#Thorsif

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Thor and Sif closeup ⚔️⚡️

[wheremermaidsdwell]

Fic Writer Interview

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How many works do you have on ao3?

58. 18 of those posted since summer 2023. Also some of my works are fanvids, although most of my fanvids are just on my youtube.

What’s your total word count?

442,507! Almost half of that is one fic lol

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

How Not to Drown (Hellcheer)

(Don't Let Me Get) What You Want (Hellcheer)

Far Less Alone (Keyleth/Vax)

Butterflies (Jester introspective, Fjorester)

The Only One I Ever Saved (Hellcheer, Companion to How Not to Drown)

Do you respond to comments? Why/why not?

I used to not reply bc I thought it was considered rude on ao3! I don't know where I got this idea but I thought you were 'inflating your numbers' so I didn't do it. Now I DO reply which I think makes everyone much happier and I really enjoy interacting with my readers!

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

So. I'm a happy ending person. I write angst with happy endings. However I do have Missat. Which is based off speculation and clues that maybe having babies is hard for asgardians aka miscarriage fic so it's all about loss and there's no magical healing or anything it's just grief

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

That's gotta be Too Sweet. Hellcheer style Scoops Ahoy ad made me write the CUTEST date fic and torture Chrissy in the process and it's just pure spun sugar.

Do you write crossovers?

not unless we're counting crossing comic/mcu canon but I'm not opposed to it! Also my witch!chrissy fic idea borrows from Critical Role which is my next project that I'm planning to start in january....

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

No! I did once get someone come right onto my tumblr post and go 'i don't think eddie would have [x] but otherwise i liked it a lot' and dear tumblrite you can keep that shit to yourself lol.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes. Too much arguably. There's far too much smut in WYW but i didn't know how to remove it and eh, no one complained.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of! Hopefully never.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of..

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I have written in the same universe as a friend but not co written a singular fic. I however have RPed for years so like. basically? I mean there is sooooo much rp on my sif blog lol.

What's your all-time favourite ship?

based on my output it's Hellcheer. No one else has taken over my brain this way. I do however also have to say Thorsif. They are my eternal loves.

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

jokes on you I don't post WIPs. I do have a DND au in my docs that i really like the idea of but once i got into it i'm not sure if it's working. so probably that. I also worry about ever finishing my season 4 rewrite. that's a matter of picking it and writing it, but I plan to get a new job and ANY new job will mean less writing time.

What are your writing strengths?

dialogue, and I think I'm very good at writing convincing emotional arcs!

What are your writing weaknesses?

Descriptions *hides*

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I think it depends heavily on purpose and canon. If you need your readers to understand the other language than you have to have a way of translation, which can be difficult if you're doing anything longer than a word or two that the fandom might already know by osmosis. I haven't had to deal with multiple languages in fics much, thankfully, so I don't know all the options.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Gundam Wing.

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

I have an unfinished Briarwoods backstory fic that in an ideal world i would finish and post

What's your favourite fic you've written?

This is hard because there's a lot of variation in my fic writing but I think it has to go to How Not to Drown which, while the pacing is a little funky, is pure teen drama in your veins and is a story that means a lot to me.

[ofcatnaps-moved]

lady sif

send 'ship bias' and i will tell you up to 5 of my preferred ships for a muse !!

lady sif - thor odinson. i'm a sucker for thorsif and it's just not popular enough and i love them together so hard. - loki laufeyson. listen..................... i have no defence. - brunnhilde / valkyrie. goD THE GAYS. IT IS PERFECT. - maria hill. her lover on the ground. :) - jane foster. specifically in a polyam triad with thor. :)

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Ults #6

ok so, last time i mentioned this book in this blog, i was extremely angry at what i'd interpreted as blatant usa nationalism in issue #2, to the point i'd almost dropped the comic. issue #3 held me back from doing that, but i was still frustrated at how tone deaf it seemed to have the maker's fictional council do cartoonishly evil things that are actually in no way that different for what the real global north has done and still does, and then have the hero characters fighting for what ultimately (no pun intended) was a return to our status-quo.

then i saw some tweets from the writer, deniz camp, that made it seem like he was very much aware of that. then i read issue #5, which opens with his absolute banger

and then spends the entire issue having an indigenous character telling captain america to eat shit and die, including basically spelling out what i was hoping would be addressed:

(and also spotlighted our brazilian villain a bit, which is mostly unrelated but reminded me i might have more stuff to get angry at later on)

with all that in mind, i went back and reread issue #2 and i think i understood better what it was trying to get at, but i still find it the weakest execution overall.

so, with my hope renewed that this universe will give me the first steve to actually verbalise that 'fuck the "american" dream, this country is rotten to the core', let's get to issue #6

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HE'S SO BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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oh good for him

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i'm usually not big on thorsif as a couple (thorjane >>>>) but this dynamic

is kinda hard to resist

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he's my son

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OH

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sorry, why is the BABY the leader???? you have four people in this team who've fought in actual wars!! and two of them are gods!!

