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[cardassiangoodreads]

Lwaxana x Ishka and Garashir in Paris?

For the ask me about my WIPs meme.

Lwaxana/Ishka:

They're a ship I've always wanted to explore, just because they seem like they'd hit it off really well if they ever met, and the fic involves them meeting, getting together, planning their wedding but also being meddling mom + future step-mom about Quodo. (Lwaxana has figured out Odo doesn't return her feelings by this point and besides, she's in love with Ishka, so she's happy to nudge him toward the person he really likes, like she sorta does with him and Kira in the actual show.) For this fic, it's a Betazoid wedding tradition for the marrying couple to set up another couple during the wedding planning process/wedding ceremony -- not required, but if you can make it happen it's an especially auspicious sign for the marriage + the couple who got matched. Anyway, they quickly figure out there is a lot of unresolved sexual tension on this station and start also trying to match up Garashir, Kiradax, maybe Jake/Ziyal, maybe some others... it goes into crazy zany comedy town very quickly, but also romantic because they're not wrong about the couples they're matching either! This will be fun and I really need to get around to it.

Garashir in Paris:

This is an AU where Garak ends up spending his exile on Earth (for Reasons that I have yet to come up with) and he meets Julian by chance when he's still living in Paris and engaged to Palis Delon, and still figuring out whether he's going to take the cushy hospital job on Earth or go with Starfleet. They will probably meet-cute in a little café and it's similarly touchy-feely to "Past Prologue," and then they will also get into a groove of discussing books together ….but it will also be very romantic and French and cliché. But of course there's angst potential in terms of first, Julian grappling with his feelings transferring from his fiancée to this strange, suspicious, but also intelligent and alluring Cardassian man who seems to respect and Get him in a way nobody else does, as well as the wrench this throws in the question of his future... since if he wants the position in Paris that's pretty contingent on his marrying Palis, but if he joins Starfleet and leaves Earth can he take Garak with him? Does he still go out for the posting on DS9 and if so, is there some reason that Garak can't be there -- some reason he wasn't living there in the first place? I still need to work out the actual answer to that last question, haha. I'm actually kind of surprised I haven't seen something like this in the fandom before (though please nobody get the jump on me now). It’ll probably be titled, ofc, “We’ll Always Have Paris”

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[ernmark]

Endocrine system reset??

So you know how there’s all this to-do about Garak’s endocrine system failing during The Wire, and it’s slowly killing him? 

I got to thinking about high school biology and wait, isn’t the endocrine system responsible for all kinds of fun stuff? I wonder how much we can fuck with Garak’s mental and emotional state while that’s recalibrating itself. I mean, come on, the idea of whatever-the-Cardassian-equivalent-of-Oxytocin alone going haywire has lots of potential.

I wrote like 2k for that fic and then looked at the script to double check something, and I discovered that it is not, in fact, his endocrine system that went kaput. It’s his lymphatic system. Which does entirely different stuff. 

Whoops.

I’m gonna say that his hormones are also all out of whack, because he’s been fucking with his neurotransmitters for years. But that’s why it’s got that particular title.

[10yrsyart]

I'm in love with your Dolphins and Ducks AU! What actors might you imagine playing your versions of Book Aziraphale and Crowley?

thankyou so much! :D hoooh boy, this is gonna be a bit long, fair warning. i think about it constantly.. i’ve got some people in mind, even if it’s not exactly perfect.

Aziraphale- William Christopher (as Father Mulcahy) from M*A*S*H* 4077

Father Mulcahy’s got so much Az in him already. he’s very friendly and willing to help, but watch out cause he’s also got some snarky jokes of his own. pretty laid back kind of priest, but don’t be fooled, he’s got a backbone too. 

also he does boxing?? he will punch you if it’s absolutely necessary.

give him a little extra weight and a bit more gay and he would’ve played it  perfect (aah time travel) (you guys should watch MASH)

Crowley- Rami Malek 

tbh i’ve only ever seen Rami play Pharaoh Akmenrah a long time ago, but for some reason he still stuck in my head..

and like, if he can play Freddie Mercury (yes, the irony is not lost on me) he could play Crow. something about him speaks of potential nervous energy.

hey look, lip bite

this is so long, i’m very sorry. but yes, those are my thoughts for now. this doesn’t apply to voice claims btw, if i ever find those it’ll be a different post.

[iamanartichoke]

For the ask meme: 3, 4, 5?

3. Did someone refer him to you or you found him on your own?

Kinda both? I got into the MCU (mostly - I'd watched Jessica Jones on my own bc it appealed to me right away) through my boyfriend at the time, who was (is) a big fan, and we went and (over the course of a few months) watched all the movies together up to Thor Ragnarok, bc this was 2017 and TR hadn't been released yet. 

So when it was released, we went and saw it (first MCU film seen in the theatre!) and at the time I enjoyed it - but, I couldn't get Loki out of my head. I actually ended up bootlegging a copy of TR and watched it lots of times again on my own, bc I was fascinated with Loki in general. Eventually I went back and rewatched Thor 1 and TDW much more closely, and of course my opinions have evolved since then and wank and discourse have followed, but the truth is that no matter how much I may criticize TR, I can't bring myself to dismiss it entirely bc it's the film that got me into Loki and there are a decent amount of things in that movie I do enjoy. So there's that. 

