Finished!

[bladespark]

I finished my Thor/Loki fic. It feels really weird, writing in the MCU. I've never taken part in anything that felt so...large? Mainstream? The biggest fandom I've participated in before this was My Little Pony, you know?

It makes me wonder if the fic will get more or less response than my Zeldafics do, over on AO3. Will it just get lost in the crowd, or will the larger crowd also mean a larger audience? No idea! Guess I'll find out!

I'll be posting it sometime in the coming week, not sure when. It's up on Patreon now, of course. :3 Gotta give the early access to the nice people who support me.

I'm super pleased with how it turned out, though. I haven't read a ton of Thor/Loki, but I've noticed a tendency, there and in other love/hate ships where the canon characters have a history of conflict, that a lot of fics tend to go "And then they admitted they loved each other and it was all flowers and candy and fluffy bunnies!" Which I find kind of annoying. Harry doesn't just kiss Draco and instantly forget about years of bullying. And Thor doesn't just kiss Loki and then trust him. That's not realistic at all.

I feel like I managed a good balance, though, between finding intimacy and not dismissing the past. It's the past between them that makes their relationship interesting, after all. I could write about any two adopted brothers banging, if I just wanted near-incest taboo with handsome guys. That it's Thor and Loki means that betrayal and power struggle are interesting spices added to the mix, and the story is much more bland if you lave those bits out.

I'm also now trying to construct an AU where I can bounce them off each other without worrying about canon accuracy. I can't decide what kind of AU I want, though. Not a school AU, I think I've said I don't really like those. A fairy tale AU, maybe? *ponders* It feels a bit weird to put mythological figures in a different mythological setting, somehow... I don't know. I'm sure I'll think of something eventually.

Comments

[dreamerinsilico]

Harry doesn't just kiss Draco and instantly forget about years of bullying. And Thor doesn't just kiss Loki and then trust him. That's not realistic at all.

YES, absolutely.

I'll be interested to see this! Messy relationship dynamics between characters with a lot of bad history is seriously my jam, especially lately.

[bladespark]

Well, no idea if it'll be to your taste, but I'll definitely post here on DW when I put it up on AO3.

[dreamerinsilico]

I don't strictly know it will be either, but in the brief time we've interacted I've decided you're pretty neat and I try to read at least some of the writing of people I think are neat! (And it's a reasonable bet it'll be at least somewhat up my alley; they're characters I like if not a ship I ship very hard, and reading that it was inspired by a fic inspired by That Scene In Ragnarok That Gave Me Feelings.... yeah. Relevant to my interests! :3)