#cablexdeadpool

[cablexdeadpool]

hi! i didnt know this blog was still active. things are (really) sparse for cablepool right now but thanks for keep this place alive. :) actually i dont know if youre still the same mod from before the purge but in the event that you are, big fan of your old cablepool fics. they give me comfort and i like revisiting them from time to time so thanks for everything

Yep, it's still me, @rallamajoop ‒ thank you for your kind words about my old fic! (People are still re-reading it? Aww <3)

But in all honesty, I've been a bit slack with keeping up with the cablepool tags around here lately. Credit for queuing up the last round of material rightly goes to @withoutaconscienceorafilter ‒ a friend who's been so good at pointing me to obscure cablepool stuff to reblog here that I'd otherwise have missed that I eventually just asked if she'd like to help me co-mod (and, you know, give this place some backup management in case I drop off the planet or tumblr decides I don't exist again or something). Things have been mostly so quiet in cablepool fandom lately that it's charming to be reminded there are still folks watching this place closely enough to notice when I've been letting things slip a little, so thanks again ‒ I'll have to see about keeping up a little better in the near future. *g*

[cablexdeadpool]

In the wake of the ban, what's the plan for this blog? Are you gonna move it to dream width or pillowfort? Or hold on for as long as you can here?

I honestly don’t know at this point. Since 99% of the content here comes from reblogs, a blog like this can only work if there are other fans around to create content, so it depends a lot on where the rest of the fandom goes. I don’t think anything on this blog’s been flagged yet (it’s harder to tell than you’d think) – even material that probably should be – but fandom’s lost faith in tumblr’s management in a big way, and I can’t blame them. Dreamwidth isn’t a realistic option – it doesn’t support either reblogs or image hosting on anything like tumblr’s scale (though if anyone does want to create or promote a cablepool community over there, I’d be happy to help put the word out). Pillowfort looks to be designed more along tumblr’s lines, but they’re still so new it’s way too early to guess how big they’ll get, and most of what I’ve seen so far doesn’t fill me with confidence that their dev team are up to the task. I’ve seen other people advocating everything from twitter to pornhub as the next big fandom hub, but I suspect we’re going to see fans casting around (and fandom on tumblr still hanging around at lower activity levels) for a long while yet before any real consensus arrives. I’m not planning to shut up shop just yet, butI am in the middle of looking into the best way to make some backups, and keeping my ears out for other sites worth trying. And if anyone else does want to try creating a similar community on Pillowfort, or has some Discord channels they’d like to promote, or anything else in that vein, by all means, drop me a line.

[cablexdeadpool]

Very Minor Announcement

On the downside: the cablepool tag has been a bit slow lately, so I’m running a little low on new fanart to reblog.

On the upside: guess that means it’s time to finally break out my old fanart folder and bookmark collection, like I’ve been meaning to since taking over this tumblr. Picspam ahoy!

[rallamajoop]

Thank you so much for the cablexdeadpool blog. It's a gosh darn haven.

No need to thank me – it wasn’t even my creation originally, I just couldn’t bear to let it die. But you’re very welcome all the same. :)

[sarahconnorjr]

I'll respond to the specific parts that I was called out in but for the original post you can click here. It's under a different username but I'm sure you're all familiar with the popular Cablepool blog cablexdeadpool

As you admitted, you are biased, and I think that bias has given you a skewed view of my blog. I am not anti-Cable. For years I have consistently talked shit about him, mainly because I am an old school X-Men fan and ranting about the Summer's family is a subsequent hobby many of us develop despite our love for them, but I like the ship. Shit talking about these characters is something I do, and I've been far worse to Spiderman despite your assumptions. My comments on Cable have always been that he's an annoying killjoy but I have spent many hours arguing that Spiderman is a self-centered asshole who sells babies to the devil; I popularly have argued that against the Deadpool editor.

I have stated that a relationship with Cable is abusive just as I have stated that a relationship with Spiderman is abusive. Cable is controlling and manipulative and their relationship seems to be based on daddy issues. Spiderman is self-centered, judgmental, ableist, and Deadpool objectifies him (sexually, yes, but mostly as a hero who should not have any faults)

Other things I often state: I only like problematic ships and my ideal partner for Deadpool would be Copycat which I have said even long before the movie was in production

This blog is unequivocally Spideypool heavy but that's not because of a personal preference, it's simply that I post every new fan work daily and in recent years Spideypool is more popular. I've been able to post a lot more Cablepool which I've been excited about but in a perfect world I would be able to post a lot more fanart of him with Taskmaster, Wolverine, Captain America, even Sauron. Not to say that I don't love Spideypool, the fan comics are always very funny and I enjoy them a lot.

The original essay was very much in response to homophobic messages I was getting when I started this blog. Instead of answering each message I made one post I could link to and over time the homophobia died down but the post continued to be popular because it was informative so I retrofitted it to be more so but it definitely holds remnants of its original intention.

That being said, my argument was never that if you don't believe Deadpool is pansexual you are a homophobe, although I do argue that if you think Deadpool is completely straight you at least have some internalized homophobia.

