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[gerec]

I am asking again of all the new and returning X-Men and Cherik fans to please check out the Secret Mutant Madness event on Ao3 that's been run every year since 2011. You have the chance to leave prompts for others to fill (for fic or art!) and are also free to fill as many of them as you want for anyone who has signed up! It's a lot of fun, and a great way to engage with other fans! It's open to all X-Men fans/verses (comics, animated series too not just the movie verse).

Check it out!

Secret Mutant Madness 2024

Sign-up Opens: 30 Oct, 2024, 5PM, UTC Sign-up Closes: 15th Nov 2024, 5PM, UTC Works Reveal: 15th Dec, 2024, 5PM, UTC Author/Artist Reveals: 22nd Dec, 2024, 5 PM, UTC

[akasanata]

For the shipping ask- Erik and Raven?

Don’t Ship It

Why don’t you ship it? I just don't see the appeal. In first class Erik is too much of a mentor figure and Raven too desperate for anyone to love her for it to work, and the next interaction they have is Erik trying to kill her. Like, sure they could have grown closer in the time between the beach and Erik being incarcerated, but I don't see it. Which is why Erik's supposed grieve in dark phoenix makes no sense to me.

What would have made you like it? Maybe if they had met in a different situation. I can sort of see the appeal in the original trilogy, but we don't know much about that Raven.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it? Like I said, I can see the appeal in the old movies, they seemed to have a good dynamic going on. I mean, Magneto was still an asshole who abandoned her, but she wasn't an angel either, so I think they deserved each other, ahsdjakjshdjas.

Ask me about a ship

[jackyjango]

Dirty Martini (just remember you are standing on a planet that’s evolving Remix)

Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier

Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Raven | Mystique, Moira MacTaggert, Warren Worthington III

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - College/University, Enemies to Friends, Friends to Lovers, eventually, Smoking, Protective Erik Lehnsherr, Grumpy Erik Lehnsherr, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Whump

Summary: On any other day, Charles might have appreciated the picturesque panorama before him immensely, but today, his mind is an unmoored net teetering on turbulent waters; inutile.

Raven’s words keep replaying in his mind like a broken record. Erik decked up Warren’s face pretty badly. Why? Because he was spewing shit about you, Charles. He had paid attention to very little after that before taking off to find Erik.

There are a plethora of things Charles wants to ask Erik, but he settles on asking, ‘Why?’

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My contribution to @x-populuxe ‘s lovely original!

[x-populuxe]

First-lines-of-fic meme! I was tagged by @destinationtoast. 😘

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written fewer than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

So...I have published ten fics total, and rather than posting the first lines of every single one of them, I’m going to mix this up and do my five most recent as well as my five current WIPs, because I have somehow become a person with five substantially written WIPs, I cry. (This is clearly an attempt at public accountability, help lol).

All fics are X-Men, of course, and unless otherwise marked, Charles/Erik:

Published!

1. “to put the world between us” (25K words, actor AU)

The drive should take two hours, but Erik manages it in ninety minutes, using his powers to floor the gas pedal as he scrambles the occasional police scanner. When he whips into the hotel parking lot in a spray of gravel, Emma’s mental greeting is half is half warm, half weary.

2. “Unlived Histories (The Double Vision Remix)” (18K words, remix, time travel)

Erik didn’t know it then, but everything started to change on Charles’s sixteenth birthday.

3. “Correspondence” (13K words, part of a canon-divergent series set in 1963)

When Charles wakes, he stretches out his mind and then his arm, groping at the opposite side of the bed. Erik isn’t there, though the sheets are still warm.

4. “What We Inherit” (20K words, David & Charles, father-son bonding)

David first starts to suspect that something’s up when his father gets a phone call very early on Tuesday morning.

5. “the way it travels in and keeps emitting light” (29K words, accident and recovery, enemies to friends to lovers)

Erik lets himself into Raven’s building on Friday evening, waving a hand as the locks click open. As he rides the converted freight elevator up to the top floor, he sinks his powers into all those sturdy old pulleys and gears—one thing on the long list of reasons he prefers Raven’s apartment to his own.

WIPs!

