#ch: rogue

[xmenuniverse]

Rogue in X-Men - The Wedding Special #1 (2024), art by Jenn St-Onge.

[thefastestaround]

Would he smash? || Accepting Smash or pass Roguey @southern-belle-outcasts

"You do know that the two of us can barely be in the same room, right?" It was rhetorical. Don't answer it. "We actively fight and do not get along. I questioned her leadership at every turn when I was on the Unity Squad. She kicked me off the team, and you're asking if I would fuck her?"

Before he went any further, he quickly checked the area to make sure she wasn't there. "I'd fuck her. I could only imagine the kind of rough, angry sex we could get up to. She also can never know I said that."

[illbringthechaosmagic]

❝ ... i guess i'm just scared of losing you. ❞ (rogue)

"Scared of losing me?" Wanda seemed a little confused, her head tilted as she looked Rogue over. "Why would you be scared of losing me? I'm not all that important..." Perhaps there was something more to it than that but Wanda had never seen herself as important to anyone, not to friends at least. Ever since Pietro had gone, she was half the person she used to be.

[felicitykings]

Then you should have researched this era a little more because we are scandalous.

TORCHWOOD: "Captain Jack Harkness" (2007) | DOCTOR WHO: "Rogue" (2024)

[thefastestaround]

"What I suggested wasn't even that bad compared to what he does himself. Pretty sure the last battle he ended up in 4 pieces and still made a wise crack about your ass." Not that Pietro didn't agree, he would just never want her to hear him say it out loud. Let Wade say those sort of things.

Pietro didn't budge, or at least he did his best not to budge as she shoved him and moved closer. "I was married for years, you think Crystal would put up with me if I wasn't good for something?" His arm moved around her waist to pull her closer, "So are you telling me you want me to kiss you? Just want to make sure here."

“Ah’m not mah momma, that ain’t happenin’.” She made a face at the idea. Yeah he wouldn’t die but it still felt excessive. And that would leave blood everywhere, disgusting. “And he ain’t that bad.”

The next thing she knew she was giving him a light shove in the chest, pressing forward as she did so because how dare he double down on how bad she supposedly kissed. “Sure, zippy. Me, bein’ the rushed one? Try again. That has your name written all over it. Either back up your talk, or Ah will just go with you doth protest too loudly.”

[lordcaptains]

commissioning @roorenart is always the right choice.

heinrix and orica enjoying a rare lazy morning in bed together.

[hanalghilan]

you're the one way out ( x )

[amgarraks]

ROGUE TRADER LETO VON VALANCIUS

VOIDBORN • NAVY OFFICER • BLADEDANCER • ICONOCLAST

[a-roguish-gambit]

NSFW x men 97 au where magneto tries to seduce rogue from gambit with the whole “i can touch you remy cant” thing but it turns out rogue and gambit have just been doing a chastity/denial thing this whole time so shes just like “…..thats kinda the point? Its our kink sugah we’ve been like this for years.”

Poor magneto has to come to terms with the fact that the younger generation has some how made chastity and refusing to have sex/denying sex kinky and hes not sure how to feel about that.

Magneto: you mean this whole time you’ve been like this??? How is that possible?!

Gambit: Remy specifically went after a woman who cannot be touched. How did you not suspect sometin’ like dis were happenin?

Magneto: you literally exude horny energy though, how have you managed this for what, 4 years?

Gambit: well it been off n on but why you tink gambit so horny? Temperance do tings to ya.

Magneto:….and you are ok with this.

Gambit: i suggested it mon ami. Bein pent up make everytin sweetah.

Magneto:….I don’t understand you I give up.

[616rogue]

rogue layouts.

source: x-men: legacy (2008) #234, by mike carey and yanick paquette.

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[xmenuniverse]

Rogue in Rogue & Gambit #5 (2018), art by Pere Pérez. - requested by @pleasantscreams

[galedekarios]

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[6thofapril1917]

sarie ethnicity musings (with historical context!!)

It’s hard to overstate just how much Sarie’s Jewishness impacts her as a character, specifically how she views herself in relation to other people. Afrikaans-speaking Jews (Boerejode) lived mainly in rural areas where knowledge of Afrikaans would be needed in daily life (mainly the rural Cape and the Transvaal). However, the biggest waves of Jews immigration came from Lithuania in the 1880s and 1890s, followed by an influx of German Jews in the 1930s. Most of these immigrants (with the exception of people like Sarie’s mom who married into Afrikaans-speaking families) settled in cities like Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban, where knowledge of Afrikaans wasn’t needed. So right off the bat, Sarie is alienated from the vast majority of her community by virtue of being Afrikaans-speaking.

But that doesn’t mean she belongs among the Afrikaans-speakers, either! White Afrikaans-speaking (Afrikaner) identity is fundamentally tied to adherence to a deeply-rooted Calvinist tradition (non-white Afrikaans-speakers are generally split between Calvinism and Islam). For a nationalist hardliner, it’s impossible for a Jew (or even a Catholic or an irreligious person) to be considered an Afrikaner, regardless of how White or Afrikaans-speaking they are. And in the 1930s and 1940s, these kinds of hardliners were everywhere.

The intensification of Afrikaner nationalism in this period would culminate in the accession to power of the National Party in 1948, which would go on to enjoy both the near-unanimous support of Afrikaners as well as considerable support (albeit less fervent and at times more tacit) from white English-speakers for the next forty-odd years. Expanding on the structures left behind by English colonial rule, the successive National Party governments would institutionalize the draconian policies of mass disenfranchisement, arbitrary displacement, censorship, economic disempowerment, imprisonment, and segregation — all enforced through brutal violence against non-white populations — that we know as apartheid.

