Testaments to the Boom Times to Come (Posts tagged X MEN)

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The Building of the House - kvikindi - X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) [Archive of Our Own]

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So this is the story of how Peter finds and loses his father, sort of.

Here is my formally experimental fic about Peter Maximoff and Erik Lehnsherr helping to rebuild a house.

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Morning reblog. To tempt those who might otherwise be put off by a story that includes multiple sentences that are 600+ word-long paragraphs, let me share that this fic also contemplates many interesting questions and ideas, including:

  1. can a cat be Jewish?
  2. would Magneto kill someone for radio transmitters if a classroom full of mutant kids was crying and the only way to make them happy was to broadcast Magneto singing the mutant version of the Internationale?
  3. Logan is totally the cool uncle who smokes up with you and takes you to Alice Cooper concerts, right?
  4. Indiana Cockroach Jones, the post-apocalyptic archaeologist
  5. the transformation of Charles Xavier from angry hungover Jesus to saint
  6. t/f Erik is an even worse plumber than he is a terrorist
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A MASTERWORK. A VITAL CONTRIBUTION. DO NOT READ IN PUBLIC UNLESS YOU ARE COMFORTABLE LAUGHING, FOR INSTANCE, ON A BUS IN FRONT OF STRANGERS.

I strongly recommend reading this on your phone because the endless paragraphs become a non-issue; I read it on iBooks on my phone and it was fine. FYI!

I have a positive -- but short weird and v v particular relationship with fanfiction that's on one side on the other side is me hollering I'LL TAKE AS MUCH X-MEN FIC AS I CAN FIT IN MY ARMS THANKS and I am so glad to scoop this one up let me tell ya!! I laughed I cried frick it's fanfic: recs X Men superheroes

theglintoftherail asked:

So I know zero about the X-Men, only movie I've seen is the one where the dude says "I'm the Juggernaut bitch," where would I wanna start?

wellntruly answered:

YAAAYYYY JOIN ME  :D

So first up, I have only a limited idea which one has that line, which PROBABLY MEANS it’s the one I skipped originally: X3: The Last Stand, the one eeee’eryone hates! Oh X3, you unloved child. But no it’s true you can skip it.

Anyhow, have I read any actual X-Men comics? No. There are one million of them and we know how I feel about that. My method has been to watch the movies, and then chatter with my comic book friends to learn about some neat haps from the vast & varied canon. The entire comics game seems to be to cherrypick the things you like and ignore entirely the arcs you don’t, so I feel like I’m actually right in the spirit of the thing.

Alright, THE MOVIES:

X-Men (2000) and X2: X-Men United (2003). These are the original X-Men films, taking place roughly in the time period they were released, and starring the Sirs Patrick and McKellen. I wrote about the merits of them properly and non-spoilery here, but TLDR: these movies are honestly really darn great. Especially X2, which is just a kickin’ good time, and is also trying to make a lot of points about being ~different~. Watching these two, I feel like you really get a sense of what the X-Men have always represented for marginalized populations. And also there are FUN POWERS. Super-strength is such a yawn — give me Weird Magic!

We skip The Last Stand and five more years. Then, for whatever reason, this franchise hauls back in time to the 1960s to tell how Professor X and Magneto met, which gives us X-Men: First Class (2011) and X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014). First Class is the first of the prequels, starring McAvoy and Fassbender, and is the gayest blockbuster I have ever seen, ever, in my life. Then in Days Of Future Past they bring the Sirs back too, for what I think has best been described as “a time traveling hoo-ha jamboree.” I wrote about these ones here. They fill my heart with ridiculous joy and then break it. It’s a great time!

This summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse is widely considered to be the weakest of the new trilogy, rather setting a pattern for disappointing third entries. I would recommend just starting with those four and then seeing where you are.

Should also just mention — while the X-Men movies are bonkers and that’s exactly what I love about them, on the imaginative side of things, good god this canon sets up an UNLIMITED PLAYGROUND OF POSSIBILITIES of what it would be like to experience the world with these mutations. And that is the space I have been living in for months now, one of equal parts hilarity and like, wildly emotionally compromised fascination? The Space In Which I Like To Live.

damnslippyplanet:

the-bees-patella:

but it is absolutely most seriously the gayest blockbuster to ever have graced my eyes

I was having all these THOUGHTS the other night about how Hannibal and his Finishing School for Select Young Murder Interns is really just his own little attempt at setting up a full-on version of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

Fortunately or unfortunately I fell asleep before that train of thought could go anywhere but I stand by the premise. If Hannibal could ever get multiple murder interns to train at once he would be the happiest, coaxing their Murder Skills to the fullest potential.

