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silent-raven13 · 12 days

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I love you, Mon Tournesol

(AU: Hobie is Gambit and Miles is Rogue X-men world! Hahaha!🫣)

Miles flew in the air as he took a powerful laser hit from Sentinels, "Ugh- AHHHH!" His raspy Southern scream had all the other X-men alerted.

"Mon Cher!" Laurence shouted out to his partner, who fell to the ground. The battle between the human race and X-men has become a very upsetting desperate war. All cities had been destroyed for mutant extinction. Many regrets had lead to Sentinels to dictate most first world countries.

Many mutants have lost their lives, yet the battle still go on. Miles falling down on the ground feeling the powerful laser, "Luv! Mon coeur!" Laurence rans through the battle field having to jump and use his cards to attack the same Sentinel that hurt his beloved. "Darling, are you alright?" He quickly got to his knees to pick his mon beau to lay on his lap. His dark eyes with purple iris stares filled with love and worry.

"It's alright, Shug." Miles mutters through the pain, "I-I think my powers...-"

"Shh, don't worry, cher. Luckily that big brute is nuthin' but the last model. Your powers will only be suspended for a bit." Laurence presses his forehead against his lover, "I can finally feel you."

"Hehe, Hobie." Then, Miles frowns, "You have to go without me, I can't-" He winced feeling his body crying in pain, everything hurts so much. "Leave me, bae."

"No, never. We'll die together if we must." Hobie grins at him, the use of his first name was only meant for his mon cher to use. "I'll put all my heart on the cards, luv."

Even if Hobie could carry his lover, he wouldn't be able to make it with the Sentinel are on them. He is also weaker, tired from the fight, but he place his heart on the cards he has.

"You always did gamble our love." His boyfriend chuckles before letting out a painful grunt. It's like no matter what he did his whole body aches. "Sucks being human tho."

A Sentinel came by at them having to scan the two. "Two mutants. Must annihilate!" It's chest started to glow a bright ball being prepare to laugh.

"Hah, full of jokes, luv." Hobie picks up his beloved, "At a time like this? I always knew you were meant for me."

"Te amo, Hobie. Kiss me, I want you to be the only one I truly want to touch." Miles painfully took his right glove off with his teeth to let his bare hands touch his boyfriend.

"For you, anything. Hobie loves you with all his heart, mon tournesol." Hobie pulls Miles into a deep passionate kiss as they stayed in the spot holding onto each other.

As the Sentinel got ready to launch its bright power laser, Hobie pulls away to stare deeply at his Sunflower. "Now." The cards were secretly planted around the chest, and limbs on the Sentinel with a snap of his finger, the massive purple explosion destroyed the deep part of the limbs.

"Would you two knock it out and get the fuck out of here!" Wolverine growls as he came in with Storm from the air to attack the Sentinel with all his might. He took his chance to tear off the weak limbs from the revealing wires of the metal, while storm uses her powers to ripped the part.

"Wah?" Miles stares in shock as his boyfriend carries him in bride style with a massive cocky grin. "You no good city boy!"

Nightcrawler appeared to hug them, "The planned work, Hobs!" He quickly teleports them out of the spot into a safe place far from the Sentinel. Most mutants that survived were able to hide in a cave that a mutant created. The mutant keeps using his earth powers to create a long tunnel to get away. Miles playfully punch his boyfriend who was laughing out loud.

"Mon cher, I always knew you love me," Laurence chuckles out loud. "Aye, Pav. I got him to say he loves me."

"Awe, how cute." Nightcrawler giggles at his friend being with his brother, "Mi, I'm surprised."

"It was in the moment! I thought we were gonna die!" Miles shouted out loud with his face covered to hide his flustered face. "I didn't think you guys had a plan!"

"Awe, cher." Laurence happily carries his lover with his forehead pressing against his Sunflower, "I love you, too."

"Everyone safe?" Cyclops walks into the cave with part of her head bleeding.

"Oh no, Gwen! Are you okay?" Pavtri asked being concerned.

"Yeah, I ate shit but good thing, Wolverine saved my ass." She stood seeing mutants being injured.

"What are we gonna do, shug?" Miles asked Hobie looking worried, "Should we finally go to Magneto?"

"I hate to say it, but we have to. He's the only safe place to go, Cher." His boyfriend sighs as his heart hurts for his fellow mutants.

"I'm going to get Wolverine and Storm. Once we get them, we need to leave and find Magneto. Gwen, we have no choice here." Nightcrawler said.

"You're right, we don't. Day by day mutants, humans... all of them are dying out." Cyclops sighs, "We need to move and hopefully our friends are doing fine."

Hobie holds onto his Sunflower as they began walking when Pavtri came back with Storm and Wolverine. The end of the tunnel lead to a sandy beach, "I don't like this, grr." Wolverine grumbles at their next plan.

"What choice do we have, tough guy?" Storm holds her partner's arms to calm him down. "We have many injured and you took a terrible hit."

"I'm alright, Ro." He looks at her with loving eyes seeing how much she's concern for his well being, "This wolf always gets up and show his claws."

Cyclops stood to contact Magneto for help, after all the mutant can never say no to the injured and helpless of his own kind. A large ship created by Magneto had appeared from the sky, and Spider-man had appeared wearing a new suit. "Miles!" The black Latino looks up to find the ship opens it's hatch to reveal Jubilee standing with Spider-man and Billie.

Miles happily spotted his baby sister with joy, "Billie!" Hobie set him down so he can run to hug his baby sister. He weeps in joy, "I thought I lost you!" He sniffs, one of the reasons he went Rogue over his little sister.

"I'm okay! Papá, he saved me... him and mom..." She weeps hugging her brother tightly. "They say they're sorry for kicking you out and that they love you... us." She recalls being in her parents apartment in New York before the Sentinels came through blasting anything and everything, her being stuck between the walls her dad and mom push her out of the apartment. Then fire burns through her home. If only she can use her mutant powers the best of her ability.

Magneto flew in mid-air spotting Cyclops and Wolverine, "So, are you all ready to join me? This is what Charles believed and look what happen. Our kind practically on the break of extinction, the humans had failed us and they consequently destroyed themselves in the process."

Gwen grit her teeth the same way as Wolverine, before Laurence spot, "We are. There's nothing left here, we need to protect our own. Look at us. We're hungry, tired, we almost died out there."

"He's right. We need to think of a way to end the Sentinels, too." Nightcrawler said to Gwen.

"Fine, we will focus on that." Gwen move forward, "We will join you, Magneto. There's no more room for peace. Too many had die."

Magneto let out a small smile, "Good. Come aboard. We need to hurry before they come."

Everyone got aboard the ship, Billie happily took Hobie's and Miles' hand to show them around, "This place has everything, Mi! Look there's a beautiful garden."

"Hey, Boo! Remember we have training at five with Morph!" Jubilee shouted.

"Okay, will do!" Billie grins at her mutant name, she turns into a ghost flying in the air, "Come on, guys. I want you guys to see the garden."

"Careful, Billie! You still need to-" Billie turns back to normal before landing on the ground, "control your powers..." Her older brother said.

"Don't worry, cher. She's learning. So Boo is your name, little one?"

"No it's Billie Boo! Hehe!" Billie grins widely at her black and blue suit with a vibrant purple ghost in the middle. Her mutant powers are ghost related with a twist. Like her brother, with her touch she can take the soul's longevity or switch them. She can see someone's health, and switch their illness to someone else. So far, she can only do it two at a time, if she continues to train her powers, who knows how far her ability can go.

"That's so cute, sis." Miles giggles.

"I prefer Ghost." Laurence hums.

Billie stood proudly at her name, "No, it's Billie Boo!" She happily lead them to the massive garden in the large ship.

Miles admires the view, "Wow, to think Magneto did all of this... it's crazy."

"Makes you want to never leave, huh?" Laurence lay his head on his partner's chest.

His boyfriend nodded, "Yeah... what if... he could take us all to another planet and we thrive there? No humans... no Sentinels... no war?"

"What about here? All the other mutants that need us?" Laurence asked. "We have to save them."

"We can if... you know, we come back after building a strong foundation."

"I dunno know, luv. It gives off that we lost and gave up."

"Your right... Sorry. Just thinking about Billie and Pav's well being." Miles sighs then his hand felt his boyfriend's face, it's warm very inviting. His beautiful boyfriend feels just like he thought he would, "I need to go to med-bay to see when my powers will come back."

"We shall spend every moment being together. Mon cher, you know I go wherever you go. I'll be by your side and your siblings." Laurence kisses his true love.

"Even if I decide to stay with Magneto, be on the "bad" side?"

"No matter what you decide I will follow. I care about your safety and your siblings. We need to stick together. I care for us! I don't want you to lose anyone else, not even your brother and sister."

"I love you, Hobart Laurence Brown." Miles' honey brown eyes gleams with joy.

"I love you, too, mon tournesol." Hobie leans over to kiss his beloved one more time as they sit happily in the peaceful garden filled with mutants having fun, living their life to the fullest without no worries. Billie running around with her friends playing games. This is a perfect fantasy for them, the perfect reality they want.

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twoidiotwriters1 · 1 year

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Copycat: Genesis —(Marvel Fem!Oc)

A/N: Watch me use lit any version of this boy except the official one -Danny

Words: 2,028

Phase Six Masterlist

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Listen to: ‘Mind Over Matter’ -by Young the Giant

xxiv: Friends Reunion Pt.II

She woke up before Matt the next morning, almost hesitant to let him know she was leaving.

Cat had no self-control when it came to this sort of stuff. It wasn't that she didn't like him anymore, but sleeping with one of her exes wasn't what others would call improvement. Then she thought that even though she'd been the one who had fallen first, it had been him reaching down to kiss her after claiming he only wanted to be friends. That made her laugh.

Matt stirred on the bed at the sound, he sat up and spoke to her groggily. "You're leaving?"

"Yeah," she was packing as fast as she could. "I'll get off your back for a while. Permanently, if this works."

"And you were leaving without saying goodbye," he pushed the sheets away and got up to get dressed. "I feel used."

"I thought you liked that?" She teased him.

"Only when I consent."

"You looked quite willing last night..." Cat looked at him, hair tousled and no shirt on. She wanted to make sure they were on the same page, but talking about it felt like it meant something, and she didn't want that. "I'll call you."

"Okay."

"Take care."

"Why do I feel like a one-night stand?" He laughed.

Why was she so awkward now? Matt wasn't smitten, he was himself. Was it her? Was she the one fighting against unwanted feelings? Did she even want to know what she was feeling at all?

Cat walked up to him and reached for his face, the mutant gazed at his features carefully. Matt let her stare. One of his hands softly caressed the crook of her elbow, he had a tender expression on his face, glad to have a reason to touch her.

As if her feelings weren't confusing enough, she blurted out a request. "Can I get a kiss for good luck?"

Matthew's eyes wrinkled cutely as he grinned. "You can have two."

She'd barely stepped off New Asgard's landing platform when a familiar voice spoke from her left.

"You had to make an entrance..."

Cat froze and looked at Nightcrawler with eager eyes, she clasped her hands together, and the urge to apologize came to her, but something different came out of her mouth. "Are you really going to punch me?"

"I'm dying to," he moved away from the pillar and approached her. Cat closed her eyes, the air got taken out of her lungs by the strongest bear hug of her life. "I'll do it later."

Cat wrapped her arms around him and took a shaky breath. They were together, nothing else mattered. "I'm sorry."

"It doesn't mean you won't do it again."

She moved to look at him. Kurt had a scar above his brow and another one on the bridge of his nose. "I'm done lying."

Kurt's eyes found the scars around her throat, his voice came full of hurt. "I wish I could believe you."

Cat understood. She'd done many awful things in the past, abandoning him wasn't even the worse of it. When it came to her safety, she would have to show him with actions that she really meant to look after herself now.

"Are you hungry?" She cupped his face, eyes lingering on the fur around his throat, still scorched but healing. "We have a long journey ahead of us, and you have to tell me all about your visit to the Guardians."

"My visit to the Guardians... reminds me," he pulled something out of the leather bag he was carrying. "Rocket sent this... with a message." It was a blaster, not as big as her last, but she could tell her friend had made it. Cat held it in awe. "He says that if you die and he's not here to see you go, he'll take make a necklace with your claws and he'll send it to Quill as a present saying they're shark teeth."

"He sure knows how to motivate me," Cat made a face. "Wait, send it to Quill? Is he not with them?"

"He came back with me," Kurt was acting weird. "Crazy things happened, but you know Rocket is saying that he loves you and he's glad you're okay."

"I wish he would just say that," she complained. Then she rubbed Kurt's arm, the way he was talking about his time in space made her uneasy. "Is everything okay?"

His brow furrowed like he wasn't sure he could speak about it. "I'll tell you about it once we're in my place."

Back in Kurt's old house, the young man made lunch for them and told her all about his latest adventure with the Guardians, she got upset when she heard Rocket's crazy creator had decided to hunt him down just like Kraven was doing to them, but then she felt better when she found out the guardians went all out just to save him. They really were Rocket's family.

That's why it surprised her even more when she heard they had parted ways.

"Just like that?"

"Yeah," Kurt smiled at her teasingly. "Quill lives right around the corner, he might even visit you one day!"

She scowled. "Don't joke like that, dude."

He laughed. "He's much more likable now, though! I lived with him for a whole month, and we got along just fine, I think you'd like him if you give him a chance."

Cat hesitated. "You're being serious."

"I am," his gaze turned hazy. "We all went through stuff while saving Rocket... that whole thing with his crazy scientist..."

"I feel like you're not telling me everything," she said doubtfully.

"I can't," she was shocked to hear his voice quivering. "I know how easily you blame yourself for things that you were not even there to witness. You're better off not knowing."

That was not soothing, but she let it go. Maybe he would tell her about it later. She decided to change the subject and explained her idea. She finished at the same time Kurt was done cooking.

"Are you sure we're enough to cover Madripoor?" He placed a plate in front of her.

"It'll be fine," she assured him. "Russo can't go anywhere without showing off. We need to be careful when we start asking questions, though, but I think we'll know if we're in danger."

"He's got guys with big noisy guns that will be pointed at us as soon as we enter the perimeter."

"We are the best-trained mutants Kraven ever found," Cat insisted. "Russo's guard is a joke compared to us! Besides, I have someone ready to help us out if we get cornered."

He frowned. "That widow you used to work with? Or is it Kate?"

"No," Cat gave him a sweet smile. "An old acquaintance."

"The way you phrase it makes me feel like I can't trust you."

"Hey, there was a time in which being your friend was problematic, but I stuck around!" She reminded him. "This guy isn't so bad, he's fun!"

"Your idea of fun is on the murderous side," he stated bluntly. "I know I used to be like that, but I'm not looking forward to meeting another one of us."

"We're getting sidetracked here," she dismissed it. "He'll help us if it comes down to it, but I'm sure it'll be just you and me, like old times."

"Promise me you're not planning on making a vest bomb to blow up Russo like last time. Swear it on Rocket's life," he urged her.

