#“Jean is the Phoenix and the Phoenix is Jean- now and forever. But they are like planets orbiting—

[seaweedstarshine]

—on the topic of psychotic Summers brothers, I only just caught up with six months of X-Men after stopping for six months the topic of Gabriel referring to the tags of my last X-Men post a month ago — but I was happy to see Scott's torture-induced psychosis didn't (definitively) turn out just to be that he'd calculated what others hadn't. Yes, the woman he'd accurately calculated would save him was Dr. Gregor, not Jean, but that doesn't change that he remained unsure if Jean was real (and thought she was alive) while the all-seeing Enigma knew on the contrary that Scott was delusional because Phoenix thus equally (an equivocation which casts further doubt of Scott's fiery visions ever being genuine, as Jean's dying mind had departed Scott well before Mother Righteous sacrificed Jean's dead fragmented self for Dominion, before Scott was tortured) Jean — were so utterly dead that Rachel and Hope had to cancel out death to reverse it. Yet Scott, hyper-vigilant traumatized autistic brain-damaged neurodivergent soldier that he is, seemingly accomplished all these strategic calculations while having a psychotic “break,” which is extremely in character for him—

[galaxaey]

❛ there's something wrong . . . i feel . . . there's something . . . i can't - ❜

open . mutuals only .

[farsight-the-char]

A Woman of Red Hair and Green Outfit.

A Woman used and marginalized for the circumstances of her birth and powers, with many seeking to exploit this.

A Woman who found love with an Autistic Nerd, A Friend Leader.

A Woman who Died, and Rose Again, (and Again and Again). And Again.

A Woman touched by Cosmic Power, Divine Creation, Incarnate.

A Hero, Now and Forever.

[jaidens]

pumpkin spice latte w/ extra whip and carmel w/ my baby rooster 😋😋 also completly disregard this plot if you want but seeing rooster after he’s been away yk at top gun for a while so r surprises him >:)))

And want you now, wanna need you forever In the heat of your electric touch, mm-mm

pairing [s] : bradley bradshaw x reader

warning [s] : mentions of : crying, making out, sex |

a/n [s] : my baby doll dal 🫶 requests are open!

It had been six continuous months without seeing your Bradley in real life. The scent of his cologne and musk had disappeared from your bed and his pillow, causing you to go after anything that has reminded you of him. Whenever you were invited to visit him in Top Gun after they were given a three-week break after a joyous win, you decided to immediately take it.

Deciding to not tell Bradley had killed you, as you watched him through the FaceTime call as he slept in a lonely house by himself. You told him your phone was getting repairs to cover up your five hour flight to where he was drafted, it worked surprisingly well. The flight was long, but your discount with it has given you First-Class seats with many helps from flight attendants to try and help your experiences.

When you landed in hot and humid, San Diego you were almost immediately dehydrated. You had called Penny and Maverick to pick you up from the airport, begging to keep everything a secret. Surprisingly, they kept it quiet and Pete told you he had told them he was taking Penny on a date tonight. The nerves were messing with your head as you mess with the hem of your (Bradley’s) Hawaiian shirt. It was a light and soft pink color, and you swore it looked better on him than it did you. Bradley would disagree, saying it was his favorite shirt you had worn.

“Hot as hell here, jeez.” You joke flapping a piece of paper against your face to try and cool yourself down. Even with the extreme cold air blasting on your face, sweat had still dripped from you. You couldn't tell if it was the nerves in your head about seeing Bradley, or the heat. If you had to assume it had probably been both electives. “I know. Bradley pretty much is shirtless half of the time. I’m tired of it.” Amy says next to you, tapping on her phone.

You laugh as you think of Bradley, who is extremely typical to get naked when it's over 95 degrees outside. You decided to call Jessica, Hangman's long-term girlfriend who had also decided to surprise her big hunk of man on the same day as you. She told you how the pilots were meeting at The Hard Deck and how most of the Navy wives were doing the same. You agreed with her and told Penny and Maverick to take you there for him.

Suddenly it all started to hit you: You would see Bradley in under three minutes after months of missing, crying, and taking screenshots of him on the phone. Maverick pulls into the sandy deck of the bar and parks the car. He looks in the mirror and looks at you. “You ready, kid?” He asks and you nod, opening the door and following after the older woman who had already been walking in. The bar wasn't that crowded, only having pilots and other people that had gotten off of work earlier. It was five o'clock when you landed, so now it was six.

The bar is playing some eighties hits loudly, some rowdy people dancing around with drinks in their hands. You touch yourself up in your phone camera, take a big breath in, and start walking into the back corner of the bar where the pilots stayed. That's whenever you saw Bradley, whooping and hollering about winning the 8-ball game with Phoenix and Bob. Jake and Jessica are rubbing up against each other, kissing and hugging on every second, looking like high school couples in the hallways.

