#thor franchise fanfic

[abby118]

Watching the Loki series is like watching an endless gag reel. It's so bad it's surreal. Loki doesn't feel like Loki. That's not Loki. It's like we're watching Tom Hiddleston just flail and flop around in a bad suit. He reminds me, (and someone else also pointed this out, I can't remember who), of the Edgar suit in Men In Black. And I can't help but wonder if that was a conscious decision Tom made, to act like a possessed, reanimated corpse? We'll never know, of course, but every time I see video clips and gifs, I just see the Edgar suit and if it wasn't so laughable, I could cry.

I completely agree. I couldn't even get through season 1 tbh. And I'd thought ragnarok was bad and out of character...

My advice would be to avoid it completely. I've got the tags blocked, I don't look at the new content and just stick to the original. It truly makes me so sad for the entire fandom, to see such complex and deeply interesting character destroyed and stripped of his very essence. I've been a fan of Loki and the characters from the Thor movies since 2011 and hyperfixated big time. I won't let some disney bullshit ruin that. It helped me through the hardest times of my life and I see parts of myself in the personalities of the characters, having grown up with it being a safe place. It even inspired me to find interest in the norse mythology despite it being so different. I read numerous books and studies on it and I feel like you can catch little glimpses of it in the original franchise.

Sadly, it feels like Tom is so out of touch with who he is supposed to be portraying. I hope this is the result of a contract and not entirely his own input. Although, I'm worried that might be my wishful thinking.

I was studying the soundtrack of Thor 2 the other day and how much thought went into it and it made me weep internally. Brian Tyler studied the characters' personalities and brought that into what he crafted. It was full of care. He even named one track Lokasenna, which if you don't know, is the name of a poem belonging to the poetic Edda and is about the conflict between Loki and the Aesir (asgardians). I also love how the og Thor franchise had the recurrent theme of light & shadow. Returning back to the brian tyler vid- the theme he was talking about is named Shadows of Loki.

Now, compare it with what we got in the last years (sth that feels like a very badly written fanfic). That is just a single example.

For me, the ending of Thor 2 is the end of canon and I am writing my very extensive continuation. It's the best ending we could have gotten in terms of fanwork because it's an open ending. A still in-character-ending.

The series feels wrong, it feels like utter mockery and I'm not here for it. With that said, my blog is a safe space for everyone who feels like this or gets bullied by the new "fanbase" (yes that happens)

Thank you so much for sharing your opinion, I appreciate it more than you know 🖤💚

[nighthoundsworld]

WE ARE BACK AGAIN WITH ANOTHER NEXT AVENGERS HEADCANON AND I REALLY NEED TO MAKE A SHORTER NAME FOR THIS !

With Today’s Topic I’d like to speak about something that’s been wrapping my brain a lot and that’s ✨Villains ✨

Now obviously after Ultron’s reign Heroes and Villains alike are pretty hard to come around as well obviously Ultron killed them all sad lol

BUT ! IN THE LIVES IN HEROS “As long as there is good there shall be evil” and soon or later just like their Parents James, Azari, Francis, Torunn and Pym will eventually have to face their own battles and demons

Now personally I always liked the Headcanon that when the kids become older and more seasoned mature heroes they start to build their own little rogues gallery and like their parents and more like the Teen Titans each Next Avengers Member has their own Arch nemesis like how Robin has Slade, Cyborg has Brother Blood, Starfire has Blackfire etc etc

I read a really good FanFic about how Torunn learned that in Asgard since she wasn’t there and Thor, Sif and the Royale family had died Amora aka Enchantress had taken the thrown and even bread an offspring with Thor more so forcefully creating as we know MAGNI AS HE IS THE NEW KING OF ASGARD

AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD LOVE ESSENTIALLY GIVING TORUNN HER OWN BLACKFIRE/STARFIRE STORY IS PERFECT A BATTLE FOR THE THROWN IS AMAZING FOR HER

Azari is another one I’d love to dive deep into as with him being an Omega level Mutant + his Heritage of royal blood as Prince of Wakanda there are so many potentially great villains that can be given for him

Now obviously I’d be easy to just make his arch enemy the son of Killmonger giving into the whole challenge the bloodline aspect BUT I always thought The Black Panther franchise should dive deeper into Voodoo Magic

Giving Azari more so an Antagonist like Dr Faciler from Princess in the Frog or Husk from Hazbin Hotel would be KILLER ! more so it’s a mental and psychological battle. Rather than a physical one. Imagine the Voodoo villain teen like him gives Azari and the team the chance to see their parents again with just one deal that not knowing what it is AHHHHHH I NEED TO HURRY UP AND LEARN HOW TO DRAW AND ANIMATE

again I found this from a Fanfic but I love the idea so much. James like Torunn’s rival ends in him finding out he has a brother WHO’S THE SOM OF STEVE AND SHARON !!!!! DUN DUN DUN !!! DRAMAAAAAAA I LOVE IT ! AND HIS NAME IS IAN AGHHHHHHHH !!!

