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Wicked Intentions 4
Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Stark!Reader // (Seriously close) Steve Rogers x Reader // Clint Barton x Reader // T’Challa x Reader.
Warning: Violence. Language. Bullying. Girl Fights. Name Calling. Degrading Comments. Angst. Degrade of Woman (to a point). Criminal Life. Illegal Shit. Fights. Alpha Males. Stalking.
Characters: Peter Stark. Howie Stark. Bucky Barnes. Steve Rogers. Clint Barton. TC (T’Challa). Ben Reilly. Cledus Kasady (CK). Brock Rumlow. Gwen Stacy. Wanda Maximoff. Becca Barnes. Amore Lorelei. Kitty Pryde. Frank Castle. George Barnes. Joe Rogers. Winni Barnes. Pepper Stark. Wade Wilson. Eddie Brock. Warner Strucker. Barney Barton. Bobbi Morse. Pietro Maximoff. Logan.
A/N: This is a Bully Romance. High School setting. Mafia Family Life. Woman are on a lower level than males in their world. Just a heads up. This is the third installment of the series. Bad Intentions, Cruel Intentions, and Wicked Intentions.
Credit: Huge shout out to @ml7010 for all the help, pushing, hyping up, putting up with my changes midway through. If it wasn't for this peach, y'all never would have gotten this series or nearly as far as I am now.
It’s a full house, bustling along, a wedding well underway.
“Red.” I hold up a bridesmaid’s dress, in black from the rack my mother pushed me towards.
“Black?” Red lifts a brow at me.
“It’ll be slimming for Gwen.” I grin at her.
Gwen shoves dresses to one side, glaring at me. Wanda and I laugh.
“Fuck you, bitches.”
“We love you.” I laugh, stepping between the legs of the rack, climbing over to her. Wanda follows, Gwen laughs. My hand lands on her small belly she’s growing. “And we love you.” I coo at her belly.
“Kiss ass.” Gwen snorts, Wanda joins in, cooing at our niece or nephew.
“Inherit aunties, right hook.” I whisper.
“Y/N!” Gwen laughs hard.
“Now that would bless by Satan.” We look over to see Clint joining us.
“Packman?” I lift a brow at him. “Joining us for some wedding planning?” Grinning at him.
He tucks his hands into the pockets of his jeans. Nodding his head slowly. “I was hoping to talk to you, boss.” He shrugs a shoulder, a small smirk on his lips.
Glancing at the girls, they nod.
“We’ll go with the black.” Wanda nods. Gwen agrees with a nod, both moving to leave us.
“Now what could have you coming over here during wedding planning?” Smirking at him as we move to sit on the stairs.
He chuckles softly. “I’d say this is your last chance to trade up.” I laugh, bumping my shoulder into him.
“Thought you were just going to be my fantasy?” I grin at him.
He nods slowly.
“Mmm. I see.” I nod slowly, looking away from Clint, watching the movements of the house. People running, fabrics, planners, glasses, the girls, my mother, Frankie and TC all hurrying about.
“See what?” He swallows.
“You won’t be my fantasy anymore. I’m not your type.” I smile, looking over at him.
He scratches the back of his head. “Nah I’ll always have this love for you.” He sighs.
“Love for me like a sister.” Smiling at him.
He sighs. “Yeah, like the baby sister I didn’t ask for, ever. Didn’t really want. But got anyways.” We laugh.
“I didn’t sign up for two more brothers, you know.” I nudge him in the shoulder with my own.
“You know I’d kill someone over you?” He sighs, smiling at me.
Laughing, I nod. “Think Bucky beat you to that.”
“I’d save you a thousand times over, trade places with your bruised and broken body, to protect you. You know that?” He glances over at me.
“I never said thank you, Packman. For saving me.” I whisper softly.
“Don’t ever do that to me again.” He whispers.
Glancing over at him, I smirk.
He sighs, shaking his head.
“No promises. I’m a wild card.” Winking at him, making him laugh.
“No shit.” He scraps his hand over his mouth.
We sat there in silence for a moment.
“What do you need from me?” I ask quietly.
He smiles at me. “Don’t know why I thought I was going to have to explain anything to you.”
“I know you, Packman.” Shrugging a shoulder.
“Tell me you approve?” There’s a plead in his pretty storm blue eyes.
Nodding slowly. “We both know you don’t need my approval.”
“I do.”
“Packman,”
“I need it. I need your approval. I need to know you agree, think it’s a good match.” He swallows.
“It’ll be a national sad day when you announce it.” Smirking at him.
He softly laughs. “As Satan, as my baby sister, the reason we Saintz do what we do. As queen, taking over the table, boss ass bitch, I need to know it’s right.” Tipping his head he watches me.
“Well you didn’t have to force her to fall in line or worry who you Saintz are.” I laugh, Clint hangs his head, chuckling. “So she’s got that going for her. A little normal, maybe boring, but we can help with that.” I grin at him.
“That girl gang is going to be something out of nightmares.” He shakes his head.
“Bet on it, Packman.” I grin.
“I always bet on you, Sweets.” We grin at each other.
“Okay.” I nod.
He lifts a brow. “Okay?”
“She cheats or looks at another dude and I’m going to bless her.” Cutting my eyes to him. He grins at me.
“With your right hook?”
“And my knee.” Shrugging.
He grins, nodding. “Satan combo.”
“I approve, Packman.”
“Think the table will?” He wonders. “They weren’t keen on us bidding on you.”
Leaning back for a moment, I stood suddenly. “Come on, Packman.”
He stands following me. Passing TC I tip my head indicating for him to follow.
Knocking on the door, I push it open.
“Little Miss?” My father looks up at me stepping in. “Boys.” He nods to the two following me in.
“I need you to call a meeting.” I rest on the arm of a chair.
He looks from me to them. “Any reason?"
“Packman is bidding on Bobbi.” I explain.
“Congrats Barton.” He smiles.
“Thank you, Sir.” Clint nods.
“And you want to make sure it gets approved.” My father looks to me.
Shrugging, I tuck a foot up on the seat, my hands on my knees. “I’m putting my weight behind it, daddy. Bobbi helped save me that night, with Clint.” I nod.
My father swallows hard, leaning back in his chair. “And you want this to be your first movement at the table?”
“My life, for their happiness. I’m sure.”
My father locks eyes with Clint, before nodding.
“I’ll make the call, eight tonight.” He nods, grabbing his phone.
“We’ll be there.” I nod, standing.
“Miss,” my dad calls when I get to the door, looking back to him “you’ll be the first woman at the table, ever.” He swallows hard. A flicker of fear in his eyes.
Lifting my chin “I know daddy, it’s a good thing you helped birth Satan. Some old men don’t scare me. I fight boys, and my father will set anyone afire.” I smirk at him.
“Your soon to be husband kills people for you.” TC smirks.
“Imagine, what my brothers would do.” I smirk, shrugging.
“We’d burn the town down, Sweets. Blood on our hands for you is an easy choice.” Clint chuckles.
Looking at my father, I smile softly at him. “They tried to cut me down, I survived. That was their first mistake daddy.” My father smiles softly, nodding.
I leave the office, TC and Clint following.
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Healthy/Unhealthy Type 6
Healthy Social 6
Kitty Pryde 6w7 (so/sx)- Kitty's development is all about community and standing up for what she believes. As a super ego type she goes forward in most of her appearances to fight for community and the well being for others.
Clare Deblin (6w5 so/sp)- While very anxious i think she is the most realistic display of an average SO6. Her desire to fit in and be in community with her friends constantly makes her feel comfortable in herself.
Marie Moreau (6w5 so/sp)- in the beginning of the show we see her having trouble to come out of her shell. By the end of the show we see how Maries core desire is for stability and community.
Unhealthy Social 6
Dvorah (6w5 so/sp)- Constantly using others for her own benefit and doing everything she can to control the hive.
The Deep (6w7 so/sx)- Insecure, dumb and creepy. He is constantly using the community around him to hide his true intentions. As well as his incompetence makes him rely on others constantly to fix his messes.
Greg Hirsh (6w7 so/x)- Similar to the past two characters he uses the system around to move upwards in life eventually landing him In a place he can never move.
Healthy Self Preservation 6
Allison Argent (6w7 sp/sx)- While she has her ups and downs she always kept her desires in check and tried helping as much peoples as possible. Eventually dying to save her friends (the movie didn't happen).
Miles Morales (6w7 sp/so)- He started insecure and worried about whats his place in the world and by the end of movie we see him fully accept the mantle of spider man.
Frank Shang (6w5 sp/so)- He initially had a confidence problem but with patience and friends he managed to out through and become an excellent leader.
Unhealthy Self Preservation 6
Josie from bottoms (6w5 sp/so)- She started a fight club to get with a girl she liked... While allot of her actions are morally dubious we see her eventually recognize the wrong she did and ask Isabelle a second chance.
Ashley Brown (6w5 sp/so)- Her anxiety makes her jump to conclusions fast and in most choices ends with her throwing others under the buss.
Peter Pettigrew (6w7 sp/so)- He hides behind other due to his vulnerability and incompetence. Eventually leading to his own death.
Healthy Sexual 6
Flame Princess (6w7 sx/so)- When we first meet her we see how sheltered she was due to her fire powers. As the series goes on we see how she struggles with her fear of who's true intentions are and who truly has her best intents for her. In the end of the show we see a fully realized FP who's interrogated to her 9 and found peace and love in community as the fire kingdoms Queen.
Natasha Romanoff (6w5 sx/sp)- Her health levels are completely up for debate however I see Natasha as a 6 who's worked to integrate too her 9.
Sango (6w5 sx/so)- Similar to FP she struggles to understand who to truly trust in the current stage. In her chase for her brother she learns to trust others and be vulnerable. Eventually falling for Miroku.
Unhealthy Sexual 6
Laura Palmer 6w7 (sx/so)- Her struggle to find stability in her life ends with her disintegrating fully to 9. Becoming sad and in need to feel something.
Jacob Black 6w7 (sx/so)-While he started well in the first movie. Once he became a werewolf he was constantly chasing after Bella even when she stated she wasn't interested.
Carla Roson (6w5 sx/so)- Looking for stably and peace in the first place makes her struggle with her relationship with Polo. Once S2 starts we see her trying to seduce Samuel to let his guard down. Eventually falling for him. In S3 we see how she fully disintegrates towards 9 in order to maintain her house hold steady. In the end she leaves las Encinas.
