#c: 616 carol

[shapeshyft]

« To sin against, and then request virtue in return, is the mark of one washed in a starless sky. »

A Hallian phrase, half-steeped in song and suffering alike. Something she'd been gifted ages ago, beyond Shi'ar Space. The recitation left the mournful woman in a huff, but that huff was her last offered aggression... She seemed too tired now, for her woe.

❝ I - I was called! Someone - something is calling my name in these walls; guiding me through your 'measures', and your 'security'. It brought me here! To - To you... ❞

❝          so  you  understand  how  frustrating  it  is  that       YOU       are  not  cooperating  with       ME       ?          ❞       Jim  asks.       while  he’s  not  buying  the  story,       it  would  be  a  lie  if  he  said  he  wasn’t  uncomfortable  by  the  way  the  other  was  sobbing.       ❝          do  you  expect  me  to  believe  that  you  just     .  .  .       got  lost  and  wandered  inside  a  heavily  guarded  facility,       bypassing  every  security  measure       ?          ❞

[under0-0s]

--- A MULTIVERSAL NARRATIVE--- (not an rp)

Universe Earth 616, Planet Titan, Quantum Realm. Maybe a vision. A dream.

(listen to the music for a better reading experience.)

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The battlefield is chaos. Smoke clogs the air, rising from the wreckage of ships and the torn earth beneath them. Fires rage unchecked, throwing angry shadows across the bodies of the fallen. Explosions ripple in the distance like thunderclaps, each one making the ground tremble. The screams of combatants and the clash of weapons echo all around me. It’s a war zone unlike anything I’ve ever seen—a clash not just of armies but of realities, ideals, and the desperate will to survive.

I push higher into the sky, the HUD in my helmet trying to make sense of the madness below. Red markers flash everywhere, enemy signatures swarming across the terrain. The gauntlet is still out there, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. My suit feeds me updates, but my thoughts are already racing ahead.

Friday’s voice cuts through the noise. “Something just entered the upper atmosphere.”

I barely have time to register the warning when I see it. A streak of light tearing through the sky, fiery and fast, heading straight for us. It looks like a comet—a burning trail of energy blazing across the heavens. For a second, I think we’re done for, that something worse than Thanos has arrived.

The streak shifts course suddenly, slamming into the Sanctuary-2. The explosion is immediate and massive, tearing a hole clean through Thanos’s warship. Fire and debris rain down like falling stars. The ship shudders, engines detonating one by one, until it starts to list in the air.

And then she appears.

Carol Danvers.

She emerges from the wreckage, glowing with an intensity that makes the air itself seem to tremble. Her entire body radiates power, her form cutting through the chaos like a meteor. She doesn’t stop. She rockets back through the ship, tearing apart what’s left of its structure, the glow around her intensifying as she moves.

When she’s finished, the Sanctuary-2 is little more than a crippled husk, its engines sputtering out as it begins to fall from the sky. Carol’s glow fades as she descends to the battlefield, her body visibly sagging from exhaustion, but her focus never wavers.

I follow her movements, watching as she lands in front of Peter Parker. The kid looks dazed, barely holding onto the gauntlet that’s almost as big as he is. He stares up at her, his face a mix of awe and confusion.

“Uh... hey,” he stammers. “I’m Peter Parker.”

Carol doesn’t miss a beat. “Hey, Peter Parker,” she says, her voice steady despite the battle raging around her. “You got something for me?”

Peter hands her the gauntlet, his gaze darting nervously to the swarm of enemies closing in. “I don’t know how you’re gonna get it through all that...”

But before he can finish, reinforcements arrive. Wanda steps forward, her hands glowing with crimson energy. Shuri and Okoye flank her, weapons raised. Gamora, Nebula, Valkyrie, Hope, and Pepper join them, forming an unbreakable line.

“She’s got help,” Okoye says, her voice calm and resolute.

Carol looks at them, a flicker of gratitude crossing her face before she tucks the gauntlet under her arm and takes off. The women of Marvel move as one, carving a path through Thanos’s army with precision and ferocity.

But then I see him.

Thanos.

He’s watching them, tracking their movements with the cold, calculating gaze of a predator. He knows where they’re headed. I follow his line of sight and see it—the van. Scott’s Quantum Tunnel is humming to life, the final piece of our plan.

Thanos doesn’t hesitate. He grabs a spear and starts running, his massive frame cutting through the chaos like a battering ram.

I shout a warning, but it’s too late. The spear flies through the air, hitting its mark with devastating accuracy. The van explodes in a blinding flash, the shockwave knocking Carol and Scott to the ground. The Quantum Tunnel is gone.

The gauntlet lands in the dirt, unprotected.

Everything slows.

Thor, Steve, and I see it at the same time. The gauntlet is just lying there, and we know what’s at stake. Thanos sees it too.

We move.

Thor’s hammer flies past me as Steve charges in with his shield. I follow close behind, my suit straining as I push it to its limits. We collide with Thanos in a desperate attempt to stop him. The clash is brutal. He knocks Thor aside with a swing of his massive arm, kicks Steve down like he’s nothing, and swats me away with a blow that rattles my entire body.

I hit the ground hard, gasping for air, but I can’t stop. I can’t let this happen.

Thanos slips the gauntlet onto his hand, the stones locking into place. Their energy flares, lighting up the battlefield like a second sun.

He raises his hand, triumphant.

“I am... inevitable,” he says, his voice cold and final.

He snaps his fingers.

Nothing happens.

Confusion flickers across his face as he turns the gauntlet over, realizing the stones are gone.

And then he sees me.

I’m on my knees, my body trembling under the weight of what I’ve just done. The nanobots in my suit shift and reform, the Infinity Stones locking into place on my own gauntlet. Their power surges through me, searing every nerve, filling my veins with fire.

It hurts. God, it hurts more than anything I’ve ever felt. But I don’t stop.

I meet his gaze, the determination in my chest burning brighter than the pain.

“And I... am Iron Man,” I say, my voice steady and unyielding.

I snap my fingers.

The power explodes outward, tearing through the battlefield. The army begins to disintegrate, their forms crumbling to ash. Ships vanish from the sky, weapons falling silent. Thanos’s forces are gone in an instant, their atoms scattered to the wind.

Thanos himself stands alone, watching as his empire collapses around him. For a moment, he just stares, his expression unreadable. Then he sits, his massive shoulders slumping as he accepts the inevitable.

His form flickers and fades, the dust of his body carried away by the wind.

It’s over.

But the cost...

I fall back against the roots of a shattered tree, my body broken, my vision swimming. Every breath is a struggle, the weight of the stones taking its toll. I can feel my life slipping away, the energy consuming me from the inside out.

Rhodey is the first to reach me. He kneels beside me, his face etched with grief. “Tony...” he says softly, his voice cracking.

Peter is next. The kid kneels at my side, his hands trembling as he grips mine. “Mr. Stark, we won,” he says, his voice thick with emotion. “You did it... we’re gonna be okay...”

I want to tell him I’m proud of him, that he’s going to do great things, but the words won’t come.

Then Pepper is there. She kneels beside me, her hand on my face, her eyes searching mine.

“Tony,” she says, her voice steady but full of pain. “We’re going to be okay. You can rest now.”

Her words cut through the haze, soothing the fire in my chest. I look at her, and for a moment, everything feels lighter.

The pain fades. The world grows quiet.

And I let go.

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[multiverseofmiracleshq]

the weekly update for 11/28-12/4

I. BIOS

bio released this week: none!

upcoming bios: anna-may parker (18119) / antonia dreykov (mcu) / blackagar boltagon (616) / carmilla black (616) / carol danvers (616)

II. EVENT UPDATES

we’re in the middle of our pleasant hill event and will be having the final ic’s very shortly. we’ll be messaging this week to try and get everyone’s schedule!

III. ACTIVITY

our next activity check is wednesday, february 1st! please see the activity check to see if your roles still need to hit the requirements. roles taken post check are exempt from activity for the month. we’ve also changed our rules up some. please note:

because some are having a hard time hitting activity due to others posting at the last second (we're all guilty of it), we're changing the rule so that 5 posts are due by the activity check and 5 by the end of the month, raising the total number of posts from 5 to 10. 

 secondly, if you were on hiatus and it has ended before the activity check you will be held accountable for activity.  any hiatus ending post mid-month check is exempt. there's a few hiatuses that have ended this month, so make sure you're all set up for activity!

IV. ROLL OUT THE WELCOME MAT

this week we welcomed ava starr (mcu) / drax (mcu) / everett thomas (616) / irene adler (616) / jane foster (mcu) / laura kinney (616) / medusalith amaquelin (616) / phil coulson (aos) / maria hill (616) / raven darkholme (616)

V. MOST WANTED SPOTLIGHT

bennet du paris / charles xavier / kurt wagner -- quiet council

doug ramsey / ororo munro / nathaniel essex -- quiet council pt. 2

eva bell / fabio medina / josh foley -- the five

VI. ODDS & ENDS

make sure your blogs have themes – all blogs are required to have customer themes and not be the /url format. this makes it easier for people to find replies and search. if you need help setting up a theme, please reach out to a mod. we’re happy to help!

ic questionnaires – our ic questionnaire has dropped a while back! although we usually wait for christmas, a recent influx of members has inspired us to release it sooner. we’re asking that members fill out the questionnaire and post them to their blogs. it can be found here!

multiple multiverse roles – as it stands, we are capping it at two versions of the same character being eligible to be taken. that means there can be two wanda maximoffs of different realities, two tony starks, etc. outside of that may be too many of the same role running around. please check the ic page to see if the role you’re interested in is filled.

taking characters – as it stands, we have no character limit. you are are free to take on whatever is sustainable for you. all we ask is that you hit activity each month, and roles who fail to will be unfollowed. please let us know if you need a hiatus. any member on hiatus cannot take a new role until their hiatus is over.

starters –  unless you're a new blog, please do not post a starter unless every other starter in the tag has over ten notes.  one on one starters are definitely welcome and encouraged. the rule applies to all general open starters.