You walk up behind Bradley and when he bends over to hit a ball, you slam up behind and put your hands in the front pockets of his 1980s Levi's jeans. “Wanna teach me how to play?” You tease and Bradley jumps up and wraps you in his arms. His hand goes to the back of your neck and he practically jumps while practically screaming your name in pure and utter excitement at your presence.

“You didn't tell me you were coming!” He pulls away for a second to look at your face, before pulling you back in and wrapping harder around your body. The feeling envelopes you tightly and you feel the need to melt in his arms. “It's a surprise, dummy. Are you surprised?” You ask and now he's nodding quickly before he drops you down and kisses you harshly. His lips are running across you as he pulls you into a bench in the other corner.

“Am I surprised? Of course!” He says sassily at you and brings you back into a deep kiss, his hand messing with the hem of your Hawaiian shirt and the other against your neck as he holds you up in the kiss with him. He's warm and touchy throughout the sweet moment and he takes like a Cranberry Vodka. “Love you, so much.”

“Awh, I love you too honey.” Your hand runs through his fluffy hair that's been lightened from hours of sun, and you stare at this tan skin with freckles littering against his cheeks and nose. His fingers mess with the rips on your shorts and he kisses against your cheek. “God, I missed you so much.” Jessica waves at you and giggles as Jake kisses her away from attention. You laugh at his antics before Bradley pulls your chin and kisses you once more, and you stare into his deep green eyes.

“Thank you for visiting, so much.” Bradley speaks softly in your ear. “Always, and forever when I can.”

[tasteless-lemonade]

Now I want to hear about your favourite X-Men stories, arcs or issues!!!!

In all the confusing reading I've done, still with a lot of things missing, I love a lot of X-Men stories. Out of all of these, the one I feel like I can really say "Yes, this is my favorite X-Men story ever" and I don't think I would change my opinion even reading the stories I haven't read yet, is "God Loves, Man Kills".

Both as a fan reading one of the most classic stories of the X-Men (everytime I reread it I still feel like I'm pointing at the TV when I see that one panel) and in a more personal sense of how a story about religious fanaticism resonated with my life surrounded by various facets of religion. It is realistic and portrays prejudice in such a raw way, even in its mistakes. For me, it's THE X-Men story.

Others that I have to mention

Dark Phoenix Saga: Do I really have to explain the Dark Phoenix Saga? The story that changed Jean Grey now and forever in a tale about power, humanity and will? The sacrifice, the choice. Looking at all the power you could ever have and saying "I don't want it."

Archangel Saga: Warren Worthington III, typical good hero with a real good heart, who just wished to fly in peace, is betrayed by a trusted friend, robbed of his greatest happiness and turned into a sick parody of what he once was. It's such a cruel and ugly, but beautiful story about how the Angel falls from the sky.

Lifedeath: The goddess, without powers! The way it depicts Ororo's loss of powers is always a punch in the gut, and the way she keeps on thriving without it, keeps on being leader os the X-Men? Unmatched. It's still a story I read when I need strength to keep going

Hox/Pox: I would say "This is not a classic as the other ones" but this is a modern classic. The reinvention of the X-Men for the Krakoa era, for a new life and a new dawn really makes this memorable.

Now, one that's not a whole story and not as famous, All-New Wolverine #17 & #18. The arc, the conclusion. #17 has a great paralell between Laura and Pinocchio about lies and wanting to be a real boy, and #18 has the final fight of Laura and Kimura. I should stop having that 8th grade shame and just admit I have a unhealthy love for ANW

It's both a Laura reclaiming her identity as her own woman and a legacy moment, as Logan was tortured and brainwashed into a living weapon, and when he started to break free of Weapon X, he used the name Wolverine and it became a sign of his autonomy, and when Laura is facing the woman that tortured and brainwashed her into a weapon, ending her abuse once for all, she says "I'M WOLVERINE" as the sign of her autonomy.

[anxiousnerdwritings]

Mixing a few things together for this idea but what about Yanmom!Jean Grey, Yandad!Scott Summers, Yanfamily!X-Men, Yan!Emma Frost and Yan!Phoenix Force with Jean and Scott’s child!Reader??

Like it takes up with Jean being the host of the Phoenix Force and it’s ever so slowly corrupting her but then she ends up pregnant before it can completely corrupt her and instead of sticking with Jean, the Phoenix Force attaches itself to the child growing within her. Therefore the child is born with the Phoenix Force already deep imbedded within them.