#personality types#mbti personality types#enneagram#typology#personality typology#16 personalities#mbti#ennegram#enneagram 6#6w5#6w7#marie moreau#carla roson#elite#twin peaks#laura palmer#inuyasha anime#sango inuyasha#until dawn#teen wolf#marvel comics#kitty pryde#allison argent#natasha romanoff#black widow#bottoms 2023#bottoms josie#harry potter#miles morales#pjo series
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✨✨ hey there! 18+ writers only please. i'm looking for someone who'd be willing to write canon female characters! mainly, i'm looking for someone to write / plot or headcanon around some canon characters with, with some of my favorites specified below.
i’ve got more than a few characters i’d looove to write opposite, of course —— these are just a few:
dc
talia al ghul, donna troy, cheshire / jade nguyen, artemis crock (young justice), black canary, zatanna, yara flor, lois lane, huntress / helena bertinelli, carol ferris, jessica cruz, catwoman / selina kyle (comics or zoe kravitz), wonder woman, ravager / rose wilson, starfire / koriand’r, lilith clay, dawn granger (titans tv), mera, punchline, poison ivy, hawkgirl, lady shiva, supergirl, sofia falcone (reevesverse), arrowverse girls (sara lance, laurel lance, thea queen, iris west, dinah drake, mia smoak), etc.
marvel
elektra, emma frost, jean grey, psylocke, rogue, susan storm, kate bishop, felicia hardy, wanda maximoff, carol danvers, mary jane watson, gwen stacy, hope van dyne, claire temple, agatha harkness, gamora, mantis, magik / illyana rasputin, kitty pryde, luna snow, etc
a song of ice and fire (game of thrones / house of the dragon)
cersei lannister, daenerys targaryen, margaery tyrell, melisandre, alicent hightower, rhaenyra targaryen, alys rivers
star wars
rey or leia
video games
ashe or kiriko (overwatch) / tifa, aerith, or jessie (final fantasy 7) / ellie williams (the last of us, part 2) / max caulfield, chloe price, juliet watson (life is strange)
disney
jasmine (aladdin), colette (ratatouille), cinderella, helen parr, tinker bell, kim posible or shego, elsa, alex russo, teddy duncan
arcane
caitlyn kiramman or jinx
anime
lust (fullmetal alchemist) / kagome, kikyo, sango (inuyasha)
other
starlight (the boys) / gwen tennyson (ben 10, alien force version only) / daphne blake (scooby-doo) / heather, gwen, courtney (total drama) / betty cooper (riverdale) / yennefer (the witcher show) / jessica rabbit (who framed roger rabbit?), etc.
these are just a few of the characters i’m looking for tbh, or the main ones at least. there’s quite a lot that i’d love, tbh.
as for who i'd play, i'm fine with most anyone, be it canons or crossovers or whatever. it depends on the pairing or plot, we can talk about it!
i'm fine with most themes and plots, and definitely most pairings. no real limits!
if any of this interests, like this and i‘ll message you! i mainly write through discord
like or dm
#dc roleplay#marvel roleplay#game of thrones roleplay#star wars roleplay#disney roleplay#arcane roleplay#fullmetal alchemist roleplay#inuyasha roleplay#inuyasha rp#fandom rp#fandom roleplay
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btw since this is My HouseTM here's a list of blorbos from my brain. i've been burnt the fuck out on art this year but by god these ocs are still kicking and someday i'll make more art about them. pwease do send me asks or something about them cause i really would love to make stuff for them i just don't have the executive function to decide what rn
fantasy daydreaming child -> fantasy ttrpg adult pipeline. polycule of magical girl superheroes in college + their social circle. main cast is siobhan-therese (goth, english major), talia (jock, journalism and/or sports medicine), drew (alt girl, taking a gap year), and rowan (granola girl, probably majoring in environmental science or something that will save the earth). the main four are a magical girl group who have to balance saving the world with college and 20something social dramas. also features lilah (siobhan-therese and talia's ex who is a total mean girl but still secretly has feelings for them both), wyllow (an even alt-er alt girl who is drew's "apprentice" but nobody really knows what that means), syd (lichrally just sidney from scream, she got adopted by the group because they were like oh she is such a poor little meow meow) and talia's younger sister who i haven't decided on a name for yet.
superhero universe that started as a chemistry project when i was in high school where we had to like, anthropomorphize a certain element in order to learn about the periodic table, so of COURSE i made it gay and comics. includes the above magical girls and another group of supers in college, except these ones are more sciencey. main character is nicki walton (can change her flesh into a superdense metallic substance, kind of like how emma frost can become a diamond) and her co-supers valentina foster-nguyen (half alien, can shoot sparkle rays and stuff), basira baz/the all-seeing girl (psychic/teleporter), silver star (haven't decided on a name yet, he's basically ghost rider but a cowboy instead of a biker), and liz doe (ghost girl who is also a toxic slime girl, can become intangible like kitty pryde, started as a villain but turned good cause she fell in love with nicki). she has a whole rogues gallery but the main villain is adam huxley, nicki's old lab partner who tried to kill her but instead gave her superpowers.
juno and milos. started as a college project in my comics class and has never left. root of my dnd homebrew world. she's a hunter turned knight, he's a cursed prince, they're in love, she kills his dad, it's a whole thing. i am perpetually trying to write a graphic novel about it.
gary stu vamp boy. his name is matthew monroe and he used to be vegan 😔 he got briefly mildly famous for accidentally filming his own attack where he was "mauled by a rabid dog", then "mistakenly" pronounced dead and buried "alive", then managed to crawl out of his own grave. he now works as the night manager of the local video store and has a big fixer-upper house where all the local cryptids crash. his best friend is a butch werewolf.
edmund fredericks. he's definitely not an axe murderer! probably exists as a historical figure in matthew's universe.
colette coupe. caricature of evil french ladies. eviscerated her husband but he managed to slit her throat before fully dying and now they're both ghosts who thrive on drama. somehow they ended up in matthew's house (idk cursed item or something) and they all despise each other.
#piri oc#piri.txt#this does not include my rpg ocs or dc takes cause those are in different universes ofc. these guys are all mostly in the same universe :3c#juno and milos' world/my dnd homebrew world exists as a monthly comic in the vampire/superhero/etc. extended universe#i don't know if the superheroes and cryptids are in the same universe or if the superheroes exist as a comic there too 🤔
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✨✨ hey there! 18+ writers only please. i'm looking for someone who'd be willing to write canon female characters! mainly, i'm looking for someone to write / plot or headcanon around some canon characters with, with some of my favorites specified below.
i’ve got more than a few characters i’d looove to write opposite, of course —— these are just a few:
dc
talia al ghul, donna troy, cheshire / jade nguyen, artemis crock (young justice), black canary, zatanna, yara flor, lois lane, huntress / helena bertinelli, carol ferris, jessica cruz, catwoman / selina kyle (comics or zoe kravitz), wonder woman, ravager / rose wilson, starfire / koriand’r, lilith clay, dawn granger (titans tv), mera, punchline, poison ivy, hawkgirl, lady shiva, supergirl, sofia falcone (reevesverse), arrowverse girls (sara lance, laurel lance, thea queen, iris west, dinah drake, mia smoak), etc.
marvel
elektra, emma frost, jean grey, psylocke, rogue, susan storm, kate bishop, felicia hardy, wanda maximoff, carol danvers, mary jane watson, gwen stacy, hope van dyne, claire temple, agatha harkness, gamora, mantis, magik / illyana rasputin, kitty pryde, luna snow, etc
a song of ice and fire (game of thrones / house of the dragon)
cersei lannister, daenerys targaryen, margaery tyrell, melisandre, alicent hightower, rhaenyra targaryen, alys rivers
star wars
rey or leia
video games
ashe or kiriko (overwatch) / tifa, aerith, or jessie (final fantasy 7) / ellie williams (the last of us, part 2) / max caulfield, chloe price, juliet watson (life is strange)
disney
jasmine (aladdin), colette (ratatouille), cinderella, helen parr, tinker bell, kim posible or shego, elsa, alex russo, teddy duncan
arcane
caitlyn kiramman or jinx
anime
lust (fullmetal alchemist) / kagome, kikyo, sango (inuyasha)
other
starlight (the boys) / gwen tennyson (ben 10, alien force version only) / daphne blake (scooby-doo) / heather, gwen, courtney (total drama) / betty cooper (riverdale) / yennefer (the witcher show) / jessica rabbit (who framed roger rabbit?), etc.
these are just a few of the characters i’m looking for tbh, or the main ones at least. there’s quite a lot that i’d love, tbh.
as for who i'd play, i'm fine with most anyone, be it canons or crossovers or whatever. it depends on the pairing or plot, we can talk about it!
i'm fine with most themes and plots, and definitely most pairings. no real limits!
if any of this interests, like this and i‘ll message you! i mainly write through discord
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✨✨ hey there! 18+ writers only please. i'm looking for someone who'd be willing to write canon female characters! mainly, i'm looking for someone to write / plot or headcanon around some canon characters with, with some of my favorites specified below.
i’ve got more than a few characters i’d looove to write opposite, of course —— these are just a few:
dc
talia al ghul, donna troy, cheshire / jade nguyen, artemis crock (young justice), black canary, zatanna, yara flor, lois lane, huntress / helena bertinelli, carol ferris, jessica cruz, catwoman / selina kyle (comics or zoe kravitz), wonder woman, ravager / rose wilson, starfire / koriand’r, lilith clay, dawn granger (titans tv), mera, punchline, poison ivy, hawkgirl, lady shiva, supergirl, sofia falcone (reevesverse), arrowverse girls (sara lance, laurel lance, thea queen, iris west, dinah drake, mia smoak), etc.
marvel
elektra, emma frost, jean grey, psylocke, rogue, susan storm, kate bishop, felicia hardy, wanda maximoff, carol danvers, mary jane watson, gwen stacy, hope van dyne, claire temple, agatha harkness, gamora, mantis, magik / illyana rasputin, kitty pryde, luna snow, etc
a song of ice and fire (game of thrones / house of the dragon)
cersei lannister, daenerys targaryen, margaery tyrell, melisandre, alicent hightower, rhaenyra targaryen, alys rivers
star wars
rey or leia
video games
ashe or kiriko (overwatch) / tifa, aerith, or jessie (final fantasy 7) / ellie williams (the last of us, part 2) / max caulfield, chloe price, juliet watson (life is strange)
disney
jasmine (aladdin), colette (ratatouille), cinderella, helen parr, tinker bell, kim posible or shego, elsa, alex russo, teddy duncan
arcane
caitlyn kiramman or jinx
anime
lust (fullmetal alchemist) / kagome, kikyo, sango (inuyasha)
other
starlight (the boys) / gwen tennyson (ben 10, alien force version only) / daphne blake (scooby-doo) / heather, gwen, courtney (total drama) / betty cooper (riverdale) / yennefer (the witcher show) / jessica rabbit (who framed roger rabbit?), etc.
these are just a few of the characters i’m looking for tbh, or the main ones at least. there’s quite a lot that i’d love, tbh.
as for who i'd play, i'm fine with most anyone, be it canons or crossovers or whatever. it depends on the pairing or plot, we can talk about it!
i'm fine with most themes and plots, and definitely most pairings. no real limits!
if any of this interests, like this and i‘ll message you! i mainly write through discord
<3
#proship#proship friendly#proship please interact#proship safe#proshipper safe#proshippers are valid#op is a proshipper#proshippers are welcome#proud proshipper#antis dni#mdni
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Hi! I'm wondering if you can make a list of fics where Erik's jewish heritage isn't ignored? I just came across the fact that a lot of authors don't explore this part of him for some reason and i found it kinda upsetting so i'm wondering if you have any recs! I liked "As They Kiss, Consume" and "Who Shall be King Hereafter" by sherwoodfox, in case anyone who's reading this ask is interested in the same topic.
Hi Anon. I'm sorry for taking so long with this list but your request sent me on a wide search for fics that fit with your request. I tried to find a variety of fics where Erik's Jewish heritage is addressed. Some of them aren't necessarily cherik, but most of them are. I hope you enjoy this list.
Mistletoe, Latkes, and Long-Term Revenge Strategies – pocky_slash
Summary: Charles knows that Erik hates working at a department store in the best of times. Being Jewish in a department store during the holiday season is far from the best of times. He does what he can to help.
A Nice Boy (the Family Matters Edition) – pocky_slash
Summary: Erik's not sure whether the problem is that he doesn't want his parents to meet Charles or that he doesn't want Charles to meet his parents. Either way, he never invites Charles to brunch. Why should he? It's not like they're dating.
A Road Trip to Pennsylvania – Aainiouu
Summary: For a year Charles has nurtured the biggest and most embarrassing crush known to man towards Erik. They are friends and roommates and when Erik asks Charles to accompany him to home on Thanksgiving of course Charles goes.
