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AUTHORS I NEED A FAVOUR!!!!

I'm not sure why or when this idea popped into my brain. But I NEED a Loki Oneshot (or Fic) with a Reader/OC Spouse, where they have a similar relationship to Odysseus and Penelope.

Like the Spouse finds Loki after NewYork and then the scene would play out like in the Song "Would you fall in love with me again"

OR they met again in Thor 2

OR Lokis Spouse is in the TVA and they meet again there!!!!

I crave Angst like this with a happy ending!!!!!

(Funny Ending: Switch to see Thor crying happy tears seeing them reunite)

I still find it damn annoying! Mythology doesn't belong to anyone. There are stories based on metaphors and phobias coming together to make sense to things people wanted to explain back then! If we can't use golems, then this means we aren't able to use greek monsters, like Cerberus, or Thor, or even the words Angel and the Devil......

Mythology was made to be shared and people do make stories to share with the world. The book of Enoch and Genesis became works that inspire many! This is not cultural appropriation is appreciation! Artists use these mythological creatures because they don't need to explain whole new beings, because they are already well known.

Again, if we can't use these, then why are they publicly known and open. If this information shouldn't be made public and not be used by others then it should have been a Mystery School!!

And I hope no one gets offended by calling religious stories mythology, because it is the right term. Mythology doesn't mean that it isn't correct. Just look up the defenition!!! It means a collection of allegory stories, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.

Thank you for reading my angry ramble!

Hope you guys have a good day

One thing I'd suggest is not calling him a golem specifically unless you're Jewish. Golems are apparently pretty dang specific to Judaism, and most of the answers I've gotten on "is it okay to use them in stories if you aren't Jewish" tend to vary from "Get a Jewish sensitivity reader first" to "No".

Then again, I'm not Jewish myself, so take that with a grain of salt, but I've seen a lot of posts from Jewish users complaining about people always calling every rock creature and fantasy robots a "golem" for several years now. I personally choose to err on the side of caution, though.

That said, Cementoss could still probably be a stone puppet or animate statue granted life.

Fuckening

Cultural appropriation is already bad now its just annoying when it's like "oh we've appropriated too close to the sun and now all mention of this word evokes the appropriation instead of the original".

I am saying this with frustration toward the people who yoinked the word, not those pointing it out.

Anyway yeah gonna need a new word but the creature description fits but also tbh Cementoss isn't gonna appear that much

Thank you for saying it!!!! Hope that more fiction will use this....so please Authors! Use this! It has so much potential!

I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.

Your feelings are this beautiful garden of flora inside of your chest. When you express how you feel honestly, you allow for it to grow freely. But when you hide how you feel out of fear of rejection, and try to make it smaller and smaller, the flowers become cramped inside of you, until you choke on your own feelings. Every flower you cough up is something you’ve felt, but refused to say.

The whole “dying” thing is intended to be more symbolic especially. You’re killing off bits and pieces of yourself and how you feel, because you’re afraid to express yourself.

It’s not really supposed to be, “The one I love doesn’t love me back, and I’m dying from it.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of, “Repressing your emotions is bad for you, and it’s better and healthier to express them freely, even when it’s scary.”

Which is to say that, one, the cure for the disease should be telling the person that you are in love with how you feel. How the other person feels about the person afflicted should have nothing to do with it, as the trope is meant to be about feeling your emotions unapologetically.

And that, two, it’s not an inherently romantic trope. Obviously, it has romantic applications, but it can be written for any situation where a character is hiding how they truly feel. This can include a refusal to address a specific trauma, a desire to indulge in something that they’re ashamed of, and even really practical things, like wanting to ask one’s boss for a higher position.

Although (as an aromantic person myself) I don’t agree with this conclusion about the trope, this application would also avoid people calling it arophobic. When the thing killing the character is a refusal to be honest with themselves, rather than an unrequited love, it’s on nobody’s hands but their own to save their life.

There are a ton of ways that this interpretation of the hanahaki disease could be applied in new and interesting ways in fanfiction, and I’d love to read what things people could come up with!

Authors!!!! PLEASE! I need to read this!

can we just have more fun and bold reader characters in x reader fanfic? Like enough of the classical girly stuff (no hate) I need some fun stuff like bodyguard!reader protecting the male love interest instead of the other way around I’m so tired of this crap