VII. SUMMARY

A. bios - next bio batch announced

B. events - prepping for the event final

C. activity - new activity rules! next activity check / unfollow is 2/1

D. most wanted spotlight - characters we’d like to see

E. odds and ends - themes / questionnaires / starters / oh my!

F. things to look forward to - check out the disney+ guardians holiday special

G.  as always - please like this post so we know you read!

[isitmcucanon]

Earth 616 Singers/Rappers/Bands

green= confirmed to survived the snap

AC/DC- Iron Man, Tony listens to "Back in Black" on a stereo on his way for a weapons demonstration in the Kunar province; Spider-Man: Far From Home, Happy plays "Back in Black" on the jet (which Peter mistakenly says is Led Zeppelin)

Marvin Gaye- Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Sam recommends Marvin Gaye's Running Man soundtrack album to Steve; The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam asks Bucky if he listens to Marvin Gaye

Nirvana- Captain America: The Winter Soldier, included in Steve's list of modern things to check out

Redbone- Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill listens to "Come and Get Your Love"

Celine Dion- Ant-Man, Scott, Luis, Dave, and Kurt start talking about the movie Titanic, which featured a now very famous Celine Dion song

Electric Light Orchestra- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, baby Groot plays "Mr. Blue Sky" in the movie's opening battle

Beyonce- Doctor Strange, Stephen Strange asks Wong if he's ever heard of Beyonce, Wong later listens to "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" while he's working in the library

Kendrick Lamar- Black Panther, "Pray for Me" plays in the casino infiltrated by T'Challa, Nakia, and Okoye

The Weeknd- Black Panther, "Pray for Me" plays in the casino infiltrated by T'Challa, Nakia, and Okoye

Haddaway- Black Panther, Ulysses Klaue sings "What is Love?" while being interrogated

Nine Inch Nails- Captain Marvel, Carol wears a Nine Inch Nails shirt

TLC- Captain Marvel, Nick Fury plays "Waterfalls" in the car on the way to the US Air Force base

Led Zeppelin- Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter Parker says "I love Led Zeppelin" when Happy plays music on the jet; She-Hulk: Attorney at Law ep. 01: "A Normal Amount of Rage", Jen sees a Led Zeppelin shirt when she wakes up

Hayley Kiyoko- Loki ep. 1x03, "Demons" plays in the background of C-20's memory of a restaurant*

Sia- Black Widow, "Cheap Thrills" plays in Natasha's car

Sean Paul- Black Widow, "Cheap Thrills" plays in Natasha's car

Lil Nas X- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Shang-Chi and Katy do karaoke to "Old Town Road"

Aerosmith- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Shang-Chi and Katy do karaoke to "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing"

Rich Brian- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, "Foolish" plays when Katy and Shang-Chi take a joyride through San Francisco; "Lazy Susan" plays in the fighting ring where Katy and Shang-Chi go looking for Xialing

Guapdad 4000- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, "Foolish" plays when Katy and Shang-Chi take a joyride through San Francisco

21 Savage- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, "Lazy Susan" plays in the fighting ring where Katy and Shang-Chi go looking for Xialing

Warren Hue- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, "Foolish" plays when Katy and Shang-Chi take a joyride through San Francisco; "Lazy Susan" plays in the fighting ring where Katy and Shang-Chi go looking for Xialing

Masiwei- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, "Lazy Susan" plays in the fighting ring where Katy and Shang-Chi go looking for Xialing

Adawa- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, "Baba Says" plays in the Macau fighting ring Katy and Shang-Chi visit

Shayiting EL- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, "Baba Says" plays in the Macau fighting ring Katy and Shang-Chi visit

Audrey Nuna- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, "Clocked Out!" plays in the underground fighting ring where Katy and Shang-Chi go looking for Xialing

NIKI- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, "Clocked Out!" plays in the underground fighting ring where Katy and Shang-Chi go looking for Xialing

The Eagles- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Shang-Chi, Katy, and Wong do karaoke to "Hotel California" (post credits scene)

Lizzo- Eternals, Sersi's ringtone is "Juice"

Wham!- Moon Knight ep. 01: "The Goldfish Problem", the song playing in the cupcake truck that Steven wakes up in is "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"

Mary J. Blige- Thor: Love and Thunder, Valkyrie plays "Family Affairs" on her portable speaker

Megan Thee Stallion- She-Hulk: Attorney at Law ep. 03: "The People vs. Emil Blonsky", Jen takes on a case involving Megan Thee Stallion

HAIM- She-Hulk: Attorney at Law ep. 07: "The Retreat", Jen plays "FUBT" on her phone while she gets ready in the morning

Rihanna- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Shuri mentions Okoye's foundation, Fenty 440, referring to a foundation released by Fenty Beauty, Rihanna's cosmetics brand

Radiohead- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Rocket listens to "Creep"

*may not belong to Earth 616 exactly because...timeline reasons, but definitely canon to the Sacred Timeline and the greater MCU till I figure out how to say it differently

[ultimate-miles]

MCU Miles Morales really has no prospects in that universe as a character if we're being honest. At best he'll just have a role similar to Sam Wilson circa Winter Soldier to Endgame. A helper character designed to show undying loyalty to whatever (white) main character he's paired up with.

At worse, Marvel will continue to create narratives wherein the shadow of Peter Parker (and the decades of his storylines) will be forever cast over him like they've done in the Ultimate Universe to the 616 Universe, and even Spider-Verse.

(How many times has Miles had to get the blessing of Peter Parker to be Spider-Man? Has he done it lately?)

Marvel Studios had this perfect opportunity to introduce a version of Miles outside the context of Peter Parker. A Miles Morales Spider-Man akin to Miguel O'Hara (who they've also avoided like the plague), and they fell back on that "No, Peter 1st, b/c he was first".

They ultimately proved "who came first" didn't matter with Captain Marvel when they chose Carol Danvers over Monica Rambeau (a character they turned into a helper character). Miles can't even have a crossover movie overpopulated with different versions of Peter Parker without MCU crimping off of that.

Miles operates similar to Black Panther for the MCU and Marvel in general. A resource for whenever they wanna 'spice up' whatever version of Peter Parker they come up with, and way for Marvel to deflect criticism whenever they're taken to task for their anti-Blackness.

[loraneldin]

I posted 363 times in 2021

7 posts created (2%)

356 posts reblogged (98%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 50.9 posts.

I added 637 tags in 2021

#fanart - 212 posts

#marvel - 104 posts

#mcu - 96 posts

#stevetony - 48 posts

#lovely people - 46 posts

#marvel 616 - 35 posts

#marvel 1610 - 28 posts

#venom - 27 posts

#winterfalcon - 23 posts

#genshin impact - 18 posts

Longest Tag: 118 characters

#for a moment i had no idea what this was referring to because i was in that happy spot where i forgot endgame happened

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Fic Writer Interview Meme

Thanks forthe tag, @oluka ❤

name: Loran_Arameri (AO3), loraneldin (tumblr), and just Loran anywhere else.

fandoms: Marvel in many forms, mostly the comics and MCU with a very deep love for the Ultimates. Also The Magicians (more the books than the show), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (where I mostly watch from the sidelines), and lately Genshin Impact.

two-shot: I would say I have only one I would really count as such which is Latent Phallacy (MCU, Stuckony). (It was originally a one-shot but this was the one time were people asking for a second chapter actually inspired something)

most popular fics: That is Feeling Good Was Easy (MCU, Bucky/Loki/Tony) by far. (I think it has a lot to that it updated twice a week for three months...)

actual worst part of writing: The one where either I can't even remember why I started the thing in the first place or where I remember why the story idea was good but suddenly forgot how to write. Either of these happens several times a month...

how you choose your titles: I have started to like picking titles more, but also am less obsessed with finding the perfect one now. I try to play around a bit with what the story is about and see if that can be phrased interestingly. Also, song titles XD

do you outline: Yes, no, maybe. A method that works for outlining for me is something I have tried to hunt down for several years now. I usually have a lot of notes all over the place (notebook, random pieces of paper, my notes app, discord chats, my writing program...) and then go from there. Only definite rule after a bad experience: I don't start to write something anymore if I don't know how it ends. That way lies pain.

ideas you probably won’t get around to, but wouldn’t it be nice: My idea folder is plentiful, but the ones that are the furthest away but I still think about them a lot MCU, Bucky/Loki/Tony: The Wintersoldier and Loki are the villains that the Avengers just can't beat for good. One day they kidnap Tony and he finds out that a) they are a couple, b) the Wintersoldier is Bucky Barnes, and c) who's the villain depends which side you're on. 616, Steve/Tony: The Headmen have been weirdly active lately, and Steve really needs to get to bottom of that, especially since they have been targeting Mr. Stark. But somehow Iron Man seems weirdly unworried about his boss being in danger. Steve starts to believe it might be because there is more between his best friend and the Avenger's benefactor than they tell them.

callouts @ me: You need to remember that you write for fun. And you know that your motivation is fickle, so don't try to force it with a crowbar.

best writing traits: Ooof. I think I have great ideas for smut XD I also can tell an intriguing story if I find it first.

tangential opinion: It is okay to abandon things that are not producing joy anymore.

tagging: @mizzy2k, @capnstars, @menatiera, @serinah80, @cpt-winniethepooh, @athletiger, and anyone else who sees this and wants to.

4 notes • Posted 2021-07-25 07:22:47 GMT

#4

Cut Jan out of one panel, and where better to put her than in Carol’s bedroom?

(Comic manip, Ultimates)

4 notes • Posted 2021-02-18 21:22:35 GMT

#3

Touch Points

A Rhodey/Tony soulmate AU (3.8 k, mature)

Jim has plans for his life, and his soulmate is not part of them. Luckily, there is the possibility to get a cover-up tattoo over your soulmark. When he and Tony meet, this is the first but not the last thing they share.

Their lives lead them away from each other, but they never leave each other behind.

(link in the reblog)

13 notes • Posted 2021-10-11 18:32:16 GMT

#2

THE ULTS BOOK CLUB WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Ultimates book club has been taking a break, and we are using the opportunity to see how we can give more people the opportunity to join.

WHAT IS ULTS BOOK CLUB?

The questionnaire explains it all, but in summary, Ults Book Club is a weekly live reading group created by the Ultimates discord server to help guide people through the tricky task of reading comics and do so with friends!

If you have attended Club before, please also fill out the form, as we want to make sure we have the needs of starters as well covered as those of our veterans.

FILL OUT THE QUESTIONAIRE HERE

Want to ask some questions or yell about our favourites? Jump into our server Here!

14 notes • Posted 2021-05-21 19:54:26 GMT

#1

Civil War as told by Tony’s gauntlet

A comic edit for the SteveTony Games, square “Civil War” and challenge “Uncharted Waters” (Telling a story via a series of edits without text)

41 notes • Posted 2021-06-30 15:03:28 GMT

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[applejacks1552]

PART 2:

What If?

Readers have long speculated, if Rogue's powers didn't stand in the way, what would she really decide about having children? One only need look at alternative universes and timelines for potential answers.

Probably my favorite example is found in Chris Claremont’s X-Men: The End (2006) which seemed to extrapolate from where X-Treme X-Men left off. In this theoretical future, Gambit and Rogue are married, Rogue has control of her powers, and they have two children, Olivier and Rebecca. We get a brief glimpse of Rogue as a mother and the lengths she's willing to go to save her children when they are taken captive by Sinister.

