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Some people in fandom desperately need to become obsessed with something SUPER niche and obscure. Something with like 10 active fans at the very most. Something with only 6 fics if you're very lucky, all but one written by the same dedicated fan. Something where when you do find a fan account, it's been innactive for years. Something that's not available on streaming and its only physical release was never released in your country. Let it humble you.

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BINGO CARDS!!!

If using a bingo card for the event be sure to let us know which card you're using. All the prompts are the same just in a different order to give more options and chances to get a bingo.

#challenges and exchanges #dc comics #clex

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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!

#cherik #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #xmfc #challenges and exchanges

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i’m thinking about all the friends i haven’t messaged in years i want to let ppl know unless we actively fall out i still consider people my friend even if we havent talked in years. idk if that’s universal

#truth #the pain of being a sociable introvert

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#only with the assistance of bees #🐝

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caught

#drarry #fan art #inspiration

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classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal

#book recs #sci-fi #to read

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Now seems like the time to tell Tumblr about Humphrey. While not a walrus, Humphrey was a sea elephant who was in love with our neighbour’s cow (as in land cow, goes moo, people drink their milk kind of cow). I’m ambivalent to the fae folk, but walrus also maybe more possible than you may think.

I was once late for school because there was a sea elephant in our driveway. He also ate some of my mum’s favourite flowers (not an ideal food group but he was nothing if not adventurous). Sometimes you could her him bellow for his lady love in the night. She was, by all accounts, utterly unimpressed by him but it did not diminish his ardour. There was a Humphrey phone tree in our village, so if people spotted him they would call Mrs A who would call Mrs B and Mrs C, and so on until everyone knew if Humphrey was in your garden (or on the road, or at the playground trying to get up the slide).

He was so popular that there is a statue of him in the main town.

#walrus #sea elephant #New Zealand things #aotearoa #Humphrey the sea elephant #Kati Kati

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Marvel 616 Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Peter Parker/Johnny Storm Characters: Johnny Storm, Peter Parker Additional Tags: Getting Together, Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love, Underage Drinking, Flashbacks, POV Peter Parker, Statue of Liberty - Freeform, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Sexy Times Series: Part 10 of Marvel 616 and MCU Ficlets Summary:

Two times in ten years isn’t exactly an epic love story, but if it is all Peter can get, he’ll take it.

#spideytorch

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The OTWarchive is also open source. If you want to run and host your own archive with your own special rules go ahead. I can’t find it right now but people have done it and documented the process. There’s nothing stopping the “safe space” people from building their own space.

If you want all the benefits of AO3 and the vast amount of content from its open approach then you have to accept that self same approach.

no but how much audacity and sheer entitlement do you have to have to tell people they need to stop posting their darkfic and porn fic and any other fic you don’t like to ao3 so you can have a safe space when ao3 was literally created as a safe space for writers to post their content without fear of it being randomly wiped out by pro-censorship assholes with an agenda like what has happened to plenty of other fic archives before?

“but a lot of us see ao3 as a safe space to get away from that kind of nasty content” - lol you can see the middle of a busy interstate as a safe space all you want too but that doesn’t mean that you get to walk into the road and scream at all the cars going by that they’re the ones infringing on your safe space either

ao3 is not, has never been, and will never be a site meant for nothing but children’s stories. you can “see it” like that as much as you want but there’s a difference between fiction and reality and that view of what ao3 is like is as fictional as the stories posted on it.

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Art You Could Do

You know I think a better response to Philistine criticism of art along the lines of "I could do that" would be "How lovely! Please do!" as opposed to the snobbish "but you didn't." because I think a lot of artists who did the kind of work that people object to on the grounds that they could make it themselves were interested in the project of trying to tell other people that what they could produce could have artistic value and interest.

Like part of their goal was to make art something anyone could do, to get people to view themselves as potential artists, able to express themselves in ways that have meaning and value.

#art #how lovely #this is what radical positivity was meant to be about

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everyone should read a spideytorch fic at least once in their lives it heals the soul

(credit to the authors!! I don't remember which fics exactly these came from)

#spideytorch #saying credit to the artist or author is not really how credit works guys #to give credit where credit is due requires naming or associating the quoted material to the creator

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It’s happening!!!!!

#wynonna earp #omg

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It Makes Sense to Me 💋

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I unfortunately applied this method to both Warrior Nun and Turn Up For Charlie, only watching either after cancellation and regret doing my minuscule part in said lack of further content.

every time theres a new bad tv show or movie people act like its the end of the world you guys need to learn about the not watching shit method i’ve been successfully employing the not watching shit method for years

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whats great about the internet is that you can just ignore people who are fucking stupid and not waste your time on them, i say, white knuckling the sink and staring into the mirror

#this post genuinely made me remember reddit exists and go check it #not sure what that says about me or the internet