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“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he��d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. “There’s only one true evil in the world,” he said through his characters. “And that’s treating people like they were things.” And in the last of his “grown-up” Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”

— John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via pornosophical)

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Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.

You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.

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He Deserves More Than This (Complete Fic)

Pairing: Astarion/Gale Rating: M (Mature) Word Count: 3,877 Warnings: Major Character Death (but with happy ending!), Major Spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 Summary:  Astarion grieves his lover, and he has a bone to pick with Mystra about it.

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

“It’s nice to see you still have deeper wells of self-pity to drown yourself in.”

Astarion turned to the source of the dry, elderly voice.

“You little bitch, I knew you could speak Common.”

Tara strode stiffly toward him, the tressym’s paws marching steadily under the weight of a small backpack. “Of course I could. That doesn’t mean I wanted to speak to you.”

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I Don't Do The Walk Of Shame, I Strut (Complete Fic)

Pairing: Lae'zel/Astarion Rating: E (Explicit) Word Count: 1,463 Warnings: Past sexual abuse Summary:  Lae'zel seeks to slake her lust and her sights are set on the Pale Elf.

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

“It deeply pains me to have to tell you that you and I are incompatible.” A flick of his wrist restored his dagger to its sheath.

“How so?”

“Because, darling, you won’t take orders. Not from me, in any case.”

“Chk. Even your thirst will not allow you to lie beneath me?”

“No, not even this imagined thirst. After Cazador, I will never again submit. Not to anyone. I would kill anyone who attempted to make it otherwise or die trying.”

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Snakes On The Plane

Pairing: Loki/Leo Fitz Rating: T (Teen) Word Count: 7,189 (total so far) Warnings: None Summary:  After Ward jettisons Fitz-Simmons’ pod from the plane, canon events take a different turn. HYDRA aren’t the only ones masquerading as SHIELD.

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Fitz could hear his own heart beating now, nausea pooling in his gut, and it wasn’t from being in a sinking room. “Jemma, what’s my favourite sandwich?”

“Now is hardly the time to be thinking of food. I mean, I’d understand why you’d be thinking of —”

“Answer the question.”

“I don’t know, Fitz,” she snapped impatiently. “Ham and cheese? Why is it important?”

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Where He Belongs (Complete Fic)

Pairing: Loki/Thor Rating: E (Explicit) Word Count: 3114 Warnings: Sibling Incest, Major Loki Season 2 Spoilers Summary: After the events within the TVA, Loki returns to the Sacred Timeline to find where he belongs.

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Not since being a small child on Asgard had a door been so intimidating. Loki stood before it, summoning up the courage to knock. He was going to have to do it eventually before someone noticed him and realised who he was or before the door opened from the other side and made it all the more awkward.

He ran his hands through his hair, patted his coat down, and knocked.

Footsteps. A low, unmistakable voice boomed out on approach. “What have you forgotten this time, Love? I put your lunch in the—”

The cottage door swung open and there Thor stood, older, mighty, in an apron. He stared at Loki. Even in the stillness and with his muted expression, it was the tension in his jaw and a subtlety in his eyes that telegraphed the stages of grief. Loki did not dare speak first. Fear put acridity on his tongue and made his chest heavy, compounded with how desperately he needed his sibling.

“Of course,” said Thor. “I didn’t expect anything different.”

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The Chthon Is A Lie

Fandom: Mix of Marvel’s Midnight Suns (video game) and MCU

Pairing: Various (likely Hunter/Magik, Hunter/Tony Stark, Hunter/Stephen Strange, Tony Stark/Stephen Strange, a lot of stuff involving Loki) Rating: M (Mature) Word Count: 4,416 (so far) Warnings: None (yet) Summary: Hunter uncovers the Caretaker’s last secret and changes the fate of the Midnight Suns forever.

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

“You – you know what I am, don’t you?” she spat bitterly at Wade. “Whatever Caretaker’s final secret is. You’ve known all along.”

“Only as the story suits!” the mercenary sang, as jovial as ever. “And trust me, I have almost zero idea where this is going. Someone is totally pantsing this whole thing.”

“Who am I?” Hunter screeched. The candles at the edges of the room flared.

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Superior (Complete Fic)

Pairing: Loki/Stephen Strange/Tony Stark Rating: E (Explicit) Word Count: 21,948 Warnings: Rape/Non-Con, Angst, Humiliation, Degradation, Kidnapping, Sexual Abuse, Aphrodisiac, Non-Consensual Somnophilia, Robot Kink, Threesome Summary:  Following an inversion, once-lovers Strange and Loki are left to pick up the pieces of being on opposite sides. When they answer a summons from Tony Stark to discuss the fallout, it seems the billionaire has other things on his mind. Superior things.

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

“Look, no hard feelings. I’m sure you kids can patch things up. You gotta know though, Lokes, you’re one lucky Asgardian. The things that man can do…”

“Stark.” Stephen flushed with anger. “Loki was right. It was a bad idea to come here and talk about this. What happened during the inversion was a mistake. Now, do you know what happened to stop it?”

“Uh-huh. A group of super powerfuls including the Scarlet Witch and Doctor Doom cooked up the antidote. Not a minute too soon, with all the damage and civilian casualties. Any longer and one or the both of you two would’ve been goners.”

Stephen grimaced. “You saw that?”

“Had you tagged for surveillance, yeah. Can you imagine if one of you had just killed the other when it wore off? God.”

Drawing a discomfited breath, Stephen dared a glance to Loki. His companion was staring fixedly at Tony. He didn’t look as angry as before, which unnerved Stephen more than if Loki were still on the warpath. He knew Loki well enough to recognise masked fear.

