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"I am Thor of the Æsir and I mean to slay any frost giant who dares to cross my path!"
"You've come a long way to die, Ása-Thor."
Thor is young and reckless, eager to slay one of the ferocious frost giants and have the skalds sing songs of his mighty deed. He sneaks into Jötunheimr, but the giant he meets is nothing like the hulking, bloodthirsty creatures from the age-old stories they tell in Asgard.Bookmarked by Caecelia
17 May 2013
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Jotunheim is in ascendance, and Asgard has lost.
After a botched attempt at stealing the Casket of Ancient Winters, Thor is bartered for peace and promised to be wed to Loki, the youngest son of Laufey.
Enter two very unwilling parties, an extended stint of captivity, a formal courting gone haywire, negotiations and treaties and dowries up the wazoo, and a very bratty, horny, but sly jotunn!kid!Loki, who's toying with a very put-upon older Thor, who has to grit his teeth and go along with the long-drawn-out engagement to ensure peace.
Even if young prince Loki likes dragging him around on a leash.
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16 May 2013
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Thrymskviða reimagined with single-gendered Jotnar, cultural relativism, political machinations and bodice ripping.
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- Part 1 of Open Hand-verse
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16 May 2013
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The terms of confinement for a prince are far less harsh than what's doled out to those without royal blood; in many ways, Loki creates his own punishment. Based off the Thor 2 trailer.
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10 May 2013
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To secure the uneasy peace between Asgard and Jotunheim, Loki is sent by Laufey to aid in Asgard’s war.
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4 May 2013
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A Place to Put My Heartache (Across Six Christmases) by BigSciencyBrain (jeribrunson)
The Avengers (2012)
28 Apr 2013
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Steve's still trying to find his place in this world. Accidentally saving Loki's life doesn't help. But maybe there's a place for both of them, together.
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2 May 2013
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When Thor fell, everything trembled.
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2 May 2013
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Her heart aches, her entire chest thrums with a love too big and too vast for her body to contain—her darling, bright, quicksilver son.
or: a study of frigga and loki, pre-thor movie and into thor 2.
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28 Apr 2013
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The Nature of the Beast by Mythtaken Identity (VR2LBast)
Thor (Movies), The Avengers (2012)
26 Apr 2013
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Loki can cause chaos simply by standing still.
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28 Apr 2013
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Out of the Depths by feelslikefire for Jawbone
The Avengers (2012), The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Incredible Hulk (2008), Thor (Movies)
21 Apr 2013
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Monstrare: Latin, verb, present active infinitive of monstro: To show, to point out.
Related forms: monstrum (noun), monster.Still in hiding from the American government and having been forced to leave Calcutta, Bruce Banner finds an angry, injured Loki in an alley in a shady part of Bangkok. Bruce has more questions than Loki is willing to answer, but when Loki finds out about the Hulk, he has some questions of his own.
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23 Apr 2013
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Thor's father dies and leaves him a shaving kit full of money and a note. The aftermath of this leads to a brother and a nephew he never knew he had. And, of course, Thor just has to go ahead and fall in love with his newly discovered brother. A People Like Us Human AU
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22 Apr 2013
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Res Judicata by dreamlittleyo
The Avengers (2012), Thor (2011), Marvel (Movies), Thor (Movies)
11 May 2012
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In which Thor doesn't want to hurt Loki. Except when he really, really does.
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15 Apr 2013
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"Cut my hair, brother," he says. "Like you used to."
Or, four times Loki cut Thor's hair and one time Thor cut Loki's.
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14 Apr 2013
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What Steve doesn't do is wait for a phone call, day after day. Or pay any mind to the dull ache in his chest. Or think about what it means to want someone who's made it clear they don't wanna be with you, 'cause they've got a good thing going with someone else.
If he'd known about Pepper, that night with Stark never would've happened. He's got more self-respect than that. He doesn't like hurting people. If he doesn't believe these two things about himself, he's lost.
In which Steve is trying to find a place for himself in the twenty-first century, Tony is appallingly unfaithful to Pepper, and Loki returns to earth, joins the Avengers, and does not quite seek redemption or absolution. Sex, angst, and mutant civil rights, and doing the wrong things for the right reasons (and the right things for the wrong reasons).
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- Part 3 of Stone (revised)
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14 Apr 2013
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They Say Of The Elves by Brancher
Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, Lord of the Rings (Movies)
This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
22 Jan 2013
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You know what they say of the elves, that they'll tumble you as soon as look at you.
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6 Apr 2013
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There's a theory that goes that there's a universe created for every possible choice you make in life. Loki's made a lot of choices. He could make a lot more.
Or, the one where Loki wanders through AUs of his life and it starts fucking with his head.
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2 Apr 2013
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Defying His Doom. by Potboy
Thor (2011), Thor (Comics), The Avengers (2012), Journey into Mystery
10 Jun 2012
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It seems unlikely that any outside force will ever work to redeem Loki, whether because he's incorrigable or they're just not prepared to try. This leaves Loki in the familiar position of having to do it all by himself.