"You remember Rocket has given us permission to give our word over his life, then lie, right?"

"Swear it on Felix, then!"

"Smurf, I don't do things twice unless they're hot people or I'm getting paid," Kurt glared at her, Cat tried to ease him by patting his hand. "What these men did was one of the worse things I've had to endure... and I'm not talking about what they did to me. I didn't know I was capable of caring for someone that much until I saw you in the cage..."

Kurt tilted his head and squinted. "Are you confessing to me? Cause I have to say, Mimi, this is not—"

Cat slapped his hand away. "This is what I get for trying to share my feelings."

Kurt seized her hand again and squeezed it. "I'm pulling your tail. I just want to be sure that we have more than one route of escape."

"We don't need more, just a really good one!" Cat took a bite of her lunch and glanced at Kurt, he was staring at her with a smirk. "What?"

"You sounded super pressed," he snorted. "'This is what I get for sharing my feelings', an ex of yours is nagging you again?" Cat didn't reply, but Kurt knew which buttons to press. "You came back about a week ago, but you're not staying in your apartment..."

"Smurf," she warned him.

He had a taunting smile on his face. "Which one is it nowadays, Spider-man or Daredevil?"

She grabbed her plate and got up, deciding to eat in the living room.

"Better!" He began to laugh. "Is it Bucky Barnes or She-Hulk?"

Cat hurled the plate at his head, but he stopped it before it could crack his skull.

Cat pulled something out of her pocket and stared at it for a moment before entering the city.

"What's that about?" Kurt nudged her arm.

"A photo," she put it away.

"Why did you bring it?"

Cat shrugged. "Webs gave it to me..."

"The Webs from the other universe?"

"Yeah. It's just a token of good luck."

"Is it a token, or does it remind you of something?" He pressed.

"You're not gonna drop it until I tell you what happened, right?" She frowned.

"You know I love gossip. More so when it's yours."

Cat sighed. "He put back together the beeper, the tech in his universe isn't like ours, so it took a while. I stayed in his apartment in the meantime."

"What did you do while you were there?"

"Had a normal life," she said, trying to sound bored. "I couldn't fight crime like I would've done here, we didn't want to bring attention to the fact that there was another hero in the city, although I did go out a night or two, he made me a suit..."

"He made you a suit? That's so sweet," he mocked her.

Cat punched his shoulder. "He was trying to cheer me up! I was stranded there, he feared I would lash out."

"And did you?"

"No," she avoided his gaze. "I was happy to be out of here."

Kurt stopped. "Really?"

"It's got nothing to do with you, or anyone," she was quick to elaborate. "I was exhausted. I mean, I tried to die, Kurt, I didn't want to keep running..."

"And being in another universe made you feel better?"

"I was a New Yorker minding her business. And the webhead was really nice to me, his aunt as well..."

"You met his family?" He whistled. "You guys were going for it."

She scowled. "It was nothing. She worked at a charity and Spidey thought it'd keep me busy while he fixed the beeper— he had a whole life that couldn't be paused just for my sake."

"Is he single? It sounds like he was placing all of his efforts on making you feel better, I mean, for a guy who claims to have such a busy life— Making you suits, building a machine to bring you back..."

Cat hadn't allowed herself to think of it, she didn't want to yearn for something that wasn't real. "It's a small world, fewer problems... comes with fewer friends as well."

He hummed. "No Nightcrawler to replace me?"

"I wouldn't look for him," she hugged him. "One is enough crap to handle."

He pocked her ribs. "Jerk."

"Okay, so life was bearable, what about your roommate?"

"He's a good guy."

"Do you like him?"

She hesitated. "Are you asking me about my current roommate or the one I had in the other universe?"

Kurt grinned. "Your choice."

"Well, you know Spider-Man, they're hard to hate."

"And the one you have now?"

All those questions were perfectly reasonable, but they were making her nervous. "He's nice too."

Kurt hummed, his voice turned curious. "If you could travel to the other place, would you—"

"Yeah, for the fun of it," she replied before he could finish. "But that's not gonna happen. You done?"

"I just wanna know, if you could live in another universe..."

Cat groaned. "I don't like playing the 'ifs' game."

"I was just—"

"Usually, when people 'just ask', feelings end up hurt in the process," she sent him an annoyed look.

Kurt sighed. "Okay."

Next Chapter—>

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icarus-suraki · 7 months

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for the weird asks: 4, 29, 46

Weird asks! Ask me things!

4 which cryptid being do you believe in? I'm pretty skeptical about cryptids in general. I'm very much in the "I want to believe" camp. I like thinking about them, theorizing about them, reading about them, watching low-quality filmed-on-a-potato videos of them, all of that. The Fresno Nightcrawlers have a special place in my heart. But it's always in the back of my mind that there's a logical explanation for whatever someone has seen or claims to have seen, though sometimes the logical explanations are equally weird. It might really have been ball lighting.

All that said, I'd like to believe in Bigfoot. There are so many stories from Native and First Nations communities about beings that sound an awful lot like popular culture's Bigfoot. And given that white people (like me) have a terrible track record of actually listening to Native people when they've explained things (the moai of Easter Island did walk to their places; Squirrel really did teach people about maple sap; the landscape of Australia really was different long ago and people really did preserve that memory) maybe there's something to the really old Bigfoot or Sasquatch stories. I know the stories have gotten all mixed up with European wildman stories and American folklore. Maybe the oldest Bigfoot story is a recollection of an extinct bear, but there's something in there.

Also extraterrestrials. Not that I think they've come to Earth or anything but, to borrow from Carl Sagan, otherwise it seems like an awful waste of space.

29 how do you like your shower water? Hot. Very hot. Extremely hot. Scalding. Boiling. Could make good tea in a cup of it. Just a few degrees below the temperature of lava.

But I like the air outside the shower to be cool (or even cold) because I don't want to overheat the minute I get out of the shower. So I'll open the windows in winter or turn the AC down in summer. Maybe that's weird, but it's also how I like to sleep: cozy under blankets but breathing cold air.

But yeah, mmmmm, hot water~

46 favorite holiday film? YOU WANT ME TO SAY THE CROW, DON'T YOU? Well, that's certainly a favorite holiday film. Gotta watch that on October 30th since that's when the main events in the film happen. But this low budget New Zealand-made Christmas movie called Nearly No Christmas that I saw as a small child is also very near and dear to my heart (any whoever gave it two stars, please turn on your location; I just want to talk). It's kind of about…the problems of capitalism and the benefits of cooperation? Also overthrowing monarchies.

And I love the MST3k episode Santa Claus, which is a slightly bizarre Mexican-made kids' movie dubbed into English. (I like Santa Claus Conquers the Martians too, of course, but Lupita's aggressive cuteness, Merlin's inexplicable presence, the wind-up reindeer, and all the international kids making toys are just too odd. Love it.)

Also Home Alone (the original and still the best) is always fun, even if it is a white suburban revenge story. It's a great movie, don't @ me, but it's still a white suburban revenge story. It's a bit like Hot Fuzz in that all of it's good but the payoff at the end is great.

Never been a huge fan of Nightmare Before Christmas. People have assumed that about me before, which I get, but I'm just not a fan? I'll sing along with "This Is Halloween" and have a good time with it but, eh.

There are a number of movies that I associate with holidays that aren't strictly related to said holiday. I mean, I have a litany of horror and gothic movies that I love for Halloween--like The Crow, sure, but also Crimson Peak, The VVitch, Dario Argento's giallo masterpieces, Ghostbusters (1 and 2 but more 1 than 2; or is that set at Halloween? I can't remember), Dracula (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), The Craft, Hereditary, A Tale of Two Sisters (which I can't find anywhere anymore, pieeeen), The Exorcist, Hellraiser (my beloved), weird shit like Beyond the Black Rainbow, non-supernatural horror (or "thriller") like The House That Jack Built or I Saw the Devil, German Expressionism but mostly just The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Asian Extreme/J-horror like Oldboy or Suicide Club or World of Kanako… I'm down to watch The Blood on Satan's Claw and The Wicker Man (1973) even though those two are set in spring. Don't care, didn't ask, bring me a snack. (I legitimately have a subscription to Shudder, which is an all-horror, all-giallo streaming service and it's pretty good so I can glut myself there. It's not all gold but what streaming service is? But they're the ones who helped fund Skinamarink, so they do know what they're about.)

Honestly, a lot of what's in the top three tiers of this iceberg is or could be a Halloween Favorite (and maybe a couple in the fourth tier if I'm feeling more like a sicko).

You know I tried to watch that Hallmark Christmas Prince or A Princess for Christmas or whatever it was when it was being talked about a bit and I found it so tedious and so uninteresting that I never got more than a half hour into it (if that).

#ask game #ask me things #anon is on #horror movies

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chimielie · 3 years

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half truths and half lies (i should have known)

summary: Suna x F!Reader. Your hot vampire neighbor is not dying on your couch, not on your watch.

word count: 1.4k

cw: vomit, poisoning, typical vampire warnings, blood. suna does almost die but it’s a humor fic i swear

a/n: oh how the turns have tabled

Atsumu’s always complaining about Suna’s nightcrawling habits.

Suna thinks it’s a pointless argument; he doesn’t have much of a choice, and he doesn’t mind it, neither, but right now he wishes his schedule had crossed with yours at least once or twice.

Mostly, he wishes he’d made it to his own place instead of stumbling into yours, but it had just smelled so warm, inviting, like home, and you hadn’t exactly turned him away when he threw up into the potted plant on your porch. Above all, he wishes he hadn’t gone out with who he had gone out with, but here he is.

In your home, positively dying.

“You are not dying,” you chide, and he realizes that he’s been mumbling maybe half of his thoughts out loud in his delirious haze. “Here, aim for the bucket. The bucket! Aim for—”

You maneuver the bucket beneath Suna right before he vomits again, and he thinks you should be more concerned about the way it looks like he’s been eating nothing but coffee grounds. You rub his back gently as he gags, then help roll him back onto the couch, where he stares desolately up at the ceiling, panting.

“That tastes awful,” he grumbles, and you nod sympathetically, dabbing at his face with a cool cloth, which goes down white and comes away pink. He supposes you have no medical training at all, because a patient breaking out in a blood sweat should really be a bad sign. Then he realizes that you’re hovering right above him, and he snaps his mouth shut, inhaling through his nose even though ew, he really doesn’t want to.

“What did you eat?” You ask, and his vision is turning black at the corners.

“My date,” Suna croaks, and that’s all he can get out, both because his strength is fading fast and because you grab his jaw, (ow, ow, ow) and pour some kind of green, pulpy potion down his throat. He stares up at you with golden-green eyes, feeling betrayed and nauseated, and you pinch his nostrils shut and he swallows it all down.

“Commitment allergy?” You ask, and there’s a smile on your lips. He can’t tear his eyes away from it, enigmatic, enchanting, and he thinks despairingly that he’s going to die on the couch of his idiot neighbor who doesn’t even realize that he’s dying. “You’re not dying.”

His stomach is settling, so he’s either experiencing total organ shutdown or your confidence in his survival isn’t totally unfounded.

It’s a shame, really, that he’s probably going to die (part two, electric boogaloo, he thinks), on the couch of the cute neighbor he never got to meet. He likes the singular room he’s seen of your home, the bundles of herbs hanging on the curtain rods and the sweet scent of smoke from a candle just blown out, the rich color scheme. He likes you, your sweet-lipped snark and possibly intensely deficient brain. If he’d only bumped into you some other time...

You hear it from him; his last words before he slumps into a deep sleep are “Fuck, what’s her name?”

When Suna wakes up, he feels fucking terrible. He doesn’t think he can find your bathroom without hurling up his guts all over your floor, and it would be a useless endeavor to get to a mirror, anyway. He suspects he’s colored gray all over, and he can feel that his hair is all out of place.

He’s patting at it with both hands when you walk in, all blue-jeans swagger and knowing gaze.

“Vanity is a good sign,” you say, and he casts you a sidelong glance before going back to attempting to push his bangs into place blindly. He notices that you’re holding a bowl of steaming soup, and before he can even try to think up an excuse, an allergy, a religious abstinence, you sit down in a plush armchair across from him and take a spoonful yourself.

“You’re gonna eat in front of the patient?” He asks drily.

“I figured you wouldn’t want any,” you shrug. You’re right, but he's suspicious. “You were throwing up all day.” Oh.

Looking around, he sees that the curtains are all drawn tightly shut, doing an excellent job of keeping out the last rays of sunset.

“I feel better,” he acknowledges. “Appreciate you letting me stay. And the health smoothies, or whatever.” You smile, and your teeth are sharp— not as sharp as his, but sharp— and gleaming.

“Anytime.” It’s unsettling. He chooses to stay silent, closing his eyes and pretending to be asleep. You don’t let him. “Do you feel up to eating?”

“Nah,” he says, but his stomach growls.

“Okay,” your gaze is pointed, and he knows you’re going to attempt to nurse him a little longer. “I’m gonna make you rinse your mouth. Then you can explain what happened, seriously.”

You bring him water and a bowl to spit in and even a loaded toothbrush. He waits until you leave to bring him a washcloth to actually use it.

“I was, uh, on a date,” he says, and that’s the truth. “She was kind of crazy. She tried to poison me.” The first statement is a lie. The second is true. You nod, and he frowns, an indent digging itself between his brows as you ignore what must surely be the fiftieth red flag yet.

“Lotta that going around these days,” you sigh. “Don’t worry, you’ll be back to health in no time.” You yanked him back from sure silver poisoning, so he has no choice but to believe you. He feels rather bullied into it.

Suna glares— ineffectually— at your hips, swaying hypnotically as you disappear into another room. He assumes you’ve gone to the kitchen, your bowl left on the coffee table, but you come back with nothing but a roll of gauze. He blinks, wondering if he’s hallucinating.

“No soup?”

“Hah, no,” you snort. “I had a premonition, you know, maybe a week ago. I don’t know if it’s long enough, but I’ve been eating a lot of food rich in iron and such, you know, red meat. That was why the soup was for me.” You’re shoving your shirtsleeve up and wrapping the gauze around your upper arm and his jaw is tensing. There’s something sharp digging into his lip.

“What’re you doing?” He asks, mouth suddenly very dry.

“And this is for you. I’ve only done it once before,” you say, nudging at his legs until his knees are bent to his chest and you’re sitting on the couch next to him. “And let me tell you, it didn’t go well. He had just been turned and it was a big mess, but that doesn’t matter. You’re a big boy, I’m sure. You can control yourself.”

He’s not sure when he levered himself into a sitting position, head pounding and muscles aching, demonstrating exactly how little he can control himself. Nevertheless, he is sitting up, facing you, faintly irritated that he hadn’t caught on that you had caught on.

“Why?”

“Because you were stupid enough to go on a date with a vampire hunter.” He takes offense at that, but you’re not wrong. “And she was crazy enough to pump herself full of silver so you’d choke on the first bite.”

He inclines his head, his narrowed eyes on you. You’re not sure you like being the sole focus of a bloodsucker who seems to be pondering whether or not you’re his enemy.