Now Pym and Francis are sadly left out of this because we’ll truly I have no idea what to give them but I’d love to hear from you all give me some of your own ideas and headcanons on what Pym and Francis’s arch enemies can be

UNTIL NEXT TIME BOYS AND SQUIRRELS THIS HAS BEEN NEXT AVENGERS HEADCANON’S (don’t like it still need a name)

[eucatastrophicblues]

re: your reblog about het ships declining in fandom too -

i feel like the het pairings i like have gone from being a lot more about the woman in terms of framing in fics to now being about the men. i've noticed this a lot in a couple of fandoms i'm in that there's been a shift to the dynamics where it's clear the man is every writer's special favorite guy. i wasn't sure if that was just the fandom spaces i'm in but i think it matches with the m/f decline and the way fandom is really heavily tilting towards men right now in ways it hasn't before (and probably explains a lot of the frustrations people have)

Oh, yeah, that’s absolutely the case. And it’s a relatively recent shift that you can track just through fan content on Tumblr - less than 15 years ago, you’d have ships (usually Marvel, but that’s just because everyone was on the MCU train) where the appeal was either “this super cool woman who we’re kind of in love with gets a boyfriend who loves her” or “they’re a balanced, equal pair” - plenty of Thor/Jane shippers, plenty of Steggy shippers, people who liked the platonic pairings of Mako Mori and Raleigh from Pacific Rim, or Max and Furiosa from Fury Road, or all variants of Finn and Rey and Poe, or Han/Leia shippers. 20 years ago you had entire fansites dedicated to the women from franchises like LotR or PotC, and fanfic and fanart about those women dominated search results. Even if the men were popular, the women had to be good too. Women did genuinely used to have way more time and attention given to them in fandom spaces, and now that’s just… not a thing.

And before anybody asks, yes, there was also a lot more overt misogyny. But I’m going to quote a comment I saw on Reddit:

I would rather know who hates women up front, and be able to avoid them and build community with people who like women and other M/M shippers who aren’t misogynists, than have to deal with everyone loudly insisting that nobody cares about women.

[swampgh0stt]

rambling about dogs in horror, & why I chose that route for my fic

if you haven’t, please check out my fnaf fic (NEVER ALONE), to which this post is about

Thor (Bad Moon), Nanook (The Lost Boys), Sam (Dog Soldiers), & my favorite: Beast (The Hills Have Eyes)

One of my favorite tropes(?) is Dogs in Horror-- mainly when those dogs serve a greater purpose in the plot & act as Heroes for their human companions. The dogs listed above are all, in part, responsible for the success of the human characters in their respective movies-- & Thor is actually the star of his. I am also of the opinion that, if we follow the “Rules of Horror” written out in the Scream franchise, dogs don’t deserve gruesome deaths -- which is why I don’t mention Sam (I Am Legend) or even Dog Thing (The Thing). 

& yes, FNAF is largely human centered with it’s story. I will also admit that, I was actually unaware of Courage in Aftonbuilt when I decided to put Shane in my plot.

Shane was originally a character recycled from my DC Comics fanworks, which have all been abandoned for (reasons). Acting as the side-kick to my version of Mirror Monarch, he was always a support character. Now, bringing him to my fic, I decided to turn him into the full-blown Hero. 

Heavy inspiration was found from characters like Thor & Beast -- brave German Shepherds responsible for saving their families from a werewolf (Bad Moon) or murderous mutants (The Hills Have Eyes). In both stories, the dogs are even shown to have problem solving styles, acting independently to make themselves their own stand alone characters. This is more impressive for Beast, who isn’t really the main focus on the story-- but the fact that he still is shown to remember his aggressors & even enact revenge on them for their crimes always stuck with me. Beast was actually part of what kicked off my love for German Shepherds to begin with. 

& then there was Thor-- the star of his own movie/book, entirely from his POV, which brings an all new perspective than what we’re used to. 

I’ve always known that I wanted something like that, when I wrote Horror. Because, to me, Dogs in Horror (when they are successful) are a sign of Hope & Protection. Even in the face of overwhelming odds, the dog still succeeds? There is a chance for us all. That’s how I have always felt about it, at least. Dogs can chase away the Bad Things, our own little saviors on four legs. 

And so, if Thor can tear apart a werewolf & Beast can shred these mutated monsters, then why can’t an animal scare away these mechanical monsters?

& I’ll be so real with yall: As someone who used to work at a children’s pizzeria with animatronics, I took advantage of the animatronic tech’s time to talk to him about them, & even ask him questions for the sake of my writing. I don’t have to put that much effort into my fic-- but I am always excited to say that I did. Making Shane an ex-military dog meant giving him titanium teeth--

-- giving him an edge over what I knew I was about to pit T’aaku against, when this is taken into consideration with the bite force of a German Shepherd & even how big of a German Shepherd I wanted to make Shane. Everything was calculated (all for a fanfic). 

Shane is meant to be the Hero of my story. In a plot where the lead human character finds himself working for the villain of the story (William Afton) --even when he’s unknowingly acting as an accomplice-- I wanted a somewhat voiceless companion to still act as that beacon of Hope. T’aaku is going to face quite a few terrors, & every success for him is another victory of the murderer himself. 

But Shane doesn’t abide by William’s whim, nor does he care about that silver tongue the man has. At the end of the day, no matter what horrible thing is thrown at them, Shane will always be there to save the day.

-- as should be the case with dogs in horror, in my opinion. 

