The McLovin lanyard card is actually the best thing I’ve found ever. I had to get a new lanyard because apparently you can’t cover all of your personal details with stickers and I genuinely didn’t realise how much I end up seeing this dead ass legal name of mine and some face which is supposedly me, (or at least that’s what they tell me). But with the McLovin ID replica it’s just nothing but laughs.
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tbh i think after logan resets the past at the end of days of future past and wakes up in this timeline that's better than he could ever imagine it'd be very hard for it to settle in his mind that this is real and he gets to keep it.
like, after decades of living in a dystopian hell he's not going to wake up in seemingly in paradise without having some sort of ptsd or residual nightmares from before where all his friends died horrible deaths that he couldn't stop. i feel like to him, scott and jean would feel more like ghosts than people for a good while because if we're operating under the assumption that days of future past happened in the same timeline that the original trilogy happened in, it would've been about half a century since logan had last seen the two of them alive and well. i feel like to him it would be similar to knowing you're dreaming and waiting for the other shoe to drop the whole way through.
and then after that there's the fact that he has no idea who he is in this timeline now—that's what i feel was implied, anyway, with how he woke up years in the future and couldn't remember anything past 1973. but he still has relationships built up with the people there and he's an entirely different logan than the one who woke up in his place. so i feel there would be some fumbling there as well, to figure out those relationship dynamics again. unless you just want to assume that things went about the same as the og trilogy minus the plot of the last stand.
idk! i feel logan wouldn't bounce back as fast as it seems he would. think he would have nightmares and be overly-wary and always feel like he's on the cusp of losing this too good to be true world he's stepped into. but i also feel he would soften some of his rougher edges—in the og trilogy he seems more like a flight-risk than anything, still bouncing from place to place and coming back to the x-mansion for a few people, but here he would stay for more than just jean and rogue—clings on for all the kids he couldn't save the first time and the allies who became close friends over the course of them living out that first dystopian future only he remembers. just thinking out loud
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On Land and Sea, Is Where We Embrace
(Mario x Mermaid AU ending)
Sorry I could not resist 🤭 This is a fic for my ending of my Mario x Mermaid AU. Takes some inspiration from The Little Mermaid. I know it's a bit early to show off it off, but for this particular moment, I could not get it out of my head for various reasons! Hope you all enjoy.
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The day was won, but so much uncertainty still hung in the air.
Mario gazed longingly at the princess on the beach as she spoke to Toadsworth, his smooth red tail lazily dipped in the water. His rock perch was the closest that he could get without being seen.
But he wanted to.
Luigi stayed in the water, pressed up against the same rock as he looked up at his brother. He felt the hurt that Mario was feeling, and yet his heart also wanted to tell him that this was all for the best. But he knew that it was not what Mario wanted.
Their parents watched the scene from some ways off.
"She did save the boys from that monster", said Mia, as she looked at her husband.
Pio sighed.
"I know I've been a fool. All this time, I just wanted to keep them safe. But I realise now that I needed to let them choose their own paths."
He raised his hands slowly, and cupped them downwards at the water, sending a golden ripple of his magic towards his eldest son.
As soon as the light came into contact with his tail, Mario jumped up, feeling a warm tingling slowly transforming his appendage. He gasped, as his tail was once again transformed back (now painlessly) into a pair of legs.
The smile that radiated from his face was one of pure joy, and he looked up at his father with such gratitude, unable to even speak through his emotions.
Pio just smiled and nodded. This choice was now his son's alone.
Mario immediately leapt off the rock and swam towards the beach as fast as he could. Peach heard the splash, and raced down to find Mario emerging as a fully formed human. She smiled so wide, and ran up to embrace him.
And then as Mario held her tight he felt a pang in his chest. Looking back, he saw Luigi had followed to the water's edge, cautiously trying to stay back, but with a look of longing that stung Mario to the core.
He ran back, not even caring that he couldn't graciously enter the water anymore, and pulled his brother into a tight hug.
"I know this is what you want", said Luigi softly. "We'll be fine."
Mario shook his head.
"I'll come back here", he choked. "To this beach. Every single day. And we can hang out together. Just like always."
Both felt the tears on each other's shoulders.
"Just be happy", said Luigi.
That was all that he could say, and what either of them could say as they held each other for what felt like the longest moment of their lives.
Mia looked at Pio. Her husband nodded, and sent a ripple of magic again. This time towards Luigi.
By this time, Mario had untangled himself from Luigi's arms (his mind and body fighting against it the whole time) and had begun to turn away when Peach gasped.
He saw her pointing, and whipped his head around just in time to catch sight of Luigi being surrounded by their father's magic. The light grew brighter, until it vanished just as quickly, and Luigi's tail was gone.
Trembling slightly, Mario watched as his brother sat up and pushed himself up from the sand, revealing that he too was now standing on his own pair of legs. The three of them could only stare in wonder. And only after that Mario was running again to catch Luigi in his arms, as his younger brother took a shaky step and then instantly fell forward.
"It's a lot harder than it looks", Mario laughed. His emotions coming back in full.
Luigi chuckled through his tears, and breathed heavily as he pressed his forehead to his brother's.
They heard Peach approaching. Mario looked back at her and smiled. He stepped back and took his brother's hand in his, gently guiding him away from the water.
"I believe you two have met?", Mario chortled.
The three of them laughed together and shared a hug.
It was all ok now. Their new lives were just beginning.
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