#i did not have this on my 2023 bingo card

[burnthatbridge]

time will pass, darling (but my feelings, they won't)

lokius | M | 15k | angst, domestic, getting together Loki visits Mobius on the timeline, but he can never stay.

A year’s worth of time passes before Mobius sees Loki again.

Maybe exactly a year, maybe not. Mobius couldn’t say. The immediate days after Loki made his sacrifice, saved the TVA, saved them all, had passed in a blur. Mobius at the TVA, still, but not present there, not really, caught in that last moment before Loki vanished through the rift and haunted by the prospect of what to do next. If you never look, you’ll never know.

After he leaves and returns to the timeline, his timeline, it’s not particularly any less of a blur. He looks. He knows. Knows what he was taken from, knows what was stolen from him. A family, a home.

It hurts more and less than it should.

He tells Sylvie he’s going to wait there for a little bit. And he does. He waits, and he doesn’t admit to himself what he’s waiting for. He knows this too, but he won’t permit himself to think it. Futile, foolish hope: it would cut him worse than any blade he has faced.

He waits, though not exactly in the spot Sylvie leaves him. It turns out, when Don heads inside, and the sun sets, and his sons are tucked into bed, that it gets chilly out on the dark street. That, and several dog walkers have looked askance at him, standing there, hands on his hips, staring at the house across the street, his house, and seeing something else.

He gets a motel that first night, the next few. Sleeps fitfully, grateful to, lest he dream of all he has gained and what he’s going to do about it. Lest he dream of all he has lost and how he’s going to live without it.

The TVA — Casey specifically — had appropriated some funds for Mobius, to get him on his feet. That, and paperwork that gives him the alias Matthew M Mobius (and the M doesn’t stand for Mobius anymore, so he’s down two out of three). He can’t be another Don; it’s odd enough that his doppelgänger moves in on the same block without their names being identical too.

Because that’s what he does. It’s not perhaps the best of ideas, but he doesn’t know what else to do. The TVA wasn’t fulfilling for him anymore, not like it is for B-15, but he doesn’t crave life the way Sylvie does either, isn’t content to head off into the sunset and never look back. Isn’t content at all.

The house he rents is comfortable enough, even if it is the worst on the block, not like the one Don, he, owns. It’s small and the interior is tired, faded wallpaper and scuffed floors, and the garden has run wild with neglect. But it has everything he needs: a bed to sleep in and a table to eat at and a roof over his head to shelter him. But despite the sun streaming through the windows, even with the thermostat turned all the way up, the chill never seems to leave him.

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[novelconcepts]

I don’t know if I’m spiritually prepared for Actual Beauregard Lionett-era Marisha Ray.

[martydaxnger]

oh so we ALL were traumatized by the good omens season 2 finale so brutally that it catapulted us back into our doctor who phases, huh?

[zaynontour]

2020 || 2023

2020 || 2023 louis when? 👀👀

[ilonacho]

woah dilfs

[deitiesofduat]

DEITIES Update – 2023 ➝ 2024 New Year’s Edition

Happy New Year Everyone!

Typically I would write a formal blog post for my end-of-year update, but I'm writing something on the fly for the sake of timeliness ✨

I wish I could say I completed most of what I wanted in the year 2023, as I had several goals I thought were feasible. However, some of those goals had to be placed aside for a very sudden but fortuitous reason, that I feel worth sharing with ya'll -- which is that Iiiiiiii bought my first house! 🥹🥹🥹

(As you can imagine, this took quite a bit of my energy and time this past year, thus explaining part of my absence -- more details regarding my activity under the cut!)

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From early August thru the end of December, my home-searching and closing process was incredibly long, stressful, exhausting, expensive (lmao), and time-inducing. I'm thankful to have had support from my agent, and well as my friends and family while navigating this ordeal, and I'm in the process of moving my items and services into my new home during the remainder of my apartment lease.

This home search combined with my full-time work, was a major reason why took a partial break from social media, and semi-hiatus from new art. This also affected my frequency of updating the DEITIES website and blog -- at least, on the front end. I did a lot of backend work and completed a major to-do with migrating the website and giving it a new primary domain -- so now, both deitiesofduat.com AND deitiesproject.com will redirect to the website. 👍

For the most part though, I used the 2nd half of 2023 to focus on some major life decisions, and leading into early 2024 I’m aiming to give myself a bit of a lifestyle reset. It's going to take some time to settle into this new normal, so aside from occasional media posts I'll continue to be quiet a bit longer. Once I complete some key home-owning goals and attempt to recharge, I'll aim to resume the goals I had in mind for DEITIES Project and my personal art, as well as engaging with my audience more (I miss interacting with ya'll, aha 😭).

In the meantime, thank you all for you continued patience and support! Despite being offline more-than-not this past year, I really appreciate the continue interest you all have in this project. DEITIES remains so important to me even with my shift in scope, so I'll do what I can to put iterate on it and give it all my effort when I have more bandwidth. Until then, wishing you all the very best in 2024!

[walkawaytall]

Hahahaha I just found out I may have yet another autoimmune disorder what is happening (this is actually just how autoimmune disorders work. Once you have one, even more want to come party. I liken it to Mr. Burns’ “Three Stooges Syndrome” but also two new ones in less than a year is something else…)

[tedbecca]

taylor swift and jason sudeikis playing uno together will go down in my own personal hall of fame

[feels-for-the-fictional]

I would like to formally apologise to all my followers that here in the year of our lord 2023 I am slowly slipping back into a star trek blog

[bulldog-butch]

2023 really was a super mixed bag of highs and lows, but i sincerely hope 2024 is better

[cuddlingpudding]

I did not ever expect Barbie and Oppenheimer to come together like this, but it was meant to be tbh.

[demieddie]

one more thing me and buck have in common: getting hit by lightning apparently

[thisbisexualbrainrot]

I love how Michael Sheen could very easily laugh with the rest of the talk show and be like “oh yeah those cringy fanfic writers they are so crazy what weirdos” but instead he’s always defending us and saying how cool it is 🥺 Even if everyone looks at him like come on dude really?

When I was a teen writing fanfic and drawing fanart that would have meant the world to me. Still does tbh.

[buckybarnesss]

Ok but where’s the real teen wolf novel by Heather BuckyBarnesss

this is the greatest ask i've ever received. i'm gonna frame it.

[eddiestattoos]

Did not have me fuming over the writing of one csi Miami character on my 2023 bingo card

[plausibleorchestrations]

It's been 10 years and I am still feeling just as insane about donna noble honestly like that episode had be by the THROAT I am so so so glad they did this.

I remember complaining when I was first introduced to donna that i didn't like her because she was annoying. my friends kind of side-eyed me: "you'll like her by the end", they promised. I did. I loved Rose Tyler but she never stuck in my head, particularly. None of the others did so at all. Donna, though- a washed-up boring older person who lived with her family and kept getting fired and did nothing but gossip and go to work and the pub? She was no one at all and she was incredible. Of course I loved her. To have her come back, having aged as a person and a character on the same timeline as I have, felt so weirdly, unexpectedly lovely. She was still no one! Just a mom. Just a regular person in a regular place. I don't know. I hate to give credit to the doctor who writers generally, and you can call this episode melodramatic- it was - but it hearkened back to my favorite era and told a fun, good story about it. (The TRANS RIGHTS stamp all over it did not hurt either.)