(obviously these are not set in stone)

1. The “Charles bailing Erik out of jail” fic I am currently writing for @ikeracity for Fandom Trumps Hate! (Ike you get a sneak peek lol) (ps I'm legit obsessed with writing this fic rn, thank you again for your prompt):

 “One phone call” is only a thing in the movies—but the cops don’t give you unlimited phone calls, either. This turns out to be a problem when all your friends were either arrested alongside you or are completely fucking worthless.

2. Multiverse/time travel fic that begins 8 months after the events of XMFC:

They’re moving quickly through the woods that surround the facility when Emma slows and makes a clicking sound with her tongue. Erik holds out his arms to halt the rest of the group.

3. Sequel to “What We Inherit,” still about David & Charles, but also with some (semi-hostile) cherik as well:

It’s a beautiful late-summer day, with a bright blue sky stretching above the sandy dunes that extend from the house out towards the Atlantic.

But David can’t see any of that right now, because he’s sitting in his bedroom, reading a book.

4. Media AU (trust me, this first line makes sense in context lol):

DAVID REMNICK: This is The New Yorker Radio Hour. I’m David Remnick.

5. Big Billions AU I started writing in early 2020 🥲 that I’ve finally picked up again this year:

Crowds, the common wisdom goes, are one of the truest tests of a telepath’s strength and skill. Never mind that there’s far more to telepathy than brute force and blunt shielding—with a packed train or a busy bar or a stadium full of revelers, it’s easier to see just how effectively a person can block out other minds.

This is a fun exercise, especially to look at patterns! Tagging @rozf, @gerec, @ikeracity, @midrashic, @joshriku, @arcanewinter, @jackyjango, + anyone else who wants to do this! (If anyone else wants to put their WIP opening lines out there, join me!!!!)

[midrashic]

i love @jackyjango 's cherik polls because it's a very quick guide to seeing what fanon interpretations are widespread so i can immediately write the opposite 😂

[mikanskey]

All @jackyjango tags are the truth !

#cherik#xmen comics#This scene is so damn cute I can’t handle it#also Charles almost being engulfed in Erik’s hug triggers all my size difference kinks#😍#plus can we get back lumberjack erik please#the one in this and the one in xma#that was a look in him!!!!

“I’m a fraud, Erik. A fool… anyone who thinks that my ideas have any merit needs to have their heads examined.”

“Well frankly, I take that as an insult.”

Ultimate X-Men #20

[secretkittendetective]

Hdhdhdbhdh!! You’re 100% right!! Erik’s dick is a nuke in itself, and that’s not even a joke… 😬😎

Continued text:

Charles : Wait… what did you think I wanted?

Erik : IT’S 10 IN THE GODAMN MORNING, CHARLES! WHAT ELSE COULD HAVE I THOUGHT YOU WANTED?

Charles : I just wanted a dick pic, Erik. 😒

Erik : You asked for a NUKE, Charles!!

Charles : AND YOUR DICK’S JUST AS DESTRUCTIVE!! I COULDN’T SIT IN MY CHAIR FOR 3 DAYS AFTER THE LAST TIME YOU VISITED.

Erik : Oh.

(Sorry, it’s 3 AM here and even I’m not thinking clearly 🙈)

LOL Erik is the bomb. Poor Charles, he can't even walk straight afterwards 😂 Not to mention the mindblowing explosion afterwards 😉 ✨🙈

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[gerec]

For all new and returning fans (and old ones who never left!) - check out this post regarding the upcoming Secret Mutant exchange on Ao3!!!

And click here for more details!!!

[turtletotem]

Could I request a snippet from Ransomed Prince please? 😬

Here is a snippet from the not-yet-posted Chapter 20 of Ransomed Prince (my 90k+ Captive Prince canon AU), with the warning that I may very well be scrapping what little I have of that chapter and starting over. o_O (I haven’t posted any of this fic since last June, but I am now working on it again after finally finishing Pinky Promise!)

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"Brother!" Laurent called, and Auguste, his beaming face brightening even further, pushed through the crowd to meet Laurent, both throwing their arms around each other as if—well, as if they hadn't seen each other in a year, even if that was not quite true as of last night.