For another potential outcome of this same pairing based off the more recent timeline, we can thank Kelly Thompson for Captain Marvel: The End (2020) where Carol Danvers returns to a decimated Earth and meets the children of many of Earth’s heroes, including Irene LeBeau, daughter of her old nemesis Rogue and partner Gambit. Irene has taken on the mantle of Rogue, has her mother's white streak and Gambit’s eyes. Frankly, I don't want to live in a world where this character might never exist!

Even when paired with other partners, we see that Rogue has a desire for her own family.

During the Age of Apocalypse, when Rogue ends up with a heroic version of Magneto who can touch her, despite their difficult existence and bleak future Rogue chooses to have a child with him whom they name Charles. Even though Rogue cannot touch his skin and has limited time with him, she dotes on him and loves him above all else.

There is even an alternate reality where the heroes never left Battleworld after Secret Wars in What If? #14 (1998) and Rogue, seemingly possessed by the Carol Danvers persona, marries Steve Rogers. She eventually gives birth to daughter Sarah Rogers, aka Crusader.

Going Forward

So where does this leave us in the 616?

There's no question that Rogue's powers, even under control, could cause difficulties with conception and/or pregnancy. This would be an interesting facet to explore and one we've never seen touched upon in comics. But if the character suddenly now has no interest in having a child, it's a story we likely won't get to see unfold. This new status quo is particularly disappointing considering the drastic change from her earlier appearances and how long awaited her marriage to Gambit had been, a character who would make a great parent as well.

But with the popularity of parenthood falling off drastically in the modern era and many individuals choosing child-free lifestyles, it may well be that there is little demand for a story like this to be explored, especially with an A-lister X-Woman such as Rogue.

Indeed, typically superhero mothers get sidelined, are noncombatants or are C list characters to begin with, so they won't be missed if they were to dissapear from panel for a while. In X-books think Madelyn Pryor, Meggan, Layla Miller, Smasher, and Rayne Sinclair. Jubilee might be the only mutant mother to get significant panel time with her child in recent years, but again fits the C list and noncombatant mold overall. In many cases, elaborate means like time travel, AUs, adoptions, clones, time hops, and supernatural events are used to avoid showing pregnancy or to age up inconvenient babies because writers don't think anyone wants these stories. Looking at you Jean Grey and Cable.

As I said in my previous Gambit discussion, I remain hopeful that someday we'll get 616 stories about some mischievous LeBeau children and see Rogue as a mother for more than just an isolated panel in an AU. The winds can always change direction in comics when a new writer comes along, as they always do. Even if it might take 30 years.

In the meantime, if you want to see some unblinking looks at comic book mothers who are getting it done, I'd look outside the Merry Mutants and check out: Jessica Drew in Spiderwoman by Dennis Hopeless, Big Barda in Tom King's Mr. Miracle, Jessica Jones in Alias by Brian Michael Bendis or written recently by Kelly Thompson and Alana from Saga by Brian K. Vaughn. They all show how motherhood can work for a comic character to enrich her story without removing her from the action or balking away from the realities of parenting.

Thanks for reading!

[doctorofmagic]

@nhydrxl​ said:

Hey that's fine! Thank you for saying this clearly and before things progress. Personally I've always understood your blog as mainly comic centric so at least I thought that was clear. I won't lie and say it wasn't equally fun to hear you talk about the mcu, but that's just a fraction of marvel. I hope you find normality through the negative thoughts coming up recently. I for once am excited to see where that whole Carol/Stephen thing goes kddkk cheers! Sending you hugs

@lang-vers003 (can’t tag, sorry) said:

I’m an mcu fan who follows this blog to learn more about Stephen in the comics. It’s a shame you’re closing off mcu discussion, but I completely understand and respect that decision. (The mcu be mad problematic anyway.) Your blog is so fun and educational and I look forward to your posts, regardless of the universe being discussed. Sending my best wishes 💛

@i-sudoku ​ said:

Hugs. You do you. I love your insight for comic Stephen

@farfetchedparanoia (cant tag, sorry) said:

Absolutely understandable. Do what you have to do. ❤️❤️❤️

Aw, you guys are so sweet. Thank you so much, I never get tired of praising how important your constant support is 🥺 🥺 🥺 💜 💜 💜

I wish you all a great day, lots of hugs and best regards!

EDIT

@chalabrun​ said:

Personally, I'm glad you've made this decision. My growing cynicism towards the MCU aside (outside of Black Panther & recent Thor & GotG), it's really hard to find places that focus on comics!Marvel these days, let alone with a focus on Stephen. I really wish you the best, and I can't wait to see more content from here. c: 

Sorry I took this long to reply, I only saw your comment today x.x

I’m so glad you support my decision! When I first decided to create this blog, I thought: “there are tons of MCU blogs out there, perhaps I could express what I feel about 616-Stephen and help people get into comics. Because I didn’t have any help back in my days and I know it’s hard at first. But Stephen deserves a chance, he’s such a great character!!”

And here we are.

I’ll gladly keep creating content. Thank you so much for supporting me!

[popculturebuffet]

Analysis of X: Excalibur: The Sword is Drawn

In honor of britan’s premire superhero team returning today, we take a look back at the original team. Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler must team up with a drunkard magical british superman and his chipper shapeshifting sorta girlfriend to save their old teammate from an alternate dystopian future with the power of a god from both a squad of skin stealing wolves sicced on her by a sinsiter reality show producer from another dimension and a group of intergalactic weirdo bounty hunters after her due to an entirely separate omniversal dictator who wants to bang british superman. Somehow, Grant Morrison didn’t write this. I would like to, if I may, take you on a strange journey after the cut. 

Excalibur has always been the odd mutant out of the X-Men franchise.And that’s in part because the bulk of it’s mythos and characters come not from the deep wells of the X-Men comics of the time, but from another character Chris Claremont had a huge hand in: Captain Britain

Created shortly after Claremont got his start on the All-New All-Diffrent X-Men, redefining the X-Men forever and making them into the sales juggernaut they were for the 80′s and early to mid-90′s and are again today at long last, Captain Britan was Brian Braddock, a scientist who, while escaping a hired goon who torched his workplace, crashed his motorbike. He was saved by, of all things, Merlin... yes exactly the one your thinking of.... and his daughter and omniveral guardian Roma. They choose Brian to be their champion choosing either the staff of right or the sword of might and, not really being a fighter, Brian chose the staff and a hero was born. 

Cap was created for the UK Divison of Marvel and while Claremont did a sizeable amount of work on the character, including introducing Brian’s sister and future X-Man and as of this week Captain Britan herself Betsy Braddock,  it was two other men who made most of his mythos and the stuff that would end up being the backbone of Excalibur: Alan Davis, an absolutely monsterous talent of an artist and all around nice guy and... your going to want to sit down if you don’t know this I sure as hell was surprised, Alan Fucking Moore... and if that’s not his actual middle name it should be. Yes he of long beards, genere definting runs and yelling at the young people to get off his lawn and DC to stop hurting his baby Watchmen, THAT Alan Moore worked for marvel breifly. This was his only work with them shockingly. Not so shockingly he and Davis redefined the character, created most of the concepts that would be carried over to Excalibur, and gave the character a spiffy new costume seen above, one so good it’s stuck even into the modern era. Moore, and some other artists in addition to Davis, crafted a long epic about Cap going up against Mad Jim Jaspers, a reality warping mutant who was as insane as his name suggested and introduced many things that would become the backbone of the character, as well as establishing Moore’s habit of taking a less than sucessful B-List hero and utterly turning him on his head. Their also the ones who dubbed Marvel’s main universe 616, a fun fact I honestly had forgotten.  But of course after Moore left Cap fell by the wayside, making a cameo or too in other marvel books in the US while Betsy made her way to the X-Men just when they needed new blood most. More on that in a bit. But he wouldn’t stay on the sidelines for long. See Chris Claremont has a habit of taking characters he created and using them later if they’d been forgotten somehow or put off to the wayside. Mystique, one of the x-men’s most iconic enemies... was a Ms.Marvel (The carol danvers one before she got the rank up), enemy. Sabertooth? An old iron fist villian he’d created and taken a shine to. Arcade was inveted for a team up of Spider-Man and Captain Britan before primarily becoming an X-Men villian for most of his life. And of course Betsy was a a supporting character who became one of the x-men’s most iconic members through a weird mind swap with a japanese woman before recently getting her old body back. Claremont dosen’t like leaving his charcters to twist in the wind and thus brought most of them into the x-men mythos. Even Spider-Woman, depowered at the time, ended up as a major Wolverine supporting character. One of Claremont’s strengths as a writer to me is that he never truly forgot anything he created or worked on, and the X-Men benefited greatly from it.  So while it probably surprised american readers who only thought of Captain Britain as a c-list hero who teamed up with Spider-Man and Captain America, it’s no surprise in hindsight that for his second X-Men ongoing, having also made a TON of mini series, he choose to bring Brian to the big time. While I can’t find much background on Excalibur, I conjecture that Chris wanted to go a bit lighter. 

The X-Men were in a DARK place at the time. I mean the X-Men were never all sunshine and roses but most of the humor of the book and lighter moments were gone at the time thanks to the Mutant Massacre, an event where the Morlocks, a group of disfigured homeless mutants who felt at odds with society and thus lived in the tunnels under New York, were slaughtered by professional hitsquad the Mauraders who killed all but a handful of them and during the fight with the X-men took 3 of them out of commission:  Nightcrawler had fallen into a coma after overtaking his already crippled teleportation powers defeating one of the mauraders, Kitty Pryde slowly started to disappear, unable to phase back to solid after taking an electric spear for Rouge, and Colossus was heavily wounded in ways I forgot and since he rejoined the X-Men, aren’t really relevant here anyway. The X-Men were up against the wall against a barrage of ruthless opponents, working with longtime foe  magneto since Xavier got trapped in space, as you do, and were not in a really happy place. So it feels like, even if the angst was still present because Claremont would go into withdrawl if there wasn’t some form of angst to work off, Excalibur was created as a way for him to do something different in the X-Mold and lighter so he could go as dark as he needed to. So by injuring Kitty and Kurt, he took them off the board and had a starting point for the team, and by adding Captain Britan and his girlfriend Meggan, a shapeshifting  empath brought back one of his own creations and brought him into the american side of Marvel, and gave him an almost complete team. It also had the bonus of likely enticing Alan Davis, who in one of the few background things I could find about this book, didn’t really want to work on an established title like X-Men where there were expectations how it was supposed to look etc. But they were still about one member short of a team... but thankfully chris claremont had squared away a spare x-man for just such an occasion. 