“And why are you letting me feed on you?” The knot on your arm is slipping, the tension between you two uncomfortable and thick. Even impaired, you don’t like your odds against him. You growl and twitch your fingers, and without a touch, the gauze re-knots itself perfectly, tight around your flesh.

“We look after our own,” you say quietly. “Are you gonna drink or what?”

“I’ll drink,” he murmurs, taking hold of your wrist. His grip is strong, and you gasp a little, a quick intake of breath that has him smirking as his lips hover over your skin. His hands are cold, but electricity sparks up every nerve in all the places he’s touching you. He looks at you, electrum irises pinning you with their intensity, never breaking eye contact as he brushes feather-light touches over your bare arm. “Hold still, witch.”

#suna rintarō x reader #suna rintaro x reader #suna x reader #suna rintarou x reader #haikyuu x reader #haikyuu!! x reader #hq x reader #hq!! x reader

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Uncanny X-Men Abridged: 1982

The X-Men, those Brood-snatched mutants that have sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them, are a cultural juggernaut with a long, tangled history. Want to unravel this tapestry? Then read the Abridged X-Men!

(Uncanny X-Men 153 - 164, Annual 6) - by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum, Josef Rubinstein, Bob Wiacek, Brent Anderson, Bill Sinciewicz

“So, this year will be about an epic space saga with the Starjammers and the Shi’ar, and I’ll imbue one of the women with cosmic powers.” “Didn’t you already do…?” “No, you don’t get it. This time, she won’t be one of the X-Men. She'll be an ex-Avenger. What? ...What?” (Uncanny X-Men 164)

The year 1982 is a pretty diverse one for the X-Men. It’s got:

Shi’ar politics

Brood plots

Shi’ar court drama

A little fairytale (and a little nightmare)

Brood intrigue

Shi’ar space opera

Brood backstabbings

There’s also a pentagon raid and some dracula shenanigans or whatever, but like 80% of this year is one big, honking space opera: the Brood saga. I know this is a fan favorite story arc and I know that me not being enthusiastic about all of this is my own bias. I know I prefer stories that take place on Earth and all this space bullshit is not my cup of tea, but damn. It’s not bad or anything, but it’s just so long and there’s just so little levity throughout.

Okay, I can do this.

Before we head into space, the X-Men are moving on up! After the mansion is trashed one too many times, Professor Xavier decided to relocate to the Bermuda Triangle!

Jesus fucking Christ, Professor, every single time I think you might turn a new leaf, you go on and pretend boundaries are optional for you. Ugh. How cute is Illyana’s little t-shirt, though? (X-Men 154)

Scott and Ororo are finishing things up at the mansion and bonding over racquetball when Corsair the Starjammer crashes into the lake, chased by a Shi’ar dreadnought. Or a Sidri hunter? Whatever. Aliens. Scott, Ororo and Corsair manage to defeat the Shi’ar even though they blow the mansion to smithereens (again!), but Scott incidentally finds out through a Tragic Keepsake (an old locket) that Corsair is in fact Christopher Summers, his father. Corsair promptly breaks the news that his mother was raped and murdered by D’Ken, the previous insane Shi’ar emperor.

It’s... not a happy family reunion.

Scott is obviously unhappy that Corsair never bothered to get back to Earth and find out what was up with his boys (kind of justified), while Corsair is kind of freaked about how cold-blooded Scott can be in his leadership. (Not v. justified. You don’t get to be mad how somebody turned out in your absence.)

Anyway, an even bigger space ship renders their brief victory moot by simply beaming them the fuck out of there. The Shi’ar even pick up the rest of the X-Men from their island, somehow knowing to pick up new X-Man Kitty but not Carol and Illyana.

The sitch is as follows, as Corsair reveals: a lady named Deathbird kidnapped Lilandra. She’s Lilandra’s older sister who forfeited the throne when she ‘accidentally’ killed their mum and who can only claim it again when Lilandra dies. (Appartently, with the Shi’ar, the line of succession is more like a loop.) She implicated the Starjammers in her sister’s kidnapping and this enticed the Shi’ar to come to Earth, Corsair’s home planet. The Shi'ar then recruit the X-Men into doing their dirty work for them: if they don’t recover Lilandra in a day or two, they will blow the Earth to cinders. It’s all v. 24.

The X-Men are shunted back to NYC, sans Kitty and Nightcrawler. They will serve as the Shi’ar’s hostages and Kitty quickly gets her mits on a costume machine.

Completely against Claremont’s usual style, this is not a foreshadowing of Kitty being a father. (X-Men 155)

Apparently Deathbird (who looks awful here) doesn’t work alone: out on the streets of Manhattan, the X-Men are not only attacked by Lilandra’s brat older sister, but also a race of cheap Alien-knock off… uh, aliens: the Brood. They look like the N’Garai, but with more scales, more wings and more vocal chords. I always feel like the Brood would be a lot more menacing if they wouldn’t talk.

In any case, theyd are formidable foes: they manage to impale Colossus and Deathbird snatches Xavier before she escapes into space. Goddamnit.

Fortunately, the rest of the Starjammers appear to help our intrepid heroes with their space-chase. They also have a Pokémon-Center machine that patches up Colossus. (Incidentally, they reveal that Colossus is 18, which makes the whole Kitty/Piotr-thing marginally less skeevy. Marginally.)

Meanwhile, one of Lilandra’s admirals, a dude named Samedar is in cahoots with Deathbird and… WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT A SPACE WHALE?!

SPACE WHAAAAALE *electrical guitar power chord* (X-Men 156)

Apparently, the Brood inhabit gentle space whales as their homes. Everyone acts horrified about this, because raping and pillaging the place you live on is something that humans would never do. The X-Men manage to free Lilandra and Professor X, but when Charles reaches out to Kitty and Kurt to deliver the message that Lilandra is safe, something inside of him assaults him, forcing him into a catatonic state. Oops!

The Brood, meanwhile, chitter that Deathbird has failed them. In order to save her hide, she promises them the powerful X-Men. The Brood, keen on snatching bodies with superpowers, decide she can live. For now.

The X-Men make a beeline for Earth, but will they reach it in time?

Fortunately, Kitty and Kurt heard enough of Xavier's message to know they should generally put a stop things. They break free, planning to bring the Imperial Guard over to their side. Using the costume machine, Kitty pretends to be Phoenix so they can grab Oracle, the telepath. Oracle reads their minds and knows they speak the truth: Samedar is a traitor.

Chaos ensues and, just as Samedar fires the bolt of annihilation (or whatever), the Starjammers are able to intervene. Earth is saved and this space arc briefly ends, but Charles is still catatonic!

While Moira and Oracle try to help Xavier, the X-Men catch the following tv show:

Slowly, insidiously, prejudice against mutants is on the rise. The artwork of the tv-program is hilariously bad: Kitty is all elongated and I thought Angel was Deathbird for a hot second (X-Men 158)

Moira points out that Xavier used to have ties with the government: they will have files on the X-Men. Kitty suggests using a Shi’ar-virus to wipe out the data they have and the X-Men go along with it, solidifying them as an anti-government group. Fuck the system! Sure, they have fought Sentinels before (rogue off-shoots of government programs), but this time, they’re infiltrating the actual Pentagon.

It’s Storm, Wolverine and Carol on this field trip and things immediately go sour when they encounter Rogue. (Rogue made her debut in the pages of an Avengers Annual where she stole Ms. Marvel’s powers and identity, but this is her first appearance in the Uncanny X-Men proper.) Storm wonders if Rogue is somehow connected to the government, not knowing that Mystique, as Raven Darkholme, is working there.

This panel is filled with so many questionable things: Wolverine calling Rogue ‘red’ (???), Rogue saying lah-de-dah and what the hell is that outfit? Is she a Scottish punk rocker getting ready for mass? At least she calls Logan li’l man. That is correct. (X-Men 158)

Do I love it? Do I hate it? I’m sorry, I absolutely cannot get over this outfit.

While Wolverine and Storm take on Rogue, Carol Danvers is chased by Mystique who has an unclear vendetta against the former Ms. Marvel. Rogue manages to take out herself when she bites off more than she can chew and steals Storm’s powers, while Carols manages to knock out Mystique and turn her in. Carol then proceeds to delete the files on the X-Men… and also the ones related to Ms. Marvel, wiping away her past self.

To me, this is the most engaging storyline of this year, because it highlights once again what the X-Men are about: sometimes, in order to do right, you have to sacrifice looking heroic. (Also, governments shouldn’t be trusted just because they’re governments.)

We’re skipping the storyline where Claremont shows he’s read up on his Bram Stoker, because it’s mostly Storm vs. Dracula and it’s not v. relevant. I think the most important detail is that Kitty’s parents are getting divorced and Kitty is (rightly so) being a teenager about it.

Far more interesting is the prelude to the Brood-sage. While Xavier lays dying of an unknown mental affliction, he flashes back to his time spent in Israel, where he met a catatonic patient named Gabrielle Haller and a man with a magnetic personality called Magnus.

The XMU saw this and proceeded to milk this for all the Xavier/Magneto-vibes they could possibly cram into a decade of movies. And it was glorious. (X-Men 161)

Somehow, Xavier’s jaunt in her brain tears down Gabrielle’s Walls of Trauma and she awakens from her catatonic state. Gabby seduces Xavier and Xavier of course sees no problems with trampling all over this doctor/patient-boundary. ffs Charles. Xavier, Magnus and Gabby spend their summer playing at being a throuple until she’s taken by nazis! It’s Hydra and Baron von Strucker! Apparently, Hydra incepted the location to a stash of gold in Gabrielle’s brain and now that she’s awoken, they want their loot back!

Xavier and Magnus team up and quickly recover Gabrielle, while Magnus uses his powers to turn some nazis into red mist. Compared to idealistic Charles, Magnus is established as the ruthless one who is willing to cross certain moral horizons to achieve his goals. This is the first comic that spells this out explicitly, and it’s absolutely not a coincidence that this is also where it is revealed that Magnus is a concentration camp survivor. Charles grew up a privileged rich white kid, while Magnus saw the absolute worst of humanity as a persecuted Jew.

Magnus doing a sweeping speech before flying off on a random inanimate object will always be a favorite character beat. (Uncanny X-Men 161)

To stave off any unfortunate jokes about the conception of David Haller, I will simply point out that Xavier’s waking up from his coma is about as random as Gabby waking up from hers. Lilandra ignores all this for narrative expediency and throws a feast! Huzzah!

And during that feast, the Brood, led there by Deathbird, tele-yoink the X-Men out of there! They leave Charles behind (we’ll see why next year), but do snatch Carol Danvers. With that, we finally kick off the Brood Saga proper! WoOoOoOoO!

When we check on the X-Men next, some time has passed and we get our requisite annual Wolverine focus issue. We see Wolverine escape the Brood and get hunted on some strange alien planet. Through flashback, it is revealed that the Brood have subdued the X-Men through mind-altering poison, essentially serving as a lotus machine. Wolverine’s healing factor has helped him stave off the effects and, more importantly, it has helped him kill off the Brood queen egg that’s inside of him.

Eep.

See, the Brood have infected/inserted the X-Men with Brood eggs, which means they’re incubating li'l Broodlings. Before long, the Brood inside will take over, giving them a Brood body with X-Men powers.

Wolverine kills his pursuers, once again losing all but a shred of his clothes. (Wolverine is naked more often than Storm is at this point.) He vows to kill all the Brood - even if they used to be X-Men! dun dun dun

MEANWHILE, back on Earth, Charles is taking the loss of Lilandra and the X-Men hard. He’s back at the mansion (wasn’t that destroyed?) and is taking care of Illyana, who is a lot creepier these days. He considers his dream deader than disco (Hi, Dazzler), nicely paving the way for the advent of the New Mutants.

Back on the Brood Planet, Wolverine has freed Carol, who’s had her body experimented on. Storm and Cyclops, meanwhile, have started picking at threads of their mental mindscapes and have begun to free themselves. One by one, they free the remaining X-Men and make way to a ship to escape this planet.

One of the Brood is called Kam’n’éhàr, once again proving that you can make anything sound sci-fi/fantastical if you sprinkle enough apostrophes on top of it.

Kurt and Kitty are on stealing-Lilandra’s-ship-back duty, but the Brood won’t let them go without a fight. The duo manage to get the ship launched, but immediately run into trouble. Shunted-out-of-the-airlock trouble, in Kurt’s case.

Yes, Claremont is a huge Alien-fan, why do you ask? (X-Men 163)

A running theme throughout this arc is the X-Men hesitating to kill the Brood, with Wolverine on one end of the spectrum and Storm on the other. While I sort of understand it with Storm and her ‘sanctity of life’-schtick, I don’t fully understand the rest of the team’s’ qualms. While I agree that killing when you have another recourse is bad, the Brood are especially unapologetically murderous and you’re trapped on their home planet. This should be less of a zero sum thing: at this point, all y’all are surviving.

Kitty saves Kitty and they beam the rest of the team up to Lilandra’s pleasure yacht, but they’re not out of the woods yet. They need to engage the warp drive while escaping the Brood’s galactic navy. Cyclops realizes that the Brood aren’t shooting to kill, which is just as well, because all the X-Men are out of sorts. Storm is crippled with doubt, Cyclops keeps seeing visions, things that should have hurt Kitty badly are barely a scratch, etc. Feeling especially wonky is Carol Danvers, but with her it’s because all that experimentation lets her ascend to cosmic power levels. Jean went Phoenix in space, Carol goes Binary. She promptly powers up the warp drive with her new powers, getting the X-Men out of there…

...stranding them somewhere in the depths of space. Things get weirder and weirder on the ship. Kitty, for example, recovers fully from her radiation poisoning and Wolverine, who knows what's up, is worried. Storm figures out the awful truth on her own, horrified to realize that her lost sense of harmony and balance is because she has been violated, because she is birthing an abomination. To save her teammates -- and perhaps her soul -- she shunts herself out of the airlock.

The rest of the X-Men are wondering why. Wolverine finally tells them they’re all Brood Kinder eggs and Binary, enraged, also leaves the ship. She… doesn’t bother with a door.

for fuck’s sake, Binary (X-Men 164)

And with that completely unnecessary hole in the hull, we leave the X-Men in a vacuum-shaped lurch. I know we’re just past the middle of the Brood-saga, but this is where 1982 ends. More fitting, perhaps, to note is that this issue was the last of Dave Cockrum, the artist who conceived at least half of these characters for the first time in Giant-Size X-Men.

Next time, more Brood and more half-baked moral quandaries. Yawn. I can’t wait.

Best new character: 1982 is the birth-year of many of the New Mutants, but it’s also Rogue’s first appearance in an X-Men comic proper. While my heart goes out to Roberto and Dani, I still have to pick my favourite Southern Belle. <3 Can’t wait to see you on the team, sugah.

Best storyline: The X-Men raid the Pentagon!

Most audacious retcon: Charles and Eric fucked knew each other all along!