[thenationaltreasuregazette]

Schrodinger's Sequel: A Treatise on Ignoring Book of Secrets

At this point you may have noticed that sometimes...I ignore Book of Secrets' existence in my analysis of the first National Treasure.

Why?

It's not just because I don't like it (although I don't). It's also because I don't think you necessarily should consider later works when analyzing a piece of media, particularly if you're looking at the development process or the "how we got here" of it all. Or at least, you shouldn't have to.

This blog is not the first place I've noticed that I have a slightly different approach to media analysis that some other fans when it comes to sequels, and the way that an ongoing narrative is viewed over time. I've wanted to dig into it a little more, so let's do it!

Btw, this is not intended to be an argument for or against any particular reading style, only an exploration of my thought process.

Reading Styles

The two "reading styles," I'm going to call them, are thus:

First, there's the retroactive reading style. In this style, anything that happens in a later installment of a multi-work franchise retroactively affects the past works in that world.

To use my very least favorite example in the whole wide world:

Avengers: Age of Ultron reveals that MCU Clint Barton, (Hawkeye) has a wife and three kids who live on a farm.

The retroactive reading style would say that because of this new development Clint always had a farm family, including in previous installments where this wasn't included or hinted at. Therefore, a reading of the preceding Avengers movie should include space (at least in the back of your mind) for the farm family.

And that just doesn't make sense to me because that's not how the story was created or experienced.

In what I'm going to call the developmental reading style, the story canon only really exists up until the work in question.

To take the AoU example again, I think an analysis of Avengers (2012) should take into account the events of the Phase 1 Marvel movies (Iron Man, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Iron Man 2) but not only does it not need to take into account the events of later films, I think that's almost counterproductive to understanding how the story is working as a narrative machine.

The farm family did not exist when Avengers was written. It was not a consideration when Jeremy Renner was making decisions about how he was going to play the Clint Barton character. Maybe it was floating around as a fun fact (Hey, did you know in the Ultimates comics Clint has a family that Natasha murders in cold blood because she's a double agent? Maybe we'll do that. Hey, did you know that in the comics Natasha has a nemesis/adopted younger sister who's another Black Widow agent? Maybe we'll do that.) but it wasn't a part of the text of the story.

If you're writing a fanfic about Clint and Laura (the farm wife) then sure, imagine her into wherever you want. Have at it; it's your playground. But if you're analyzing how Avengers works as a film, how it creates its narrative and brings together disparate c-tier comics franchises into a single cohesive story (which was unheard of at the time)...then the farm family isn't bringing anything to the table because it was not on the table.

In the same way, if I'm looking at Book of Secrets I'm going to include the events, themes, and characterization of National Treasure in my thinking. If I'm looking at National Treasure—not the National Treasure cinematic universe, but National Treasure (2004)—I'm generally not.

This is especially true when I'm looking at how a story came to be. For example, how the 2003 script became National Treasure. BoS doesn't factor in because it wasn't a part of the initial calculations/art/alchemy that made the first movie what it is.

Exceptions

There are exceptions, of course, particularly when a specific twist, reveal, or piece of knowledge was known from the outset and integral to the development of the story as a whole, for example...

Spoilers for The Good Place season 1 and Steven Universe incoming

...I would read an early episode of The Good Place with the context that it's really The Bad Place, because that knowledge is fundamental to how the story is being built and told. And I would include the Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond reveal in a future rewatch of Steven Universe because again, that concept was fundamental to the telling of the story—and of the tellers' desire to tell the story in the first place. The clues are all there for you to see, once you know what you're looking for.

Threads

These kinds of stories are the exception though, not the rule. Outside of major milestones like that, most ongoing stories are built from the ground up. Each entry creates material that can be drawn on for the next, threads that start out as extraneous little pieces of worldbuilding that can be pulled on and incorporated into future works.

As much as it was a meme at the time, Avengers: Endgame was not planned from the beginning. Maybe on a very conceptual "We'd like to build to an adaptation of the Infinity War storyline" level, but no. Remember, they didn't know that Iron Man (2009) wasn't going to tank like most other superhero movies of the time. And they didn't know if multiple separate movies even could be brought together under the same banner, and if audiences would go for that. And they thought Age of Ultron was a good idea.

Conclusion

My point is, basically, that I don't tend to consider future installments to a franchise as fundamentally relevant to understanding a work of fiction--regardless of whether or not I personally like them--because that's just...not how I experience ongoing narratives.

Is this an fancy excuse to ignore sequels I don't like? I mean yeah, probably, sometimes. But also, if I'm ignoring Book of Secrets it's also maybe that I've kinda sorta forgotten it exists?

I've polled a few friends about this, and so far they're all said they do the first thing. What about you?

