#stabbybutt

@stabbybutt gosh I’m sorry I didn’t see this till now I basically posted that and went to sleep last night BUT

This is definitely not going to be the most eloquent bc I’m Bad at organizing my thoughts but just like

Professor X, in his most  consistent characterizations, is very much “ah, well humans are pretty awful to us but what can you do you know? can’t fight back because then we’d be just as bad as them/we’d be giving them a reason”  He just kind of squirrels himself away with a bunch of kids in his big fuck-off mansion and hopes one day that things will fix themselves

And when being a mutant is supposed to be an easy allegory for marginalized identities, it really reads as a lot of the “don’t fight back, don’t fight hate with hate, you have to spend your time educating ppl that hate you.”

And then you’ve got Magneto, who actually goes and does things. He fights back, and then Xavier gets to have his moral high ground even if he benefits from things that Erik does in the long run. When fighting back doesn’t work, Erik eventually  just builds an entire island where mutants can go and be safe (kind of like Xavier and his mansion) and even thats not enough because it gets blown up by anti-mutant terrorists. Erik does what Xavier wants him to do and it literally blows up in his face because the narrative needs an antagonist.

The Xavier and Magneto contrasts that get set up read way to much as the writers telling us that if we fight back against the people who attack us, we’re just as bad if not worse than them and we should just kind of bow our heads and get pummeled until they get tired and go away.

Are u a scarf art student or a skinny jeans art...

por que no los dos

OK SO

Elliott Charters is a secondary character from a story I’m working on with Flynn. He’s one of mine. 

He comes into the story in the first act, because he’s going to school with Anne, who is one of the main characters. He’s kinda a typical “just moved away from home and finally able to embrace his whole personality” party gay, and doesn’t really hit it off with Anne to begin with. He’s kinda loud and enthusiastic for her taste, but pretty soon he’s one of the only friends she’s made. They start hitting it off right after they end up with a whole block of classes together (they’re both studying different branches of law and government and share a lot of prereqs).

Elliott has a little bit of straight panic as he realizes that hey he might have a crush on her, and Anne’s entire reaction to possibly having a romantic crush is “huh.” Hijinks and whatnot ensue. (SPOILER they’re both super duper bi)

[your friend’s words echo in your thoughts]

just

everywhere he goes

a faint whirring noise

#you made your bed

All I have to do is just manage to NOT get 10,000 notes on a cosplay post and the paper will remain un-eaten. Considering I’m an old ancient cosplay grandma (too old for most of the tumblr crowd), it’s Halloween so Halloween pictures will be everywhere, I’ve yet to break 7,000 notes on any cosplay post ever, and I personally have under 3500 followers... Math says that I’m pretty sure the paper will remain uneaten.