What to read: Uncanny X-Men 153, 158, 160 and 161. If you like the Brood, also go for 154 - 157 and 162 to 164, but I wasn’t particularly charmed by it all.

Additionally, read Marvel Graphic Novel 4 for the first appearance of the New Mutants and the Wolverine-mini-series.

#uncanny x-men #x-men #x-men abridged #abridged x men #cyclops #storm #professor x #wolverine #nightcrawler #colossus #shadowcat #rogue #shi'ar #brood saga #ms marvel #binary #chris claremont #dave cockrum #magneto

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bonkers-4-hatter · 4 years

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@doughnut-lady-cara asked: Hi-ho ^_^ First let me say I love your writing it always makes me smile and feel good about being a "chubby bunny." Second I was wondering if you'd consider doing a Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler X Chubby Reader? I've been looking for one for awhile now and can't seem to find any. Thank you for your time either way; I hope I'm not bothering you with this. Also hope that you're doing well, lots of hugs and doughnuts to you. :3

Never really written for Kurt before, but I’m gonna give it a try! I hope you enjoy sweetie!! Also, heck yeah! Chubby Bunny squad unite!!! <3 Also, I hope you don’t mind headcanons hun. :)

Your relationship with Kurt is full of laughter.

Playing pranks on each other every chance you guys get. He honestly gets you good though and goes over the top with his pranks, but most of the time they’re harmless and in good fun.

Even though he has an outgoing personality, he likes to just chill with you and have relaxing days with you.

Loves to lay his head in your lap, it’s so soft and warm. He tells you all the time that your thick thighs are his heaven.

Is always mindful of his claws as he traces every part of your body, in awe at the curves and rolls adorning your soft, supple flesh. You’re like a work of art to him, he could study you for hours on end and still find something new and breathtaking about you.

Does tease you once in a while with his claws, drawing patterns on your skin as he whispers sweet nothings in your ear hoping to elicit a sweet moan or shiver from you.

“You’re so soft baby, every part of you is gorgeous did you know that? I could touch you all day, I never get tired of this body.”

Likes to pick you up out of the blue because the surprised squeal that comes from you makes him laugh. You’ve given up on retaliating because he’s just gonna pick you up when he wants, but it still always surprises you.

“Aww, come on babe, you should know by now that I can pick your gorgeous ass up.”

Kurt is such a dork and will always make dumb jokes about getting the “booty” since he’s so into the pirate genre and then going to smack or grab your ass.

“Well, it’s this pirates lucky day, he found himself some nice booty.”

“Kurt, don’t you dare.” You’d give him that narrowed eye look.

“Such rich and nice booty, I think I’ll take some for myself” Licking his lips he rushed up to you and slapped your ass making you jump as his laugh echoed though the house.

“What can I say babe, a pirate loves his booty!”

On chill days, he just enjoys having his arms wrapped around your soft middle, stroking your pudgy stomach and just kissing every inch of exposed skin he can.

He’s really big on body worship and you both praise each other especially during those intimate moments.

Buys you cute clothes he wants to see on you, things that are a bit tight yeah, but he knows you’ll wear it because you wear whatever you want to because as he claims, you’re a “bad bitch”.

He’s your biggest hype man! Will encourage you to buy that crop top or that bikini and of course that bra and panty set that you’re a bit iffy about. Knows you’ll rock anything you wear and tells you this every day!

“Wow baby, that crop top makes you look even more sexier, you should wear it more often, but it’ll be on the floor soon so don’t get to comfy.”

#q #que #x-men #nightcrawler #kurt wagner #kurt wagner x reader #nightcrawler x reader #x-men x reader #xreader #reader insert #!chubby reader #!chubby reader insert #x-men x chubby reader #nightcrawler x chubby reader #headcanons #x-men headcanons #nightcrawler headcanons

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kurtty-drabbles · 3 years

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Postwoman au (part 10)

N/A: The aftermath of the discovery and bonding moment. I guess

@dannybagpipesarecalling @tieflingteeth @muninandhugin

Meggan Puceanu is a succubus, a fact no one is stupid to ignore, however, Succubus are more than- as the media love to portray them- "attractive people who like sex" because their powers are never speculated throughout the media.

Meggan is hovering through the flooring-bare foot as her hair is growing and glowing- with a mug safely hold in her hand. "Good morning, Captain Crunch" waving with a free hand to Brian who looks drowsy as his only open eye glare at Meggan, and some words are exchanged.

"Funny" Brian states and rests his head on the table again.

Meggan studies his form. His sleeping sounds are cute, in a way. "Did I overdue?"

Brian makes a negative sound, only a British could pull this off. "No, I´m always this lazy on Sundays, don´t worry"

Meggan accepts this response only after Brian lifts his head to show his face. Healthy but still very much drowsed. The man yawns 2 times and slowly lowers his head and rest.

"This is a fine morning, you can´t be that lazy!" she jokes and offers a nice cup of coffee.

"It´s our free day. It´s our right to be lazy" Brian pipes in looking at the aforementioned coffee with some disdain and curiosity. "Your hair is glowing, does it means something magic is going on?"

Meggan´s lips are thin line. Her eyes wandering to the small kitchen to make sure no goblins are listening. Once her eyes scan all the interior, no signal of goblins listening for now. "Remember when that fellow arrived here to help us with vampires?"

Brian lifts his lips as his blue eyes are confused. "Uhm, we dealt with vampires all the time. Blade even help us one time, care to be more specific"

"Oh, right. I forget...we really dealt with an infestation of vampires lately. I´m talking about Nightcrawler, do you remember him?" Meggan explains as she stops hovering the flooring.

"Oh, that blue man...can I say blue man?" Brian is not sure if the blue man is a slur or not. "Yeah, I vaguely remember him...I forget his name. Why?" Brian can feel his sleepiness leaving his body as Meggan is holding the mug with her two hands.

"He´s an old God. A God of destruction and punishment..." Brian´s eyes widen and Meggan giggles at that. Brian can make cute reactions even if is not related to her feeding. "I think is funny because it´s sort similar to our relationship...I´m a succubus, I´m dangerous. And he seems to be fond of a mortal woman"

Brian blinks again. "Ok, you´re talking about that petite woman who hogged all the coffee while she was here?" Brian remembers Kitty Pryde, if not for her love for coffees, then it was her dedication and efficiency in the mission. "Kitty Pryde, right? Why bring her and Nightcrawler on this lazy Sunday morning?"

"He´s an old god with a soft spot for her...Brian, soon enough, they´ll be our next case"

"Oh...what we do with a god of destruction and punishment wanting to be with a mortal?"

"I´m thinking more if she´ll have his children...it happened before" she almost giggles at his expression. "Not with me, silly, but he slept with a mortal in the 50´s and it results in a demigod"

Brian hummed in agreement.

"If they stay together..."

"Meggan, honey, it´s a lazy Sunday, let´s not think about demigods."

"Fine, but I call dibs if she ended up preggo"

"Uhm, not sure if it works like that"

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Kitty Pryde took a license for a few days. Technically speaking, Kitty has the right to take a few days offs, however, no one is faulting for wanting to extend those days thanks to her latest mission-which everyone is notified of such happenstance involving Kitty and the boss- so, now, Kitty Pryde is watching the pouring rain hitting the window of her apartment.

Doug Ramsey materialized in the apartment donning with Latveria´s robes. Holding an award signal by King Doom. "Hey, Kitty, how are you?"

Kitty looks up at him. Forlon eyes stare at hopeful blue eyes. No response was given.

"Right, uhm, a bad day at the job can cause you emotional scars" Doug takes some cards and starts to speak. "You´re sensational, don´t forget that, kiddo"

Kitty brow frowned as Doug continues to read motivational lines. "Doug, what are you doing?"

"Reading things to cheer you, up"

"Doug, what the fuck?"

"Hey, you did the same thing when Dylan broke up with me...we´re both socially awkward"

And Kitty laughs at this admission and tears follow from her eyes. Once her breathing normalizes, the woman speaks. "Oh My God, that´s so true"

"Yep, we´re such turtles"

"No, you´re a turtle...and I´m not even sure what this means"

"Feeling better?"

"A little"

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Kurt Wagner was presenting his case, well, rehearsal his last case, when the portal opens to reveal one Kitty Pryde shyly stepping in. "Can we talk?" she notices the papers. "unless you have something else to do...the harpy trials was last month...right?"

Kurt looks at the papers and nods without care. "It´s not important...if you want to talk, we can talk" Kurt delegate his papers to the desk without minding where it lands.

"Look, I..." she takes a deep breath to dive into such troublesome conversation and thoughts. "I saw what you did in the past, those things haunted me...and I want to know why are you here? Working as Krampus is atonement or it´s something else?"

Kurt didn´t blink. His yellow eyes are too glowing. "It was a long and complex story, the rundown version is that...my followers forsake me, time and beliefs morphed into something I couldn´t give" he explains scratches his neck bemused.

"So...there´re people who enjoyed seeing that" Kitty chuckles humorlessly. " Ok, I can see that...and it was awful"

"I turned into Krampus to adapt the modern times. I turned into Krampus to compensate for what I did"

"And...?"

"And...I never shy away from my past. I know what I´m...and I should have told you, but, I´m ancient ...thought my past is not relevant"

"You should have told me...I was there, you know"

Kurt looks away. Kitty comes closer to meet him half-way. "it was an emergency"

"NO!" Kitty points her fingers at Kurt. "It was laziness or fear on your part. You had time to braid my hair, could have spare some time to tell me WHAT I could find and WHO would be there"

Kitty closes her eyes. She must continue. "I saw a side of you...I wasn´t prepared to see and what hurts the most is that...you didn´t want to tell me...no, maybe what hurts the most is that I thought you should tell me..."

Kurt opens and closes his mouth a few times, until, he finds the words. "I was selfish...I thought I could keep you ignorant about my past even when is impossible, can you forgive me?"

She looks up at him. She looks down and up. Until she finally speaks. "I can´t forgive you quickly...is a healing process...it helps if you tell me more about you, the person I´m seeing now...not the vengeful God I saw in the past"

"I like ice cream and love dogs" Kurt summarize his two favorite things. "Also, I´m a great acrobat"

"Really?"

"Really!"

#Postwoman au #kitty pryde #kurt wagner #Kurt is an old god #kurt is also Krampus #Doug and Kitty are socially awakard #Conversation #Meggan Puceanu #Brian Braddock

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Okay so we all know who your top ships are... who are your unpopular ships? Or obscure ships? What characters from what series do you think about often in either good or bad ways? Who is a character that you hate that others love? If you could rewrite a story or part of a book, what would it be and what would you do differently?

Ok I am digging through my brain right now bc if I’m not able to hyperfixate on something then I tend to forget I even liked it. Ok buckle in bc this is gonna be long af. YOU ASKED FOR THIS, REG.

I’m putting a readmore so as not to torture my followers lol

Thinking about Veronica Mars. About Veronica/Logan. Do they have a ship name?? But I love that show and i was THERE for them. They were kind of a surprise ship for me, in that when they got together I was like, wait, WHAT? Like I was totally caught off guard. But there first kiss is, like, sooo romantic to me haha. It’s my fave scene in the show. But Logan is suck a prick sometimes. And they break up like every five minutes. And every season Logan gets accused of murder which of course he ends up not being the murderer. And they get back together eventually and I’m like really? But deep down I am rooting for them lol. I really enjoyed the new season of Veronica Mars that came out last year, actually. The ending made me SO SAD THO.

I also used to watch Supergirl and I thought Kara and Mon-El were adorable. He was very Carswell Thorne-esque, RH, I *think* you would like him. I never watched past season 3(?) though, and he shoots off into space and I never caught up so a few months ago I actually googled what happens and [spoiler] he ends up marrying someone else in the future or something so I was like, ok I’m not investing any more time in this show lol. (Also I had to google Mon-El’s name just now bc i forgot which is a bad look BUT I WAS REALLY RIDE OR DIE FOR THEM FOR A WHILE lol). Also I loved Martian Manhunter in this show, he was my favorite character. But the CGI for him was awful, omg. He had practical makeup at first, they should have just stuck with that.

Speaking of Martian Manhunter, I also used to watch Young Justice and loved Miss Martian/Superboy. Am I basic??? lol oop. But I love basic love stories. Anyway, I thought they were super cute. In season 3 though they’re kind of on the rocks. I haven’t watched season 4. I also loved Artemis/Wally West, but of course that had to end tragically.

Also, let’s talk about Nightcrawler. Allow me to set the scene. Little Kat is 13 and just rediscovered the cartoon she saw a few times as a kid called X-Men: Evolution. And thus, a weird obsession with the German, blue demon boy began. I loved Kurt Wagner. In the cartoon he starts a relationship with Amanda Sefton and I thought they were a-dor-a-ble. She accepted him for who he was, and they had a really nice healthy relationship. A lot of ppl shipped him with Kitty too which i am honestly all for idec I JUST WANT THE BLUE BOI TO BE HAPPY.

Can we talk about A:TLA too??? Like, obviously Zutara, amiright? Power couple. Like, Kataang is.. fine, but its probably my least favorite part about the ending, haha. Also, consider: Tokka. Toph is bae and can get anyone she wants, and she clearly had kind of a crush on Sokka and I think they could have been awesome. It actually kills me that they never say who Lin and Suyin’s father is in LoK. I had a whole theory that it was that kid The Duke from Jet’s band based on like 2 scenes from the series. There’s a tumblr post I made about it somewhere in the ether lol.

I also just remembered Tahnorra (Tahno/Korra) from Legend of Korra. It’s hard for me to explain this one. It’s a weird combination of being hyperfixated on the first season of the show when it came out, and I think I stumbled upon some fic or something???? And I thought Tahno was hot or something??? And FUN FACT, he was voice by Rami Malek BEFORE HE WAS COOL. So like before Rami really got big I knew who he was. He also basically played the Avatar in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 and I thought that connection was hilarious. It was kind of a problematic crack pairing but there was one author in particular whom i follow to this day hoping she’ll update her Tahnorra fics…. *sigh*

Okay one last ship…. I used to be ride or die for Outlaw Queen in Once Upon a Time (aka Regina/Robin Hood). Like, before TLC, I had a personal tumblr renaissance for that ship alone. My only existing published fanfic is for that ship. Taylor Swift’s 1989 came out that year and I related every dang song to that ship. I loved Regina so much and I just wanted her to be happy. That show is a dumpster fire, though, and spat all over my hopes and dreams. *sigh*

Also, lightning round for obscure pairings I ship and/or never talk about:

Frank Castle/Karen Page (The Punisher) ok this one isnt that obscure but I never talk about it… but the pining, oh god the pining

Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth (GoT) THEIR 5 SECONDS TOGETHER ARE THE ONLY WORTHY PART OF SEASON 8. everything after that never happened

I already listed Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye (FMAB) as a top pairing previously but I feel the need to mention it again bc it was for real my OG OTP… LIKE U WANNA TALK ABOUT PINING…. *sobs*

Percy/Annabeth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) This used to be my fave book series and i loved how their relationship developed over the course of the books

Neville Longbottom/Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) ok can we TALK ABOUT THIS??? They were both badass misfits and they were perfect for each other. But noooo JKR has to announce they marry some nobodies…. this is the only change the last movie did right

Midna/Link (Zelda: Twilight Princess) I honestly have no explanation for this lol

Qui-gon Jinn and Shmi (Star Wars) CAN U IMAGINE if anakin had a proper father figure and didnt have to abandon his mother to slavery

Obi-wan/Satine…. (Star Wars: The clone Wars) we know whats up

OK, to answer some of your other questions: character I hate that others love. HMMMM…….

