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[zannolin]

Have you got any Shazam fic recs?

i do! i've been planning to put them into my rec sheet but haven't yet had the energy. there's a range of stuff post-first movie and post-fotg in here. i've gone through the entire movie tag once and i'm fine combing through it again so i might have a few more to add to the mix by the end of it but mostly i prefer not to read anything about the comics, ships, or relating to the justice league so that rules out a lot of what's in the tag unfortunately.

Responsibilities (Role Conflict) by hpotter321 (this fic came into my house and robbed me blind and murdered my entire family before my eyes and i cannot stop thinking about it)

a little and certain compass by nowrunalong

People In Their Rooms Alone by altschmerzes

Love in a time of superheroes (and homework) by Crystal_E_Fall (billy and mary content to make me crazyyyy)

If Either Way's the Hard Road by altschmerzes

knife edge by TerrificMango (mary fic to end the worldddd)

full potential by probablynotadalek (this fic!! this fic)

little and broken (but still good) by MashpotatoeQueen

grow far but not apart by probablynotadalek

envy by Anonymous (this one fucked me up)

It's not a home until you call it a home by hpotter321

No Need to Ask, I Got You by Howlingdawn (there were some details in this that made me yell oh narrative parallels how i love you)

The Specific Ocean by kathkin was pretty funny

no take backs by kathkin (i am almost never a soulmate au girlie even platonically but this one...it was good!)

and basically anything by Rookblonkorules is bound to be good :)

[kristsune]

I think you're really awesome :D

awwww <3 <3

[queerhollyleaf]

I just gotta tell you that I have notifs on for my mutuals and when my phone started ringing every 5 seconds and I saw it was you I went "ohhh looks like something good is going on" jsjsjsjsjs

love this 💙

[delyth88]

Loki - season 2, episode 6 series finale -immediate reaction

Okay, so this time I’m gonna have to split this into two posts.  This one is my reaction after just watching the finale, but this time it’s going to be mostly my emotional response, and the more considered post with images will have to wait till later.  I don’t have the heart for it right now.

So yeah, spoilers ahead.

Well that tore out my heart and stamped on it!

I mean it was an utterly perfect story for a character like Loki, but I’m still devastated. I love it. And I hate it.

I love it on a story level.  The whole season was beautifully done! Loki developed so much over the six episodes, and really won my heart back. I fell in love with the gang from the TVA, particularly OB and Mobius, and I warmed to Sylvie and just wanted her to be able to live the quiet life she’s wanted for so long.

I loved that they really went into the depth I had assumed I’d only get in a fic about the different attempts Loki made to fix things by going back in time. They didn’t just gloss over things, they really showed him trying.  I was shocked when after he asked OB how long it would take him to learn everything, he went and spent CENTURIES doing it!  My stomach dropped.  Because can you imagine what that means for someone?  Even someone as long lived as Loki?  What that has to do to your mind? And that should have been the first clue things weren’t going to turn up roses.

Then he finally succeeds! But they don’t show it to us like we’re experiencing that moment, but more as though we’re an observer, rushing through it because it’s yet another repeat. And for one brief moment Loki is happy because he thinks they’ve done it. But no, it turns out to have been an impossible task!

And then he finds out that HWR basically gave him his newfound powers, and that he still had a lot to learn, and then we see THAT HE ALREADY HAD LEARNED! The way they kept dropping the sense of time on us, that sense of dread and urgency. And inevitability. *shivers*

How he tries, and tries, and tries to convince Sylvie, but can’t get through to her, and how he has to contemplate whether he’s the sort of man who could kill her. I loved how he visited Mobius to ask for his advice. My god. What a horrible conversation to have to have.  But what trust he places in Mobius! 

And I loved how he kept refusing to take the easy path. How he decided he couldn’t kill Sylvie, and how he realised there was another way. But OMG at what price!? I can’t….

But I hated how much this hurt Loki, what this took from him.  When the gold from the rock trickles upwards to create a mockery of a throne, which is more a prison… just…. 😭 The look on his face once he knows what he has to do. He had to make the impossible choice, and he chose the impossible.

