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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count: 152.9k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Epilogue is posted!

Their kissing turned slower until finally, Stephen gave Loki’s bottom lip one final suck and pulled away. He raised a hand and brushed the backs of his knuckles along Loki’s cheekbone, then traced his jawline. “I’m really glad you came over today.” Loki stretched, his body flexing against Stephen’s. The crack and pop of his joints was a weirdly intimate thing to share with another person. “Even though I dropped in unannounced?” Stephen chuckled and put his hand over Loki’s heart. “You’re my favorite unannounced guest.” “Considering most of your announced guests are demons of various stripes, that’s a pretty low bar to clear.”

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Tagging @bereft-of-frogs and anyone else who wants to do this!

Badly Summarized WIP Game

Saw this making the rounds and it looked like fun.

Rules: Pick a bunch of your WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote on which one they’d be most likely to read.

Tagging some folks who might want to play along!

@thetimemoves @viridiandecisions @arwamachine @calaisreno @khorazir @totallysilvergirl

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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count (so far): 146.5k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Chapter 39 God of Stories, is posted!

Thor looked at him steadily, as though he hadn’t just had a fire hose of Loki-patented sarcasm turned on him. “The part where you and Stephen are great for each other.” Loki froze. A lump formed in his throat. “Don’t,” he said. “I’m only going to say this once.” Thor put his hands on the table. No. No no no. This needed to stop. Thor needed to stop. He needed to not say this once. He needed to not say whatever he was going to say ever.

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Twenty Fanfic Writer Questions

Tagged by @lowkeyed1 - thank you and sorry it took me so long to do it!

Tagging @bereft-of-frogs, @rosieposiepuddingnpie, and @nostalgia-tblr

1. How many works do you have on Ao3?

An even 150!

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?

2,230,050

3. What fandoms do you write for?

At this point my fanfiction output is pretty sparse, but in the last two years, I've written primarily MCU. I've also written for Captive Prince, Six of Crows, The Daevabad Trilogy, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Some Desperate Glory, and The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. Over the years I've written in tons of fandoms.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

The Real Asgardians of the Galaxy (MCU, Loki & Thor)

The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling (MCU, Loki/Stephen Strange)

Sleight of Hand (MCU, Loki & Stephen Strange)

You Come to Me Wild and Wired (MCU, unrelated ficlets, Loki/Stephen Strange)

They Change Their Sky, Not Their Soul, Who Rush Across the Sea (MCU, Loki & Thor)

The first three are all part of my 10 fic Loki series, it's not going to matter if we fall down twice.

5. Do you respond to comments?

Goddddd I've become so bad at it. I used to respond to every single one. One of my projects/goals is to go back and respond to people, but of course, my AO3 inbox is totally overwhelming at this point, and every time I see the number of comments I haven't responded to, I become paralyzed. I need to man up and just start chipping away.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? 

Do No Harm (MCU, Loki/Stephen Strange) and Anamnesis (Weyoun, Star Trek: Deep Space 9) are probably tied on this one.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? 

I primarily write happy endings so...most of them, haha. But I guess The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling, since it's the HEA at the end of 10 fics. It's a seriously hard-won HEA haha.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I have! I've been called a pedo on some Wreck-It Ralph fic (that was my introduction to purity culture, btw). Idk if I'd call this hate, but I once had a reader get pretty upset that an OFC in A Full and Factual Account of Asgard didn't turn out to be a love interest for Loki.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Sure do! Honestly writing smut might be my favorite thing to write, haha. Whenever I get to a Big Sex Scene in my original stuff, I sigh in relief that I'm finally going to have an easy writing night. I've written m/f and m/m, but I have way more m/m, and an occasional m/m/m. It's mostly sappy, vanilla, OTP stuff, but I love me some dub and noncon, so there are a few of those amidst the gooey soulmate smut.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Not really, though I did in my youth. Honestly they're...all kind of crazy. When I was in my early teens I wrote a 4 fic series that was a crossover between The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (the books by Patricia C Wrede), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (the Disney movie), and Newsies (the movie). It had time travel. And dragons, obviously. I also at one point was writing a crossover between Newsies (yes, I had a Newsies phase) and Doctor Mordrid, an obscure fantasy B-movie from the 90s starring Jeffrey Combs. Fun fact! It was actually supposed to be Dr. Strange, but they lost the rights before they made the movie.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yep. It was a Harry Potter fic. I threatened legal action (lol) and they took it down.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

People have definitely asked me if they can translate my fics, so I think so!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yeah, I had a friend I wrote a Loki & Thor fic with. I also used to collab on fics with my sister when we were kids.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

