#Thoughts

[perfectfeelings]

The best relationship is when you two can act like lovers and best friends.

Unknown

[thoughtkick]

The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be.

Unknown

[mothprincess]

this world contains swaths of mercy and kindness, whether or not such things feel inside of you right now. the sunlight will not avoid you, animals will treat you as they do instinctively, and things will end/be forgiven/be forgotten

[artbyblastweave]

So In the original X-Men comic where Magneto appeared, before any kind of civil rights metaphor was a glimmer in anyone's eye, he was doing a fairly unnuanced "Bow-before-me" routine, seizing control of nuclear missiles because he was a supervillain and that's what you do. In the original Ultimate X-Men by Mark Millar they reproduced that basic dynamic in the first six-issue arc (although not with nuclear missiles, but something equally high-collateral and terroristic.) He had much more of an express ideology there- a very simplistic 2edgy4me blanket misanthropy about humans, tinged with malthusian ecoterrorist vibes- in a way that harkened back to the cartoonish completely unsympathetic and unnuanced silver-age faire while also gesturing in the direction of a guy with enough of a party line to build a global cult following around. This was deliberately incompatible with an eventual claremontian face-turn but it was something.

Anyway I think a lot of people want Magneto to be a hero or at least an anti-hero these days (understandable, he has a very cool helmet) and so for a while I've been thinking about how and if you could hybridize all these beats. I think it's doable. I think you could build a version of Magneto where him stealing a bunch of nuclear missiles from the government is framed as basically morally neutral at worst, honestly kind of a lateral move, where it's more about not letting toddlers touch the hot stove. Magneto who's magneto less out of identitarian mutant supremacy and more in a way where he's exhausted with the human condition and fully convinced that the only way the children are going to stop stealing each other's lunch money is if someone with the requisite power (I.E. him) makes them stop. (In a way that functionally wraps back around to mutant supremacy, but that's not the explicit party line). A guy who'd intervene in the same way Daredevil or Spider-Man would if he saw someone getting mugged or threatened, who then immediately turns around and bloodlessly steals an entire bank vault to fund his asteroid house, because he's not about to take a moral lecture on the sanctity of property from fucking Goldman-Sachs. A guy who's pissed at Xavier at least in part because if he had globe-spanning psychic powers the world certainly wouldn't still look like this. Do you see my vision.

[thoughtkick]

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Elizabeth David

[thoughtkick]

I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

John Green

[thoughtkick]

The way people treat you is a statement of who they are as a human being. It's not a statement about you.

Unknown

[grntaire]

HELLLLLL YEAH!!!!!!!

[mothprincess]

stop trying to be palatable, stop trying to be palatable, stop

[artbyblastweave]

What, the forest-dwelling entities with imperfect human mimicry who insinuate themselves into groups of hikers? Yeah, we had one of those. Clocked it immediately, of course. Honestly it kind of fell in that so-inept-it's-kind-of-charming range. We just played along until it'd had it's fill of marshmallows and shambled back into the treeline. We might have been violating some kind of killjoy wildlife contact best practices but what the hell, can't plan around every little thing. Why, what happened to you guys

[saintmachina]

Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.

[abreathlessplace]

"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."

[inside-my-gay-mind]

[mercymercurywinters]

I was read in a draft to my wife last night, and she was like “I saw what you did there” on a reference I thought was hilarious but knew would be lost.

It almost made me cry.

It's such an amazing feeling when someone picks up on something in your writing that you 100% intended but didn't think people would notice. Like, YES!! My writing properly conveyed the thing it was supposed to!!! You are so awesome for noticing that!!! I am so awesome for writing that!!! I feel so good about my story now!!!!

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.