#cablexdeadpool

Yep, it's still me, @rallamajoop ‒ thank you for your kind words about my old fic! (People are still re-reading it? Aww <3)

On the downside: the cablepool tag has been a bit slow lately, so I’m running a little low on new fanart to reblog.

As you admitted, you are biased, and I think that bias has given you a skewed view of my blog. I am not anti-Cable. For years I have consistently talked shit about him, mainly because I am an old school X-Men fan and ranting about the Summer's family is a subsequent hobby many of us develop despite our love for them, but I like the ship. Shit talking about these characters is something I do, and I've been far worse to Spiderman despite your assumptions. My comments on Cable have always been that he's an annoying killjoy but I have spent many hours arguing that Spiderman is a self-centered asshole who sells babies to the devil; I popularly have argued that against the Deadpool editor.

I have stated that a relationship with Cable is abusive just as I have stated that a relationship with Spiderman is abusive. Cable is controlling and manipulative and their relationship seems to be based on daddy issues. Spiderman is self-centered, judgmental, ableist, and Deadpool objectifies him (sexually, yes, but mostly as a hero who should not have any faults)

Other things I often state: I only like problematic ships and my ideal partner for Deadpool would be Copycat which I have said even long before the movie was in production

This blog is unequivocally Spideypool heavy but that's not because of a personal preference, it's simply that I post every new fan work daily and in recent years Spideypool is more popular. I've been able to post a lot more Cablepool which I've been excited about but in a perfect world I would be able to post a lot more fanart of him with Taskmaster, Wolverine, Captain America, even Sauron. Not to say that I don't love Spideypool, the fan comics are always very funny and I enjoy them a lot.

The original essay was very much in response to homophobic messages I was getting when I started this blog. Instead of answering each message I made one post I could link to and over time the homophobia died down but the post continued to be popular because it was informative so I retrofitted it to be more so but it definitely holds remnants of its original intention.

That being said, my argument was never that if you don't believe Deadpool is pansexual you are a homophobe, although I do argue that if you think Deadpool is completely straight you at least have some internalized homophobia.

As for me purporting that Deadpool can only be read as pansexual, that isn't true. When I was originally asked what is sexual orientation was I picked pansexual because we know he loves women, we know he loves men, and we know he's capable of loving a space hippo so pansexual seemed the most fitting although omnisexual would have worked as well. I have no problem with people identifying him as bisexual because the definitions of all of these terms are being redefined by many communities and if you are definition of bisexuality includes loving space hippo's falls under bisexuality, then he is also clearly bisexual.

I have also acknowledged and try to mention as much as possible that in canon Deadpool does not identify as anything besides "not straight" which I think is exceedingly important. Deadpool rejecting labels is the best editorial decision, in my opinion, and fans to interpret him as pansexual or bisexual can just as easily identify with him. He is still queer representation.

Quick blog update -- since a lot of the most useful older posts to come by here (the original ship manifesto, reading lists of Cable/Deadpool-related comic titles, the beginners guides to finding stuff on Marvel Unlimited/Pixiv/the old LJ communities, etc) are pretty well buried in the archive at this point, I figured it might be a good time to put together a proper resources page with permanent links to them all.

Hey there, folks! The more astute among you may have already noticed that the cablexdeadpool tumblr has been a little dead recently. Turns out the original maintainer (who -- credit where it’s due -- has done a great job of running it for the last couple of years) has largely drifted on to other things of late, but was only too happy to pass on the job to new hands when I volunteered to step in. So this would be your official notice that I am rallamajoop, and I will be taking over this body right now MWHAHAHA your new maintainer around these parts.

First order of business: we have a six-month backlog of unreblogged cablepool material to get through! (Not all at once, obviously -- this is exactly the job the tumblr queue was born to deal with. Just rest assured the fandom has not stopped producing new material worth sharing while we’ve been away.)

In the meantime, submissions remain thoroughly welcome, be it your own work or recs for anyone else’s.

Fellow Cable/Deadpool fans: the cablexdeadpool tumblr would seem to be looking for a new maintainer, should anyone feel like volunteering.

Though I rec it around a fair bit, I’ve no real idea how many of you might have been following cablexdeadpool. There’s a lot to like about them: they’ve got a usefully consistent tagging system for tracking down older work, and they do a very thorough job of reblogging virtually everything to appear on tumblr that might be of interest to your average Cable/Deadpool shipper, conveniently saving me the bother of tracking several different tags manually to achieve the same result. They’ve been so reliable about this for so long that it’s only with some embarrassment that I now have to admit that they have in fact been in complete radio silence since July last year without my noticing. (Look, in my defense, they’ve always gone through quiet periods, and there’s still been enough random C&DP related content scrolling past my dash that the lack wasn’t immediately obvious. Lord only knows how many other blogs on my watch list may have quietly suffered the same fate.)

So I did the obvious thing and sent an ask through to the maintainer a little while back, and got a polite response to confirm that yeah, they've basically moved on to new fannish pastures and aren't so much feeling the Cable/Deadpool love anymore, but would be happy to pass on ownership of that blog if I wanted to take over. Sadly, since I'm already running one major fannish recs blog (and much as I enjoy doing it, finding material for it does keep me busy), I didn't feel I'd have the time for it myself and had to decline (I mean, I'd absolutely be happy to help out filling up the queue once in a while, but my own interest in the fandom is sort of on the waning end at this point, so I'm not really up for sole responsibility here). The maintainer (haihaihai's their personal tumblr) was going to put up a post asking for volunteers if I wasn't interested, but doesn't seem to have got around to that yet. So rather than remind them, I figured I'd go ahead and make my own post, since they'd probably be perfectly happy get other volunteers directly.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but now I know cablexdeadpool's offline, I’m missing them badly. Heck, I only noticed they were gone at all because I spotted someone else on my watch list reblogging some of zyxthstuffs’s art, and realised that here was someone with a whole tumblr full of fanart I’d been completely unaware of. This is a state of affairs I find less than satisfactory.

Long story short: if ever you've felt that running your own fuckyeahcabledeadpool-style blog might be a fun thing to do but figured that position was already filled, now might be an excellent time to make that known.