I guess it's gotta be Loki/Stephen Strange.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a DS9 fic about Eris, a Vorta who was only in one episode, where she's an agent who's infiltrated a rebel Vorta/Jem'Hadar cell. I LOVE that fic, but I just...don't see myself ever finishing it. Maybe someday I'll file the serial numbers off and turn it into an original work. It probably wouldn't be that hard because it's set hundreds of years before DS9 takes place, and I did a lot of original worldbuilding.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, character, romance, sexual tension, pretty polished first drafts. I don't know if I'd consider it a strength yet, but I feel like I've really improved my pacing over the past year.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Probably visual scene setting, haha. I'm pretty thin on describing what the physical location LOOKS like. I'm better at describing sounds and smells, because honestly that's what sticks with me personally from a place, not how it looks.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I've definitely done it. I took many years of Spanish so I'm pretty confident that when I write in Spanish, it makes sense. I can tell when google translate is wrong, haha. One of my novels (coming out next year!) has some Afrikaans, and a South African sensitivity reader didn't say any of it was wrong. Though that reminds me, I really should message my friend/former safari guide to see if she has any complaints about the Afrikaans in it, haha.

IMO when you write dialogue in another language in a fic, you have to assume the reader doesn't speak that language, so you need to let them know what that dialogue says through context. I read a book recently where there was quite a bit of Quebecois French, and there were end notes with the translation, and...eh, it was a pain to flip back and forth to the end of the book.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

The first time I sat down with the intention of writing a story with a beginning, middle, and end (I didn't finish it), it was an Enchanted Forest Chronicles fic. This was before I'd ever heard of the internet, so I didn't even know that what I was doing was called fanfiction.

Though, my mom made me a scrapbook of a bunch of childhood stuff for my 40th birthday, and it included what I can only call a Lion King AU where the characters from The Lion King go to Camp Snoopy in the Mall of America. So idk, maybe that.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? 

I think in some ways Anamnesis is the most ambitious single fic I've ever written, in that it's a difficult story. But I probably have to give the nod to it's not going to matter if we fall down twice. I'm totally cheating because it's a series, but I'm going to be really proud of it for my whole life so I'm going to take every opportunity to plug it, haha.

Thank you again for the tag!

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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count (so far): 128.6k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Chapter 36, My Father's Drinking Horn, is posted!

Ten, fifteen, twenty steps; Loki stopped in front of a café with a board on the sidewalk and yanked Stephen to a stop. “Talk to me,” Loki said in a low voice. “Anything specific you’re looking for? Smalltalk? Pillow talk? Dirty talk? The Talk?” “God, you really are insufferable,” Loki said, keeping his eye on Spencer while he pretended to study the restaurant board. Stephen squeezed his hand. “I think you kind of like it.”

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The water lapped around their legs as Stephen reached him, swelling as the waves broke on the rocks and rolled into shore, reaching up as high as their knees.

This week’s word is…

✨ WATER ✨

Find the word in any WIP and share the sentence containing it. Play how you want: reply, reblog, stick it in the tags, tag us in a new post, or keep it private.

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Hey you! I just wanted to send a nice note your way, and congratulations on finishing It's not going to matter if we fall down twice! Dude, 814,000 words (so far) is such an incredible accomplishment! I can't wait to see the epilogue on The General Mess! Your writing is just so enjoyable- I personally adore the way you write Loki and Thor's relationship, it's got such a good balance of banter and bickering, and tender moments.

Additionally, you just seem like such an incredible person. I love hearing the updates on your travels and your life, and your successes in getting published! You've got such a great experienced and mature mentality in the fandom(s), and it's very stabilizing and pleasant.

So thanks for all you do, and here's to the next chapter(s)!

Anon, I've been holding onto this ask for a week and a half now because it made me tear up, and it was so amazingly kind that I kept reading it, and then I kept thinking I wouldn't be able to respond in a way that expressed how much this meant to me!

Thank you so, so much for reading it's not going to matter if we fall down twice and enjoying it! I'm so happy in particular that you like how I write Loki and Thor's relationship—the series very much started because I love the two of them and their messed up, loving dynamic. Sometimes I tell irl friends that I wrote a 1 million word series about Loki and it's funny to watch their brains 404 Not Found when they try to think of a response.

Also ahhhhhh I do not know how to accept compliments about my personality lol, but thank you and I can't tell you how happy I am that that's the energy I'm putting out into the fandom! Or as the corporate lingo goes, I'm glad I'm casting a positive leadership shadow. It's important to me to try to make fandom a fun and pleasant place (I have my moments and haven't always succeeded), because when I was a fandom youngster, there were people who were clearly much older than me who did the same.

Thank you again so so much for taking the time to send this. It really meant the world to me to receive it!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count (so far): 109.7k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Chapter 31, Skarde, is posted!

They made it about halfway down before Stephen let out a muted yelp and lost his footing. Loki whipped around, arms open, flinging himself towards Stephen to make sure he didn’t topple over the edge of the path to the rocks below. “Are you okay?” Loki asked, his face pressed against the side of Stephen’s. Stephen’s arms were around him, too. When had that happened? “Yeah,” Stephen said. “Thanks. Maybe I should have let the Cloak come along, after all.” “Hindsight,” Loki murmured. One of his hands cupped Stephen’s shoulder blade and his body buzzed. God, he wanted to kiss this man. How was it possible to want to kiss someone so much? Before he actually did it, he let go of Stephen, turning around to keep picking his way down the path. The image of Stephen tumbling to his death kept gnawing at him. After a second, he reached back. Stephen took his hand wordlessly.