I love that it kept the tone of tragedy that has haunted Loki all through the MCU.  I love how they were true to his character in that way, but AT THE SAME TIME allowed him to retain his new sense of self, all that growth we’ve shared through this series but also the change that he’s experienced while he’s been isolated during centuries trying to find a way to defeat HWR and keep the people on the branched timelines safe. His desperate act to do the right thing.  And finally it is the right thing in the eyes of the universe and the audience, and yet he still loses. My heart just can’t bear it!

It’s perfect and it hurts.

Tagging @woodelf68 @pinkpondofasgard @projectprotectloki @scintillatingshortgirl19 @juliabohemian @galaxythreads @makerofrunevests @ladyofthestayingpower @thelightofthingshopedfor @sparklegemstone @iamanartichoke

[ellena-asg]

I know how much painful is loss of your animal friends and how hard it is to not see them around anymore (*never-ending struggle with grief*). And I know that the pain will always be there. But it's good to have something what can give you a hope or what at least can calm the storm in your head a bit.

When I lost my very first animal friend in my childhood times there was one thing that calmed my heart. And when I lost another and another I always came back to that thing (I will always do it). So I thought I would share it with you, all of you sunshines who struggle (now or/and always and forever) with such pain.

I guess you know The Lion King. I have no idea if you like that kind of movies. But maybe somehow this scene will give you some warmth?

source: @t3md7df.p.71 on yt

And here is another one, it helps me too. Maybe you will smile the way Bowen did? If you don't know Dragonheart then there's a huge spoiler but my heart still wants to share it with you.

source: @Shortfilms on dailymotion

They all live in us and "To the stars".

@chaosrising451 @pinkpondofasgard and all sunshines who lost their friends - I'm sending my love and hugs ♥️

[lokijiro]

🌻 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog 🌻

Thank you @pinkpondofasgard.

-I'm currently into making my own facial creams.

-I love cloudy skies.

-I have a diabetic cat.

I invite anyone who wants to share to do this.

[xie-solarin]

@pinkpondofasgard yo cada vez que cruzó en la cuidad y no mi ranchito

Unionize with ur fellow pedestrians. They can’t run us all over

[zannolin]

Maybe for the time loop fic... one where time keeps rewinding until Freddy finds a way to save Billy from dying in the battle with the dragon? 👀 Maybe he's become strong enough because he's been repeatedly training himself in order to eventually find a timeline where he ends up in the dome with Billy during the final battle and Billy doesn't have to face the dragon alone... or something like that 😬

see that's definitely a possibility but also i'm trying to think like...WHY would there be a time loop in the first place outside of "i wanna write a timeloop fic" because the end IS happy already. hm. hm.

[kristsune]

1, 5 & 10

1.) what’s the first podcast you listened to? like so so many people, it was Welcome to Night Vale way back in 2015, but unfortunately i had not figured out how to listen to podcasts yet and could not pay attention well enough to get past the first 15-20 episodes. then in 2019 a friend convinced me to listen to TMA, and well. now i cant shut up about podcasts. I can still occasionally have trouble listening, but ive definitely figured out how to better keep my attention. I really do need to give WTNV another go some day but its just... So Much by now

5.) what’s a podcast that you really like but find it kinda hard to follow the plot? woe.begone. but time travel can kind of have that effect. i still listen every week and im still having a great time, despite losing the plot occasionally XD

10.) what’s a podcast that you wish you could listen to again for the first time? hmmm an excellent question... probably TMA... listening and figuring out how everything connected was just... such an incredible ride that first go around. but to be fair, i absolutely adore every relisten because i find things i didnt in earlier listens so where it would be neat to listen for the first time again, im still happy to relisten every time.

feel free to send me podcast questions!

[queerhollyleaf]

∞

Youth by Glass Animals

[delyth88]

Ooh! Yes! Count me in!

And I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of folk here who might be interested. :)

Tagging a few folk under the cut.

Just tagging in case you might be interested. Please don't feel any obligation just because I tagged you. :)

@sparklegemstone @iamanartichoke @iamnmbr3 @mischievousscholar @shegeekery @worstloki @galaxythreads @juliabohemian @pinkpondofasgard @woodelf68 @bardicious @everything-you-feel-is-real @firedrakegirl @supervillainarchaeologist @michaelseagal @thelightofthingshopedfor @mastreworld @latent-thoughts @abby118 @alwida10 @iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid

I had an idea a while back, about a small event (maybe a fest?) about platonic relationships involving Loki (be they familial or friendships), and was wondering if anyone would be interested?