Jean, Professor Xavier and Emma all pick up on the fact that the Phoenix Force has made the Reader it’s new forever home basically, at least that’s what it wants to do. And there’s massive worry and anxiety over how the Reader will turn out later in life if the Phoenix Force stays with them. Everyone worries how it will influence the child and what will become of them.

Meanwhile, the Phoenix Force is having it’s own conflict. Having attached itself to the child it grows intensely fond of them. It feels as though it may as well be their parent. The Phoenix Force would nurture and love it’s new darling (in its own way) as they grow together and the longer it stays with them the more protective and possessive it gets. It wants nothing more than to keep the darling safe and protected from any and all threats, unfortunately it sees Jean, Scott and the rest of the X-Men as any other kind of threat to its darling and itself. The Phoenix Force doesn’t believe that any of the X-Men, let alone Jean and Scott, deserve their darling in any aspect and will eventually take the darling away from them and everyone alike.

Now, Emma and Jean’s rivalry will certainly come into play in this situation. When it’s found out that Jean’s child is playing host for the Phoenix Force, Emma’s interest is immediately peaked. She tries to insert herself in the development of the child, not agreeing with how Jean and Scott go about their parenting and thinking she could do much better for the child in the long run. Jean does not take well to this at all. That is her child after all and Emma has the audacity to try and take her place as mother?! She’d be damned to ever let that happen! And thus begins the even more intense and deep seeded rivalry between the two.

[rei-ismyname]

PHOENIX #1 (No spoilers)

After the disappointment of HoA and the 'was that it?' of X-Men #1, I enjoyed the first issue of Phoenix and I'm cautiously optimistic about the run. It's not a necessity, but X-Men Infinity Comics #1-3 focus entirely on Scott and Jean. They're good reads and I recommend them particularly if you're reading Phoenix. The first issue has only so many pages to set up their relationship status quo before the action starts (which it does), so do yourself a favour.

Speaking of Scott Summers/Cyclops, it looks like he'll be a recurring presence in this Marvel cosmic run. Not in person ofc, but his wife is a psychic God travelling the universe and the other is only ever a thought away.

Jean Grey is a challenge to write without being not just a host for the Phoenix Force but The Phoenix, now and forever. A cosmic avatar of life and creativity. It's excellent to see women both writing and editing - Stephanie Phillips and Annalisa Rissa, respectively. The 'mission statement' from Stephanie is a strong sign that she's up for the challenge and taking a bold approach.

Best From The Ashes #1 so far, which isn't saying much, but I loved it and recommend it to anyone. The Infinity Comics add to the story, but Phoenix is super accessible and elegantly provides even a brand new reader with the required information without getting bogged down in exposition. 👍👍👍👍/5.

[afro-hispwriter]

Maximoff?(2)

Peter Maximoff x reader(main)

Wanda Maximoff x reader(past)

Warnings- y/n has dark humor, the Avengers, Thanos and the blip, Phoenix Force!reader but she doesn't know that yet;), Vision slander, semi-slow burn

Italics- past

Bold- telepathy 

Part 2 of “Maximoff?” 

a/n-the part 2 nobody asked for

-

"Hi, I'm Y/n L/n, your favorite telepathic superhero or not. I mean, I should be because I am helping clean up the mess Thanos made while the Avengers go in their depressive little hole and think about their failure." You press your lips together and shake your head. "We should really start hating them more, they really don't fix the cities they destroy. And guess who has to clean it up? Me, people from Stark Industries, and volunteers." You point behind you.

"Haha, aren't you an avenger?" The interviewer asks awkwardly.

"No I'm not an avenger, they just want me as a weapon. To do what they can't." You crossed your arms and shrugged. "You know I offered to destroy the soul stone but my ex-girlfriend decided that her red airhead boyfriend that came out of a refrigerator was more important." 

"You sound a little hurt at talking about Wanda and Vision, did it hurt when she left you and does it hurt that she's probably gone forever?" You cocked your head to the side.

"Not anymore, it's been 2 years since the whole Sokovia accords thing, and I am definitely over her. And she always talked about her dead family, guess now she gets to see them. As does everyone who disappeared." You laughed awkwardly before face-palming. "Sorry, Sorry."

Swoosh

The chatter behind you became distorted before slowing down to a complete stop. You looked around confused and everyone was moving very slowly. You looked back at the interviewer and the cameraman and their eyelids were still in the process of a blink. 

"I didn't do this." You say and press your lips together. But out of the corner of your eye, you saw someone walking around normally. He had silver hair, wore a Nirvana t-shirt, jean jacket, and some tight jeans(that made his ass look great). He turned around and you locked eyes making him stop, suddenly a goofy smile appeared on him before his eyes widened in shock at the realization that you were looking at him.

