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Cherik. Marvel. Cats. Writing. Social justice. Nature. Whatever strikes my fancy.

[turq8]

I know I'm about 10 years too late on this, but I need to lay some things out about the timeline between XMFC and DOFP bc I'm tired of seeing it wrong in fics.

The amount of time between the Cuba Incident and DOFP is closer to 10 years than 11 years (10 yr, 3 mo. to be precise), Oct. 25(-ish) 1962 (the Cuban Missile Crisis) to Jan. 27 1973 (The Paris Peace Accords).

Erik was not imprisoned for 10 years, but more like 9 (and from bonus content, only under the Pentagon for 2 years).

Charles was only on a bender for like 7 years max., not the full decade.

Reasoning and explanations under the cut:

The Cuba Incident, specifically: this one is a little bit of a fudge for the exact day, because the JFK address that they show everyone watching on TV happened on the evening of Oct. 22, but then it seems like they go to Cuba the next day, except the crisis continued until Oct. 27. I skimmed Wikipedia about the Cuban Missile Crisis and decided that Oct. 25 seemed the most tense at the blockade, but the movie REALLY messed around with time here lol.

There was just over a year between Cuba and the JFK assassination, so even if Erik had been arrested immediately, it would still only be 9 yr, 2 mo. But if we consider the promotional materials canon, The Bent Bullet (an in-universe article looking back on the JFK assassination 50 years later) says he was arrested Feb. 4, 1964, which is just under 9 years before the breakout in DOFP, and also that he almost broke out a few times throughout the '60s until Trask Industries was contracted to build the super secure prison in 1971.

Here's what Hank says about what happened to Charles: "...just after the first semester, the war in Vietnam got worse.  Many of the teachers and older students were drafted. I mean, it broke him… I wanted to help, do something, so I designed a serum to treat his spine… he takes too much."

Without using bonus materials, we can interpret this one of two ways: school teachers and students were exempt from the draft until the lottery system was introduced in Dec. 1969, so assuming the school counted for the exemption, Charles went off the deep end sometime in 1970. Or, according to this, the most people were conscripted in 1966, so if Hank wasn't talking about the lottery system, that's probably the year things got bad. If we include the 25 Moments bonus materials, it says the school opened in 1965, so that's consistent with 1966 and Charles had up to 7 years of being drunk/high off his ass afterwards.

[weqx2w2]

All I can think about is apocalypse Cherik

[veevil]

cherik yuri for my beloved @artificiallita <3

[terranometry]

Alright, I'm straight out of discord here, but hear my vision

Dragneto as the lady on Whitey Schafer's 'Thou Shall Not', a photo created to show resistance against Hollywood censorship in the 40's

i thought it would be fitting if he was stepping on shaw 💖🤗

[daredva]

give good face

[luna-ainsworth]

…And sometimes he needs care and protection.

Random Cherik quickdraw #1-3

[wishchip106]

“I want you by my side. We’re crustaceans, you and I. We want the same thing”

i was blessed with a vision and i needed to bring it to life

i give you shrimp divorce

[smithology]

loved the ending of apocalypse where erik stayed with charles, slowly recovered from his grief and finally allowed himself to love the man who he'd been pining after for decades

[bixthenix]

did you just throw a goddamn stadium at me???

[artificiallita]

soft old lady yuri, as a treat ✨

[jackyjango]

Erik Lehnsherr #dollypatronchallenge

[mutant-child-deactivated2026020]

so please, please, please, let me, let me, let me have what i want...

[chessandmagnets]

Thought for the day:

Charles and Erik’s first time, early on in the recruitment road trip, when they can’t take the tension anymore and one of them just snaps and slams the other against a wall and they’re kissing and it’s perfect and intense and they both know that their lives are going to change forever, that this is not just any old hook up, and how important this is for the two of them, that they’ve found each other. And so Charles shirks off his jacket, starts unbuttoning his shirt, and Erik pulls off his turtleneck and Charles looks up at him and –

He lets out a hysterical giggle because have you ever seen someone’s hair after they remove a tight turtleneck sweater??? It’s sticking up everywhere and Erik looks all ruffled and now he’s scowling because what’s so funny, Charles, so Charles projects the image to Erik. And there’s a pause and Erik’s still scowling but then he slowly smiles and then he laughs, warm and deep and it’s the first time Charles has heard him laugh, the first time Erik’s heard himself laugh in years, and then he leans down and kisses Charles and they proceed to have fumbling, happy, giggly sex  (✿◠‿◠)

[nikoblasto]

i promised fanart for this cute headcanon that maKES ME SO HAPPY I’M GOING TO CRY

[star-lights-up-deactivated20260]

no no no, I’m not allowed to cry at this-

[icarusredwings]

Thinking about dementia Cherik doing old grumpy things.

By that, I mean they are both so old that theyve forgotten most of their lives but not each other, infact every time theyre apart theyre immediately asking where the other one is.

Sometimes, Jean will give Charles a small sweeper and Erik some wipes so they can feel included in the cleaning of the mansion.

While wiping off a table the best he can, Erik feels a bit of air sucking towards his shoulder.

He turns but Charles isn't doing anything, simply sweeping under the side table with a neuteral face.

So Erik goes back to wiping, trying to get a smudge off the glass only for Charles to cheekily sweep up some of Erik's sleeve.

Looking at him, Erik frowns, blushing with that embaressed and slightly annoyed face though you'd think he was extremely pissed.

He, is infact, is actually pleased but he wants to finish cleaning.

"Quit it." He tells him.

"Oohh alright." So Charles goes back to sweeping the floor.

It takes about 3 seconds before he harmlessly brings the small vaccum end to Erik's head, sweeping his hair to look awful.

Charles laughs, smiling as if he were a teen boy teasing his crush.

Erik huffs, flattening his hair back down. "Enough!"

Charles however only does it again, adoring how frustrated Erik is getting.

"Ill tell on you." Erik says, his 96 year old wrinkly fingers pointing at him.

Charles sweeps up the finger.

"JEAN! Charles is sweeping me!"

"Ohh you cry baby. No fun."

"Jean!! Charless said im a cry baby! That is very rude! He's being rude to me!"

"HANK! Erik is lying! This is slander! I will not stand for-"

"JEAN! He's threatening me!"

"HANK!! Erik is lying! If I would have threatened him I would have done it already!"

"JEAN!! Did you hear that!?"

Jean and Hank are in the other room, sighing heavily. Hank is holding his temple. Jean is pouring a massive glass of wine.

".... What if we wheel them to a cliff?" Hank mutters.

Jean ponders, Chugging the entire glass before awnsering. Some dribbles down her chin.

"..Murder is wrong, Hank. No matter how much we really wish it wasn't."

"JEAN! He's hitting me!"

"HANK! He's being a big baby!"

Jean blinks, looking to Hank, who looks as if he might commit man slaughter. "Are you sure?"

".....It's not technically murder if we just.. leave them there. Right?"

"No, no certainly not. Though... do we really want to release Magneto in the wild?"

"Do you wanna release CHARLES in the wild?"

"..... good point. That would be cruel to society."

[musicalmindbend]

I like making things look pretty.

[quietsubway]

my favourite superheros - the mistresses of moisture and the vulvarine ❤️

[quietsubway]

it was tough being trans in the 50s, but imagine how much worse the experience was being a pregnant trans man in the 50s and in love with your male friend