delyth88
Mostly Loki
Del, early 40s, she/her. Lets be honest, this blog is mostly Loki and Tom Hiddleston, with some other Marvel (especially Tony Stark), LOTR, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Good Omens, the Vorkosigan saga, and other things that take my fancy thrown in for good measure. Occasionally some of my art as I learn to draw and paint. I tag stuff. A couple of useful tags are 'fic rec' for Loki fics I love, 'og loki' for stuff related to pre-Ragnarok Loki, 'loki series' or 'loki spoilers' if you don't want to see anything about that, and 'negative' or 'loki series negativity' for salty posts. Loki season 1 wasn't what I was hoping for and there were some things I loved and some I hated. Season 2 on the other hand was much more my cup of tea and the finale is a much more satisfying example of how to give this character a tragic and bittersweet end than IW. I much prefer the Loki of Phase 1 and 2. I will never get over the tragedy of his story, or wanting better for him.
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get to know me meme: favourite male characters [2/10] — loki
In the aftermath of the battle, I went into the temple and I found a baby; small for a giant’s offspring, abandoned, suffering, left to die. Laufey’s son.
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I hadn't noticed the multiple pieces of the faceplate slipping into place on the Mark V armour before.
the helmet moment in every Iron Man movie
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Here's a little from my WIP. I sat down to write an entirely different scene and then got carried away with this flashback. Enjoy!
Loki exited the airlock, his clothing covered in dirt and blood, a cut on his left cheek already beginning to heal. Some of the other participants in this latest advance jostled past him as they hurried out. Loki walked more slowly. His boots felt heavier than usual and his mind was occupied by the success of the mission.
It shouldn’t have been a success, given how he had performed. It was his first command true, but he expected more of himself. He needed to be more. Thanos would certainly expect more, and settle for nothing less. That one of the others had had to step in and ensure everything went to plan was an excruciating embarrassment. He would have to work hard to regain his standing in his leader’s eyes, he knew that, but it would be hard, and a little part of him that he had thought long excised was not sure he should.
He carried on, following behind the last of the group to exit the shuttle. Some shouted excitedly to each other as they went, high on the rush of a successful mission. Others kept silent. They clattered through the corridors of Sanctuary until they came to the main staging area, when even the talkative hushed. Fear silenced most people, Loki had found.
Thanos was waiting for them. He towered over most of the people in the room, including his main lieutenant, who shadowed him, his sickly white skin glowing under the dim lights of the hangar. They entered silently and formed up into several rows as was the usual practice, and Loki as the commander of this mission, made his way to the front. He stood, waiting for permission to speak. Thanos waited till everyone was standing in their place and then surveyed the group. He watched silently until even the newest members were rooted to the spot. This was not going to be a pleasant debrief.
When he nodded to Loki, Loki gave a brief account of the mission and its results. The force had been successful in rooting out the last remaining population that had gone into hiding on Safalna III. The cull of this group now completed the salvation of the planet, and they would be able to leave orbit shortly. Thanos nodded and addressed the rows of mismatched fighters.
“Your work today has brought balance to Safalna. It is a hard task but one that will give them hope. Hope of life and a future of bounty."
Some of the fighters raised their heads high at this and basked in the praise. Others shuffled their feet and waited until the moment they were released. Loki waited knowing there would be repercussions for his inaction, though how that hammer would fall was difficult to predict.
Thanos finished his speech of praise and thanks and dismissed the group. Several breathed a sigh of relief as they left. As Loki turned to leave the Other appeared at his side and motioned him to remain.
As the room emptied out Thanos bent low to look Loki in the eye and said in a soft voice tinged with sympathy that belied the force that he was and the driving rage behind his soft facade, “I believe you left something out of your account today, my little prince.”
Loki was rooted to the spot. He'd heard of the punishments Thanos had meted out to other unlucky commanders when he was not pleased by their work. Most of it painful. All of it terrifying. His mind racing he extemporised, “Mighty Thanos, if I might be allowed a moment to explain…”.
Thanos closed his eyes and shook his head sadly, a father disappointed in a child for lying. Loki closed his mouth. Words would be no use here.
“My little prince”, Thanos said drawing out the syllables, “Your lack of conviction is disappointing. I had high hopes for you, but it seems I overestimated both your physical prowess”, he said, indicating the cut on Loki’s cheek, “and your mental fortitude. You delayed giving the order and this allowed some of the population to fight back and caused the death of several of your commrades.”
Loki couldn’t argue. He had delayed. He hadn’t consciously done so, but when faced with several thousand huddled and frightened people he’d found it difficult to reconcile their scared tear-streaked faces with the need for balance. Surely these few could remain. He’d paused, they weren’t fighting back, they seemed to have lost all spirit and huddled together in groups, sad eyes watching him. Silently pleading with him to let them simply live. They didn’t want more from him than that. Just to let them be.
