#it was going to have illyana falling out of a stepping disc with a scared mutant kid basically on top of pete wisdom's morning cuppa

[tathrin]

💋not about any particular fic but what got you into writing X-Men stuff? That was a pleasant surprise in the last ask answer

Oh! Well, I haven't actually written X-Men in SO MANY YEARS but: the old 90s cartoon was my introduction. Then when I was ten I was in Toys-R-Us and I saw a comic book next to the action figures??? I didn't even know they MADE THOSE!??? MOM MOM MOM LOOK I NEED THIS MOM!!!!

And that was uhhh. the beginning of the end, really. One of those "and my whole life changed" moments, second only to watching the first Star Wars at the age of six and seeing Leia come out with her blaster not set for stun and shoot that stormtrooper. BAM. And just like that, I was a different person forever.

Same with discovering comic books. The ability to put art and words together to tell a story??? SHEER PERFECTION.

I got my first AU Creation Training when I was a kid and my little brother and I would play action figures (almost always X-Men or Star Wars) because we'd spend like an hour pre-play determining what scenario we were going to do that day. "Canon or AU?" "AU." "Existing or New?" "New!" "Okay, what's the Point of Divergence...?" and then we'd map-out how everything in the continuity would change based around that pivot point up until the place where we wanted to start playing...and then we'd start to play.

#the New Excalibur fic was by far the most recent x-men dabble #because it was from sometime around...idk 2012? ish? #sometime after mi-13 stopped being published because the whole point was basically to bring that back (because it was THE BEST DAMMIT) #it was going to have illyana falling out of a stepping disc with a scared mutant kid basically on top of pete wisdom's morning cuppa #and involve recruiting faiza and spitfire back again and then reluctantly calling kitty and kurt over the pond #to deal with Whatever Magical Doom Nonsense the kid was running from that had sent her running through Limbo #and thus caught illyana's attention and then literally dropped them in pete's poor suffering VERY RETIRED DAMMIT lap #(why is he plagued by rasputins? is there a curse on his family he doesn't know about? WHY?) #but x-men and star wars were the only fandoms i actually WROTE fic for as a kid/teen #i didn't start into lotr fic until i was...idk 17? ish? i found Land Of Light And Shadows on FFnet and read it straight through until 7am #and then that was another Life Has Changed moments lmao #fanfic ask meme #me #my stuff #x men #childhood #ask meme #mi-13 #comic books