In the Bleak Midwinter – keire_ke
Summary: It is not easy to find out, well into the second decade of the twenty-first century, that your mother arranged a marriage for you. It is even less easy to convince her that you have no interest in the very fertile Magda, she of the wide hips and lustrous auburn hair. Fortunately, with a good friend at his side over the holiday weekend, Erik is sure he will prevail.
Speech Making – phalangine
Summary: Modern Emma AU- Charles Xavier, accomplished matchmaker and headmaster of North America’s preeminent school for mutants, intends to add another notch to his belt: setting up his friend Moira. His oldest friend, Erik, has doubts about this plan.
Charles doesn’t share them.
This is life (and everything’s all right) – pocky_slash
Summary: Edie Lehnsherr came into Charles' life long before he ever heard Erik Lehnsherr's name, and her death left a gaping hole in the lives of everyone in Charles' family. As the first Purim without her approaches, he begins to get creative in his efforts to bring everyone out of their grief. Kitchen creativity, however, is not quite his strength....
Bashert – AvengingAngel
Summary: Erik and Charles meet and fall in love. I wanted to write a story where Erik had a huge family. Pretty fluffy (for me anyways). I suck at summaries.
Note: The summary doesn’t reveal much but if you’re looking for a fic where Erik is jewish and has a large family with a heavy dose of cherik fluff and angst then this one is for you.
Math Reasons – pearl_o, pocky_slash
Summary: "Mom says Erik always knows what he wants, it just sometimes takes him a little while to actually realize it," Ruth said.
Charles fell in love with Erik the first night they met, the first week of freshman year. Two years of friendship, adventures, arguments, hijinks, secrets, and summer visits later, Erik is starting to catch up.
Ser
It’s kind of our whole things – pearl_o, pocky_slash
Summary: After two years of best friendship, Charles and Erik thought they knew everything there was to know about each other. They're surprised, then, when their first summer as a couple reveals that they have a lot to learn about each other and themselves.
Sequel to Math Reasons
A Winter in New York – nextraordinaire
Summary: Charles and Erik have been childhood friends for as long as they can remember – Erik, living with his mother in Queens, and Charles in the big mansion in Westchester. For all, expect themselves, it was just natural progression that they'd end up together.
A series of ficlets from the same universe – can be read as separate and are out of chronological order.
Baby, It’s Cold Outside – heyjupiter
Summary: "It's just, this is my first Chanukah away from my parents. And it's--it's like 90 degrees out."
Erik Lehnsherr and Kitty Pryde celebrate a Genoshan Chanukah. It's a little different from the way it used to be in New York, but some unexpected visitors help them embrace the spirit of the holiday season.
Hold Back the Rain (front!strict mashup) – euphorbic
Summary: Charles Xavier: society darling, powerful political activist, well-known professor, and Dominant.
Erik Lehnsherr: anti-social, international motorcycle racer, and defiant submissive.
Erik is at Sepang in Malaysia for the fourteenth leg of the International World Championship. After doing poorly in qualifying, he's furious to find he has to take another VIP around the track instead of meeting Charles at the KL airport.
The Swan – waitfornight
Summary: In 1939 Erik and his sister Ruth are sent to Devonshire, England, during the Kindertransport refugee program to live with Kurt and Sharon Marko as foster children just before the start of World War II. Angry and wishing he could return home on the night of his seventeenth birthday, Erik meets a boy alone in the forest who is cursed to transform each day into a swan, only taking his true form by night.
Swan Lake AU.
The boy with the heart on his sleeve – euphorbic
Summary: Charles loses a high-stakes bet to Raven and is required to get a tattoo. However, when he makes a disparaging remark about the art form, Raven's acerbic mentor, Erik, steps in.
Or, the one where Erik and Raven are tattoo artists.
The Wurst Case Scenario – sareyen
Summary:If anyone asked why Charles, come rain, wind or shine, made the significant trek during his dismal lunch hour to dine at "Edie's Kosher Delicatessen", he would stubbornly say that it was because their pastrami on rye and potato knishes were absolutely to die for. He wasn't completely lying, because the deli's namesake, Edie Lehnsherr, made the best matzah ball soup Charles has ever had in his life. Still, Charles would rather shave his full head of hair off than admit that the real reason he would willingly walk through hail and fire to get to the corner deli was because of Erik, the insanely attractive man working the counter.
Sure, Erik has barely spoken two words to Charles other than "Hello, what can I get you?" or, after the third day in a row that Charles came to the deli, "Welcome back, what can I get you?", but Charles was more than happy to just ogle at the man from afar while devouring the juicy wurst Erik had put together with his (large and very capable) hands.
But, little does Charles know, Erik doesn't usually work the front counter. He only does it when he knows the cute blue-eyed man will be dining in.
This is life (and everything’s all right) – pocky_slash
Summary: Edie Lehnsherr came into Charles' life long before he ever heard Erik Lehnsherr's name, and her death left a gaping hole in the lives of everyone in Charles' family. As the first Purim without her approaches, he begins to get creative in his efforts to bring everyone out of their grief. Kitchen creativity, however, is not quite his strength....
c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction – melonbutterfly
Summary: Since that day on the beach, Charles and Erik have learned to agree to disagree for the sake of living and working together. Then, for Christmas, and Charles gives Erik Hanukkah back a second time, and their relationship shifts a little further.
Terrible Hanukkah Sweaters and Other Life Challenges – professor
Summary: “Why am I here again?” Erik groans.
“I need you to lift things and glower at people over my shoulder when I tell people that it’s not ‘politically correct’ or a ‘war on Christmas’ to have a non-denominational winter holiday festival,” says Theresa Pryde.
Well, at least those are two things he’s good at.
Shrapnel – librata
Summary: It's late 1940, and tensions between the Axis and the Allies are tightening. Displaced and alone, 16-year-old German Jew Erik Lehnsherr finds himself employed as a servant by some snobby, terrible family in England whose house is far too big and whose money never seems to end. The worst part is, he isn't just mucking stables or cleaning plates–-he's tasked with tending to the whiny, disabled son named Charles, who might just drive Erik into absolute madness.
Or, the World War II fic in which Erik and Charles experience a changing world and a lot of teen angst.
Defying Expectations – Baamon5evr
Summary: Charles and Erik meet each other’s family. Neither of them gets what they expect.
table for three – pocky_slash
Summary: Erik should have known to call ahead to the Chinese restaurant--it's Christmas Eve and he lives in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, after all. But before he can go home to mourn the loss of another one of his mother's yearly traditions, he's accosted by a teenage girl with a strange proposition--that he should stay and have dinner with her and her mother, instead.
different from all other nights – metonymy
Summary: "This year we are slaves; next year we will be free." Kitty and Erik host a seder for Passover at the Xavier School.
Libertad – ariadnes_string
Summary: Erik knew the look, had seen it his whole life, even before the war. ”You, with your height and blue eyes and straight nose, you can pass. You can be free of us. You are not marked with your difference.” If you only knew, he’d thought then. He thought the same thing now. And it was that thought, as much as anything, that made him move towards the gate.
Wash Away – sebastian2017
Summary: One quiet, lonely morning, before Yom Kippur, Erik makes his way to the sea in search of forgiveness.
After? There is No ‘After’ – Unrepentant_Marvelist
Summary: Erik knows what he is for. He has known his responsibilities as a survivor since the moment he woke under a scratchy, lice-infested blanket in the Red Army hospital. His world is painted in lucid blacks and whites (so often splashed in red) and there is no room for uncertainty or indecision... until a certain sunburned Englishman throws himself into his world.
The Children of an Idle Brain – Margo_Kim
Summary: Sometimes, when he’s lucky, Schmidt can’t hurt him. It’s like there’s a room inside of Erik’s head that’s he’s usually locked out of, that won’t open no matter if he beats himself bloody against it. On those days, he endures. But sometimes—and Erik doesn’t know why, whether it’s that the stars align or some higher power takes pity or Erik screams loud enough to earn his reward—the door opens. Erik can duck inside and slam it behind him and watches himself through the windows as Schmidt slowly, methodically tortures him to strength.
These days, this past week, there’s a boy in the room with him and he tells Erik, “That’s horrible,” like that means something.
Somehow, across the world, Erik's and Charles' minds touch when they need each other most. They can't be sure that the other boy is real. They suspect that he is not. But that doesn't mean they aren't each other's lifeline until they lose each other and then for a while longer.
Tehillim – kvikindi
Summary: Erik, in Israel, afterwards: another life he could have had. If.
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) – childishinquiry
Summary: Erik has worn long sleeves his whole life, even before they had to wear yellow stars. Marching along his arm, in neat, black, English letters, are the words "My name's Charles Xavier."
Precious Few Years – sherwoodfox
Summary: Erik and Charles (known only to each other by the letters inscribed on their wrists) are meant to be together, soulmates, destined for the most powerful kind of love and connection a human being can experience.
But they are separated in almost every possible way- by distance, by circumstance, by language, by war. Their chances of success- of finding one another in the labyrinth of the world- are very slim. There is a reason why most people never find their soulmates.
But of course, Charles and Erik aren't ordinary children-
They have their gifts.
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Hey there @vvithteeth! So, this isn’t EXACTLY what you asked for the readlist to focus on, but I think it’s worth checking out all the same for a general sense of Emma’s history leading up to her current character!
