ALWAYS AN X-MAN !

𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛* => "𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚝."

[excalibrain]

𝚒𝚗𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗() { 

𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚝 <<  "𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐗-𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 '𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞, 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭.'"  << 𝚎𝚗𝚍𝟷;  𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝟶; 

}

independent,  private,  low activity   KITTY PRYDE  /   [  SHADOWCAT  ]   as  she  appears  in  the  excalibur   series.    𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚢  𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗  𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝.   solidified  by   [  goose  ],    she/her  25+          Europe.  dni  unless  18+.  

A    {  l i v i n g   g h o s t  }    TRYING  TO   ｈｏｌｄ   ｉｔ   ｔｏｇｅｔｈｅｒ  WHEN  EVERYTHING  SEEMS  TO  SLIP  THROUGH  HER  FINGERS:  A  STUDY.     [  feat.  hits  such  as:  i  look  young  but  inside  i  am  old   &   filled  with  the  deaths  of  other  people,   i’ve  bled  so  many  times   &   i’m  still  alive   ---   will  i  ever  not  be  surprised  by  what  i  can  survive ?,   &   honoring / shouldering  a  legacy.  ]

                                         BLOGROLL:  @lihngchi

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hey guys, mini break happened i guess 😭 visiting home this week and haven’t had the time I thought i would! will be back next week 💜

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hey guys, mini break happened i guess 😭 visiting home this week and haven’t had the time I thought i would! will be back next week 💜

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important meeting on thursday so will be a bit scarce here to prepare for that

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sorceress k.itty p.ryde when

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magic magic magic magic!

and if that weren’t reason enough, she’s also the back up ruler to limbo (well, when ill.yana/magi.k, her girlfriend is ruler, anyway, bc of their soulbond; if something happens to magi.k, k.itty gets the sword and rulership) so she should probably understand something

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[  C:\Users\kitty_pryde > $ ssh laura@rageclaws. Connection established with rageclaws​, waiting for message  .   .   .   ]

      ❛     ———-      no. but you’re giving me that judgey little look.   ❜  ( you know the one. the one i get any time i do something remotely close to one of logan’s shitty habits. you know the one ! )  bottle rises to lips and doesn’t relent until amber glass ran hollow. forehand comes up to wipe at lips and hand holding empty bottle shoots an index finger in other mutant’s direction.        

      ❛     my coping is relaxing          …         or something like that.    ❜   brow knits while orbs trail off , snapping back after a moment.     ❛    ——-     i can literally smell the fear on everyone around here when i walk by. its      …     its annoying. irritating. i’m irritated. `cause i know everyone’s fuckin` terrified of me and i crashed scott’s bike again and its just been a long morning.    ❜

❛   didn’t mean to.   ❜  if it’s any consolation, logan gets the same one    —     not that it does any good with him, either.  she tries, and likely fails, to smooth her features into something more neutral while laura drains the bottle dry.  it really is uncanny how alike they are, both in their bad habits and how they go about them.

❛   uh huh,   ❜  she says, half rolling her eyes.

she expects laura to leave it at that, and goes back to carefully unboxing her latest haul.  but laura surprises her, opens up in a way that usually takes more prying, more beer, a great catastrophe, or all three.  ❛   can’t blame ‘em for not wanting to get stuck in the crosshairs; you know how scott gets when he’s on the warpath.   ❜ 

                (        and totalling his bike is the fastest way to set him off,                          everyone knows that.        )

but, of course, she’s no dunce    —     that’s not what she means, not exactly.  so, kitty abandons the cardboard pile altogether to take a seat next to her on the couch      …      and deliver a suggestion she’s not sure this wolverine will like any better than her mentor did.  ❛   maybe you should spend more time with them.  prolonged  and  repeated  exposure seemed to do the trick for me.   ❜ 

[excalibrain]

batcrested​.

“Because that’s where the checkpoint was! That’s why I asked you a dozen times before I made the choice if you were sure.” His own smile stretches wider into a smirk, watching the realization dawn on her. Does he feel a little bad about this? Yes. But will he take the controller back again? No.

And so he makes himself comfortable by propping up on the couch cushions and grabbing for the bowl of popcorn between them while he watches her set onto her path. “You were watching everything I was done so just… do what I did. Duck, duck, hit, roll and hit. You use that against the guardian and you’ll be there! Oh, don’t forget to grab the spoils after! We get an achievement for the loot!”

good, because she won’t ask; pride’s in the name, after all.  regardless, this whole headache and a half will be worth it to save the springs and preserve their way of life.  or so she hopes.

and, of course, on the heels of that thought he’s gotta take the last thread of her sanity and stress test it.

❛   i know how to play,   ❜  she snaps, accompanied by the most obvious eye roll.  like he said, she was sitting here watching the whole time.  guys.  

kitty’s quiet for a moment after that, simmering in annoyance while navigating the cramped corridors with perfect ease  -  see? more than fully capable!  -  beelining for the drop point, and the cutscene that’ll kickstart the second half of this mission.

first order of business before passing the point of no return:  assess current inventory and stats.  with her outburst, now, there’s no room to mess this up   —-   she just might positively die, otherwise.  or, equally possible, never hear the end of it.

only while going through the menu does she pick up the conversation again, and swipe a small handful of popcorn for herself at the same time.

❛   waitaminnit          ….        we’re not doing an achievement run, are we?   ❜ 

[ashleysolsen]

HEATHERS 1989, dir. Michael Lehmann

[dead-blogwalking-deactivated202]

how did I only find this now 😭

source: heathers wiki

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batcrested​:

       “I didn’t know it would be the wrong choice! How was I supposed to know?” That’s a lie he knew already but he’s never purposely made the wrong choice before and he wanted to see what would happen. He merely goes to the pop up menu to restart to the last checkpoint of the game to redo the scene for Kitty but hands her the controller. “Okay okay, you can fix it then. Be their hero and savior.”