Short answer: Someone referred me to the MCU but I latched onto Loki all by my lonesome. 

4. What's your favorite Loki line?

This is impossible lmfao. He's got so many great lines. I think that "Oh dear, is she dead?" is always going to be at the very top of the list, though, so we'll go with that for now. It's just so fucking snarky and I love how he's just like "yawn idgaf" bc a second later Thor is like "Jane!" all dramatically and I think it just really says a lot about who Loki is (and who Thor is), in a subtle way, in that moment. 

5. What's your favorite Loki outfit?

The black suit from Ragnarok, hands down. It fits him like a glove, all sleek lines and sharp angles, and the way he moves in it is art. Watching Loki walk across the cliff toward Odin, wearing that suit, is probably the closest I've ever felt to being sexually attracted to him, tbh. I wanted to join tumblr as @ lokisblacksuit but ended up not, and I'm sure that url is taken (or was taken, idk) anyway. 

Thank you for the ask!

  MCU Loki Questions

[illwynd]

18 and 19 for the ask meme? Thanks!

Aaaaah thank you for asking a thing!! <3

18) Do you have any abandoned WIP’s? What made you abandon them?

Eh yeah I do, though exactly how many depends how we’re counting. I have tons of things that never made it past the “vague idea for a story, maybe a paragraph or two of text and a couple notes thrown into a document” stage, and most of those I dropped because I wasn’t really all that inspired to write it, or decided I didn’t have time for it among all the other ideas I liked better, or decided it was a good idea but I was not the right person to write it, or forgot where the hell I was going with the idea by the time I looked at it again, or in some cases because it was too similar to something I’d already written. Or even that I just realized I didn’t like the implications much. 

For anything more substantial than that, I’m more hesitant to call them actually permanently abandoned. There were a few fics I started in old fandoms that I never got around to finishing and probably won’t although I’m still sad about it (the BoromirLives!AU where he had amnesia and couldn’t form any new memories oh!) and there is one unfinished WIP on the old thorki kinkmeme that doesn’t have my name on it and I just got too bored and decided it sucked.

Everything else, they’re more just set aside rather than abandoned. I figure they’re waiting for the right time for me to come back and finish ‘em (though realistically maybe half of them ever actually will get finished unless I get a spare lifetime somehow). 

19) Are there any stories that you’ve written that you’d really love to do a sequel to?

I don’t tend to do sequels very often just because, eh, I feel like it doesn’t often fit the needs of the things I write, and I’m usually more about moving on to the next idea.

However.

One of the set-aside fics is a half-written and entirely outlined sequel to The Begonia Incident. I really want to finish that thing. So bad.

[fairy-changeling]

"Rulers Make Bad Lovers." I love the Arthurian/mythic premise.

Thank you!

I was so worried no-one would like it, but now I have so many Arthurian inspired ideas since a lot of the Arthurian myths mirror Norse tales; not unsurprisingly considering the history of the British Isles.  

[kingloptr]

philosopherking1887 replied to your post “Why tf do people think he's abusive? All he ever tries to do is help...”

I never considered Thor's behavior abusive before "Ragnarok," but his character changed so radically -- and not for the better -- that I'm rethinking that opinion.

Just--here’s the thing, perhaps it’s technically a semantics issue that has me wanna physically fight when I hear the words ‘Thor’ and ‘abusive’ in the same sentence? I notice the word ‘abusive’ getting thrown around a lot in fandom lately, so much so that it almost annoys me nearly as much as the word ‘problematic’, or the incorrect use of the word ‘romanticize’. And I wouldn’t mind seeing people state some of the less than savory characteristics of Thor in relation to Loki so much IF they were also using it to describe Loki’s more vicious tricks and manipulations and mind-games, and if it weren’t used to ultimately demonize Thor as if he’s unreasonable to do the things he’s done in reaction to Loki’s most recent theatrics (literal theatrics too lol). I mean. ‘left Loki to die’???? Please, like Thor would ever do that holy shit I couldn’t believe I saw that phrase earlier today. Plus where is the respect for Loki’s power and abilities there omg like that little buzzer was actually capable of torturing or harming Loki seriously??

Anyways. if I didn’t see people calling regular ‘rival’ and flat out ‘enemy’ relationships in fiction ‘abusive’ every time I turn around, when that word has a very specific connotation and social meaning to it, and implies all sorts of (different kinds than seen here!) broken trust, power imbalances, specific patterns, cultural settings, stigmas and whatnot....then maybe me seeing someone say “Thor’s behavior is abusive” wouldn’t set off such a ‘do not want’ reflex on my end. 

But I absolutely cannot stand behind using that term to describe any way Thor treats Loki other than maybe any IMPLIED (not even shown in story!) ways he may have treated Loki unwittingly, before Thor 1.