Who are you? You ask him through your mind and he looks at you confused, still trying to grasp whatever was happening. Before he could open his mouth you sent him flying back, stopping whatever he was doing. Everyone started moving again and you made your way to the man. 

"Everyone take a break." You say and the people around you stopped moving completely. I stopped in front of him and placed my hands on my hips. "Who are you?" 

"You're a mutant?" He asks you to curve an eyebrow. People have called you a monster, criminal, a weirdo. But never a mutant. You rolled your eyes. 

"Excuse me?" You passed and searched his head. "Peter Maximoff wait- Peter Maximoff? Maximoff!?"

“Maxi- I never told you my name." He says and he sits up. You didn't answer at first, but your heart started racing. 

"Wanda all those people dying wasn't your fault."  You tell her as you passed your fingers through her hair.

"They certainly think so." She says as she watched the news. You shook your head and grabbed the remote and shut it off. 

"You were protecting cap, that's all that matters." She just shrugged and started to bite her nails. Suddenly Vison fazed through the wall and you and Wanda untangled from each other.

"Vis we talked about this," Wanda says with a sympathetic look on her face. Your eyes widen and you scoff. 

"Talked about this, so he's done it before. Creep." You sneered and Vison stammered. "Get out." You had said through your teeth, Vison winced and pressed his thumb and index finger into his head. The stone in his forehead felt like it was throbbing. 

"Just came to say Mr. Stark is here with a guest." He says and instantly walks out, out the door this time. 

"Why do you hate him so much?" Wanda asked you.

"He's bad news Wanda, that stone in his head is bad news. I can feel something bad will happen." 

"Doesn't mean you get to control him. You promised you wouldn't control or get in the heads of us or me." She grabbed your hand and entwined your fingers. You sighed and nodded.

"I know I just, I feel like whatever is inside of me is starting to break free, and I can't control it." 

"I know the feeling." She says and kissed your cheek.

A small smile came to your face at the memory. 

"Have you seriously not caught on that I can read your mind and control others?" You answer him and gestured to the people around. He opened his mouth to say something but just fumbled with the words and just shrugged. "Who do you work for? Thanos?" He looks at you in confusion.

"T-Thanos who is that? I mean I've heard the name because my friend Wade calls this other dude, Cable, Thanos but no I don't know who Thanos is. Sorry, I'm rambling." He says and stands up. You nodded and turned away from him. He was telling the truth, but you needed to know more. So you flicked your hand everyone started moving again and started walking away.

"Follow me Maximoff, you have some explaining to do." You say and Peter doesn't hesitate to follow. 

- 

"You have a Lamborgini?" He questions as you walk up to the black shiny car. 

"I have a rich friend. Get in." You say and unlock it. Peter pops the door open and the door lifts up. The face he gave was as if the most amazing thing just happened. Once you both were sitting in the car and the doors closed and you started driving you started asking Peter more questions. 

"So you're from another Earth?" 

"I guess, but I didn't know there were other earths."

"Felt that, but I've learned were not alone." You say with a slight gloom in your voice. 

"You sound like you've seen it first hand?"

"I have, and part of that is the reason why everything looks destroyed." 

"By Thanos?"

"Yeah, with a snap of his fingers, half the population disappeared and you can guess how that went. People disappearing while driving, flying planes." 

"Where were you while Thanos was doing all this." You let out a chuckle

"On vacation. It wasn't until everyone around me was disappearing that I knew something was wrong. Now I'm out here going around and helping rebuild, because I know damn well the Avengers won't do it themselves, they're too busy dwelling on their loss to help the ones still here."

"I'm sorry the Avengers?" Peter asks in pure confusion.

"Earth's mightiest heroes?" 

"Oh, so like the X-men. At least that's what we are called where I am from."

"Nice." You say and you fall into an awkward silence. Peter's eyes ran around the entire car. It was so nice and clean. 

"So where are we going?" 

"Headquarters."

-

The way Peters's eyes lit up and his jaw slacked at seeing the building was adorable. He looked like a kid on Christmas. 

“Here we are.” You say and park the car in your designated spot that had your last name. The doors opened and you stepped out. Peter again looked in awe and she stumbled out of the car. You were walking pretty fast and were almost at the building before Peter noticed. He zipped to you and almost knocked you over. 

“Sorry babe, almost knocked you over there.” He says and patted your shoulder lightly. You whipped your head around and glared at him.

“Babe? I'm not you babe.” You say and Peter frowns.

“Sorry, I say that a lot.” You let out a hmph and opened the door. He followed you to the elevator and stepped inside. “How rich is your friend?”