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why do all of these sound like old forum usernames

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nults hank is ADORABLE and him and jan are so cute 😭 i haven't been fed hankjan like this since emh

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sorry, is using "hiroshimas" as a metric for explosions an actual thing? bc it feels awfully insensitive.

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why is half of this issue just silly ass names for attack moves

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nah, he'd just take it out on his wife

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guys i think janet just killed a god

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hm.

ok.

this was not in my plans.

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OK, I THINK WE'RE SAFE

unless it's someone else under the suit, but like... who?? howard is still locked up, none of the iron man supporting cast has been introduced, and i don't see a random person donning the suit right in the following issue... if it was just #7 i might think it's a fake out, and if it was just #9 i might think it's luke taking over for some reason, but both of them???

also, the wiki lists him as alive and his appearance on #6 as "apparent death", so idk if there's been spoilers that he's alive of if they're just waiting until we're sure bc. superhero comics.

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ok, i've tried looking it up and there doesn't seem to be any spoilers... ugh i really hope he's not perma-dead, or even fake-dead for a long while... bc him 'being fake-dead until the end of the current overarching storyline when he appears as kang to fight the maker' is honestly just as bad (not to mention i haven't been as sure that tony is kang as everyone else seems to be, imo it could just as easily be howard)

and the tony on issue #9's cover is apparently just because luke is a "success story" of his, like peter. and he's in one of the variants, also in the background, but not in the one with the actual team...

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ugh i hate this. like, there's a reason i didn't even bother watching avengers endgame (though i already hadn't bothered watching infinity war, but yknow)

it's not as if i was reading so many runs where tony doesn't even show up just because of him, but him not being alive at all in that universe diminishes the appeal A LOT, i'm not gonna lie. and for story reasons too, like. i can see it making sense in the actual ults title (thought now is definitely a bit too soon, i'd wait a few more issues at least to off the optimistic go-getter in order to show how bleak things are. they've been bleak!!), but what about the spider-man book, where they're dealing with the aftermath of his supposed terrorist act? him just dying for real off-screen is so anticlimactic!!

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HEY I JUST REMEMBERED THIS

we haven't even met all the silhouettes , i don't think?? huge one is either jan or hank, the furthest one is probably america, but the one besides doom is way too skinny to be this she-hulk. and no one has even mentioned t'challa, much less met him! and i don't think it's someone else in the iron lad suit, if someone was going to take over tony's mantle (which is already him taking over howard's mantle, mind you) i can't see it going to a character we haven't seen yet, even if it's someone later shown to know tony (like luke might be). this isn't some years-later revival, we're in the 6th issue, if he's dying for real it has been decided from the beginning

that being said, this teaser might not mean anything and tony is just there for hype. duggan's iron man run also had a teaser page like this and half of the things in it never happened, so it's not like this is some smoking gun

anyway. we'll know when we know. i'm going to sleep.

NUlts lb

I've been busy these past weeks so catching up with everything from mid-october to now

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USM #10

the jjj/uncle ben flirting in this is absurd, why is hickman so hooked on old man yaoi

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oh as soon as i saw u-65 i knew it was gonna have something to do with gwen (and completely forgot we actually already knew oscorp bought stane/stark, incredible work from my brain)

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NULTS GWEN IS SOOOOOO GOOD i missed gwen being a bitch so fucking much 😭 can't believe i've finally got my girl back

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gwenmj cheating arc when (i'm joking!!!)

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THE LITTLE GREEN GLINT THAT APPEARS ON HIS ALREADY-GREEN EYE WHEN SHIT'S ABOUT TO GET REAL OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS SO GOOD

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david messina kills it at conversation scenes, i don't know how he does it. the layout is so simple, and you can see a lot of the panels are recycled, but it still feels so dynamic????? how?????