This one seems too easy/obvious but Professor Snape? Like obviously there’s already a ton of discourse surrounding this but he was gross, mistreated his students for years, committed atrocities, couldn’t get over his high school crush, and we’re supposed to believe he’s a hero in the end and HARRY WOULD NAME HIS SON AFTER HIM….. uh no. “Always” is gross.

I’ve literally been wracking my brain for days and I can’t think of any more characters for this. OK I did some googling and I remembered some LOL.

Ross from friends…. I literally can’t stand him. He’s so entitled and just the worst. He tries to act like he’s the nice, sensitive guy, but really he is so full of himself. Joey on the other hand is portrayed as a womanizer but is actually super sweet and I love him

Archie from Riverdale… I have only seen the first 1.5 seasons ish but he is the worst…. we’re supposed to believe he’s some easygoing musically gifted football player but instead he manages to pull off being bland as heck and actually kind of a terrible garbage person

Nick from chilling adventures of Sabrina. I hate characters that are like hitting on the main character even though she has a bf and are like dark and broody and sexy blah blah blah…. I liked Harvey way better. I never finished season 2 tho

Emma Swan from Once Upon a Time? Idk she was fine she just got old after a while

If you could rewrite a story or part of a book, what would it be and what would you do differently?

HM. First, Harry would name his son Remus Rebeus Potter LOL. Ok but real talk there was a headcanon floating around forever ago that Harry should have become a professor at Hogwarts instead of an auror and I am 100% on board

Ok, ok….. what abouuuttt…… OK, is star wars when Han and Leia get together. I like them as a couple, but the entire first half of the movie Han is being such an ass. And when they kiss the first time, he’s being SOOO creepy. It’s like so quintessentially 80s romance. and HERE’S THE THING. They actually filmed (or maybe just wrote?) a version of that scene that WASNT CREEPY. And i’m like WHY DIDNT YOU USE THAT?!? So I like to pretend that’s the version that actually happened.

This part is way harder than the shipping portion. If I think of anything else i’l dm you. I HOPE YOU ENJOY READING THIS NOVEL LENGTH POST OF ME RAMBLING ABOUT MY FIXATIONS OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS. If anyone actually read this far, you deserve a cup of hot chocolate and a blanket

#regolithheart #ask #answered

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Heaven’s Light

Marvel

Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler) x female! reader

Warning: bullies

Specifics: fluff, romance, angst, one-shot, race neutral reader, gifs, song fic

People: kurt wagner (nightcrawler)

Words: 1,954

Summary: song fic based on heaven’s light from hunchback of notre dame.

Authors Note: i thought about this when i was watching the movie with my sis, we r like a disney fam. its a song fic based off the song from hunchback of notre dame disney heavens light. if you’ve never heard of this song then pls do its sad depressing but so good and if u never watched the movie pls u rlly need to. also i imagine the gif below would be kurts expression to when he first meets you. prepare urself for a whole lotta fluff and romance and just agh cuteness!

(not my gif! do not own!)

So many times out here I've watched a happy pair Of lovers walking in the night

They had a kind of glow around the

It almost looked like heaven's light

Kurt felt left out no matter where he went. Even some mutants bullied him for what he looked like. He thought he was a monster. Just once all he wanted was for someone to understand him, to accept him for who he was and what he looked like. He was lonely.

He peered around the cafeteria, the study rooms, everywhere. It seemed as if someone had somebody. They had a companion. Kurt was just left out. All by himself. He started to feel that maybe it wasn’t those folks fault but his. Maybe he was the problem.

As he glanced out the window he could see a couple walking together. Hand in hand. Kurt almost felt tears rush into his eyes. “Vhy can’t I have zhat?” He always wondered as the sadness consumed him.

I knew I'd never know That warm and loving glow Though I might wish with all my might

Kurt had tried many times to get a friend. He did all the things a friend ought to do. He was kind, looking out for the other one, charming, but still nothing worked. If he got an inch close to any one they would put on a disgusted face and walk away horrified. Or they would laugh at him, laughing until they cried. But he did so too.

Almost every night he would go to his room and just cry and sob until he fell asleep. All he wanted was to have a companion and maybe if he was lucky a girl to call his love. He’d wish and hope and pray.

Kurt would look in the mirror and just feel disgust, he loathed the way he looked.

“Vhy vould anyone vhant to be vith me?” He touched his face with his hands, tears entering his eyes and spilling onto his cheeks. “No face as hideous as my face. Vas ever meant for heaven's light.” He fell onto the floor and just sobbed, longing for love.

But suddenly an angel has smiled at me

Kurt was walking down the hallways and that is when he bumped into...you.

“Oh I’m sorry, please forgive me! Es tut uns leid (sorry).” He felt so flustered and was waiting for you to scream or run away. Instead you helped him with his books that had fallen.

You chuckled, “Its okay, I sometimes bump into others as well its no biggy. Are you okay though, you’re not hurt right?”

Thats when Kurt looked up at you and his heart stopped beating. He felt like his world had just stopped. You were the most beautiful girl, person, he had ever met. It was like an angel was looking down on him. He was love struck. He stared in awe at your beauty and everything that you were. He became bashful and started to stutter.

“The names y/n l/n, whats yours?” You stuck your hand out as you gave him his books.

“Uh uh uhm m-my name is Ku-Kurt Vagner, some call me-”

“Nightcrawler? Oh my god you are so cool! I’ve heard so much about you! I’ve like seen you in action though, you’re pretty rad I gotta say.”

He was shocked, usually people would of ran away screaming or frightened but you were different. Instead he could see that you were shy and bashful as well. “Zank you, I zink you’re very beautiful.”

You almost choked with how precious this boy was, “Hey Kurt you think you’d like to come with me to the library? Even if you don’t read or don’t like it we could think of something else to do.” You gave him a heart warming smile and all he could feel was butterflies in his stomach. It was as if he were being blessed right there with such a angelic creature. Kurt gave you an akward smile, “I vould veally like zhat actually.”

And kissed my cheek without a trace of fright

You and Kurt were inseparable. Every waking moment you two were together. He was like your other half. You two went on so many dates together. It was a match made in heaven.

It was a special night. It was a couple months into the relationship and Kurt wanted to do something spectacular for you.

He made it so you two had a beautiful dinner by the water at a nearby restaurant. He got you your favorite dessert after words. He was so nervous, thinking you might not enjoy the night or you might not enjoy his company.

“Y/n I I vould like to show you somezing.” He took a huge gulp as he took your hand and guided you to the surprise. You were so excited and truly loved Kurt.

As he stopped he took his 3 fingered hands off your eyes and whispered into your ear, “you might look now mein Engel (my angel).”

You opened your eyes and there before you were a whole show of sparkling, colorful fireworks. Taking a huge gasp you stare at all the beautiful wonders. Kurt takes in your face and his heart almost explodes like the fireworks. How much you adore and are mesmerized makes all the hard work that he put to make you happy so worth while.

“So, do you like it?” Kurt stutters as his eyebrows knit together.

You feel a tear slip down your cheek. No one has ever done anything like this for you. It meant a lot. You looked into Kurt’s direction and at that moment you wanted to always be with him no matter what. He was yours and you were his.

Kurt is frightened at you crying and starts to freak out, “meine Liebe (my love) please don’t cry. I’m sorry if you don’t like it.” He put his hands out to touch your face and wiped your tears away.

You shook your head, “no baby, I love it. And I love you.” You stood on your tippy toes and gave Kurt a kiss on the cheek. Kurt sucked in a breath and held it in. He could feel the flutter of your eyelashes as they danced across his cheek. Your lips felt so delicious on his skin that he wanted you to stay there like this forever or have your lips all over him.

“Kurt you’re crying!” You went normal and stood there worried about your boyfriend.

Kurt chuckled and tried to wipe his tears away but instead you wiped them for him. “Yeah I guess I am. I’m just so happy to be vith you. You make me so happy.”

You beamed and kissed his knuckles, “you make me happy too.”

Your arms ended up wrapped around his waist with your head placed gently on his chest listening to his heart beat. You two watched the rest of the fireworks together in love.

(not my gif! do not own!)

I dare to dream that she Might even care for me

Today was the day, the most important day of your life. You would be getting married to the love of your life. The day started off beautiful, you put on your dress and greeted your bridesmaids. Everyone from the X-Men and others were there to support you and Kurt. It was almost like a dream.

You put on your dress and did your hair and makeup. As you walked down that aisle your heart seemed to burst at the immense love you had for that other being at the end of the aisle. The song played loud and you could see from your veil Kurt was crying. Tears of joy at just how beautiful you looked. Seeing him cry made you cry and you smiled seeing the love of your life.

As you made it there you could hear whistles from your friends.

“Ach du lieber Gott (oh my god), y/n you look so gorgeous my love. I can’t believe it, is zhis vreal, you look just beautiful.” Kurt said as like a prayer as he took your veil off. You chuckled and looked down bashful. Kurt lifted your face to meet his eyes and he raised his brow and gave you a wink and mouthed, “you’re also very sexy.”

You shook your head and tried to stifle your giggles.

It was onto the vows and you went first, “Kurt the moment I met you my whole life changed. I knew that I wanted to be with you every single moment after that. When I look into your eyes all I see is beauty and braveness. You are so courageous my love and even though life might have pushed us away fate seemed to bring us together, I am so thankful for that. I knew I wanted to no, I knew I needed to be with you when it was getting hard to breathe when I didn’t see you or when I wasn’t with you. My life is not the same without you, my life is not worth living without you Kurt Wagner. I am so lucky to have you as my soon to be husband and I can’t wait to spend more beautiful memories with you.”

Kurt was a mess. His tears were uncontrollable. He thought all his life that he wasn’t good enough and now you showed him that he was, he was enough and he did find someone who truly loves him. You kissed his hands and placed them to your cheeks.

“Y/n, first off I love you so much that I can’t even zink in English or even in German. I love you so much. I vas vanting someone like you to come into my life. I vas praying hoping to find just someone vho liked me, vho didn’t run avay from me or get scared of me. God must of veally liked me because he did not just give me anyone no he gave me an angel. So precious and so amazing that sometimes I feel as if I do not deserve you. My life has changed so much since I met you. It has changed for zhe better and you have changed me to be a better person. Every day zhat I live is for you, every time I get up when I get down in a battle I get up and vant to keep living because of you. I vant to see you happy and vant to see you, zhe vision of you in my mind makes me keep on going. My soul does not beat for me anymore it beats for you. You have me y/n, my love you veally do have me and I give myself to you. I give myself, everyzhing I am I give to you. You are my life, my everyzhing. I can’t go on living, can’t go on breathing if you are not there by my side. My life would be meaningless vithout you. So you have me mein schöner Engel (my beautiful angel) you veally have me.”

You two were a crying mess, as you two were announced husband and wife your lips met and it was like heaven. It was all perfection.

And as I ring these bells tonight My cold dark tower seems so bright I swear it must be heaven's light

You rested on Kurt’s lap after the wedding. The bells chiming, ringing signified that you two were married, that the love you two shared has become one now. You leaned your forehead against Kurt’s and kissed his lips slowly, “I love you Kurt.”

Kurt giggled and kissed you deeply, “I love you too y/n Vagner.”

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justlightthefirstspark · 4 years

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12, 22, 35, 99 🤙🏼

12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now?

Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen (the instrumental break towards the end is heaven sent I highly suggest everyone listen to it!)

Half of My Heart - John Mayer

Easy Lover - Philip Bailey & Phil Collins (I’m a sucker for a heavy drum beat and spicy guitar licks)

Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles

Push The Feeling On - Nightcrawlers (MK Dub Revisited) (Epic banger) 🎶

22. Where would you like to travel?

Honestly? Everywhere.

I’d love to see every corner of South America and Asia, I’ve always wanted to go to Australia too. I’m moving to Spain for about a year next month so I plan to explode as much of Europe as I can while I’m there... My list of places I wanna go is super, super long so I’m hoping to tick off as many cities and countries as possible! 🗺

35. Would you rather live without TV or music?

TV definitely. I spend an awful lot of time binging stuff online, but I genuinely think I would die if I didn’t have music. I’ve constantly got my earphones in, since I was about 5 lol. I dunno what I’d do without it tbh. 🎧

99. Have any pets?

Yesssss, I have a dog. She’s a Bichon Frise, her is Belle, she’s almost 8 🥺 She’s pretty cute but she hates people (well, everyone except my mother lol) which I think is kinda funny. 🐶

#ask #i listen to a lot of music so that was hard #also i mostly listen to old music because apparently i am an old person now lollll #thank you for these tho i really enjoyed

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lifeseverchanging · 6 years

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Marvel The Merry X-Men Holiday Special + Gonzalez Variant Cover

Merry X-Men Holiday Special (2018) #1

With the holiday’s just around the corner I’m so excited for this wonderful book! I love that Gambit and Rogue are on the main cover.

But I’m definitely going to snag the Rian Gonzalez Variant for this too.

Aw, just look at Romy!

How cute is one of the kitties standing on the Cyclops doll?

Twenty-five holiday tales of merry mutants, one for each day of December 1 through December 25! What does Magneto do for Hanukkah? What’s Rogue and Gambit’s first married Christmas like? Is Jubilee truly the master of navigating malls during the holidays? These questions and more are answered as all your favorite X-Men and more creators than you can shake a jingle bell at come together for a holiday celebration to last all month long!

