chilly war

What is the deal with there being a team figure skating event? What is the deal with there being a whole evening's worth of sports the day before the opening ceremonies? What is the deal with the former beginning during the later, causing me to miss the 2014 Olympic début of my beloved Evgeni Plushenko???

Don't worry, though, I found a sketchy cam video to tide myself over with. Also Johnny Weir posted a cute picture of himself and Tara Lipinski posing with Plushy on his Instagram to make my shipper heart go pitter-pat. So that's something.

My new favorite Russian athlete of these games is Alexey Sobolev, who seems like both a badass (playing coy with his Pussy Riot-themed board art) and a dork (putting his phone number on his helmet to see what would happen).

Friday fics — francophonie

En hommage à Neil Gaiman (3595 words) by SenTheSeventh
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Norse Religion & Lore, Thor (Movies), Mythologie nordique
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Loki/Thor
Characters: Loki, Þórr | Thor
Additional Tags: Size Kink, Size Difference
Summary:

Thor/Loki. "Tu sais que les mortels ont fait un film sur nous, Thor ? Et dedans, nous sommes frères et tu es le méchant." On n'appelle pas Loki le Prince des Mensonges pour rien, et Thor commence à en avoir ras la casquette.

Une fic avec des dieux nordiques, une télévision magique, et de nettes menaces de balancer Loki par la fenêtre la plus proche.

I don't know how it is that there is a relatively active French-speaking Norse mythology fandom on AO3 while the only thing getting posted in English is over- or mis-tagged Marvel comics or movie fic. I'm just glad that this fandom is occurring in a language that I can read, albeit with recourse to a dictionary (my porny vocabulary is coming on by leaps and bounds!), because if it was any other non-English language I'd be stuck with Google Translate. This is another story where actual Norse gods discover the Thor movie and smoking-hot sex ensues, although this one is Thor/Loki and not Odin/Loki, which is my Norse mythology OTP. But, like Loki, I can be…flexible.