Welcome to XIX Week!
An Origins Poolverine prompt event, starting 11/10 (Nov. 10th), and running Nov. 10 - Nov. 16, 2025.
(ao3, bluesky)
This event celebrates fandom’s most despised meow-meow: Weapon XI Deadpool! For fifteen years we’ve been quietly pretending Origins doesn’t have a third act. It’s finally his time to shine!
(graphics by @waterme-stories)
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Read on for Prompts, Rules, and FAQ:
Prompts
Day 1 (Nov 10): The Merc Without A Mouth
Body Horror • Living Weapons • XI’s OP Powerset
Day 2 (Nov 11): 11/11, Make A Wish!
T4T (Traumatized 4 Traumatized) • Logan’s Birthday Surprise • No Nut November
Day 3 (Nov 12): The Best Nights You Can’t Remember
Amnesia • Then / Now • Epistolary
Day 4 (Nov 13): The More The Scarier
Weapon XI Corps • Multiverse Shenanigans and Time Travel • The Weapon XI Poolycule
Day 5 (Nov 14): What If…?
Canon Divergence • Bodyswap • Let’s Kill Hitler Stryker The People Who Wrote Origins
Day 6 (Nov 15): She Asked For No Pickles
Aftercare • Accessibility Aids • It/Its
Day 7 (Nov 16): Ever After
Everything Is Ugly And Everything Hurts • Came Back Wrong • Happy Endings
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Rules
(I can’t actually make you do anything. But if don’t play nice you’ll get yoinked from the collection, and blocked here)
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Don’t Be A Dick
Racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism, antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry will not be tolerated. Don’t do that shit. If your work has characters expressing these opinions, we strongly recommend you warn for it in the tags or notes.
Bullying is loser behavior. If someone’s work isn’t to your taste, there’s no need to leave a nasty comment. Feel free to message us if you think it breaks event rules, but otherwise use that handy back button and go do something that makes you feel good. So easy.
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Tag Your Shit
There are some things it isn’t fun to be jump-scared by. (<<< The Weapon XI Story)
This event has no restrictions on content (though we suggest you follow the TOS of your preferred platform). That means shit might get wild! Please tag applicable major archive warnings on AO3, and use your best judgement on topics like kink, body horror, etc.
We consider “Chose Not To Warn” to be its own warning, and readers should be mindful that CNTW fics may contain untagged content.
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No Generative AI
Hate that I have to say this, but I guess we live in a society.
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Have fun and be yourself!
The true rules were the ones we found along the way.
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FAQs
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“How do I participate?”
Posting begins on November 10th, and ends whenever I remember to close the AO3 Collection.
Use the tag “#Weapon XIX Week” here and on AO3 (and #weaponXIXweek on Bluesky). Posts including sex and/or kink don't always hit the tag pages, so make sure to @ our account directly so we catch it.
Post it on AO3. Share it here. Draw it on the whiteboard in the break room. Write it lovingly by hand and mail it to your mom — she’d love to hear from you, she told me so last night.
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“What can I make?”
All forms of fanwork are allowed: fic, art, moodboards, podfics, interpretive dance… surprise me! The weirdest format gets a prize. (the prize is me saying “oh, wow” when I open it)
There are no minimums, and you can double dip with other events as long as they allow it.
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“What should my work be about?”
If it’s about Weapon XI/X, it’s fair game!
There are no content restrictions on this event. Get kinky, get gross… I’ll even accept fluff if you ask nice. Tag your shit and we’re good.
Weapon XI is my funky little guy, and this is his party! He doesn’t have to be a silent lab experiment — he’s been through the ringer, and deserves some joy and whimsy as a little treat. We encourage fusions, AUs, fix-its, and more! But this isn’t a standard Origins event, so dig a little deeper than babyface Ryan or Deadpool Prime.
Wolverine can be any version, because let’s be real… he gets a lot of love. Also. Old Man Logan/Weapon XI. Need I say more?? The Poolverine relationship can be romantic, sexual, platonic, adversarial, or… all four??
Solo work that features specifically Weapon X or Weapon XI is also allowed. (i.e. art of Logan in that weird head thingy is a fuck yeah! But a drawing of a random Logan isn’t really in the spirit of the event) (solo art of X-24 is also allowed, because now that I've remembered he exists I'm obsessed)
If you can’t wrap your head around monogamy… same, comrade. Multishipping is allowed as long as the XI+X dynamic is a core theme.
Trope subversion is my kink and puns are my love language. Hold the spirit of Weapon XI in your heart and make it weird. (Dogpool was a Weapon XI variant the whole time? More likely than you think…)
The intent of this week is to spark creativity, so if you have to ask “does it count?” the answer is probably yes! If you’re not sure, our asks and DMs are open <3
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“I’m still not sure it counts.”
Here is a list of the stupidest ideas I could think up in ten minutes:
Weapon XI was Dogpool the whole time?? (Post DP&W, Wade and Logan discover Mary is a Weapon XI variant)
Weapon XI doesn’t actually appear, but Logan spends the entire fic doodling him in his notebook
Origins where everything is the same but it’s Ellie and Honey Badger
Bodyswap, but you misread the prompt and made an AMV called “Body WAP” where they twerk about mack trucks and macaroni
Weapon XI/Emo Tobey Maguire
And a few serious ones:
Days of Future Past, but Weapon XI gets sent back in time and into his pre-XI body (OUCH)
Origins through Wade’s eyes, from Lagos all the way to Weapon XI
Weapon XI has to use accessibility aids, and Logan is a supportive and reliable partner
Weapon XI doesn’t actually appear, but Logan has a gnarly nightmare about him :(
I can do this all day.
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“Sorry dude, ambiguity stresses me out.”
If you thrive on grid and the idea of getting a bad grade in Fandom Event makes you as nervous as a cheetah without a golden retriever, asks and messages are open. I’m happy to tell you how awesome your idea is, or give an opinion if it really is an edge case <3
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“Why wasn’t this scheduled for Oct. 11th?”
You mean 10/11/25 in freedom units?
So many reasons. Maybe I wanted XI to get first billing for fucking once (except overseas, where they don’t believe he can top). Maybe there are so many events in October that I knew this would get buried, jesus fucking christ. Maybe I didn’t get my shit together in time. Take your pick.
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That’s all I got for ya. See you in November!
