#it doesn't matter if I spoil one plot point because there's like 20 others you lot don't know about

[morningstargirl666]

Any Chance Liz and Lyacon will meet at some point?

Maybe.

Guess you'll just have to wait and see.

[shipcestuous]

I've been reading through all your amazing posts and asks (as usual heh this account is a joy to me) and I wanted to ask how writing your original fiction is going! Give mentioned so many different ideas you've had and even about how far along you were with them and I really wanted to know how those were going heh. As you can see knowing other writers of original cesty fiction is important to me so I'm real giddy heh. Hope you're well even if you aren't working on anything ❤️

I love you for asking me this.

The main story I've made progress on since the blog went down is my Christmas one. I know I mentioned it offhand but perhaps not in detail. It's in the kids-get-transported-to-a-magical-land genre meets The Santa Clause only it's written by an adult for adults with (mostly) related adult characters (naturally). They started out as teens in conception but they kept getting pushed up by the plot planning until they were all in the 20's at the start. So, yeah. I only work on it November-January (sometimes February too), so it's hard to set it down but fun to pick it up again when the season arrives. I'm on part 4 of 6, through the parts probably won't all be equal length. I would say I'm about half way through. It's really long, through, like 280,000 words so far, so you can imagine what it will be like when it's done. Enormous. I've been working on it since 2016, I think, and I've definitely got a couple more years to go. It's set in 2017, which is getting awkward.

I want to be careful about what I say because the story is built on the reader having a lot of questions about what's really going on. As the author I don't want to spoil it, and even saying how many incest couples there are and what kind of incest it is technically a spoiler but as a reader I understand better than anyone that you want to know you're going to get what you want and not get what you don't want, or else you're wasting your time. Anyway, you can count on a slow burn brother/sister romance being the primary topic.

I haven't actually shared any fun information, though, so I suppose I had better get into it a little more, lol. The main couple are half-siblings - they share a father - but their mothers are also sisters and they grew up as cousins, but the kind of cousins who are really close and spend the whole summer together at their grandparents' house and stuff like that. He's three years older and they're just now reaching a point in their lives where that kind of age difference doesn't matter at all anymore. As kids he kind of felt stuck with her - they were close enough in age that they were expected to play together even though she was never quite at where he was at, all the more so because she's very much the doesn't-like-to-get-dirty type. So he's still kind of carrying that around even though it's much different now.

She's like very mothering and nurturing and so she's always trying to take care of him, which drives him crazy, and also her family has significantly more money, so there's tension over that. They've lived in the same city for the past 10+ years and have become very close in their older years, like they would both easily say that the other is their best friend and means more to them than anyone. Their cousins' family suffered a tragedy and their aunt was already a single mom so they've been taking care of that family and basically raising their baby cousin together for the past ten years which really brought them together.

But they have absolutely no inkling that they're totally in love with each other and it's going to be a slightly angsty journey of discovery.

I'm looking over what I've described and I'm not loving it. Hopefully when you guys see it in action (if you so choose), it'll come off better because I actually think they're really great and everyone would love them as a ship, though I think maybe in the end the story itself won't be for everyone, it definitely verges on corny.

I have another story that I hope to finish this year. I haven't advanced beyond what I've already written about on here, but I plan on working on it next, and it's already 2/3 of the way done.

Thank you so much for asking me about this! I hope we can all share about our original fiction and encourage and support each other.

[asherisimmortal-archive]

loki finale ask (finally)

tbf i didn’t really go in blind because i am an internet addict. parts that were already spoiled for me include:

mobius doesnt know who loki is 😭

sylvie and loki kiss (why!) & she immediately transports him back to the tva. so presumably wasn't actually that romantic, just manipulative (still bad)

the multiverse gets created

kang is the one who remains

actually watching the episode taught me that:

kang created the tva is because he’s a genius egomaniac who wanted to keep himself safe from all the other genius egomaniac versions of himself (this totally works given his comic origins, he's dealt with many versions of himself, eg. immortus, but i have a lot more questions below)

sylki kiss was definitely not romantic. she tricked him so she could kill kang. (still not a good enough excuse smh)

my interpretation of their fight: neither loki nor sylvie, if they 100% knew that kang was telling the truth about the tva, would kill kang. sylvie told loki she was doing this because she thought he was lying. (not totally true to loki's characterization imo, i'd think that both loki and sylvie would rather deal with infinite kangs than give up on free will)

new mobius doesn't know who loki is not because the tva wiped his memories, but because this is a totally different version of mobius (unmined angst potential imo)

ravonna fights mobius, lets him live, and goes out in search of "free will", and may align with kang in the future, since ravonna in the comics is kang's wife. (curious to see what they do with her. i have Thoughts on her place in the whole religious allegory of the show i will explore in my wowki fanfic)

me overthinking things

if kang knows all why would he go through all this trouble to lead loki and sylvie here? he couldn't have done this in an easier, less heartbreaking way? his plan was so contrived :/

one question i've kinda pushed aside for the show is: what kind of time travel disruption would qualify for a nexus event? because technically any variation, no matter how small, should create a branch in the timeline, because 2 contradictory things can't happen in the same timeline at the same time. but now we might have a kind of answer: if kang founded the tva to avoid other versions of kang, he doesn't need to make sure there's 1 sacred timeline, he'd just need to make sure all the variations are so small that the infinite timelines are basically the same, so there's basically infinity copies of the same timeline in existence, thus averting multiversal war between egotistical kangs.

why was there that arbitrary barrier past which kang couldn't see? yeah, ✨suspense✨ and ✨plot✨, but it's arbitrary, and it really would've made no difference if he knew what happened to him. in fact i quite like the idea of kang walking into his own death.

thoughts that don't really fit on this list

the finale was awful. not just the sylki kiss & bad narrative choices or whatever. there was so much padding and exposition, jonathan majors's performance totally took me out of it (i doubt he's a bad actor, this episode didn't give him a good opportunity to shine), the writing was super slow and bad, this ep could have been slimmed down to like 15 minutes because not a lot actually happened.

natalie holt's music — both the titles (lokius!) and the actual tracks — slap so hard. probably the best soundtrack in the mcu other than black panther. she really gets the show

production & costume design of everything related to kang was amazing, felt very vast, old, and regal

sylvie is acutally a surprisingly well-realized woman character and i'm quite proud of the show for that. (unfortunately neither her nor b-15 are fully realized until they kiss each other which has not happened as of yet)

please watch this it has brought me great comfort

I know normally I usually make a parallel list to yours responding to each point but this time I feel like making some super rambly paragraphs instead.

I didn't like the finale much at all. I agree with you that it went on too long. Every other episode felt like it took like 20 minutes and this one felt like an hour. I will disagree with you about Jonathan Majors though, he was my favorite part.

I don't like Sylki but by the time the finale came out I was already over it. I've heard people say that they think that Marvel's gonna pretend it never happened like they did with Steve/Sharon, and while I hope that's the case I guess I'll tolerate it if it's not.

The soundtrack is spectacular. I still think it was too loud at times, but that's the fault of the mixing and not the tracks themselves. I really hope it gets nominated for something, it's amazing.

Some other stuff:

Mobius :'(

The time travel/nexus event thing is still super confusing and at this point I'm not even gonna try to understand it.

I'm super excited to see what they do with Ravonna, I really liked her.

B-15 better get more screentime in season 2 than she did this season or I will cry

Thank you for the video, I appreciated it