Here are the stories, and their creative teams, that will be featured in Merry X-Men Holiday Special, available at Comic Shops on December 5:

1. JUBILEE in “MELE KALIKIMAKA!” Written by Chris Sims & Chad Bowers, art by Marco Failla, color by Israel Silva

2. KITTY PRYDE in “TITLE TBA” Written by Chris Claremont, art by Terry Dodson, color by Chris Sotomayor

3. WOLVERINE in “#HOTCLAWS FOR HANUKKAH” Written by Charles Soule, art by Ryan Browne, color by Jordan Boyd

4. JEAN GREY in “DREAMING OF A WADE CHRISTMAS” Written by Jean Grae, art by Shawn Crystal, color by Rico Renzi

5. NATURE GIRL in “I HATE CHRISTMAS” Written by Zac Thompson & Lonnie Nadler, art/color by Amilcar Pinna

6. JUBILEE in “JINGLE ALL THE WAIT A MINUTE...” Written by Chris Sims & Chad Bowers, art by Marco Failla, color by Israel Silva

7. GAMBIT in “THE CHICHE WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS” Written by Styles P & Poobs, art by Luciano Vecchio, color by Carlos Lopez

8. ICEMAN in “WHITE ELEPHANT” Written by Sina Grace, art by Cory Smith, color by Jordan Boyd

9. MAGNETO in “TITLE TBA” Written by Cullen Bunn, art by Roland Boschi, color by Dan Brown

10. STORM in “TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT” Written by Charlamagne tha God, art by Alitha E. Martinez, color by Jay David Ramos

11. JUBILEE in “DECK THE MALLS” Written by Chris Sims & Chad Bowers, art by Marco Failla, color by Israel Silva

12. DR. NEMESIS in “THE GIVING SEASON” Written by Christopher Daniels, art by Ray-Anthony Height & LeBeau Underwood, color by Jay David Ramos

13. ROGUE & GAMBIT in “CHRISTMAS CAT-ASTROPHE!” Written by Kelly Thompson, art by David Lopez, color by Chris Sotomayor

14. SABRETOOTH in “RED CHRISTMAS” Written by Aubrey Sitterson, art by Juan Gedeon, color by Jesus Aburtov

15. CANNONBALL in “HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS” Written by Al Ewing, art by PJ Holden, color by Antonio Fabela

16. DOMINO in “THE NAUGHTY LIST” Script/art/color by Anthony Piper

17. THE BRADDOCKS in “BABY STEPS” Written by Leah Williams, art by Marcio Takara, color by Chris O’Halloran

18. GLOB HERMAN IN “DECK THE HALLS” Written by Ed Brisson, art by Pere Perez, color by Chris Sotomayor

19. GABBY KINNEY in “SECRET SANTA” Written by Vita Ayala, art by Pere Perez, color by Chris O’Halloran

20. JUBILEE in “ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU” Written by Chris Sims & Chad Bowers, art by Marco Failla, color by Israel Silva

21. HOPE SUMMERS in “THE LONGEST NIGHT” Written by Tini Howard, art by Brent Schoonover, color by Chris O’Halloran

22. HANK MCCOY in “BLUE CHRISTMAS” Written by Rainbow Rowell, art by Kris Anka, color by Matt Wilson

23. NIGHTCRAWLER in “X-MAS BAMF” Written by Esoteric, art by Michael Shelfer, color by Federico Blee

24. JAMIE MADROX in “THE GIFT OF THE MADRI” Written by Matt Rosenberg, art by Andy MacDonald, color by Tamra Bonvillain

25. ARCADE in “WALKIN’ IN A WINTER MURDERLAND” Written by Chris Sims & Chad Bowers, art by Marco Failla, color by Israel Silva

(Hey, if Jubilee can have so many stories I can bold the ones I am excited for!)

#Marvel #merry x-men #chris claremont #Kelly Thompson #pere perez #rian gonzalez #x-men #merry holidays #Sina Grace #Cullen Bunn #leah williams

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jocelynships · 5 years

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I’ve been thinking a lot about how I got into Marvel and how at first it was just a silly little obsession and how it turned into something that ended up meaning so much to me.

So, I apologize for this sounding so sappy and for how long (it’s really long and I apologize greatly) and emotional this gets, but here:

Warning: Talk of past mental abuse and thoughts of self-harm/suicide

So here’s the funny thing, when I was between the ages of 10-13 I wanted absolutely NOTHING to do with Marvel. Everyone was talking about it and I will admit I was a bratty kid and if something was popular I had to Hate It™️. I’ve grown from that mindset and I’m SO glad I did. But anyways, not the point of the story.

When I was a little kid I watched the first Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire and Fantastic 4. I watched a lot of Spider-Man cartoons too. I can’t remember if I ever watched X-Men or not, but I remember seeing them in a few Spider-Man episodes. My dad liked Marvel and he’d play the movies (this was all pre MCU I should mention) and I think I’d watch bits and pieces of them while I played with whatever toys I had in my parent’s bedroom or living room (when I was a kid if my dad was home I HAD to be around him). So I had a VAGUE understanding of superheroes and who they were. I’m certain I could have named a few of them when I was younger, I just didn’t necessarily care.

So Avengers came out when I was finishing up 8th grade, and all my classmates were talking about it, but it annoyed me greatly. My best friend, Rebecca, had seen it already, and was freaking out about it with some of our other old friends. I made a comment like “is it really good or are you guys just trying to be cool like everyone else?”

And Rebecca goes, “Jocelyn, you really need to see it. I think you’d actually like it.”

“Superheroes are so overrated!”

“At least watch the trailer!”

So Rebecca pulled up the trailer on her iPod Touch (god I feel old just saying that), sat me down at one of the benches by the basketball court our tiny private school had, and I watched the trailer. I was kinda interested, but not totally sold. I decided the guys were hot, and if I would go if asked.

Then when I got home from school, I was looking for something to watch like most kids were. Nothing was on, but Disney XD was playing some Marvel cartoons and out of simple curiosity and not really liking anything else that was being played, I turned it on. And holy shit I ended up getting hooked.

So a few days later after watching these cartoons I suggest seeing Avengers to my dad. He gets this look on his face like, “who the hell are you and what did you do to my daughter because she hates superheroes?” He asks me if I’m a Marvel fan now and I mentioned the cartoons, so he went and rented the movies leading up to the Avengers, and I wasn’t actually expecting to like anything, I just wanted to see it because I thought the guys were hot.

So I ended up really enjoying the movies, and my dad and I started seeing the other MCU films that came out. I told myself I was only interested in the Avengers and Spider-Man really (the Amazing Spider-Man came out the same year as the Avengers and my dad took me to see it). I told myself didn’t really care about any of the other hero teams.

BUT THEN I GET INTRODUCED TO THIS REALLY COOL FACEBOOK MARVEL GAME! They sadly don’t have it anymore which in my opinion is BULLSHIT, but it was called Avengers Alliance and they had a shit ton of characters in it. My goal was to get them all but I never did bc it got shut down (listen I would kill to have it brought back okay THEY HAD A BUNCH OF X-MEN CHARACTERS) But basically I saw all these characters I had no idea existed and me being me, my mind went “I MUST KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM”! I really don’t know everything about them and I’m still discovering characters but that’s okay!! The Marvel universe is HUGE and I love learning new stuff about it!! But anyways back to my original point!! I remembered I really liked the Fantastic 4 when I was younger so I started watching the original two movies again (I haven’t seen the 2015 remake nor do I plan to ever). Then I saw we had the first two X-Men films, okay lets watch those. Oh, who’s Daredevil and the other Defenders? They seem cool!! Ghost Rider? Hell yeah, a skeleton on fire how cool is that?! Agents of SHIELD? I loved Phil Coulson, I had to watch it! Hey, the Guardians of the Galaxy are really cool too! I know nothing about Doctor Strange but he was in some Spider-Man cartoons and he seemed awesome! Blade, a vampire that doesn’t sparkle? SIGN ME UP!

Basically from the time I was 14-17, I was just basically running down an aisle at a grocery store picking out characters I thought looked cool. I also learned a lot about the characters from some mobile games I downloaded bc hey, I like games.

But at the same time as I was going through everything, I started developing some extreme anxiety and depression problems. I didn’t exactly realize it WAS anxiety and depression, I just thought I was extremely sensitive and did a bunch of shit wrong, so I assumed I was just a screw up whenever my mother yelled at me for getting a B in class or blamed me for her being late to work when I was ready to go and she was just getting in the shower. It wasn’t until my senior year did I realize something was wrong with the way she was treating me and the way I was feeling. But again, I brushed it off as nothing.

I went through my senior year feeling anxious and depressed a lot. But I was a SENIOR! I was almost done with high school! I had a great group of friends and we’d hang out on the weekends and go off campus for lunch to the Taco Bell down the road! Things couldn’t be bad!

But tensions were rising high at home. I was sort of oblivious to a lot of it and to be honest, I’m a little upset with myself for not noticing it sooner. My parents were fighting a lot, and halfway through my senior year of high school, my sister and niece had to move in with us because her ex husband was an alcoholic and was getting abusive. (She ended up going back for about another year, but left permanently the second time she moved in with us) And needless to say things were really rough since there was now five people in a two bedroom apartment and my sister and my niece stayed in my room with me. Which was difficult since my niece was 4/5 at the time and had quite the temper, and I was also her favorite person, yet I was occupied with school work.

My anxiety and depression got worse, and it got to the point where I was having meltdowns in class and would have to leave school early or just stay home. After a month or two and a HUGE fight between pretty much everyone (except me, they only stopped when I had a massive panic attack), my sister moved back.

And things were slightly okay again. During that break I got reintroduced to X-Men through a couple different things: my best friend, @rosyinlove, X-Men Apocalypse was coming out, and my brother gave me his old Xbox 360 and the game Marvel Ultimate Alliance. I’ve seen the first two movies at this point and I was already kinda curious about them, but wasn’t until that year did I realize “hey these guys are kinda cool!” So I played as them in Ultimate Alliance just because they were the most fun to play. And while he sadly wasn’t a playable character, Nightcrawler was a character and you had to rescue him in a quest (or kill him and save Jean instead, I had a dilemma over the very idea of killing him and this was BEFORE I started shipping with him!) and he fascinated me. IDK if it was my brain just liking him as a character or going “WHOO BOY HE’S HOT”, but my interest in him was growing and I was kinda sad he wasn’t a playable character!

And with Apocalypse coming out the day after I graduated high school, I decided I had to see it, so I impulsively bought the other movies and well... the rest is history. I started watching the cartoons and while I didn’t get my hands on any comics, I read bits and pieces online.

And for some reason, the X-Men just spoke out to me in a way I can’t explain. I loved all the other heroes I came across, but there was something about the team of mutants that really pulled me in. Maybe because I related to the fact of being outcast? But in any case, I was drawn to them and I latched onto them and just didn’t let go. Even when 70s and 80s pop culture was the main thing on my mind in 2017, I still had the X-Men in the back of my mind and I thought “oh hey, this song reminds me of the X-Men”, “Kurt would like this song”, or “omg this movie would be a cute AU for me and Kurt!”

But anyways, the summer of 2016 was kind of rough. My mother was getting onto me for every single little thing and even yelled at me in front of my friends once for asking her to bring some some soda after she OFFERED to get us some. My friends pulled me aside and said, “hey, that’s not normal”. And I was in a really bad place. I loved my mother, but I felt awful being around her. I felt like I had to walk on eggshells around her. If I said the wrong thing I’d be punished. I was afraid of her.

So I noticed whenever I got anxious or depressed I would turn to the X-Men movies and cartoons and I’d feel a little better. Then I started writing dumb little stories and made silly doodles of me hanging out with them. It was something that was fun and made me calm down when I was getting anxious.

Then August of 2016 came around.

I came home from spending the night at a friend’s house, and I was feeling really tired so when my dad asked for me to sit down and talk to him about something, I tried brushing him off because I just wanted to shower and go to sleep.

But he said, “it’s really serious” and whenever someone says that my anxiety shoots through the roof and I think of the worst case scenario, such as someone was dying or was dead. So I sat down with him and I’m expecting him to tell me someone was dead, but he just goes:

“Your mother and I are splitting up.”

Basically my world came crashing down at that point.

My mother started getting more and more irritable and began yelling and screaming at me over the smallest things. And she was convinced I was going to stay with her and she talked to me about all her plans she had for us, but I was going to move out with my dad. But I didn’t want to tell her because I was terrified of how she was going to respond (she lashed out when things didn’t go her way), and I said, “I still haven’t made up my mind on who I’m going with”. That still caused her to lash out.

So she screamed at me and told me things like “I was leaving her to die” or “I was a horrible daughter for abandoning her”. And from that she just lashed out over everything. Not to mention my sister and my niece moved back in that September.

So my mother was constantly fighting with my dad, berating me, and my sister and my niece never gave me any alone time despite being in my first semester of college. I had very little time to work on homework and would stay at school for longer than I needed to be there just to work on homework without my sister and my niece bothering me. And I also got stuck watching my niece quite a bit because my sister was running off with a guy she had just met. And I get that she was going through a really rough divorce as well and really liked this dude, but it happened every night. I needed an escape from it all.

So I started binge watching Marvel movies and cartoons every chance I got. Mainly X-Men. I fantasized often about Kurt bamfing himself and the X-Men into my apartment, sternly telling my family I was going with them and they couldn’t stop them. I wrote and drew more and more of my silly self insert stuff because it was a way to forget about all the bullshit that was going on at home.

Eventually things just got worse as the time for my dad and I to move out got closer, and my mother would start up fights with my dad just about every night. And she did this when I was in the next room and could hear everything. She also got physical with him and while my dad could have easily defended himself and fight back, he didn’t because she was trying to get him fucking arrested.

So I was having difficulties dealing with their constant fighting and my mother trying to pull me into the middle of the drama. My dad told her to keep me out of it since none of it had to do with me. Needless to say she kept pulling me into the middle of things and tried to get me to side with her and would scream her head off if I didn’t want to talk about it. I got called selfish for having anxiety and depression, and she threatened to hit me on multiple occasions. She never did, but holy shit I got so scared every time she held her hand up like she was going to smack me across the face. I showed up to class crying quite often and when my classmates asked what was wrong I’d brush it off and tell them it was nothing.

And as time went on I had falling outs with everyone on my mother’s side of the family and both of my siblings (I have made up with them separately, but things are tense between them still because they don’t like each other’s spouses and it stresses me out because they shit talk each other to me and I have to act like I’m on their side), and my dad and I were struggling and I felt like a huge burden on him. Needless to say it got to the point where I felt like I was doing something wrong, that everyone would be better off without me, and I wanted to end it all.

I actually did go to grab a knife once when no one was home bc I was having urges to hurt myself, but the instant I grabbed the knife a little voice in my mind just went into panic mode and screamed, “Captain America wouldn’t want you to hurt yourself!”

And then that voice kept listing off as many heroes as it could, and when I started thinking about the X-Men not wanting me to hurt myself, I just dropped the knife into the sink and had a breakdown.

And still to this day when I do get those thoughts I always think about how a certain fuzzy elf wouldn’t want me to hurt or kill myself. I haven’t cut (I have participated in other self destructive behaviors in the past I don’t wish to discuss, but I’m fighting it), and honestly it’s because I don’t want to worry the X-Men.

They may not be real, and I’m not sure they would really care about me if they were, but still the idea of having a group of people who also come from fucked up families and are outcast from society acting like a family to each other really helps me get through all of this.

I just keep telling myself that if all these superheroes could go through hell and back, then so could I. Sure, I’m not fighting villains hellbent on taking over the world or struggling with having superpowers I can’t control, but still it’s inspiring to see them continue on despite their hardships. If they can do it, then why can’t I?

And the X-Men have really helped me through that. Like I said, they aren’t real, but they are extremely relatable characters. Especially Kurt. I’ve been outcast before and while I do have my group of close friends, I still feel like I don’t belong. He’s been outcast and shunned by society for his appearance. While both of Kurt’s parents are awful and my mother didn’t try to kill me (to be honest I was afraid she was going to snap and kill my dad a couple times), we both have kinda fucked up familes. But despite all of this we still try to see the good in others and do good for people. And I want to help him through his hardships and have him know he can always come to me for comfort.