[raccoonfallsharder]

Thank you so much for responding to my ask, I found myself nodding my head in agreement to every point you made. I still feel bad for those who continue to overlook Rocket, but yeah, it doesn't really matter. Would love to hear those Loki thoughts as well if you don't mind!

ahh, i’m so glad to hear my five-thousand-page rant made sense and resonated with you! i also feel bad for those who overlook rocket. they truly don’t know what they’re missing.

so my thoughts on loki (below) are ALL over the place. i guess i’ll rant a little about the mcu and then talk about how i view loki in terms of character complexity, and then rant a lil more before i get really sappy. ready? ready.

i’m gonna go ahead and double-down on what i said about the mcu as a whole, and how much we need stories told by writers who love the characters they’re writing for. i think loki in the movies is a good example of a character who had, like, signposts of complexity and development with no actual exploration. we would see his behavior shift at critical moments, and we could interpret change and growth, but we never got to spend enough time with him to really see his thoughts and feelings and motivations. fanfic writers have done more to establish loki as a character with depth than the movies ever did. (hire them, disney!)

to be fair, those were thor’s movies, i suppose. but the dynamic of the movies really relied on this sibling relationship, while only really exploring one sibling’s perspective. like, how do you base a whole section of a franchise on two characters, but treat one as a person and the other as a prop?

then we move into the show.

honestly, i fuckin loved the show. i know you described it as loki getting to speedrun his redemption arc in a youtube video (a description which made me giggle btw), but i personally never thought of it that way. i never thought of loki as really learning anything from that montage of his other self’s life — except, perhaps, that being a better person and having a real relationship with his brother was possible. i always thought of that scene as just a slap in the face to get him to start paying attention.

what unfolds over the following two seasons is, imo, where all his growth happens. still begrudging at first — still eager to double-cross the people holding him captive (no shade; they didn’t deserve his loyalty). ready to use his variant to accomplish his goals. we get to see him start to develop empathy by literally reflecting on himself (hi sophie), and we get to watch that empathy spread — slowly, but surely. (so slowly, by the way. that sequence at the end where he spends a million years watching his friends unravel again and again and again and again and again and again and again? like, the audience may have gotten to speedrun that — but there’s no reason to think he did). by the time loki does what he thinks is the right thing — “for all of us” — it’s incredibly believable to me. whereas in the movies, it often felt like a cointoss — tails i save an orphan and heads, i act like a little shit — this decision to preserve self-determination seems deliberate and conscious and effortful. and he now considers himself part of the universe instead of superior to or separate from it. for all of us.

so. what do i think about the complexity of loki’s character? i think he is very complex and developed, and that his character growth is shared just as masterfully as rocket’s, but — i think this is exclusively because of the tv show.

and i think, again, that this is because the writers of loki loved him. like gunn did with rocket, they held the character of loki very tenderly, found all the places that made him mean, and asked, but why? and what does healing look like for you? and how do we make that happen?

and you know, even though rocket and loki are very different, and their stories “end” in very distinct ways, i think it’s fascinating that so many of the stories we find that have been told with love also include love as a central tenet. i think it’s just so beautiful that when we recognize a character as fundamentally good but deeply wounded, we so often want to reshape their universes to be exactly what they need to make them feel whole and seen and unbroken. we want to give them found families and community and connection, because having those things is always better than not, even if that means you have to be trapped in a tree for the rest of eternity.

i dunno, i just think people overall are really loving, and at their core, they want to put more love in the world. and i think loki (the show) and guardians (the movies) are perfect examples of people actually doing that.

blah blah blah, hire writers who love the characters.

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thanks for inspiring this rant lol sorrryyyy

[rainbowsillz]

Okay, I think there's a possibility I'll write for multiple fandoms in the future. Probably KNY + Creepypasta if I'm serious o(^-^)o. Either when I understand their characterization or if I am comfortable to do that. Making yandere ocs seem like fun too.

But I'll try to focus mainly on twst since I love Riddle XDD.

For now, no fanfics/one-shots because my vocabulary words are limited. It'll all be for headcanons | scenarios | bullet points.

English is my second language, so there may be some grammatical errors. It's not going to be apparent though.

★⋆Thank you everyone, have a terrific day ★⋆

Fandoms that I'm interested in:

Twisted Wonderland. -> You already know who I'll marry:3

Villain To Kill -> Driver ♡ Crow! It's canon for me skjsksksj.

Kimetsu No Yaiba. ->..Kyojurou and Akaza are winning me fr.

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina.

Five nights at Freddy's.

Creepypasta. -> Jeff The Killer and Eyeless Jack absolutely.

Obey me. -> Beel is best boy >:)

Jujutsu Kaisen. -> Yuji, my bby.

Wadanohara and the great blue sea + other horror rpgs.

Pocket mirror.

Madoka Magica.

Webtoons.

Anime.

My Hero Academia. -> Deku is so precious.

Cookie run. -> Soda cookie is my baeee.

Marvel. -> Thor. My favorite character in the entire franchise.

Disney. -> Alice in Wonderland luv luv.

Genshin Impact (Please explain me the lore😭). -> Scaramouche, just because I like his story.

Little Nightmares.

[galaxythreads]

the anons sending you crap for not liking ragnarok as a thor movie keep forgetting that people can have [gasp] different opinions! how scandalous!

(but srsly now, fanwork (fanfic, video essay, etc...) don't always need to be a love letter to canon. sometimes fanwork can be 95 thesis on everything you didn't like about it nailed to the franchise's office's door. and that's perfectly okay so long as you're having fun with it)

Yeah. Okay. Honestly, thank you so much for this. It helped a lot.

MCU is exhausting to me right now. I have 0 (zero) desire to write in it. I have no motivation to finish anything I'm working on except a fic for my friend whose birthday I missed and I want to do something for her because she's amazing and I love her. But other than that... I just have no desire to engage in the fandom except through video essays. It's like a breath of fresh air to just talk about why this fandom frustrates me so much. Like please make no mistake, MCU means a lot to me. I mean it genuinely when I say it is the reason I'm still alive, but I hate seeing it slowly sink and feeling my enjoyment with it free fall with no signs of stopping.

