My silly fandom tumblr where I reblog the lamest and coolest things that are relevant to my interests. Lately that means a lot of XMFC. :P
oh. The eyes. God, Charles, your eyes … And Erik, you’re so in love it’s not even funny. Down to the flickering jaw (?) muscle thing in your 2nd image. fffffffffff.
^^This comment. Exactly. Why exactly was someone somewhere saying there was no smitten!Erik in this fandom? I’m pretty sure 90% of the fics out there feature this exact trope.
word. He does seem the type to clench his jaw and Flex It because of All the Feels. … *swoons*
Yes! I was surprised too, because most of the fic I’ve encountered feature smitten!Erik. I’d say there isn’t enough smitten!Charles—at least that I’ve found. But aside from that, yes, ALL THE FEEEEEELS.
Who convinced Erik that he was all pain and anger with no good inside of him at all?
Shaw, the Nazi torturer, who probably told the Jewish boy that he killed his own mother.
Who then convince him, through Erik’s pain and anger is all that’s between him and ascension in humanity.
Shaw again.
This scene gifs doesn’t make sense unless you consider that Erik’s been thoroughly brainwashed and Charles, despite accusations of his careless privilege, is actually successful in recovering Erik from his trauma and the brainwashing. He convinces Erik that serenity was a weapon, that there’s goodness in him and that he, Charles Xavier, believes in all of those things, believes in him.
How many people ever believed in Erik as more than someone that can be used?
And this is why Charles doesn’t tell Erik that he can’t feel his legs. He rather that Erik walks away and leaves him as a leader with a purpose for good of mutant kind than as someone who will believe that he breaks everything he touches and revert back to thinking himself as only pain and anger.
That is Charles Xavier’s victory over Shaw.
Motley, you are amazing.
(Source: eventerasers)
When Erik says, “Peace was never an option,” he’s telling Charles a number of things. One of which is simply that he won’t allow love keep him from doing what he needs to do.
(Source: pragmatichominid, via overlord-of-pasta)
Ughhh that face, that face. That is the face I need to see from James in the XMFC sequel, the face he gives Erik, so much sadness and disappointment and brokenness and “what could have been”.
Sorry, sorta stomping over the fanfic that was written here, but I had to reblog this for the faaaaace.
(Source: suave-graphics, via fuckyeafassymcavoy)
CONFIRMED! Jane Goldman collaborating with Matthew Vaughn on X-Men First Class 2 script! :D
This is excellent, excellent news. I have more faith in this sequel than ever.
Which surprises me, (no it really doesn’t because that how humanity rolls, unfortunately) because this exact issue is one of the things that X-men, as a whole, is commenting on.
I guess this gives a nice little point of reference though, at how hard it would be for humanity to accept mutants when we can’t even accept each other, in opinions, beliefs, appearance or social status.(in something as trivial as this) I think that the movies are too nice to mutants. Realistically, I think our world would be a lot more brutal, there’s no way in hell the CIA would have cooperated like they did in XMFC, even with the Cold War.(though that was decent motivation) They would have dove off the deep end immediately, I mean just look at how they refer to homosexuals, even now. Just 40 years ago, African Americans were being segregated and lynched in the US just for having a different skin colour.
I think most fans don’t think about this, because it validates Erik’s madness, but I think he’s right. He’s right in his view of the problem, not his solution for it. I think humanity would react with the kind of harshness he expects. And there certainly wouldn’t be any sort of mercy.(I don’t care how much faith you have, look at history and tell me straight faced things would be different; they wouldn’t) Thinking about this though, it gives him more humanity, more of an understanding as to why he’s so terrifying and why he’d react with unquestioned violence.Fear is arguably the strongest emotion. It’s rooted in our intense will to survive. It pushes us, it makes us do things that we normally would not ever think of doing. It makes us think things we would normally not dare, without hesitation. Why do you think the media uses fear mongering as a form of propaganda, because it’s indisputably effective. I don’t think Erik’s actions on the beach were out of character, I think they were realistic, I think he was a scared little boy, who’d used violence his whole life to survive.
Oh Meg, this is why I love it when you get writing perspective-opinion-critique stuff. You think things through so well.
(Source: firstclassconfessions, via megneato)
“Things Unsaid”
Trade with Arcane Winter that I should have finished aaaages ago. She wrote a brilliant sequel to A Measure of Peace for me, called “It Goes Unsaid” and it’s bloody amazing so go read it at her LJ.
