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[stormxpadme]

*edit* Huh. Interesting. Since this post finally seems to show up in the tags: If you happen to be of the X-Men movie fandom and know any good gif/edit blogs to follow, preferrably with a tagging system if they use anything but the first two movies? Hit me up pls.

So. After spending yesterday and today tryin to dissect the X-Men movieverse fandom on tumblr and AO3, I have come to the conclusion that I will be even more alone in this fandom than in Tolkien-verse.

Like. On tumblr, it’s entirely impossible to find anything more specific than the large X-Men scale at whole thanks to the fucked up tagging system where half of the tags don’t show up because of dashes and because no one knows how the fuck to tag anything. And thanks to the fuck up that happened in the movie timelines after they butchered X3 and the Phoenix tale (TWICE!!!!! WTF HOLLYWOOD), AO3 is a clusterfuck with three different main tags for the movieverse alone.

Yeah, this is not happening within any fandom surroundings.

On the other hand, it’s maybe better if there’s no one trying to pretend to cheer on me this time. No need to feel obliged and research myself to death with minor details because I’m anxious that people could hate something. I never started big on comicverse in the first place, because I lack time and interest to read up decades worth of stuff just for a thousand parallel and AU timelines to exist in canon alone. So yeah, this series has a big fat “AU from the finale of X2 on” brand on it, and I don’t even need to justify it. That’s actually relieving.

And like. Next to Tales Untold, Weathered is my longest project, and with Weathered II, another 500,000 words or so will be on top of that in the end. If you don’t have intrinsic motivation for shit like this, you never finish it.

Not to mention, it would already be impossible to find more than like 3 people

a) who handle franchises the way I do (aka everything from the installation that I hate on doesn’t happen in my canon)

b) who happen to hate The last stand as much as I do

c) who love Scott Summers just the way he his in those two movies but also think that incarnation can use more screentime and layers

d) who ship Jean and Logan and are a-okay with giving Scott another female partner instead

e) who are also interested in a lot of elements and characters in that series being loosely based on the Marvel Universe comic and cartoon verse and

e) who like epic-lengthed fanfiction series.

Yeah, no. Imma be my best customer here. Uness some of my followers here are just DYING to know how a properly handled Dark Phoenix-take would play out, with Lilandra and the Shi’ar involved, and with the big conclusion from the cartoonverse, with the resurrection via the other team members’ powers... Those would also have to be readers who don’t mind OCs and ALSO don’t mind seeing frequent Marvel guest stars like Firestar from Amazing Friends, the Defenders of the Earth from the old cartoon verse, Emma Frost, Dazzler, the Morlocks, Elektra etc. AND there’s some elements from the later X-Men movies that are not horrible like the faceclaim of Kitsch’s Gambit and some version of X3-Hank ... Yeah, Imma see myself out.

At least I don’t even need to bother thinking about translating this thing this time. What a relief.

PS: Here and here, you can get an idea about the character roaster in the first series I’m talking about, and my take on Dark Phoenix. Play it on mini player though since youtube fucked up the quality beyond recognition in the course of the years.

PSS: @effervescentdragon Just so you know I will be screaming at you for plotting and motivation anyway as I’m in this new place mostly thanks to your lovely gushing about a stupid photoset. :P