defense, he was attempting to break into the bathroom while I was still in it.”

“Potatoes and tomatoes are not the same thing!”

“Oh, relax with the theatrics, I wouldn’t have dropped you.”

“Got pins ‘n needles in my foot. That help any?”

“Because you heard me singing about car sex!”

god some of these are.... wildly amazingly out of context, but do with it what you will lmao

as for tagging, i know this is lazy but i got a presentation to do and this was my second try after tumblr deleted my first post SO if you see this and wanna do it, consider yourself tagged (and tag me so i can see your response!)

[aphrodaisyacs]

answering on a separate post since I was tagged by both @aninfinitenumberofmonkeys and @mercialachesis (<3 <3 <3):

Respond with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable)! ☀️

I’m a ridiculously slow writer but I’m quite proud of the few fics that I’ve managed to upload. And in my first ever shipping fic I’ve even managed to get several “I usually don’t like this pairing but you’ve convinced me” comments, which. YES.

I love taking photos and I’m quite proud of my photography skills! I don’t post them on here but they’re on my PF account totally not plugging

I’ve been playing around with PhotoShop since around 13, so I’ve gotten quite good at editing and manipulating pictures now!

My grades are pretty decent- as of now I’ve got a Distinction average

I know 4 languages (2 dialects) which honestly isn’t much at this day and age but it’s still something

That’s all folks! If I send this to you, you don’t have to feel pressured to do it :)

[mykingdomforapen]

aninfinitenumberofmonkeys replied to your post: do you think that the ‘more cake’ philosophy that...

I literally just had a conversation with someone comparing childhood memories about reading every single book with ___ plot that our local libraries had and wishing for more. I promise you the two cakes principle still applies to original fiction. :)

makerofrunevests reblogged your post: do you think that the ‘more cake’ philosophy that...

If I like a book very much, and then I find out that more, similar books exist, I am delighted!

Thank you for your guys’ input!! it does put me at more ease :) 

[veliseraptor]

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Which was how Steve ended up sneaking a Ouija board into his apartment.

He’d thought about using a recorder of some kind, but speaking seemed to be hard for Loki’s ghost. (Had to be maddening, Steve thought. Thor’s brother had seemed like a talker.) So…these things were supposedly designed for talking to spirits. 

It was a long shot, and probably a stupid idea, but maybe it would work. Maybe he could finish this.

He set down the board and laid it out, putting the planchette in the middle like the directions said. He scratched the back of his neck and made a face, feeling a little stupid, before putting his hands on the little piece of plastic. 

(He’s not even here, a little voice at the back of Steve’s brain said. What, do you think you’re going to summon him?)

Steve cleared his throat. “Um…Loki?”

Nothing. The temperature stayed constant, and Steve felt stupid. 

“If you want to talk to me, I’m here,” Steve tried. Still nothing, and Steve dropped his head forward, embarrassed even though there was no one there to see. He pulled his hands back and scrubbed them through his hair. “Look,” he said, to nothing, “I’m trying. If you could just…”

Silence, except for the low sound of the refrigerator humming. Steve leaned back on his hands.

[veliseraptor]

D, G and L?

What book do you hate that most others love?

Children of Blood and Bone. God!!! I do not understand why people love that book so much!!!!! People are nuts about it, it has a movie in the works, it’s this huge thing and you guys it’s just not good, the world-building is sloppy, the writing quality is mediocre, the characters are boring and the plot is a basic video game fetch and carry quest. If it were one of these things that was true, or two of them...sure, I forgive that kind of thing all the time if there are other things I like in a book. But all of them?

I don’t get it.

Like, okay, I get that people are excited about fantasy fiction in an African setting. I get that. It’s why I read it, because I’m always looking for fantasy in interesting settings. But it’s just...not good.

Yes I am still upset about this, every time it comes up I feel like I’m losing my mind and am living in an adjacent universe where I read a different book from everyone else.

(Also Ready Player One but there is a much larger contingent of people who agree with me on that one.)

What’s your favorite reading spot?

I will read just about anywhere. I mean, I do a lot of my reading right now on my commute, sitting down on the subway.

But I guess my favorite place to read...well, when I think about a place where I actually felt like it was a “reading place” it’s in a family house that I haven’t lived in for...lord, almost a decade. There were these great chairs positioned around the fire, big enough that I could curl up in them.

That’s what I think of when I think of a good reading nook.

I also love reading in the bath.

What’s your favorite guilty-pleasure read?

I’m trying to purge the idea of guilty pleasures from my life, because if I let myself I will feel guilty about everything I enjoy. I mean, I still do, sometimes, and I’ve gotten better about it. There was a time where everything I liked I felt vaguely ashamed of.

But I guess if I had to pick one thing I’d probably end up going with Black Jewels Trilogy. For all its issues, I fucking love it. It lives in a very deep and close to my heart place.

 I don’t care if the “writing is not that good” or whatever. Those characters are mine and I love them, and talk about found family dynamics.