“Pretty rich.” You smile at him and his nose twitches. The elevator dinged on your floor and you stepped out. “Hungry? Thirsty?” 

“I can always eat.” 

“What do you want?” You ask and you turn the corner into a kitchen. 

“Got any Twinkies?” You didn’t respond just opened the pantry and looked around. Frowning at the sight of no Twinkies but settled on a box of brownies. “No Twinkies but I have brownies.” 

“Oh, those are cool too.” He says but you can tell he was a little sad and probably needed something that made him happy after everything he has gone through. 

“Okay.” You closed your eyes and smiled, then opened the box. In your hand was a wrapped-up brownie. Peter reached out for it but before his eyes, it started to change. It was so familiar to him, as he watched the brownie distort and then become a Twinkie. It suddenly clicked.

“My friend Jean used to be able to do that.” He says and he frowns. You knew when to respect people’s privacy, so you wouldn’t pry on your own. Peter noticed your silence and cleared his throat. “Is it safe to eat?”

“Yeah.” You say and hand it to him. He opened the plastic wrapping and grabbed it. “I guess we should find out how to get you back, your people are probably worried.” 

“Yeah probably. But I'm not rushing.” He says and smiles up at you, a slight twinkle in his chocolate eyes. You looked down away from his gaze and felt yourself warm up. 

“My friend, Bruce-.” You were cut off by Natasha walking in the kitchen. She stopped at seeing you weren’t alone but chose to ignore it and ask you about it later since her news was urgent. “Nat? Everything okay?” 

“We got a hit on Thanos.” 

-

[wellnoe]

out of curiosity, what are your favorite versions of scott's backstory?

so i personally favor the classic x-men #41-42 -> marvel snapshots: x-men -> uncanny x-men #39-42 line. also w details from x-factor #39 sprinkled in there.

basically this trajectory is scott and alex get found by sinister in the wake of the plane crash. they both get taken to his orphanage, and alex is adopted out. scott spends maybe a year in something like a coma. it is unclear bc this is caused by sinister, who is actively gaslighting scott throughout this period. lots of stuff happens, a friendship w a doctor (ruined by sinister), a prospective adoption (ruined by sinister), scott gets his glasses, gets bullied, gets into fights. scott meets jean, psychically, unknowingly, one night, which turns into him meeting phoenix. this entire time his mutation is sporadically manifesting, apparently mitigated/controlled by sinister. eventually his mutation manifests very publicly, leading him to run away from the home. he meets jack after using his mutation in public, is coerced into helping jack break and enter a lab, and meets charles. charles and him (unintentionally) kill jack together while trying to escape from him. just to like. give you a rough idea of what happens if you haven't read all this stuff.

i like these stories for a number of reasons. i like scott's repeated manifestations of his mutation, bc i think it speaks to the control sinister had over him. i like his failed friendship w a doctor bc of the medical nature of scott's abuse. i like that the orphanage is actually a foundling home!! bc scott's father IS alive and that's fun to me. just upping the abandonment issues. i like that scott meets phoenix, bc that ties into my "now and forever" means FOREVER, both backward and forward in time, idea. i like that xavier's good intentions, forever affected by his paternalism and condescension, still lead to harm.

anyway that's the version i like best, or at least the version i use as my guide for 'what happened in scott summers' early life'. i'm not super precious about it though, ESPECIALLY the orphanage stuff and his recollections of the crash, bc a combination of scott's tbi memory loss and sinister's interference means that scott himself remembers his past very poorly, and any contradiction to me is interesting in that context.

[nthflower]

That issue where Emma and Scott just explain how awful people they are and their darkest deepest secrets to each other is so good.

Emma is like "I pushed jean to dark phoenix, I betrayed my students, I did awful things to Laura to make her leave, I failed wither, I joined Norman's cabal, I killed my own sister using death of my students as a excuse because actually I saw in her myself because I am an evil evil person who uses children for my own gains and ego."

And Scott is like " I formed a secret assassination squad behind everyone's back for doing dirty work but it backfired so badly it hurt X-Men more than it helped, I caused lots of meaningless violence in the name of greater good but it was all lies, I think of terrible horrible things using the worst pains we faced as weapons to my enemies, three of our kids kidnapped and i tell nobody because just keeping things secret and just send them to another mission, I am the worst of worst person now just to keep the name of X-Men clean."

And both of them later are like " NOOO you are so wrong you did this for children/mutantkind I am the real evil one noooo" and kissed. Wonderful. Then they were also like "avengers X-Men they can all hate us if they learn but we have each other and we love each other who cares it's us Vs the world. I will trust and love you forever and ever evil or good."

