Loki Odinson

Ooh, this looks fun!

Hello everyone!

We are announcing a new event as part of our MCUchallenge year of celebrations (see details here) - Superhero Day! 🦸

Superhero Day is celebrated on the 28th of April, so this is when our event will take place. To participate make a gifset/art/edit, post it on this day, adding “@mcuchallenge year of celebrations - Superhero Day” to your caption and the #mcuchallengefilled tag 😘

As usual, for your edits you can use MCU movies, Disney+ Marvel shows, interviews with cast and crew, other videos of actors e.g. from premieres or other public appearances, from Instagram, etc. For more details see our Rules/F.A.Q. page (or for those on the app - the post) - all the same rules that we had for our monthly prompts apply :)

For those who can't create, and for everyone who'd like to take part in that event with another fun activity as well, we thought to launch a tag game, where you can tell us your favourite superheroes. We'll be gathering those (don't forget to mention @mcuchallenge) and we'll make a set for our celebration that will include 10 (MCU) superheroes that will be most frequently mentioned in those posts from now till the 25th of April, 2025 😉 The example post (aka the starting post for that tag game) can be found here. Everyone is invited to take part! 😜

Jehan Georges Vibert, “Palm Sunday in Spain”, 1873

So I’m singing “Diggy Diggy Hole” in the shower because I had it stuck in my head all day. I end up playing with the lyrics to make it female-centric (making the first line “Daughters of the mine, rejoice” and changing “brothers” to “sisters”) because I’m imagining myself as a soprano opera singer with a female choir/metal band in the background. Now I’m suddenly homesick for some made up Erebor-like realm where me and the dwarrowdams (and elf maidens if they want to join- we don’t discriminate!) are digging holes, forging elaborate tools, weapons, and trinkets, cutting gems, cultivating rock formations (because we’d totally have a version of the Glittering Caves), toasting to our glorious Queen Under the Mountain, and feasting to our heart’s content without judgement far below any outside threats. 🥲

WIP Title Game

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs

Tagged by @galaxythreads , thank you! 💚

I've got wayyy too many WIPs, so I'll just share the ones that I plan to publish whenever I finish them.

CatSittingFic

steeeeeeem machiiiiiine

Spitefic TM

Tag List: @thelightofthingshopedfor , @thearunadragon , @worstloki and anyone else who wants to join!

wip title game

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs

Tagged by @salparadiselost

i've made the executive decision that anything already posted on ao3 doesn't count, but you're welcome to ask about that too

behold my lack of commitment:

tim gets poisioned (not how that is spelled) fic

not feeling dick but if presented with one

the tenth plague

jason saves bruce fic

science says no, but my heart says otherwise

negligence

slave loki fic

guillotine dreams (don't tell me not to scream)

Villian Team "The Avengers"

The Bride

prDEMONth

spector, spector

but they cradled me, yes?

stryke out au

the HP fanfic

YSFSLWFTCA aftermath

trauma, trauma

The Bat and the Cage Debacle

And A Part of Me Still Belongs To You

Just A Little Rough, Huh?

plus the lots and lots of wips for my og stuff, but if i added those this would be 10 pages long

tag list: @fanfictasia, @newobsessioneveryweek, @thot-son-of-odin, @chemical-processes, and anyone else who wants to

So I made a new phone wallpaper pair and thought I’d share it with you all. The rose picture mayyy have been mine. :3

Thank you for putting this into such eloquent words! I also like how you present your takes on this @murtagh-thorn and @thearunadragon.

! I made an interesting realization just now in the shower! On a couple of occasions, Eragon and Nasuada suggest that Murtagh should act in the way Tornac would have as a way to change for the better and, ultimately, change his true name to free himself from Galbatorix and fight for them instead. Eragon insinuates this without directly mentioning Tornac: "Look at someone whom you admire but who has chosen paths other than your own through life and model your actions upon his." But in the context of Murtagh's backstory, this advice strongly evokes Tornac. And Nasuada outright names him: "Ask yourself: what would Tornac have wanted you to do?"