EVIL 80s EMMA She’s not good reference for who Emma is NOW, but a good look at what she used to be, and what she’s overcome. I think looking at Emma when she was at her worst, helps one appreciate her at her best. If you see what she had to rise above in herself, you understand the self that she’s fighting back, you have a better appreciation for the kinds of things she’s tempted towards---and the kinds of things she no longer does. X-Men (1st series) #129-131 is her introduction, as she tries to recruit Kitty Pryde to her school before Xavier does. One of the most chilling moments, for me personally, is when she threatens to destroy Storm’s mind so that she will be “human only in physical form” And then Jean drops a house on her, which is why she’s not involved in the Dark Phoenix saga, as she was still recovering. Emma continues trying to get Kitty and other kids into her clutches in Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #180 and New Mutants (1st series) #15-17, but in New Mutants (1st series) #38-40 she finally manages it by exploiting their current fucked-up state and having her student Empath use his powers to manipulate Magneto. But when the kids decide to return to Xavier’s school, Emma allows them to do so without a fight, and just tells them that they’ll always have a place with her if they need it. Which seems nice, but then her thought balloons reveal that this is just so the kids won’t believe it when Magneto tells them she’s evil. Firestar #1-4: Whoa mama, Emma is at max abusive here. See, she desires to eliminate Selene, and to this end she trains a young mutant she names Firestar. She does so by manipulating the girl, isolating her, convincing her that she NEEDS Emma to help her control her powers or else she’s dangerous to others, and even KILLS HER PET HORSE. Emma is someone who says “I love children. Teaching is my life.” and she MEANS IT, she has a genuine call to teach and her love for her students is her driving force, but here we see how she USED to treat her students. Then put her against who she is now, it’s a huge contrast. Honestly, I don’t know why SOME WRITERS want to erase her growth by pretending she was Actually Good All Along but yeah, here’s Bad Emma. This is who she fights. This is what she has risen above. EMMA’S BACKSTORY ISSUES Emma’s history is. . . kind of multiple choice. She tells one version in Generation X #24, but this doesn’t fit at all with the Emma Frost miniseries that came out from 2003 -2004, which also doesn’t exactly fit with “X-Men Origins: Emma Frost” single-issue backstory. I personally would read the “X-Men Origins” one and at least the beginning of the miniseries, specifically the parts that deal with her home life. The reason is that both of these show how unhealthy Emma’s home was growing up, and how that made her who she is. When I saw I think Emma is “wired” to be a villain, I don’t mean I think she was born like that, but as in, I think her environment trained her to become like that. It’s kind of like how a lot of personality disorders aren’t something a person is born with, but come from being in a shitty environment where certain behaviors will help you survive better, and then even once that situation is over, you can’t get rid of those behaviors because it’s how your brain is wired now. That’s how I read Emma---she came out of this toxic, duplicitous environment of manipulation and abuse where she and her siblings were set against each other, and that’s now her default for how she interacts with the world, even though she was originally just a sweet little nerd who only wanted to be a teacher. The “Origins” one features a generic Shitty Abuser Shaw and isn’t as good as the more drawn-out miniseries, as it focuses more on physical abuse (like her father suddenly slapping her) to get a point across that her family is toxic, rather than the more drawn-out miniseries, which I think works better for explaining Emma’s specific brand of. . .Emma-ness. But the bit where her mother tells her that her father is hardest on her because he likes her most of all, is really important I think, since that reflects her relationship later with the Hellions, which is also shown in this. Because Emma is cruel to the Hellions, even though she loves them, and in fact because she loved them. Her love for them and her agony over their deaths is what drives her to join the X-Men in the first place. As for which origin story is true. . .I think the miniseries one is probably MOST true, as it’s the only one that Emma herself isn’t telling as a story. But as the friend who helped me assemble this list puts it, “ Think of any origin story of Emma's as "a sort of fairy tale, a parable," where it's the theme that matters, not the precise events or timeline “ 90s EMMA Emma spent most of the 90s teaching Generation X. I don’t remember a lot of stuff for specifically what I’m talking about with her, but here are a couple issues that strike me as significant. Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #311-314: In Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #281-284, the Hellions were killed and Emma Frost was left in a coma, her body taken care of by the X-Men. This is when she wakes up, takes over Iceman’s body, and goes on a rampage thinking she’s the prisoner of the X-Men. When she finds out what happened to her Hellions, she collapses in despair and turns herself over to the X-Men. This is her turning point. This is when we found out Emma Frost had a soul. That she LOVED the Hellions. That they were not just tools. And there’s this one line in the yellow narrative boxes that really sticks out: “As the Hellfire Club’s White Queen, she spent the better part of her life traversing from one mind to another, violating the very essence of anyone she so chose. Losing herself in the memories of others. Altering, at times, the opinions of those who opposed her. This time is different. This time it is about survival. This time. . .it’s for the children.” The words are echoed when she agrees to join Krakoa's Quiet Council, after Charles and Erik tell her their plan and convince her it might just work. "One more time, then. For the children." Emma’s true love, in my opinion, isn’t Scott. Nor is it Namor. It’s teaching. Emma becomes the teacher to Generation X, as mentioned, and in Generation X (1st series) #18-19, during the Onslaught crisis, she’s so terrified of losing them like she did the Hellions, that she snapped, took the kids to a safehouse in Canada, and put them under her telepathic control for their own safety. This is an Emma who has learned that abusing her students isn’t the right way, but still doesn’t respect their autonomy or consent even as she’s desperately trying to protect them, and has to learn from Monet (who is. . . .actually not Monet) that this isn’t the right way to do it either. Emma did not grow up with adult models who showed her how to love and care for a child, she has to figure it out herself, and it’s a rocky journey at times, even though she has the best of intentions. I think this is a good issue to show an Emma who is in the process of evolving. She’s getting better, but she still hasn’t got it “right” yet. CURRENT-ERA EMMA Emma really becomes the Emma we know with Grant Morrison’s New X-Men in the early 2000s. This is where she starts affecting a British accent, calling everyone darling, and the delightfully witty Queen of Mean while also still a devoted teacher with trauma over losing her students. She always was witty and a little mean, but Morrison takes these traits up to 11 and gives Emma the foundation of what a lot of writers would build upon. It’s also when she begins her telepathic affair/seduction of Scott, which is a more than slightly problematic dynamic, as I’ve discussed. Also, this is when she got her now-famous diamond form. We get a lot of lovely Emma nastiness in this series. New X-Men #128-139 all have lots of great moments for her where she’s just WICKED yet still on the side of the angels, and New X-Men Annual 2001 starts us off. However, character-wise, I think what really comes out here is Emma going from blaming her past actions on substances (she tells Scott in the New X-Men Annual 2001 that she just probably out of her mind on drink and drugs all those times she was doing bad things) to being forced to face her past and herself for the first time when confronted by Jean & the Phoenix in New X-Men #139. It’s the first time we get a look at what Emma’s family and home life was like, as well as the first time she’s established as having a brother, but more than that is the emotion that gets brought in. This is also when Morrison decided to retcon the Hellfire Club as a strip joint (which I hate and also shows up in Emma’s “Origins” story) but that’s neither here nor there. The point is, Jean makes Emma face all her flaws and pain and nasty, most vulnerable parts of herself. Emma is left mentally broken...then one page later, physically, shattered by a diamond bullet that we later find out was fired by none other than Esme, the Stepford Cuckoo whom Emma later says reminded her most of herself. There is definitely poetic symbolism there. As my friend put it “This cycle of her students dying and Emma losing it and trying again but never facing the roots of her issues goes on and on until her roots literally kill her, and Jean of all people resurrects her. Jean, who saw right through Emma, saw something there worth saving, and literally and metaphorically put her back together again.” The next place I’d go is Astonishing X-Men, which is the first time Emma and Kitty work together. Kitty HATES Emma at this point, because, as she points out, Emma is the villain in her origin story. And Emma KNOWS this. That’s why she WANTS Kitty there. She knew that Kitty would keep an eye on her, wouldn’t trust her, and that’s what Emma WANTS, because Emma doesn’t trust HERSELF. So this shows that Emma KNOWS her moral compass is a very flawed one, and that she WANTS to be better so consciously that she’s getting someone she knows doesn’t like or trust her to be around because she knows she’ll watch her like a HAWK. This also means Emma is admitting she can fail, and giving some control to someone else. There’s. . . so much that happens from here. Utopia. Phoenix Five. The Terrigen Mists shit. Secret Empire. I feel like there are probably great Emma readlists out there that include these, but honestly I just kinda zoned out through a lot of it. These are some additional read lists for her I found: https://lornahs.tumblr.com/post/87230882649/where-to-start-reading-emma-frost-lets-start https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/2bwwok/emma_frost_reading/ It’s definitely a LOT and I wish you the best of luck tackling it! Also, I wouldn’t feel you have to read EVERYTHING, or incorporate everything into your depiction. Pick and choose what you feel works best for your version!
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House of M- redone (part 9)
N/A: This story is close to being wrapped and as always I will not make a sequel. I hope the ending is ok.
@tieflingteeth
@dannybagpipesarecalling @muninandhugin
The breakthrough about Lady Mastermind participating in the lastest attempts is all thanks to Mystique and a good connection with Logan- the rich playboy is living a good life but his ears still work- warrant a meeting with the Witch Queen and every single Red guard present, leastwise, all the important ones.
And sure, Kitty Pryde is present in the meeting. Once, Kitty confessed to Jubilee she would love to be in a Red guard meeting if this could mean she can be close to the famous Witch Queen. Yes, Kitty knew it was just a fan-fantasy and it wouldn´t be real.
"Why is she here?" Mystique asked solicited leering at Kitty. Her golden eyes fixed on her two children. Rogue crosses her arms and looks away, Kurt is nonchalant about the whole ordeal, while Kitty, in all her wisdom, is staring at Mystique.
Wanda is too used by the Darkholme clan to mind their shenanigans- Pietro rolls his eyes and Lorna is always amused- and one clear of her throat is enough to stop whatever was stirring in the Darkholme clan and all eyes are focused on Wanda.
(Lorna is holding the little Billy and Tommy as Wanda doesn´t trust to let them alone lately nor Lorna wants to be left out of the debate)
(Billy and Tommy are too little to know how dangerous the situation truly is. All they know is that they are here)
"Now we´re all here to discuss what to do about Lady Mastermind" her voice demands respect and all eyes are present for the famous witch queen.
Scarlet eyes stare back. Wanda is anything but powerless.
"What does she wants with Genosha?" Kitty asked too bravely and inwardly cringing as all eyes are present and facing the small figure- Kurt holds her hand unobtrusively and Kitty can feel his ungloved hand nicely- gulping loudly she carries on. "No one wakes up and decides to cause chaos and I know Magneto and Mastermind used to work together"
Kitty notices the apprehensive from the royal family and adds swiftly. "I say this thanks to the textbooks and many videos about them"
Pietro snaps at such revelation. "Wait, I thought those videos were banned"
Lorna regards Kitty cooly. The woman tries to remember how the royal children have a tumultuous past with Magneto. A young mutant may say Magneto is right, but, his kids can also say how he´s a terrible father.
It's a real tragedy for the man who is immortalized as an activist for mutants is now forever and ever denied any semblance of love by his only family.
"Not all the videos, some are still available, his fight in New York, for example, is still show by everyone in the globe. In that fight, everyone can see Mastermind and Magneto fighting with their enemies and each other" Kitty concludes her case.
Wanda studies her. Such red eyes and the woman is not above pretending her crimson eyes aren´t intimidating.
"Mastermind had a desire for Genosha, one my father never fulfill. You think his daughter carries such insult as it was direct to her?" Wanda asked and no one is sure if this is a rhetorical question or not.
Mystique is the one to interject. "It wouldn´t be the first. Many people in the past often believe to have a claim to Genosha...but, if its not about the land... then could be about " her golden eyes travel to Billy and Tommy. "your family...is very interesting to some people"
Pietro inhales starkly. "That too wouldn´t be the first time...and we´ll face them and win, again"
Lorna pipes in. "Pietro is right, it wouldn´t be the first time someone..." her green eyes land on the two little boys who are playing on their phones now. "tried to harm us...plus, Wanda is really powerful...only a fool would try to fight her"
Wanda sighs weakly. "I´m not all-powerful. I´m still human and I can still die like everyone else...That´s why I need a plan, I need to know Genosha and my family will be safe"
Kitty never saw Wanda in such a position before. Sure, when they broadcast the Witch Queen the media shows this woman who is God in a red dress. No one ever imagined or wanted to imagine she is just as human as the rest.
Rogue takes the reign of the conversation. "Kitty mentioned that fight in New York, well, I saw that fight too, and apparently Mastermind had some allies. Some died, some are still alive and this gave me a lead" Rogue has that winning smirk.
Mystique is exasparated. Are all of her children enjoying secret investigations?
"Turns out, the man had 4 marriages and had 4 daughters, one of them is in Genosha right now" Rogue is revealing as this is a story and it´s getting closer to the climax.
Kitty stares at Kurt who is too used to the level of the flare of his dear older sister.
"Her name is Pixie or how she was once called Megan Gwynn" Rogue reveals triumphantly. "A teleport and magic-user that is enrolled at Emma´s school"
Silence reigns as Rogue were expecting. "So, I took the deliberately to ask Megan to come to one of the stations and have a nice chat with Kwannon"
"Wait, if she´s a magic-user can´t she magic her way up with Kwannon?" Kurt asked in pure concern. After all, magic users are wild cards. Thankfully, Wanda doesn´t take offense in that.
Kitty can picture the scene of this young girl in the station having to deal with Kwannon. One of the best telepaths after Jean Grey. "Where is her mother? Was she in Genosha all alone?"
Is ethical to interrogate a young girl without her parents even in this situation? I think not.
"Oh, she was with relatives in Genosha, an aunt but that was fake" Rogue answers.
Wanda and Pietro don´t like where this is going.