I've no idea when/if I'll have time to organize something like that, but if there is interest I would like to give it a shot.

[delyth88]

Loki episode 5 reaction and initial thoughts

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I can’t believe it! I’m so unused to getting what I hope for with Loki in movies and TV that I almost don’t know what to do when you get almost exactly what you’d hoped for!!!!!   (Within the bounds of this being the TVA version of Loki of course.) That was excellent!  And hit most of the key things I was hoping for as well as giving some absolutely charming additions!

It packed in a lot of story, and it was a delight to see the characters on the timeline. It wasn’t as gripping and tense as the last episode, but that's probably a good thing for my stress levels lol! But it was a really lovely time travel story.

And Loki has unlocked a new ability. Maybe.

The opening music!! Perfectly creepy!  And even more so than the music over the credits of the last episode. It really sounded like the disintegration of reality!

And I loved the way the letters disappeared from the Loki title card… *shivers*

It was a small thing, but nice to see at least one thing I’d guessed correct – that they started the episode with the reverse of this shot at the end of episode 4.

I loved how spooky it was having Loki walk through the corridors of the TVA by himself. And I did rather enjoy the moment he almost met himself.  That was cute. But it was clear that they needed to get on to other things quite quickly – there was a lot in this episode!!

The imagery of the universe disintegrating was perfectly terrifying! (Although I was getting big “snap” vibes.)  And what is Fail Safe Mode? And does it matter?

I was a little sad to see Casey was a prisoner. 😔   But I wonder if we’ll see these timeline versions of the characters again?  I feel like the need for them is over? Unless maybe briefly at the start of the last episode. So we didn't have to watch him being particularly horrible.

I didn’t pick that he’d be the first person Loki would visit, nor did I pick that it would all be unintentional. 

I did like the way Loki still hoped that Mobius would recognise him. And the conversation itself was ambiguous enough I suppose for the first couple of sentences that you could interpret it that way. Poor Loki looked so disappointed!

I laughed as was intended at the imitation of the inflatable advertising character.  😁

And then OB!!!  Omg!  I LOVE what they chose to do with his character!!!  He was so sweet, and retained his enthusiastic and super intelligent personality! I hadn’t really settled on what I thought OB might have been like on the timeline, but this was so much better! And how he was like “and I had to get a PHD to keep my day job as a theoretical physicist”….!  😄

And @pinkpondofasgard I hope you’ve seen this episode when you see this mention, because spoilers - looks like you were right about this being a location from OB’s past!  Which I think is super cool!  I don’t have any idea what this would be in the 1990s in the US, but obviously it worked so well for OB that he replicated it in the TVA!  Unless this whole series all turns out to be his dream… Ha ha! Ha…. ha…… er…  Anyway. I love that so many of the shelves are covered in books instead of technical TVA equipment.

Okay, so now I’m seriously thinking there’s a chance OB might actually be the founder of the TVA.  HWR could easily have come along later and taken over the leadership and wiped his memories.  But the fact the rooms are sooooo similar is just a bit too weird.

I did like how they handled Loki explaining things to Mobius.  Mobius was suitably sceptical and Loki was trying so hard not to sound threatening, but that’s not really his bag, is it. Lol! Things would definitely have gone pear shaped if OB hadn’t turned up.

I feel like Loki’s getting a lot of use out of the phrase “I promise you this will make sense” lol!

While I was kinda looking forward to the multiple crazy conversations while Loki tries to convince people he’s not mad, I do appreciate they had to make this quick, and I liked how they made each interaction shorter than the one before it, until he didn’t even need to say anything after stepping through the time door.

Then there was Sylvie.  I was by this point just as surprised as Loki that she kept her memories.  Now I have to assume that’s because she wasn’t ever a TVA worker who had her memories wiped.  But if that’s the case, then why wasn’t she in the Loom room with Loki when he ‘woke up’?  I’m assuming we’re meant to understand that this is because Loki feels most at home in the TVA, rather than Asgard. I find that's a little bit much, personally.  But I guess I’ll put that one to the side for the moment.