Evidently he’d stood too long like this, because suddenly a small group attacked them from behind and the fighting began. Well trained as Loki’s force was, this was swiftly brought under control, but at the cost of three of their lives, and many others of the survivors from Salfana III. Loki gave the command then, and his force divided the group into two and bestowed balance upon them. They left to the sound of children crying while adults tried to hush them.
“There must be consequences for your actions, as there must be balance in all things”, Thanos said, “and I have something that will ease your mind.”
He held out his arm and the Other placed in it a long golden sceptre with a glowing blue stone set into a blade at the end. Loki couldn’t move, nor speak. He feared making things worse and somehow further angering Thanos. So he held his ground with the dignity of a prince, falling back on the habits ingrained into him as a child. Thanos raised the sceptre and then placed the tip against Loki’s chest.
“Be at peace my child”, Thanos intoned.
The blue stone flared to life and Loki felt the immense power contained within it. It flowed into him seeping into every part of his body and mind, settling with a comforting warmth in his belly.
A spike of fear settled quickly and left behind only a driving energy to do what was needed, and a certainty that this was what he was born for. He had finally found his purpose in life.
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I'm not exactly certain what Loki's precise agreement with Thanos is here, but I think he's been drawn into his orbit after his fall and is now feeling out of his depth and finding his anger and pain can't fuel him quite far enough to go as full genocidal madman as Thanos is.
Tagging a few folk who I think might be interested. Please let me know if you'd rather not be tagged, or if you're not and would like to be.
@cailjei @sparklegemstone @scifikimmi @pinkpondofasgard @michaelseagal
#my fic#wip#I really need to give it a placeholder name if I'm going to tag it#writing#myfic#fanfic#loki#og loki#thanos#loki fic
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I'm getting a free trial of the local paper at the moment and it was a nice surprise to see this on the front page today. :)
Sadly the article was more about Le Carre, but still, it's so novel to have fandom related stuff show up in real life here, you gotta take what you get! 😅
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Tom Hiddleston “Man of the Year”
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Tom Hiddleston “Man of the Year”
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I re-visited this piece for the purpose of setting up a Society6 store today! Made a number of edits and cleaned some areas up a bit but still tried to keep the speed-painty feel of the original. If you liked the original version, I hope you’ll like this one as well!
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how?? just how?
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I actually liked Age of Ultron and The dark world
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thor 1 loki baby you are so special to me <3
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When you're posting a work on AO3, one of the options you have is to add relationship tags to your work. Sometimes you'll see tags that look almost exactly the same and you might wonder what the difference is.
A/B indicates that person A and person B have a romantic or sexual relationship in this fic.
A&B indicates that person A and person B have a non-romantic and non-sexual relationship in this fic - they are friends, colleagues, family members etc. who have a platonic relationship.
If you want to add more specific information about what kind of relationship the characters have in your story, you can use the additional tags or the summary to let readers know more about what they're in for.
Editing to add: Oh yes! And it doesn't matter which character you list first in your tag. They both filter the same way in the site's database.
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My attempt at Camp Nanowrimo for April got derailed by real life for 8 days, and now I'm madly trying to catch up. I really want to get to my goal by Tuesday, but that's going to mean a lot of writing tomorrow (and I'm not even sure I can do that). Unfortunately I've gotten past the obvious plotty bits and into a few softer, more emotional, chapters and I haven't worked out in advance what needs to be covered in each conversation - so this will be slow going for me. I'll see how I feel tomorrow - I may have to skip ahead to some more action focused chapters, and then fill it in later when word count isn't my goal. Yay for deadlines? ':)
#nanowrimo#camp nanowrimo April 2024#fanfiction#this is my first time trying to write something bigger than a couple of thousand words and the hardest bit is keeping track of it all#in your head. Who's said what to whom already?#How are they feeling about x right now?#How do you people do it?! XD#Writing#fanfic#myfic
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Such awesome work! 💚
I brought this unused Loki concept to life!!
I’d been eyeing this stunning design by @aleksibriclot for years, and a little while ago (after two years of working on it) I finally finished it! It has all the dark norse fantasy vibes that I wanted Ragnarok to be, and I figured hey, I can make it myself!
I had to up a lot of my leatherworking skills for this one, and I dove into a lot of new skills as well to try to make all the pieces a cohesive whole. It uses lambskin leather, suede cowhide, and veg tan, as well as an entire sheepskin for the cape!
This whole costume has truly been a labour of Loki love and I’m so glad I was able to share all the madness (process) and the finished look!
wip tag | more of this costume
#neat to see a video showig a lot of the different stages#loki: briclot#cosplay#loki#loki cosplay#concept art#loki concept art#so much beter than the ragnarok outfit!
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This is age of m i r a c l e s
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