The hands were super fun to draw but damn those boys’ faces are hard and way too pretty!
What if I fell to the floor
Couldn’t take all this anymore?What was the direction in this scene? I’M SO CURIOUS. “Stare at him like he’s the only thing in the world that matters and you are both amazed by what is happening and terrified that it will hurt him.”
“I’vejustfoundyouIcan’tloseyouIdon’tknowwhatI’mgonnadowithoutyou”
“…Aaaand CUT! Perfect!”
^^^ Pretty much THAT thought process omg.
Perfect scene, perfect comments. Fuck I love this movie.
(Source: summerwolves, via codenamecesare)
Now including the second part of my Valentine’s Day exchange with Perineko! Her amazing half of this exchange is here.
Sequel to A Measure of Peace. Or read it on LJ, Part I and Part II.
A past night in Chicago fragments Charles’ and Erik’s relationship into two lives Charles can’t reconcile: one he cannot face and another he won’t turn from.
Here is the fic that the lovely Arcapelago wrote for me in an exchange we decided to to a while back. She put so much love and work into this fic, and I’m not exaggerating when I say it’s one of the best fics I’ve ever read. Shes’s got a real talent for prose and some pretty clever character insight. Oh yeah, and it’s super sexy. Go read it and shower her with comments.
Bisexuality exists.
While I don’t like changing characters drastically from canon, I disagree that writing a character as bisxual or as open to the idea of a relationship with someone of the same gender can’t be true to the characters. I also have a serious problem with claiming that Erik and Charles were written as straight in the comics, because for a very long time the writers literally weren’t allowed to write any hint of a gay relationship. The horrible plot regarding Kurt’s parentage is a victim of that, because to the Comic Book Code, a demon father was better than a lesbian relationship where the father had shapeshifted to be able to impregnate the mother. Northstar, the first openly gay character in Marvel comics, was celibate for years of his run because the writers were just not allowed to write him into a relationship.
I don’t like the idea of claiming that a character who has had several opposite-sex relationships has suddenly never been attracted to the opposite sex, but that’s a disingenuous argument. Do some writers put that in? Yes. Does the majority? No. They write the character as having a same-sex relationship now, which is entirely different.
Also? Gay men can be fathers. Gay women can be mothers. Men can be in several relationships with women and then meet someone who makes them change the way they think of their sexuality, and so can women. Sexuality is not always hard and fast. For a long time I thought I was a lesbian, but here I am in a happy relationship with another woman and a man. Sometimes we surprise ourselves.
And frankly, calling it whimsy is insulting to the LGBT people who have been waiting for shit like the CBC to catch up to reality for years. For decades, if we wanted to see gay relationships with the characters we loved, we had to write them ourselves. We still do, because as progressive as the media likes to think it’s become, it hasn’t. On the shows I watch, I can think of exactly six non-straight-according-to-canon characters, and they’re all on the same show. And, frankly, I don’t like some of them, because one is stereotypically camp fey gay and all his interests are centred around that, like it’s his one defining character trait and lol how funny it is to constantly have him called a girl, that’s so awesome I could puke; one is your typical Villain Gay who only got a turnaround last episode; one is…oh, the handling of the bisexual girl. I could rant about her for days, and not because she’s bisexual. And the entire show has had some pretty epic fail in terms of storylines for those characters.
LGBT fans have as much of a right to see their relationships portrayed as straight fans, and since we can’t see them in the media beyond nods to our existence (hardly ever trans*, mind you, for all the “Kurt is such a girl” posturing) then of course we’re going to put them in our writing, because sometimes you just want to see your relationship portrayed as normal.
I find the assertion that slash is untrue to the characters even more of a gross insult. Why slash and not “non-canon relationships”? Do you have as much of an issue with, say, Angel/Alex as you do with Erik/Charles? That’s not canon either, so by your logic, how can it be true to the characters? By your logic, how can any relationship in the XMFC fandom that isn’t Charles/Moira and maybe Emma/Shaw be true to the characters? Sure, we have canon proof that Charles and Erik both like to sleep with women; we have no canon proof that they aren’t also open to sleeping with men. We have no canon sexuality for any of the “kids” except Raven and Hank, and even then, all we know is that they’re interested in the opposite sex — and you could argue that for Hank, and perhaps even for Raven, it was less about the sex of their partner and more about being seen as beautiful, because they never had been. That is another rant.
tl;dr: You’re free to dislike a pairing, but you can’t claim that the writers never intended them to be written as anything but straight when the writers were hobbled by the CBC at the time, and acting as though wanting to see representation of our relationships is LGBT “whimsy” is insulting.
