Lokifan

The FFXV is basically all smut with people being nice to each other, which speaks to this weird new experience of having no hate-ships in a fandom. (Unless you count how much I wanna write Luna and Ardyn having a weird fucked-up thing where they’re fascinated by each other’s approaches to & experiences with their own deaths, which I don’t, quite.)

( Final Fantasy XV fic recs )

( Harry Potter fic recs )

( Marvel fic recs )

( Buffy fic recs )

( Final Fantasy XV art recs )

Christmas & Yuletide stuff, mostly :D

Not fanfiction as such but a great post on how an Ugly Christmas Sweaters staging of Hamlet would go, courtesy of rushthatspeaks.

( Final Fantasy XV fic )

( Anish Kapoor vs Stuart Semple colour feud RPF )

( Ocean’s 8 fic )

( Final Fantasy XV art )

( Thor art )

I’m super behind on Hurt Noct Week :( So this’ll be sadly lacking in the recs from that one - have to see about next week…

( Final Fantasy XV fic recs )

( Final Fantasy XV art recs )

Aka



Day 10

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples!

I thought I’d go back to this, cos I finally came up with a good answer, even if it’s really specific to my current main fandom.

MT!Prompto.

It’s so great. Prompto is so cheerful and extroverted and emotional and generally the exact opposite of a robot, or even a trained-to-be-a-weapon type character in canon. But there’s this AU just begging to be used, because he was taken out of Gralea as a baby - an accident? A random aside from a Lucian spy?

All the fic I’ve read using MT!Prompto has been fucking amazing. Plus it really lends itself to other tropes I love. Hurt/comfort most obviously, of course - the trope I look for first in every new fandom. Learning to be loved -- Prompto’s shock at people being nice to him is heartbreaking in all these fics, but omg my id. Touch starvation -- my second-favourite scene in Running Behind is when Prompto gets his hair cut by Ignis, and leans into the touch all overcome, and Ignis is startled but recognises the need in it, and is so kind. There’s also Noct being adorable and using the ‘strange blue substance’ of his hair gel to make Prompto a rock star. In Engine Heart touch-starved Prompto has Gladio doing his eyeliner after Iggy does is hair <3

Related to that - defamiliarisation probably isn’t quite the word I want here, but it’s also not outsider POV, quite… Basically MT!Prompto’s perspective on the bros and everybody else, when he doesn’t know them as he does in canon and comes from a completely alien culture, but of course he likes them or is in the process of learning to… it’s just a delight.

Found family <333 I wouldn’t have expected to fall for Daddy!Cor like this at ALL, but I completely have - it’s gorgeous, and especially for the ways he tends to flail around and not be that good at it, but try very hard. And obviously there’s something lovely in the bros finding each other and becoming a unit no matter how their world has changed. Noct recognising vulnerability and being kind in the face of it - I mean I love that from all characters, it speaks to me on such a deep level, but from Noct, who can be thoughtless and oblivious but wants to save people, who has such power and privilege, I love it sooooo much when he realises how other people can be hurt in ways he hasn’t been and tries hard because of it. It’s the best of him <3

Daddy!Cor is a delight, but there are also special moments that get repeated in different ways, as MT!Prompto learns to be more like the Prompto we know in canon, as he’s allowed to be more himself. Hair, clothes… MT!Prompto discovering photography is a really lovely process that makes me super emotional in all these fics.

Which brings me to - ( recs time! )

I just left some prompts over at hpkinkfest :D :D :D

I might leave more, actually - a kinkfest without me prompting spanking would just feel wrong - but forced orgasm and nipple torture are up there.



Day 3

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I thought I’d rec three things from three different great winter fests.

Something To Talk About by karoakegal. Lee Mack/Noel Fielding & various British comics and comic-adjacent people; 8000 words; Teen. Summary: The announcement nobody was expecting; the friendship no one understands.

RPF’s not generally my thing, but I love how familiar this all feels (it’s about my culture, it’s for meeee) and the different voices (especially Victoria Coren’s and Dara O’Briain’s) and how it gets at both the closeness and the incestuous gossipyness of the London comedy scene.

Underwear for Christmas by Anonymous. M/M; Teen. Summary: Even this underwear seems to be unwanted.

Cake art! Art made of cake! And it’s very beautifully done and hilarious too! I’m a big fan of the dirty joke of boxers saying dissendium, too - according to the Potter wiki, “Dissendium was the incantation of a charm that revealed hidden passageways.”

Don’t Be Nervous by Anonymous. Harry/Draco; G. Summary: Sometimes it just takes a hug and some calming words from your loved one.

This is incredibly sweet. I love the colour palette and the clothes and especially the use of lighting, and the “subtle romance” who_la_whoop requested, and the beautiful ball behind them being blurred and backgroundish: it's not important, the connection between them is.