"Just stop engaging with it" <- look at me honestly and tell me that you yourself have never sat on a sinking ship and waited for it to hit the bottom just because you love the ship too much to get off. Everyone has done this. We all have that fandom we engage with until its dead in the water.

Writing is exhausting. I'm exhausted. I'm having some of the worst writer's block for fanfics I've faced in a while. my mental health is being dragged behind me in a trailer. Writing my stupid little essays about these stupid little shows and working on my original story is like. The only parts of my life I enjoy right now. Leave me alone, yknow?

[tyrannuspitch]

2,3,7

2. A headcanon you weren't sure about at first, but have come to like

Reading Thor and Loki as (fake) twins! At first I was like... but that introduces so many logistical problems. And isn't it weird to have such strong older/younger brother complexes if they're literally the same age...?

Now I understand that them being (alleged) twins while acting like they have a significant age gap is the whole appeal. Sibling type: Twins, but so fucking weird about it.

3. A character the fandom has helped you appreciate

Hmm... I can't think of any within the Thor franchise, because I'm already independently appreciating a fair number of underappreciated characters, but... There is Steve Rogers, I guess?

I honestly can't remember if I came up with Steve/Loki independently and then went looking for it, or if I stumbled across it and then went "WAIT you're right there's potential here!!", but either way, Frostshield fanfic writers have done more to get me interested in Steve's character than the movies ever did. o7

(Not saying I dislike Steve or think he's a bad character, to be clear - I'm just pretty much immune to non-Thor MCU movies. If they're not chewing the furniture I don't want to hear about it.)

7. Your favourite tropes to read/write/draw

Hmm... I'm not sure about, you know, well-known, named tropes, but in general I tend to write a lot of angst, and it's often heavily focused on power/autonomy/lack thereof. I have two fics on the go that are about mind control. I like it when a character does something really, really awful, but they think they're being kind. I like writing about murder, ghosts, and childhood.

As for reading... Again, not sure what to count as a trope, but I love a good AU. I like angst, dystopia, and, to some extent, horror. (I like my horror existential but not too, like, gross? Minimal goo, thank you.) I also enjoy outsider POV when I come across it - I love contemplating how such publicly and disastrously dysfunctional characters are seen by ordinary people who have to deal with the consequences of their actions, but I think other people are way more equipped to write that as an engaging story than me, because I really struggle to make my thoughts on it coherent lol.

For both reading and writing, I like it when characters have really painful conversations where everyone involved has ten tonnes of baggage about the topic at hand and is incapable of saying anything remotely helpful. Like... we're all neurotic in opposing directions and we all think we're the voice of reason and we are so so wrong!!! Yesss. I <3 melodrama.

And I can't really draw, but if I could, I would probably draw lot of angsty hugs and childhood antics. And illustrate my own bad jokes.

-> Fandom positivity ask game 💛

[spidey-brain]

Honestly, I gotta agree with the reblog. Like, I think that Endgame wasn't perfect, but it put a neat bow on all of these characters and their arcs and on the Infinity Saga that we followed for 11 years. The things that feel or were ruined, such as Thor becoming a complete joke, were things that came after Endgame mostly.

Plus, as much as I would've loved for certain things to have been done differently and as much as I like some headcanons and fanfics about post-Endgame where like, for e.g., Tony is still alive and the Avengers are still together as a family or where Tony/the Avengers and Peter's relationships get more time to shine, for what the MCU had and was able to do during those years, all of it was amazing, even with the limitations a live action superhero franchise has.

And I'm glad I got to follow it and grow up with it during all of those years.

Also, the reblog gave good character and in-universe explanations for why Tony, Steve and Natasha ended up the way they did in Endgame, but we all also already knew, even before Endgame came out, that these characters' time in the MCU was up, as their actors' contracts were ending, so they had to find ways to send off these characters.

Ignoring that the MCU is now kinda trying to bring them back... kinda desperately (*cough* RDJ as Doctor Doom and Chris Evans as The Tourch *cough*).

I haven't watched the MCU for a while now and the last thing I watched was Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love & Thunder (RIP), but I mostly lost interest in the MCU after Endgame, only watching Spiderman: No Way Home and following any news on what Marvel Studios is doing with Spiderman after that for obvious reasons, and I think it was because, yes I will admit, I miss the original main Avengers (sorry, but nostalgia is nostalgia) and because the writing, generally, became worse, like I seriously did not expect for the MCU writing to become so bad. Like, I'm not saying there weren't or there isn't anything good in the MCU nowadays because there probably still is, plus I cannot make such a definitive statement because, like I mentioned before, I stopped following this franchise for a while now and I've seen people enjoying things like Wandavision, Loki and Agatha all Along.

But ya, anyways, sorry for rambling, I agree that Endgame wasn't as bad as some make it out to be.

Sorry to OP for barging in with my own block of text that disagrees with their opinion, which they are valid in having, obviously.