Enter. Phoenix, aka Rachel Summers. The daughter of Jean Grey and Scott Summers from the Days of Future Past timeline, Rachel ended up in our timeline, bonded to the Phoenix Force like her mom, and struggling with the power, eventually running away after attempting to kill Selene, an evil sorceress who hunted her in an attempt to drain her power. She fled, not sure wether she should rejoin her team or not, and was instead lured into joining Mojo on the promise of a new start. Mojo.. is this guy. 

Strap yourselves in for this one: Mojo is the dictator of another dimension that runs off TV, essentially crafting shows for the media hungry populous and kidnapping the X-Men every so often to show up on his programs, to the point he once swapped Psylocke’s natural eyes out with robot camera eyes that looked like the normal eyes so he could record the X-Men’s adventures as it happened, which itself isn’t a bad concept. He didn’t show up to Rachel in person of course, partly because he’s too lazy and partly because he looks like what happens when lightning strikes a pile of twinkies and exposed wiring and somehow brings them to life.  She was sent here for the same reason as Kurt and Kitty: to keep her off the board and set up her return here. It’s one of Claremont’s strengths to me: While he ocasionally forgets a subplot or dosen’t realize how wonky one is, more often than not he knows where the story is going and has a plan for it, and thus set up Excalibur a year in advance in the pages of Mutant Massacre. 

Speaking of setup there’s one final thing to cover before we begin, the second X-Men crossover event and the one that directly leads into this: Fall of The Mutants, aka one of the worst days in the life of one Kitty Pryde. First her best friend and human google translate Doug Ramsey died while on a misson with the new mutants, sacrificing himself to save the life of his girlfriend Wolfsbane. 

As if someone was challenging god to make her days worth, at the same time as this tragedy the X-Men, at the time made up of Storm, Wolverine, Psylocke, Rouge, Havok, Dazzler, Longshot and with tag along Madeline Piror whose story is too much to get into here, were locked in a battle with force of chaos and actual demon Nemisis, a being summoned by their sorta ally Forge by accident. Forge can also build any device he pleases but since every fifth x-men character has magic ruin their life, someone had to take the bullet caked with demon blood. At any rate the only way to stop him.. 9 souls were part of the ritual that brought Nemisis in, 9 souls were needed for the ritual to seal him up. And the X-Men, being true heroes determined to do whatever it took, gladly offered up their lives to defeat the demon and save the world. As the world looked on, the X-Men died, for once not feared and hated, but honored and mourned as heroes. Of course this being a comic book Forge’s method of saving the world was turning the X-Men into pure soul energy and throwing them at the demon but that somehow makes it more epic. And of course, it’s no suprise one of their dearest friends was watching from Muir Island, which was serving as a recovery ward for the surviviors of the massacre and was run by longtime X-Men Ally and lynchpin of Hickman’s run Moira Mactaggert

Thankfully, Kitty got one tiny sliver of sunshine on the worst day of her life: Kurt woke up from his coma... just in time to tell him the only family he’d ever known is dead. And that’s where we pick up, with our two heroes trying to figure out what to do now they’ve lost everything. But before we FINALLY get started, this bit was way longer than I meant it to be, your probably curious how long the X-Men stayed dead as well.. this is comics and they were the hottest team int he world. This wasn’t going to stick even if Claremont was serious about ending the series. And the answer, and i’m not making this up I counted, is two pages. Yup, TWO PAGES. Not kidding. Ironically enough Roma, the omniversal goddess daughter of merlin I mentioned, got wrapped up in all this and, moved by the X-Men’s bravery, gave them the chance to come back and start over however they like, and the X-Men choose to be unable to be picked up on tape and let the world think they were dead so they could strike back at their mounting enemies. Granted I feel that while the “play dead and take out our worse foes while we have the advantage” is a good part of it, not telling the new mutants or kitty and kurt is not only cruel, but just paints a target on a bunch of teenagers backs. Sure teenagers who’ve faced worse but still. But I digress, that’s a rant for when I cover Fall of the Mutants at some point and this exposition has taken far longer than I wanted it to. And so here we are at the one shot that would forge a team and finally, we can get into it:  The cover, way up there is decent. It shows a nice right melee between Excalibur, the Warwolves and the Technet, though it makes it look like Gatecrasher is part of the team when she is in fact one of the issue’s main antagonist and is overall a bit weirdly composed. It doesn't help the proper Excalibur #1 has one of the best x-team covers of all time. 

As you can see the comparison dosen’t help the far messier above cover. It’s just average in comparison to the creative and funny covers Davis would provide throughout both runs and the majestic one above.  WE open on Kitty Pryde, understandably, having a nightmare, being dragged by a crew of makeup people just off screen and smack into

Oh good marvel’s already working on the new X-Men movie. Thank god I thought they really WERE going to take 5 years to do it. Naturally she is curious why their in hollywood but dosen’t suspect fowl play because well... to put it in a personal persepctive if I saw my grandpa I lost a few years ago or my dog I lost in high school that was the same age as me, alive healthy and back, i’d be confused as hell but mostly? I’d just be relived and hope beyond hope it was real, as poor Kitty is diong. Unfortunatley the illusion something isn’t up lasts all about a panel before this happens. 

First of all: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!. Second. as AHHHHHH! as it is.. it could’ve been worse. 

It soon becomes clear something is up as Kitty wails around confused, wondering why Rouge’s powers don’t work and why the X-Men are acting as if nothing is real before action is called and they run off.. it’s then Kitty finally encounters a freindly face. 

It's now from context clear just what the fuck is going on: this isn't JUST a dream: Rachel has somehow dragged Kitty into Mojoworld through her dreams, warning her, as seen above that with the X-Men gone, their image can be twisted and exploited by those wanting to use it for their own image. This warning is cut short when Fake Xavier starts shouting and soon we get this lovely image.

As we can see Rachel deeply regrets running but Mojo won't let her go.. fortunatley Kitty phases the chains and lets Rachel go, with Rachel promising to see kitty again soon as she flees.. unfortunatley Kitty's pissed off Mojo's actors...

Again, it could’ve been worse. 

Kitty wakes up and naturally angsts a bit over that fucked up dream she had and then sees a phoenix in the sky, wondering what could it mean and what could the dream mean. 

A lot to unpack here. First off... Perverso...

Second, my heart breaks at that last line.. and it’s true. Kitty likely feels, like a lot of people going through grief, that  maybe they could’ve done something. Maybe if she was there she could’ve stopped their deaths and saved the day or failing that, she could’ve gone with them. So she wouldn’t have to feel awful about being here while they aren’t, so she wouldn’t feel the unbearable weight of being one of the last X-Men. But the sad truth is, she wouldn’t of made any diffrence. None of them would’ve taken the last slot and would’ve given it instead to their tagalong Madeline Prior so she could see her family again. They died selfilesly, and nothing she could’ve done would’ve stopped them. 

As seen above Kitty tries to take solace in petting her dragon Lockheed. Yes Kitty has a dragon for those who didn’t know about him or were only familiar with her from the cartoons.. though why X-Men Evolution never thought to introduce Lockheed is beyond me. He’s a space dragon that stowed away when the X-Men returned from well.. space, and saved Kitty’s life, taking up residence as her pet. He was later revealed to be far more sapient than he seems, but still hangs around Kitty because it’s an effed up world, but it’s a two player game.  But as demonstrated Kitty’s powers have inverted. While she has gotten better, as I talked about in my Mauraders #1 review she was fading from existance shortly after the massacre, her intangiable state is now her natural one. She has to concenrate to turn solid. So in addition to having lost just about everything, her powers are broken too. Kitty then sees a picture of her shortly after she joined the X-Men before having a good cry about how most of the people in the picture are dead and professor xavier got shot up into space. Thankfully he dosen’t have to watch cheesy movies.. unless it’s Cho’d turn to pick the movie. For some reason it’s ALWAYS Cool as Ice. no one knows why. 

Meanwhile, in the seas of mood whiplash, we meet Meggan. Meggan, like most of the cast, is a mutant, something I was unaware of until now even though the I just thought she was some sort of magical creature, but no, she’s a mutant and the naration outright calls her one. I’m just stupid or thought they just classifed her wrong I guess. Unlike most mutants, who manifest powers at puberty, she manifested hers at birth. Megan is an empathic shapeshifter, basically meaning that she shifts based on those around her’s perception of her. And sadly her upbringing was not a happy one as, since she was born with fur, her parents saw her as a monster and left her in a caravan alone, with the rest of her romani community making up rumors about her.. and due to being unable to control her powers shape shifted into the monster they thought she was. She was raised on televisoin and thus has a rather naive sense of the outside world, and later bonded with brian after he took her in, her home having been destroyed due to lots of stuff I don’t have time to go into, and she later took up her current default form after realizing she was a shapeshifter in the first place.  But yes our bubbly shapeshifter is swimming with the dolphins and due to her emphatic ablites, she can commuincate with them learns how to swim like them and, thanks to her ablities, has shifted to do so the best. She’s lost track of time though and heads home to the lighthouse she and Brian live in. She returns home to find the place ransacked, and since she didn’t feed her mogwii after midnight.. this time, she searches for the cause.. and the cause turns out to be similar to the reason Kitty is crying her eyes out miles away in scotland. 

When Kitty and Kurt lost their surrogate family, Brian lost his too. As stated far above Betsy was his sister, and they were very close from the looks of it, and the loss of her naturally shattered the man. Meggan tries to comfort him but.. it goes  about as well as you’d expect, especially since Brian has been heavily drinking on top of his grief. 

This scene.. is really damn sad but really well written. Brian, as I joked in the teaser, has the powers of superman basically minus the add ons like heat vision and frost breath.. yet he couldn't save Betsy. But as Meggan accuratley puts things, he couldn’t of known she was in danger and she was a grown woman. As I said, she choose to sacrifice herself, and as I didn’t fill in, the spell only works with WILLING participants. All that would’ve changed had he gone is Madelyne Prior would be alive and not him. And it’s things like this that also made me take such umbrage with the X-Men faking their deaths: their causing, real genuine greif to people... while I joked mildly about the telpathy thing, i’m not sure betsy’s range, I AM sure that being a telepath one of the simpliest trick is masking your presence. It’d take a lot of effort and be mildly invasive, but keeping yourself hidden to tell your brother goodbye is hardly more morally grey than faking your death and leaving him in a drunken stupor. This is especailly bad once they get a teleporter shortly into their australian stay, as Gateway could SEND HER to him, with no risk of detection, and have her explain it in person with storm in tow. Instead they hurt their friends and loved ones for a plan that ultimatley didn’t quite pan out. 