They learned nothing now and just made each other feel good about some real awful shit they actually did and I love them. Being toxic together and loving each other no matter what. With zero secrets. They love each other so much they can accept every behaviour the other one did. And tell everything without any fear to each other. Unfortunately everything includes lots of murder and child abuse.

[blushingphoenix]

FROM X-MEN #24 (5 JULY 2023)

Cyclops is PURPOSELY dressed in his 1990s look because his desire to save BOTH mutants and humans is how he thought and who he was in the 1990s. He's NOT the revolutionary Cyclops who was with Emma Frost. Jean is PURPOSELY dressed in her 2020s look because she no longer feels the same. Plus she needs to deal with the revelation about her forever connection with the Phoenix from A.X.E. At this point, they need to be apart because they are currently on different trajectories. I'd like to believe Gerry Duggan's reply tweet will come true: Cyclops and Jean are separated for now, but they will come back together.

[farsight-the-char]

Amy Reeder's cover for Jean Grey #2

Fire and Life Incarnate

Now and Forever.

...

"The Dark Phoenix has haunted Jean Grey since it emerged from Jamaica Bay. But what if the Phoenix had chosen…someone else?" it reads. "The love story of Cyclops and Jean Grey is one of the most beloved in Marvel Comics' history. Now witness a legendary creator break their hearts – and their minds. But this is no 'what if.' Jean Grey is not where she is meant to be…and neither is the rest of mutantkind. Stunning secrets will be revealed as Jean Grey lays the groundwork for her next shocking appearance in 'Fall of X'!"

[lime-bloods]

it was inevitable, and now here it is; I saw the movie, took note of its shared thematic heritage with Homestuck, and now I'm making a comparative analysis post involving Across the Spider-Verse. I won't bother covering the nature of canon events themselves, because to be frank that's entry-level comics deconstruction. I want to discuss the specifics of one canon event in particular; the death of Gwen Stacy.

i saw some discussion of Sollux and Spider-Man earlier today the exact details of which are not important, because I came away from the discussion thinking one thing; "but Sollux doesn't really react to Aradia's death the way a Spider-Man might react to Gwen Stacy's death." and the reason for this should be obvious; because Aradia isn't the Gwen Stacy to Sollux' Spider-Man, but rather the other famous dead woman in comics:

Some (probably everyone) may have noticed that many of the trolls are loosely or not so loosely related to various super heroes and villains. Sollux - Cyclops Aradia - Jean Grey (including parallels with her death/resurrection to Phoenix, which augmented her powers)

and because it's impossible to think about the stories of Gwen Stacy and Jean Grey and the canonicity of these stories without deconstructing the function women serve in comics and stories as a whole, this thought reminded me of something else about Sollux, which I've talked about before, but which can be summed up by an extract from Hussie's own commentary:

As a psychic, he's aware of things on a lot of levels, such as future visions of doom and gloom, but he also seems intuitively aware of his place in the narrative as just a marginal cast member in a story containing people much more important than he is. [...] his resigned sense of fatalism is inseparable from his narrative impotence, and the basic truth about him is that he was built to be little more than a serviceable part of a big machine. Just like his ancestor. (Homestuck: Book 4: Act 5 Act 1, p. 96)

knowing that these "future visions of doom and gloom" tie Sollux and Aradia together as twinArmageddons and apocalypseArisen, it seems only natural that we should assume Aradia is in the same boat here. and with that in mind, Porrim's own theory on the Alternian system seems to apply in retrospect; when we think of lowbloods as mere cogs in a machine, we must also be thinking of women as cogs in a machine.

this isn't a theory post so much as as it is a thesis proposal... I've been diving deep into the X-Men as of late but have yet to pluck up the courage to go right back to the beginning and read the Claremont stories that started it all, but if this could be a serious line of inquiry, maybe it's the impetus I need? again, Homestuck and Spiderverse descend from the same long tradition of comics deconstructing comics, and the Watchmen references later in the comic show that Hussie isn't above using the language of his predecessors to do that deconstruction... Claremont is known as an early subversive when it came to the treatment of women in comics, and starting with Aradia it might not be such an absurd assertion to suggest that the so-called "comic book death" phenomenon is one of the parts of comic history that Homestuck attempts to deconstruct (forget not that the primary villain is a monster capable of not just killing, but wiping away the immortal ghost forever, voiding all chances at revival). so with movies like Spiderverse and comics like Hickman's recent X-Men revival putting such a spotlight on death in comic books, maybe now is the right time to shine such a lens on Homestuck?