Brilliant, just brilliant. Had to reblog this after yet another confession came out about how Cherik is “wrong” because the comics never stated either one as gay. But as this awesome reblogger points out, nor do they state either one is straight, and for some reason people keep forgetting that bisexuality is a real thing. Personally I see Charles and Erik as straight men who fell in love regardless of their preferences. To me, XMFC sells that idea more than any other media they’ve been in together (including the older movies). Their relationship isn’t necessarily sexual, but it is definitely romantic.
The Comic Book Code is a really interesting thing that I had no idea about until this person wrote about it. I wonder, if X-Men had begun in the last 5 years, would Erik and Charles be more obviously in love? Is it the last 50 years of having to keep them appear hetero-normative perpetuating the ambiguity? Or is it just fears that officially introducing two very famous and well-loved characters as lovers would scare off bigoted comic book nerds and crash already-plummeting sales?
I just wish people would be a little more open-minded. You don’t have to like Cherik, and you can ignore all the homoerotic subtext of the film if you wish, but declaring them absolutely straight because they were in relationships with women (in the comic!) is a naive and outdated argument. It’s way more complicated than that.
(Source: firstclassconfessions)
and he laid his down, and wept.
I wanted to draw a very similar image for a long time.. where Erik cries on Charles’ knees, and Charles looks pretty unsympathetic (even as he lets him). This is bloody awesome. Well done, madam.
(via erikandcharles)
I love CE!
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The last panel D: D: <3
Oh my godddd…. that last panel KILLS me. Not gonna lie, it’s the ONLY expectation I have of XMFC2, however unreasonable it may be… Erik crying on Charles’ knees. D:
(via emwia)
This was only supposed to be a rough version of a Cherik piece but I ended up kind of liking the sketchy style.
….why can I never draw these two in anything but monochrome?
Leaked X-Men Origins: Magneto script (summarized by Meg)
As you may know, the script for the once-planned Magneto Origins has been leaked. You can get it here.
It’s like 115 pages long and I don’t have the patience. Luckily my friend Meg actually did read the whole thing! And was super helpful and provided me with these fantastic summaries of it. The short one is funny but the longer one BLOWS MY MIND. Seriously Meg, you win all the awards. Best summaries ever below:
“Here’s the short version: First half = Erik Lensherr makes a complete and utter fucking mess of his life. (Including but is not limited to: causing the deaths of both his wife and daughter. Hunting some Nazis. Then going to see his dying grandmother and realizing he’s all alone)
Second Half = Erik meets Charles Xavier and they prance around Israel being completely fucking useless. Erik leaves after getting Xavier’s institute blown up and goes to hunt Nazis. He’s failing pretty hard at life until Charles inexplicably shows up to help. Charles frees some mutants for an army and Erik kills the final boss (Kleinmein) with a tree, and the help of the Star of David. And when all is done, they buy some land together and start to build a school.(LOLI CAN’THANDLETHIS) But Erik still doesn’t trust Charles, so he makes his helmet.
The End.”
And now for the unbelievable, utterly fantastic longer version:
“First half = Erik Lensherr makes a complete and utter fucking mess of his life. Indirectly kills his wife/daughter, makes a deal with a sketchy American, who’s probably evil somehow, to hunt Nazis for him, arrests a banker, kills some marines in an embassy by displaying his mutant power to everyone there like an idiot, kills a doctor and scares the shit out of a little kid, kills a Nazi with braces and fails so hard at killing Decker(Kleinmein’s evil parter. Kleinmein is the Shaw of this trainwreck), goes to see his dying grandma and realizes he’s all alone.(my god this story all fucking over the place)
Second half = Meets Charles Xavier playing soccer. I don’t even know. He’s chillin’ in Israel coincidently helping holocaust survivors. Maaaaan all the propaganda in this script even down to the ‘Never again,’ not in reference to him being experimented on because of his powers or his parents being killed, but in reference to him being Jewish. This is X-men, not an Israeli documentary. I can’t handle you.