I feel like the main 6 Avengers actually had really bad character development in Avengers Endgame because Clint didn’t really do anything, Bruce’s arc was skipped over, Natasha was killed off, Tony died even though it wasn’t necessary, Thor’s struggles where made into a joke and Steve left Bucky and all of his teammates to be with Peggy in past

A lot things that happened in Avengers Endgame felt more like character regressions instead of going forward

[iamanartichoke]

Me to Valki, writing this chapter: JUST FUCKING TOUCH EACH OTHER!

Valki: Nah.

[giorno-plays-piano]

Vicious

Part VI

Pairing: Steve x reader, Bucky x reader, Thor x reader, Loki x reader, Peter x reader

Warnings: yandere, obsession, stalking, possessiveness, theft, mention of blackmail, all characters are adults.

Words: 1567.

Summary: Transferring to Stark Academy that has only allowed to take in female students last semester, you realize you are just one of three young women among hundreds of students. Your things are constantly being stolen, and soon you begin fearing for your safety.

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

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You spent the rest of your evening like a somnambulist, barely able to concentrate on your projects before you went to bed, barely finishing half of the things you planned for today. Even the change of locks didn't make you as happy as you thought it would. It felt like something between a dream and a nightmare.

Lying in the dark, you stared at the ceiling, thinking of what happened just a couple of hours ago. Why did he do it? Was it just out of habit and didn’t mean anything? Naturally, with his appearance and easy-going attitude, he probably dated many girls and didn’t think much before kissing someone he liked.

Remembering the way he talked to you in the morning, you thought he must have pretended to be shy around you. Thor certainly wasn’t sheepish.

Was it all a sham? Was Loki right about all of them, playing their roles to get close to you? You couldn’t forget the way Thor looked the moment he told you about being smart. It was like something switched inside him, and for a second you saw the real Thor who was far from being your simple, good-natured athlete.

Why did you keep thinking about that stupid kiss even after seeing the man could be dangerous?

Aroused and angry, you tossed and turned until you fell asleep.

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Waking up was especially tough, despite the fact you didn't really do much yesterday, meaning you were going to spend your weekend studying. Shoot, and that's when you planned to visit that new chocolate boutique in the city. Maybe you could still make it if you spent more time studying today?

But then again, going to the city alone might be a bad idea. Even if the guys who stole your things were beaten, it didn't mean it had always been the same people following you. The school was full of weirdos, in the end. What if somebody went after you? Steve would definitely say you had to bring one of your guards with you.

Damn. It was better staying in the dorm then.

"Good morning! Are you ready?" Peter's voice broke through the silence, and you flinched, hurriedly applying some lipstick because you didn't have enough time to put your makeup properly.

Well, at least you were fully dressed.

"Just give me a second!" Picking up your bag, you put your shoes on and opened the door, looking at a young guy who's face was lit up like a Christmas tree. "Hi!"

He definitely liked what he saw, and you felt your cheeks growing hot from embarrassment. From the very start of the semester Peter acted very sweet around you, and you thought you could be friends with him. He wouldn't do something as ugly as blackmailing, would he? Thor said it too. Clearly, Steve was exaggerating.

"Did you sleep well? I've heard you changed your lock, so now it'll be better."

"Ugh, I hope so. But I still sleep with my dresser blocking the door." Sighing, started walking, afraid to look in the faces of other students, hurrying off to school.

They must have been disgusted, watching you being friendly with one guy after being all lovey-dovey with the other just yesterday. Although you didn't see anyone in particular, you were sure somebody saw Thor kissing you. And now you were walking the corridors with Peter.

"By the way, what's your Insta?"

What? Your Instagram? Whatever for? Although you had no idea why he needed it, you let him add you, by the time leaving the dorm and walking towards the main building.

Suddenly, Peter got pretty close, his arm on your waist as he lifted up his phone and hummed, "Look here and smile!"

Before you realized what he was doing, the boy kissed your temple, and you heard the sound of a photo being taken by his front-facing camera. What the Hell?!

"Peter!" Pissed at him, you quickly break free and stepped back, but he was already looking at his phone, editing the photo and posting it almost immediately.

You heard your phone buzz when he marked you on the photo.

"That's a good one. You look very cute here."

"What are you doing?!"

"Making a proof we're dating, of course?"

You were taken aback by the sincerity in his voice, and Peter smiled from ear to ear like an excited teenager, showing you the picture: it wasn't that bad, and you looked as if you were slightly embarrassed by Peter's closeness. Oh, of course. He had to convince his friends he was dating you, but he didn't kiss you on the lips that could make other people too suspicious. Instead, friends of Barnes or, say, Thor, would still think it was all for show, and it was their friend who dated you for real.

Shit, Steve's plan was incredibly complicated, and you didn't like it at all.

"Oh, alright." You mumbled, lowering your eyes to the ground, and Peter laughed.

"We'll make a TikTok dance later. If you wanna make people talk, just use your social media." He winked at you and put the phone in the pocket of his pants, resuming walking, and you moved along, your face still hot.

God, what did these guys got you into? You felt like you were lost in the middle of a play, not even having a script to read what was your role in all this.

Before you parted your ways, going to a different classrooms, Peter talked about videogames, the upcoming Resident Evil - apparently, his favorite franchise - and some Dota tournament, but you didn't know much about it, and Peter offered to show you his favorite games "because you can't spend all your time studying!"