"What are you doing here, you scamp!" Auguste cried, and Damen had to give him credit for better acting than he'd expected. "Look at you! I'd heard all manner of mad rumors—oh, Laurent, seeing you is as much a joy to my heart as Tuvah's news." He hugged him again, rocking him back and forth. "Are you well?"

"Perfectly well, if you will let me draw breath!" Laurent laughed and pushed Auguste off him. "And what of you, Uncle, are you well?"

"Of course," his uncle said. He didn't look well.

[akasanata]

@jackyjango bringing the galaxy brain takes jajaajjs

Ides of March pride flag

[akasanata]

Turquoise for sure! 😬

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Back to you!!!

[x-populuxe]

x-men remix 2023!

I didn’t get a chance to write anything for the remix fest this year (I actually wrote like 1,000 words of something, but then I started traveling and my “oh I’ll write in the hotel in the evenings” plan seemed overly ambitious/extremely goofy in retrospect), but I did have the great honor to be remixed not once but twice! I’ve never been remixed before so this was a big surprise to me. :-))

“Dirty Martini (just remember you are standing on a planet that’s evolving Remix)” by @jackyjango

“Last of the Line (What We Inherit Remix)” by winter_hiems

Check them out! And thank you very much to @gerec for once again organizing. If you do it again next year, I will aim for better time management lol.

[insertmeaningfulusername]

Would you ever write animal aus? 😬

Hoo boi I sure would! In fact, I already have written at least one animal AU 😂 the silliest AU in which Erik is an opossum with many opossum babies. Animal AUs just have so much crack and fluff potential! Thank you for the ask jacky :)

[cherikdogfood]

@thatcrazymind here are a few cherik fic recs:

Humane Society by smilebackwards (Erik gets turned into a cat; human!Charles) #fluff #modern au

Shifter 'Verse (Rat and Shark) by Macx (A somewhat retelling of XMFC where Erik is a shark shapeshifter and Charles is a rat shapeshifter, they meet and fall in love). #fluff #au #series

The Daycare 'Verse by orphan account and pockyslash (Very classic cherik fic) #modern au #still have powers #fluff

My Name Is Max by @gerec (mpreg fic where Charles and Erik slowly learn to love each other again, set after XMFC). #hurt/comfort #mpreg

Your Password Is Incorrect by @jackyjango (Sean finds something unexpected when he hacks the Brotherhood's website). #crack #fluff

Emmisary Requiring Interplanetary Cooperation by Butterynutjob (A drunk Charles meets an alien with the biggest dick he has ever seen, aka Erik). #crack #fluff #modern au

And! Some authors in AO3 you have to check out (I love their cherik fics! every day i thank the gods these awesome people have written my beloved cherik fics, hehe):

Gerec @gerec

Ook

Jackyjango @jackyjango

Turtletotem @turtletotem

Groot-the-tree @dick-helmet-magneto

Irene A Donovan @ireneadonovan

Ikeracity @ikeracity

And of course, Yahtzee.

can i get some recommendation of cherik fics? like the most famous must read for all fans? i'm new here and I don't know where to begin

[bocje-ce-ustu]

For the fandom ship ask: 2, 8 & 9!

Hi!!! Sorry for the delay, the weekend was deadly hectic ^^’’’

Assuming you meant in the X-Men fandom:

2. my trash-shit fave: that’s still and always will be trashfire baby Charles in DoFP :3c

8. my I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender, there will be no white flag above my door. I’m in love and always will be fave ship: that’s cherik 💜

9.  my dirtybadwrong fave ship: my taste is so vanilla it’s not really something astonishing, but the most badwrong I can get probably is dubcon!Erik/Apocalypse or the Erik/Empath thing I wrote with shady gaslighting powers involved *shifty eyes emoji*

send me a fandom and i’ll tell you...

Thanks for asking, darling!! 💖💖💖

[sielustaja]

24, 25?

Thank you!

24. who has made the biggest impact in your life this year?

Well I haven’t seen people much this year but @danzeta, yeah. Can I just say that corona sucks and has a really nice timing?

25. what’s one thing that you hope will continue next year?

Oh I really hope people keep washing their hands and keeping their distance! I’m really not a fan of strangers getting too close, even before all this. :’D

>> ask me some END OF YEAR ASKS