Kitty is the one to pinder about Pixie´s safety.
After all, she could have been one of her students...
#house of M redone au#wanda maximoff#witch queen#pietro maximoff#I see Lorna as the youngester#and is cute how she thinks Wanda is that OP and can´t be defeated#kitty pryde#kurt wagner#Rogue is dramatic#kurtty yet
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Painting Pandemonium
Alright, I know this should’ve been part two of “Out With the Old, In With the New,” but I had a bad few days and needed fluff. Part Two of last week’s fic will be up next week, barring any other mishaps.
Summary: You and Piotr host a Bob Ross painting party for your family and friends.
Rating: G for domestic fluff and found family stuff.
Pairing(s): Piotr Rasputin x Reader, Nathan Summers x Wade Wilson, Ellie Phimister x Yukio, Kitty Pryde x Illyana Rasputin (alluded to), and Alexandra Rasputin x Nikolai Rasputin.
Set after “Future: Realized.”
Sidenote: I’m thinking about doing a dedicated arc to Alexandra. She’s got an entire fleshed out backstory for the series, and I love her so much and would love to feature her more. Would any of you be interested in that/some Alexandra-centric fics? Let me know via DMs or asks; Tumblr changed the notifications system and made it too hard to keep up with reblogs.
Taglist: @marvel-is-perfection, @chromecutie, @super-darkcloudstudent, @girl-obsessed-with-things, @nebulous-leo
It begins one sunny, early Spring day, when you’re watching your husband work on his latest painting (one of two hands holding each other, each smeared with the colors of the lesbian, gay, and asexual pride flags) in his art studio.
“Have you ever heard of Bob Ross?”
“Da.” Piotr dabs some more magenta paint on the wrist of the left hand, then looks over at you and smiles. “I watched tutorials to learn English. Why ask?”
“Eh, just wondering,” you say, curling up in the cushy arm chair Piotr keeps in his studio –he says it’s so he has somewhere comfortable to sit when he’s thinking, but it’s as much for you as it is for him. “Wasn’t sure if he’d made it over into Russia’s cultural bubble or not.”
“Ah, that, not so much.” He takes a step back from his easel, eyeing the canvas with no small amount of scrutiny, undoubtedly weighing out whether the distributions of the colors on the two hands–the rainbow amalgam for the gay pride flag where the fingers interlock, and the lesbian and asexual pride flag colors on the separate, untouching parts of the hands and wrists—are up to his incredibly high standards. “Matushka found some for me to watch on tape when I started painting, but I earnest watched when I came to America.” He quirks his mouth to the side, then looks at you and jerks his head at the canvas. “Mysli?”
“Needs more yellow and green,” you declare after a moment of studying the painting. “Otherwise it’s a lot of warm tones and purple-y tones, and that just makes my eyes start glazing without something to liven it up.”
Piotr nods with a grunt of agreement, then adds more yellow and green paint to his palette.
***
It continues a few weeks later, when the two of you are buying groceries.
“Hey, have you heard about those ‘Bob Ross painting parties?’” you blurt when you two pass the arts and crafts section of the store. When Piotr gives you a blank look, you elaborate. “You know, a bunch of people get together with a bunch of paint and canvases and shit and follow a Bob Ross tutorial while hanging out.”
Piotr blinks rapidly as he processes the concept, then smiles slowly and shakes his head. “I take it you have reason for bringing this up.”
“I mean…” You let your voice trail off, then look up at your husband with your patented ‘I’m-so-cute-you-can’t-resist-me-please-make-me-pancakes’ eyes. “We have a house. We have access to YouTube and Netflix –which are where the tutorials are. We have friends we like to hang out with.”
Piotr chuckles, then grins down at you. “Would you like to host ‘painting party,’ myshka?”
“Well, since you brought it up!” you chirp brightly, which only makes your husband laugh harder. “But yeah, I think it’d be fun! And we got paint right here!”
Piotr shakes his head –still smiling—as you gesture at the Crayola-stocked arts and crafts section, then ushers you away from the aisle. “We can host party, lyublyu –but we can get better paint than that.”
***
It takes a few weeks of planning, gathering supplies, checking schedules, and inviting people –but finally, towards the end of April, it all comes together.
The kitchen counter is laden with snacks –chips, fruits and veggies, cookies, little sandwiches, and the like. The coffee table in front of the couch has canvases, tubes of paint, and jars of paintbrushes loaded on it. The TV that hangs over the fireplace is on and set up to play one of Bob Ross’s tutorials, once everyone’s ready.
Nearly everyone is already here. Kitty, Russell, Illyana, Ellie, and Yukio are milling around the kitchen, jabbering while they down various snacks. Mikhail and Neena are sitting on the couch, looking at something on Neena’s phone. Piotr and his mother, Alexandra, are talking about one of Piotr’s latest paintings, while Nikolai stands nearby quietly, only throwing in the occasional comment.
You grin when the doorbell rings multiple times in a row, then skip over to the front door and open it with a sunny grin. “Hey!”
Wade greets you with an enthusiastic bear hug. “Howdy yourself, pardner! Hope you saved some yellow paints for me; I’ve always found those ones to be the best tasting.”
You and Nate exchange a fondly annoyed eyeroll over Wade’s antics, in addition to a hug. “Glad you could make it, Dad.”
“Like we wouldn’t come.” He pats your shoulder, lips quirking into an amused grin. “Like he’d—” he nods at Wade “—let me skip out. He’s been talking about it nonstop for the past two weeks.”
***
It takes no small amount of shuffling to get everyone situated so they can all see the screen. Kitty, Illyana, Russell, Ellie, and Yukio all cram onto the couch together (which Piotr drapes with towels beforehand), Neena, Nathan, Alex, and Nikolai take station behind the couch with barstools and easels, you and Piotr set up on either side of the couch, and Mikhail and Wade…
Well…
“This is fucking overkill,” Wade gripes as Piotr ushers him and his brother to an area he’d prepped by taping newspapers to the floors and walls before hanging plastic shower curtains over the walls and putting down one of his thick drop canvases over the newspapered floor.
“Language, Wade,” Piotr says. “And it is just small precaution.”
“Nebol'shaya predostorozhnost', moya zadnitsa,” Mikhail grumbles.
“You two are… most chaotic,” Piotr says, attempting to be diplomatic. “This will minimize clean up, at end.”
“Sounds like someone wants paint in his shoes,” Wade stage-whispers to Mikhail.
“Agreed,” Mikhail faux whispers back with a nod. “We wait until tutorial puts him to sleep, and then we put purple paint in shoes.”
“I was thinking red, but purple works, too.”
You laugh along with everyone else, then blow your husband a kiss when he sighs heavily and shakes his head. “Alright, are we all ready?”
***
“Fu –freaking… why does he switch colors so much!”
“Relax, baby.” Yukio smiles at her frustrated girlfriend, then kisses her shoulder. “It’s just for fun.”
“Fun is playing Mariokart… or studying string theory,” Ellie growls through gritted teeth as she jabs at her canvas with a paintbrush. “Not… dab some stuff here and some other stuff there and making little blobs look like things.”
“Come on, Negasonic the Hedgehog!” Wade coos teasingly from where he’s swiping at his own canvas. “Think ‘happy little clouds’ and ‘happy little trees!’”
“Douchepool, I will jam this paint brush up your—”
“Language, NTW,” Piotr says warningly –though not without a good dose of fondness. “And, Wade, no harassment, please.”
“Harassment? Pretty sure your little protegee there was just threatening to harass my—”
“Wade.”
Kitty just laughs as she works on her own ‘mountain sunrise’ scene. “Relax, Ellie. There’s no right or wrong way to do it.”
“Incorrect,” Illyana retorts, brow deeply furrowed as she works on her own painting. “There is tutorial. That is right way.”
“Tutorial is only reference, to show distribution of colors and shades,” Piotr corrects his younger sister as he leans over to look at his mentee’s canvas. “You are loading brush too heavy, Ellie. Start with less, then add more if needed.”
“I think I am less ‘sunrise’ and more ‘disco rave,’” Nikolai chuckles as he peers down at his own canvas.
Neena lets out a ‘whoa’ when she looks over at Nick’s canvas, then laughs lightly. “It’s long distance art. Meant to be seen from far away.”
Nick laughs along with her. “At last, I have found niche.”
The corner of Alex’s mouth turns up in a smile, and she reaches out and pats her husband’s thigh with her free hand.
***
Once you’re all done –which takes a lot of pausing and rewinding the tutorial video—you all set your respective canvases on the dining room table, then admire each other’s works.
Piotr’s, unsurprisingly, is the best. He’s the most experienced artist out of all of you, and very familiar with both the materials and Bob Ross’s work.
You wrap your arms around your husband’s waist and kiss his side. “Very nice work, honey.”
He wraps a strong, muscular arm around you and kisses the top of your head. “Spasibo, myshka.”
Alexandra’s is also a “top contender” (even though it’s not a contest, which means there really aren’t contenders, but whatever). It’s not as technically proficient as her son’s –none of yours are—but in balance, composition, and contrast, it’s one of the strongest.
The painter herself, though, regards her work with neutral indifference while everyone else ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ over it. “It’s alright. Average.”
You watch as Nikolai wraps his arms around his wife’s shoulders, murmuring something in her ear that you can’t make out –it’s likely in Russian, anyway, so it doesn’t make much of a difference—before kissing her temple.
Alex’s hand trembles as she places it on her husband’s arm. Just a little.
Before you can make anything of it, Kitty busts out laughing.
“That is amazing!” she guffaws as she studies Wade’s painting –which looks less like a ‘sunrise’ and more like…
Well, it’s somewhere between a ‘LSD trip realized’ and ‘inside of a rainbow.’
(Granted, they might just be the same thing.)
“Very Picasso,” Kitty adds, grinning and shaking her head.
Wade preens theatrically. “I always felt a calling the abstract.”
She moves to Nikolai’s next. “I actually really like this. I think the intensity of the sunrise colors really sets off the greens in the trees.”
Nikolai grins when Illyana translates for him, then does a little bow to Kitty. “Spasibo, tigrionok.”
You can’t help but smile as you watch everyone –the people you love so much—laugh and talk to each other and admire each other’s paintings. This is home.
***
“You seem happy.”
You look up from admiring everyone’s paintings –night has long since fallen, and everyone’s headed back to their own places, but you and Piotr had offered to hold onto the paintings for a few days so they could dry. “Huh?”
“You are happy, lyublyu.” Piotr smiles softly as he watches you. “Glowing.”
You smile bashfully as you look up at him. “I mean… I am happy. We’re making a home.” Tears well up in your eyes, and you smile broader even as grief –well-papered over, but there all the same—rises in your chest. “And it’s so different from the one I grew up in. It’s warm and loving and friendly… and that makes me happy.”
Piotr smiles, melancholy tears shining in his eyes, then draws you into his arms and kisses the top of your head.
Yeah. This is home.
#sass writes#piotr rasputin x reader#colossus x reader#nathan summers x wade wilson#cablepool#negasonic x yukio#kitty pryde x illyana rasputin#alexandra rasputin x nikolai rasputin#bob ross#painting#fluff fluff fluff#nothing but fluff#found family#x men fanfiction#deadpool fanfiction
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Name ten favorite characters from ten different things (books, tv, film, etc.), then tag ten people.