He was as careless and sweet as always, but you couldn't get Steve's words out of your mind. Damn, if only you could know for sure that Peter didn't blackmail anyone. Who could you talk to about it? Obviously, not Peter himself, but every time he spoke you had that nagging feeling you needed to talk to him. You barely kept your mouth shut before he went to a different room.

Ugh, why didn't you transfer anywhere else when you still had a chance? Obviously, now you could only drop out of school, and it definitely wasn't something you were going to do.

Luckily, the next couple of hours you were busy with your classes, trying your best to prepare for the upcoming exams. The academy held high standards, and even though you were a good student, it still took lots of efforts to keep up the good work. How Thor even managed to get enrolled, judging by the fact he hated studying and often skipped classes?

Ah yes, he mentioned something about getting a scholarship from the academy for his success in the sport.

By the lunch time you were drained, listening to Peter chatting with an absent-mindedly epxression on your face. Funny enough, Peter's grades were better than yours, even though he spent much less time studying. What, was he some genius like Loki? You felt a little envy.

"I gotta go take my tracksuit, I have PE next," the boy said, and you nodded, throwing away the leftovers of your lunch.

As you stood close while he grabbed his sportclothes, you heard two guys talking behind the lockers to your right.

"Have you seen her today? She's with Parker!"

You tensed immediately. Of course, they were talking about you.

"Yeah, so what?"

"She was with Thor yesterday!"

Watching you froze on the spot, Peter stilled too, listening carefully. Oh shit, you hoped no one cared about who you went with - why should they, in the end - but, apparently, you were drawing too much attention simply because you were a girl among hundreds of male students.

"So what?" The other guy asked impatiently, growing tired of this conversation.

"Are you stupid? She's going out with them! I bet she's looking for a guy." The first student said with excitement, and you cringed. No, you weren't going out with anyone, you wanted to stop the weirdos from following you and steeling your things. Was it too much to ask?

"Yeah, who cares?"

"We have three fucking girls in the whole school, and you don't care if one of them could be going out with you? Besides, this one's pretty. I'd fuck her!"

You felt like you were going to puke any moment. Why on Earth did you decide to transfer to an all-boys school? It was like the whole school were a men’s room filled with stupid-ass guys, and you were locked inside, forced to listen them talk junk.

"You'd fuck a sheep, weirdo. Go get yourself a girlfriend if you can’t stop thinking with your dick.”

Laughing, the guy left, and his friend followed him, shouting something stupid while you breathed out a sigh of relief. Of course, you knew there would be some talk, but you didn’t expect it to be so... gross. Were you really gonna spend the two remaining years here?

Watching you getting frustrated, Peter gently touched you by the arm and said softly, “Don’t worry. They won’t talk rubbish about you.”

“What do you mean?” Suddenly thinking of Steve’s words, you blurted out exactly what you were thinking of the whole day, “Are you going to blackmail them with something?”

“I... what?”

Part VII

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[worstloki]

I am desperate. I need to actually get rid of mcu loki from my brain.

I have watched ragnarok and boy oh boy did they manage to nail loki's character so good.

Please give me some good loki recommendations, I don't care if he's a straight up villain in the recs, if he's powerful as fuck I need it. (I want something thats not fanfic)

And also some advice on how to distance myself from the mcu, would be greatly appreciated. (Nounfortunatelythisisnotajoke)

it's mee BOYYY ~mcu loki~ speaking from INSIDE YOUR B R A I N-leave the canon!!!!! WE DON"T NEED herrrrRRR-~~!!!

I thought you were talking about Thor: Ragnarok for a long while. Yes Netflix Ragnarok did Loki so well!!

I'm going to recommend the comics? Particularly Agent of Asgard if you haven't, and Avengers: 2018 if you want something random? He's a villain in that one. the good news is there are a LOT of comics and Loki generally uses loads of cool magic :D!

Try to stay away from the MCU online? Get into different things, try new shows or books, maybe? Or another franchise if that's the kind of thing you like. Webtoons are fun if you prefer those!

[iamnmbr3]

I wish I cared for the future of the MCU but I actually kinda dread it tbh (Mostly Thor: Love and Thunder. Shit name, not gonna lie I thought it was a fake name in the beginning). Also haven’t watched Moon Knight yet, haven’t found any motivation to do it, which is sad cause it was one of the upcoming series that seemed most intriguing.

yeah i feel that. i would dread if I were still watching but I'm just not going to see the new movie. I'm glad Loki's not in it bc if he were they'd just use it as an excuse to ruin his character and mean spiritedly mock the fans. the new movie's gonna be awful. it's gonna ruin thor some more. but im not gonna see it and im gonna pretend it doesn't exist and read some awesome fanfic instead.

it's a shame bc the mcu has so much potential but they're wasting it. the trouble the DCEU had should have shown them that what made the MCU succeed where other super hero franchises stumbled wasn't the effects or the powers. It was the characters and the stories. and that's what they're destroying now under the misguided assumption that that part doesn't matter. when that was what made them successful to begin with.

