Table of Contents
[Table of Contents]
1. Stabbed
The Ark.
Loki gets into a bit of trouble in the market.
2. Bloody Hands
The Ark. Warnings: unnamed character death.
There’s an explosion and Thor’s trying his best.
3. Insomnia *
House Avengers. Warnings: implied past torture.
No one’s sleeping in the Avengers household.
4. ‘No, stop!’
The Ark.
A fight concludes with an old game.
5. Poisoned
The Ark.
A dinner proves dangerous for Thor and the Valkyrie must rush him back to the Ark before it’s too late.
6. Betrayed */**
House Avengers. Warnings: brief dehumanizing language.
Thor and Tony have The Fight and Thor takes a field trip to Norway.
7. Kidnapped ~
The Ark. Warnings: rape as a metaphor (it’s not quite ‘mind rape’ but it’s a similar type of violation that another character refers to as rape), brief mentions of child death/murder.
Bruce wakes up alone. Things are not as rosy as they seem on this prosperous planet.
8. Fever
The Ark.
Thor is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of coughing.
9. Stranded
The Ark. Warnings: heights, intrusive thoughts, suicidal ideation, revisiting a canonical past suicide attempt.
They’ve crash landed and it’s up to Loki to get help. It’s just that he can’t.
10. Bruises *
Sanctuary. Warnings: claustrophobia, aftermath of strangulations.
The Ark’s journey is at an end. Thor and Loki spend their first night in the care of Thanos.
11. Hypothermia
The Ark.
An engine stall plummets the temperature of the Ark, and Loki’s the only one who can fix it.
12. Electrocution *
Sanctuary. Warnings: torture (both physical and psychological)
Thanos’s torturers try to tear them apart.
13. ‘Stay.’ *
The Ark. Warnings: mentions of past torture.
The aftermath of certain revelations stir up some old wounds.
14. Torture */**
Sanctuary. Warnings: torture.
The tables are turned. Help arrives from a very, very unexpected source.
15. Manhandling */**
The Ark. Warnings: mentions of past torture, past suicide attempt.
There’s something from Wanda’s vision that haunts Thor. He just needs one more piece to put the whole puzzle together.
16. Bedridden *
House Avengers. Warnings: past torture.
Thor wakes up but something is missing. Tony thought his night couldn’t get any weirder.
17. Drugged
The Ark. Warnings: nonconsensual drug use.
It was a fun night, until they realized something was wrong with their drinks.
18. Hostage
The Ark. Warnings: nonconsensual drug use, sexual assault, nonconsensual voyeurism, mentions of past/threat of future rape. Lot of consent issues, balances that knife edge of dub/noncon.
Directly follows ’17. Drugged.’ The Valkyrie and Loki have been captured by the Grandmaster. The Grandmaster wants many things.
18.5 BONUS: Disappeared (posted as Chapter 32.)
The Ark. Warnings: implied sexual assault.
17. Drugged/18. Hostage from Thor’s POV. Thor never thought he would see the Grandmaster again. He was wrong.
19. Exhaustion
The Ark. Warnings: canonical eye injury.
Team Revengers’ first night aboard the Ark.
20. Concussion
The Ark.
A foolish accident, a poorly placed fall, leads to a quiet conversation.
21. Harsh Climate *
Sakaar / The Ark / Sanctuary. Warnings: implied sexual assault, psychological torture.
Loki’s not a fan of the heat. (In three parts.)
22. Friendly Fire */~
The Ark. Warnings: death, slavery/human trafficking, forced prostitution, sexual assault, discussion of suicide, execution, dehumanizing language (though there is no real character death)
An accident during a fight leaves the Valkyrie in a coma. While Thor, Bruce, and Loki try to wake her, she has to face up to the blood on her hands.
23. Self-Sacrifice ~
The Ark. Warnings: domestic violence, murder/suicide
A dark curse befalls the Ark, turning people against each other.
24. Drowning
The Ark. Warnings: discussion of past suicide attempts.
The emotional aftermath of ’23. Self-Sacrifice.’ Bruce Banner thinks they all might be drowning.
25. Restraints */**
The Raft. Warnings: dehumanization, threat of execution, claustrophobic restraints
After Tony Stark calls in the cavalry, Thor and Loki are processed into the Raft.
26. Broken Ribs
House Avengers. Warning: implied past torture.
A quiet morning in House Avengers.
27. ‘I Can’t Walk’ ~
The Ark. Warnings: past attempted murder of children
Thor’s been having visions. It turns out Hela was not quite as out of their childhoods as they thought.
28. Severe Illness
The Ark. Warnings: hospitals, medical procedures
Follow up to 8. Fever. Loki starts coughing up blood. They might need a little help with this one.
29. Seizure
Sakaar AU. No additional warnings. (Though it’s Sakaar so there’s always kind of a background implication of consent issues.)
Loki doesn’t remember anything. Luckily, Valkyrie’s got an idea to break the spell.
30. Caregiver
The Ark.
A quiet night on the ship, long before everything goes to hell.
31. Showdown */**
The Ark / House Avengers. Warnings: torture, death of a child, brief mind control, strangulation, threat of execution
Everything must come to an end. Two transitions.
*The Abridged
The shorter, just the things that figure into the plot leading to the sequel. Still includes some of the whump-ier chapters, like the ones on Sanctuary, but excludes stand alone chapters and the shorter plots.
3. Insomnia
6. Betrayed
10. Bruises
12. Electrocution
13. Stay
14. Torture
15. Manhandling
16. Bedridden
19. Exhaustion
21. Harsh Climate
22. Friendly Fire (for the foreshadowing...)
25. Restraints
26. Broken Ribs
31. Showdown
**The Very Abridged
For serious, just the plot and nothing but the plot. The shortest version to get all of the connecting pieces from beginning to end. Still out of linear order, but that's the point. ;-)
6. Betrayed
14. Torture
15. Manhandling
25. Restraints
31. Showdown
~The Long And Weird
Self contained, somewhat weird, plots that go over 4k words.
7. Kidnapped
22. Friendly Fire
23. Self-Sacrifice
27. "I Can't Walk"
Multi-Chapter Plots not related to the Main Story:
Loki Falls Ill
8. Fever
28. Severe Illness
30. Caregiver
The Grandmaster Returns
17. Drugged
18. Hostage
18.5 Disappeared
The Curse:
23. Self-Sacrifice
24. Drowning
And because I can't help myself, some references:
- Prompt List
- Title is a reference to a podcast called "Sex and Other Human Activities"
- A lot of terminology and most of the Asgardian character names that I had to invent came from the Sagas of Icelanders, ed. Jane Smiley.
- '9. Stranded' alludes to l'appel du vide, so I cited a very interesting article/audio segment on it from WBUR.
- The plot for '22. Friendly Fire' was cobbled together with heavy inspiration from a number of sources including: The Saga of the Völsungs, Wagner's Ring Cycle, and a poem called Helreith Brynhildar. (That chapter also contains a reference to a line from Episode 10 of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House.)
- A podcast retelling of The Saga of the Völsungs: Episodes 3A-3E of Myths & Legends.
- "The Ring Cycle in 2.5 Minutes" was essential for making sure I had the plot all worked out.
- I forgot to cite it in the chapter itself, but if you want to have the horrifying realization that what I wrote in '25. Restraints' is actually not that outlandish, the documentary Survivor's Guide to Prison (2018)is horrifying and on Netflix.