Tagged by @alexc1ting - thank you for always remembering about me 💚💚 this one wasn’t easy, tho 😅 and took me more time than i planned
movie
Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean
after so many years i still love the way he does everything: the way he walks, and talks, his gestures... and all his ideas are gold.
tv show
Adam Groff from Sex Education
/at least at this time; i watched this show 2 or 3 weeks ago...?/
i fell sorry for him - he’s father is a piece of shit and he's under so much preassure. i just wanted everything to go well for him and be happy, so when he smilled for the first time and when Ola said that they were friends, it was everything
cartoon
Kitty Pryde | Shadowcat from X-Men: Evolution
maybe she can’t move things wiht her mind or manipulate the elements, but i always loved her power and the way she’s using it. i like her relationships with others [e.g. Nightcrawler and Wolverine] and that she brings some life and fun to their house.
anime
Kagura from Gintama
i love her with my whole heart. she’s funny, strong and doesn’t need to be rescued - not like most of the girls in anime world. Kagura is known as the first Shonen Jump heroine to vomit and pick her nose, so yeah - she’s not there to show her tits but to kick asses.
manga
Sebastian Michaelis from Kuroshitsuji
handsome, loves cats and can do anything - he’s just perfect. i really like that Sebastian is not a serious character and was shown seducing a woman - just like demon should be. and i love he’s relationship with his master.
book
Świętosława | Sigrida Storråda from Harda
i love that she does what she can to be strong and independent queen. i just really like her character.
/imagine a picture/
19 Days [yes, this is category]
Mo Guanshan from 19 Days [surprise, surprise]
i love him since the beginning. i understand him and want to protect this baby. there’s no need to explain my love
we all know that i can’t count to 10.
i tag: @call-me-ala | @i-got-these-words | @ee-ra | @notthatiwilleverwriteit | @ginmayo | @moggi-lynnnnn | @casually-inlove - of course you can ignore it
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words: 2.4k words
warnings: angst, fluff, awkward tension, age gap(no minors here tho!!) unrequited love?
summary: reader returns to the mansion after many years and her past relationship with Colossus is pretty tense. Is there something still there?
a/n: i’ve been reading up on colossus’ relationship with kitty pryde in the comics and this is inspired by it. basically kitty and piotr meet when she's 13 and he's somewhere around 19 and she has a huge crush on him but he doesn't allow it; he's just a sweet flustered cornball trying to protect her.
Part 2 here
Ever since you had stepped foot in the mansion you’d taken an immediate liking to Colossus, the giant but friendly Russian. He was so sweet to you, probably because you were scared of your new abilities and your new home. You had come to live at Xavier’s school because your father had decided it was best after you’d accidentally injured him. You were only 15 at the time and the first person you met as you walked through the large double doors was him. Piotr. His friendliness toward you led to your slight crush on the steel man. He was 6 years your senior making him 21 when you’d first met. Of course your little crush was kept in secret. You wanted him as your support, your friend, and he saw you the same way. Of course when you got older things shifted a bit in your head.
-7 years ago (age 16)- “Hiya Piotr how are ya doin’ today?” you said cheekily, wrapping your arms around his neck from behind and giving him a quick peck on the cheek.
You knew he would be upset with your actions, but you couldn’t help it. You had become bold in showing your feelings toward the mutant and knew it flustered him to no end.
He immediately grabbed your hands from his body holding onto them tightly for a moment too long before letting them go and folding his arms to his chest. He sighed, and you walked in front of him sitting at the table he was at. Concern etched your face. He had never acted this way toward your advances, granted you had never kissed him on the cheek, but you had held his hand and hugged him plenty of times.
“Y/N this is highly inappropriate. You cannot do this anymore. I must put stop to it rebenok” /child/
Your lips quivered as he said this. You would’ve never acted in such a way had you known this would be the outcome. You only wished to be around him and make him happy. A tear had slipped down your cheek as you waited for him to reprimand you more, or at least comfort you. But nothing happened. He sat there firmly. This angered you. In your previous shows of endearment, he would appear bashful and tell you ‘not now’, ‘please stop’. Never had he been so bold.
You wiped your few tears and stood from the chair pushing it in abruptly, causing it to slam against the table. The sound did nothing to startle him.
“Yeah well, you know what Colossus? You won’t have to worry about it for long. In a few years, I’m leaving and you’ll never have to worry about a ‘child’ like me bothering you again- you- you ass!”
You were heated and breathing heavy but he wouldn't even look at you. You knew your words were childish, but he just sat there. It infuuriated you to no end. You turned on your heel and walked out the door. You caught yourself on the frame and turned to him one last time.
“I liked it better when you called me dorogaya Colossus.” /darling/
You left the room and went to your bedroom to cry. Colossus sat in the chair, he hadn't moved since he had said those things to you. He hadn’t meant to be so brash but he wanted you to understand that no matter how much he wanted to, he just couldn’t.
“And I liked it better when you called Piotr,” he whispered to himself. -
Just as you had promised, you no longer became his problem. You stole yourself away from him, only speaking to him when necessary. This lasted for two years until the day you graduated from the school for gifted youngsters.
No one in the house dared to say anything about your fragmented relationship with Piotr, they were afraid of what Logan would do. As your stand-in big brother since the beginning, he had taken your side and was very upset at the way Colossus pushed you aside. He hadn’t known the true reason for your broken friendship, just that he wanted to protect you, so much so that his own friendship with Colossus was also strained.
You left the mansion shortly after your graduation to travel to other countries and help other mutants like yourself. Your going wasn’t dramatic. You just disappeared only telling Charles and Logan that you could no longer stay in the house.
-present (age 23)-
“I can’t believe I’m finally back,” you muttered to yourself as you approached the grand steps of the place you called home.
You figured a lot had changed since you left. Of course, you’d been keeping tabs on the place but you weren’t certain if the furniture was the same, if you still had your room, or even who was presently at the house.
You opened the door and entered into the mansion duffel bag in tow.
“Well hello beautiful you must be the sexy new Xman in town, besides myself. Wade. Wade Wilson at your service.”
You rolled your eyes, “Trainee-” you corrected and smiled offering your hand, “last I heard anyways. It’s a pleasure. I’m Y/N.”
“Ughhh Ellie got to you too huh well fuck.” “Language Wade,” a deep accented voice said from the other room. “Well fuck me.”
This time it was you that swore, not Wade. Colossus walked into the room about to castigate Wade, but he paused as his eyes met yours. You gulped audibly and dropped your gaze. “Wow, I’m sensing some real thick sex tension in the room. I would say I’ll leave but we all know I’d be lying and then I’d be upset because I couldn’t join so let’s just skip that and move straight to the three-“
He was shut up by Colossus’ hand covering Wade’s mouth.
“Not now Wade.”
He quickly removed his hand and wiped it on his pants.
“Wade what did I saw about licking,” Colossus said, clearly exasperated. “You shouldn’t put that lovely chrome hand on my mouth then big daddy.”
You couldn’t help but giggle. Both Wade and Piotr’s attention shifted to you and you suddenly felt embarrassed.
“Ms. Y/N it is a pleasure to see you again,” Colossus said.
You nodded to him and smiled but couldn’t shake the weird tension in the room after what Wade had said.
“I’m just gonna head up to my room,” you muttered. “Wait- um Y/N your room is now occupied by student. We’ve had full class past few years. I can find you a place if you give me one moment.”
You nodded. You couldn't deicide if you were upset that your room had been filled. A part of you always thought it would stay the exact way you left it.
Colossus went into the other room. You could hear him shuffling around, you assumed he was cleaning whatever non-existent mess was in there. He reappeared moments later and motioned for you to follow him up the stairs. He waited for you to catch up with him, shortening his strides to try and match yours. He was silent the whole way to the spare room. There were so many things he wanted to say to you but had no idea how to start.
He started with the best thing that he could think of.
“Hello Y/N,” he said clearly.
You had missed your name coming from his Russian tongue, but you didn’t let it show.
“I thought we already did introductions downstairs big guy,” you laughed trying to ease the tension.
He looked down at you and smiled. You looked so much older now, you were no longer just a young woman to him. You met his eyes and couldn't help but smile back.
“I’m sorry,” you murmured, looking away from him and dropping your bag on the floor.
“Why dorog-Y/N you have nothing to be sorry for.” “I do though, I want to apologize for everything I did. I was so childish- god I ignored you for two years. I’m so sorry that my schoolgirl crush got in the way of our friendship. You were just being nice to me and I was too ignorant to see that. I put you in such a tough spot. I was foolish to think anything like that would ever work between us,” you were rambling now, but you just had to say your peace.
Your last statement shocked him, but his face never showed it. You had grown away from your crush on him, he thought.
“It is ok Y/N. That is all in past,” he sighed.
You smiled at him, thankful that he understood.
“I will let you get settled, dinner is at 7 if you wish to join.”
You nodded and thanked him. After you had finished packing you decided to go down and join whoever was still in the house for dinner. You recognized a few faces walking through the halls, mutants who had decided to teach at the school, but most were young kids you had never seen before. Wade and a girl you had met previously today, Ellie and her girlfriend were at the table. Colossus was grabbing plates from a cabinet.
“What did you do to chrome dome for him to order pizza?” Wade said incredulously, “big guys a health nut he never lets us eat out.”
You grinned.
“Yeah well when I knew him, he would eat a whole pizza himself and share the second one with me,” you laughed reminiscing at the wonderful late nights the two of you spent laying on the floor watching TV and eating pizza. You frowned after, of course, you had to ruin those short-lived times by acting so bratty and shutting him out of your life.
Dinner went off without a hitch. You were a few drinks in and feeling a slight buzz. You could tell something was wrong with Colossus, but Wade caught you to it and shouted at Colossus to stop being a party pooper.
“I’m not. I’m just tired,” he assured.
“It’s because I’m here,” you murmured.
You started giggling too, your slightly drunk behavior getting the best of you.
“I fucked our friendship up because I tried to kiss him. Can you believe it?” “Y/N perhaps you are too drunk, I can take you to bed.” “Oh my god straight to bone town after one night of being reunited. Rasputin, I had no idea you were such a ladies man!”
You scoffed, “yeah right Wade! The Man of Steel would never touch me he still thinks of me as his 15-year-old kid sister”
“Bozhe,” he murmurs under his breath and stands up. /my god/
“Watch your language mister! I tried to learn Russian for you ya know. Can’t believe you kiss your mother with those lips,” you shouted, pointing your beer at him.
“That is enough Y/N,” he said sternly. “Wow this sounds a lot like the last conversation I had with you in the kitchen. The one where you made me think I’d violated you or something,” you shouted at him.
By now the conversation had sobered you up immensley.
“This is not conversation to be held among comrades,” he said calmly to you. “It’s because you’re embarrassed by me!”
This time you knew you had overstepped. You immediately apologized and said you were turning in for the night. You left the kitchen, ignoring the big clunking steps you heard after you.
Before you could make it to your room Colossus grabbed your arm gently.
“Is that what you think? That I’m embarrassed by you?” “Why else would castigate me like a petulant child?” “Y/N I would never be embarrassed by you, I was angered at myself for feeling certain ways about you. You were-“ “A child?!” you interrupted him.
“No dorogaya, young. I didn’t want to be bad influence on you. Professor Xavier would never let me be around you if he knew that I liked you in such way,” he continued, “I’m so sorry I hurt you, but it hurt me too very much. I regret those words every day It felt like I lost you forever.”
You were shocked at his confession, you knew that he had liked you but after that morning in the kitchen you had thought all those times he blushed and told you to stop were because he was embarrassed of you.
“I never thought of you as child you were brave, strong young woman,” he paused waiting for your response.
“Oh Piotr I’m so sorry,” you murmured.
You stepped towards him and into his arms. He wrapped them around you still looking down at you.
“Please don’t cry dorogaya, it hurts my heart.”
You laughed and slapped his chest, the sound reverberated. You wiped your tears.
