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Hello! This is a comm for people who love the parts of the MCU which are SPAAAAAAACE, primarily the Thor movies, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, and Avengers: Infinity War. Come on in! We're going to be pretty relaxed about what "in space" means for our purposes; if you want to talk about a character who is in space, from space, or has canonically spent a lot of their lives in space, then they count as far as we're concerned.

My main goal with this comm is to make it a kind of clearinghouse to help you get eyes on fanworks, meta, etc, and to help you find stuff other people are posting! It can be hard to find and connect with other folks who are into what you're into, especially if you're into gen or rarepairs. I'm also hoping for the comm to host a weekly discussion feature and maybe a prompt fest at some point, but in the meantime, we enthusiastically encourage people to post any of the following:

* Fanwork recs
* Your own fanwork
* Meta
* Discussion questions
* Canon help questions
* Promotion of exchanges, fests, etc that allow cosmic MCU ships or characters
* Links to any of the above on your own or other journals
* Probably some other things we've forgotten to mention!

You can see all the specific posting rules in our profile. These are subject to tweaking as we figure things out.

lokiofsassgaard

Loki: God of Outcasts (129,095 words) by LokiOfSassgaard

Chapters: 30/?
Fandom: Thor (Movies), Thor (Comics)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Underage
Relationships: Fandral/Loki (Marvel), Loki (Marvel)/Other(s)
Characters: Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Odin (Marvel), Laufey (Marvel), Frigga | Freyja (Marvel), Sif (Marvel), Hogun (Marvel), Fandral (Marvel), Volstagg (Marvel), Original Characters, Old Loki
Additional Tags: Genderfluid Loki (Marvel), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, What-If, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, Canon-typical language, Don't Have to Know Canon, Worldbuilding, Marvel Norse Lore, Thor is a Good Bro (Marvel), Loki is a Good Bro (Marvel), Good Loki (Marvel), Period Typical Attitudes, Jotunn Loki (Marvel), Loki Does What Loki Wants (Marvel), Odin's Good Parenting (Marvel), Sneaky Frigga (Marvel), Miðgarðr | Midgard, Asgard (Marvel), Jötunheimr | Jotunheim, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Pre-Canon, Odin's A+ Parenting (Marvel), Long, Mostly Gen, Background Relationships, Background Het, Background Slash, Mystery, Canon Blending, Timeline Shenanigans, Hurt Loki (Marvel), Loki Needs a Hug (Marvel), POV Loki (Marvel), POV Thor (Marvel), Thor is Not Stupid (Marvel), Protective Thor (Marvel), POV Multiple, Multiple Universes Colliding, Bullying, Mental Health Issues, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Id Fic, Frigga's B- Parenting (Marvel)
Series: Part 1 of Unus Annus 2022

Summary: What if one decision over 1000 years ago was made differently? Rather than being fed lies and made an unwilling party to them, the narrative changes and Loki is raised knowing he is Jötunn. But Asgard is no place for an abandoned Jötunn runt.

AU in which Odin is mostly-honest, Thor is still a spoilt brat, and Loki still deserves a smack in the mouth. Or, that time the MCU was inhabited by the comic versions of Thor and Loki.

AO3 | Website

lokiofsassgaard

The Cat's Away (2694 words) by LokiOfSassgaard

Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Thor (Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Loki/Sif (Marvel)
Characters: Loki (Marvel), Sif (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Beach Sex, Cheating, Affairs, Adultery, Guilt
Series: Part 24 of Unus Annus 2022

Summary: It all starts when a mission takes Thor away from Asgard for longer than expected.

AO3 | Website

olivermoss

Lots of places reported that DS2 had just wrapped, but now many have switched to saying are wrapping this week.

I didn't even realize they'd started filming. I don't know if they've been super low key or I've been distracted. When I did a google search for an article, the top result was about comparing Shadow and Bone to Doctor Strange and not something about Doctor Strange itself. Most of the places I get Marvel news from didn't mention it.

lokiofsassgaard

Title: Lessons
Fandom: Thor, Comics
Rating: G
Word count: 2.6k
Characters/Pairings: Loki, Odin
Warnings: None
Summary: Loki has had a parade of teachers since he was old enough to cast magic on his own. For some reason, they never seem to stick around for very long.