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23 Mar 2013
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The Saga of Hug Fortress by theorytale
Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Avengers Movies Universe, The Avengers (2012), Thor (2011)
11 Sep 2012
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"Tony and Loki sitting in a room and talking" as described by Rain.
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19 Mar 2013
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Harry Potter has a lot to contend with: a failing relationship, a life debt to Narcissa Malfoy, unpleasant family secrets, a grieving George Weasley, babysitting duties imposed by Andromeda Tonks, and a supremely unheroic postwar world. He can be forgiven for passing the Resurrection Stone off to Kreacher without a second thought. He might not have done it if he'd known the stone was meant to work on Inferi.
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15 Mar 2013
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Really I want to say FOR LOVE OF GOD, GO READ THIS NOW, but that wouldn't do this fic justice. And I want to do it justice, because it is the story that jarred me out of fic apathy, that made me sit up straight and realise, in a kind of shock moment, the revolutionary potential that can be set free by rewritings and explorations of ›canon‹. That sounds very abstract. Really that's just me, not the fic; or rather, it's what the fic does without ever having to say.
TCW explores the soft aftermath, the silver-smooth transition into normality following the second war. The balance of power between the primary wizarding families -- the Blacks, Malfoys, Potters, Weasleys, etc -- has shifted with deaths and jailings and acts of heroism, and so have the values associated with power. Before the war, one as a pureblood sought glamour and excitement (see Mayari's magnificent story, Romance of the Age). Now, many of those bright young things are pushing up the daisies, many of those values have been revealed monstrous through the war they underpinned, and as such the power strategies have also undergone metamorphosis.
Lightning-fast these strategies have also departed from wartime tactics. As Harry, together with Ginny one of the story's main protagonists, is to realise to his shock and disorientation, the post-war wizarding world has nothing to do with justice or revealing truth or protecting the weak. For the people running the post-war wizarding world (not unlike post-war Germany) are, in fact, the very same people who supported the war in the first place. All that has changed is the discourse and the method. In other words, much to Harry's disgust, the age of comfort has descended, and this need for cosiness and comfort and superficial tranquility not only threatens to make invisible those wounds he cherishes and defines himself by, those wounds inflicted by war and family, but it also coexists quite easily with racism and intolerance and class oppression.
The fact of the matter is that, for all his good intentions, Harry cannot escape the world or simply shut it out of mind. Nor is that world entirely unattractive. No, Harry gets inextricably Involved, and it's in the push and pull of those forces against his -- against his own expressed desire for comfort and a family and unexpressed desire for danger and adventure and uncomfortable truth -- that his character gains definition, depth, and narrative power.
This fic is revolutionary. Not only does it take problematic canon givens seriously to make fruitful those paradoxes and uncomfortable implications, no. It also takes unloved canon characters like Ginny Weasley seriously, Ginny whose story tends to be forgotten or shoved aside or instrumentalised. TCW makes her story urgent and vital and necessary. The same with newly resurrected Regulus Black (who, next to Harry and Ginny, becomes a driving character of the story) or Andromeda Tonks. This would be a revolutionary move in and of itself, a key critical intervention. But Mayari does not stop there. She also succeeds magnificently in what I am coming to think of as The Task: believably characterising people who are, from a moral standpoint, absolutely despicable (i.e. Narcissa Malfoy) without romanticisation or softening or relativisation or preachiness. Narcissa is at once incredibly attractive and charming and a scheming hypocrite. The pleasure to be had from her ambivalence as a character is immense.
I haven't even begun to mention the plot, or rather how plot is set into motion through a most hilarious and unsettling accident (involving a Deathly Hallow and, as implied above, the unexpected resurrection of one Regulus Black). I may not manage to mention the plot any further than this in this rec, out of a very real fear of spoiling you much. So instead of speaking of plot, let me speak of genre. Beyond the fact that this is a novel length story (and TCW is only the first part of a series titled ›The Family Skeleton‹), this is also a story constantly interrupted by or driven forward by letters (based to an extent on the real letters of the Mitfords). Indeed, certain characters can only express themselves fully at arm's length, that is in letters and other forms of communicating while veiling. What one says may entirely contradict what one writes. This is at once a game and could not be more serious. And this ambivalence of the word -- of these modes of writing and reading and speaking -- comes to infect the very language of the story itself, which oscillates between direct and indirect speech, between thought and spoken word, and literally thrives on subtext.
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Are You There, God of Mischief? It's Me, Tony by fullofleaves
The Avengers (2012), Thor (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
14 May 2013
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If mind-controlled Barton doesn't come to spring Loki from the helicarrier, somebody else might have to. That somebody might be Tony Stark, who might not agree with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s interrogation methods and treatment of prisoners.
Luckily, with Thor's help, Supervillain Rescue Mission is a go. Too bad it starts spinning wildly out of control within minutes.
Bookmarked by Caecelia
13 Mar 2013