As for me purporting that Deadpool can only be read as pansexual, that isn't true. When I was originally asked what is sexual orientation was I picked pansexual because we know he loves women, we know he loves men, and we know he's capable of loving a space hippo so pansexual seemed the most fitting although omnisexual would have worked as well. I have no problem with people identifying him as bisexual because the definitions of all of these terms are being redefined by many communities and if you are definition of bisexuality includes loving space hippo's falls under bisexuality, then he is also clearly bisexual.

I have also acknowledged and try to mention as much as possible that in canon Deadpool does not identify as anything besides "not straight" which I think is exceedingly important. Deadpool rejecting labels is the best editorial decision, in my opinion, and fans to interpret him as pansexual or bisexual can just as easily identify with him. He is still queer representation.

Your post disappoints me because I've been excited by all the new Cablepool material and that a lot of Spideypool fans have been expanding their repertoire and you seem to be instigating a rekindling of this fandom argument that appeared to be waning; that being, Spideypool makes no sense and whoever doesn't love Cablepool obviously hasn't read the comics which reeks of the "fake fangirl" rhetoric

[cablexdeadpool]

New cablexdeadpool resources page

Quick blog update -- since a lot of the most useful older posts to come by here (the original ship manifesto, reading lists of Cable/Deadpool-related comic titles, the beginners guides to finding stuff on Marvel Unlimited/Pixiv/the old LJ communities, etc) are pretty well buried in the archive at this point, I figured it might be a good time to put together a proper resources page with permanent links to them all.

Whether you’re looking for fic, fanart or canon info, there should be good odds you’ll be able to find something useful link there. Link’s been added to the sidebar for future reference. And if you can think of anything else it might be useful to add to the list, just drop me a line.

[cablexdeadpool]

Re-opening for business!

Hey there, folks! The more astute among you may have already noticed that the cablexdeadpool tumblr has been a little dead recently. Turns out the original maintainer (who -- credit where it’s due -- has done a great job of running it for the last couple of years) has largely drifted on to other things of late, but was only too happy to pass on the job to new hands when I volunteered to step in. So this would be your official notice that I am rallamajoop, and I will be taking over this body right now MWHAHAHA your new maintainer around these parts.

First order of business: we have a six-month backlog of unreblogged cablepool material to get through! (Not all at once, obviously -- this is exactly the job the tumblr queue was born to deal with. Just rest assured the fandom has not stopped producing new material worth sharing while we’ve been away.)

In the meantime, submissions remain thoroughly welcome, be it your own work or recs for anyone else’s.

[rallamajoop]

Calling Cable & Deadpool fandom on tumblr

Fellow Cable/Deadpool fans: the cablexdeadpool tumblr would seem to be looking for a new maintainer, should anyone feel like volunteering.

Though I rec it around a fair bit, I’ve no real idea how many of you might have been following cablexdeadpool. There’s a lot to like about them: they’ve got a usefully consistent tagging system for tracking down older work, and they do a very thorough job of reblogging virtually everything to appear on tumblr that might be of interest to your average Cable/Deadpool shipper, conveniently saving me the bother of tracking several different tags manually to achieve the same result. They’ve been so reliable about this for so long that it’s only with some embarrassment that I now have to admit that they have in fact been in complete radio silence since July last year without my noticing. (Look, in my defense, they’ve always gone through quiet periods, and there’s still been enough random C&DP related content scrolling past my dash that the lack wasn’t immediately obvious. Lord only knows how many other blogs on my watch list may have quietly suffered the same fate.)

So I did the obvious thing and sent an ask through to the maintainer a little while back, and got a polite response to confirm that yeah, they've basically moved on to new fannish pastures and aren't so much feeling the Cable/Deadpool love anymore, but would be happy to pass on ownership of that blog if I wanted to take over. Sadly, since I'm already running one major fannish recs blog (and much as I enjoy doing it, finding material for it does keep me busy), I didn't feel I'd have the time for it myself and had to decline (I mean, I'd absolutely be happy to help out filling up the queue once in a while, but my own interest in the fandom is sort of on the waning end at this point, so I'm not really up for sole responsibility here). The maintainer (haihaihai's their personal tumblr) was going to put up a post asking for volunteers if I wasn't interested, but doesn't seem to have got around to that yet. So rather than remind them, I figured I'd go ahead and make my own post, since they'd probably be perfectly happy get other volunteers directly.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but now I know cablexdeadpool's offline, I’m missing them badly. Heck, I only noticed they were gone at all because I spotted someone else on my watch list reblogging some of zyxthstuffs’s art, and realised that here was someone with a whole tumblr full of fanart I’d been completely unaware of. This is a state of affairs I find less than satisfactory.

Long story short: if ever you've felt that running your own fuckyeahcabledeadpool-style blog might be a fun thing to do but figured that position was already filled, now might be an excellent time to make that known.

You can message either cablexdeadpool or haihaihai directly to volunteer.