Notes: Set during gaps in Those Who Hunt Monsters

Read on AO3 | Read on DW

( Lessons )

lokiofsassgaard

Second Rite (7386 words) by LokiOfSassgaard
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Loki (Comics), Thor (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Action/Adventure, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Jotunn Loki (Marvel), Jötunheimr | Jotunheim, Marvel Norse Lore, Mystery
Series: Part 3 of Loki Annoys the Marvel Universe
Summary:

After Loki returns from the war on Midgard, he finds it difficult to adjust to life back on Asgard. Eveything is too loud, too bright, too busy. He would much rather be left alone to nap as much as he wants.

But there are secrets being kept, lies told, and rumours spread around him. Exhausted and at the end of his rope, he cannot rest without knowing the truth. With another war looming with Vanaheimr, Loki escapes the realm once more for some peace and quiet. Seeking cold and snow, this time he goes to Jötunheimr.

Updates every other Sunday.

Second Rite on AO3

milesy

Second Rite (1968 words) by LokiOfSassgaard
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Action/Adventure, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Jotunn Loki (Marvel), Jötunheimr | Jotunheim, Marvel Norse Lore, Mystery
Series: Part 3 of Loki Annoys the Marvel Universe
Summary:

Updates every other Sunday.

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mithborien

Title: When We're High
Vidder:

mithborien
Fandom(s): Marvel (Steve/Thor)
Music: "When We're High" by LP
Made for:

talitha78 for Marvel Trumps Hate 2019

"New haircut?"
"Noticed you've copied my beard."

Youtube | DW | AO3 | Tumblr

snickfic

marvelfemslashevents is holding their annual drabble exchange, and signups are open through tonight! There are lots of cosmic MCU femslash ships nominated. :D Full info here.

peoriapeoriawhereart

Two items this time:
(from my own meta)
Thor Ragnarok gets at [deconstructing imperialism/colonialism] in the mythic language of our times, in the CGI effect of Asgard's gilded Just So Story cracking and flaking to reveal the earlier bombast that ran in blood and booty. Black Panther, Captain Marvel and Thor Ragnarok taken together are much like Captain America's Shield in CA:TFA when he's chasing down in the corridors after Red Skull and he flings it to ricochet and lodge into a door closing.

Other than the fx, we could have had Captain Marvel in 1995. That's the bittersweet reality that's not evident to those too young to remember. It's hewing to the rules of then, it's a message in a bottle to who we were. It took so long. It's framed as nostalgia but at the time the world was changing. In Context

(How did Mar-Vel see all those bits of material culture she had brought to her hidden refuge/what do they tell us about Hala/the Kree 'sphere?)

And, a very different tack on a Captain Marvel missing scene:

Carol gets the motorcycle There will be some conservative talking points extracted as context. This is from 2019 and is nearly 16 minutes long. We also get Brie at an award show.

Thought of a GoTG compare contrast:Mar-Vel and the consumer ephemera and the scene where Yondu acquires the gemstone 'troll' that he affixes to his command chair. We don't get a lot of world building economics in MCU in SPAAAACE! but there are crumbs.

peoriapeoriawhereart

I know I'm very late on this, but I've now watched them. Peter has been in Space, and the Chitauri Invasion is all over the first one for Prologue Purposes.

Anyway, consider this a seed for discussion.

(Tony managed to be a supervillain posthumously. Normally that takes Reed Richards.)

peoriapeoriawhereart

Nick Fury is in this question, so it is Cosmic. Bill Foster is a character introduced in the continuing saga of SHIELD and Hank Pym as he has taken over the Goliath aspect of "yeah, we worked All the Angles in the comics and Lore will now be distributed."

Aside:any conferences Drs. Foster and Foster could meet? Bill Foster seems to be of about an age as Erik Sevig.

Bill Foster is played by Laurence Fishburne. Is there a Marvel short film between Dr. Foster and Nick Fury? A table read for one, set back when the fx would need to BARF?

Fan fiction?

(For those that need more context, at one point Laurence Fishburne and Samuel L. Jackson kept getting thanked for each others performances and it was rather a Thing that they needed to be seen at the same time so that would stop happening Quite So Much.)

Of course, talking about Ghost|Ava would be good too. Pretty sure the phasing makes her Cosmic adjacent and her story and Gamora's have some parallels what with SHIELD|Hydra raising her as a weapon. And some with Nebula in particular.

peoriapeoriawhereart

Were there multiple children on the space station, or was it just weird editing and it's all Talos' and Soren's
child?