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GIRL WHAT THE FUCK ok there's absolutely no way these two aren't fucking, i'm a clois girlie, i know article-proofreading-as-foreplay when i see it

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oh. oh no. now i want a hickman clone saga.....

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USM #11

remember how i just complimented how dynamic david messina's conversation scenes feel? yeah, his action scenes are just the opposite. so fucking stiff.

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queen.

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oh 👀 nults gayle???? (i hate how the shadows on her hair look)

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NULTS FLASH!!!!!!!!!!

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OH SHE'S SO REAL

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serving all that cunt in the cover only for this to be her only appearance in the actual comic, ugh

and i hope she eventually gets to update the suit bc this one is so whatever. and i hate the bare forearms.

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he doesn't seem like a guy ready to move on with someone else, so do we think jjj was their third

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OH UNCLE BEN KNOWWWSSSS

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UXM #8

ok, this is the first time i ever mention uxm here, so i should probably talk a bit about my feelings towards the series in general bc they're... complicated.

so, i don't think it's a bad comic at all, quite the opposite. but i'm definitely not the target audience, since i haven't been into anime ever since i was 9, and i never liked mangá (i'm physically unable to type it as "manga", sorry, that's a fruit). and it has nothing to do with the actual x-men characters or mythos, which is the reason i wanted to read it in the first place. i really wish they would've just made it about original characters who happen to be mutants and leave the door open for the x-men (and runaways!) characters to show up in other book(s). though, to be fair, fans of characters like armor, nico, and molly (who rarely ever get the spotlight) are probably happy to see them as prominent characters in a big book. but i, you see, am mentally ill about scott summers.

it might come off as a surprise, considering i almost never talk about him, but scott is probably the easiest character to make me tear up just by thinking of how much i love him. he's my special baby boy whom i've loved since i was a little kid refusing to miss a single episode of x-men evolution. but the thing is. x-comics are insane. so i end up not reading him much. and what upset me the most is that this was the perfect chance to change that. and my problem obviously isn't that they've turned him into a girl, i mean, *points at my own user*, but that natsu has almost nothing in common with scott, and if it wasn't for her powers i could read this entire comic and never wonder if she was anything other than an original character. so yeah, i was pretty upset i wasn't gonna get my baby. still am a bit, honestly. fucking wolverine gets a whole fucking solo run, as if he doesn't already has like 10 in the mainverse, and scott gets to be the only main x-character (so far + afaik) to be barely himself. offensive to me specifically.

but then!! but then. i almost cried over this little panel in issue #6

and i realised i am also capable of being mentally ill about natsu tsukishima. that's it, thanks for coming to my ted talk. now onto the actual issue

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guys i think kanon might be stupid.

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hmm really not sure how i feel about the tattooed numbers thing

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OH MY GOD I THOUGHT THIS WAS DROOL i was like wtf is wrong with her

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OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO

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it's always morally correct to do this to influencers btw

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wait, the wiki says rogue showed up in this issue??? i've gone over it twice and haven't seen her

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OH WAIT this might be it

i thought these were bunny ears and it was mori, but i guess it's hair?

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UXM #9

this issue is feeling so rushed

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WAIT WHAT

OH MY GOD I THOUGHT IT WAS LOGAN

AND ALSO WTF, WHAT DID THEY DO TO HIM

AND ALSO tf you mean "the first homo superior"???

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dude what the actual fuck, look how they've massacred my boy

also... i know it's definitely on purpose in this specific case but... i'm actually not a fan of peach momoko's style......... it's very... loose? everything looks like a thumbnail, the characters sometimes look like they're melting, or as if someone randomly took a distortion tool to the page at random, and the watercolour colouring leaves a lot of blank spaces that bother me. like, i can see the merits, i can see why a lot of people enjoy it, but it's really not for me (which is basically how i feel about this comic in general)

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storm in the bg!!

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??????

this is less than 10 panels ago:

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see what i mean when i say characters sometimes look like they're melting??

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yeah, ok, the numbers tattoo thing definitely does bother me. i know it probably just doesn't have the same immediate connotation in japan (though they were axis so like... maybe that's a problem), but editors exist for a reason

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Ults #6

on reblog bc i've hit the fucking image limit on the second page

[feliphesilveira-blog-blog]

“Readying”, i said. not “ready”.

We’ve a little time, Lady Sif

[my-badships]

Forever bummed I never got to see these two interact with Thor as King of Asgard.

[ladysifofasgard]

Thor Son of Asgard #6 

[usernamesuggestionsarefunny]

Sif and Loki having sex is not canon if I don´t want it to be actually.