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Today (Complete Fic)

Pairing: 10th Doctor/Rose Tyler Rating: G (General) Word Count: 2,307 Warnings: None Summary: An anomaly on the TARDIS allows the Doctor to accidentally step back on the timestream to spend a little extra time with a past companion.

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

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Not Remotely Important (Complete Fic)

Characters: 11th Doctor & Wilfred Mott Rating: G (General) Word Count: 4,144 Warnings: None Summary: After Donna's wedding, Wilfred thought he would never see the Doctor again.

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

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Closer To Gods (Complete Fic)

Pairing: Loki/Thor Rating: E (Explicit) Word Count: 1587 Warnings: Sibling Incest Summary: With their traumatic events behind them, the brothers find Asgardian ways to express their needs.

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

The smug expression on Thor’s face made Loki want to punch him, which was perhaps just as well with what the god of thunder was about to request. There was a deep pride and love twinkling in Thor’s remaining eye. He had taken to wearing the eyepatch again since Loki’s return, the reminder of Loki’s compliment of it no longer so painful. He still wore the prosthetic for occasions where better depth perception was required, which meant he was a bit disoriented in emergencies, but Loki had stopped fussing about it.

“You’ve had enough trouble fighting me in-game. Now fight me in reality.”

Loki blinked. “What?”

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Supernaut

Pairing: Loki/Tony Stark Rating: T (Teen and Up) Word Count: 863 (so far) Warnings: None Summary:  Abducted to an alien orbital station, space is not the only fear Tony Stark has to overcome since the Battle of New York.

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Tony looked through the window at some sort of transparent medical casket with a body inside. A humanoid body, their breathing shallow, supported by the soft glow of whatever advanced science was going on inside the pod. Long dark hair framed Sleeping Beauty’s face, somewhat concealing the purple-black bruising at the throat, but not entirely.

“Son of a bitch.”

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Don't Wanna Be Friends

Pairing: Clint Barton/Loki Rating: M (Mature) Word Count: 2882 (so far) Warnings: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Past Brainwashing, Suicidal Thoughts, Wound Care Summary:  Clint thought he’d seen the last of Loki. When a new one turns up, things get complicated.

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

He slammed the door in Loki’s face.

Well, what the hell else was he supposed to do? The god of mischief had just shown up at his door with some bullcrap flag of truce, looking like he’d been in a deathmatch at a call centre going by the cut on his arm and the sweat-soaked suit and tie. Thinking of him as ‘of mischief’ didn’t correlate well with Clint’s memory. Mischief was a damn sight less than using an Infinity Stone to make someone into their personal puppet, less than influencing you to steal and sabotage and murder. Sure, he’d done worse during his time as Ronin, but as shitty as they were, those had been his mistakes to make.

And what right did Loki have to come back from the dead? Loki of all people. When it could have been her.

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Strangefrost Actually (Complete Fic)

Pairing: Loki/Stephen Strange Rating: T (Teen and Up) Word Count: 2862 Warnings: None Summary: When something goes wrong at Thor’s wedding, Stephen is the only one with a surviving recording. But he wasn’t, actually, focusing that hard on the bride and groom.

Pastiche of the concept from Love Actually.

Gift fic for vampirela69

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Merriment began to return to the occasion, though it was dampened by the fact that Rocket’s setup had been damaged. All of Stark’s drones had clattered uselessly to the cobbles. His complaints were less audible than Rocket’s, but still heard. No one had managed to capture Thor’s big day.

No one except Stephen.

There had been one drunken night when the sorcerers had warded a variety of objects that didn’t necessarily need warding. Their phones happened to fall in the category of it being useful, especially now. Except no, now it was terrible. Stephen hadn’t seriously been filming this thing. He had let his focus wander far too much. He couldn’t possibly let anyone see the result. By the altar he could see Jane saying something in Thor’s ear and the god of thunder was looking in his direction.

Crap.

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Coning (Complete Fic)

Pairing: Loki/Tony Stark Rating: E (Explicit) Word Count: 1603 Warnings: Sexual Content, Explicit Language Summary: Tony tries out his old pottery-making skills but can he resist the god of mischief’s temptations long enough to make anything?

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

“Ghost?” Loki went to pick up a spare stool from beneath a nearby workbench and brought it over.

“Uh-huh. Famous scene in a movie from the early 90’s. Patrick Swayze bothers Demi Moore while she’s trying to make a vase. They shape the clay together, she shows him how, and then not an awful lot of work gets done. Although, I’d appreciate it if I could have one viable thing before either one of us is too distracted.”

“Hmm. Are you so certain I will be distracted? I’d wager I have greater resolve than you.”

“I never said you didn’t. You wanna help me or what?”

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Boredom Is The Greatest Sin (Complete Fic)

Pairing: Loki/Sylvie Rating: E (Explicit) Word Count: 2282 Warnings: Explicit Sexual Content, Explicit Language, Sex Toys Summary: Loki and Sylvie are bored in a hotel room. Sylvie brought things to play with.

READ IT ON AO3 HERE

Loki arched an eyebrow. “I thought we weren’t doing this again?”

“We weren’t,” she replied petulantly. Her thumb rolled over a button without undoing it. “But you know what we’re like. We do the things we shouldn’t. If this starts being normal, then it’ll be boring.”

“I see.” Loki played at being patronising. “So, as long as we both keep telling ourselves and each other that enjoying it is wrong, we’re going to keep falling into it?”

“Yes. Exactly.”