Is there a reason (a good reason) that a species that's not even carbon-based has sexual dimorphism that happens to correspond to Terran norms? Or, is General Talos somewhat more Mom than Dad? Do we know which of the Skrulls per the early scenes of their disguising was replicating Coulson?

Ant-man and Wasp inspired questions, with a bit of Jane Foster at my DW.

peoriapeoriawhereart

is the post Endgame reaction to a video essay, Thor, Steve and Tony predominate (they're all Cosmic now)

Nick Fury has some examples drawn from Captain Marvel.

Anyone want to talk about Kree and Skrulls, MCU versus 616?

marvelfemslashmod

Marvel Femslash Events MJ/Shuri created by CS Smith

MJ/Shuri fan art by

poorlyformed
A

marveltrumpshate commission

marvelfemslashevents is hosting the secon annual femslash fanworks (fic, art, podfic, and vids) exchange celebrating the ladies of Marvel (Comics, Movies & TV).

Sign ups are now open! Nominations will run concurrently of signups for one week.
Tag Set | AO3 Collection | Nominations Guide

Nominations Close: Friday, May 15th at 11:59 PST
Sign Ups Close: Thursday, May 21st by 11:59 PST
Assignments Due: Tuesday, June 23rd by 11:59 PST

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Promotion post here and/or follow

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kore

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_N3LGmgJ5M/?igshid=o4mvgtiuzzjd

Text:

Today I added Meredith Quill’s Complete Awesome Mix to my Spotify account for you to enjoy. This is part of the list of songs Meredith Quill loved that I chose the songs for the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol’s 1 and 2 soundtracks from. Some of these songs almost made it into the movie (She’s Gone) and others I always wanted to use but could never find the right place for them. Whatever the case, I never intended on sharing these songs, as I might use them in future movies. But I think the need for all of us to have some joyousness in these difficult times outweighs all that. Link in my bio. #guardiansofthegalaxy #gotg #awesomemix #marvel

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/go?uri=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A7hiHya2MpadR8p0vzm4HVv&product=embed_v2

Current Mood: touched

snickfic

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snickfic

Sorry folks, it's been a busy couple of weeks for me and I've been a little bit behind. Here are our discussion posts from the past couple of weeks, which I highly recommend you check out - they haven't gotten much activity yet, but

scioscribe has posed some really interesting questions that I'd love to see more discussion of. :)

Discussion post: Kree reform by

scioscribe (1 comment)
Discussion post: Species differences by

scioscribe (1 comment)

In related news, if you would like to host discussion posts for a month, please hit me up! Otherwise I think the comm is going to go to just unscheduled posting (ie, whatever anyone feels like posting, whenever they feel like posting it), at least until we get closer to our next cosmic MCU release.

scioscribe

The cosmic MCU has given us some aliens--though, in my humble opinion, never enough (you can never have too many aliens)--but they mostly tend to be roughly humanoid. Have you noticed any intriguing background aliens? For the aliens who are generally "like humans, but green/blue/pink/gold," are there any other biological differences you like to imagine them having? Do you have any speculations on how Groot's species or the Skrulls--two of the more diverse types of aliens we've seen--may be particularly adapted to their original environments?

Xeno speculation welcome!

scioscribe

A.k.a. "Kreeform."

At the end of Captain Marvel, Carol sends Yon-Rogg back to Hala with a message that she's coming to end the war and, by implication, Kree dominion, at least in its most ruthlessly imperialistic forms. And by the time of Guardians of the Galaxy, Ronan the Accuser is at least a slightly rogue figure, one who can't be officially sanctioned by his government--but who isn't being strongly denied, either. And people on Hala were still protesting the treaty with the Xandar.

The gap in the history of Hala and the Kree is really intriguing. What's been happening there since Carol sent back her message? How much has Kree society changed (or not changed) in the intervening years? What internal or external changes would it take to produce a Kree Empire, or a Hala, less dependent on militaristic conquering of other worlds and cultures?

And how much time has Carol spent there between Captain Marvel and the post-credits scene in Infinity War? Has Yon-Rogg played a role in any cultural shifts, and if so, how? Do you take the reference to a "Kree Emperor" in Guardians of the Galaxy to mean canonical replacement of the Supreme Intelligence, or do you take a Doylist perspective and say the SI is still around and it's just a pre-CM inconsistency?