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Thank you X-Men '97 for this meal (gif from this post and not mine)

Did X-Men '97 just make Cherik canon ?????

#sorry it took so long to reply I am in Hyperfixation Hell #anyway anyone else intrigued by his slutty little outfit+pose here? someone on the production team loves us

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X-Men '97 1x02 “Mutant Liberation Begins”

#gosh Magneto looks hot

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It's 2024. Are you still thinking about movieverse!Cherik? Because I am.

For the past several months, there's only been a very slow trickle of posts/fics in the xmcu cherik tag. Let's try to breathe some life back into this incredible pairing!

With one clear winner of my poll, here's thirty prompts for the thirty days of April. (This is a super chill, laid-back event---do these in any order, interpret them as loosely as you like! Create in any medium! Fic, art, gifs, meta, incoherent screaming about the otp…all winners in my book.)

The only rule here is to cherik too close to the sun. Alright. Here are the prompts.

Mutual Pining

Doesn't really even need elaboration! Write that horrifically slow slow-burn. Gif every time McAvoy made insane fuck me eyes on screen. Make a playlist of songs about impossible love.

2. Alternate Meetings

There are endless quotes about how these two complete each other in a way no one they'd met before or after ever did. How else could they have met?

3. Erik Has A Telepathy Kink

This is basically canon. Let my boy get freaky!

4. Canon Fix-It

All the times Fox fucked it up. There are endless options.

5. Hurt/Comfort

Put them in that Situation. Put them in that Blender. Break them apart and put them back together ❤️‍🩹

6. Canon Compliant

Draw that missing scene! Gif your favourite cherik moment!

7. Beach Divorce

Make it worse. Make it better. Show it to us exactly how it was. Break it down in a 3,000 word meta. Go wild!

8. Domestics

Sometimes you just want to see them doing normal couple things. Erik put the gun down.

9. Found Family

The real heart of x-men!

10. Time Travel

There are SO many possibilities here. Stick them in a time loop. Give them a chance to change their past.

11. AU

Love a good AU!

12. There Is Only One Bed

Had to get this one in here. What better way to amp up the tension?

13. Genosha

By some miracle, cherik actually did end up together at the end of 2019s trash bag disaster Dark Phoenix. We aren’t making a big enough deal about this.

14. Declaration(s) of Love

Who says it first? How do they say it and when? Have they said it…without saying it?

15. Jealousy

Need I say more.

16. Reunion

These two have absolutely no chill.

17. Soulmates

Classic prompt, had to get this in here too.

18. The DOFP Aircraft

The TENSION here. Break it down for me. How does Charles feel about his injury? How does Erik feel about his injury?

19. Gay Mutant Road Trip

You already know.

20. Body Swap

SO fun when people have superpowers.

21. First Kiss

When? How? Who initiated it?

22. The Mansion

Mansion!content is a genre of its own.

23. Conflicting Ideology

Give me your theses. Who’s right? Can they ever reconcile completely? Write a fic where it drives them apart.

24. Sebastian Shaw

A trope unto himself.

25. Team As Matchmaker

They had to have known something was going on, didn’t they?

26. Cooking

Charles deserves a good meal. Also, imagine Erik using his powers in the kitchen. The sheer domesticity…

27. Hurt No Comfort

Plenty of scope with these two 🥲

28. Growing Old Together

Giving Sirs Ian Mckellan and Patrick Stewart their props as well!

29. Making Up

*pushes chess board across the table* sorry babe

30. Charles Xavier Did More For Mutants Than You'll Ever Know

Rising to each other’s defense. Only I can insult this man.

I will be tracking #revivecherik to reblog stuff! Here’s a fic collection for the same. Let’s get this ball rolling! Please feel free to send me an ask if you’ve got anything to say! And most importantly, let’s all have fun 😁

*I know a few of you preferred something like a gift exchange because of the commitment factor—I’m super down to organise a tiny one for the handful of us! If this promptathon doesn’t flop horribly, we can hopefully do a whole bunch of stuff :)

If you read this post all the way through, please reblog for reach! Thank you! Hoping you participate come April.

Shoutout to @inmymagnetoera for reaching out and helping with this!

#what if I actually cam back for this

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

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Cmon. With the way Erik was looking at Charles afterwards there is NO way he wasn't at least a liiitle bit turned on by that punch.

#remembering that fic I wrote with Amanda about them making out on the plane laksdhgas;e #they banged after this!!!!