And then… Erik and Charles(who just met) beat the shit outa some thugs bare handed. ‘Nope, we’re not going to use our powers, we’re going to do this the old fashioned Hollywood way.’ And then they run away laughing from the cops, CHARLES XAVIER EVERYONE.(I can see drinking and womanizing at Oxford, but I think beating people up and running away is just a tad outside of Charles’ ethics) And THEN Erik asks for help and they have a nice little chat referencing religion. AND THEN THEY STOP TWO EGYPTIAN TANKS. AND THEN THEY FINALLY FIND OUT THAT EACH OTHER ARE MUTANTS. Yeah, it took Charles a display to know that. Really? Yup, really. He refuses to use his powers. Beating people up is A-okay, but looking into their mind is atrocious. (What in the fuck is going on, I don’t know either, and I read the damn thing) And now apparently Erik is concerned about being a mutant and not a Jew, and he’s like ‘Charles Charles, the Nazis are making their master race with these mutations! Help me with your awesome mind powers’ And Charles looks into his mind, and now uses his morals and refuses to go Nazi hunting, and Erik is like ‘Fine. Bye Thanks.’ AND GOES TO HIS ROOM TO READ A BIBLE.
Erik gets up in the middle of the night, finds Decker, drives his jeep off a cliff with him in it and in doing that, causes the institute that Xavier’s in (of course he gets out, jeez) to blow the fuck up. “Erik… you’re really awful at this,” Charles says. Okay, no he didn’t, but he fucking should have. And after getting Charles’ institute destroyed, Erik actually leaves to go find his final Nazi boss. Oh, and you know that sketchy American from earlier, yeah he was using Erik the whole time, who effing called that!
Erik proceeds in stealing an army van and finds the American at the zoo. He talks about sharks and betrayal then… Erik lets himself be cuffed but not before unlocking all of the animal cages in the zoo. And then Graves(the American) pissed himself and is eaten. NO BUT THAT’S WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. God fuck this movie. Okay, so Erik and Graves get away from the tigers, get into a car, I really hope that Erik is letting him take him to Kleinmein(Shaw) and is not just a giant tool. It could swing either way really… YOU ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP SOMEONE WHO YOU KNOW CAN MANIPULATE METAL AND YOU PUT HIM IN A CAR AND SIT WITH HIM AND DON’T TRANQULIZE HIM WITH THE GUN IN YOUR HANDS. Worst. Villian. Ever. Award, right there.
Welp, needless to say, Erik takes control of the car and they crash, then says “Shouldn’t you sedate me?” Umm really, yes why, yes he should, but he doesn’t. Because at this point, I’m pretty sure Charles has something to do with all of this, I think he’s taken control of Graves. AND HE HAS. He’s in the driver’s seat of the car they just got into, nice to see you actually using your fucking powers Charles.
Erik: “You know I had a plan back there.” You had no fucking plan Lensherr, don’t even.
Charles: “Yes, I believe it was hitting a fire hydrant and waiting for me to rescue you” Charles wins.
They drive towards a farmhouse in the rain. Erik sneaks into the farmhouse while Charles… (who wrote this)… while Charles summons a bunch of deer to cause a car crash outside between two military trunks. I’m not even making this shit up. Erik waltzes into a basement lab with absolutely no metal like an idiot to meet his maker Kleinmein, and these really creepy pair of blond haired twins. Kleinmein laughs as the twins beat the fuck out of Erik and then attempts to tranq him, but OH SNAP. Erik pulls out a Star of David necklace, the only piece of metal in the room. SAVED BY GOD. Though he doesn’t even use it in a practical way, it’s like brass-knuckle Hollywood bullshit. And while Erik is failing at life, Charles is off somewhere killing the shit out of a German scientist. Yup, yup he is. And Charles frees some captive mutants.(beast, Raven and some others) Erik kills the creepy twins, ruins some soldiers’ day by crushing them with a ceiling and meets up with Charles only to leave him AGAIN, to go after Kleinmein who’s driving away.(Apparently have your neck sliced open by a Star of David is not a legit death). Who he kills by sidestepping away from a tree. I’m very serious. No bending the metal in the car and crushing him, no making the gas tank explode, nope. I’m going to hide this tree behind me and make you crash into it. I. Cannot. Even. He walks away in the rain crying to go find Charles.
Ending = Erik and Charles drive away into the midnight air, with their mutant army and hopes of re-building. Then they buy some land together with plans to make a school, Erik states that he’s good at construction. Hur. But then Erik makes a helmet because after all, he still can’t really trust Charles. Skip to present day – Erik and Charles are old while bickering and listening to Senator Kelly give a speech.
END
FUUUUUUCK. This was so painful to read.”
