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#finally using my polling powers for their true purpose #x-men #xmen #polls #uncannysource #honestly i would've prefered to put trial of magneto (first one) instead of age of apocalypse but #the 90s probably deserves SOME sort of acknowledgement. perhaps. #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #i used so few acronyms someone be proud of me.

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x-treme x-men (2022) #5

#xmen #x-men #kittyrachel #kitty x rachel #uncannysource #sb and l reads comics #i know this is probably the shitty art but also. rachel is 100% looking at kitty's lips in that last panel right? right???

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listening to billy joel while seeing some EXCELLENT scott/emma fanart on my dash has me thinking scott/emma thoughts... imagine getting together with someone you love, after a lot of heartbreak and difficulty, and immediately being required to be wartime leaders together.

you're at war for a long time -- you keep being at war, even when people say things are peaceful, to the point where you guys are kind of incapable of not seeing warfields where everyone else sees daily life. and at some point you guys break up because of the war and it doesn't even matter because your community has abandoned you both when you're still at war and no one else can see it.

and then one of you dies, and you the other are so used to wartime that you puppet him for long enough to start a war, and then you guys don't see each other again until one day your precursors come back -- after leaving you both to handle war! -- and declare that they've created a peaceful paradise for your people, where there will never be any more war.

and naturally, in the paradise of peace, you guys aren't together anymore.

#sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #xmen #emma x scott #i just. AUGH #one sec i'm gonna reblog this with a panel that articulates this anguish for me

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#uncannysource #x-men #xmen #polls #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #i don't think there is a single 90s storyline on here but honestly that feels like a power move to me. #it was so hard to pick things to put on this list but like. i perservere #the next poll will be more fun for me personally >:D

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sometimes i'm like "wow, i wish i was the kind of xmen fan who has opinions about specific issues" and other times i reread a specific comic and go "...ah yes, one issue jumpstarted basically every feeling i've ever had about this one character"

#anyway i'm rereading wolverine and the x-men (2011) no. 12 #and uh. i have loved rachel for a long time but goddamn this one issue is the source of so many rachel feels #rachel as a paranoid teacher. rachel showing vulnerability to scott but only specifically when he's the phoenix #SPECIFICALLY that one set of panels where she asks him if the phoenix ever talks about her #which is the entire stem of miss atomic bomb #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #xmen #rachel summers #fic: miss atomic bomb

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i think there really is a missed opportunity in the form of the new mutants? they've been the kids of the team for so long and like, i get why they've never been allowed to truly be "the old ones" (it's because marvel seems unwilling to give up on charles and erik being the leaders of mutantkind, much less that silver generation of scott, jean, ororo, etc) but it feels like a loss, that we've only ever seen these kids in the position of being "the kids" -- or, as we're seeing them now, caught between chafing against an authority they don't agree with, and yet also being the authority to the generations of kids who've come after them.

i don't know! i think it would be interesting, to have a storyline about the new mutants being the oldest authority figures mutantkind has left (or maybe just -- the x-men adjacent side of mutantkind). for a group that's been defined by rebelling against authority, it would be really interesting to see them in a position where they no longer have an authority to rebel against! also just, i do think it would be interesting to see them in leadership, because they'd still very much be products of their time -- instead of charles xavier, the deeply-flawed figurehead who led to the first real independence of their team was scott summers. the conflicts between them that they carry from their forebearers would be about aggression and control as much as they'd be about surveillance or high-handedness (yes, originally charles' problems, but the nm were also trained by him -- and, say what you will, but scott's own unique set of flaws are just as much a product of charles as himself).

#these thoughts are heavily HEAVILY influenced by nm 2009 #xmen #new mutants #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #xm ideas #i think this is why i'm so interested in ideas about xmen in and after the apocalypse. and probably why the comics are too #in order for some characters to get to step up as leaders... you need other characters out of the way. but xmen don't retire easily #(they tried with scott lmao. it didn't go well on a watsonian OR doylian level) #so you gotta kill them off! and like. if you're looking for a nontraditional leader... you gotta kill a lot of people off before they #get the chance to take command #......i'm now imagining the carnage i'd have to enact if i wanted to think about how pixie would shape the xmen's philosophy

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x-force (2008) #27

#sb and l reads comics #xmen #ororo munroe #scott summers #xm ideas #ororo x scott #ohohohoHO I WILL BE THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR THE NEXT GOOD WHILE #YEAH! YEAH! SCOTT AND ORORO AS LEADERS OF THE XMEN! #ORORO GAVE UP HER POSITION BUT THAT _DOES NOT MEAN_ SHE DOESN'T GET A SAY IN WHAT'S FUCKING HAPPENING SCOTT #[longing] oh to just like. have an entire arc that's just scott and ororo talking about leadership #ALSO PETITION FOR PEOPLE TO LET ORORO LEAD THE ACTUAL TEAM AGAIN LIKE. IT'S BEEN SO LONG. #extraordinary exists but SHE DESERVES TO LEAD THE TEAM WHEN IT'S NOT JUST HER AND THE SIX ADULTS LEFT

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X-Treme X-Men (2022) #3

#xmen #kittyrachel #kitty x rachel #wlw #sb and l reads comics #i am SO GODDAMN NORMAL

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uncanny x-men (1963) #504

#xmen #emma x scott #jean x scott #scott summers #emma frost #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #ohohohoHOHOHOHO #YEAH! YEAH!!!!! GIMME MORE ABOUT EMMA AND SCOTT BEING HONEST WITH EACH OTHER AND JEAN'S UNDYING INFLUENCE ON SCOTT'S MINDSCAPE

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the two extremes of songs on character playlists are

"this song PERFECTLY matches this character and their thought processes"

"this song absolutely has nothing to do with this character except vibes i can't explain"

both of these extremes are very fun and awesome except when my brain decides it wants BOTH AT ONCE and then i end up with a song that's apparently the soundtrack to... a weird jungian dream that i think scott summers has sometimes

#me: this song doesn't make sense for any of scott's situations #my brain: you know what ELSE doesn't make sense? dreams!!!!!!! #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #xmen #scott summers #the song is the calling btw. in case you were wondering

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found this in my discord history and... i was so right for this

#sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #xmen #kitty x rachel #kittyrachel

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#xmen #x-men #polls #uncannysource #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #yes i did not include warsong in here it's cause i'm petty as hell and i do not like it #feel free to yell at me in the tags about it though

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okay actually the new volume of marauders was really sweet 😭

#i'm a basic bitch you give me kitty being Kitty and i get emotional #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #xmen #i have finished AXE and marauders and caught up on immortal xmen #now i do actually have a test tomorrow morning so i'm gonna go back to studying for that #but ARGH we get to see KITTY TALKING TO HER DAD i am VERKLEMPT

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X-Treme X-Men (2022) #3

#xmen #kitty x rachel #kittyrachel #sb and l reads comics #wait until i post the next few pages.

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lmao um. my quest to catch up on krakoa MIGHT be getting sidetracked by the existence of a claremont-written series that includes kitty AND rachel. i'll just be... right back---

#sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #xmen #ONE MOMENT IT'LL BE QUICK #i say with the title song of my kittyrachel playlist on loop. #it's been on loop for two hours already i think i was primed for this.

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discussing comics with a friend (that's right, i have a COMICS FRIEND! in REAL LIFE! we don't have much in common besides That We Read Comics but they exist!) is really, REALLY making me want to get back to my comics reading list.

this is a problem because i still have like 2/3rds left of the homework due tomorrow. everything... is fine

#sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #didn't help that i went walking today while workshopping my scott/emma playlist and it's So Close to being done