When I started the Night Roses and the Jocelyn and the X-Men stuff, a lot of it was coping. I wanted to be rescued by Kurt and the X-Men, and I wanted to help them overcome their issues. A lot of the Night Roses relationship is being each other’s support system. The idea of not only having Kurt comfort me, but me comforting him helps me so much. It gives me something to live for. When I was going to therapy, I told my therapist about it and she said it was a great coping mechanism and a way for me to practice self love and acceptance.

And while he’s just a comic book character, I sincerely hope I can find someone just like Kurt in real life one day. He means so much to me, and I hope whoever I get with in the future will understand that.

I apologize for this being so long, but really, Marvel means the absolute would to me, and it’s really hard to explain to people why and I often get written off as an obsessive nerd who has no grasp on reality. But I know how I feel and I know the people who matter understand how important Marvel is to me. Honestly, I don’t know where I’d be without Marvel. I probably wouldn’t be here. I’m still struggling with a lot of issues, but I know I can get through it thanks to the X-Men and the other superheroes of Marvel. ❤️

#long post #personal stuff #i really apologize for this being so long #if you read all of this thank you #i may or may not be crying right now #this was difficult to type out #and i still left out a bunch of stuff #but anyways here you can have this #this is okay to reblog idk why someone would want to but it’s okay to interact with

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milkshake-sprinkels · 6 years

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I'm making a marvel oc does anyone wanna read about her????

So, her name is Sedna

Her powers have a similar feel to an asgardian God but it's based off the Native American God of the same name

Her nicknames are Sed and Nini, and Panini beany, and Indie

She's 5'4

OH AND SHE IDENTIFIES AS DEMI-GIRL/WOMAN AND IS PAN

And she's Native American

-but she also low-key looks like Blake lively

If you can't tell where I'm go in with the previous point...I SHIP HER WITH DEADPOOL

She has 3 sisters, Aries, Eshu and Chang-Yin(all also based of gods)

She's been alive since before the dinosaurs

Was raised by a Baryonyx(specific dino subject to change due to location of where their fossils were found)

Often takes firms of dinosaurs or a Wolf

Was frozen/in a statue(still deciding) for 75 years before Deadpool freed her

When she regained consciousness she realized she was missing her voicebox, all the bones in her right arm, and 90% of her digestive system.

Wade and Nini quickly become friends(they both think the other is cute as all hell without even seeing what they look like in a human form sans costume and mask)

Also she about melts when he tells her that he knows ASL so they can actually talk to eachother

Wade tells Peter(Spiderman) about her and then Pete tells Reed Richards who makes an arm for her on a whim.

Sedna is reluctant to let Reed even touch her with a medical device(she has SEVERE white coat syndrome)

But wade wasn't allowed to comfort Nini while she was getting the arm attached

And after it was done, Reed ran a shit ton of crazy tests on her and Wade, Hope(Wasp), Scott(Antman), and Piotr(Colossus) had to break her out if the Baxter Building

Wade helps her gets used to the metal arm(which had to be screwed into her body like automail from fma[for a reason I'm still figuring out])

Tony helps fic her arm so it doesn't hurt her by controlling her movements and shocking her constantly.

She can also use telepathy and your basic psychic skills but they put her in severe pain

OH AND the only sister she has alive is Aries, the sister who has ripped the spin out of Sed's back for giggles.

She was friends with Steve and Bucky when they were kids

Steve got chewed out when he told her he wanted to join the army

She flew to Germany where she met a mutant-jewish family and lived with them for a bit

But Aries found out that her sis was happy and called Gestapo on them

At like two in the morning Kili woke up to gunshots and ran with the kid of the family, Annabelle

She kept her in hiding for 3 years

But the Nazis gas their hideout and put them in the custody of Hydra

That's where she meet the Red Skull

He made her watch as Hydra tortured the closet person she had to daughter until the girl dies

Hydra then conducts thousands of awful experiments on her, blinding her left eye and making her sense of smell moot

When she escapes she gets napped by her sister's generals, the Zodiac

Aries then beats her the fuck up then freezes/turns her into a statue, getting her out every now and then to run experiments 100x worse the Hydra's

Then she wakes up and falls into what was the gentlest touch she'd ever felt and a pretty voice saying, "Hey dino lady, you okay?"

And before she knows it she's swept up off the ground and carried to what looks like a giant metal bird(a quinjet)

That's when she tries to speak to him, but the no sound will come out of her mouth

Then she starts to have a panic attack cause the only thing she liked about herself that she was born with was her voice, and now that's gone

Wade somehow calms done a dinosaur having a panic attack in a jet.

She falls asleep in his arms and wakes up on a couch with him watching her intently

ENOUGH WITH STORYTIME LET'S GO BACK TO LITTLE HEADCANNONS/TIDBITS

She and cable are bffs(low key over a shared love for Wade)

Nate convinces her to ask wade out after about six months of silent flirting

On what they decided was gonna be Nini's b-day(Dec. 15) Wade gives her a vibranium-uru voicebox

And then she sees a note underneath it in the box it was in asking her out

Also she's bffs with gambit(she's literally his only friend) and Kurt(Nightcrawler)

Nightcrawler is the angel on her shoulder while gambit is low-key the devil in her shoulder

One time her and a squad of heroes were in the savage land getting attacked by pterasaurs and she just starts hoping up and down snatching the pterasaurs out of the air

When she's done she says, "That used to be may favorite pastime as a kid"

After a lot of shit went down ivolving the F4 Nini and Ben(the thing) become friends

She also becomes like a mother figure to Ava(ghost)

Wade brings them bags of morphine for the 3 of their's chronic pain

She dosent have a reproductive system and of course she finds this out after her and Wade get married(cause I must make her life awful to get all the fluff)

She's a genetic experiment, made up of alot if different creatures, which us why she looks nothing like her sisters

People call her Indie sometimes, because she looks like Indiana Jones and the Indominous Rex.

Her skin pattern looks like how the T-REX in the Jurassic park novel is described

She's the leader of Team Red

She has alot of scars

She has a scar on her lower back that if us hit there she'll collapsing and blood will pretty much fall out her mouth and nose.

When Nini and Wade got married they both wore suits.

They also both walked down the aisle.

MIGHT BE UPDATED DAILY

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deadcactuswalking · 3 years

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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 06/02/2021 (Fredo’s Money Can’t Buy Happiness)

This is an odd, scattered week - a slow one thankfully for the day after my birthday - but we do have a bigger album bomb than I expected from Fredo, even if “drivers license” is still at #1 for a fourth week, blocking EDM remixes of sea shanties because of course, it’s the UK after all. Let’s just get back into REVIEWING THE CHARTS.

Rundown

Now, I predicted last week that Fredo would have two songs debut high up on the chart from his most recent album, Money Can’t Buy Happiness, and the pre-release single “Back to Basics” would rise to the top 10. That didn’t exactly happen, as “Back to Basics” actually dropped out of the chart off of the debut for being one of the lowest-performing Fredo tracks, or at least less successful than the three songs that debuted, as that’s all the UK Singles Chart allows. Speaking of drop-outs from the UK Top 75, they’re all mostly inconsequential, made up of recent debuts like “Wellerman” by the Longest Johns and “Bad Boy” by the late Juice WRLD and Young Thug. In terms of notable drop-offs, we do have some arguably premature falls for minor hits, like “champagne problems” by Taylor Swift, “Body” by Megan Thee Stallion, “Lonely” by Justin Bieber and benny blanco, and, finally, “Diamonds” by Sam Smith. This is a slow week outside of the top 40, so we just have some spare oddities to cover outside of the drop-outs. For our fallers, we have “34+35” by Ariana Grande fading its remix boost at #14, “Therefore I Am” by Billie Eilish at #30, “SO DONE” by The Kid Yaoi at #52, “All I Want” by Olivia Rodrigo at #54, “Lo Vas A Olvidar” by Billie Eilish and ROSALÍA at #64 off of the debut and a couple real crashes at the tail-end of the top 75, those being “Holy” by Justin Bieber featuring Chance the Rapper at #71, “WAP” by Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion at #72, “Notorious” by Bugzy Malone featuring Chip at #73 and “Dynamite” by BTS at #75. This may explain the otherwise inexplicable returns for songs that are always clinging onto the back half of the chart, like “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac at #74, “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran at #70 and, incredibly, “Mr Brightside” by the Killers at #68, the highest it’s been in a while (and that’s a feat considering how long it stays on the damn chart). For gains, we’re really not picking up much traction here. Sure, “Baby Shark” by Pinkfong is back at #73 for some reason, but otherwise we just have middling songs with middling gains, like “Martin & Gina” by Polo G at #61, “Take You Dancing” by Jason Derulo at #59, “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles rebounding to #44, “Your Love (9PM)” by ATB, Topic and A7S making a surprising and scary gain to #42 (and I’ll admit, I’ve warmed up to it quickly), “i miss u” by Jax Jones and Au/Ra clawing back in the top 40 at #39, “Friday” by Riton, Nightcrawlers and Musafa & Hypeman dopamine re-editing itself up to #24 (Please don’t make this a hit) and finally, “Streets” by Doja Cat continuing its rise up to #12. Oh, yeah, and “Skin” by Sabrina Carpenter is down to #41 off of the debut but everyone’s forgotten about that song considering how big “drivers license” still is, so yeah, let’s just get to our new arrivals, because we do have some interesting things to touch on this week.

NEW ARRIVALS

#66 – “Higher” – Clean Bandit featuring iann dior

Produced by Mark Ralph, Grace Chatto and Jack Patterson

Well, they made a song with 24kGoldn, and that was awful, so... I guess it’s Puerto Rican emo-rapper iann dior’s turn. They might as well remix “Mood” while they’re at it. Instead of Mabel filling in for the singing where 24kGoldn couldn’t on “Tick Tock”, however, we have honestly a less charismatic singer in iann dior playing all the parts, without a rap verse to speak of. Okay, so this could work if he just fills in the spot of generic anonymous singer, and it fits exactly within that mold if he wants to, even though that’ll take away any of the character he had – not that any of that character was likeable or interesting, but hey, baby, he is not your dad, so maybe he’ll blend in well with Clean Bandit’s decreasingly unique production. This is a tropical EDM track where iann dior’s non-existent range and raspy, uncaring tone zaps the energy out of the touches of steel drums and orchestral stabs. This drop is nothing more than a vocaloid loop, and a pathetic one at that, with iann dior’s really gross falsetto proving that Auto-Tune can’t really fix bad singing, not that it needed to be proven. The lyrics here are nothing to write home about, wrapping a love song with ocean metaphors probably just so he can say “I’mma get her wet, oh, baby, then slide”... Gross. There’s like zero build-up to this drop at all as well, so there’s no stakes, no climax, and hence not a good EDM track. Come on, Dan Smith of Bastille wrote this, can’t he get the lead vocal? At least it would sound competent.

#63 – “Grown Flex” – Chip featuring Bugzy Malone

Produced by the Fanatix

Ah, my favourite duo. Apparently this is from a Chip album that I didn’t even know existed, thankfully because it’s 21 tracks, over an hour, with two consecutive Young Adz features. “Grown Flex” is another collaboration with Bugzy Malone, probably here because of the video and the sample of iconic UK bass tune “Heartbroken” by T2, one of the most popular songs in that wave of EDM and a pretty damn great song. It has been sampled before by people like DJ Khaled and Drake but no-one’s made a better song, so maybe these formerly feuding Londoners can make a good song with this sample as the base? That isn’t a question actually, but if it was, the answer would be no. They pitch up the (honestly ahead of its time) vocaloid loop, and put an obnoxious UK garage-adjacent drum loop over it that’s barely on beat with all of the chiptune sound effects distracting from Chip’s also off-beat flow. The chorus is really awkward, with him being off-beat and uncredited female vocal backing vocals with entirely different vocal processing coming in and sounding equally janky. This beat isn’t broken inherently, it could work but it’s too shrouded in these two rappers void of personality. Bugzy Malone is here but his rough tone does not work on this beat, regardless of how much he wants to pretend there’s any melody to his drawl with the Auto-Tune and multi-tracking. He’s still somehow the best part though because, yeah, this is just... incredibly awful. The production is onto something by the end with the horns coming in but they immediately fade out and eventually it just abruptly cuts to some pointless chiptune beeping sounds that have been there the whole time but play alone right at the end for no reason. This is aggravating, I know I’m pretty much nit-picking but there’s nothing of substance to pick apart here anyway. This is pure incompetence and a butchering of a good sample... that they should be allowed to use freely, though, by the way. Abolish copyright law.

#62 – “Ride for Me” – B Young

Produced by Mike Spencer and Pacific

Since everyone seems to have forgotten how to actually make music this week, at least we can always count on B Young... okay, no, but at least he’s given up on trying to be a rapper or R&B singer at this point, as a lane of generic guitar-pop probably would work best for the guy’s voice. I mean, we have an acoustic loop here that sounds like it’s jacked straight from a Shawn Mendes demo. At least the incompetence here is charming, with his rougher vocals being a pretty nice contrast from the otherwise kind of ugly mixing, especially on the flat percussion. I do like the lyrics here, as he’s simply love-struck and enjoys the company of this woman, for more than just sex and appearances. He just hopes that things don’t change and the relationship lasts forever. Sure, it’s shallow but it seems genuine. Sure, there’s some drug references and him being pushy to ask her for no make-up, though it does come off as just enjoying her presence instead of any stuck-up preference, especially since he offers his tracksuit and they end up watching some crap Netflix original film. Yeah, this is just a sweet track if nothing else. Since I did do a full song review for his song “Jumanji” years back, I feel a weird sense of almost parenthood for this guy, like I’ve seen him grow and finally he’s made a good song, even if it’s a bit out of his wheel-house. He’s never not been genuine, just only now that’s given him some more likeability, even if it’s just to make a cute love song. He sounds like a good boyfriend, and that’s really the appeal of the song, so, yeah, good job. I’m honestly kind of surprised.

