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First WIP Wednesday of 2026!! Sharing an "exploring the TVA" snippet from Chapter 19 of Dividing Lines, co-authored with the wonderful @insert-witty-user-name-here

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“I hope we can find our way back,” Mobius muttered anxiously. “Was that a right turn we took just now?”

“We’ve taken five right turns since leaving the Founder’s Museum,” Loki answered. “Right, Right, left, right, three more lefts, right again, left, right.”

“Now you’re just showing off.”

“I can visualise the route perfectly.”

“Are you sure about that? Only I feel like we’ve been down this hallway before.”

“We’re not walking in circles,” said Loki firmly.

“Uh huh. So how do you explain why we’ve passed the same poster twice?” 

“It’s a copy. Obviously.”

Mobius shook his head. “This one’s damaged – look.” He indicated a poster with a poorly repaired tear down the middle, right through Miss Minutes’ smiling face.

Loki started to reply – maybe a disaffected employee was roaming the corridors systematically vandalising posters of Miss Minutes (a laudable undertaking, in his view)? – when they rounded another corner and came to an abrupt halt. To their right, only a few paces away, was an old-fashioned mahogany door with a gold plaque that read: Piety & Propaganda Department. 

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Thanks to the brilliant @blackbirdofasgard and @westwardly for the tags!

Does it still count as Seven Sentence Sunday if this WIP is due to be posted within the next half hour? In any case, sharing a snippet from Chapter 22 of Dividing Lines (technically nine sentences, but close!) @insert-witty-user-name-here and I are just too excited about the next few chapters!

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“Loki, listen,” he said breathlessly, “we can take things slow. What I said before… maybe I came on a little strong. You don’t need to prove any—”

Loki silenced him with another kiss, more heated this time. “You have no idea how long I’ve wanted this.”

Don huffed a shaky laugh. “No offence, Lokes, but you really need to work on your communication skills.”

“My communication skills are perfectly adequate.”

“Are you sure about that?”

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A slightly delayed announcement that Chapter 32 of Dividing Lines is up!! Co-authored with the incomparable @insert-witty-user-name-here. This officially marks the start of what we've been calling Act 3 - the final chapters! 💚🤎

Loki froze with his hand halfway to the lock. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something shift. He turned, the back of his neck prickling. For the briefest of moments the house next door seemed to change: the door was freshly painted, the grass cut, the flowerbeds no longer overgrown with weeds. There was a light in one of the upper windows. Loki thought he glimpsed a flicker of movement – a hand twitching the curtains, a face peering out. He blinked, trying to clear his vision, and suddenly the house was as he remembered it: derelict and empty.

It feels like a while since I posted one of these!

@insert-witty-user-name-here and I have been busy drafting the rest of Dividing Lines. In a surprise to no one (except us 😅), the second half of the fic has ended up being slightly longer than the first. Plenty of twists and turns (and angst, romance, hurt/comfort) in store for 'part 2'!

Sharing a snippet from Chapter 20...

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“I don’t think there’s anyone here,” Mobius whispered. A thick layer of dust covered the surface of the desks. At least one of the chairs was broken, the back wrenched sideways at a disconcertingly odd angle. “Do you think we should…” 

He trailed off, tightening his hold on Loki’s hand. It took Loki a moment to realise why: there was a scrabbling sound coming from the far corner, so faint that he wondered at first if he was imagining it. The noise stopped and started, strangely muffled, like someone was scratching at the walls with blunt fingernails. Loki shivered.

They started to move in the direction of the sound, but it ceased abruptly. After a moment’s tense silence, the soft scuffling noise started up again, fainter and further away.

“Maybe it’s rats,” Mobius suggested uncertainly. “Looks like this place hasn’t been cleaned in a while. Years, probably.”

“We should make sure.” Loki swallowed. The scrabbling sound made his skin crawl. “If there’s someone trapped in here—”

He whipped around as a high-pitched keening pierced the air, a drawn-out cry of distress that wavered for an instant before breaking off.

“Oh, gods,” Mobius muttered, turning pale.

“It came from over there,” Loki said, disentangling his hand and crossing the room in half-a-dozen long strides.

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And (*drumroll*)... Chapter 21 is up! Excited to report that we've hit 100,000 words!! (@insert-witty-user-name-here, I can't believe it)

Perfect timing for the 'slow burn' to start burning ❤️

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61967617

No name, no memories, and an overabundance of corporate jargon that would drive anyone insane.

Loki is trapped inside a sinister bureaucratic nightmare, and he’s desperate to wake up.

The TVA – whatever that is – claims he opted to undergo the “Severance Procedure,” splitting his consciousness into two distinct chronologies: one living freely in the outside world, the other eternally bound within the confines of the TVA. The only light in the darkness is a man named Mobius, who also happens to be his team leader.

Chapter 18 of Dividing Lines is up!! Co-authored with the brilliant @insert-witty-user-name-here. In which Loki, Mobius, Casey & Verity start to learn more about the other departments.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61967617/chapters/212470051

No name, no memories, and an overabundance of corporate jargon that would drive anyone insane.

Loki is trapped inside a sinister bureaucratic nightmare, and he’s desperate to wake up.

The TVA – whatever that is – claims he opted to undergo the “Severance Procedure,” splitting his consciousness into two distinct chronologies: one living freely in the outside world, the other eternally bound within the confines of the TVA. The only light in the darkness is a man named Mobius, who also happens to be his team leader.

Tagged by the brilliant @blackbirdofasgard and @westwardly

@insert-witty-user-name-here and I chose an interesting week to dive back into posting Dividing Lines... but happily our beloved AO3 has revived! Sharing a snippet from Chapter 18 (up next):

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Mobius exchanged another look with Loki before accepting the device and pocketing it hastily. OB might have taken care of the security camera, but he couldn’t eliminate the ever-present risk of Miss Minutes materialising for an impromptu check-in.

“Remember, don’t try using it for any other departments,” OB warned. “It’s configured for Department 5 only.”

“What happens if we use it on another department?” asked Loki curiously. Up to now he had been largely silent, but Mobius knew he was taking everything in, from OB’s strategic pauses and omissions to the subtly changing inflections of his voice. 

“The alarms go off, Security gets alerted to an unauthorised attempt to access a secure area, and we all get sent to the Break Room,” OB answered without missing a beat.

“Right.” Mobius swallowed, tightening his hand at Loki’s waist. “Thanks, OB.”

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Chapter 30 of Dividing Lines is up!! Co-written with the one and only @insert-witty-user-name-here ✨ Featuring CDA breaking the rules (again) and an unexpected message from an old friend.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/61967617/chapters/225782086