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lokiofsassgaard) wrote2021-01-04 04:14 pm
lokiofsassgaard) wrote2021-01-04 04:14 pm
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Chapter Notes: Rest
I don’t know why the first chapter for any longfic I write is always really tiny. But here it is. Tiny and full of anger.
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to post this. I thought I might wait until I had a good chunk finished, but I’m doing that with Little Beirut, and I think I might explode doing it twice in parallel. So this shall continue to be the series that blueballs everyone involved, myself and the reader.
Look, I don’t know what it is about this thing. It’s a big idea, but one that’s often hard to put into words. Especially since I concieved this idea somewhere around the release of the Avengers. The first one. The very first Avengers, a hundred years ago. Every time I get this idea hammered out, another film is released and I have to cope with that. Then I saw the trailer for the new Loki series, and oh my god, it looks just like International Man of Mayhem, the best damn fic series to ever come out of this fandom.
After posting the last forgotten chapter of Midgard Legends, I sat and had a long think. It ends on a deliberate cliffhanger. So did Those Who Hunt Monsters, because this series was conceived like this deliberately; a continuous narrative not unlike a comic book. One major arc completes, but there are still questions to answer and fallout to address for next month’s issue. (This is exactly what I’m doing with Little Beirut, only better, I think. This series was, in a lot of ways, practise for that. Intentional or otherwise.)
Second Rite is the story that answers all the questions TWHM and ML set up. I’ve seen a lot of guesses in the comments, and people have picked up on a lot of threads. I love seeing that, because it means I’m doing something right. Most people have questions, a lot of you have guesses, and some of you have got real close to hitting the nail on the head. This chapter hopefully serves as a reminder of past clues. He doesn’t know it, but Thor said the wrong answer out loud. Loki has also said something that is entirely false, though he doesn’t know it either. Together, they make a full truth, and now Loki has to come to terms with it. Odin himself knows, or at least strongly suspects the truth, a fact which he has hinted at as well, multiple times. And Frigga laid down a bare truth: they have never lied to Loki. The truth may have been repackaged in a way that was easier to digest, but they have never lied. This was the core concept of the entire series, that Odin and Frigga must be honest about what they know. And what they know is Loki was found in a Jötunn temple in Laufey’s palace.
I want to answer these questions, and I cannot promise a reliable release schedule. Other projects, including Little Beirut come first. But I do want to answer this mystery that’s been built up for entirely too long, and I want it to happen this year. After that absolute cockblock of an ending to Midgard Legends, I figure I at least owe this much. The notes are all here on my iPad, and just need to be turned into prose. I’ve known how this reveal was going to go since I posted the very first chapter of TWHM. I just did not expect it to take seven goddamn years.
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to post this. I thought I might wait until I had a good chunk finished, but I’m doing that with Little Beirut, and I think I might explode doing it twice in parallel. So this shall continue to be the series that blueballs everyone involved, myself and the reader.
Look, I don’t know what it is about this thing. It’s a big idea, but one that’s often hard to put into words. Especially since I concieved this idea somewhere around the release of the Avengers. The first one. The very first Avengers, a hundred years ago. Every time I get this idea hammered out, another film is released and I have to cope with that. Then I saw the trailer for the new Loki series, and oh my god, it looks just like International Man of Mayhem, the best damn fic series to ever come out of this fandom.
After posting the last forgotten chapter of Midgard Legends, I sat and had a long think. It ends on a deliberate cliffhanger. So did Those Who Hunt Monsters, because this series was conceived like this deliberately; a continuous narrative not unlike a comic book. One major arc completes, but there are still questions to answer and fallout to address for next month’s issue. (This is exactly what I’m doing with Little Beirut, only better, I think. This series was, in a lot of ways, practise for that. Intentional or otherwise.)
Second Rite is the story that answers all the questions TWHM and ML set up. I’ve seen a lot of guesses in the comments, and people have picked up on a lot of threads. I love seeing that, because it means I’m doing something right. Most people have questions, a lot of you have guesses, and some of you have got real close to hitting the nail on the head. This chapter hopefully serves as a reminder of past clues. He doesn’t know it, but Thor said the wrong answer out loud. Loki has also said something that is entirely false, though he doesn’t know it either. Together, they make a full truth, and now Loki has to come to terms with it. Odin himself knows, or at least strongly suspects the truth, a fact which he has hinted at as well, multiple times. And Frigga laid down a bare truth: they have never lied to Loki. The truth may have been repackaged in a way that was easier to digest, but they have never lied. This was the core concept of the entire series, that Odin and Frigga must be honest about what they know. And what they know is Loki was found in a Jötunn temple in Laufey’s palace.
I want to answer these questions, and I cannot promise a reliable release schedule. Other projects, including Little Beirut come first. But I do want to answer this mystery that’s been built up for entirely too long, and I want it to happen this year. After that absolute cockblock of an ending to Midgard Legends, I figure I at least owe this much. The notes are all here on my iPad, and just need to be turned into prose. I’ve known how this reveal was going to go since I posted the very first chapter of TWHM. I just did not expect it to take seven goddamn years.