[depressedhouseplant]

🔞 Just Fucking Write - Day 81 🔞

Prompt: Part 2 of the YoonKook Snow White AU

Tags: Attempted murder, actual murder

Yoongi sighed as he put on the darker foundation. Guys shouldn’t wear makeup because they had to. Guys should wear makeup because they wanted to. It was the only way to hide his freakishly pale skin. He’d gotten full sleeve tattoos that went onto the tops of his hands on both arms as soon as he was old enough. His left arm was an apple tree that was slowly fading from full bloom to dying. His right arm was a phoenix swirling up from ashes. That left only his face & neck that needed to be covered daily. He’d dyed his hair a deep red, but the upkeep was a huge pain in the ass. The black seemed to insist on growing out immediately. His lip color was the hardest to control. He put a nude lipstick on to tone down the red, but it rubbed off after a few hours. Neither of his parents had looked like freaks. He wondered why he did.

“Yoon! Hurry up!” his roommate Taehyung yelled.

“Coming!” he yelled back. He sprayed on the setting spray and met Taehyung in the hall to leave for work.

“Can’t you just accept that you’re stupid pale instead of taking forever in the bathroom like a beauty queen?” Taehyung huffed.

“You’ll never get it,” Yoongi tried not to glare at him. “You don’t have to wait for me, you know. I can get to work on my own.”

“Maybe that’s my quirk,” Taehyung nudged him in the shoulder. Yoongi nudged him back and almost knocked him over.

“You were bitching at me 2 minutes ago. I assume that’s because you wanted to leave?” Yoongi said.

“Being late is a lot less forgivable now that you aren’t fucking the manager,” Taehyung pointed out. Taehyung was referring to Jimin. He and Yoongi had broken up last month. Jimin had claimed he wanted to see other people. Yoongi knew he just couldn’t take how he looked without the makeup. He looked like he belonged in a vampire novel rather than real life. He refused to tattoo his whole body so when his face was clean and his shirt was off, he practically glowed. He wore long pants all year to cover his legs. He could barely look at himself naked. He couldn’t blame Jimin for not being able to handle it.

“Let’s go,” Yoongi sighed.

When they got to work, the place was almost empty except for a guy sitting at the counter. He looked a few years older than Yoongi. He had shaggy dark hair & was wearing old jeans, a flannel shirt, and cowboy boots. Even if the place had been full, he still would’ve stood out. Yoongi clocked in, tied on his apron, and went over to where the guy was sitting.

“Can I get you anything?” he asked. The guy looked up at him almost like he was staring through him.

“Just a refill on the coffee, thanks,” he said. Yoongi dutifully refilled his coffee and walked away.

“He’s been here for at least an hour. All he’s had is coffee,” Jimin said. “It’s like he’s waiting for someone.”

“It’s not like we’re busy,” Taehyung said. The three of them tried not to stare as the guy took a sip of his coffee then checked his phone. He put it away without responding to anything. Jimin went back into the back and Taehyung started rolling silverware to kill time before the dinner crowd came in. Yoongi walked back over to the mystery man.

“Sure I can’t get you anything other than coffee?” he asked. The guy opened his mouth to say something and then the door dinged. Another guy came in who didn’t look too different than the one Yoongi was looking at. It felt like time slowed down as Yoongi watched him pull a gun and aim it at him.

“Get down!” the guy jumped over the counter and pushed Yoongi onto the floor. He landed on top of him and held him down.

“Don’t move,” he pulled a gun out of the back of his jeans and shot in the direction of the initial shooter. Yoongi heard a wet cry and the sound of a body hitting the ground. The guy knelt next to him.

“You okay?” He asked.

“Other than you landing on me, I’m fine,” Yoongi said. “What’s going on?”

“He was trying to kill you,” the man replied.

“What? Why?” Yoongi asked.

“Because your stepfather put a price on your head,” he told him.

“How do you know that?” Yoongi asked.

“Because I was sent to kill you, too,” he replied. Yoongi recoiled and started to crawl away. The guy grabbed his arm and stopped him. “In case you didn’t notice, I just saved your life.”

“How do I know you didn’t do that just to kill me and take the reward for yourself?” Yoongi asked.

“How long did I have to kill you and your friends with no witnesses?” He asked.

“Oh,” Yoongi said when he thought about it.

“You’re welcome by the way,” the guy stood up. “Everybody okay?”

“Yeah,” Yoongi heard the chorus of voices. The guy went over to the door, locked it, and changed the sign over to ‘Closed’.

“Help me move this dead jackass,” he looked over at Taehyung. He tentatively got up and grabbed one of the dead would be assassin’s arms. “You got anything that can break a sternum around here?”

“Maybe, why?” Jimin asked.

“Because I need to cut out his heart,” the guy replied.

“Okay, time out. What the fuck is going on here?” Taehyung asked.