Meggan herself mopes for a second, understandable as Betsy was her friend too and she's hurt she's gone and blames herself.. before snapping out of it, realizing that Brian is just lashing out and needs help, but unable to face him like he is, she leaves him a pictoral note, since she's functionally illiterate, and goes to get advice from Kitty and Kurt, wanting to help him open up the way he helped her do the same. Meanwhile...

Jesus christ this comic loves abrupt tonal shifts.. but yeah Kurt is excercising, but then reflexively teleports after he takes a hit. As  I mentioned earlier Kurt’s teleporting is strained, having gotten injured in a battle with Nimrod, who really hickman you couldn’t of come up with either a better name or a reason he’s called that when you brought him back in House and Powers?, and as a result comaed himself defeating one of the mauraders. And while the coma thing cleared up nicely his powers are still a fraction of what they once were and one teleport while injured no less leaves him too shaky to continue and reaching for the saftey panel. Thankfully Kitty phases through it while checking up on him, having been told through the island’s backup alarms that he was doing this borderline suicidal shenanigan. Kitty naturally lays into him over it. 

Kitty's rage is entirely warranted: She just lost her surrogate family and her best friend. Things with her parents are strained. She dosen't want to loose the only family she really has left because he feels the same things she feels and is nearly killing himself to try and deal with it. Kurt apologizes, admitting the painful part of it: that he was HAPPY when he woke up from his coma, overjoyed to finally be alive again, to live again.. only to find out his family is dead from one of his closest friends. And with this i'm reminded of Steven Universe.. just go with me. There Pearl mourned for a good decade about loosing Rose because well.. she was everything she had. She , literally and metaphorically, freed her, she was her world.. and Rose moved on to someone else romantically and then decided to up and leave the mortal coil. Her entire world left her and she had no idea to cope or as she put it in song, "Who am I now in this world without her?" That's what our heroes are dealing with: for Kitty and Kurt the X-Men were their world.. not in such a co-dependent way as rose but for Kurt, it was his family: through them he went from a monster in the world's eyes, hiding from it and tired of having to do so, to a bold hero who refused to hide who he was anymore and who had family and a purpose. For young Kitty, she found parental figures in a time when her actual parents, particularly her dad, were going through a messy divorce, found strength she never knew to the point she EARNED her right to stay on the X-Men after Xavier started a junior class and wanted her to go there, and really came of age. The X-Men made them who they are today and without them.. just who are they? But before they can dive into that themselves our heroes find out something disturbing: they had the same exact dream about rachel, complete with helping her escape. Maybe they really did or maybe it was just a warning, the conculsion our heroes reach, and while Kitty does resolve to do something about it, determining that just because their injured dosen’t mean they’ve stopped being X-Men, but before they can deal with this they get a guest. 

No but she’s just as weird and abrubt:

This is Gatecrasher,  leader of the The Technet, a group of interdimensional mercenaries and bounty hunters. She wants to speak with the lady of the house but that’s not really and option as she’s kinda on a schedule. You know people to grab, drinks to be drunks, sapient racoons to bone.. that sorta thing.. and the last one isn’t something I pulled out of nowhere the recent Rocket Racoon solo not only brought in the technet but had her fancy the guy. Guess it’s the fuzzy, as Kurt himself will tell you chicks dig the fuzzy. It’s why he’s Krakoa’s orgy meister. Before Kitty and Kurt can find out who Gatecrasher is and why she’s here, Meggan soars in.. and hisses at Gatecrasher. See The good captain and the Technet have a history: they’ve been both enemies and reluctant allies, so naturally Meggan is worried their here for Brian. But this time they have no buisness with the good Captain... and when asked by kitty why she’s here Gatecrasher uses a telecom crystal, some sort of magic hologram recording, to explain herself:

Saturnyne is , as she says an omniversal majestrix. This basically means she runs the day to day operations of the Captain Britan Corps, basically the Captain Britians for every reality, helps give underdeveloped words nudges toward advancment and general multiversal maintince stuff. Sorta like a combination of Omnitraxus and Hekapoo from star vs the forces of evil but without being a racist asshole. I mean she’s still an asshole, just not a racist one. She and Brian have a romantic history. As you can also see each of the team is having a different reaction to her: Kurt is popping a boner just off screen, maybe he can invite her to Krakoa orgy night hmm?, Meggan is pissed because she and Brian were a thing once, and Kitty just found out she likes ladies AND she likes guy. What i’m saying is it dosen’t take an intellectual to get that she’s bisexual. And yes I know she turned down Karma off screen later on but that was A) the result of another writer changing things after the previous writer on both character, Chris Claremont himself, apparently had sizeable ship tease for them. and B) if her ex boyfriend iceman can be retconned to have been a heavily closeted until very recently gay man this whole time, Kitty can also have been sticking to the closet or just simply have not explored that side if we want. Anyways it turns out there here for rachel at Saturnyne’s orders, because she’s apparently a theat to the multiverse.. not too much of a stretch when in one reality her mom going dark phoenix destroyed damn near everything and even here the phoenix force has snuffed out entire galaxies. She’s apparently on her way back to earth, and it’s the Technet’s job to catch her. As for the specifics.. Gatecrasher has no idea. And frankly when an omniversal goddess asks you go fetch someone for what I assume is a yak that has a comparentment in it’s back with millions of dollars stashed inside,  you don’t really care. Kitty being Kitty, refuses to help her find their friend and until she knows more, she’s willing to fight her on it. Unfortunatley, as you can probably tell, Gatecrasher wasn’t dumb enough to go after a being that can eat an entire solar system alone. 

It's here we meet the Technet proper and a fight between two former teammates, a shapeshifter they only just now met and who only Kurt recognized, and a team of weird as shit but highly trained bounty hunters goes about as well as the classic matchup of Wolverine vs "Anyone trying to get between him and his beer stash". Kitty is quickly taken out by the yellow girl with green hair, scatterbrain, whose power is.. just that: anyone she touches has their brain go all spacey and weird and kitty knocks herself out falling over when Scatter shuts her thinky parts off. And as for Meggan..

This is Bodybag. And his power is exactly what it looks like: he gulps people up and then keeps them in his sack on the back. It’s weird but i’ts my kind of creative weird and it makes sense for a team of bounty hunters to have a member to store their quarrry. Kurt wisely BAMF’s the fuck out of there, but Gatecrasher decides not to persue him: He’s not their target, and if he wants his friends he’ll have to come back for them anyway, so it’s not like chasing him all over is really worth the effort. She does have Bodybag snag kitty though, and plans to use her and Meggan as bargaining chips. 

Meanwhile Rachel finally returns to the story, as seen above a bit discombobulated given you know, she just crossed dimensions or whatever hapepned. She then ends up at a charity masqurade party , just poofying out of nowhere and when she tries to you know, leave...

I just... what the fuck kind of charity event IS this? The chains she brought with her but “no one leaves without permisson. “ I just... THIS IS A CHARITY BALL NOT VIETNAM. And who, besides racist assholes, thinks holdiing someone down with chains is a good idea. Just WHAT IS THIS SCENE. Thankfully we get some other party crashers. 

These are Warwolves, a new, as far as I can tell, creation and basically Mojo’s literal hunting dogs. Rachel tries fighting them off but naturally, their Psi-Proof so just blasting them with telekenisis won’t work and uses the objects around her, including her own chains to duck them. But she mutters what’s the point it’s just another sound stage.. except as I said, it isn’t. She’s in foggy london town. 

Rachel continues her run through the urban jungle eventually ending up in a subway. No not the restraunt, she’s not that unlucky. Duckign onto a train one of the warwolves globs on. 

To be fair most hollywood contracts are basically slavery, but Rachel as a point.. she was basically tricked into singing it, again not exactly uncommon, and refuses to take this bullshit.

This bit is awesome, and doubly so as I left out a bit of Rachel's backstory on purpose earlier: she was a hound. Basically it meant she was enslaved and conditioned to hunt down other mutants, only escaping shortly before days of future past happened and then escsaping into the present. So naturally the thought of being enslaved and forced to do some asshole's bidding again, to loose her free will? She'll die before that happens and slaughters the warwolf to prove it.. though also scares her fellow passangers in the process. While Rachel tries to explain thing the warwolves greeve.. and Teleporter, Gatecrasher's lizard thing, has located Rachel. Meanwhile Madison is grappling with the fact that not every issue can be settled by comittee... Meanwhile Kurt arrives at the Lighthouse to find Brian stinking of booze and asleep, so he decides to do the only logical thing he can think of. 

I fucking love you Kurt. So since Godzilla is too busy at his tax audit to save him from the depths of the ocean Brian wakes up himself pissed and assuming someone tried to kill him. Which granted Kurt outright admitted he might drown but given the only two friends he has left in the world and an innocent he just met who fought beside him despite having no reason to besides it being the right thing are in mortal peril, he has no time to play nice. Kurt’s responses to Brian’s outrage are fucking amazing. 

Fucking brutal and accurate: Brian’s alcoholism is killing him and is just as borderline suicidal as Kurt’s play session with largely the same intention. Kurt has no time for wallowing in self pity, no time to baby Brian, as much as it might be warranted, through his grief. Kurt Wagner needs a hero, and since the avengers and fantastic four would likely take hours he dosen’t have, Brian is his best bet at saving his friends.  He has no time for pity or sadness, he only has time to save what he has left. He explains the situation to Brian as well as how the hell he found him: since he at least knew of Brian, likely due to Betsy as she was staying with the X-Men prior to joining and just before the massacre, he dug up the X-Men’s file on him and spent the rest of his time getting to him. Brian is, unsurprisingly, in no real mood to help and mopes that there’s really no point in it… and that’s when Kurt somehow gets even more pissed  off and 20 times as awesome, with a speech worthy of Sir Patrick Stewart himself.

And as I’ve made abundantly clear that’s the point of this story: The X-Men’s temporary death was unfair, left a lot of pain in their wake and left our heroes scrambling to figure out where do they go from here? And it’s here Nightcrawler is the first besides Meggan, whose simple world view means it was a lot easier to process things and took her three panels to get herself in gear to help Brian, to really turn a corner on his grief. He’s sad his friends are dead, he wishes more than anything that he could’ve died a hero like them instead of living with the misery and sorrow of them being gone.. but he’s alive. And he’s going to honor them the best he can by being the kind of man they wanted him to be. And to me this is why Kurt became leader: out of the five he has the most experience,  with only Brian rivaling him in that, but also the most drive. He may of lost everything, but by god he’s going to keep moving. Sure his friends died, it’s the risk of the trade.. but they’d want him to live, to take up the sword and keep  fighting so that the dream dosen’t fade out. It’s why, as much as I don’t agree with it, they kept hteir resurrection a secret: because the safety of all mutants, of their friends, is more important than one man. And Kurt is going to honor that. But not before giving Brian another verbal bitchslapping.