Oh let me tell ya, I have also had SUCH THOUGHTS (often with @confusedkayt, hiiii) about the similarities between Hannibal Lecter and Charles Xavier, for they are many and disquieting!! But this has also been an informative exercise to see what the key differences are that makes one smug rich meddler Good and the other Bad. Actually Charles is also an interesting figure to compare Will against, given that one is pretty stable within his overwhelming empathy and the other a hot mess. Though that’s also before you consider the surprising amount of correlation between Will and ERIK, both with their ~power~ all tangled up in their live-wire fear and anger.

Ok fine I’ll just put my lists all together under a read more, for the extraordinarily niche audience that might be interested —

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theglintoftherail asked:

So I know zero about the X-Men, only movie I've seen is the one where the dude says "I'm the Juggernaut bitch," where would I wanna start?

YAAAYYYY JOIN ME  :D

So first up, I have only a limited idea which one has that line, which PROBABLY MEANS it’s the one I skipped originally: X3: The Last Stand, the one eeee’eryone hates! Oh X3, you unloved child. But no it’s true you can skip it.

Anyhow, have I read any actual X-Men comics? No. There are one million of them and we know how I feel about that. My method has been to watch the movies, and then chatter with my comic book friends to learn about some neat haps from the vast & varied canon. The entire comics game seems to be to cherrypick the things you like and ignore entirely the arcs you don’t, so I feel like I’m actually right in the spirit of the thing.

Alright, THE MOVIES:

X-Men (2000) and X2: X-Men United (2003). These are the original X-Men films, taking place roughly in the time period they were released, and starring the Sirs Patrick and McKellen. I wrote about the merits of them properly and non-spoilery here, but TLDR: these movies are honestly really darn great. Especially X2, which is just a kickin’ good time, and is also trying to make a lot of points about being ~different~. Watching these two, I feel like you really get a sense of what the X-Men have always represented for marginalized populations. And also there are FUN POWERS. Super-strength is such a yawn — give me Weird Magic!

We skip The Last Stand and five more years. Then, for whatever reason, this franchise hauls back in time to the 1960s to tell how Professor X and Magneto met, which gives us X-Men: First Class (2011) and X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014). First Class is the first of the prequels, starring McAvoy and Fassbender, and is the gayest blockbuster I have ever seen, ever, in my life. Then in Days Of Future Past they bring the Sirs back too, for what I think has best been described as “a time traveling hoo-ha jamboree.” I wrote about these ones here. They fill my heart with ridiculous joy and then break it. It’s a great time!

This summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse is widely considered to be the weakest of the new trilogy, rather setting a pattern for disappointing third entries. I would recommend just starting with those four and then seeing where you are.

Should also just mention — while the X-Men movies are bonkers and that’s exactly what I love about them, on the imaginative side of things, good god this canon sets up an UNLIMITED PLAYGROUND OF POSSIBILITIES of what it would be like to experience the world with these mutations. And that is the space I have been living in for months now, one of equal parts hilarity and like, wildly emotionally compromised fascination? The Space In Which I Like To Live.

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#it’s strange to thing back and realise this incredibly charged scene was their introduction #no flash backs #no explanations #no descriptions #no ‘well as you know’ exposition #it’s just 2 very very subtle actors with decades of experience and a very spare very short scene #but you KNOW #you KNOW IMMEDIATELY #you know a) these two have oceans of history between them #b) they hold diametrically opposed viewpoints #c) they have probably tried to kill each other at some point #d) they retain enough loyalty to an earlier version of their friendship that they talk amiably about that fact #e) you know shits going to hit the fan as a result of their opposition but you know they cannot do otherwise #and f) they both regret it in a way #THISE SCENE GOES FOR ABOUT 25 SECONDS #you get a cast iron sense of their dynamic with no backstory AT ALL (harrietvane)

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