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[veliseraptor]

Ship thing: Loki/Valkyrie

Cons:

I’m sort of picky about it, particularly when it comes to Valkyrie and how she’s written. mostly I need her to be just as much of a mess - or at least almost as much of a mess - as Loki is. I’m not interested in this pairing if it’s a version of “Val fixes Loki;” that doesn’t work for me either on characterization levels or what I want levels. 

but on the whole this is a pairing that does just generally work for me, I’m just kind of touchy about specific content sometimes.

Pros:

It’s funny to me because when I first heard about this as a pairing in concept prior to Ragnarok’s release I was like “no, thank you, not interested, Valkyrie deserves better” and then the movie actually came out and I was like “oh this is a ‘two trainwrecks being trainwrecks together’ pairing, sign me up for that.” 

because that’s what I like here! I like the way that both Val and Loki are fucked up bundles of bad coping mechanisms, and they don’t particularly like each other but they do kind of get each other.

I feel like for me this is a perfect friends with benefits pairing, because I don’t necessarily want like. a traditional romance or whatever, I more just want...two people sort of using each other but also finding some kind of comfort with each other. something messy and dysfunctional but not necessarily destructive. and neither of them are going to take the others’ bullshit. 

I didn’t expect to get as much joy out of writing them across each other as it turned out that I did, but they are very fun to write across each other.

[psychoticgirl]

Yessss look what came in the mail! As soon as Lauren showed me the sketches for her beautiful beautiful artwork, I begged her to let me buy it lol now I can add it to my collection of @led-lite Sifki artwork 🥰

[loxxxlay]

@led-lite​

it’s called pixels and these are all the features. its “patterns” tab (where it shows the graphs and the emotions by mood features) leaves a lot to be desired... i don’t think it’s very accurate for emotions by mood especially... (or maybe i just don’t have enough data yet.) 

but anyway it’s a nice place for me to keep track of a shit ton of stuff that i can make into my own data graphs later, even if the app itself doesn’t give me the info i want. (especially because you can add/remove emotions. like those are just some of the default ones i have for now but next month i plan to revamp the whole emotion thing)

anyway here’s a pic of it in the app store too

enjoyyyyy, it’s really nice for the visual up/down graph alone!

[anamelessdragon]

led-lite replied to your post “I was tagged by @adreamer67 in the Tag 8 People You’d...”

I'm never ready for your pet SQUAD

Actually just several pet-shaped growths that occasionally gain sentience and detach from my body. 

[ameliarating]

led-lite replied to your post: if I could go one year without spilling boiling...

Sounds like a tradition to me

it is - once it’s happened for three times, it has to keep happening

[veliseraptor]

☮ for everybody’s best friend, Loki

☮ - friendship headcanon: The thing about Loki is that he can be a very good friend! If he likes you he is extremely loyal, he is the friend who responds to you crying about how someone hurt you with “do you want me to go kill them because I will” and absolutely means it. Loki doesn’t tend to make casual friends. He either doesn’t like you, tolerates you, or is ride-or-die for you. 

Which is intense, and a lot, actually. Loki is intense, and having all that energy and focus on you as a person can be...unnerving, especially when it comes to his nasty streak. And he is easily hurt, too - touchy, sensitive, easily set off. He closes off fast and he can be extremely passive aggressive (or just aggressive). He puts up emotional walls. He doesn’t always say what he means, especially when he’s hurt. 

He’s not an easy friend to have, all of the time. 

But as in all things, when Loki feels things he feels them hard, and that goes for his friendships, too. It’s a mixed blessing. 

[veliseraptor]

Sending you a 🌹 because it looks like all the cool kids are doing it

“Absolutely,” the Grandmaster said. “I only take the best,” and flashed a dazzling smile of his own. Loki wondered, very briefly, if he’d made a tactical error.

[veliseraptor]

6. List your OTP from each fandom you’ve been involved in.

List your OTP from each fandom you’ve been involved in.

