Let's Talk About Asgardian Colonialism

[lynnenne]

Hello, and welcome to your weekly Sunday discussion post! This week's topic has minor spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok and Infinity War, so I'm putting it beneath a cut for anyone who hasn't seen the films.

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Captain Marvel Superbowl Trailer

[olivermoss]

"Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel - "Big Game" TV Spot" (Watch on YouTube)

AO3 cosmic MCU roundup

[snickfic]

This may or may not turn into an occasional feature. While browsing AO3 for things to read today I found some stuff that I thought folks here might like to know about the existence of. This is by no means an exhaustive list of… anything, nor are these recs, because I mostly haven’t read them yet. They’re just stuff from the past week that I personally am excited about. Emphasis on rarepairs and gen, because that's mostly what I'm into. All fics are complete.

(If anyone else feels like doing a similar occasional roundup customized to their tastes, please, feel free!)

i'll think about tomorrow (if I can get through tonight) by iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid
Bruce-centric post-Ragnarok gen, 5k. Bruce contemplates where, and whether, he belongs amongst Thor's people.

Ghost Story by whatyoufish4
Loki, Hela, 2.5k, horror of a kind? In which Loki finds himself in a haunted house.

Corse Cabriole by amiesce
Loki/Stephen Strange, 2k. On Titan, Stephen Strange looks into the future and the past. Foresight is 20/20; hindsight not so much.

The Gods Themselves by manic_intent
Thor/T'Challa, 8k. At dawn New Asgard grew visible from the eastern flank of Birnin Zana, floating motionless above the snow-capped peaks of the Pillars. Somehow the Asgardians had built outwards from their massive starship. The platforms that fed outwards in tiers were toothed with graceful silver spires that nearly completely blocked out the dense mass of the starship at their core. New Asgard now looked like a many-tipped crown, hung above the seat of the Gods.

Hand-Rolled Pasta, and Other Earth Mysteries by TheseusInTheMaze
Valkyrie/Shuri, 3.5k. Valkyrie finds herself on Earth. She runs into someone at a bar.

Rewritten by anon
Nebula & Tony, 7k, time travel. “We’re lost in space, yes. And we just happened to find a convenient wormhole? I don’t trust that,” Nebula said. It was a perfectly reasonable thing to say. In most situations, Tony would have agreed with her. It smelled like a trap. But this time… this time, the ridiculous level of coincidence could be a good sign.