I promise this, promise this
Check this hand ‘cause I’m marvelous
spaceoperetta replied to your post “I was just idly thinking about Charles Xavier’s telepathy recently, as…”
muddling up his flaws with his virtues is INCREDIBLY charles xavier
And that’s before we even get to the deleted tangent on forgiveness, in which, looking back, I find that I LITERALLY WROTE “Frankly, an unexpected virtue of laziness is how it dovetails into our capacity to let things go, so that we can divert our energies elsewhere.” Like, probably true, definitely Charles.
I was just idly thinking about Charles Xavier’s telepathy recently, as I do, and being grateful for his fictional sake that he’s not a naturally anxious person. Because to be able to hear what everyone’s thinking all the time? That would be hell on social anxiety.
But then it DAWNED on me that perhaps those two things, his telepathy and his lack of social anxiety, might not be separately occurring features. One of the things I try to remember from studying psychology, is that most of us tend to over-estimate how much other people are thinking about us. It makes perfect sense that we would do this, given how much time we spend thinking about ourselves. We’re the ones in our heads, after all, privy to the full 100% of our wishes and screw-ups. But the thing is, everyone else is preoccupied more with their own existence, too. At the very base of it it’s probably just a numbers game — there are just so staggeringly more other people to be worried about, that you simply can’t be examining any of them as deeply or consistently as you are yourself. No one scrutinizes you as much as you do, but we so often feel like they might be, and that’s where the anxiety comes in.
And the thing about Charles, is that he would know this. He would have constant first-hand evidence of our blessed self-centeredness. Actually, this probably also ties in to something I tipsily floated to Kayt in that cocktail bar (hi, u remember), which is that everyone’s not lucky that Charles is a ~good person~, but rather, they’re lucky that he usually doesn’t bother looking into them at all. Did I just muddle up a major Charles flaw with a major Charles virtue why yes I did.
You know outside of the circus most people were afraid of me, but I didn’t hate them- I pitied them. Do you know why? Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
“ezra miller is going to be the first lgbt+ person to play a superhero!!”
i mean yes he’s going to be the first to get a solo movie but
oh, and:
all im getting from this post are that the x-men are really gay
Hahah HOW DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW THIS jfc