“Yoongi’s stepfather hired me to kill him. As proof of death, I’m supposed to send him your heart,” the guy looked at Yoongi. Yoongi tried to stifle a dry heave.

“Why didn’t you kill me?” Yoongi asked.

“I’m an interrogator. I get answers from people. I don’t murder innocent people to satisfy some megalomaniac’s ego,” he replied.

“Before we cut open some guy’s chest, can I at least know your name?” Yoongi asked.

“Jungkook. Jeon Jungkook,” he said. “Now let’s get this done before he starts to stiffen up.”

[lovesick-level-up]

our new whitelist!

so, we've been meaning to properly update our whitelist for a bit, but it has taken forever. we're going obviously update our rentry, but if you want to read through the list on here, look below!

(it might take us a while to format everything so, just read below for now lmao)

we have... so many favourite characters and ships... how do people have short whitelists. we might need to split our pages into the whitelist, and then another page for our greylist and blacklist lmao.

characters:

genshin:

(mondstadt) diluc, fischl, klee, albedo, kaeya, jean, venti

(liyue) yao yao, yelan, qiqi, xingqiu, ningguang, xiao, xinyan, zhongli, childe

(inazuma) shinobu, itto, ayaka, ayato, yoimiya, kokomi, raiden

(sumeru) alhaitham, kaveh, cyno, dehya, wanderer, layla

danganronpa:

(dr1) ishimaru, celestia, sakura, togami, chihiro, mukuro

(dr2) the whole cast except for teruteru, but especially gundham, sonia + ibuki

(drv3) shuichi, kaede, miu, kokichi, gonta

(other) juzo, kotoko

mha:

(students) all of the characters in 1-a but especially momo, kaminari + bakugo, nejire, tamaki, mirio, shinsou

(heroes) midnight, present mic, eraserhead, thirteen

(villains) dabi, toga, twice, shigaraki

ace attorney:

miles, phoenix, trucy, klavier, franziska, maya

pokemon:

all the eeveelutions, mimikyu, fairy types, penny, larry, grusha

vocaloid/synthv/etc:

hatsune miku, kaito, the kagamine twins, luka, vflower, solaria

the owl house:

the whole cast but especially raine, amity, king + hunter

misc:

(project sekai, ddlc + stardew) all characters

(mh) frankie stein

(milgram) yuno, mikoto, fuuta

(overlord) albedo, shalltear, demiurge

(dbz) vegeta, bulma, android 17, android 18

ships:

genshin:

(mondstadt) kaebedo, jeanlisa, diltorre

(liyue) beiguang, xiaoven, xingyun, tartali

(inazuma) thomato, ayamiya, kokosara

(sumer) kavetham, cynonari, kavethaynonari, candehya

project sekai:

(mmj) shizuairi, minoharu, poly mmj

(n25) mafukana, mizuena, poly n25

(vbs) anhane, akitoya, poly vbs

(wxs) ruikasa, emunene, poly wxs

danganronpa:

(dr1) ishimondo, celesgiri, sakuraoi

(dr2) komahinanami, komahina, bandaid, sondam, soniabuki

(drv3) irumatsu, saiouma

mha:

(students) kiribaku, shinkami, tododeku, tsuchako, momojirou, miritama

(heroes) erasermic, miruyumi

(villains) dabihawks

ace attorney:

wrightworth, franmaya, klapollo

misc:

(overlord) albedo x shalltear

(dbz) bulma x vegeta, goku x vegeta

(toh) lumity, raeda

themes/aesthetics:

aesthetics:

nostalgiacore, glitchcore, gothic, lolita, cyberpunk, vaporwave, webcore, light + dark academia, punk, fantasy (especially piratecore), demoncore, spacecore, flowercore, nature

colours:

dark, bright, brown, black, pink, red, blue, yellow

pride:

any disability, lgbtqia, xenogender, etc pride

especially autism, did, wrist brace users and avpd headcanons for disability ones

especially trans, bisexual and gay headcanons for lgbt ones

themes:

angst, unrequited love, flower meanings, friendships

kinds of edits:

redesign sprite edits, moodboards, icons, reply icons

[edelsterne]

The fabulous @braixen tagged me to list five songs I'm into right now, and for once I'm actually gonna do it rather than let the post stagnate in my likes forever 👀

The Way I See It by Ollie Wride

Silence by Essenger & The Midnight

Dreams by Timecop1983 & Dana Jean Phoenix

SPECIALZ by King Gnu

Bakerloo, Unbecoming by Hamish Hawk

Going to tag @finitevariety, @gaycat, @manakhemia, @nereididae and @sacrulen 🥰