❛   i will, thank-you-very-much.   ❜  she’s all smiles, too, until the game reloads.  then triumphant victory sours to dismay.  ❛   spit and bother!  why the devil do i gotta start from all the way back here?   ❜

it’s not, like, the very beginning of the mission, but it’s no walk in the park to change the choice, either.  she’ll have to beat the guardian again, for one.   ❛   sorely tempted to say what’s a biome between friends  —-   ....  but i won’t !   ❜

yet.

[rageclaws]

super sneaky starter call! /  feat. @excalibrain​ ( BIG SIS KITTY . )

         ❛     LOOK. we all make bad decisions , okay ? scott bought that ugly as all hell motorcycle. remy teaches kids how to pickpocket even better than they already can. logan          ——     ❜   voice trails off           ….        a pause , orbs trailing off while brow furrowed    ;   snapping back to the other with a shrug before cracking open a beer. ​   ❛     ——-    its already noon. i’m allowed to drink.    ❜

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❛   never said you weren’t.   ❜   though it’s certainly implied in the way her brows go up once laura deftly pops off the bottle cap, and the subsequent crinkling of her nose. leave it to a wolverine to notice from halfway across the room    ---    and bring it up.  

kitty quits fussing with the half opened pile of packaging in front of her, her full attention redirected to laura now.    ❛   guess i just dunno know why you  would    ....     —     everything alright over there ?  can’t tell if this is you   coping   or   relaxing.   ❜

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that last post is a joke but also lowkey do have an actual meta in my head to explain the giant disparity and someday i’ll type it all out

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kitty pryde's taste in men v. women in excalibur is wild

her taste in women: impeccable brilliant, incredible, showstopping

her taste in men:

[batcrested]

        Irritably he shakes the Playstation controller in @excalibrain​ ‘s direction. “You literally told me to make a choice! So I did! You cannot get upset at me when you made it my call!”

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❛   when you make the wrong call, i sure can!   ❜  okay, so what if the choices get a little muddy at times, that’s beside the point.  poisoning the well, and its guardian, and he’s ready to waltz on through the story, not a trace of quester’s remorse.  ❛   look at what you did, you destroyed an entire ecosystem!   ❜

[ndscottsummers]

Excalibur v1 #26

[leneemusing]

back at it again with misc memes

❝  i’m used to people generally not giving a shit about me.  doesn’t mean i can’t still choose to care regardless of whether not people will care back.  ❞

❝  i’m not kind because i expect anything from it.  i do it because i like how it feels.  because people have not generally been kind to me and i don’t want to be that sort of person to someone else.   ❞

❝  why didn’t you ever tell me you were dealing with so much?  you didn’t have to keep this to yourself.  ❞

❝  it’s okay.  i don’t need you to help me…but if you wanna stick around while i fix it myself i wouldn’t mind the company.  ❞

❝  i generally don’t like people as a rule.  but i don’t mind you.  so uh,  don’t fuck that up for me alright?  next time you’re in trouble just call me. ❞

❝  are you sure you don’t want me to stay?  ❞

❝  you know i can tell when you’re lying.  so you can either talk about what’s wrong or we can just sit here together.  either way,  i won’t let you do this alone.   ❞

❝  no,  i don’t need you.  but i do want you.  my life is fine without you,  but it’s great when you’re in it.  i don’t need to be dependent on you for this relationship to be important.  ❞

❝  well,  i already did the ‘kicking their ass for being a jerk’ part.  now i’m doing the whole,  showing up for you and making sure you’re okay now part.  ❞

❝  i don’t want to be like this.  i want to change but i don’t know where to start.  ❞

❝  i see you.  i just wanted you to know that.  i always see you.  ❞

❝  i haven’t really done the whole dating thing in a while but,  do you want to?  we could go to dinner—or coffee?  ❞

❝  we’re having a spa night,  okay?  i already have a bath started and there are face masks on the counter.  no arguments.  we need this.  ❞

❝  don’t start giving me the damn puppy eyes i was already gonna say ‘yes’ okay?  ❞

❝  this is a bad idea but i’m already committed so i might as well not half-ass being a dumbass.  ❞

❝  i always feel better when you’re here.  ❞

❝  i’m going to give you a hug now but if you tell anyone about it i will have to kill you.  ❞

❝  did you just flip off that old guy?  ❞

❝  i know you’ll lie to me if i ask if you’re okay so i’m skipping past that part and telling you to go home and get some rest.  ❞

❝  you know i’m not good for you right?  there’s probably a hundred other people you could be going to right now instead of me.  ❞

❝  can i say something here?  or do you need another minute of rambling before i get to do the part where i say what you need to hear and you realize you’re freaking out over nothing?  ❞

❝  don’t you get that i need you?  you’re always going on about being fine and being able to manage on your own and i’m sure that’s true.  but what if i’m not?  what if i need you in my life.  and i need you to let me help you with your life too? ❞

❝  i know you’ve been having a shit time so i brought some food.  ❞

❝  hey— get your hands off my plate.  i made you your own.  ❞

❝  i know you like the rain,  but it’s getting cold.  you need to come in before you get sick.  ❞

❝  i knew i’d find you here.  ❞

❝  if i tell you my eyes are red from weed and not because i was crying will you do me the favor of pretending to believe me? ❞

[excalibrain]

going from putting ensembles together like this

to this 

in less than 3 years is the biggest fashion whiplash

someone please do her a favour and tell her she looks like a bank teller.  encourage her to have fun with clothes again.