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Sorry for the delay in updating The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling this week. I'm busy, my beta is even busier, and frankly I'm drained.

Maybe more importantly, I've gotten several comments demanding more frequent updates. Nothing makes me want to update less. Every time I try to force myself to open the Scrivener doc, I remember the commenter who apparently can't conceive of a single reason I might "only" update once a week, and I just feel ill. Needless to say, I haven't done any editing since I got that one.

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help how do i deal with this

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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count (so far): 136.2k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Chapter 37, Six Fucking Years, is posted!

His glass refilled without Stephen looking at it, let alone gesturing. “Show-off,” Loki said. “Maybe I just like impressing you.” “Pfft.” Loki waved a hand. “That doesn’t impress me.” “Oh yeah?” Swinging his arm out—and sloshing a little whiskey out of his glass—Loki said, “I never seem to impress you, which, you know what? Kind of annoys me, because I’m a very impressive sorcerer.” “You impress me,” Stephen said. “You think you’re better than me.” Laughing again, Stephen said, “I don’t.”

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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count (so far): 150.6k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Chapter 40, You Come to Me Wild and Wired, is posted!

Stephen’s hair fluttered in the breeze as he stood at the base of the cliff, his expression…not quite open, not quite closed. Waiting. Hesitant. Unsure. “Hey,” Stephen said. His hands shook at his sides and he pressed them against his jeans. Loki stared. “Hi,” he finally replied. His heart pounded. Stephen looked around, then said, sounding apologetic, “Your brother said I would probably find you here.” A wild laugh threatened to bubble from Loki’s throat. “And people think I betray him,” he managed to get out, almost normally.

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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count (so far): 114.2k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Chapter 32, God of Hacking, is posted!

“Hey.” Stephen’s hand was suddenly on his shoulder. “Are you okay?” “I’m fine,” Loki lied. Something trickled over his upper lip from his nose, and he put his fingers to the spot. They came away red and wet with blood. When Stephen gave him a flat, unimpressed look, Loki amended, “I’ll live. This is the best way to do this. It’s probably the only way to do this.” The look on Stephen’s face didn’t get any less unimpressed. “Can I help?” When Loki shook his head, Stephen said, “Can you borrow some of my magic or something?” “No,” Loki began. “I—” But then he stopped.

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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count (so far): 70k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Chapter 20, God of Stubbornness, is posted!

Loki grunted in pain and turned away, hoping Stephen would keep quiet about it. Right. Stephen Strange, keep quiet about something? Pigs might fly. “How’s your shoulder?” Stephen asked, in a tone that very much suggested he knew exactly how Loki’s shoulder was, but he wanted to make Loki say it. “You didn’t take your antibiotic last night. Take it now.” “I took it,” Loki lied. “You didn’t.” Stephen got up and came closer. “How is it?” “Fine,” Loki said shortly. Stephen looked exasperated. “C’mon, Loki. You think I didn’t see that?” “See what?” Loki gave him a stubborn look and went to the window.

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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count (so far): 92.7k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Chapter 27, Eight-Legged Horses, is posted!

Loki woke with a gasp, sitting bolt upright and clawing at his throat. His fingers caught at his tie, which was wrapped around his neck. He unwound it, breathing heavily, his chest heaving. At his side, Stephen groggily pushed himself onto an elbow, slurring, “What? What’s going on?” For a second, Loki sat there, sucking in air, his hands still on his tie. The dream clung to him in shreds, scoring revelations into his brain. “I know how they did it,” he said slowly, still feeling half-stuck in the nightmare, drowning at the bottom of a pool. He looked at Stephen and repeated with more certainty, “I know how they did it.”

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Title: The General Mess and Imprecision of Feeling Author: @aurorawest​​ Rating: M (language, violence, sexual content) Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, Loki & Thor, Jane Foster & Loki, Jane Foster/Thor Major Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Word Count (so far): 89.2k Summary: Loki knows his feelings for Stephen Strange are a capital B-Bad Idea. Whatever character growth he’s struggled through hasn’t changed the fact that he’s uniquely incapable of making another person that kind of happy for more than a night.

When a powerful Asgardian artifact goes missing, Loki and Stephen must team up to track it down—especially once it becomes clear that the theft is part of a larger, insidious plot.

Can Loki tie together the loose threads of his life: the threat to New Asgard, his friendship with Stephen, and the feelings he can’t stop no matter how hard he fights, and write himself a happy ending?

Thank you to my betas, @mareebird​​​​​​​​​​​​ and AsgardianHarmony!

Chapter 26, Clan Mainframe, is posted!

When they emerged outside, magic flaring around them like a corona, Loki held his arms out with a flourish. “Ta-da!” The sound of about fifteen blasters being charged and aimed at them rather stepped on his moment.

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