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fic: it was (always) you- thor/sif

Title: it was (always) you Fandom: MCU/Thor movies Pairing/Characters: Thor/Sif, Frigga Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 4943 Warnings/Spoilers: implied & referenced canon character death/set pre and during Thor (2011); movie events are touched on minus the canon romance Summary: On Asgard, a soulmate was one of the most cherished bonds one could form. A/N: for the rarepairficexchange, for theharleyquinn

On Asgard, a soulmate was the most treasured bond one could form, outside those forged in battle. It is a connection brought upon by a power not fully understood and known by even the Gods, and that mystery made those connections all that more desired, more cherished.

It is a concept that Thor learned of as a child, watching his mother take care of his new baby brother (His name is Loki, Thor, be gentle, was the firm but kind advice she had given him), and upon chance, seeing his father’s name scrawled across her collarbone and immediately demanding answers.

One that she explained, with the simplest words possible.

“Does father have your name as well?” he asked, blue eyes wide and curious.

“He does,” she confirmed, her eyes twinkling.

Thor looked on his own skin, nose wrinkling. “And there shall be a day when I too will have a name?”

“Yes, my dear, there will be,” Frigga said, fondness in her tone and expression evident.

“When?” He wasn’t sure whether he wanted the name immediately, or at all. All he wished to do was play and fight.

“When you are ready.”

Try as he may, there was no other answer he would be able to coax, from her or his father. Only that when the time was right, he shall receive the name of the one who was the other half of his soul.

It was not long after that he first met Sif.

The rest on AO3

[tvcoroner]

The return of Sif is personally the thing I’m most excited about in the next Thor movie. She’s been gone waaaaay too long.

And I swear to God, if they don’t even hint at Thorsif I’m going to yell. I’ve been holding on to this ship for YEARS and it’s still not canon. If they bring her back and don’t progress it in any way I will be so pissed.

[agent-of-sam]

Favorite Thor Ships: Part 1

Out of all the MCU, the Thor movies are my favorites.

It helps that I'm a multi shipper and all the women in Thor's life are awesome. So I want to do some posts about my favorite Thor ships. And I’m starting with my personal favorite: Thor/Sif.

                                                      Totally biased, I've been quietly rooting for Thor and Sif to hook up since 2011 and no matter what direction the story takes Thor x Sif will always be my favorite potential relationship.

Obviously, part of this is just because I have a massive crush on Sif, the character, and Jaimie Alexander, the actress. I love her...why?

Lady Sif is sort of the MCU equivalent of Wonder Woman, an immortal who combines strength and nobility with a sense of warmth, compassion, and emotional openness. 

She doesn't get a huge amount of screen time but comes off as an incredibly well-rounded character, especially in a genre where many female character are assigned valued based on how well they can mimic the traditional cliches of male Action Heroes.  

Sif is able to switch from playful and cocky, to stoic and serious, to gentle and supportive, depending on the situation (as benefiting a literal goddess).

In other word's, she's Girlfriend Material of the absolute highest quality! 

Beyond that, I love that she's so high-key Romantic in her feelings for Thor. Having your Badass Warrior Princess character mournfully pining as she gazes across a crowded room at her lifelong friend, her eyes brimming with unspoken feeling... it's exactly the kind of over the top, melodramatic bullshit that I love about the Asgardians and their weird alien/pseudo-Shakespearian/mythic warrior culture. 

At the same time, she's never fawning in her interactions with Thor. They banter like old friends and flirt in mid-combat. 

Sif tries to counsel him when she thinks he needs perspective or patience. 

She advocates for him when he's not around.

To me it's a very romantic set-up, a long-term friendship based on loyalty and mutual trust with the potential to develop into a very deep relationship. (Though, flipping it around, I can definitely see how female viewers might not appreciate their Super-Hero/Immortal Warrior Woman power fantasy character being portrayed, pining from the sidelines for several centuries).

Plus, their dynamic has this tropey, genderswap thing going on. A Fantasy Prince and his Loyal Female Knight. Except the Fantasy Prince is a giant Viking Immortal with a magic hammer and he and his girlfriend ride into battle side by side which is both hot and romantic to me.

Of course the downside  to Thor x Sif as a relationship (also maybe what makes it appealing)... is that it's all potential. As far as we know, Thor is either unaware of Sif's feelings or does not reciprocate. Which is weird because Thor generally comes off as a very socially/emotionally aware guy... at least in the context of Asgardian society. 

