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Zine about healing, being okay again, and learning to adore the world around me. Poems, doodles, and little notes. Can be found on Patreon or Ko-fi
Poetry+art zine! A loose narrative traveling from despair to rage and determination. Contains violent imagery, mentions of suicide, and references to childhood trauma and death. All illustrations by me. Can be found on Patreon or Ko-fi.
I like that Professor X and Magneto are literally just the lovechildren of two Stereotypes, because that means they are flawed and complex and perfectly suited to be by each other's sides, whether that's platonic or romantic, with healthy boundaries or deeply toxic, and we get to play with these characters and their interpretations with relative freedom. You cannot possibly make Charles Xavier the Pure Protagonist Who Is Always Right without massacring his character; you cannot make Erik Lehnsherr the Violent Brute Who Loves Power without excising his deeply intrinsic goodness. And conversely, you cannot make Charles the Evil Manipulating White Bastard Who Loves Tricking People, or Erik the Righteous Hero Who Does What Has To Be Done Because No One Else Is Brave Enough. Because that is not who they are!!!!
Anyway thank you to the Jewish men who birthed American superhero comics as we know them, at both Marvel and DC.
remembered a fic where Erik let his anger fester and yelled at Charles when the latter got home from a hard day of work, and when Charles started tearing up (because it fucking sucks to be yelled at by someone you love over stuff you could've talked out a month ago) Erik yelled at him for "manipulating" Erik with "that face".
sometimes triggers make sense but usually it's stuff that no one else blinks at that digs right into Your Specific Trauma and makes you cry at 2am.
It's 2024. Are you still thinking about movieverse!Cherik? Because I am.
For the past several months, there's only been a very slow trickle of posts/fics in the xmcu cherik tag. Let's try to breathe some life back into this incredible pairing!
With one clear winner of my poll, here's thirty prompts for the thirty days of April. (This is a super chill, laid-back event---do these in any order, interpret them as loosely as you like! Create in any medium! Fic, art, gifs, meta, incoherent screaming about the otpā¦all winners in my book.)
The only rule here is to cherik too close to the sun. Alright. Here are the prompts.
Mutual Pining
Doesn't really even need elaboration! Write that horrifically slow slow-burn. Gif every time McAvoy made insane fuck me eyes on screen. Make a playlist of songs about impossible love.
2. Alternate Meetings
There are endless quotes about how these two complete each other in a way no one they'd met before or after ever did. How else could they have met?
3. Erik Has A Telepathy Kink
This is basically canon. Let my boy get freaky!
4. Canon Fix-It
All the times Fox fucked it up. There are endless options.
Draw that missing scene! Gif your favourite cherik moment!
7. Beach Divorce
Make it worse. Make it better. Show it to us exactly how it was. Break it down in a 3,000 word meta. Go wild!
8. Domestics
Sometimes you just want to see them doing normal couple things. Erik put the gun down.
9. Found Family
The real heart of x-men!
10. Time Travel
There are SO many possibilities here. Stick them in a time loop. Give them a chance to change their past.
11. AU
Love a good AU!
12. There Is Only One Bed
Had to get this one in here. What better way to amp up the tension?
13. Genosha
By some miracle, cherik actually did end up together at the end of 2019s trash bag disaster Dark Phoenix. We arenāt making a big enough deal about this.
14. Declaration(s) of Love
Who says it first? How do they say it and when? Have they said itā¦without saying it?
15. Jealousy
Need I say more.
16. Reunion
These two have absolutely no chill.
17. Soulmates
Classic prompt, had to get this in here too.
18. The DOFP Aircraft
The TENSION here. Break it down for me. How does Charles feel about his injury? How does Erik feel about his injury?
19. Gay Mutant Road Trip
You already know.
20. Body Swap
SO fun when people have superpowers.
21. First Kiss
When? How? Who initiated it?
22. The Mansion
Mansion!content is a genre of its own.
23. Conflicting Ideology
Give me your theses. Whoās right? Can they ever reconcile completely? Write a fic where it drives them apart.
24. Sebastian Shaw
A trope unto himself.
25. Team As Matchmaker
They had to have known something was going on, didnāt they?
26. Cooking
Charles deserves a good meal. Also, imagine Erik using his powers in the kitchen. The sheer domesticityā¦
27. Hurt No Comfort
Plenty of scope with these two š„²
28. Growing Old Together
Giving Sirs Ian Mckellan and Patrick Stewart their props as well!
29. Making Up
*pushes chess board across the table* sorry babe
30. Charles Xavier Did More For Mutants Than You'll Ever Know
Rising to each otherās defense. Only I can insult this man.
I will be tracking #revivecherik to reblog stuff! Hereās a fic collection for the same. Letās get this ball rolling! Please feel free to send me an ask if youāve got anything to say! And most importantly, letās all have fun š
*I know a few of you preferred something like a gift exchange because of the commitment factorāIām super down to organise a tiny one for the handful of us! If this promptathon doesnāt flop horribly, we can hopefully do a whole bunch of stuff :)
If you read this post all the way through, please reblog for reach! Thank you! Hoping you participate come April.
Shoutout to @inmymagnetoera for reaching out and helping with this!
What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.
A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.
And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.
Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.
Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.
Just tested. Itās possible to swap out pictures on already-published posts. So in that case, a solution:
Nightshade your photo posts now.
Even if you donāt post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.
Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.
This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.
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