Day 10

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (More than one is okay, too.) Tell us about it, tell us why you love it, give us some examples and recs. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Thinking about this, I actually found the underlying element that ties together a lot of my kinks, both sexual (clothed/naked, humiliation) and narrative (hurt/comfort, forced confessions). That is forced vulnerability. Sometimes in my favourite fics that vulnerability is respected, and other characters are kind in the face of it. Sometimes they’re very much not, which is also fabulous :D

I feel like it’s totally obvious why I love it - it’s deep enough in my id that it’s hard to explain, and of course you share it you just nodded like “yes, of course.” Enemy ships often involve a moment where the enemies recognise that the other person is really a person in the same way they are, and not unrelatedly, vulnerable to hurt - and my love for enemy ships and forced vulnerability is probably pretty chicken-and-egg. (Buffy/Faith, my ultimate OTP, is sooooo good for this. I also have a theory that it’s a significant part of why Harry/Draco shippers love the Sectrumsempra scene so much, and the idea that Harry left scars.) And on the kinkier side, part of why I love Draco getting beaten down so much is his privileged background getting turned all around. The fluffier kinkfic I write does this backwards: it tends to linger on doms being careful of their subs’ sore spots.

It plays into my darker kinks to have vulnerability exploited, and my softer side to have people be kind in the face of it. And I really do believe that respecting vulnerability, whether or not the vulnerable people are good people, is a fundamental requirement of morality and civilisation. It’s a fundamental tenet of my lefty liberalism, now that I think about it. I have strong feelings about civil liberties, about prison reform, and about the end of the death penalty worldwide. For me all those things are deeply connected to the idea that just because the government has physical & legal & psychological power over you doesn’t mean they should use it - in fact, very much the opposite.

( Let’s get to the recs before I get any more pompous :D )

IT’S STILL THE WEEKEND. SORT OF.

First I must rec Ravished In The Woods, which enchanted_jae wrote me for my birthday. I asked for some more of her fluffy vampire!Harry verse, because there’s little I find more delightful than fluffy vampire fic or Jae’s curtain fic, and got the EXCITING BONUS of roleplay sexytime! And Harry having his feathers ruffled by Draco being sarcastic and not a very good helpless victim of a fierce vampire :DDD

Otherwise, recs this week dominated by the Ron/Draco fest along with some stuff I’ve had in the rec-later pile for yonks. There’s still one long fic written for my prompt which I haven’t gotten to, argh, but I’ve read pretty much everything else and it’s great.

( Harry Potter fic )

( Harry Potter art )

OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE I DID NOT POST THIS WEEKS AGO. DISHONOUR ON ME, DISHONOUR ON MY COW. WAY TO FAIL AT DRAFTS -> POSTS, LOKI.

ANYWAY.

A super SUPER exciting thing happened to me at hp_3somes, which is that ravenna_c_tan, who is one of my favourite writers, wrote me one of my favourite ships, Ron/Harry/Draco. IT IS SO GOOD. You should check it out even if you’re not a big fan of the ship, I think, because it does really lovely work with post-Hogwarts Harry.

Best Mates

This Harry, bless him, is so messed up; quietly suffering the aftereffects of the war, and doing his best, and also practicing his Auror tracking charms on Draco because of course he is. Harry and Ron start partly out of Ron’s desire to help him, and it’s both rough and boyish and incredibly sweet. Harry’s relationship with Hermione, and how they’re all negotiating their friendship now they’re out of Hogwarts, and now Ron and Hermione and have broken up, and now Ron and Harry have begun something - it feels so real, and it’s so nice. The trio’s friendship is so central to everything and it’s nice to see it get some attention.

Individual dynamics between each pair are my ultimate threesome kink and you can really see it here. Harry and Ron as their friendship shifts; Harry and Draco as they begin something new. And Ron and Draco - this is very much from inside Harry’s somewhat messed-up POV, which I love, but now all I want is porn of Ron and Draco’s thing beginning.

The lovely, lovely scene between the three of them is seriously the best thing. It’s so sweet and omg, this Harry ♥

And natch, this being ravenna_c_tan, the sex is super hot and differs appropriately depending on the dynamic and the scene. I love all of it. And omg masochist!Draco, and Draco using kink to try and deal with his guilt and post-war-fucked-up-ness, it is my favourite thing and it’s done SO WELL her, even as it’s just this little scene that Harry doesn’t understand.

Snowflake challenge! I was so pleased to see this challenge penetrate my corner of HP fandom a couple of years ago but somehow I’ve never actually done it.

Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

( a shameful failure of English modesty )

This is mostly links I’ve saved over the past few months while failing to actually make a damn recs post with them :) But hey, good fanworks are evergreen.

( Harry Potter fic )

( Harry Potter art )

( White Collar fic )