I did not expect her to be so adamant about not helping.  I mean I should have, but I didn’t. Their conversation at the bar was interesting, and I liked that Loki was so concerned that the TVA folk get a choice.  (And I kinda think now that they might, come the end of the season.  With OB choosing to stay because it’s literally his dream, Casey because it’s better than being an escaped prisoner, and B-15 and Mobius choosing to leave.)

The whole scene in the record shop – that was cool!  The small things that went wrong first, and the way the store owner slowly noticed it. *shivers*

Although again, very similar to the snap. I like how small objects vanish first, and I really should have seen that coming when the tempad went missing, but I didn’t.  I think there was just so much squashed into this episode!

And this was such a haunting image.

And then Sylvie says “there’s nowhere left to go” before she too disintegrates.  Eeeee!

Again, this looked really cool!  Are we meant to understand that Loki could hear a moment in the timeline of a person each time he touched a thread?  I wonder if that holds for any thread? Or was that just illustrating his memories?

I’m not sure that’s important though, given he almost immediately jumps back to the TVA, but we haven’t seen this image from the mid-season trailer yet. Not one from this angle where Sylvie is still whole, and where Loki is standing confidently and making this specific gesture.  I wonder now if he’s just snapped his fingers? Perhaps this moment is revisited, or perhaps just an alternate take that looked cool for the trailer.

I did like the ending, and how he jumped back to them all to tell them he’d figured out how to do it.  I wonder if he’ll be able to come back to them under his own steam at a later date? 

I’m still not entirely sure if this is something that in integral to Loki now or whether its related to circumstances. Like will it be possible to time-slip after the TVA is restored? If that means going back within the TVA before the moment he started time-slipping in the first place. *shrug*

So, what point did he jump back to?  There’s an alarm blaring in the background, but no other identifying things.  So I’m guessing this is just as they watch Timely go down the stairs to suit up?

Does he try to stop Timely from going out there? Explain it didn’t work, and then ask OB for information in the last few moment before jumping back further?

And more importantly, after the multiverse is saved, does this mean he can jump to the time and place of any person he cares about?  Could he visit his Mum? Or a Thor?!! 🥲

Ah!  This was a really great time travel episode! And I'm thoroughly looking forward to the final episode.

Tagging @sparklegemstone @pinkpondofasgard @woodelf68 @scintillatingshortgirl19 @projectprotectloki @ladyofthestayingpower @juliabohemian @galaxythreads @makerofrunevests @thelightofthingshopedfor

As usual, please let me know if you'd rather not be tagged. :)

[lokijiro]

Pass the happy! 🌻 When you receive this, list five things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications. 💛💛💛

Thank you so much @pinkpondofasgard!

1 Corn

2 Wind

3 Petting cats

4 The ocean

5 Forests

Tagging anyone who wants to do this!

[zannolin]

Did you know that your fanart is currently the top post in the #shazam movie tag? :D

i was not aware! cool :]

[abby118]

@pinkpondofasgard I have and it's not there (my eyes have suffered enough, will not be doing so again). Also, those were not unreleased, just rarer. I made gifs of each if you look in my archive.

You might also like this post.

Can someone tell me where these are from? I know for a fact I've seen the video but can't remember which one it was.

[kristsune]

13, 21, 33

thank you for asking!!

13. What talents do you have? hmm.. not sure how to answer this, ive always been so bad at that. i perhaps have a minor talents with painting, watercolors specifically, but i dont practice enough to be really good at it. i feel like i have a decent eye for photography, for composition. ive always enjoyed taking nature photography and i think i am pretty good at it

21. Have you ever been to the hospital? Yes, ive gone to urgent care a couple of times, once when a coworker ran over my foot with a fixture and i needed a few stitches, and once with my ex husband we both had the flu, and he passed out and hit his head and was on blood thinners so we needed to go to hospital to make sure he didnt have a brain bleed, but i was too ill to drive, we panicked and called the ambulance. and both ended up paying a few hundred dollars in fees

33. What do you typically have for breakfast? on days i work i have a bagel with margarine and dairy free cream cheese, and on days off i have cereal.

Feel free to send me asks!