But that's a very curious demand for them to make because Murtagh is already emulating Tornac. Consider what we know about him. Tornac served Galbatorix, he would have had to for the king to entrust him with Murtagh's care. They lived in Uru'baen together as Murtagh grew up with Tornac raising him and he would have had to be in Galbatorix's service for all that time. Yet, he had no love for the king given that, when Murtagh wanted to abandon the Empire and flee, he was immediately ready to join him and help him leave that very same night. So he served the Empire for many years even though he had no true desire to be support them or the king, in order to provide the care and protection that Murtagh needed, until Murtagh was ready to make his own choice and take his own risk and Tornac turned his back on the king for him without hesitation.

That's exactly what Murtagh is doing. By yielding to Galbatorix and complying with his commands, Murtagh is doing the same thing for Thorn. He's bowed to this broad, great evil so he can look after the needs of an individual when no one else is willing nor able to. He does what he does to prevent Thorn from being tortured, to keep him from being broken, helpless against the king were Murtagh to abandon him. So he doesn't, the same way Tornac never abandoned him. And in the end, they rebel in a very similar way too. When Thorn is ready to carve his own path and fight for the right to claim his own life for the first time, and Murtagh wants to reclaim the life he desired but thought lost, they stand by each other and break free from Galbatorix.

For him to act the way that Tornac would requires that period of reluctant subservience so he can save the one he loves most. They ask Murtagh to follow Tornac's example, ignorant to the fact that the actions they so disapprove of are doing exactly that. And I wonder if this is a root of Murtagh's defining anger, an anger at Eragon and Nasuada's implication that the compromises that saved his own life and provided him much needed love and support through his childhood- the compromises that saved Thorn, the partner of his heart, when no one else (certainly no one from the Varden) would have helped him- were wrong. That they were immoral, they were not worth while, they were not enough, they fell short, they were wrong. Because such an implication is really a dismissal of Murtagh and Thorn's wellbeing- arguably of their lives.

Marvel's princess.

What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

#Happy Easter

One of our favorite parts of Star Wars movies/shows is the amazing soundtracks. So we've compiled a list of all of our favorite songs! Most of them come from the original trilogy and The Phantom Menace since we have the CDs of those movies' soundtracks and haven't seen the prequels/spinoffs/shows in full yet.

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A New Hope

Main Title (duh)

Princess Leia's Theme

Imperial Attack

The Dune Sea of Tatooine/Jawa Sandrawler

Tales of a Jedi Knight/Learn About the Force

Cantina Band

Cantina Band #2 (we're obsessed with the use of steelpan in this song)

The Trash Compactor

The Throne Room/Finale

The Empire Strikes Back

The Imperial March (of course)

Yoda's Theme

The Battle of Hoth (the piano part around the 4 minute mark is amazingly ominous; great use of those really low keys!)

Luke's Nocturnal Visitor

Han Solo and the Princess

Lando's Palace

Revenge Return of the Jedi

Jabba's Baroque Recital

Jabba's Sail Barge

Max Rebo Band Source music (we've been looking for a good recording of the first part of this video for almost 10 years now!)

Any version of Lapti Nek except the one that was used in the original Revenge of the Jedi. Definitely also check out the MECO version and the "Fancy Man" and Urth versions sung by Joseph Williams.

Parade of the Ewoks

The Forest Battle

Luke and Leia

Darth Vader's Death

Victory Celebration

The Phantom Menace

Duel of the Fates (stunt pilot Matt Younkin uses it in a night airshow routine, and it's as epic as you'd expect)

Anakin's Theme

The Sith Spacecraft and The Droid Battle

Jar-Jar's Introduction and The Swim to Otoh Gunga

The Flag Parade

Qui-Gon's Funeral

Augie's Great Municipal Band

Attack of the Clones

Across the Stars

Dex's Diner

Revenge of the Sith

Battle of the Heroes

The Force Awakens

Rey's Theme (the version that was played in space is also beautiful)

March of the Resistance

Torn Apart

The Jedi Steps

The Last Jedi

Canto Bight

Star Wars: Rebels

Sabine Suite

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1977)

(The horror!)

Princess Leia's Life Day Song (Carrie Fisher did a lovely job with this song even though she reportedly hated the movie)

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Feel free to tell us what your favorite Star Wars songs are!