Oh boy. Just for fuckin grins I’m going to make this a really, really exhaustive list. Which means: if I’ve written more than one fic for a fandom, I’m putting it on here. (Which actually doesn’t even make it exhaustive, because there’s fandoms I’d say I’ve been loosely ‘involved in’ where I didn’t write fic, but it’s the closest I can get without this getting far too out of hand.)

Disclaimer that I am not really an OTP person, on the whole - I’m a consummate multishipper. But I’ll pick like. Up to three. 

In chronological order!

Wheel of Time: Min/Rand and Mat/Tuon, though now I’ve drifted into Elan/Rand territory (or, as previously mentioned, Elan/Min/Rand).

Black Jewels Trilogy: I was mostly a boring canon shipper in this fandom (Lucivar/Marian was near and dear to my heart); shockingly I was not a Lucivar/Daemon shipper at the time though if I read it for the first time now I might be. But really I was mostly here for gen shipping the family dynamics, especially with Jaenelle and Lucivar. Soft spot for Karla/Jaenelle and Karla/Wilhelmina, though.

Caliban Leandros: Just gen shipping the central brothers (Caliban and Niko). I mean, obviously. What else would I care about.

Doctrine of Labyrinths: Felix/Mildmay, Felix and Mildmay, don’t care which, as long as they are thoroughly entangled in each other I’m happy. Also Felix/Malkar, though.

Silmarillion: Aredhel/Celegorm, very messy Tuor/Idril/Maeglin, and Curufin and Celegorm’s messy and dysfunctional relationship. Oh but also Curufin/Finrod. That’s four. So sue me.

A Song of Ice and Fire: I was a dirty Sansa/Sandor shipper. But also always the Arya and Sandor dynamic was one I loved. A real sucker for Robb/Jeyne and I still am, they were cute and I’m very sad for them.

Death Note: L/Light, and this is one where I honestly did have an OTP. Baby’s first...okay, not quite baby’s first hateship, but it was probably the first really intense one. Definitely the first hateship I wrote smut for.

Avatar: the Last Airbender: I didn’t really have strong feelings about pairings? Mostly I was just kind of “Zuko & everybody” but I think honestly Zuko and Sokka was one of the dynamics I ended up coming back to a lot. I wrote some Zuko/Mai and I did like them. If I got into this fandom now I feel like I’d be very about some Zuko/Mai/Katara. OH Azula/Ty Lee, I’m into that. 

Code Geass: Lelouch/Suzaku. Is anyone surprised? I certainly hope not.

Doctor Who: Doctor/Master was really the only thing I was ever invested in as far as shipping went, though I don’t recall as I ever wrote anything explicitly shippy for them. One kind of slanting in that direction, but never went all the way. Missed opportunities, past self.

Supernatural: Sam and Dean, first and foremost; secondarily Sam/Lucifer and Sam/Castiel.

Buffy: the Vampire Slayer / Angel: Buffy/Angel, which is actually kind of surprising to me in retrospect as Buffy/Spike is on the face of it more my aesthetique? But I guess my real OTP was actually Buffy/Angel/Spike, I chased down a lot of that when I went on my Buffy reading spree after I finally watched it in high school.

White Collar: Neal/Peter/Elizabeth, and one of the only fandoms where I was blessed with a lot of content for my OT3, comparatively speaking.

MCU: Steve/Loki, Loki and Thor, and Clint/Loki, probably, though there’s a small army of ships and dynamics here that I could throw down. And I feel like I would be remiss if I did not mention Clint/Natasha as well.

Lymond Chronicles: Lymond/Gabriel is honestly my single biggest ship here, though I do love Lymond/Philippa. Also Lymond and Richard. (I mean! Are we getting the picture here about sibling relationships & me?)

The Untamed: Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen, Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian, and a tie for third probably going to Song Lan/Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen and Lan Xichen/Jin Guangyao? But I do also love Wangxian?? god there’s too many good ones here really how am I supposed to choose. 

Other fandoms where I just really didn’t have any ships: Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Dexter.