#timeslip

he is always his emotional support

🌈 Share something soft/fluffy from your WIP.

from the timeslip au!!

He sounds soft, affectionate. He sounds nothing like the Max that Charles knows. 

“I forgot about these,” Max says, brushing his thumbs gently over Charles’ sideburns. “You started shaving them, after your first year.” 

His hands continue their gentle exploration, and Charles just - lets it happen. Struck dumb, perhaps. Max strokes softly over his chin, the curve of his cupid’s bow, his bottom lip.  

“No facial hair.” Max seems to realise what he’s doing at that moment, and lets go, looking alarmed at himself. “Oh, sorry. I am - used to being able to.”  

Max grins at him, in that funny crooked way he has. It’s familiar enough that it calms Charles’ racing heart. 

“Why?” Charles croaks out. “Why are you - used to touching me. You do not even like me.”

Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]❤

Threnody [Melody Jacobs]🧡

Psylocke [Kwannon]💜

Timeslip [Rina Patel]💚

Frenzy [Joanna Cargill]💙

“Timeslip” was a 1970 ITC series created to be that network’s answer to the BBC’s Doctor Who. In it, two teenagers from modern England discover a portal where they can slip back to the year 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain. They go through the timeslip again, only to end up in different eras, including two different possible futures of either an Ice Age or a boiling planet, encountering future men who use cloning to be immortal. It only lasted one season, perhaps because it was too similar to Doctor Who, which by that point was getting creatively exhausted in its sixth season, and ended up changing up the entire series’ premise in the seventh season (little did they know how long it would end up lasting). ITC was far more successful a few years later with the Tomorrow People, which had a much stronger and distinct sense of identity from Doctor Who, which cast a very big shadow. 

Now, I’m not one of these people who believe everything has to be connected together, and who come up with really crackpot ways this or that series intersect, but Timeslip is different, it absolutely begs to be retroactively identified as a Doctor Who spinoff. It almost doesn’t make sense as a standalone, too many similarities. Combining it with the world of Doctor Who would make more sense, not less. 

Interestingly, Timeslip was revived in the 2010s as a radio drama, and the original cast recreated their famous photo shoot with the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs: 

Today in 1995, Timeslip debuted in New Warriors issue 59 by Evan Skolnick, Patrick Zircher, Sam de la Rosa, Russ Sever, Joe Rosas & John Costanza!