“You’re such a sap moya lyubov’,” you smiled. /my love/
“May I kiss you?”
You gasped your eyes admiring his strong shoulders.
“I don’t know am I old enough?” “Yes,” he finished for you.
Your lips connected and it felt like fireworks. Your skin seared where it met his. The mixture of cool metal to your warm skin made to want more, so much more. He moved his lips from yours moments later and kissed your forehead. You sighed. You were going to remark on how sickeningly sweet he was but held your tongue.
“You know a lot of things have changed since I saw you,” you whispered, reaching onto your tiptoes to try and whisper seductively in his ear.
“You are still drunk dorogaya,” he reminded you. “I’m not. I promise,” you stated grabbing his large hand and moving it to your hip. The teasing boldness you had as a teen had found you again and you grinned.
“ty tak krasiva,” he huffed gripping your waist with both hands now. /you are so beautiful/
“But we cannot do that tonight. You must sleep. What kind of man would I be if I take you a day after seeing you again?” “A man that wishes to fulfill his darlings deepest desires,” you moaned. “I might have fallen for your tricks at 20 volshebnitsa, but I am man now.” /enchantress/
“I’m no witch but I’ll have my way with you. In the meantime old man, will you sleep with me at least?”
“Da,” he smiled.
#piotr rasputin#colossus#piotr rasputin x reader#colossus x reader#colossus fluff#angst#deadpool#deadpool 2#colossus imagine
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Top Seven Early Claremont Moments, part the first
Last spring, I made a mission of reading Claremont’s run of Uncanny X-men, starting from Giant-Size X-men #1. I wanted to see what the fuss was about; wanted to read the stories in their original state. So I expected good writing, good stories.
Right away I enjoyed the Phoenix, how the team bickered and misunderstood each other, even appreciated Cyclops’s angst—never thought I’d say it, but I became Team Scott.
But goddamn. I never expected to be blown away. I didn’t know I would be surprised time and time again by the insights Claremont bears on his characters, to be so repeatedly heartbroken. The comparison of Claremont to Greek tragedians no longer seems absurd but obvious.
This is a list of moments that moved me, the panels that made me say: “Claremont is genius.” The list runs from Uncanny X-men #94 to 180, plus the accompanying miniseries, because that’s what I’m up to.
(Part two of this list here.)
1. Sh*t gets real when Proteus rears his Oedipal head, #127
When Moira MacTaggert warns her estranged husband that their son is on a murderous rampage, she drops a lifetime’s heartbreak in a single sentence: “You didn’t just put me in hospital for a week, you left me pregnant.”
. . . Which is a darkness that blindsided me. I don’t know what readers expected when they picked up this issue for 40¢, but I sure as hell did not expect a all-too-human domestic drama—of a non-superhero woman, whose husband beat and raped her, left to raise a son who’s turned out to be monster.
Note: Children of rape and violence are not monsters. Obviously. I’d argue Moira’s son is a metaphor for trauma. Claremont, so very much in the woman’s perspective, seems interested in how trauma may feel like a separate entity, for which only the victim seems responsible, and how trauma may be as reality-warping and, well, protean as Proteus.
2. Another discussion on love, #136
Only 9 issues later, we see an inverse of Moira’s dilemma. Boyfriend Cyclops tells the goddess Phoenix, “You are love.”
But the love that allows Jean to save the X-men, then save the universe, requires sustenance too. Phoenix utters a wonderful, wonderful line. “I hunger, Scott—for a joy, rapture, beyond all comprehension. That need is a part of me, too. It consumes me.”
I want to know: How does Claremont know this? How does he understand, so fundamentally, that women are demanded to love limitlessly, without being provided sustenance for themselves? This demand on women doesn’t help the human Moira, and it doesn’t help the goddess.
John Byrne’s radiant, sorrowful Jean does not hurt. I’m in love.
3. The end, #138
Or the beginning? At the end of the Dark Phoenix saga, Claremont goes real small, down to tiny drama of someone locked out of their house. Kitty arrives to the mansion for the first time and no one’s there to greet her. The caption “The X-men will never be the same again!” is so wistful, because it refers to her entry into the X-men but inevitably turns one’s mind to Phoenix.
I just love the sight of a young girl, who has no idea of the melodrama of the last 37 issues, forlorn, at the end of an issue. With the caption, “The beginning.”
Hope and heart on the horizon. Hang in there, Kitty.
4. Kitty grows up fast, #142
Only four issues after Phoenix dies, we tumble into Days of Future Past. This is like writing Anna Karenina one year after completing War and Peace. How_is_that_possible_?
This was the biggest surprise of everything on my list. Grown-up Kate Pryde, having endured the life in Days of Future Past, sees her 616 younger self— “so innocent, so vulnerable, so young. Impulsively, she gives herself a kiss.”
Why? It’s not in the art. It’s not necessary. It doesn’t change anything.
But it changes everything. Ageing, compassion, the passing on of knowledge from an older woman to a younger woman; the mercy we wish we’d had on our younger selves.
5. A child, again, #150
Issue #150 is the double-length in which we learn that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor. This could be a gratuitous addition, guided by poor taste; but there are few cheap gestures on Claremont’s part. (Even when he missteps, it’s an interesting misstep—that’s my one-sentence review of God Loves, Man Kills.) In this climactic moment, Magneto viciously attacks Kitty, then “comes to” when he realizes she’s a child.
And he regrets everything.
He may not know that Kitty is Jewish; it’s enough for him that she’s a mutant. Yet for the reader, her Jewishness matters tremendously. “Fuck metaphors,” Claremont says. “We’re talking about reality and real-world consequences.”
Never moreso than when Magneto speaks of his wronged wife, his murdered daughter (presumably in the death camps). These three panels take on a whole history—of the state can crush the individual, and what losses an individual suffers in trying to make a new state.
6. Growing up too fast, Magik #3
I’d been told, I’d been warned. But how can you anticipate the Magik miniseries? Ilyana Rasputin enters Limbo a child and transforms into an adolescent instantly. I would have used the image of the X-men trying to pull a child out of a portal and yanking out a pubescent adolescent instead—as it’s a terrifyingly precise metaphor for sexual trauma.
But there wasn’t a single good image of that, and anyway I was fixated by this triptych:
Ilyana in bed, frightened of the power she realizes she’s developing—with or without her consent—as she’s trapped and held hostage by a man. Of her power, she says, “It wants me to call on it again. And again. I don’t want to. But I will.”
Ugh. The powerlessness, the desperation—the bed shrinking as the darkness grows. This is a stunningly accurate representation of a girl discovering her sexuality within a patriarchy. It’s the most chilling moment in a series that’s all chilling.
7. What you do can be very nice, Wolverine #3
I read this miniseries rather reluctantly, expecting all sorts of silly Orientalism (there is, including the white guy who out-samurais all the samurais, alas); yet the heartbroken Wolverine—repeatedly called an animal by Mariko’s father—won me over. Well, Wolverine and Frank Miller’s unimpeachable visuals.
“You took my dreams from me, Shingen. But only for a time. Because I’m a man! Not a beast. A man! That mistake is going to cost you.”
How much more thrilling is this than your standard action-movie “suit-up” scene? After dizzying adventures that Logan doesn’t seem to quite understand, thanks to Yukio and said Shingen, Logan will give up the love of his life, his dignity, and all good judgment, but not his honor.
The miniseries raises an interesting storytelling dilemma; in what society does a white man have to prove his humanity? You have go to feudal Japan for that. It’s not surprising, therefore, that Claremont writes so much about women, then, the underdogs of any story.
But he is one of those men writers who have a genius in understanding the psychologies and dilemmas of women and girls. Tolstoy is another one of these men, and it’s no exaggeration to place Claremont up there with Tolstoy.
Anyway, if you’ve gotten this far in this post, please share any of your top Claremont moments in the comments. I would love to hear.
CREDITS Uncanny X-men #127 (Moira), 136 (Phoenix), 142 (DoFP) Pencils: John Byrne Colors: Glynis Wein Inks: Terry Austin Letters: Tom Orzechowski
Uncanny X-men #150 Pencils, inks: Dave Cockrum, Josef Rubinstein, Bob Wiacek Colors: Glynis Wein Letters: Tom Orzechowski, Jean Simek
Magik #3 Pencils: Ron Frenz Finish: Tom Palmer Colors: Glynis Wein Letters: Tom Orzechowski
Wolverine #3 (1982) Pencils: Frank Miller Finish: Josef Rubinstein Colors: Glynis Wein Letters: Tom Orzechowski
#Chris Claremont#uncanny x-men#comics review#magik#kitty pryde#dark phoenix#days of future past#proteus#moira mactaggert#magneto#frank miller#john byrne#wolverine
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Prompt 5, 6 and 1 for Hayoung from Fromis_9 please! (Genderless or male reader)
fromis_9′s Hayoung / Halloween Prompts
1. Person A tries to convince Person B to wear a couples costume.
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A/N: Sorry, I was only able to do one prompt so I chose one a little bit different than the other requests I’ve been getting. I’m trying to keep them from being too repetitive. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Hayoung was determined. This was something she’d wanted to do for such a long time, and now that she had the chance, she was not going to let it slip away from her.
Of course she was thinking of couples costumes. For the first Halloween ever, she was dating someone. And she was not going to let this opportunity go. She’d managed to succeed in Idol School, so this shouldn’t be that hard. Her eyes narrowed as she scrolled through her social media, trying to narrow down her ideas.
She’d thought about going as cats, but quickly shut down that idea herself. She wouldn’t mind being a cute cat (or even a sexy one, if she could pull it off), but she doubted that was your kind of costume. Secondly, she’d thought of doing something scary, but she didn’t want to mess with the makeup aspect of scary costumes. So, all out of ideas, she’d turned to the internet and come up with a small list, only to quickly scratch most of the back out until she was left with one: superheroes.
That didn’t sound too bad. She wouldn’t have to do too much makeup to dress like a superhero, and there were plenty of superhero costumes at the costume store. Plus, there were tons of different types of superheroes. You could be anyone from Spiderman to Batman to Wolverine. This was a good idea.
She closed her phone and jumped to her feet, going over her game plan in her head as she walked out of her room. It shouldn’t be that hard to convince you to do couples costumes with her, but just in case, she had a plan. If her initial pitch of being a cute couple didn’t work, she had acting cute and pouting on her side, and an endless list of photos of other couples that had looked adorable together. She could do this. She could convince you, and leave her cute couple dreams. Grinning, she struck a superhero pose. Confident in her strategy.
This Halloween was going to be fun.
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“You want to what?” She brought it up to you over dinner the next night, eyes sparkling with hope as she leaned over to show you photos of other couples that had dressed as superheros.
“I want to do a matching costume with you! Come on, it’ll be fun! And so cute, we can take so many photos.” You seemed to be considering it as you looked at the photos.
“Where are we going to get those costumes, though?” Shegrinned and turned off her phone.
“There’s a costume store not too far away from my house, and I checked. They have a ton of superhero costumes to choose from.” You let out a laugh and shook your head, but it seemed like she had convinced you. At least, partly.
“You totally had this planned out, didn’t you?” She gave you her most innocent look and glanced away playfully.
“Maybe. So?” You gave her a fond smile, and she knew that she’d convinced you, making her bounce slightly in her chair out of excitement.
“You win. I’ll go with you to the costume store tomorrow.”
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Hayoung woke up way too early, but it was fine. She had to start doing some research anyway, because she didn’t really know what superheroes were couples or not, and she wanted to make sure the two of you chose a real couple. Honestly, she knew she was a little too excited about it all, but the embarrassing truth was that she didn’t care. She loved you and loved dressing up and couldn’t wait to dress up with you like she’d wanted to do for so many years. So it should be okay to be a little excited.