Of course it’s not easy as Brian DID die to become captain britan.. and the memory haunts him. And he wonders when it’ll come from him.. and he’s afraid of it. But the question is will he let his fear of the reaper swallow him whole or live like Kurt, fighting on anyways. To truly live.

Meanwhile Rachel is the only member of the forming team to not have had a full on mope sesh so she gets on that, but it only lasts for about a panel and like most of the angst in this comic is warranted: Rachel comptemplates if she should go back to the X-Men.. but realizes despite running out on them , their family, and she has no other options. But before she can learn the truth the technet are upon her and bodybag scoops her up. Gatecrasher plans to release Kitty and Meggan and one thing I like that I hadn’t noticed in previous reads is Gatecrasher is a fairly intresting antagonist. She’s not “evil”, she’s just a merc wanting a payday, and in this case was hired by a legitmate if pompus source. While she takes Kitty and Meggan, it’s more out of pragmatisim and as noted she plans to release the two when she could’ve let Bodybag digest them, and when first showing up is perfectly cordial to Kurt and Kitty, and only fights when it’s clear our heroes won’t let her just walk off with their old friend. It makes me glad there’s far more of her and the technet to come as the series goes on and a ton more in Alan Davis run when I get to that. Their intresting characters with unique power sets and inject a sense of fun into what would otherwise be a fairly dreary story.  Anyways before she can do that the warwolves strike and are too dumb to know when to quit so a fight breaks out and Gatecrasher beats the piss out of one while Kurt arrives, watching from  the shadows. As for why no one’s spotted him... i’ts simple: One of his powers is to blend into shadows. It’s not used often and it’s forgotten quite a bit, but it is one he’s used on ocasion and even IF Claremont just retconned it out, his foes are too busy to notice. Kurt once again shows how awesome he is and tricks one of the wolves into slashing the bags containing his friends open. Gross but oh so triumphant. 

Unfortunatley his victory is short lived: Meggan and Kitty are still woozy as, while I didn’t mention this earlier, Bodybags bags contain a paralyzing goop so they still aren’t quite ready to fight and while Rachel is, she can’t psy zap the dog. Luckily for Kurt gatecrasher yanks it away. Unluckily, she prepares to beat him into furry blue chunklets on the ground. Luckily...

Brian has finally gotten his shit together to save the day.. for all of a panel…

While Brian is fighting who or whatever that is Rachel and Kitty try to get into things but are blindsided by ringtoss and joyboy whose powers well...

Yeah while ringtoss, if still weird isn’t TOO out of the ordinary for Marvel, Joyboy seems like he’s some sorta lost Jojo’s bizarre adventure stand. It’s also another reason to love the technet as again, their powers are just so fucking creative and weird. But that’s also what makes them such a threat: Their powers aren’t what most heroes usually deal with, and thus they have the element of surprise, helped by the fact their all from separate dimensions, meaning even in space, where their likely more ready for nonsense, they still have the upper hand by being races most space peeps aren’t ready for. Speaking of not ready,w ehave two last members to cover... 

They speak for themselves, and while they do so Brian tries to rescue Meggan but is stopped by scatterbrain. Nightcrawler notices their asses are getting kicked and figures out WHY: The Warwolves and The Technet are teams. They work together regularly. Excalibur at this point is three former teammates in a disorienting situation and two british persons they just met. And if they don’t’ start working together they aren’t going to last. So Nightcrawler decides to fix that by knocking a warwolf into Ringtoss, who then collapses into waxwork whose touch takes out both and leaves Rachel free. Rachel quickly takes out Joyboy and with him out of the way, Kitty and Kurt can focus on Gatecrasher:

And with that Gatecrasher knows when to fold em and teleports the team away to fight another day, while the Warwolves slinked off in the confusion. Both will be back, obviously, but for now our heroes have one, Brian and Meggan make up and make out, and with the chaos settled Kitty, Rachel and Kurt have a tearful reunion.  

Our heroes celebrate with a campfire and memories of their fallen comrades, with Rachel admitting she’s not sure what’s real or not after her experiences with Mojo. Brian prepares to leave and take care of the Warwolves himself.. but Rachel objects. The three others don’t have lives to return to, and just because the X-Men are gone dosent’ mean Xaviers dream should die out, likening them to the symbol of King Arthurs sword Excalibur. Kitty and Kurt start to agree, pointing out their dream taught them that if theirs a vacuum left in the X-Men’s legacy, someone will use it for their own ends. Rachel affirms her reasons for staying as a team, saying she’s tired of running: She’s done so all her live and she wants to , for once, stand for something. Meggan, having had similar problems in the past, agrees with her and the rest of the crew quickly come on board and thus we close on this image as a new team, and a new legacy, is forged: Excalibur is born.

Final Thoughts: The Sword is Forged is an utter classic and a great way to start things off. Our heroes are established, Rachel, who I felt was a bit thrown around by the plot during her time on the X-Men, is fleshed out a bit more and given purpose while Brian and Meggan are decently introduced to the audience. My only real complaints is that Davis and Claremont sometimes forget that American audiences won’t know who half these people are and while they introduce the Technet and Saturnyne well enough, they still never backtrack to explain them better later and what history I DID get I had to dig up for myself online. That aside the story, while having a lot of angst, is well done and has a good flow to it and ends on a high note, the characters are likeable enough, the villains are all creative though the Warwolves feel slight next to the Technet and will get fleshed out a bit more in the series proper. And of course I’d be a moron if I didn’t compliment Alan Davis wonderful art, which captures the whimsical tone well, the emotion in certain scenes perfectly and holds up beautifully years later. Overall The Sword is Forged is a great team origin story and if you liked what you saw here I’d recommend checking it out. Next time, hopefully tonight, we finally get to to the new Excalibur as Brian and his sister and thrust into the shit and a new Captain Britain is born. Until then, courage.

[imaginaryelle]

Cap-IM Exchange Gift Fics!

So I had a lot of time this year and got super excited about the cap_ironman community gifts prompt list and wrote . . . 12 . . . fics as gifts for the community. And it was so much fun. I’m going to list these by universe, because that seems best. Universes include: 616, MA:A, AA and 1872 and range from very angsty to pwp to very fluffy, with lots of hurt/comfort and pining in-between. Many thanks to @morphia-writes, @comicsohwhyohwhy and @laireshi for their betaing work!

616

Black and Blue - (Gen, 860 words, blood and injury h/c) Tony is injured on Avenger’s business. Steve helps care for his wounds.

Game Over: Start Again? - Collab with @laireshi​ <3 (Teen, 2.4k, kisses both consensual and non consensual)  A first kiss is a beginning. A last kiss is an end. Steve and Tony have shared a few of both.

Tales of the Golden Avenger: Return of the Red Skull - (Teen, 11k, 616/Star Wars AU, past breakup and getting back together) It’s been over a year since Tony left the Rebel Alliance, but when the Wasp calls in a favor, he feels bound to answer. Even though there’s an active bounty on his head. Even though the last time he confronted a real, Force-empowered Sith he lost his right hand. He can deal with all of that.

Jan failed to mention that the mission involved Steve.

These all stand on their own, but they also fit into a sort-of series of Tony and Steve in a friends with benefits relationship, so here they are chronologically:

In the Dark - (Explicit, 2.4k, first times) After midnight, in a private room, just the two of them and a movie they've both already seen. Anything could happen, right?

Under the Table - (Explicit, 1k, PWP) Tony's been thinking about Steve too much lately. It's time he did something about that.

Behind Closed Doors - (Mature, 3k, Avengers: Disassembled hurt/comfort) The Mansion is in shambles. Tony's life is in shambles. And then there's Steve. Solid, dependable Steve, doing his best to keep them all whole.

Sometimes, there are no good answers left.

Off the Record - (Mature, 1.4k, Emotional h/c) Steve can't sleep, and when he can't sleep, he broods. After too many nights of restless dreams and nightmares, he hopes Tony can be the distraction he needs.

Under Wraps - (Teen, 1.5k, mistletoe fic fluff) Tony's spent a lot of time planning for this party. He's bought and wrapped gifts, sent out invitations, helped Jarvis decorate and made sure there will be enough food for a super-human crowd. He didn't plan for mistletoe.

MA:A Heart on My Sleeve - (Gen, 2k, getting together) Tony wears Steve’s clothes. Steve has no problem with this.

Try, Try Again - (Teen, 1.6k, proposal!fic fluff) Steve’s plans usually work out pretty well. This time, though? When all he really wants to do is ask Tony a very important question? Not so much.

AA In Sickness and in Health - (Gen, 1k, sick!Tony h/c) If Steve has to physically sit on Tony to make him take a rest, he will. He just hopes it doesn’t come to that.

1872 Upon a Midnight Clear - (Teen, 562 words, cowboys and Christmas carols) The little town of Timely enjoys a quiet Christmas Eve.

[bieddiediaz]

endgame thoughts (spoilers!!)

the good

this movie was perfect fanservice. it was the most beautiful way to end the past 11 years of the mcu. it paid homage to the fans who had stuck by it through iron man (the clanging of tony’s hammer after the credits!!! the start of the mcu and the end of an era) to the snap, through twenty two movies. the entire sequence of everyone going back in time was for us, for the fans who had kept it going - the first avengers (i’ll have that drink now), hail hydra (that was so clever, honestly), frigga!!!, gamora and nebula as sisters!

clint and natasha again! this was the first time they showed their relationship properly since avengers 1, and by god did they do it justice. also! nat choosing to sacrifice herself! the agency!! this movie was honestly peak natasha and i t  b r o k e  m e.

tony calling everyone out on not listening to him! honestly, i was satisfied with thanos has been inside my head for six years because i never thought we’d get better. but! this was. ultimate. validation. purely c a t h a r t i c

nebula. nebula my love. nebula telling her past self that she can and does get better! the torture stops! nebula telling gamora that they become sisters! i died. i honestly wanted nebula to kill thanos (because i maintain that she deserved it most) but i’m okay with how it turned out. because nebula healed. before the snap, she found a family with the guardians. with gamora. after the snap - nebula and tony! tony showing her the gentleness that thanos never did. tony teaching her games like a father should his daughter! having nicknames for her! her dressing him and putting him into the seat when she though he was about to die k i l l e d me. also - nebula and rhodey! nebula being comfortable enough with him to call him rhodey. them bonding over being broken!!! perfect victim survival story. i love nebula okay