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what if I write a remix of one of my own cherik fics

it'd have to be short but I think I can do that. I am. not going to be doing winter classes this year.

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I made a zine of my poetry :3c the loose theme is healing and resiliency, and how there is always something worth living for--including spite.

#afternoon reblog

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I made a zine of my poetry :3c the loose theme is healing and resiliency, and how there is always something worth living for--including spite.

#self promo #hi I'm being silly again

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"Old friend" is a gayass thing to call someone

#yessssssss

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Mags very in love with his husband post 🫡

#incredible

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I'm the weird cousin who shares the stalest of memes once every three months on facebook, but I'm not actively annoying.

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#when bae actually listens to your thesis

#get you a man who listens when you infodump and then completely misses your point so you get to explain more ❤

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"I also think that he’s been alone for his entire life. He didn’t have an extensive family. I think he’s felt very much alone. I think his power speaks volumes really, his power has been able to connect to other people(…)and I think he’s looking to connect so he can, sort of, build a family for himself." - James McAvoy (x)

#MY SON........

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Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo

WHAT: A fanworks bingo celebrating Jewish (and Jew-ish) characters across any and all fandoms. Write fanfiction and/or create graphics (moodboards, edits, vids, whatever you like) to fill prompts on this overall bingo card. During the 8 nights of Hanukkah, submit your fills to the AO3 collection and/or post them on Tumblr to be reblogged and added to the Bingo Masterpost.

WHY: Jewish characters and Jewish fans are often overlooked or erased during the Winter Holiday Season in favor of “Secret Santa” exchanges, Christmas-themed fics, and the idea that ~Hanukkah is Jewish Christmas~ (which spoiler for all fics in this bingo: it’s not). This panfandom Bingo challenge is to celebrate Hanukkah on its own terms and give Jewish characters and fans a place to breathe. :)

MORE INFO!

#HI THIS SOUNDS FUN

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Hi Ike! Very random question but did you ever reblog fanart of Bert and Ernie as Charles and Erik in the beach divorce scene? I’ve been searching for it for ages but I haven’t been able to find it so I wanted to see if that sounds familiar at all before going through your entire cherik tag, yes I’m that committed to the bit 🙏

hello, friend! i definitely remember seeing/reblogging fanart of charles and erik as bert and ernie, but i can't remember if it was the beach divorce scene. but maybe if you found the original artist who drew them as bert and ernie, you'd be able to find any art they might have done of the beach scene? i'll put this post in the tag in case someone else remembers that art. best of luck on your quest, friend!

#yo help anon out on their noble quest

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y'all joke but as a kid raised in abject poverty who has rich friends, the conversation would absolutely be:

Erik: How much olive oil did you GET for $200???

Charles: A full 16oz bottle. I'm not a fool, Erik, I know a good deal when I see it.

Erik, on the edge of a heart attack: What are you even going to do with just 16 ounces of olive oil?

Charles: Experiment with spice blends! :)

Erik: CHARLES YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE COOKING

Charles, at least once a week: “Darling we have money, relax”

Erik: “I’m still a little poor kid at heart”

#saw a Youtuber say he kept his house at 67F throughout July and thought. 'You are a fucking millionaire.' #rich people are absolutely terrifying

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i am (never) a victim: charles xavier + self-blame

As a Charles Xavier obsessive, I’m hard-pressed to find analyses of his 616 self that see him as a person rather than a politic — either inside or outside of the text. Charles, while a central part of the X-Men mythos, often takes a narrative backseat to his charges. When it comes to Charles, comics fandom is often more interested in either (rightfully) maligning his milquetoast neoliberal philosophies or, on a less fun note, perpetuating “creepy disabled man” stereotypes. It’s difficult to find people who are interested in seeing him as the messy, complex character he is, and the high barrier of entry to comics makes it difficult for those who are already doing that work on the film series side of things to transfer over. So, of course, you can probably infer that I was very pleased with Kieron Gillen’s Immortal X-Men #10.

first essay up on my shiny new writing site! discussing my fave bald blorbo re: immortal x-men #10, childhood abuse, the trauma of growing up telepathic, and victimhood.

link here! be sure to subscribe to the newsletter!

reblogs very much appreciated 🫶🏿

#*crashes through the wall* DID YOU SAY MESSY COMPLICATED CHARACTER CHARLES XAVIER #VINDI FUCKING CATION