#60 – “Gravity” – Brent Faiyaz and DJ Dahi featuring Tyler, the Creator

Produced by DJ Dahi

This is the most frustrating song I’ve heard this year so far, I’m almost fascinated by it. Before we get into that, I’d like to say that it’s good to see Brent Faiyaz finally debuting a song relatively high, and this is DJ Dahi’s first ever credited UK Singles Chart entry, although he’s produced top 40 hits before for Kendrick Lamar. Faiyaz has been a bubbling artist in R&B for the past few years, and honestly he might have had the most successful career off of the three artists that propelled themselves off of the back of “Crew” with GoldLink and Shy Glizzy. It was a minor hit that ended up producing no rising stars until around five years later, where we have a genuine hit potentially coming from the guy who sung the chorus, of course with some help from Tyler, the Creator. I do think this song is good but owes a lot to that to the production and charisma of our artists, as I can pick this apart way too easily for my taste. This beat is good, with some incredible guitar work from Steve Lacy as he would always deliver, but feels very aimless, especially with the pointless air horns in the background that if anything distract from Brent Faiyaz, who needs room to breathe. I mean, he’s an R&B singer, of course he does. The beat takes certain left turns during the verses that seem like meanders and if it’s not deflating any of its groove for the sake of guitar loops, it’s got this really tense percussion that does not work for the content or performances here, which are both pretty checked-out, especially Tyler, who’s as stiff as always but without any really interesting lyrical moments or a shift of flow. It’s one of his worst verses in my opinion, and he really goes in one ear and out the other with how short it is, which surprises me because of how Tyler usually either steals the show or meshes really well with his collaborators. So, our two performers are mostly checked-out with little to no chemistry, and the beat is awkward and unfitting for the content, which is about them being brought back down to Earth by their loved ones, hence the name, despite their travel habits due to touring – which isn’t a thing that’s happening right now at all, so maybe this’ll be a slow burn hit before it can really resonate. If we listen to these lyrics more closely, we also don’t get the sense that Brent Faiyaz is even likeable here, as we have no reason given for this woman to not feel uncomfortable that he’s paying little attention to her. Instead, Faiyaz just comes off a dismissive ass to this undeserving woman who is reasonably upset at the lack of time spent with him. It’s never made clear that she’s pestering him, so I honestly don’t get how Faiyaz wants to frame this. It doesn’t help that Tyler has the opposite reaction, longing for his partner when he’s on tour instead of feeling annoyed by her, but ultimately with no interplay so this means nothing. Oh, and if the songwriting weren’t janky enough, the chorus is barely catchy and covered in pitch-shifted multi-tracking that takes any of the focus off of Brent Faiyaz, who’s constantly crushed by backing vocals, being pitched down for no reason with unnecessary censor bleeps when they both swear freely at other points in the song. This type of maximalist production works but only when there’s any grandiosity to make it feel warranted, and if there isn’t that, the gunshot percussion is out of place and there ends up being a lot of empty space. There’s nothing smooth about this, and that’s frustrating as you’d expect these three to bring a really relaxed tune with some great 70s soul vibes and... I mean, that’s obviously what they’re going for here, but it is painfully over-produced and ultimately immensely disappointing. I can see people enjoying this a lot but no, this doesn’t work for me at all. Sorry.

#45 – “Dancing on Ice” – Yxng Bane featuring Nafe Smallz and M Huncho

Produced by Don Alfonso and Quincy Tellem

Oh, Jesus Christ, these guys again... and Yxng Bane, I guess. So, you know what the deal is with this UK ‘trap-wave’ type stuff, right? There’s a vaguely interesting synth loop drowned out by cheap percussion and crap bass mastering, as well as awfully processed vocals from everyone involved. They can trade verses, but more often than not don’t say anything that doesn’t embarrass themselves. You get a sense of really toxic masculinity, misogyny and materialism without any charm in their delivery, inflections or wordplay – which is usually non-existent. Here, it’s not any different. Yxng Bane has some good melodic flows – and I really like his line about his Rolex Presidential Watch being discontinued but since he’s “going Donald”, he wears it anyway – but he also threatens... presumably the listener with gay conversion therapy in the first line of the verse, so all good will’s lost. Nafe Smallz sounds better than usual but his nasal flow is still whiny and insufferable, and M Huncho is here to waste time and sound bad doing it, although he’s probably the least worst sounding vocally out of these three clowns. I misread his line about his rucksack being heavy as “nutsack”, and that’s all the positive engagement I could claw out of this. I ask this every time but honestly, who listens to this?

#21 – “Ready” – Fredo featuring Summer Walker

Produced by Mojam

Much like the end of a Morrisons sweet aisle, past this point, it’s all Fredo. Admittedly, I didn’t end up listening to the record but I have heard a select few songs, this being one of them, and I’m not really a fan. I do like the eerie loop but it seems a bit unfitting for a triumphant flex song emphasising a rags-from-riches narrative, especially since the mix really crushes both Fredo and Summer Walker in this blend of boring skittering trap percussion and the ambiance, making her hook impact a lot less. Fredo’s verses are pretty damn heartfelt, I’ll admit, and I really like his lines about pleading with God that he should be let into Heaven. In fact, Fredo’s bars are pretty consistently great, focusing on how his criminal past in the streets of London refuses to escape him despite his efforts to make it out using rap, and by the end, he sounds pretty defeated when he says, “Yeah, I’m lonely, but that’s just a player’s life”. Honestly, for a song that initially builds itself up to be a triumphant flex song, it ends up just being kind of sad, and that’s fine, more fitting for the instrumental but it really makes the hook feel even more out of place. Ah, well, the song’s fine, really, just a blend of ideas that never really stick the landing together.

#18 – “Burner on Deck” – Fredo featuring Pop Smoke and Young Adz

Produced by RicoRunDat and Yoz Beats

Now this is what I want from Fredo. Now, this is posthumous in Pop Smoke’s case but it’s far from an unexpected feature, as whilst this is one of his first UK drill collaborations, Pop Smoke was known for his pioneering of the New York style of London’s grittier, more menacing drill music, and even named Fredo and Young Adz as some of his favourite rappers. Okay, so he had questionable taste – I mean, Young Adz? - but Pop Smoke felt more of a connection between New York and London beyond just instrumentals, with a shared slang, street culture and arguably most importantly, inequality. This is all cited from a Complex interview, by the way, but you can tell even from his music what a great respect he had for British hip-hop, especially considering his main producer, 808 Melo, is from London. The song itself is pretty great too, relying on these spacey synth loops that build up with more eerie keys before finally crashing into an intense drill beat, with all artists sharing the Auto-Tuned hook, but Young Adz probably shining the most in how he plays off of Pop Smoke’s deeper, rich voice with his nasal whine. The lyrics may be generic gunplay and flexing, but the delivery saves it for me, with Fredo enthusiastically shouting out Gorillaz of all people, and the chorus being way smoother than it would usually be for a drill track, as well as being really catchy. Pop Smoke absolutely kills it here, going with his typical stiff, fast-paced flow for a verse that is really short but just as powerful as he usually delivers. You can tell this was made for this track as well from the interplay on the hook and him shouting out Young Adz in his verse. Fredo pretty much completes the second verse by chiming in and showing more of the charm I enjoy from him as he mentions coughing the bar before he coughs for basically an entire bar. It caught me off-guard at full listen and it still leads in perfectly to the oddly-mixed sombre piano that comes in for the final hook. With a better mix – and even then, it kind of works without it – and maybe some extended verses from both London and New York drill artists, this could bang even harder. Maybe for a remix, this beat could bring the best out of Swarmz, DigDat, AJ Tracey, Hardy Caprio, Tion Wayne, Fivio Foreign even... I could go on, this could be a great posse cut. As it is, it’s still pretty damn good, and again, rest in peace to the late Pop Smoke.

#3 – “Money Talks” – Fredo featuring Dave

Produced by Dave

At first, I was surprised this debuted at #3, which seems high for a British rap track, but then I remembered that the last time these guys collaborated on a single it debuted at #1 without an album attached, and it helped that “Funky Friday” is also a great song, admittedly something I didn’t think at the time. It does make perfect sense that this debuts so high, especially since this album was actually executively-produced by Dave, so given these guys’ track records together and alone, I did expect something great, and, well... okay, so instead of a drill beat as this pretty vocal sample would be fit for, as would the flows, we get a lightweight trap beat with odd vocal and bass mixing. Admittedly, the 808 slides here are pretty excellent, but that’s the only shred of intricacy I see here, which is usually commonplace in Dave’s production. There’s also simply not enough consistency or variety here to make it worth the four and a half minutes, with the chorus being awkward if anything. There’s less depth to the rags-to-riches stories here, with Fredo probably giving more commentary than Dave does, which seems odd but fitting for how checked-out Dave is here. There’s just a resounding lack of anything to this song other than a boring beat and performances that could be a lot sharper and interesting. Sure, Dave flexes his technical piano skill by the end but the beat had already run dry by about two extra minutes before that – this could have run through your second verse, Dave, or you could have added a bridge instead of repeating the chorus. I do like some of the lines here that are obviously more personal and introspective, like Fredo’s conflict with the justice system and Dave explaining how he got robbed when he was a child and to cope with the trauma of this, he started toting weapons. I guess the EastEnders reference is funny but it just reminds me of DigDat making a similar cocaine joke with arguably funnier source material on “Guten Tag”. Yeah, this could be a lot better but it’s not offensive and hey, it’s competent at least. I mean, it’s Dave, it won’t be anything less, just a tad disappointing. I mean, come on, “coochie freshly shaven, man’s got expectations”?

Conclusion

This week is so disproportionately male, huh? Ironically as I say that, none of the women represented here – in the form of soulless EDM production and boring guest feature – get Best of the Week, as that’s going to Fredo’s “Burner on Deck” featuring the late Pop Smoke and, yes, Young Adz, with an Honourable Mention to B Young of all people for “Ride for Me”. Worst of the Week will obviously go to Chip and Bugzy Malone for the pathetic “Grown Flex”, with a tied Dishonourable Mention this week going to both “Dancing on Ice” by Yxng Bane featuring Nafe Smallz (for being gross and offensive) and “Higher” by Clean Bandit featuring iann dior (for being remarkably inoffensive). Yeah, Brent Faiyaz and Tyler are safe there but that’s still a fascinatingly bad song, though I don’t think I’ll make any friends with that opinion. Anyway, here’s the top 10 for this week:

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Love potion au

@djinmer4 @dannybagpipesarecalling @discordsworld @look-ma-no-hands336 @sailorstar9

N/A: this one writes by itself...almost

Amanda Steffon has two secret obsession, one of them is magic and the other is a certain German boy, who for some reason, is not impressed by Amanda. How? she´s the most beautiful girl in school(well, only losing to Jean Grey...does Kurt likes Jean Grey) why he does not like Amanda?

“Hey, elf!” comes the chipper voice of one Kitty Pryde, greeting the German boy with a smile and make the once frowny boy, smiles for real. “Let´s go home, Jean and Scott are giving us a ride”

And Amanda watches as Kitty and Kurt walk together and not even once he looks at Amanda, the prettiest girl in the school. Then she remembers her books, her magic and decides to make Kurt love her by any means necessary.

The woman speaks as watches her crush talking so openly to the others X-men, and, of course, with Kitty Pryde. A magic spell won´t be enough, she needs a love potion.

On her room, late at night, Amanda scoop all her magic books and the ingredients to make a love potion is not something you can find in a local market, but, Kitty Pryde forced her hand.

She grabs a roach. She grabs some fungus, grabs some mushroom, and in the end, put her own blood in a mixture in a flask(only after she heated the mix and make sure the texture is like the book says it will be)

The smell was horrid, to the point her parents come downstairs to investigate this smell and at such hour. Mr Stefton tapes his nose with a piece of clothing and asks directly to Amanda what is this.

“What the hell? This smell awful are you trying to kill your family?” Mr Stefton asked opening the windows widely.

“Is a project for school, Miss Bell is asking us to created unpleasant smells and it will take 45% of my grade in science” Amanda explained quickly and hoping to all deities that her father believes in such bad lies,and her prays are answers as the man believes but asks Amanda to clean the mess after she is done.

On the next day, Kurt is easily spotted talking with Kitty and this makes Amanda´s blood boils, however, she has the flask...Oh, how to make Kurt see the reason? How to make Kurt drink the love potion?

She won´t try with Kitty there, the evil girl is responsible for all Amanda´s trouble(is what she firmly believes)

“Of course, the gym class” Amanda mutters and snaps her fingers in triumph, all she has to do is trade Kurt´s water, in his blue can, to her love potion. It has her blood on it, it will work.

The Gym class is one of Kurt´s favourites class as he can show off his skills and impress everyone, even the teacher. Today, the professor is called to answer a call, something regards an emergency at his home, so the students have free time.

Kurt wants to drink water as he did overdue, and Rogue, his big sister, often tell him to be hydrated, so, Kurt takes his blue can and take a sip. As soon the liquid is on his mouth, Kurt spits and coughs a little, sadly, he did swallow a small part of whatever this was.

As soon the Gym class is over, Amanda jumps on him, giggling as she now won against the evil Kitty Pryde. Kurt is not happy to see her and starts to cough again.

“Get off me!” Kurt asked not wanting to be rude even in moments like this, Amanda is not understanding his words.

“Kurt is me, it was my blood” Amanda explained as Kurt coughs again and not wanting to be a gentleman anymore, ended up pushing her away from, however, in the process his holowatch is compromised and his blue form is exposed.

Kurt has no time to hide as suddenly he´s feeling too sick and ending up throwing on the floor. Kitty, Rogue, Scott, Jean, Evan and Bobby arrives to rescue the fellow mutant. Scott and Jean take control of the situation and didn´t let anyone come closer, while, Rogue is ready to kill anyone who gives any funny look and Kitty will gladly to assist.

Kurt was taken to the mansion and Dr MCcoy makes medical exams and concluded, with great sadness, that Kurt has a small case of intoxication, fortunately, is easily curable, and, in less of a few hours, the elf is back healthy and fine.

Kitty hugs him and Anne Marie pets his hair(still afraid of her own powers) and the others are relief Nightcrawler, Kurt Wagner is alive and well.

“Who did this to you?” Rogue asked having a mad look on her face as she is taking her gloves. Kitty is sharing the same sentiment.

“Well…”

On the next day, Amanda was not having a great day, Kitty Pryde, Rogue and Jean Grey corned Amanda and demand answers.

“Are you trying to kill our friend?” Jean and Kitty asked not in the best mood as Rogue is going full older sister. “Are you trying to kill my brother?”

“No, it was for him to love me” Amanda explained and that is not the answer they were expecting. “the book said if I followed the instructions I would have the perfect love potion”

“Love potion?” Rogue pulls Amanda by her shirt “he was intoxicated, you call that a love potion?”

“You really thought a love potion would work?” Kitty asked not knowing if she should pity this girl or be angry.

“Yes, it should….the only reason it didn´t it was because of you, Kitty Pryde, you stole him from me” Amanda looks like she wanted to say more, so, Jean gets tired of her voice and uses her powers.

Amanda blinks and now looks scared as Rogue is lifting the girl up, slowly Rogue put her down. “What´s happening?”

“Nothing, forgive Rogue, she´s worried about her brother, do you know him?” Jean asked

“No, please, just let me go” and with that Amanda runs away when Rogue crosses her arms.

“Really Jean?” asked Rogue.

“Yes, is better than beat her up, now, we must be aware of any crazy fan Kurt may get” Jean speaks and then looks at Kitty and giggles “That´s cute Kitty, I´ll tell Kurt you thought that” Jean jokes. Kitty is blushing and is bemused.

Another day at Bayville High.

#kurtty #always anti amanda #kurt wagner #evo au #nightcrawler #rogue is the best older sister in the universe #jean grey can do that #kitty pryde #love potins aren´t real

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