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE. i have been waiting for this line since aou. steve getting ready to face thanos alone! with a broken shield! the avengers - all the avengers - as a team. against thanos. what they should have been the first time. such 616 feels

i know people are upset carol didn’t have more screentime, but i wasn’t that bothered by it honestly. this wasn’t her moment to shine. her story is just starting. this movie is homage to the heroes we’ve known for ten years, to tony and steve and natasha and clint and bruce and thor, whose stories are closing. they deserved to be the ones who saved the universe. this movie was theirs.

special mention for carol’s comics-esque lesbian haircut.

scott and cassie single-handedly broke my heart and healed it back together again.

sam being the new cap! it’s everything he deserves! (i do what he does, only slower)

and

and

of course

tony

tony stark

tony my love. tony my boy. i love you 3000 okay. you were the shining star of this movie. you are the shining star of my life.

how do i even begin to describe this. tony’s arc was perfect. (i once though cacw was peak tony, and then i thought iw was peak tony, but this movie outdid them all)

of course i’m mad that he died. i don’t think there’s a universe where tony stark deserves to die. tony stark, the futurist, the heart and soul of the mcu, deserves to live. with pepper and peter and morgan and rhodey. he deserves all the happiness in the world.

but

if they had to kill him, if i had to pick one way for tony to die, i couldn’t have picked a better one. he died saving the entire fucking universe. they were losing. thanos had the gauntlet. tony is the reason they won. tony wielded the fucking gauntlet. tony killing thanos and his army (tony dusting thanos!) the same way thanos killed trillions of people - also extreme catharsis. tony stark couldn’t protect the universe, but he damn well avenged it. (tony stans, we got ultimate validation. anyone who dares say tony is selfish or tHe reAl vILLaIn oF tHe mCu now is completely invalid.)

tony being bitter about being right! all this time (a suit of armour around the world), and no one listening to him when he tried to warn them. tony realising they lost because they were split apart (i needed you and you weren’t here. liar.). he found his second chance with morgan and pepper. he didn’t jump back into the fray because his ~teammates asked him to, but because he had a chance to save everyone. to save peter. peak. selfless. tony. stark. tony forgiving steve (giving him the shield that he! made!!) because he knew they had to do this together. i was afraid it would happen too quickly, or the stevetony conflict would be brushed under the rug for ~universe reasons, but they handled it really well. it took five years of moving on and healing for them to reconcile. steve trusting tony (since steve not trusting tony was the thing that started the entire shitshow in the first place) and tony forgiving steve (steve left. steve abandoned everything the avengers stood for). i loved it okay.

tony’s funeral absolutely ended me. i burst into sobs at proof that tony stark has a heart. everyone was there. proof that tony stark was fucking loved and respected by literally everyone. (also, that funeral seemed like a private thing. people who had known tony stark. which means - either friday or pepper let harley in. which means - tony told pepper about harley and how important he was and/or they kept in touch!! excuse me while i go cry even more)

okay

now

the bad

i honestly didn’t have many complaints with this movie, it was such a perfect ending. just two major things -

team as family. they really tried to lean into this trope, but it fell flat after not establishing it over the past avengers movies. i could have bought it if they showed some bonding moments when they were preparing for their missions, but they tried to tell us instead of show us. jokes and quips are fine, but emotional bonding moments/conversations needed to happen more. nat was the only one who seemed like she really considered the avengers as her family. (tony did at one point, but i think that illusion was shattered for him after cacw.)

i… don’t even want to talk about this. this is exactly what i was dreading. i can’t believe the same directors who gave us catws gave us this. steve’s ending was disrespectful to peggy. to sharon. to steve himself. peggy made a life for herself. it’s super disrespectful to suggest that peggy motherfucking carter would settle for anything other than the very best, whether it be her job or her life or her husband. why retcon all that to make her dance with this guy she knew for a few months. it’s super unhealthy for steve. for all the preaching about moving on he did, he himself admits that he hasn’t. a logical, healthy conclusion to his story would be to have him finally do it. instead, apparently he hasn’t moved on from something that happend thirteen years ago, let alone the snap. ugh. what do i even say. (and there’s the tiny little matter that this implies steve made out with his niece. unless he created an alternate timeline. which he clearly didn’t. since he’s there. in the same universe.) of course steve deserves to be happy!! but his arc - which began in catws - should be him moving on. finding a new family. not regressing back to things that should be done and gone.

also, it doesn’t make sense plot wise. did steve hide from the rest of the world? did he live in secret? if no, why would howard keep looking for him in the ocean? he wouldn’t. he wouldn’t have found the tesseract. or dethawed steve’s body in the future. did he hide his name from his family? no, right? then sharon knew?? that she was kissing her uncle? idek man

[multiverseofmiracleshq]

the weekly update for 11/28-12/4

I. BIOS

bio released this week: peter parker / peter parker / peter quill / rachel summers / raven darkholme / remy lebeau / ripley ryan

upcoming bios: bobbi morse (616) / bruce banner (mcu) / carmilla black (616) / carol danvers (616) / emma frost (931)

II. EVENT UPDATES

we’ll be holding an ic event on november 29th! it’ll be a fun mixer and not plot heavy in order to welcome some of our new members / characters.

III. ACTIVITY

our next activity check is thursday, december 1st! please see the activity check to see if your roles still need to hit the requirements. roles taken post check are exempt from activity for the month.

IV. ROLL OUT THE WELCOME MAT

this week we welcomed bobbi morse (aos) / emma frost (931) / felicia hardy (616) / gamora (616) / jean grey (931) / jessica jones (616) / julian keller (616) / kitty pryde (931) / loki laufeyson (616) / lorna dane (931) / medusalith amaquelin (616) / maria hill (616)  nadia van dyne (616) / nathan summers (931) / ophelia sarkissian (616) / patsy walker (616) / peter quill (616) / rachel leighton (616) / theresa cassidy (616) / tony stark (616) / trish walker (mcu) / yelena belova (616) to the multiverse!

V. MOST WANTED SPOTLIGHT

drax / nebula / rocket – guardians of the galaxy

amora / loki laufeyson / thor odinson – asgardians

amadeus cho / sam alexander / viv vision – champions

VI. ODDS & ENDS

make sure your blogs have themes – all blogs are required to have customer themes and not be the /url format. this makes it easier for people to find replies and search. if you need help setting up a theme, please reach out to a mod. we’re happy to help!

cutting posts -- a staple rule of tumblr rp. when you do replies, please remove your reply from the top so each post is just your recent one & what you’re replying to. we have tutorials we’re more than happy to share with you in the ooc discord.

earth-931 -- you may have noticed a new multiverse designation popping up on the main. this is earth-931: a special reality for the multiverse of miracles! earth-931 is primarily based on mutants and is set back in comic canon to a time before krakoa. there’s more flexibility for mutant characters here, and more possibilities for people to take mutant roles. a full breakdown of the reality will be coming shortly.

ic questionnaires -- our ic questionnaire has dropped early! although we usually wait for christmas, a recent influx of members has inspired us to release it sooner. we’re asking that members fill out the questionnaire and post them to their blogs. it can be found here!

multiple multiverse roles -- as it stands, we are capping it at two versions of the same character being eligible to be taken. that means there can be two wanda maximoffs of different realities, two tony starks, etc. outside of that may be too many of the same role running around. please check the ic page to see if the role you’re interested in is filled.

taking characters -- as it stands, we have no character limit. you are are free to take on whatever is sustainable for you. all we ask is that you hit activity each month, and roles who fail to will be unfollowed. please let us know if you need a hiatus.

VII. SUMMARY

A. bios - next bio batch announced

B. events - november 29th ic event

C. activity - next activity check / unfollow is 12/1

D. most wanted spotlight - characters we’d like to see

E. odds and ends - themes / questionnaires / new realities / oh my!

F. things to look forward to - check out the disney+ guardians holiday special

G.  as always - please like this post so we know you read!

[mthofferings2018]

Ironlawyer

See Ironlawyer’s existing works here and here.

Preferred contact methods: Tumblr - ironlawyer Discord - (Ironlawyer#8936)

Preferred organizations: See the list of approved organizations here.

Rainbow Railroad

Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN)

Planned Parenthood

Will create works that contain:

Angst, dark fic including non-con, torture, death etc, character study, what-if/canon AU, unhappy/ambiguous ends, break up, unhealthy relationships, identity porn, unhealthy/angry sex, trauma, mental health issues, addiction. Please contact me if you want something not listed.

Will not create works that contain:

Fluff, PWP (generally explicit is fine, but please ask if kink is involved), non-canon AU, ABO, pregnancy, mpreg, soulmates, underage, ageplay, humiliation (negotiable), animal transformation, kid fic, genderswap, feminisation, incest, spanking, tickling.

-- Fic or other writing --

Auction ID: 138

Will create works for the following relationships:

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark - 616, Ultimates, EMH Carol Danvers/Jessica Drew - 616 Tony Stark & Carol Danvers - 616

Work Description:

Less than $20 gets one 1-4k fic. $20+ gets 5-10k of fic. Please check my AO3 for the kind of content I create, as it tends to be dark and miserable. I am participating in events over the holidays so likely won't start until January. I will aim to get the fic done as soon as possible but I am a very slow writer so be prepared for a wait. I work best with prompts that have a concept, rather than just one or two words, but I can also work with that. I am willing to discuss ideas and brainstorm but if you have a very specific vision or any doubts, please talk to me before bidding. I can write any canon period but I work best with CW and beyond. I prefer to write 616 but I can also work with Ultimates or EMH canon for Steve/Tony depending on the prompt.

Ratings: G, Teen, Mature, Explicit

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-- Podfic --

Auction ID: 139

Will create works for the following relationships:

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark - 616, Ultimates, MCU, EMH Carol Danvers/Jessica Drew - Any Matt Murdock gen - 616 Logan/Scott Summers - X-Men Movies Carol Danvers/Wanda Maximoff - 616 Kate Bishop/America Chavez - 616

Work Description:

I will podfic up for 5k for less than $15. For $15 or more I will podfic up to 10k. If you want something longer, contact me and we may be able to negotiate. I will try to complete the podfic as soon as possible but it may take a couple of weeks. I enjoy reading angst, h/c and dark fic the most but I will read other things. I will not read most content from my DNW list, however exceptions may be made for fluff or non-canon AU depending on the fic. Please contact me if you are not sure. If you are not the author of the fic you would like podficced, please ensure the author is willing to have the story made into a podfic. I will not record without author permission.

Ratings: G, Teen, Mature, Explicit

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-- Fan-made craft or merchandise --

Auction ID: 143

Will create works for the following relationships:

Tony Stark - MCU

Work Description:

1 Hama/Fuse bead portrait of Tony Stark/Robert Downey Jr. Measures approximately 17 x 13 inches, contains around 6000 individual beads. Can be framed in a standard frame. Buyer must pay postage. Please check: https://parcel.royalmail.com/orders/quick-delivery/ with your home country, the weight 500 grams and dimensions 48 x 40 x 1 cm to see how much your preferred delivery option will cost.