When it finally came time to go shopping, she was ready, armed with newfound knowledge of superhero couples and ready for the first question you asked.
“So which superheroes are we going as?” Grinning, she pulled out her phone and found the stash of superhero photos she’d saved that morning.
“We have some choices, it depends on what the store has. We could go as Batman and Catwoman, we could also go as Wonder Woman and Super Man. Or Ant Man and The Wasp. Or Vision and Scarlet Witch. Black Widow and Hawkeye. Spider-Man and Mary Jane. Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman. Kitty Pryde and Colossus. Cyclops and Jean Grey. Black Canary and Green Arrow. Cloak and Dagger. There are so many possibilities.” Your eyes widened, a bit overwhelmed as she named off all the heroes, calmly scrolling through her phone as she did.
“Wow. I forgot there were this many comic couples,” you said, “do you really think the costume stores are going to have all those characters?” She shook her head, and looked out as the store came into view.
“Honestly? Probably not. But it’ll be exciting to look for them, don’t you think?” She gave you a bright grin, and you couldn’t help but smile back.
“You’re right.”
The inside of the store was larger than Hayoung had expected it to be, but she was on a mission, ignoring the outdoor decorations as she led you through the winding mazes of Halloween, eyes peeled for superheroes. Finally, she found them, and stopped in her tracks, clapping her hands.
“Here, finally! Superhero costumes in adult sizes.”
“A rare find,” you joked, slipping your hand into hers. ���Now we get the challenge of figuring out who we want to be.” Nodding, she leaned into you and scanned the shelves, going over the costumes in her head. Most of the girls had really sexy costumes, would she be able to pull anything like that off? “Here’s one that fits you.” You were pointing, and she followed your finger until her eyes landed on a Wonder Woman costume, and she laughed.
“You managed to find the only not-sexy Wonder Woman in the store,” she said, still giggling as she leaned forward to pull the package off the shelf. Honestly, she was a little relieved at the sight of something not super revealing: she was better at being cute.
“Does this mean I’m Superman?” She turned and looked up at you, a little smile on her lips.
“You’re always my Superman.” Your cheeks flushed almost immediately, and she giggled, squeezing your hand. “Yeah, you’re Superman. As long as that’s okay with you.”
“I’m okay with it,” you said, trying to maintain a cool composure even though the tips of your ears had turned red. It was cute, and Hayoung couldn’t resist leaning up to press a quick kiss to your cheek that just made you flush a little harder. “Are you teasing me?”
“Only a little. You’re cute when you’re embarrassed,” she said, hugging you, and you fondly fixed her bangs from the breeze outside, other arm wrapping around her to hug her back.
“You know, I could just leave and dress up as something else,” you teased back, making her pout and hold you tighter.
“No! I’m sorry!”
“I’m kidding. I’m your Superman, right?” This time, it was her turn to blush, and she gently shoved your shoulder, pulling away from you.
“It sounds so cheesy when you say it.”
“It sounds cheesy when you say it too.” The two of you locked eyes, and then laughed.
“This is silly. Just pick out your costume,” she said, hugging the costume you’d picked out for her close to her chest. There were plenty Superman costumes to choose from, but they all seemed to look the same, so you picked one in your size and turned to look at her.
“Ready?”
“I’m ready.”
Waiting in line, she held up her costume to compare it with yours. It matched surprisingly well without the sexy Wonder Woman suit, and she grinned suddenly.
“Hey, we’re a power couple.” You groaned at her pun, but she knew you were happy because there was a smile on your lips. Standing there with you with matching costumes in hand, she knew this was exactly what she had wanted, and she couldn’t be happier.
“Yes. Yes, we are.”
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Classic Jean Grey vs The X-Men
This Editorial comes to us from Everett Christensen
People make sacrifices based on how important things are to them, the most common component of that sacrifice is time. The true lifeblood of any hobby are hours and hours spent focused on either consuming or producing the work. Similarly, time is something that connects us all. No one can retry yesterday and once we die, well for most of us that’s it. We grow older and if we’re lucky, wiser. Continuity is the raw happenstuffs of time in comic book form and we as an audience ask for different things from continuity from different companies. But from the X-Men in specific there has always been a focus on legacy, passing on the torch to a new generation, and continuing the work of activism for the marginalized and oppressed. Instead of telling stories about the current generation of mutant leadership, Marvel Legacy is rolling back the status quo with a pair of resurrections. Bringing back both Logan and Jean Grey undermines the strength of every story built on their sacrifice, everything since Charles died.
Let’s recap, in 2010 after the destruction of the Xavier School, Scott Summers moved all of the mutants to an island off the coast of the Northern California. The narrative surrounding Professor X and Magneto changed, both acknowledging the time had come to pass on the mantle of mutant leadership. Wolverine decided to take as many kids as he could out of what he viewed as harms way, becoming the rival to Charles’ legacy. He would be justified in this suspicion as mutants squared off against The Avengers in a costly event that saw a Phoenix Force possessed Cyclops kill Professor X. At this point Jean Grey had already been dead for 7 years.
It was the moment that left only one heir to the dream, Logan. In the years before The Death of Wolverine Logan had the remit of mutant leadership, he was the Headmaster and Scott was the activist, a status quo at once new and very familiar to readers. Logan’s death left the question of leadership wide open and Storm stepped in as interim leader, as is her wont. Fast forward to now and what do we have? It’s the house that Wolverine built. Kitty Pryde is the Headmistress, Jubilee is the homeroom teacher of the ‘new class’, Laura is the Wolverine. These are the women mentored and raised by Logan and they are now the heirs of the dream. Cyclops is dead. Jean Grey has been dead for nearly 15 years.
In a franchise that began in the early 1960s with a mostly, sorta, unbroken line of continuity it is now the generation after the generation that assumed mutant leadership from Professor X. It’s 2017, the fact that we are only on the third generation of mutant leader is wild, but comics have that sliding timeline. Aside from the revolving door criticisms, editorial has given these characters no chance to grow into their positions or examine Logan’s legacy before derailing them with line-wide crossovers multiple times before bringing him back. Bringing Logan back calls into question Kitty Pryde’s position as headmistress and strips Laura’s primacy. This is a regression to the status quo and that wouldn’t be so bad, except for Jean.
Classic Jean Grey is the franchise leading lady, let’s not get it twisted. Originally by way of being the only girl on the team for the 60’s and later by leaving the biggest mark on the X-Men, perhaps of all time, in the Dark Phoenix Saga. She has led the team more than once and was the centerpiece of romantic plotlines time and time again. Bringing classic Jean back sets back the priority for stories centered on the current cast. This was largely inevitable. It was going to happen to some cast someday, it’s the Phoenix. But the cost today must be paid by a diverse and largely female-led line of comics. As a founding member classic Jean steals spotlight that might have been given to actually advancing the state of the line.
The timing is devastating to any momentum behind the stories that we have right now. It’s another one-two punch to a line of books that have been hurting since their launch. The fear is that by rolling back the status quo on the line as a whole it will damage the foundation of the entire line once again, damage that was already done in spades by the Secret Empire and Death of X crossovers. Consider that in the last year we’ve had stories about a large number of the once-again emerging mutant population being devastated by Terrigen Mists and those that survived have been rendered sterile. Though it has not been brought up since the involuntary sterilization of minority populations and reproductive autonomy in general are devastating civil and human rights issues being fought today and must be addressed. Hydra controlled America then concentrated all of the mutants not trapped in a giant Darkforce bubble in California, the opposite coast of the Jean Grey School. Then the newly reformed American government, now without being able to use Hydra’s fascism as an excuse for this behavior, used Sentinels, actual genocide machines, to burn New Tian to ashes. Traumatic is the only word that comes to mind! By once again bringing a renumbering and renaming of the books it is as if this past year of X-Franchise comics have simply been a placeholder, a gimmick to bridge between IvX, a shaky ResurrXion, and Marvel Legacy.
Placing the entire line of X-Men into an airliner like holding pattern for a year is madness. The sidelining of the mutants from the focus of the comics alone is bad enough, but this particular tactic has cost the franchise dearly both in readers and in the narrative itself. Marvel’s merry band of mutants doesn’t need its status quo reset, it needs time to rebuild and craft a narrative that will rejuvenate an exhausted fan base. Endless events and genocidal threats have left the comics anemic, let’s get back to basics and we’re not talking about baseball. Let’s have new mutants, new enemies, new ideological challenges to overcome. Let’s start talking about bigotry and how it gets expressed today.
Generation X by Christina Strain is better than just a good book, it’s great X-Men. It is the exact kind of book we need if we are going to evolve the franchise message about discrimination. It is laying the slow-burn groundwork that hasn’t been done for years, actually giving us space and time to grow to know a familiar cast in an unfamiliar lineup. It’s the natural progression of Jubilee’s story, from a ward of Wolverine to one of the caretakers of his legacy and his school, from student to teacher. What will become of this delightfully diverse book now that Legacy begins to unspool? It and Iceman have been under-promoted in favor of Secret Empire tie-ins and Marvel Legacy hype. This book used to be in the top 10 most sold of all comics 20 years ago, the whole X-Men line used to top the charts honestly, how far the line has fallen. It would be unfair to lose the most promising book in the line because of holding pattern mismanagement!
The X-Men line of comics would be rewarded for centering books like Generation X instead of bringing back classic Logan and classic Jean Grey because we don’t need the same things out of the franchise than we do out of, for example, DC properties. In our lives as comic book readers our grandparents will retire or pass, our parents will get older or pass, we will get older or die. This franchise is 54 years old, this year saw the celebration of Jack Kirby’s centennial and the passing of Len Wein. Buried in the X-Men story is a generational tale of the disenfranchised, each group of leaders passing the torch of activism to the young heroes that will change, threaten, and save the world. It is our responsibility to safeguard the message of tolerance, equality, understanding, and love, to ensure the legacy of our beloved franchise. If either one of these characters had returned individually it wouldn’t be as damaging. It must be demanded that the comic line continues to evolve and grow, not revert to old status quos that do nothing to further The Dream.
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Triggers
Tron Ate My Baby
Truckasaurus
True Love Always
Truxon
TsuShiMamiRie
Tub Ring
Tulpa
Tusklord
TV John
2020K
Uke and Tuba
Ukebox
Ukiah
Ukulady Liz
Ultimate VAG
Ume
Uni Sami
Universal Congress Of
Unlikely Japan
The Upholsterers
Upskirts
Vale and Year
Vampire Nation
Vampire Weekend at Bernies
Vehicle Flips
Vel
The Velcats
Velvet Monkeys
Vequinox
Videohippos
Viewers Like You
Village of Dead Roads
The Viragos
The Visitations
The Vivians
Von Ludendork
Vox Robotica
Wake
Wallace's Fallen Obelisk Kidz
The Wasps Nest and Valerie Kuehne
The Waxwings
WE are the Asteroid
We are the Dead
We Came From Space
The Weasels
Weird Al Yankovic
Werewolves
Wesley Willis
Western Pennsylvania
The Whipped Cream Explosion
The White Stripes
Will Simmons & Turdburglar
William Wesley and the Tiny Sockets
Wimp Factor 14
The Winterbrief
The Wire Riots
The Working Poor
Workshop
Wyld Stalyns
The Wynkataug Monks
X.13
The X Brothers
Asher Yatzar
The Youngstown Tramps
Your Favorite Assassin
Yung Ka
Z-Man
Za Dharsh
The Zambonis
Zigtebra
Zelazowa
The Zou
Zubat and the Bees' Knees
The Zvills
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