One of my favorite things about Thor is that he's confident but honest and genuine as well. He never comes off as a "ladies man" i.e someone who puts on a smooth, crafted persona specifically to interact with women. 

However, he clearly seems to be aware when women are attracted to him (Jane Foster, the woman in the subway)...so how come he doesn't seem to notice the very obvious torch Sif is carrying?

My personal headcannon for this is that they either casually dated as adolescent (whatever age that is for Asgardians) or came very close to it. But then Frigga and/or Odin stepped in, took Sif aside and basically told her to hold off because they thought she had the potential to be a good queen.

Before his time on Earth, Thor was reckless, arrogant, impulsive, and quick to violence. He wasn't ready to be a king or a committed lover. And so Sif was encouraged to do the responsible thing and wait. 

The irony being that by the time he had matured into the person he was supposed to be, he had met somebody else.

To me, there's something there that mirrors the fall of Asgard. Why not wait? They're gods after all, there's always going to be more time.

Then Thor gets banished and comes back different. He's met a mortal woman and doesn't want to be king anymore. Frigga, who Sif always thought would be her mother-in-law one day, is dead. 

Thor goes searching across the universe and then Odin sends her away from Asgard. And when she finds her way back even her home is gone. Her people live on Earth now, or at least the fraction of them that still survive after Hela, Surtur, and Thanos. 

Thor is gone again, traveling through space with a bunch of mercenaries she’s never heard of.

Maybe I'm just projecting because I want someone in-universe to mourn Asgard and everything those people must have lost in what must seem like a very short amount of time to them.

I always thought Thor x Sif had the potential to be a very stable, well-rounded couple. However, given Thor's general arc in the first two movies  it would have seemed a little off, thematically speaking, if he ended up with the immortal warrior princess/long-time friend that his parents wanted him to get with all along.

However, post-Ragnarok/Endgame I think there is a lot of dramatic/narrative potential to a romantic reunion between Thor and Sif, someone who knew him before everything started and can see how much he has changed. Maybe someone he didn't realize how much he cared for until she was gone. 

For her it's a second chance at something she thought was lost, a piece of her past that's come back damaged and different but still worth fighting for.  

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Obviously, this is all conjecture. There's no guarantee that Sif will return in Thor 4. As a shipper part of me is hoping for it, however as a fan of her character I'm also worried about her being crammed in and either sidelined or mischaracterized by the those behind the scenes.

If she shows up in the Loki show, that's more screen time and room for character development. 

However, I'm not hugely interested in Loki's show and depending on the direction it takes I'm not sure that it will play to her strengths as a character. My dream scenario was for Sif to have her own Xena-style high fantasy adventure (with Thor showing up in a supporting role) but that’s seem very unlikely.

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Anyway, I'm a multi shipper and I'm planning to do more of these for Thor x Valkyrie and Thor x Jane. I just wanted to get my fave out of the way first.

[wheremermaidsdwell]

13, 34, 50

13. What’s the most useful piece of advice or criticism you’ve received?

It's interesting, I don't get much direct advice but I live by 'just keep writing' advice. you can fix it later! just write it! get it out! There's also a piece of advice from my advisor back in college which was 'make excellent mistakes' that I love and always try to keep in mind. take big swings! risk it! sometimes you will fail and failure is ok but fail because you tried something worth trying not because you were timid.

34. List a sentence you’re proud of.

from WYW:

"I've been flipping over the Chrissy Cunningham mixtape so long the ribbon broke."

I buzzed through some early bits to find something and I gotta say I do a lot with juxtaposition so singular sentences are hard.

50. What have your favourite authors contributed to the fandom?

....fics? O.o There are people who I follow their ao3 alerts because I like the array of tropes they do, or their writing style, but I don't do much legit following of people unless I've managed to make them a friend. I like being unaware. I don't actually read as much fic as I used to, say, back in the trek days. Especially when I was in marvel I mostly just rped and occasionally wrote my own stuff since thorsif was so small. Even with hellcheer fic there's so much fic I haven't read lol

Fanfic Writer Asks

[shadowrosegarden]

"So what's your favorite Thor ship?"

"Yes"

[funnefatale]

someone should make a gifset of Sif telling Thor "all yours" in the beginning of The Dark World and Val telling Thor "after you" on the bridge in Ragnarok

[feliphesilveira-blog-blog]

[my-badships]

Thor x Sif - Undercover on Midgard