Ratings: G

More pictures here and here!

CLICK HERE TO BID ON THIS WORK

The auction runs from October 21 (12 AM ET) to October 27 (11:59 PM ET). Visit marveltrumpshate.com during Auction Week to view all of our auctions and to place your bids!

[holdingyouaccountable]

Tracking the Effects of Extra-Temporal Agents on Parallel Universes

Horus chose to build an Amit on a planet where such technology was strictly illegal on  2017.09.31.0000 43.7260249 x -79.3137703.

Rick Sanchez destroyed Earth C-137 by turning its inhabitants into alien kudzu.

The official designation of the Avengers universe, named by Carol Danvers, is 199999.

The Marvel Comics prime universe occurs on Earth 616, which is the universe that the Anti-Goddess, Nemesis, destroyed herself because she was tired if existence.

The Marvel Cinematic universe is 1610.

Mysterio is from universe 833.

CORE absolutely butchers Hades in universe 9999999.

[ageofgeek]

guys

guys, l i sten

captain marvel was so good

i’m screaming internally

w a hT a G od OD FUCKING GMOVIE

i cried so much f UCk me

(spoilers under the cut)

brie larson as carol is the goddamn love of my life, i fucking love her, i would fucking die for her, but more than that, i would live for her

and nIChoLAS JOSEPH f URy!!! my boY!!! i love him so much!!! he’s so young and he loves carol so much and i can’t even blame him for being ~salty~ at the Avengers because look, I wouldn’t be impressed either if I had an adventure with a LITERAL GODDESS 15 years before

also, holy shit, lashana lynch was amazing, she was such a good and strong character, and lil monica!!! so cute and also so supportive of her mom! like, shit, this movie passed the bechdel test and then some with flying colors, monica rambeau basically having two moms who are air force pilots is just the SHIT and i needed it

no mention of monica’s father, no romantic interest for either maria or carol. just maria and carol being bffs and raising a strong little girl together, and i just??? it’s so good??? like, i totally 100% support everybody who ships maria/carol after this movie (i kind of do, but my overwhelming love for carol/rhodey is standing in the way), but even if you view their relationship as platonic, their sisterhood is just so strong and i’m so happy that they depicted such a strong female relationship. it’s just, F U C K, so empowering, and also, how real women live

all of the characters were so well-written - the only really “weak” aspect that I was kinda disappointed in was Jude Law’s character (Yon-Rogg). I really loved the twist that annette benning was the original mar-vell, and jude law turned out to be just another imperialist soldier of the kree empire. it was such a great change - having carol get her inspiration and her name from another woman, not the original 616 male superhero.

also, the fact that this movie explicitly acknowledged that the kree are imperialist and genocidal - and the skrulls largely misunderstood refugees who are seeking a homeland? such good political commentary. like, hmm, an imperial power seeks to conquer the world through military invasions and overthrowing regional rulers, only to create refugee crises, insist on patriotism, create needless fear about “the enemy,” and crack down on dissent within their own society. Hmm. I WONDER WHAT SOCIETY THAT COULD BE AN ALLEGORY FOR ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º) 

this also makes sense re: why carol was across the universe when thanos began looking for the infinity stones - she was helping the skrulls resettle, and also (presumably) helping to weaken the kree empire.

speaking of which - that after-credits scene though. THAT AFTER-CREDITS SCENE. I was really not expecting them to have Steve, Natasha, Bruce, AND Rhodey! Like, I’m so glad that they found the pager and continued activating it, trusting Fury to know if something was important enough. And then Carol appeared, and GUYS, they weren’t in the same shot, but RHODEY AND CAROL WERE IN THE SAME ROOM!!! listen, okay, i ne ED this romance ok they’re so cute and rhodey deserves to be happy, don’t do this to me, marvel.

that being said, i am not fucking ready for endgame, shit, it’s only like 2 months away, i am NOT PREPARED for this bullshit

anyway. in conclusion, i love captain marvel. also, goose was adorable and i want to cuddle him desperately.

[sineala]

2017 Fic Roundup

Because I posted this on Dreamwidth and why not post it here too?

Fiction posted in 2017: (As usual, counting last year's exchange and stocking stories in January because I can't count this year's stories until the reveal.) January 1. Turn Around and Look Back. For Yuletide 2016. Marvel 616, Carol/Jess, 6200 words. 2. The Collection. For the Cap-IM Holiday Exchange. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 4723 words. 3. The Nucleus Burning Inside of the Cell. For Fandom Stocking. Marvel 3490, Steve/Natasha, 6225 words. 4. Get Some Fresh Air (At Quad). For Fandom Stocking. Avengers Academy, Steve/Tony, 1206 words. 5. Sundown. For Fandom Stocking. Ancient History RPF, Hannibal/Scipio, 711 words. 6. Unmasked. For Cap-IM Bingo. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 6084 words. 7. The Longing and Yearning. For Cap-IM Bingo. Bullet Points, Steve/Tony, 12,945 words. February 8. If You Want to Live (The Historical Present Remix). For Cap-IM Remix. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 9249 words. 9. Same As It Ever Was (The Thought Bubbles Remix). For Cap-IM Remix Relay. Marvel 616/Marvel Ultimates, Steve/Tony, 6316 words. 10. See You at the Bitter End (The Rest of the Rainbow Remix). For Cap-IM Remix Madness. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 8422 words. 11. Prototyping (The Make the Sparks Ignite Remix). For Cap-IM Remix Madness. MCU, Steve/Tony, Tony/Iron Man armor, 1176 words. March 12. Down to Zero. For Cap-IM Bingo. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 18,336 words. 13. I Think You'll Understand. For Cap-IM Anniversary. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 2313 words. 14. A More Perfect Union. For Cap-IM Anniversary. Marvel Ultimates, Steve/Tony, 705 words. 15. Provisioning. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 422 words. April 16. Bright As You Can. For Cap-IM Bingo. Marvel Ultimates/Marvel Noir, Steve/Tony/Tony, 6626 words. May 17. The People Who Would Keep Us on Our Knees. For Cap-IM Bingo. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 2451 words. June 18. This Mortal Part of Mine. For the Cap-IM Reverse Bang. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 60,255 words. 19. The Right Thing. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 1987 words. 20. Tony Stark and the Mysterious Marksman. For the Captain America Reverse Bang. Marvel Noir, Tony/Bucky, 18,510 words. July 21. One and Every Way. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 21,847 words. 22. Icebreaker. For Cap-IM Bingo. Marvel Noir/Bullet Points, Steve/Tony, 5404 words. 23. Convention Exclusive. For Cap-IM Bingo. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 5545 words. August 24. Wish Fulfillment. For Cap-IM Bingo. Marvel 616/Marvel Ultimates, Steve/Tony, 1427 words. September 25. Retrograde. For Cap-IM Bingo. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 9085 words. 26. In All This Wide World. For the Superhusbands Aluminum Anniversary Anthology. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 10,252 words. October 27. Veridicality. For Cap-IM Ults Day. Marvel Ultimates, Steve/Tony, 2480 words. November 28. The Opposite of a Problem. Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 2490 words. December 29. Never Too Late for Love. For the Cap-IM Big Bang. Marvel Ultimates, Steve/Tony, 98,059 words. This year I wrote and posted: 29 stories in... two fandoms. Assuming "Marvel" counts as a fandom. Seven different Marvel continuities, though. Total wordcount: AO3 says 326,787. Which is probably off a little but not by much. Overall Thoughts: ...yay fic? Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? Well, I broke two million words, so I'm gonna go with... more? I didn't write anything in October, though. What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January? Probably Winteriron. I had never even thought about writing Winteriron but then I saw Wren's art for the Cap RBB and it was BEAUTIFUL MARVEL NOIR ART and nobody had picked it because mostly that RBB is about MCU Stucky, so I... went for it. It was fun. This year's theme and the story that demonstrates it most: I wrote what for me is a surprising amount of Ults. I guess... yay Ults? What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest? "In All This Wide World." Dinosaur-punching h/c and the art is AMAZING and it was a lot of fun to write. Collaborating with Phoenix is ALWAYS A GOOD TIME. Rawr, dinosaur. Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? Apparently some people have very strong feelings about Ults Steve. My best story of this year: Honestly I'm pretty fond of "The Longing and Yearning." Sure, it's mostly porn, but I had a lot of fun writing Steve and Tony in a different dynamic and I think it's really solid. My most popular story of this year: "Down to Zero," the one where Tony gets amnesia that makes him forget he loves Steve. Tropey tropey trope trope. Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: "See You at the Bitter End (The Rest of the Rainbow Remix)." I understand that the violence and death tags are probably scaring people off, but... it's not permanent? It has a happy ending! My least favorite story this year: "Unmasked." Eh. It just didn't come out right. Most fun story to write: Probably "Convention Exclusive," the one where Steve is at a con because he used to be the artist for the Cap comics in-universe and Tony is basically cosplaying Iron Man. Give me all the identity porn. All of it. Story with the sweetest moment: The fake wedding in "The Opposite of a Problem." I wrote the absolute sappiest thing I could imagine. Story with the single sexiest moment: Eh, I'm pretty proud of that Steve/Tony/Tony threesome. Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: Is it the tentacle rape? It's the tentacle rape, isn't it? Most overdue: Probably the BB, which I had been thinking about writing for, like, a year. Most eye roll-worthy title: I called a story where President Cap got engaged "A More Perfect Union." SORRY NOT SORRY. Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: The Ults BB. I feel like I understood the characters a lot more by the time I was done. Hardest story to write: Definitely that Ults BB. I kept having to take breaks because Ults Steve was an asshole and being in his head all the time was exhausting. Biggest Disappointment: The fact that I CAN'T GET ANYONE ELSE TO WRITE BULLET POINTS FIC. I mean, okay, one person. But come on, fandom! BULLET POINTS. You know you want to. Biggest Surprise: Apparently a lot of people want Ults Steve to get truth serumed! Who knew! Most Unintentionally Telling Story: I never have any idea what this question is supposed to mean. Favorite opening line: I don't know. I never like my opening lines. Favorite closing line: The only thing that is coming to mind is the ending of the last HE fic I wrote which is still anon and therefore I cannot share it. In conclusion: Uh. I like words. Fic-writing goals for 2018: 1. Write the damn Star Trek AU. 2. Post that FTH story. 3. Finish bingo. 4. Try to post a story a month. 5. Try some origfic. Come on, self.