[bedlamsbard]

There are two principles I always try to stick to when I’m writing AUs -- you’ll notice I do a lot of mirroring or rhyming, reusing lines or imagery from canon but with different characters or different contexts:

1) “I’m Sharon, but I’m a different Sharon.  I know who I am.  I don’t have hidden protocols or programming lying in wait to be activated.  I make my own choices, I make my own decisions, and I need you to know this is my choice.”  (Battlestar Galactica)

This is a Cylon talking, not an alternate universe version of a character but the  principle is the same. The thing I always try to carry into building AU characters is that yes -- they’re that character, but they’re a different character at a same time.  They’re going to react the same way to their canon counterparts in a lot of ways but they’re not always going to do so; the’re not being pulled on strings to do the exact same things their canon counterparts are doing because they’re not the same people.  But on the other hand, they are the same base character, so they will occasionally mirror each other in actions or dialogue, but often in very different contexts.  Sometimes they’re going to make the same decisions, sometimes they’re not.  It’s always about context.

2) “It’s like poetry, it rhymes.”  (George Lucas on Star Wars.)

With very rare exception, I don’t want my AUs to go exactly the way canon goes either -- but I want it to rhyme with canon, I want those little bits and pieces where you can see those callbacks and those mirrors, I want them to be speaking the same language in the same way different installments in a franchise will do those same kinds of tiny callbacks and mirrors.  I do a lot of dialogue mirroring and there will be bits and pieces of mirrored dialogue in prose, as well.  For example, from Morning 6:

“I don’t mean to interrupt,” Natasha said, and barely managed to keep from flinching as both Asgardians looked at her. She wasn’t easily frightened, but there was something in their eyes that was so far beyond human that some small soft part of her wanted to cower in the dark, lest the war that raged in the heavens find its way to Earth and destroy everything it touched. Not out of maliciousness, just because when gods fought each other they could spare very little thought for mortals, no more than soldiers on a battlefield paid any mind to the ants beneath their boots.

Beyond that, the way I write AUs, canon is always out there like another branch on the tree, and I always see different AUs echoing each other, like ripples in a pond, so they’ll have knock-on effects to each other. I often want to have equivalent thematic/emotional beats to canon when I’m doing a relatively close AU -- but it will very seldom be an exact mirror of the canonical scene.  (So for Yonder, for instance, Loki meets 2012 Thor to parallel Thor meeting 2013 Frigga; in the Endgame battle, Loki getting the shield and Steve getting Mistilteinn, then swapping those back, take the place of Steve getting Mjolnir, then he and Thor swapping Mjolnir and Stormbreaker back and forth.)

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I don’t expect readers to pick up on the really subtle stuff -- dialogue mirroring is pretty obvious but it’s still about 50/50 if people notice it, imagery is less obvious just because taking something from a visual medium and reproducing a callback to it in a written one is not as clear as two visual mirrors like film can do; the dialogue/prose mirrors and the emotional beats very seldom get picked up by readers.  But it’s important for me when I’m writing because no matter how AU something is, I want it really, really closely rooted in canon, because that’s the thing that will kill a story dead -- if I, the writer, can’t make those connections or have those bits of familiarity, otherwise for me there’s no point in writing fanfic, I might as well be writing original fiction.  (And to reiterate, this is what works for me, this is not “other people should do this.”)

[youlackconviction]

So, remember when shipping Darcy and Loki was a thing? I miss those simpler days.

i wasn’t in fandom when that was a thing. LOKI was still my fave but i just liked him on my own, i didn’t engage with online communities of fans. and being in new zealand means that as far as american film franchises go, there’s not a lot of opportunity to attend fan events and so on in person.

but if i was asked to form an opinion now? well those characters never even met so shipping them has no basis in canon. and there’s no indication that i can see in their backstories or personalities that either of them would like one another’s company enough to form a relationship or even a friendship. i mean darcy’s out there tasing thor the second he even breathes in her direction so how’s she going to cope with LOKI’s much more overtly dangerous and intimidating persona? and LOKI already has enough frustrating people in his life who don’t share his highly-developed intellect, so i really can’t see it. i don’t see how mashing these two storylines together improves either one of them. everyone’s take on that will be personal of course, but that’s mine.

idk... i might be in the minority in fandom but i don’t really spend time matching up canon characters romantically in order to gain more satisfaction from their stories. i’ve read plenty of fanfics i suppose and while i’m reading one, if it’s well written and convincing and contains a ship (or even is fully about a ship) i can enjoy it... but my investment in the pairing really only lasts as long as the story does, it doesn’t persist once i’ve finished reading it and moved on.

i tend to appreciate characters for who they are individually, and what has happened to them, and whether i can empathise with that and relate to their struggles and successes. and that’s what i find satisfying or fulfilling in spending time with them. i don’t need everyone to find their otp. and often a romance arc being overlaid on an already strong story can obscure or derail it and make it much less powerful and compelling. for example, steve leaving the present day to go be with peggy in the past. just... obliterated everything they had built up for him to be and do throughout the whole time we’d seen him. he abandons all his friends, including bucky, to go and live for decades in a time where bucky’s still a captive of hydra, and just, what? ignores that fact while enjoying playing house? i don’t get it.

if the character is linked early in canon to an individual and that relationship is central to their arc, and it doesn’t overtake it but grows along with it - like tony and pepper i guess? then for me it becomes part of who they are. but if it’s peripheral then for me it’s less important and often i’d rather it wasn’t there.

and if it’s shoehorned in with absolutely no justification and no emotional payoff due to being abusive, heavy handed and deeply artificial... don’t even get me started.