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Why is that no fics I've read have ever mentioned that the Warriors 3 + Sif committed treason? And Heimdallr?

Fact: Odin (the king, even if he is a douchebag, and a dude all of the aforementioned jerkasses are supposedly loyal to) banished Thor for being a war-mongering, easily-angered, going-to-get-everyone-killed idiot. Yes? King banishes prince, takes his magic (mostly), and tosses him down to Earth to prove himself.

Fact: Odin then falls into the most helpfully timed healing sleep ever and for some reason his wife doesn't take over for a few days. Okay.

Fact: Odin has a second son and he takes over. Makes sense because there’s an heir and a spare, right? Heir’s out of town so spare steps up.

Fact: So now we have an Acting King, who, while he may not want to be king, he is not, at least, easily angered. Like, he didn't actually want to go to Jotunheimr, and he almost got them out of there without fighting - except, oh, right. Thor decided to start a war. Which he got banished for.

Fact: Warriors 3 + Sif don't like Loki. For some reason, neither does Heimdallr. So what do they do? They decide to ignore not only Loki's commandments, but also Odin's - that dude they all claim to be loyal to. You know why the Destroyer showed up in New Mexico? Because the king had traitors he needed to deal with, and they happened to be on a planet that didn't have a treaty with Asgard. And if all the humans would’ve stayed out of the way, a few buildings might have gotten singed, but we’re a hardy people. We can deal with that.

So. No fic I've seen has mentioned the treachery, and how that might have added to everything else Loki was dealing with. Why? Because he’s “the villain”? He was following the king’s rules and keeping the banished guy banished because – as evidenced by Thor on Jotunheimr, he wasn’t ready to be king.

Yes, Loki’s my favorite. Yes, I mentioned the above in one of my fics, and a prompt I left in the kinkmeme. But I can’t recall any other fic about it.

It just makes me mad. *sigh*

Have commas, periods, and hyphens always been counted in the word-counting software? Because that throws off pretty much everything I've ever written.

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Pick any passage of 500 words or fewer from something I've written, and leave it in a comment here. Then ask a question about it - what I was thinking, why that's the plot twist I chose, what I think might happen later, how I could've totally changed it up... anything you want to know.

So, along with everything else I'm working on and failing to finish, I started something new today. An Avengers/Norse myth crossover where Rhodey (Tony's best friend) is Sleipnir, Happy (Tony Stark's bodyguard) is Fenrir, Tony himself is Jörmungandr, Pepper is Hela, and either Bryce Larkin or Eames is Vali, and Neal Caffrey is Nari (I'm waiting to hear back from the prompter for those last two).

Now. My questions are these:

Should I just find two Marvel canon characters to be Vali&Nari? Because it's already intricate enough and I don't want to worry about other canons, too?

What color is Fenrir's fur? I think I want him to be a black wolf.

Should Hela be the goddess of the dead, or should I just ignore that part? Maybe she's turned her back on everything but her family.

Also, I think I've decided that Loki is mother of them all, instead of just Sleipnir.

And I'm either changing or ignoring certain parts of the Iron Man movies, so that it fits into the whole 'some of the characters are mythological figures' thing better. Should I mention within the narrative itself whenever that happens (somehow) or just assume the reader is clever enough to figure that out?

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Title: Child, from this world now you will draw your breath
Fandom: Avengers movieverse/Norse mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Betsy Sholl
Warnings: … yeah. Improperly marked dialogue due to stylistic choices. Symbolism. Bullshittery. Character death, after a fashion. Suicide by way of mythological figures, too. Mentions of Odin’s A+ parenting.
Pairings: um. Yggdrasil/Jörmungandr?
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 490
Point of view: third


(  A hero is merely the monster of someone else’s story. )

So, yeah. I just wrote this little drabble thing and was hoping someone wanted to read over it and tell me it doesn't suck? Like, I really like it. But it's kinda weird. Cute in the way anglerfish are cute, I think.

The warnings are: Improperly marked dialogue due to stylistic choices. Symbolism. Bullshittery. Character death, after a fashion. Suicide by way of mythological figures, too. Mentions of Odin’s A+ parenting.

And the pairing? *sigh* There isn't really one, but if there were... Yggdrasil/Jörmungandr. *facepalm*

It's 500 words. I'll probably put it on Ao3 tomorrow after work, after rereading it about a dozen times. But if someone else wanted to look it over and give me their thoughts?

So, I thought I had a pretty good vocabulary... and then I started studying for the GRE.

Dude.

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Title: I pray you, kind one, take pity on father and son
Fandom: White Collar/Norse mythology/Avengers movieverse(/Chuck)
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Aeneid
Warnings: violence; backstory cobbled together from movieverse&mythology; AU for movieverse and White Collar; narration from an unstable&bloodthirsty pov
Pairings: a smidge of implied Peter/Neal/Elizabeth
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 2040
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, Any conman/woman, wearing other people's names and lives until you forget your own
Note: This totally DID NOT go the way I thought it would. But it was so much fun to write.


( His name is not Neal Caffrey. )

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Title: here you come with a shield for a heart and a sword for a tongue
Fandom: Bourne Legacy (film)/Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Carol Ann Duffy
Warnings: spoilers for both films; mentions of bullying and bad things happening to children
Pairings: none
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 1745
Point of view: third


(  Once upon a time, there were two little boys with identical faces but different smiles. )

Why is it that the Dark Knight Trilogy is the only Batman fandom in which I don't really care about Bruce Wayne/Batman at all? I realized that a little while ago - he kinda bores me in those movies.

I mean, Batman is one of my all-time favorite characters. It doesn't really matter what 'verse of his I'm in. He's always interesting. Except in the Nolan movies. And I don't know why.



Also, could someone please explain to me why I just wrote a 1500ish word fic about Aaron Cross and William Brandt being twin brothers? It was exceedingly hard to not make them both into Clint Barton at the end.