Sarie is born at the tail end of 1921, meaning she comes of age in the mid-to-late 1930s. This is where it’s necessary to elaborate on the role that the Depression played in the upswing of Afrikaner nationalism. Lord Kitchener’s scorched-earth policy in the second half of the 2nd Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) destroyed thousands of Afrikaner farmsteads across the northern Cape, Orange Free State, and Transvaal. Afrikaners had always been an agrarian people; in 1947, less than thirty percent of all Afrikaners worked outside of agriculture. The loss of land forced a majority of mid- and small-scale Afrikaner farmers to either become sharecroppers for English and wealthier Afrikaner landlords, or go into mine or factory work in the cities and towns along the Rand. And as in all societies, these groups were hit hard by the Depression, leaving many Afrikaner workers, poor to begin with, destitute (farmers, especially wool farming families like Sarie's, would also be significantly affected). Suddenly, Afrikaners found themselves living in the same slums, standing in the same job lines, and eating the same food as their Black counterparts — and this is what sparked alarm in the middle-class and wealthy Afrikaner establishment.

Fearing that Afrikaner destitution would erode the myth of white supremacy which legitimized minority rule (or, to take a more Marxist perspective, that the poor Afrikaners would gain class consciousness), Afrikaner nationalists and their English supporters spent untold amounts of time and effort trying to rectify this supposed reversal of the “natural” racial hierarchy. This would culminate in the Carnegie Commission of Investigation on the Poor White Problem in South Africa, a 1932 report by the Carnegie Corporation which recommended racial segregation as a solution to the “problem” Throughout the 1930s, Afrikaner nationalists would appeal to the mythical Voortrekker (pioneer) past to foster increased national affiliation. This would culminate in the 1938 Voortrekker Centenary, which saw Afrikaners reenact the trek from the Cape to the interior taken by their ancestors a century earlier.

Sarie would have felt this increase in nationalism acutely, not just as someone whose religious affiliation excluded her from the mainstream Afrikaner milieu, but as a woman. The ideal Afrikaans woman, the “boeremeisie” (farm girl) or “volksmoeder” (mother of the people), was, in the words of author Lize van Robbreck’s high school principal, “proper, humble, and chaste.” Van Robbreck was the daughter of Catholic Flemish parents, and while she had spoken Afrikaans her whole life and been raised on a steady diet of folk dance and traditional songs, in her Afrikaans high school she realized that her Catholic heritage fundamentally differentiated her from her peers. “I could never be one of them, no matter how hard I tried.” Sarie, as both a Jew and as a woman who is neither proper, humble, nor chaste, already finds herself distinctly isolated from the other girls at her school.

And yet, at the same time, I think that Sarie does, to an extent, resent this exclusion. While she frowns on the racial discrimination and antisemitism inherent in Afrikaner nationalism of this era, and as much as she takes pride in going against the grain (manifesting in an admittedly not-like-other-girls attitude towards her fellow Waasies), a part of her is still desperately searching after the validation from her peers, the validation of inclusion, that she was never going to be able to receive. This, I think, is what fuels her continuous affirmation of her South African — and Afrikaans/Boer — identity amongst her fellow soldiers in the SAS. In the SAS there’s nobody who can call her out, who can deny her Boer identity — even if it’s just by virtue of the fact that they don’t know enough to say otherwise. However, I don’t think that Sarie herself would realize that this is what’s pushing her — to her, she’s just explaining her identity with the same aggression she has always had to use to justify herself. I think that there's a reason that Sarie only ever refers to herself as a Boer or a Boerejood, and never, ever, as an Afrikaner.

I’m probably going to follow this up with a whole other essay just about her gender but I spent all of today flying home and there’s hockey on TV and I’m tired so this is all you’re getting for now. Thanks for reading this absolute fucking thesis of an OC post <3

[cydrag0n]

sometimes your dnd characters are just glitchy glowy lizards who are slowly figuring out how this friendship thing works. when he's not being The Local Cryptid around Carmiña's farm. Carmiña- @xofre

[thefastestaround]

"Oh so you're doing the bare minimum as a team leader. Got it." He didn't exactly hide his contempt for her. But he could still work with her. Or try to. He would try not to get into a screaming match with her. Or at least wait until after they had eaten.

He would offer up his favorite diner that always took care of him and made sure he had enough food, but that was a special place that he only showed people he liked. "Just as long as we don't have to wait too long. Would hate for me to get hangry."

He rolled his eyes hard, "It was hard enough to just ask for your help, let alone admit no one else could be bothered."

"Maybe Ah figured Ah'd be the only one that would," she returned with a shrug and overly surgary smile. Which was true. The last thing she wanted on her conscience was the guilt of avoidable loss because she was too pressed to not work with someone that wasn't in her top five most favorite people.

Rogue narrowed her eyes at him. "Uh huh. Course Ah am. Whatever. Ah'm sure we can find a steak'n shake brave enough t'toss food into the void." In all honesty, she didn't actually begrudge him the need to deal with his metabolism. Hers didn't touch on a speedster's and it still gave her problems when she was forgetful.

"But ya coulda led with 'ain't no one else said yes' and Ah'd have shown up faster."

[dragonagecinema]

Today we have another love story ❤️ In Dragon Age 2, I wanted to romance the elf boy 🧝🏽‍♂️ again (Fenris), but I couldn't deal with his angst, so my Hawke ended up with Anders 🧙‍♂️ That didn't go well at all, Anders being executed and all.

So in my last canon playthrough, my humorous rogue Hawke is in love with the unpredictable Isabela 😍 Who did you romance in Dragon Age 2?